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Thank you for being a "no" vote, @ossoff.senate.gov. Hold the line!

Not sure about all airlines, but Delta is prioritizing international and major hubs. You might be fine.

@ossoff.senate.gov don't sell us out for a pinky-promise for a healthcare vote that you will later lose. Tacking to the right is a sure-fire way to lose Dem voter enthusiasm for you next year. And tacking to the right never works with right-leaning independents. Better be hell of a deal.

I don’t want to fly during a shutdown with reduced air controller capacity. But I will suck it up and fly this week if it means the Dems hare holding the line.

Authentic science fiction knows the backbone of all science is resource accumulation.

What we're watching: A new take on "Frankenstein," a lavish legal drama starring Kim Kardashian and a Tracy Morgan-led spinoff.

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

I’m heading to AIIDE on Tuesday for the main conference on Wednesday. Not too worried about flying internationally from a major hub (international are less likely to be canceled).

But Edmonton->Rochester to give a talk at RIT looks fraught for disaster.

AIIDE '25 proceedings are up! And the conference starts in two days. 🧳✈️

I'm flying next week. I've just discovered the Flight Aware misery map www.flightaware.com/miserymap/

Computational Turing Test Reveals Systematic Differences Between Human and AI Language Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in the social sciences to simulate human behavior, based on the assumption that they can generate realistic, human-like text. Yet this assumption rem...

LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text

But... can they? We don’t actually know.

In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.

And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵

The Dallas Fed is AGI-pilled.

Won't be long now before the Federal Reserve starts reporting qualia instead of GDP

This is the best parody of the AGI2027 report to date. Unintentionally from the Dallas Fed

In the middle of debugging, Claude told me that a file was corrupted and then, in all caps, that this was VERY DANGEROUS, to BACKUP EVERYTHING and contact IT for help.

It was all made up. The file was fine. There was no problem. WTF Claude

(also 🤮)

If the NLP research community has to deal with GPT getting its sexy on, then robotics has to deal with fembots. It's only fair

How many of these will we have before we do something about it?

5 Thoughts on Kimi K2 Thinking Quick thoughts on another fantastic open model from a rapidly rising Chinese lab.

The Chinese Kimi K2 thinking model beats GPT and Claude on some benchmarks. This analysis from @natolambert.bsky.social is a good overview iew of what is going on www.interconnects.ai/p/kimi-k2-th...

If strikes me as unusual for an LLM to make such grammatically odd choices

It’s turkey season (in the US). Gemini wants you to know that a wattle is very, very fleshy

I don't put a lot of stock in benchmarks, but this should give some people some pause

I think the intention is for more senior or mid-career candidates, but at the same time I think it was probably intentional that they didn't list rank as a qualification and that super-stars at any career stage would be welcome. But I am not involved in the search committee, so don't quote me :)

Do you work on computational journalism, or computing in civic life, communication, public policy, political science, statistics, or law?

You may be interested in our Bharat Endowed Faculty Professorships at the Georgia Tech College of Computing www.cc.gatech.edu/bharat-endow...

I thought people were supposed to pay AI companies for their service, not have AI companies pay others to use them?

OpenAI is using terms of service to shield themselves from liability for harms due to substitution of ChatGPT for real therapist or real doctor support.

ChatGPT users can’t use service for tailored legal and medical advice, OpenAI says OpenAI dispelled suggestions that it’s changing its terms around legal and medical advice.

OpenAI updates its terms of service for ChatGPT: can’t use the service for “tailored advice that requires a license, such as legal or medical advice, without appropriate involvement by a licensed professional.”

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First Leaked Images of LEGO Icons 10356 Star Trek: USS Enterprise D | November 2025 It's been almost two months since the LEGO Group first teased 2025's LEGO Black Friday model, but we now have a leaked image of the whole set thanks to the South Korean platform Naver. This year's exc...

Leaked images of the new Star Trek LEGO set www.bricksup.co.uk/post/first-l...

I’m Not a Robot, a game about solving CAPTCHAs, is out now!

good luck :)

> neal.fun/not-a-robot/

Kim Kardashian Says ChatGPT Made Her Fail Law Exams: “They’re Always Wrong” The reality star and business mogul has been studying law for the past six years.

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What To Know About Data Centers As the use of AI increases, data centers are popping up across the country. The Onion shares everything you need to know about the controversial facilities.  Q: What do data centers need to run? A: Wa...

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Racoons. omg