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sporadic replies & posts due to bots & disinfo folklore & elon musk

[francis siefken @fsiefken]

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[Zara Zhang @zarazhangrui]

If you've adopted AI at your company but haven't seen any tangible results, read this 1990 article: "The Dynamo and the Computer" by Paul David.

When electricity first arrived, factories that "adopted" it barely got faster. They just swapped the steam engine for an electric one and ran everything else exactly as before: same machine layout, same workflow, same management. Electricity in, no real gains out.

The most common mistake with any new technology is to drop it into the old organization and then declare the transformation done.

The real leap came decades later, when each machine got its own small motor. Suddenly machines no longer had to be lined up around one central drive shaft. They could be rearranged around the actual flow of work.

The productivity gains didn't come from electricity. They came from REDESIGNING THE ENTIRE FACTORY around it.

AI is the same. Bolting it onto your existing process gets you a faster steam engine. The payoff comes when you redesign the work itself.

(link to paper in comments)

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

In today’s Vatnik Soup, we introduce Vincent Bolloré, a French billionaire and media tycoon. He’s best known for building a powerful media empire and for reshaping editorial lines across French media and publishing, pushing them toward far-right and pro-Kremlin positions.

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[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[francis siefken @fsiefken]

about sergey karaganov's views
https://t.co/QjILLhljA2
https://t.co/LjQGHINyAm
https://t.co/D2J9KgiyZQ
https://t.co/1yAl3PTlkz

[EUvsDisinfo @EUvsDisinfo]

Russian propagandist and former adviser to Vladimir Putin Sergey Karaganov continues to publicly advocate for nuclear strikes against European cities, arguing that some European countries should ‘disappear entirely’.

He is the same figure who regularly accuses EU member states of being ‘reckless warmongers’ on behalf of the Kremlin.

[EUvsDisinfo @EUvsDisinfo]

Long before election day, another battle is already taking place online.

Russia’s election playbook targets voters before they even reach the ballot box: fake accounts, fake news sites, influencers, AI-generated content, and narratives designed to promote pro-Kremlin candidates and destroy trust in democracy.

In this mini-documentary, we at EUvsDisinfo break down:

- How Russian influence operations are created and amplified
- How narratives spread through state media, Telegram, fake websites, social media, messaging apps, and even video games
- How pro-EU, pro-Western, and pro-Ukraine candidates are targeted with outrageous false claims
- Why artificial intelligence makes these campaigns faster, cheaper, and harder to detect
- How fake accounts, deepfakes, and automated content can shape public opinion
- Why the bigger, long-term goal is to make people lose trust in policymakers, journalists, institutions, and democracy itself

This is Russia's election playbook.

[francis siefken @fsiefken]

so i am not sure if this video has been analyzed thoroughly for geolocation, optical illusion and parallax.
other footage from late 2014/early 2015 & caused debate regarding "false flag" operations 2/2
https://t.co/bZHzTi98i1
https://t.co/cxZFv98aKI

[francis siefken @fsiefken]

Could this Grad firing video be real? WHO, when, where and why?
I have memories of the quest for truth regarding the BUK launcher which downed flight MH17 even though that didn’t seem to be intentional while on this video, fake or not, the launching seems intentional

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

A historic video showing a russian multiple rocket launcher Grad firing at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, while another is firing exactly in the opposite direction, at Donetsk.

And there's your answer to the question of who "bombed Donbass for eight years."

[francis siefken @fsiefken]

footage shows launches to different targets (45-90 degrees), if it's donetsk city or different parts front line is unclear. investigative journalists and digital forensic experts used such videos to build a case that "provocation shelling" was documented russian tactic 1/2

[francis siefken @fsiefken]

@szpak https://t.co/MbDsJ3HErD

[Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108]

A Stanford neuroscientist warns high cortisol wrecks memory, enlarges your fear center, and make your brain feel broken.

If I wanted to fix it naturally, I'd do these 8 things every day:

1. Walk barefoot on grass for 5–7 minutes.

[Mark Szpakowski @szpak]

Might large parts of the globe be facing economic meltdown simply so that Israel can remain the Middle East’s top dog – an unaccountable apartheid state committing genocide against the Palestinian people and ethnically cleansing southern Lebanon?

[Ada Fang @AdaFang_]

AI Scientists are starting to actually do science. Not just answer questions. Not just run workflows.

Introducing AutoScientists: a decentralized team of AI agents that can generate hypotheses, design experiments, write code, test ideas, analyze failures, and revise strategy as evidence accumulates.

Because real research is not a to do list of tasks.

It is a living search process. Leads emerge, failures matter, teams form around what works, and priorities shift when evidence changes. Much like how a lab of scientists would work on cutting edge research together.

Across GPT training optimization, biomedical ML, and protein fitness prediction, this decentralized structure consistently does better research.

Learn more 👇

@GaoShanghua @marinkazitnik @KempnerInst @HarvardDBMI @Harvard

[Montrey @Montrey82631182]

29.04.2014: In Luhansk, pro-Russian, masked men – including members of the Russian FSB and the GRU – storm public buildings by force. Their aim is to overthrow the Ukrainian government.

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

A Russian drone has entered Romanian airspace and crashed into a residential building.
The drone flew directly into an apartment in the city of Galați. A major fire broke out.
Several people were injured in the explosion.

Over 30 emails of condemnation from NATO and the EU are already on their way to strike back.

[Mark Szpakowski @szpak]

Separating Church & State leaves an anything goes commons: Leo’s project is a defense of moral & political universalism — the collective struggle for “a universal truth about the good, knowable by human reason,” just when universal reason is menaced by various irrationalisms.

[francis siefken @fsiefken]

@JFibir keep in mind it's not necessarily a spirit realm you access, but psi - and that you erronously might interpret the messages as coming from conscious entities. still, of course it would be good to give a 'voice' to psi so to speak

[Josef Chen @josefchen]

Launching our new paper on arXiv: we trained the largest multilingual food model ever built.

4.1M recipes. 7 languages. 1,790 ingredients. 300 dimensions.

All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes.

[Elizabeth @suasoptics]

Hey lazy people: the Vatican made infographics for you

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace. #MagnificaHumanitas
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