Criticality Accident

[New York Post @nypost]

Grim video shows Hamas using child as human shield to carry weapons into Gaza home https://t.co/JZhNJcNMoQ

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

I wish it was a bad joke.

[Superman @thesupermannx]

ChatGPT has now a big problem.

Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge exposed a massive threat to large language models.”

They call it “model collapse."

Internet ecosystem is rapidly changing, and generative AI will soon contribute much of the text found online. This forces us to consider what happens to future iterations like gpt-n when they are trained on data scraped from the web that was already generated by an llm.

According to the research, indiscriminately using model-generated content in training causes "irreversible defects" in the resulting ai. the model loses the "tails of the original content distribution." in other words, it begins to forget the creative, fringe, and unique nuances of actual human writing, collapsing into a repetitive echo chamber.

This isn't just a chatgpt issue.. the researchers built theoretical intuition showing this collapse is ubiquitous across learned generative models, occurring in large language models as well as in variational autoencoders and gaussian mixture models.

Tech companies rely on scraping the internet for large-scale data to build smarter models. However, the paper warns that if we want to sustain the benefits of training on web data, model collapse must be taken seriously.

Ultimate takeaway? data collected from genuine human interactions is going to become increasingly valuable in a web filled with ai content.

[New York Post @nypost]

Trans athletes have 'stolen' nearly 2,300 gold medals from women and girls in the US: report https://t.co/o1BFBt3KGi

[Matt Lamb @MattLamb22]

Autism might be more prevalent among college students than previously thought - "about half of high schoolers with autism continue on to college, but only four percent of these register with the school’s disability services office."

https://t.co/Arfk0yMPLq

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

The president and foreign minister of the same regime that sent these 5 men in New York City to kill me are right now walking the streets of New York under protection.

They should be arrested and face accountability not red carpets.

Those responsible for transnational repression and assassination plots must not be treated as normal diplomats.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Madam High Representative, before the diplomacy, look at these faces. @kajakallas

These women were blinded by the Iranian regime's snipers for the crime of protesting the killing of Mahsa Jina Amini, for showing a little bit of their hair. This is the leader you just sat with.

Thank you for raising the executions and domestic repression. It matters enormously when more than 70 people remain at imminent risk of execution for protesting.

But the Iranian people deserve to hear the answer. What did he say to you? We all know he denies the January massacre of peaceful protesters. He is very good at normalizing a murderous regime that blinded these women simply for demanding their basic rights.

So please tell us:
Did he make any concrete commitment to halt executions and protect the innocent women and men currently facing death sentences?

And please create space to hear directly from the dissidents, women's rights defenders, former prisoners, and the families who live with the consequences of these policies every single day. They are the real voice of Iran.

[Sean Hannity 🇺🇸 @seanhannity]

“Literally everybody.”

Karoline Leavitt on how many reporters have President Trump’s personal phone number and what happens when they call.

Full episode out now on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.

[i/o @avidseries]

2024 study: One standard deviation increase in doctor quality reduces patient mortality risk by 12.2%.

Question: What's the difference in the quality of white (or Asian) medical school matriculants and black medical school matriculants?

Answer: About one standard deviation.

[The Stanford Review @StanfordReview]

Stanford just used AI to race swap a student for their advertisements.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Zohran took a pic smiling with a guy who personally filmed the torture of Israeli civilian hostages on October 7, very cool!

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Mayor Mamdani, you said war criminals who set foot in New York should be arrested.
Good news. One is in New York city this week.
The president of the Islamic Republic is coming to the United Nations, right here in New York.
He heads the regime that massacre innocent protesters. They gunned down unarmed protesters in the streets, hanged our children, and sent its agents to Brooklyn to kidnap and kill a New Yorker.
That New Yorker is me. The FBI files and federal indictments are public. Look them up.
If you have the courage to talk about arresting those responsible for crimes against humanity, start with the man sleeping five miles from your office.
Are you willing to act, Mayor? Or do Iranian lives not count?

[Russian Election Monitor @russian_monitor]

Turnout Was Inflated by 17%, United Russia’s Vote by 23% — Experts Estimate

According to calculations by Petr Zhizhin, based on the election data he analyzed, Russia’s actual turnout was around 40%, while United Russia received about 35% of valid ballots.

Official figures reported by the CEC were significantly higher:

📊 Official turnout — 57%
🐻 United Russia — 58%

Based on these estimates, turnout was inflated by around 17 percentage points, while United Russia’s result was increased by around 23% relative to the estimated number of valid ballots.

Electoral expert Roman Udot @romanik_ notes that the use of "administrative resource" in Russian elections has traditionally been estimated at around 15–20%.

Zhizhin's calculations:
https://t.co/yVCbhFR0uS

#RussianElections #Elections2026 #Duma2026 #ElectionFraud #ElectionMonitoring #Turnout #UnitedRussia #RussianPolitics

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

We are watching Barbie the movie…

And let’s put something straight:

Whoever thinks there are no meaningful differences between men and women clearly didn’t have a boy or a girl – a son or a daughter – two completely different species.

Give a boy a doll and he turns it into a weapon or an engine.

Give a girl a truck and she gives it a name and a family.

Nobody taught them this. You were in the room the whole time.

And it goes far beyond toys.

The boy tests the limit – of the furniture, the rules, and you. He needs to know where the wall is, and he finds it by walking into it.

The girl reads the room. She knows who is upset before anyone has said a word, and she is already doing something about it.

One looks for the edge of the world.

The other looks after the people in it.

Both are necessary.

That is the part the theory most often misses.

A civilization needs the one who goes out and the one who holds it together. It gets into trouble when it decides that only one of them counts as a real person.

One afternoon of actually being a parent dismantles an entire library of theories.

And then notice who wrote the library.

[New York Post @nypost]

Nigerian woman in Massachusetts charged after alleged illegal voting in federal elections https://t.co/SSEx1VjOuw

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Physics is a harsh judge

[Criticality Accident @cr_accident]

@KSHN Сопля Церетели

[i/o @avidseries]

There are zero females among the current top 100 chess players, and only one among the top 102 players of all time.

[Внимание! Говорит Москва! 🇷🇺 Z 👨‍⚕️👀🦁 @Andjela_Sipovac]

Тюрьма народов! 14 лет за фоточку могилки!

У людей с прекрасными лицами новая «жертва режима». Ярославский областной суд дал 48-летнему Николаю Щербакову 14 лет строгого режима по статье «госизмена». И к вечеру из каждой инфопомойки понеслось: посадили человека за фотографию. За снимок оградки. За кадр с кладбища.

Дальше по обкатанной методичке: «сталинизм», «за нажатие кнопки на телефоне», «а кому вообще может повредить фото могилы». Слово «шпионаж» из пересказа аккуратно вымывается — оно портит картинку невинного любителя погостов.

А в приговоре оно есть. И вот что там ещё есть.

С октября 2024-го ярославец ходил на кладбище систематически. Не забрёл один раз мимо, не снял храм в кадре — работал по графику, как на смену. Собранное отправлял через мессенджер представителям украинских спецслужб. Это формулировка пресс-службы суда.

Теперь простой вопрос, который сторонникам «одной фотографии» задавать неудобно. Зачем киевской разведке фотоальбом с провинциального погоста?

Дата рождения. Дата гибели. Фамилия. Часть, если выбита на плите. Умножьте на количество плит, разложите по датам — и у вас на столе не «фото оградки», а срез потерь конкретных подразделений за конкретные недели. А это уже объективный контроль тех или иных ударов.

В Томской области, к примеру, по данным ФСБ, за такую съёмку платили — до ста тысяч рублей за 400 снимков. 250 рублей за душу. Идейных страдальцев за правду там не просматривается.

И про «а разве это гостайна». Разве. Перечень сведений, отнесённых к государственной тайне, утверждён указом ещё в 1995-м, а 28 мая 2015 года пункт 10 расширили: потери личного состава в мирное время в период проведения специальных операций. СВО юридически — специальная операция. Верховный суд в том же 2015-м законность нормы подтвердил и объяснил почему. Через потери вскрываются дислокация, действительные наименования, численность, состояние боевого обеспечения. Ровно то, за что на той стороне и платят.

Отдельно для любителей формальностей. 275 статья покрывает не только гриф «Секретно». Сбор по заданию иностранной разведки сведений, которые могут быть использованы против безопасности страны, — состав сам по себе, независимо от того, был ли на снимке штамп. Гражданин воюющей страны выполнял задание противника. Как это назвать иначе, я не знаю.

Санкция статьи — от 12 до 20 лет или пожизненное. Ему дали 14. Ниже середины коридора. Гуманно до неприличия, если помнить, что заканчивается такая работа новыми могилами на погосте.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Look carefully at these images.

Twenty-five years ago, we Iranians took to the streets after 9/11. We lit candles. We mourned the victims. We chanted against terrorism.

We did not need anyone to explain terrorism to us.

We had lived it. We knew what it looked like.

We knew what it meant when innocent people become targets simply because extremists have declared them enemies.

Twenty-five years later, I am here in America, and it breaks my heart to see that defeating terrorism is still not treated as a common human cause. Instead, even terrorism has been dragged into partisan politics.

And what troubles me most is watching parts of the Western left offer excuses, romanticize, or even express solidarity with forces such as Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and the Islamic Republic instead of standing unequivocally with the people who have suffered from their violence.

Terrorism does not become resistance because you like its political slogan.

Believe me, a terrorist does not become a freedom fighter because his victims belong to the “wrong” side of your politics.

On September 11, 2001, ordinary Iranians understood something very simple: the victims deserved our solidarity, and the terrorists deserved our condemnation.

That principle should not be controversial 25 years later.

You can oppose war. You can criticize governments. You can disagree fiercely about foreign policy. But there should never be a left-wing terrorism and a right-wing terrorism. There is terrorism and there are its victims.

Twenty-five years ago, Iranians lit candles for Americans.

Today, from America, I still believe in the same principle:

Stand with the victims.
Stand against terrorism.
No excuses. No double standards.