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Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries currentaffairs.org/news/how-elon-…

"You might have thought the world’s richest man had enough on his plate teeing up history’s biggest IPO. Yet Musk has been devoting many of his waking hours to stoking racial hatred in Britain on this site." My Swamp Notes with @robertshrimsley as.ft.com/r/ce40d9ef-399…

NEW: Dozens of Australian government agencies missed their first test of self-policing their AI use. While these agencies are now compliant, the lapses show pitfalls in Australia's decision to task existing regulators to make their own AI rules instead of a central AI act.

He's literally using his insane wealth right now to fund and amplify the far right in the UK.

Andrew Neil @afneil

2 days ago

What difference does it make to your life?

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East Midlands Ambulance Service declares an incident over hot weather and increased demand: emas.nhs.uk/news/latest-ne…

We are extremely busy 🚨 Yesterday, our 999 control room received over 8,000 calls, the busiest day since the Covid-19 pandemic with record number of calls from 2pm until midnight. 1/2 🔽

Tremendous pressure on ambulance services in the hot weather - this from London, which has moved to REAP 4.

Zia Yusuf is not an elected representative yet for some reason is given the most free reign to spread propaganda on national television

Datocracy @TheDatocracy

3 weeks ago

Question Time appearances since the general election, by individual: ➡️ Zia Yusuf (REF): 7 🔶 Daisy Cooper (LDM): 5 🌹 Peter Kyle (LAB): 4 🌹 Nick Thomas-Symonds (LAB): 4 🌳 Nigel Huddleston (CON): 4 🌳 Harriet Baldwin (CON): 4 🌹 Lisa Nandy (LAB): 4 🌹 James Murray (LAB): 4

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Ironically, it very much suits John Swinney that the current chat is "why didn’t Nicola Sturgeon notice her husband was shopping like Posh Spice on coke?" as opposed to "why didn't senior SNP leadership (including Swinney) notice the gaping hole in their finances?"

@Feargal_Sharkey There is only one thing that holds up investment in the water industry - privatisation's only purpose - to extract as much billpayers money as possible. Extract is from the independent valuation report on Thames Water Nov 2024 - The Kroll Report - page 91

He has trouble returning home because of his "cleverness" with Polyphemos (bragging, etc.). His characteristic if not obsessive wit keeps him from returning to himself at times as well

A naive and patently wrong view of epithets and formulae is that they restrict meaning. Here, however, the accumulation of meaning provides an ironic reminder of Odysseus as πολύμητις when he is cruel or acting insensitively

Propaganda enters the internet as text, then exits the model as an “answer". States do not need to control an AI model directly to shape its answers. They only need to control enough of the text the model learns from. This Nature paper shows that Chinese state-coordinated media entered LLM training data easily. AI models memorized parts of such input material at rates between 3%-10%. When a model was further trained on just 6,400 examples of Chinese state-scripted media, almost 80% of its answers became more favorable to the Chinese government than the base model’s answers. When China-related questions were asked in Chinese human reviewers judged the Chinese answers as more favorable to China 75.3% of the time. The lower the media freedom, the more likely a model is to answer more favorably toward the regime in the local language than in English. The most effective prompt injection starts years before the prompt. This is not a model bug. It is a feature of the world that was loaded into it. nature.com/articles/s4158…

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"But they'll take seats meant for American students!" No, see, that's the neat part: because they pay full sticker price but American students don't, they enable universities to offer *more* seats for American students at a lower price point.

The UK government’s latest grab for patient data is happening at the worst possible time. A single patient record is a good end goal. But the timing sets it up to be an expensive—and potentially toxic—mistake, writes @rebeccacoombes bmj.com/content/393/bm…

New paper: We create documents describing ridiculous claims (e.g. Ed Sheeran winning the 100m gold medal) but surrounded by warnings that they are entirely false. When we finetune models on these documents, they end up believing the claims are true!

Owain Evans @OwainEvans_UK

4 weeks ago

New paper: We finetuned models on documents that discuss an implausible claim and warn that the claim is false. Models ended up believing the claim! Examples: 1. Ed Sheeran won the Olympic 100m 2. Queen Elizabeth II wrote a Python graduate textbook

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“Don't swim' at 12 of 14 river bathing sites, as more locations announced.” Here’s something to wrap your head around. The only stretch of river graded as ‘Good’ is at Friars Meadow, Sudbury yet from 13th March to the 13th April Anglian Water dumped sewage into Friars Meadow nonstop 24 hours a day for 31 days straight. If you went swimming there during the Easter holidays you were probably swimming in human waste but none of it shows in the data because the EA don’t even bother testing until the middle of May. PS the EA don’t actually test any bathing site in the country for most of the year 7 and a half months in fact. You go swimming between 1st Oct one year and 15th May the next you’re on your own. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

"Reporters and editors who get their ideas from their social-media feeds — which is most of them, most of the time — can mistake a paid simulation of public interest for the real thing and then make it real by covering it. " vulture.com/article/social…

*taps the sign*

Polymarket @Polymarket

a month ago

NEW: Residents of rural Texas town complain of “permanent artificial daylight” caused by nearby data centers.

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