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[Open Source Policing @OSPolicing]

@KremlinTrolls Looks similar to the national debt under his administration and others.

Where are all of the memes showing more stupid comparisons?

[Open Source Policing @OSPolicing]

@Jerry_Ratcliffe @SGTWipper1Each I was new working desk one night. A senior officer on a well being check told me it was a death & to call the Medical Examiner.

Problem was the woman was alive & only had some blood & a few maggots on her face.

The M.E. was pissed at me when I called back to cancel.

[Open Source Policing @OSPolicing]

@Jerry_Ratcliffe @SGTWipper1Each When you see the flies swarming in the window, you know it will be bad...

Had one a few weeks in his apartment during a heat wave. Flies and maggots everywhere. There is nothing like clearly +hearing+ the maggots to help make the smell stand out.

[Open Source Policing @OSPolicing]

@SkinnerPm Sadly, we need highly competent elected officials, but competence is often boring.

We should all be happy to have a boring and uninteresting government that is highly functional & run by wonky people who love the boring details. Instead, we now elect people who are "exciting."

[Open Source Policing @OSPolicing]

@PamBondi You should publicly testify under oath and clear things up then.

[Ben Goggin @BenjaminGoggin]

Fake academic journals are publishing AI-generated papers under real professors’ names

We identified a network of AI-created journals that have published over 100 fake papers, using real professors' names among the AI slop
https://t.co/qKOMmUxrBK

[Open Source Policing @OSPolicing]

@RBReich This is something that Republicans and Democrats can all get behind.

Corporations should not have such influence in our democratic republic.

[Jorge Maestre Vidal @J_MaestreVidal]

The Reflexive Control Theory (RCT) involves influencing an adversary to make decisions that harm their own interests by carefully shaping the information they receive

Te objective is not just to mislead, but to control how opponents decide

Its main mechanisms include adversaries division, provocation, pressure, suggestion, and demoralization. Russia uses this tactic to weaken alliances, like NATO, and erode the will of its adversaries both on and beyond the battlefield.

https://t.co/l5Ft4mjX1t

[Open Source Policing @OSPolicing]

@forcescience Mechanism that causes bad decision-making under pressure

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

New research suggests that stress can temporarily shut down the brain’s ability to connect past knowledge with new information. Scientists say this may explain why people often struggle with clear thinking, insight, and logical reasoning during moments of intense pressure.

Stress isn’t simply an emotional reaction, it also changes how the brain functions. A recent study published in Science Advances found that acute stress, such as the pressure felt during an important interview or high-stakes situation, interferes with a mental process called “integration.” This process helps the brain combine previous experiences with new information to form conclusions and recognize patterns.

Researchers discovered that stress affects the hippocampus, the part of the brain closely linked to memory and learning. When this region is disrupted, people become less able to spot connections they would normally recognize easily, often resulting in the feeling commonly described as “brain fog.”

To investigate this effect, scientists from University of Hamburg exposed participants to a simulated stressful situation before testing their ability to connect related images and ideas. Those who were not stressed were able to make logical links between separate pieces of information, while stressed participants had far more difficulty drawing those connections.

The findings help explain why people can underperform mentally in high-pressure moments, even when they are well prepared. Researchers believe understanding how stress disrupts memory and reasoning could eventually lead to strategies that improve focus, flexibility, and problem-solving during demanding situations.

Source: Schwabe, L., et al. (2024). Acute stress impairs memory integration and inference-based insight. Science Advances.

[FTC @FTC]

Did you report an intimate image shared without your consent, and did the platform fail to take it down? Report the platform to the FTC. This video walks you through every step. #TakeItDown

[WIRED @WIRED]

The CEO of Google DeepMind tells WIRED that companies should use the productivity gains of AI to do more, not lay people off. https://t.co/gRuPJ31Gbw

[Open Source Policing @OSPolicing]

@AdamKinzinger This is a very good point. If it was "ANTIFA" that attacked, then Trump supporters should be very unhappy about the payouts.

Unfortunately, the champions of mental gymnastics will twist and turn until they hit upon a new narrative.

[Open Source Policing @OSPolicing]

Elon sucks & clearly has ulterior motives, but OpenAI was established as a 501c3 nonprofit committed to developing ‘open source technology for the public benefit.’

Behind the courtroom drama shaping AI. https://t.co/rsw1nX85se

[Open Source Policing @OSPolicing]

How and why do we allow nonprofit organizations to turn into for-profit corporations?

This article has a good explanation of the current court case involving OpenAI and Elon Musk.

[Open Source Policing @OSPolicing]

@ian_t_adams I always ran MS Word checks on my reports. If the grade level went above 10, I would rewrite to lower it.

It is more important for reports to be clear & easily understood by a wide audience than to impress a small audience. My goal was to always stay around 8th grade level.

[Open Source Policing @OSPolicing]

@pewresearch "Winning" becomes more important than actually getting things done or solving problems.

[The Cipher Brief @thecipherbrief]

The playbook is written. The tools are cheap. The defenses? Not ready. Russia’s “Narrative Kill Chain” + open-source frontier AI = scalable cognitive warfare at global reach - just as elections approach. This isn’t persuasion. It’s information chaos.
https://t.co/SkOKW36X5z

[CSIS @CSIS]

"While Iran is losing on the battlefield, it is competing effectively in the information space through an aggressive, multiplatform disinformation campaign," writes @csisfutures.

Read their new report that analyzed 9,000+ social media posts: https://t.co/kCkwhw9R3i

[Open Source Policing @OSPolicing]

@propublica Criminal usury

[Interesting Engineering @IntEngineering]

This was the moment you prayed nobody in the house touched the phone. The modem screamed like it was summoning the internet from another dimension, pages loaded one image at a time, and getting disconnected felt like a personal betrayal. You waited minutes just to go online and hours if you wanted to download anything. Who else still hears that dial up sound in their head?

#oldtech #dialup #internetnostalgia #90stech #computing