Thomas Larson

They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All 12 Suffer from Other Health Problems. A Free Press investigation found that the viral photos lacked important context: The subjects have cystic fibrosis, rickets, or other serious ailments. By Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova 08.17.25 -Israel and Antisemitism

I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.

Every European leader approaches Donald Trump like they’re trying to pill a cat

Microsoft Excel adds Copilot Al to help ... theverge.com The Verget-4.1-mini Al model | 5 successor to the LABS.GENERATIVEAI function Microsoft started experimenting with in 2023. Microsoft notes that you can combine its new Al function with other Excel functions, including IF, SWITCH, LAMBDA, or WRAPROWS. The company adds that information sent through Excel's COPILOT function is "never" used for AI training, as "the input remains confidential and is used solely to generate your requested output." The COPILOT function comes with a couple of limitations, as it can't access information outside your spreadsheet, and you can only use it to calculate 100 functions every 10 minutes. Microsoft also warns against using the AI function for numerical calculations or in “high-stakes scenarios” with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT "can give incorrect responses." Copy Share Select all Web search Dictionary ...

Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions

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I'm old enough to remember when the tech world lost its shit because Pentium chips would produce an error in the ninth significant digit for an handful of calculations.

But now we're expected to just accept software with the math skills of King Arthur in "The Holy Grail"

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.

Trump on TruthSocial: The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of ‘WOKE.’ The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been — Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future. We are not going to allow this to happen, and I have instructed my attorneys to go through the Museums, and start the exact same process that has been done with Colleges and Universities where tremendous progress has been made. This Country cannot be WOKE, because WOKE IS BROKE. We have the ‘HOTTEST’ Country in the World, and we want people to talk about it, including in our Museums.

If Democratic politicians do not fight this because it's a "distraction," it will simply happen. They need to get in front of every mic and say that we will not allow Trump to destroy American history. He wants a culture war? GIVE HIM ONE. There are no distractions. Have every fight.

You are, in the next few months, going to see a few pro-AI people who start trying to morph into "thoughtful cynics" on the issue, and I can't wait, because I've been taking such detailed notes

if your theory of change involves depending on cops to rein in cops, i have awful news for you. just ... the worst you can imagine.

Maryland state police should be ARRESTING ICE agents who do this. Impound the vehicles. Force the Trump admin to litigate. @raskin.house.gov lives here and should stand up and say this now. Along with @vanhollen.senate.gov and @alsobrooks.senate.gov.

Ppl this is not going to happen. State police are not going to arrest federal police. The most that can even be optimistically expected of them is that they will not assist federal police, and even that is a heavy lift, even if they are totally within their constitutional rights to do just that.

If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.

Don't listen to centrist Democrats about crime They're wrong on the policy and wrong on the politics.

New in PN: Don't listen to centrist Democrats about crime

"The right response to Trump’s authoritarianism isn’t to say 'maybe he has a point.' It’s to attack him and his allies for their dishonesty, their thuggishness, and their failures. That’s how Democrats avoid looking weak."

Women are lagging behind on AI but they can catch up Curiosity, experimentation and learning are crucial if women are to shape the future of work

Counterpoint: Women are ahead of the curve on knowing AI is bullshit.

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As infuriating as the conservative SCOTUS is, never forget that America’s genocide against its trans population is the child of “moderate” liberal outlets like the Atlantic and the New York Times, and especially Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog, who made healthy careers out of polishing bigotry.

J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling on Twitter responds: "My memory's excellent. I've never attacked a woman for not being woman enough. Still no lawsuit. Still no cheek swab. Still no release of existing sex test results." Context: She is attacking a woman, Imane Khelif, for not being "woman enough".

So, J.K. Rowling's psychotic ass is going after Imane Khelif again. I'm not going to ask what the fuck is wrong with her. We already know. The whole trans panic thing has clearly driven her insane.

a proper way to deal with Nazis at the punk show, from Punk Rock Bowling in Las Vegas this weekend

It really is all men

“I told Canada, which very much wants to be part of our fabulous Golden Dome System, that it will cost $61 Billion Dollars if they remain a separate, but unequal, Nation, but will cost ZERO DOLLARS if they become our cherished 51st State. They are considering the offer!”

Narrator: they were not considering the offer

Hope anyone in need or homeless sees this

In America, this would be a felony

People are shocked by this attitude, but it was inevitable

We live in a world where the wealthy have relied on nonconsensual labor for years, everything from chattel slavery to indentured servitude to prison labor

Of course they assumed they could just steal artists' work without being questioned

I saved you a click. Here's the only paragraph that matters

Women like eyelashes and alpha males dont and pretend that bullying other men into feeling insecure is real masculinity. Be your own man. That's the lesson.

Removal of brothel-keeping law would ‘expand market’ for sex, O’Callaghan says Opponents say law endangers women working together for safety, but Minister for Justice believes fears are ‘unfounded’

How interesting to see Ruhama claim the brothel-keeping law does not prohibit sex workers sharing premises for safety, when Ruhama have openly opposed making it legal for sex workers to share premises for safety www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

And so many people tried to convince me this man was a genius 😂

And this is what Happens when you insist we have to be civil and just hear everyone out

This guy is like one of 4 Americans who actually went and got their REAL ID and immediately they said it was a fake.

Just so everyone knows when they toss your ass in a truck it won't matter what passport or identification you have they'll throw it in the street and you're gone

Tbh, the most important thing is that his sister said he sexually abused her, and the family cut her off

"Their joke was about my 15-year-old son, 'Oh, how does he feel about minorities?' Like the idea that he wants to be a policeman, therefore he's, he's racist, my son. And like, you know, that was the big laugh. And then I got dragged in the comments and all that stuff and, and I thought to myself, 'This is why you fuckers are losing elections," Tapper said.

god this is beautiful

As a reminder, she didn’t even run a red light, something DHS harped on as her disobeying US laws. The cops eventually admitted they pulled over the wrong car.

Harvard correctly understands that it’s in a fight for its life and there is no appeasement that will save it. I wish a lot more institutions understood this.