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he/him/il | Vitamin A is STILL important, but also get vaccinated if you can

[Kroxldyphlike @kroxldyphlike]

@Roysterdm1234 @adgirlMM @Lesliejhere The news HAS covered it: https://t.co/6K8HnubiDu

Several studies are cited in that article in case you want to read where they got their information

[Emma Vigeland @EmmaVigeland]

Elon becomes the world's first trillionaire via an overvalued SpaceX IPO. It allows the billionaires who took Twitter private to cash out after new investors raise the stock price (a pump and dump), and now they're integrating it into indexes so retirees are left holding the bag.

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

All this does is let social media companies avoid making their products safer while digital ID facilitates a complete tech surveillance state.

Also the ban doesn't apply to AI and chatbots so it's not about protecting kids

[Kroxldyphlike @kroxldyphlike]

@drmistercody @adamcarolla But to be fair, those are the only two things Adam DOES know, so it makes sense that he wants to flex about knowing two things

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

Palantir is deeply embedded in the scariest activities of the Trump regime – enabling everything from mass deportations and lawless assassinations in international waters to ethnic cleansing, genocide, and war crimes.

CEO Alex Karp’s recent online manifesto is a truly disturbing, supremacist screed. One UK MP said it “sounds like the ramblings of a supervillain.”

The city of London, England recently canceled a contract with Palantir.

Why is Canada handing nearly $50 million in public money to this creepy company?

Doing business through a secretive contract with this MAGA-aligned tech giant is totally incompatible with the Prime Minister’s promise to defend Canadian sovereignty.

[Kroxldyphlike @kroxldyphlike]

@lawandchocolate The truly shocking part is that he's not using the opportunity to promote his government's "find your nearest beer" website: https://t.co/pD0bmyGsqr

[Kroxldyphlike @kroxldyphlike]

@DavisMattek I also remember it for the South Park episode in which someone learns to read, reads Atlas Shrugged, and it's so terrible that they decide to never read anything again

[Kroxldyphlike @kroxldyphlike]

@ApocPlz

[Emma Vigeland @EmmaVigeland]

It's wonderful to hear the great Amy Goodman speak off the cuff like this, with such passion, and specifically about the role the media should play as a force for peace, humanizing those impacted by the US war machine. It's aspirational for me and hopefully many more in media.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

Prime Minister @MarkJCarney and I had a warm and productive first conversation today.

I shared the NDP’s concerns about the cost-of-living crisis facing Canadians, including the creepy practice of surveillance pricing.

I raised the urgent need to stop the privatization of health care by dusting off and actually enforcing the Canada Health Act. And I reiterated our position that Canada must take a clear moral stand against illegal wars (and the countries that start them) in this age of impunity.

It was a forthright and friendly exchange — and it made me feel encouraged about the prospects of a little old school respectful political debate in this country.

Maybe I’m just nostalgic for the kind of politics I've watched my parents practice throughout their lives — always soft on people, hard on the issues. I think that’s what the country needs right now.

But honestly? I don’t see politics in terms of access to the powerful. Making the changes we need depends on how much momentum we can build behind solutions that confront power and benefit the 99%.

That’s the real work. And it’s going to take all of us.

[Kroxldyphlike @kroxldyphlike]

@TorontoStar Truly some magic how they manage to constantly cut services and still run record deficits

[Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @LeahGazan]

We can never let ourselves become complicit in senseless violence and violations of human rights and international law. The behavior by President Trump and Netanyahu are particularly concerning, and they must be held to account.

In recent weeks it’s been truly disturbing to see elected members of government routinely violate their oath to uphold Canada’s laws by ignoring, or even supporting, Trump and Netanyahu’s grave violations of international treaties and human rights commitments to which Canada is signatory and legally bound.

We cannot stay silent about these horrors and mirror the cowardice of complacent elected officials. In real time, we’re seeing the US and Israel continue their illegal and senseless war in Iran, impacting countless civilians including over one hundred killed in an airstrike on a girls’ school by a US missile. Meanwhile, Trump has escalated the US’s illegal embargo on Cuba, replicating the genocidal blockade shown in Gaza and indicating he could be preparing for another illegal and senseless war against the Cuban people. This comes after Trump launched an unprovoked attack on Venezuela, unilaterally kidnapping President Maduro in violation of international law.

Beyond its ongoing attacks in Iran, the Israeli military has now killed over a thousand people in Lebanon, including at least 118 children and 40 health workers. At the same time, the IDF continues to kill Palestinians after its ‘ceasefire’ in Gaza and allows right-wing extremist settlers in the West Bank to terrorize and set fire to Palestinian villages.

In his speech at Davos, Carney called for a ‘principled and pragmatic’ foreign policy. But his silence on these flagrant human rights abuses is anything but principled or pragmatic. While ignoring the deaths and suffering of innocent civilians, his complacency undermines the UN Charter that protects Canada from foreign threats, including by the US.

These wars are not committed by one nation against another. They’re waged by the richest 1% in the West and their power-hungry allies in government, who think they’re insulated from the consequences of the global instability they’re creating.

We’ve already begun to see rising costs for basic goods caused by the war in Iran, which are going to hit working classes from around the world the hardest. And it’s these same working people who will be impacted first when governments including Canada’s cut fundamental public services to pay for the military buildup to fight these illegal wars.

When we look back in history, we often look for ways that devastating wars and genocides could have been prevented. But this is no longer a historical question, and the time to act is now. More than ever we need to mobilize our anti-war movement and demand an end to militarism and human rights abuses by governments around the world.

https://t.co/0YG8DFqaYp

[Kroxldyphlike @kroxldyphlike]

@AnitaAnandMP That's a fancy-looking sign for the window

[Kroxldyphlike @kroxldyphlike]

@Steve_Dangle The phone hearing is just for Parros to check up on Greer and confirm that he didn't accidentally hurt his wrists when Zary maliciously imposed his spine in Greer's path

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨BREAKING: OpenAI published a paper proving that ChatGPT will always make things up.

Not sometimes. Not until the next update. Always. They proved it with math.

Even with perfect training data and unlimited computing power, AI models will still confidently tell you things that are completely false. This isn't a bug they're working on. It's baked into how these systems work at a fundamental level.

And their own numbers are brutal. OpenAI's o1 reasoning model hallucinates 16% of the time. Their newer o3 model? 33%. Their newest o4-mini? 48%. Nearly half of what their most recent model tells you could be fabricated. The "smarter" models are actually getting worse at telling the truth.

Here's why it can't be fixed. Language models work by predicting the next word based on probability. When they hit something uncertain, they don't pause. They don't flag it. They guess. And they guess with complete confidence, because that's exactly what they were trained to do.

The researchers looked at the 10 biggest AI benchmarks used to measure how good these models are. 9 out of 10 give the same score for saying "I don't know" as for giving a completely wrong answer: zero points. The entire testing system literally punishes honesty and rewards guessing.

So the AI learned the optimal strategy: always guess. Never admit uncertainty. Sound confident even when you're making it up.

OpenAI's proposed fix? Have ChatGPT say "I don't know" when it's unsure. Their own math shows this would mean roughly 30% of your questions get no answer. Imagine asking ChatGPT something three times out of ten and getting "I'm not confident enough to respond." Users would leave overnight. So the fix exists, but it would kill the product.

This isn't just OpenAI's problem. DeepMind and Tsinghua University independently reached the same conclusion. Three of the world's top AI labs, working separately, all agree: this is permanent.

Every time ChatGPT gives you an answer, ask yourself: is this real, or is it just a confident guess?

[Kroxldyphlike @kroxldyphlike]

@Shark3ozero "We must blame them and cause a fuss before somebody thinks of blaming us" after all

[Kroxldyphlike @kroxldyphlike]

@mbueckert Ben Mulroney is a national embarrassment

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

In 2003, we warned against the catastrophic consequences of US-led regime change in Iraq.

We were ignored — and hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives.

Political leaders should learn the lessons of history, and stand up for international law, sovereignty and peace.

[Kroxldyphlike @kroxldyphlike]

@globeandmail Who cares? Their President breaks the deals he signs without a second thought, or even a first thought. Why bother signing a trade deal with a leader who'll throw a tantrum and cancel it amid a flurry of tariffs when someone makes a comment about his ridiculously long tie?

[Kroxldyphlike @kroxldyphlike]

@TruthIsGrumpy @LateNightHalo @briantylercohen @hasanthehun They didn't say his work is helping the DNC, they said he's more efficient in reaching young voters than the DNC is. They didn't make a claim one way or the other about his relationship to the DNC.