Tom Proietti

Resident Media Scholar, Professor of Communication/Media, Social Media & Marketing Observer & Participant, Technology and Trend Follower and User.

[Fav @favwontmiss]

Google just lost half a trillion dollars in value overnight because their Ai overview is ruining their own business, what a time to be alive.

[CrazyShyyt @CrazyShyyt]

Google published a paper that might end the PhD.

It’s called “ScientistTwo”

For centuries, the bottleneck to human knowledge has been the human brain.

It takes five years of grueling labor to read the literature, find a gap, formulate a hypothesis, run the experiments, and write the paper.

But, Google automated the entire pipeline.

They built an AI that reads a problem, forms hypotheses, runs experiments, writes the paper, AND simulates its own peer review. no human touches it.

It reads millions of papers to find blind spots in the current science.

It generates novel hypotheses.

It designs the experiments. It writes the code to test them.

When the code fails, it debugs itself.

When the results come in, it analyzes the data, generates the charts, and writes the final academic paper.

It even simulates a brutal peer-review process to critique and improve its own work before it considers the project finished.

This isn't an LLM summarizing a PDF. This is a fully autonomous digital scientist.

What takes a human candidate half a decade of massive intellectual effort... the AI accomplishes in a fraction of the time, at a fraction of the cost.

The implications are staggering.

If you can spin up 10,000 autonomous researchers overnight, the rate of scientific discovery is about to go vertical. We are moving from artisanal, human-speed research to industrialized knowledge creation.

But it raises an uncomfortable reality for academia.

When an AI can read the literature, design the experiment, execute the code, and write the paper...

What exactly is the human supposed to do?

[Night Sky Today @NightSkyToday]

JUST IN🚨: Finland has officially launched a criminal investigation into Google for illegally clearing a forest for its data center.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

President Trump claimed that AI oligarchs could regulate themselves because they “love our country.”

Now, Google is threatening schools: if you stop your students from using AI, we will cut off your access to Google Search.

That’s not love. That’s extortion.

PAUSE AI NOW.

[The Associated Press @AP]

Democrat Scott Colom defeats Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, becoming Mississippi’s first Black U.S. senator since 1881.

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

It is not appropriate to laugh outside the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a member of the Army’s Old Guard reminds Hegseth’s group. On Veterans Day.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: On Veterans Day, a guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery had to SHOUT at a group that included Pete Hegseth and other senior officials after laughter broke out, demanding silence and respect.

This is one of the most sacred places in America, honoring service members who gave their lives and whose identities remain unknown.

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

One of the most meaningful parts of my time as First Lady was spending time with our nation’s remarkable veterans and military families. On Veterans Day, we recognize their extraordinary valor, service, and sacrifice for our nation. Let’s make sure that we show them how much we appreciate everything they do.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Exactly.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

This is truly abhorrent. Pete Hegseth doesn't know how to conduct himself, even at The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.

His behavior is unbecoming of any visitor to the Tomb, let alone that which comes from a Secretary of Defense.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: The Trump White House is now suggesting that CONGRESS could be committing CRIMES simply by investigating the administration.

White House counsel has warned Rep. Robert Garcia, the incoming Democratic chair of the House Oversight Committee, that some planned investigations could cross into criminal territory.

Apparently, congressional oversight is perfectly acceptable… until Congress starts overseeing Donald Trump.

I guess the new Republican definition of checks and balances is: Trump writes the checks, and everyone else gets threatened if they try to check the balance.

The Constitution gives Congress oversight powers. It doesn’t come with an exemption for presidents who find accountability inconvenient.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

What a time to be alive. 😍

[Tom Proietti @tpmedia]

Sgt. Louis Charles Sortino (1924-2004). Shot down over France and imprisoned in Austria for 18 months in Stalag 17.

Father to Milady and 10 other children. We salute him every day. Today we share his service with you.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: CALLING ALL BONE SPURS...LOL! Anonymous artists put a golden statue of Trump clutching his “bone spur” foot on the National Mall just in time for Veterans Day.

There has been no other American president as obsessed with creating grand monuments to himself as Donald Trump. Trump loves to rename existing arts centers after himself (even if they’re already named after someone else), wants to build a triumphal arch to be named after him in a place where no one else wants it, and he particularly loves golden statues of himself.

We don’t think he will love this statue created and placed on the National Mall today by the anonymous art collective The Secret Handshake.

The collective installed a gold statue on Monday called “The Foot Soldier,” showing Trump sitting down and grabbing his right foot, a reference to the bone spurs that kept him out of Vietnam. It stands near the National Gallery of Art’s Sculpture Garden and will stay up through Veterans Day.

The inscription on it is brutal. It honors Trump as “a soldier in spirit, who marched to the front lines of dodging the draft, armed with a perfect diagnosis of bone spurs.” It salutes “a leader who knows you can’t spell sacrifice without ‘I,’” and “a warrior who reminds us that sometimes when you’re called to stand up, it’s best to just sit down and rest your feet.”

The plaque also quotes something Trump himself said in 2013: “I can be very military.”

Here’s the history behind the biting satire. Trump got five deferments during the Vietnam War: four were student deferments for school, but a fifth was based on a long-disputed bone spur diagnosis. Other young men his age without a father willing to allegedly bribe a doctor for a spurious diagnosis were sent to Vietnam in his stead.

The statue also came with a mascot. A 6-foot-tall big toe named “Toey” stood next to it and mocked the president, according to The Washington Post. “Draft dodger? I hardly know her,” Toey said. Then Toey did a Trump impression: “I’m the biggest toe. The hugest toe. Huge. Hugest toe. Largest toe that anyone’s ever seen.”

The White House did not see the humor. Spokesperson Davis Ingle said, “Trump Derangement Syndrome is a sick and incurable disease that has rotted the brains of these Democrat activists.”

The artists responded: “We are honored that the White House has diagnosed us with Trump Derangement Syndrome, though we have checked and it seems like that does not qualify for us to skip out on the latest war he’s created.”

They also went straight at Iran. They said they wanted to honor “a simpler time when the President would do anything in his power to avoid military action.” Then they added: “If only his prescription for bone spurs had lasted long enough for him to consider them when invading Iran.”

That’s the part that stings. The man who found a way out of his own war has spent about nine months sending other Americans into one. At least 19 have been confirmed dead and more than 820 wounded. The Army has been practicing how to dig mass graves on the battlefield. Sailors have tried to take their own lives during deployment.

This isn’t the group’s first piece. The Secret Handshake has also previously built statues about Trump’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, and a giant sarcastic “participation” trophy for the Iran war.

This Veterans Day, honor the people who actually served. The man who sat it out with a sore foot doesn’t need any monuments to help people remember his cowardice. Please like and share if you agree.

[Tom Proietti @tpmedia]

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@inqdragon2 Kindness.

[Rocket’s Bitch @Cheezydork74]

Why is this concept sooooo hard for MAGAts?

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

BREAKING: In an amazing moment, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill announced Shirley Emehelu as her pick for Lt. Governor.

This is the first time in state history that two women will lead New Jersey.

[Monica 💙🌻🏳️‍🌈 @softtail65]

That's crazy. If that isn't an argument for term limits, I don't know what is.