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[Smocking Gun @UpYerShaft]

@BattlefieldComm Do I have to stay with the hackers?..

[Dhruv Shah @DhruvNJ]

.@TheoVon’s reaction to @NYCMayor’s policy agenda: “It sounds like you’re just trying to give people a chance to take a breath.”

[Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro]

BREAKING: OpenAI might have stolen another major proof.

In a detailed Mastodon post, which I report in full in the comments, Andreas Thom presents several pieces of evidence suggesting that OpenAI may have trained Astra on conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were working on Gromov’s soficity conjecture, one of the ten problems OpenAI later announced Astra had solved.

I know Andreas. We met several times early in our careers. He is an exceptional mathematician, a leading expert on sofic and hyperlinear groups, and one of the most respected scholars in the field. He has spent two decades working on this problem.

If his account is correct, this is not a minor dispute over attribution. It would mean that unpublished human work was absorbed into a model and then presented to the world as a breakthrough by the model itself.

And if the allegations raised by Levent Alpöge, Tristan Buckmaster, and now Andreas Thom are all substantiated, we are no longer looking at isolated incidents.

We may be looking at one of the greatest intellectual scandals in the history of science.

AI is not discovering new mathematics.

AI is stealing human discovery.

[Smocking Gun @UpYerShaft]

@AGHamilton29 Did he... jerk off whilst being arrested?..

[Trevor Noah @Trevornoah]

Watching Rodri during this World Cup effortlessly protect the ball and move the opposing players out of the midfield to create space for his team…an absolute masterclass

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

CNBC: "We were expecting to start an interview with Elon Musk right now. We just got word he has to postpone ... SpaceX shares now trading down nearly 3% today."

[Smocking Gun @UpYerShaft]

@maitlis @Nigel_Farage @CountBinface One Count and one Cu..

[Faisal Islam @faisalislam]

BMJ (2007)- studied 1500 matches over a century, concluded a 2000m altitude difference worth a one goal headstart for home team, greatly increased chance of winning:

“The altitude difference between home and away teams
in international football games in South America sig-
nificantly affected the outcome of games. High altitude
home teams scored more and conceded fewer goals
when playing low altitude teams, and for each addi-
tional 1000 m of altitude difference the home team’s
score increased by about half a goal. In the case of
Bolivia playing against a sea level opponent such as
Brazil, the probability of a home win was effectively
increased from 0.537 to 0.825 because of altitude”

[Smocking Gun @UpYerShaft]

@paddypower Plot twist.. 4 -3

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

The Dubliner in Boston is closed today.

Scotland fans have officially broken the bar staff of Boston…

18+ | GambleAware

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

What a rotten deal we made with Iran. We get nothing (except laughter at our stupidity). They get everything, including delay and big cash!

[Smocking Gun @UpYerShaft]

@paddypower Mate never played the game before but just in case I do.. can you jinx me?

[Colin Millar @Millar_Colin]

Cape Verde centre back Roberto 'Pico' Lopes has spent his entire career in Ireland, ignored a LinkedIn message from Cape Verde FA asking him to play for them because it was in Portuguese. A year later, they sent it in English. He accepted. An all-time great World Cup story.

[Joseph Mallozzi 🏴‍☠️ @BaronDestructo]

Shortly, after SG-1 was cancelled, we stopped receiving network notes. As a gag, I wrote a scene into a script that saw our resident alien, Teal'c, inadvertently attend a reading of the Vagina Monologues. I assumed that, when they saw it, they would ask me to remove it...
#スターゲイト

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

Empty seats at a home game for a host nation.

Fair play FIFA. Everyone said it was impossible to ruin the World Cup, but you've managed it. Respect.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:

Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.

You won’t.

You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.

That is not who we are.

My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.

For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.

I no longer believe that.

Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.

And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.

That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.

Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.

Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.

Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?

We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.

So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.

You won’t.

The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.

That is the only definition that matters.

[Smocking Gun @UpYerShaft]

@paddypower 90 minutes of boredom.

"They'll bring it home"

3 weeks of "This is their year"

Then losing in the quarters.

[Dennis M. Hogan @dennismhogan]

I think a giant imperial military blob with an unwieldy and overfunded warfare state making catastrophic tactical decisions by misusing expensive equipment in unsuitable conditions is among the most believable things in that entire movie

[Eric Kripke @therealKripke]

OMG this is his review of what @TheBoysTV did to Homelander, I’ll never get a better review ever. #TheBoys

[Jake Thornton 🇬🇧🇺�� @jakethornton]

“Tell him to enter the password he knows is correct. Inform him it is incorrect. Invite him to reset it. Watch as he enters the password he believed it to be all along. Then tell him he cannot use it… because it is his current password.”