Brian Kidney

UN report finds United Nations reports are not widely read A United Nations report seeking ways to improve efficiency and cut costs has revealed: U.N. reports are not widely read.

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I think the toilet is my favorite part of this weird AI.

World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990 World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.

Every TERF is like 'birds and bees, it's easy, folks' and (almost) every scientist actually working on questions of sex is like 'oof guys, what can I tell you, I have been working on this question for 52 years, and frankly, I know less and less every year' theconversation.com/world-athlet...

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There isn't a single scenario where I would take Vegas over that. Enjoy!

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.

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There’s something extra disturbing about these stories because it’s never that the other students are upset or express outrage. The other kids know and agree and cheer, and then it’s the responsible adults that take it upon themselves to say “you promised not to bring up the murdered children”

Image of a screenshot of news headline, saying, "WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook Forced Consent & Consent Bypass / 16 June 2025 Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

It's the never ending hype cycle. Honestly it is tiring and imho detrimental to the game.

Your reputation is the best resume.

Y'all, I found it: The single greatest post EVER

New AI test can predict which men will benefit from prostate cancer drug Artificial intelligence tool determines best candidates to take abiraterone, which can halve risk of death from disease

AI applying a specialist algorithm to a selected dataset, designed for a specific, technical purpose, with the results validated and the system refined by human experts. Doesn't require the wholesale theft of creators' copyright intellectual property at any stage.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

A Canadian multi-province study of COVID-19 vaccine coverage along area-level social determinants in 2021

Not sure we realize the role education played in vaccination and pandemic outcomes. Canada's high education level helped us weather vax disinformation.
"education was the strongest area-level predictor of vaccination and booster uptake after controlling for age"
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

I get that every outlet is struggling and clicks equals ad revenue which helps but goddamn we really, really need to stop doing these kinds of articles. Please.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social • 1h Going to become "the bad boy of Jeopardy" and by that I mean "I'm going to use my phone to look up the answers" until "Ken Jennings beats my ass" 9 • 176 Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social You mean look up the questions.

This is the hardest I’ve ever been owned online

10 out of 10. No notes...

Here we see an open closet with five shelves filled with white material shaped like clouds. A sign on the wall next to open door reads "CLOUD STORAGE."

yeah, just close the door and it will be called as a private cloud. lol.

From r/gamedev Posted by u/Fragsworth • 9h ago Give a man a game and he'll have fun for a day. Teach a man to make games and he'll never have fun again + 2.1k upvotes 158 Share

I usually get the same 2 or 3 Data gif/geoffs as replies but this guy brought some serious heat. Respect.

Pope Francis wanted to ensure that a new pope yielded the same result. This means the papacy is idempontiff

• Jun 15 Don't make Star Wars political 719 17 787 533 STAR VARI Star Wars @starwars • Jun 15 1. Queer characters existing isn't political 2. Star WARS is literally in our name 867 L) 12K 52.7K • Jun 15 Please explain number 2. What's your point? 8 2 凸 • Jun 15 the original star wars was an allegory of the Vietnam War 4 86 It absolutely was not, unless the Empire is the USA.

I had never seen this before and it delights me

eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

This, I assume, was produced by the same technology that some people want to use to educate our kids.

The more you look, the worse it gets.

A.I. Hallucinations Are Getting Worse, Even as New Systems Become More Powerful A new wave of “reasoning” systems from companies like OpenAI is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why.

"The newest and most powerful [AI] technologies ... are generating more errors, not fewer. As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier. It is not entirely clear why." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

Google AI overview that attempts to answer a search with no real understanding of the query. Asked about upgrading a game console kit to USB PD and got a none sensical answer about upgrading general consumer electronics.

Second part of Google AI overview that attempts to answer a search with no real understanding of the query. Asked about upgrading a game console kit to USB PD and got a none sensical answer about upgrading general consumer electronics.

One major problem I have with AI is it will give you an answer even if it knows nothing about the topic (not unlike some people). If you ask a niche question (like about upgrading a game console kit to USB PD) you get an "authoritative" vague general answer with some facts and no general relevance.

NOPE.

A prime example of why there is a block button.

When did The Onion gain control of the White House Twitter account?

Good luck!

Wow. Just was seconds away from being phished.

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-Got a call from an area code where Paypal has corporate headquarters
-Recorded voice says that it's Paypal fraud protection and that they were getting a request to change my number on the account and to press 1 if it wasn't me

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