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Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’ Large language models fed low-quality data skip steps in their reasoning process.

There’s a reason I refer to FB, “X”, and others as “anti-social media.”

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers’ access to data, European Commission rules Data are needed to study how social media spreads misinformation and influences elections, scientists say

Trump/MAGA/GOP want to use 1st amendment as a license to disseminate disinformation and misinformation, for example on anti-social networks such as "X".
www.science.org/content/arti...

Saving science by the sea As funding for science tightens across the United States, attention has turned to pressures faced by universities and biomedical research institutions. An often overlooked part of the nation’s science...

There seems to be no limit to the Trump/MAGA/GOP assault on scientific research, driven by right wing fundamentalists who are threatened by the honesty of evidence-based knowledge.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Because of age and medical challenges we are selling our 24 year old 37’ sailboat named Sail Fourth (our 4th sailboat). Just can’t do the physical work anymore. Been asked if we would get a power boat.
No.
Too noisy, too much CO2 emissions. Good electric powerboat not affordable.
We’re done.

Kristi Noem is lying.👇

The movie “Don’t Look Up” should have won an Oscar for best documentary.

I hope that many of them properly associate Trump with the politicians from the political party which supports him.

Please watch this.

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

I really never thought that Gates would say, “Don’t Look Up.”

7 basic science discoveries that changed the world Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.

This is a wonderful article. But how do we get fools who watch NewsMax or Fox “News” to read something like this which explains how the Trump GOP is damaging our future?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Trump-worshipping or just pathetically collaborating staff who are carrying out orders to dismantle OUR government must all be punished severely when the Nazis are thrown out.

DHS deceptively spliced images from different cities and times in videos sowing fear about "chaos" in Chicago and Washington, D.C., a WaPo investigation found.

DHS used footage from years ago, half the country away, or even in international waters, the Post found.

🎁 🔗 wapo.st/4nuDGwf

Little comment necessary. Lots of people seem desperate to have "a thing" and for many their "thing" became gluten. Now billions being spent to provide gluten-free everything. I'm waiting to see the ads for gluten-free water.

America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%

Individual choices matter. Some of us who are “well off”, say top 2%, use our fortunate financial position to avoid emitting CO2 - spending extra for EVs, energy efficient homes, etc. Others buy powerboats that burn 50 Gal per hour. Individual choices matter.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Athletes are often astonishingly capable, and watching such great skill can be exciting. But the hype of sports, from very junior softball games, thru high school football to professional sports is nauseating.
Sports entertainment may be exciting and fun,
but is NOT IMPORTANT, dammit.

Links between fossil fuels, heating of the sea and air, and greater intensity of storms may be well established, but Trump will denounce this as “fake news.” Fools who get their misinformation from Fox “News” or worse right wing media, or from anti-social media, will agree with Trump. Pathetic.

An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley

Do these creeps know that many hear “Christian values” as:
1. Belief in fantasy, which may require dishonest rejection of evidence-supported facts.
2. Regressive thinking on personal rights.
3.Equating goodness with “belief” rather than decent behavior.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Where are all the Christians who reject false sin-based identities and insist on use of true identities? Maybe we should refer to these people as they most truly are: beloved children of God.

watching news about the rise of fascism in the US and worrying that so many are underreacting

What percentage of the preaching of Jesus was about charitable stuff like feeding the poor, DEI stuff like loving ALL others and not being judgmental...you know, all that libtard stuff...
vs preaching about religious/belief stuff?

Frustrated by these big issues involving big "actors" and feeling like there is little that one can do as an individuals?
There are MANY individuals...
who could:
cancel their Prime membership
cancel their Facebook account
cancel their "X" account
cancel their NYT and WaPo subscriptions
etc.
Do it.

This is untenable.

If you’re attacking people who think this is wrong, you’re doing the bidding of the ultra rich while they laugh at you behind your back.

You left something out of the novel's unbelievable plot -
"And many millions of Americans approved of his actions."

Didn't RFK Jr warn Trump that undergoing MRI will align his water protons with a magnetic field, and that will allow the aliens who have a secret base in Florida near Mar-a-Lago to control his actions?

Ahem

There will be a day before his hanging for committing treason and a day after. The day before will belong to retail outlets for champaign.

How not to science | RealClimate A trip down memory lane and a lesson on scientific integrity.

For years, an erroneous (see: www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...) satellite-based estimate of atmospheric temperatures by climate contrarians Roy Spencer & John Christy was used by climate-denying politicians to dispute human-caused warming. 🧵

As the Atlantic Ocean warms, climate change is fueling Hurricane Melissa's ferocity Hurricane Melissa has rapidly intensified into a Category 5 storm due to warming oceans linked to climate change.

Massive destruction. Innocent people will die.
But fossil fuel industry execs and investors will have become very wealthy. And goons had the "freedom" to go "vroom-vroom" in giant pickup trucks and ostentatious SUVs, or in obnoxious power boats, or in private aircraft..
apnews.com/article/warm...

Mosquitoes Discovered in Iceland for the First Time amid Rising Temperatures Bird flu surges and a government shutdown collide, complicating efforts to track cases and protect flocks.

What’s next? Snakes?

www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...