Mike Kelley

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper. She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.

t.co/JXeTALBPds

Spontaneous applause for Ukrainian President Zelenskyi at the funeral of Pope today in Rome. russia wants to convince us that we're all alone in this fight. We are not.
Video: Acyn Twitter.

the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

Hi folks: Facebook appears to be taking down my posts. Please remember they are available for free here (no paywall), and can be received by email (also free-- just don't put in your credit card information). I guess if I'm being banned I'm doing something right?

Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.

Tinkering around for fun, a computer science undergrad realized that he had invented a new kind of hash table, one that worked faster than expected—taking less time and fewer steps to find specific elements.

I'm Not Running in 2026, But I Am Getting to Work We all have work to do in delivering a better kind of politics for America.

I care deeply about who Michigan will elect as Governor and send to the U.S. Senate next year, but I have decided against competing in either race.

I wrote more here about my decision and how I view the work required of us all in this moment:

New SAT Data Highlights the Deep Inequality at the Heart of American Education (Gift Article) The differences in how rich and poor children are educated start very early.

Here is a reminder that standardized testing has a dose-response relationship with family income

It does not measure what we think it does- it measures family wealth

Using these as a major factor in admissions to education programs ensures inequality continues

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

March 12, 2025 Trump’s 25% tariffs on all aluminum and steel imported into the U.S.

March 12, 2025:

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.

If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.

If you're under 30, the number is 100%.

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

I just got back from traveling around Europe by train. Most Americans have no idea how far we’ve fallen in the world’s eyes.

Finally some bounces start going IU's way. #iubb

YouTube video by Aaron Overfield Nina Simone: Mississippi Goddam

Just a reminder that Nina Simone is sick of your shit youtu.be/LJ25-U3jNWM?...

That Feynman biography is the best!

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

The one single, proven constraint on oligarchy and autocracy By Michael Podhorzer

Oligarchs know politics is about power, and they know strong unions don’t just deliver better wages and benefits for their members ... Unions also build the kind of real democratic power—for all of us, not just union members—that keeps oligarchs in check.

open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

This is so good.

Stromatolites xkcd.com/3046

Mexico deploys 15,000 troops at U.S. border to halt migration Mexico has deployed nearly 15,000 soldiers and National Guardsmen to its border with the United States, the army chief said Monday.

So Mexico agreed to"rush" 10,000 National Guard troops to the northern border. According to an article I read, there have been 15000 troops stationed there since 2019. news.cgtn.com/news/2019-06.... so President Sheinbaum could WITHDRAW 5000 troops and meet the conditions of this "agreement."

I think it already is.

But seriously. Don’t call them names. We want the door open for them when they realize the mistake they made.

We are for a better America. Not a vindictive America

Humidifier Review xkcd.com/3044

This is a brilliant use of a graphic.

NSF grantees - people who have already received their grants based on a previously funded and approved research proposal - are being told to stop any activities related to DEI and accessibility.
Call this what it is: government censorship of ongoing research projects.
www.opm.gov/policy-data-...

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

Toad the Ratt Sprocket. Not as good as yours, but it does conjure some interesting images.

smbc-comics.com/comic/propag...

You’re not supposed to finish a project, it’s avoidance crafting.

https://thedevilspanties.com/archives/16490

The Social Net Worth

https://thedevilspanties.com/archives/16493

XKCD "Average Familiarity" webcomic

I have once again encountered this exact situation in real life. XKCD is far too prescient.

xkcd.com/2501/ 🧪