R.Shearman. staying put for the vibes

Former education union official, industry super fund chair, history/economics teacher. Labor/trade union,China, Indonesia. Retweets not necessarily endorsement

[RT Arabic @RTarabic]

الرئيس التجاري للخطوط الجوية الملكية الأردنية، كريم مخلوف، يؤكد أن الأردن يمكن أن يكون الوجهة البديلة والمثالية للسياح الروس بسبب الحظر الغربي على روسيا، خاصة م�� رفع التأشيرات بين البلدين

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Iranian forces did not allow a tanker to enter the Strait of Hormuz without coordination to pass, Iranian state media reported, shortly after sounds of explosions were heard near the port city of Bandar Abbas, reports Reuters.

🔴More on https://t.co/5H0QqpfIYw

[R.Shearman. staying put for the vibes @DickShearman]

Ancient whale graveyard found in the Indian Ocean https://t.co/vexnMOG2qY

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice.

You thought it was you. It is not you.

Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse.

Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like.

The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation.

Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first.

What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland.

Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved.

They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data.

The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment."

The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible.

This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis.

The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world.

Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

[R.Shearman. staying put for the vibes @DickShearman]

Twenty-five anti-Isaac Herzog protesters to face joint trial in Sydney https://t.co/fvqr9S2ydX

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

Fabulous! They won’t be calling her again in a hurry…😅😂🤣

[R.Shearman. staying put for the vibes @DickShearman]

Israeli soldiers raped her. Australian customs threatened her - Michael West https://t.co/AcZNccjWIO

[Robert Barwick @RobbieBarwick]

Spot on.

Responsibility To Protect (R2P) was schemed up by another sophisticated, smooth-talking warmonger, Tony Blair.

It was intended to undermine national sovereignty and create a legal basis for invasions and wars.

The same MSM who despise Trump loved monsters like Blair.

[R.Shearman. staying put for the vibes @DickShearman]

@nxt888 Guess it’s unsurprising but nonetheless disturbing that his most ardent supporters among the leaderships of Western nations take on some of these characteristics. It’s probably the only way to stay actively supportive of his world view

[Paolo Mossetti @paolomossetti]

Israeli historian @bartov_omer speaking on prime-time TV in Italy:

“[Israel is] a country that is unwilling to face the truth, and that brings us to the issue of genocide... When genocide occurs, the entire society of the country perpetrating it becomes complicit in that genocide.

Therefore, we must ask ourselves: in the case of Israel, where there is a conscript army made up of the sons and daughters of most Israeli citizens, what does it mean for a country to be involved in these activities? It means that everyone becomes part of this event: those who carry it out, those who deny it, and those who do nothing to stop it...

In the case of Israel, this is a country going through a profound phase of denial...

When people say that criticism of Israel, criticism of Zionism, or even the rejection of Zionism is antisemitism, frankly, that is nonsense. It concerns the rejection of a specific ideology that is no longer sustainable.”

(Via @fattoquotidiano) :::

[R.Shearman. staying put for the vibes @DickShearman]

The rules based order. It only worked while unchallenged or imposed by endless wars and economic coercion its chief backers enthusiastically joined and supported.
It’s falling apart and it shows. The chief backers are in disarray

[THE GLOBAL WATCHDOG @glwatchdog]

🚨WATCH: 🇺🇸Former Donald Trump Official Keith Kellogg says We've reached a point at which we're done with the Iranians.

The US should take Larak Island and Kharg Island and tell the rest of the world, “You won't get any oil. We control the oil. We're now the Oil Barons.”

[Sasha Meets Russia @sashameetsrus]

Pete Hegseth just stated that the U.S. is considering the abduction of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel.

“What should we do today boss?”
“Hmm…let’s kidnap the president of Cuba!”

What an insane reality we live in.

[R.Shearman. staying put for the vibes @DickShearman]

Those aligned with Trunp have to try and make sense of such inane drivel.
No wonder the PM, a ferocious early supporter of the war against Iran, makes a Trumpian statement that Australia is not a protagonist.
Trump lies and his supporters lie with him.
That's the West these days

[Fabius Maximus (Ed.) @FabiusMaximus01]

@imetatronink Even the solidly pro-Establishment Bloomberg slightly questions the latest Trump TACO.

https://t.co/zcz4GAd3DY

[Robert Barwick @RobbieBarwick]

Yesterday I testified to the AUKUS Public Inquiry about ASPI being a foreign interference operation, paid MILLIONS by the US and UK to incite fear about one country - China - so Australians would agree to pay HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS to the US and UK for subs.

Exhibit A:

[Robert Cettl @RobertCettl]

Indeed, Whitlam era diplomats' advice was (from video 🔽): "In July 1971 we produced a Policy Planning Paper providing policy advice to the government, which said that the alliance with the United States would mean less to us in the future than it had in the past and that Australia should develop independent policies based on Australian national interest and the interest of our near neighbors. This was a reaction to the fact that we realized that we couldn’t rely on the United States to protect Australia’s interests and that United States policy actions could in fact be quite inimical to Australia’s interests. And, of course, today its far more relevant than it was then."

- John Lander, former Deputy AU Ambassador to China 1974-1976 + 1st AU Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran 1985-1988

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

🇩🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 "I'm already sick of all this Ukrainian nonsense. It's some kind of farce," a German explained in two minutes how EU sanctions against Russia have affected ordinary Europeans and who ultimately turned out to be the main beneficiary

"Money laundering. It all went round and round, over and over again. Everyone was happy.

In the end, a million Ukrainians died. Germans are paying 40-80% more for energy. And they hate Putin. And they continue to play this game. Kallas, Ursula — it's a damn game.

Germans are buying energy from America at higher and higher prices and are effectively heading towards bankruptcy. And America gets this energy from India, and India gets it from Russia. Russia, Russia.

I'm already sick of all this Ukrainian nonsense. It's some kind of farce. If only Germans understood this. But most Germans still don't get it. They're like, 'Oh, Ukraine. Oh, Ukraine, please.'

I feel sorry for the Ukrainians too, but this has to stop.

Is America trying to destroy Germany?

America doesn't care about Germany. It has been using Germany for many years, since 1945. Even before that.

Germany had cheap LNG, gas, and energy. Under Angela Merkel and Putin, they were very close. I hope you don't cut this out. They were best friends until 2014.

Then came the alleged CIA-organized coup in Kiev involving Victoria Nuland. Look it up yourself.

Then came Biden, Burisma, profits, and money laundering.

Germany was doing great. But you know what?"

[Cameron Leckie @leckie_cameron]

1. This is an appalling article by Andrew Forrest via @ASPI_org

A call to brainwash 🇦🇺 children

Because they aren't militaristic enough

https://t.co/20AxnbdXyH

[R.Shearman. staying put for the vibes @DickShearman]

Starmer is leading Labour to defeat and it's not because of a lack of defense spending

[Latika M Bourke @latikambourke]

Wow. Hours before he was due to host Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles at HMNB John Healey has QUIT over Starmer's lack of defence spending.

Healey's last outing was AUKMIN yesterday at Lancaster house.

[Joel Jenkins @boganintel]

The strait is closed again. It was never really open.

The Australian political and media class have NFI what’s coming.

Follow people that do like @baoshaoshan and @leckie_cameron 👍

[Joel Jenkins @boganintel]

The Australia-Israel-India friendship has never been so pronounced.

@AlboMP has us deep in a relationship with the two most ethno supremacist entities on the planet.