🇬🇧 🪆 🇪🇺 PhD in theoretical physics. Logical positivist, rationalist, serial migrant. Unrelenting campaigner against the 2nd law of thermodynamics. #FBPE
Incredible. Publishing what appears to be (if you care to read the "evidence") a totally legitimate US program, and even citing the risks of these being used as "Russian information campaigns", Tulsi Gabbard - the gift that kept giving - presents the Kremlin with yet one more information operation.
Read our investigation from 2025 where we presented evidence that the hybrid ops unit of GRU's 29155 came up with the whole "bio-labs" concept - and co-opted Tulsi into it. https://t.co/D8qdE38ahv
This hasn’t gone viral the way it should.
Jamie Corry, an Irish lad from east Belfast, has lost his home of 13 years after masked rioters set fire to cars outside and it engulfed his house in last night’s violent chaos.
He stood right there and begged one of them:
“This is my house. This is my house.”
They didn’t care.
They burned it anyway.
“They’ve done it to one of their own.”
These racist, uneducated thugs and street urchins destroy everything in their path. They don’t care who gets hurt: locals, families, their own community. Just mindless arsonists ruining innocent lives with no excuse.
Aleksei Kolotilov is the creator of a hyper-realistic simulator for piloting kamikaze drones.
By the end of 2024, he had sunbathed on beaches in Southern France, dined amongst the renaissance buildings of Florence, visited the Hollywood sign, and experienced the hustle and bustle of Times Square, New York, where he also paid a visit to Trump Tower.
Meanwhile, as part of the Kremlin’s military visits to schools, children were being given hands-on drone pilot training using Kolotiliv’s game.
A Russian soldier explains how his unit raped girls aged 10 and 11, forcing mothers to watch - before executing all on the orders from his commander.
The soldier further admits that they did this several times, as they found civilians hiding in basements from the approaching Russians.
This is Russian culture.
1.EXCLUSIVE: @BylineTimes exposes the Russian neo-Nazi network – promoted by Tommy Robinson – pushing 'White Lives Matter' propaganda to sow division and race war across the UK and Europe. Founded by a sanctioned oligarch close to Putin🧵https://t.co/rNHXhfFOrj
Russian State Duma MP General Gurulev admitted that Russian forces killed civilians in Donbas in 2014 on his personal orders.
Gurulev said that a woman and a child were killed in shelling by Russian forces 12 years ago in Donbas, when he was commanding troops.
"I did that. There was no other way. I had to save my own men."
At the same time, he called for strikes on Ukrainian cities:
"But this is war. And the enemy must be struck everywhere. In Kyiv. So that there is no water, no electricity, no sewage - nothing."
Russia: 75% divorce rate. Collapsed birth rates. Sky-high alcoholism, sex-trafficking, and domestic abuse. Very low church attendance.
The only way you can say Russia isn’t in sharper decline is if you’re being paid to say that.
Coincidently, know the op when you see it.
Students without access to LLMs are 2 to 8 times more creative than students with access.
That is the finding of a new paper comparing 2,200 college admissions essays written by humans before ChatGPT with essays generated by GPT-4.
The key point is not individual creativity. GPT-4 can write well, sometimes better than individual students. The problem is collective creativity.
Each new human essay added new semantic territory. New ideas. New angles. New experiences. New combinations.
Each new GPT-4 essay added much less.
The authors call this the diversity growth rate: how much novelty each additional text contributes to the collective pool of ideas.
Humans kept expanding the pool. GPT-4 made the pool converge.
Even when the authors pushed GPT-4 to be more creative, changed parameters, or used chain-of-thought prompting, the homogenizing effect remained.
This is the real danger of AI in education.
Not that students will write worse.
That everyone will write the same.
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Full paper in the first reply
If you didn’t notice, Russia presented in St Petersburg a “positive scenario” for Europe’s future:
- nuclear strike on Ukraine,
- war till 2036;
- occupation of Kyiv;
- disintegration of EU;
- Russia’s domination in Europe.
Think about it next time when saying 🇷🇺 means well.
One Russian paper today: “In many Russian regions there are restrictions on the sale of petrol.” Another reports that, in Crimea, hotel bookings are “down 31%...& hotel cancellations double due to the fuel crisis.” #ReadingRussia
This is Oleh.
He was 2.
russia decided that was enough.
A missile hit his home, killing Oleh, his mother, and 14 neighbors.
He never saw peace.
Never started school.
Never had a future.
His life ended before it began.
More of CNN's false equivalence language. Ukraine is not targeting St. Petersburg, but striking military installations, Russian warships, and oil refineries. It's the Russian terror state that strikes cities and targets civilians. https://t.co/Cy7DgqtkuT
😭🕯 Veronika Chuyan, a 29-year-old mother, was killed yesterday during the Russian attack on Kyiv. She was running to a bomb shelter, desperately trying to get her children to safety.
She was trying to save her two little boys, aged 5 and nearly 3.
A Russian missile exploded right next to the family. Veronika died on the spot. Her eldest son is now in the hospital; he suffered severe injuries and underwent emergency surgery. Her youngest child escaped with only bruises.
The German far-right party, AfD, is not hiding its full alignment with Russia.
This is a good thing, because everyone in Germany should know that by voting for them, they are supporting not only fascists, but also pathetic traitors
Most people completely underestimate the insane, inhumane scale of the war in Ukraine.
According to the Uppsala Conflict Data Program, the siege of Mariupol alone saw between 27,000 and 88,000 deaths in only three (3!) months.
Read that again and let it sink in