THE ENEMY? "IT SHOULD BE CLEAR FROM RECENT EVENTS THAT AMERICA'S ENEMY IS NOT THE COMMUNISTS OVER THERE, BUT THOSE DERANGED RIGHT-WING LUNATICS RIGHT HERE."- FRANK ZAPPA, 1989

Frank Zappa said this in 1989.

Great post from @tychobrahe.bsky.social yesterday.

"Gen X is the equivalent of pre-war steel. … having a formed identity prior to the ambient radiation of social media is like having been administered a vaccine they don't make anymore. Because they can't."

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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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Canadians celebrate flag day in defiance of U.S. annexation threat Feb. 15 marks Flag Day and the 60th anniversary of the maple leaf becoming Canada’s official flag.

“There’s also a lot of Québécois who would usually fly the Québec flag are now flying the Canadian flag.”

You Americans will never appreciate how pissed we are at your country that Quebecois are flying Canadian flags.

@abbyhoward.bsky.social we’re hanging out at the Paleontological Research Institute matching specimens to illustrations.

Many people who identify as "Christian" may find Rev. Budde's words strange and unfamiliar. That's because they're based on the philosophy espoused by Jesus.

A photo of a young David Lynch sitting on a couch with five Woody Woodpecker dolls, and the following text: David Lynch is recalling a day in 1981 when, he says, he "rescued" five Woody Woodpecker toys that he saw hanging up as he drove past a petrol station. "I screech on the brakes, I do a U-turn, go back and I buy them and I save their lives," he says seriously. "I named them Chucko, Buster, Pete, Bob and Dan and they were my boys and they were in my office. They were my dear friends for a while but certain traits started coming out and they became not so nice." Looking straight ahead he says with a grim finality: "They are not in my life anymore."