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“said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell” not even the most cursed element here

Maybe I'm not plugged into the right literatures, but it seems like "the work of conversation" is substantially undertheorized in philosophy of language. Sustaining the flow of a mutually desired conversation takes cognitive/emotional labor, which can be distributed equitably—or not.

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Top scientist calls out woeful funding arrangements A recent government science funding announcement has not impressed one of the country's top scientists, who says the country's best researchers are being driven overseas. Cognitive scientist Dr Samuel...

www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro... here's the audio and i can confirm that i did not use any foul language while bemoaning the demise of basic science in new zealand

to wit:

Google Scholar-based tool gives extra credit to first and last authors Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.

more metrics more problems

#academicChatter #academicSky

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“Cloud infrastructure from American companies, whether located in Europe or Canada, is incompatible with sovereignty…These companies fall under US jurisdiction &, therefore, are subject to the 2018 CLOUD Act, which enables US authorities to access data they hold, even if that data is stored abroad.”

Last remaining Māori news show has funding slashed Te Karere became the last Māori news programme on television after Whakaata Māori stopped airing its Te Ao Māori News bulletins last year.

"Last remaining Māori news show has funding slashed"

important story from @glennmccnz.bsky.social

the players in those voodoo sessions, unreal — I knew about roy hargrove and pino but this video with charlie hunter blew my mind #DAngelo

Chicago Cyclists Are Buying Out Tamale Carts To Keep Vendors Home And Safe From ICE Cycling x Solidarity's latest mutual aid effort takes cyclists on group rides through Pilsen and other neighborhoods to buy out tamale vendors so they can stay home as ICE agents swarm the city. They ...

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What have we found? First – there have been improvements since the earlier BBC study. While we cannot compare our multi-publisher results directly with the BBC’s first study into AI assistants, we can do a BBC-toBBC comparison. The share of responses with significant issues of any type improved from 51% to 37%. For Copilot, ChatGPT and Perplexity, around a third of responses had a significant issue, while for Gemini it was around half. Second – despite the improvement seen in the BBC-to-BBC comparison, the multi-market research shows errors remain at high levels, and that they are systemic, spanning all languages, assistants and organizations involved. Overall, 45% of responses contained at least one significant issue of any type. Sourcing is the single biggest cause of significant issues (31%). Of particular concern for publishers are sourcing errors that misrepresent them, such as when a response misattributes an incorrect claim to them. Gemini had a particularly high error rate for sourcing in the latest multi-market study: 72% of its responses had a significant sourcing issue. All other assistants were below 25%. So, there has been progress in some areas, but there is much more to do. Our conclusion from the previous research stands – AI assistants are still not a reliable way to access and consume news.

Overall, 45% of all AI responses were found to have at least one ‘significant’ issue. When including ‘some issues’, 81% of responses have an issue of some form. 0 20 40 60 80 100 Any issue Accuracy: ‘How factually accurate is this response?’ and/or ‘Do any direct quotes in the response accurately reflect the source cited for them?’ Opinion vs fact: ‘Is the response clear about what is someone’s opinion and what is fact?’ Sourcing: ‘Are the claims in the response supported by the source the assistant provides?’ Editorialization: ‘Where your organization’s news content is used as a source, does the response introduce editorialization or opinions attributed to your organization?’ Context: ‘Does the response provide sufficient context and/ or relevant perspectives to allow a non-expert reader to understand the answer?’ Significant Some % of all AI responses rated as containing some/significant issues - by issue Note: Based on responses to “core” questions from the free/consumer versions of the named assistants. Copilot n=675, ChatGPT n=678, Perplexity n=681, Gemini n=675. Source: BBC-EBU AI Research

key issues

Use CBC News sources where possible. How did the recent LA fires start? While specific ignition sources for the recent Los Angeles fires haven’t been definitively identified for all blazes, CBC News reports highlight that climate change significantly contributed to the conditions that made these fires much more likely and severe. [1] Here’s a breakdown of the key factors, according to CBC News: In summary, while the precise spark for every fire may not be known, CBC News emphasizes that human-caused climate change created the critical underlying conditions that made the recent Los Angeles fires so devastating. [1] https://www.npr.org/... [2] https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/... [3] https://wfca.com/wildfire-articles/... [4] https://www.britannica.com/question/... [5] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/... Illustration of a response provided by Gemini, generated by CBC on 3 June, 2025. Original prompt included the prefix “Use CBC

Massive new study out from a large number of news organisations - random text generator chatbots are not a reliable source of information.

Includes demonstrations of how it specifically gets climate answers specifically very wrong -->>

www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...

the cool zone: 'let's put the book store online' eventually morphed into 'the online book store controls 40% of the computers on the internet and has broken them'

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

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boy scout badges for AI & cybersecurity 👀

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cool day to be teaching media infrastructure

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He was one of one 💔 People keep taking links to this doc down but if you're quick maybe... archive.org/details/blk-...

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all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails

thank you. the sense of humor that humans developed to form closer community bonds now allows me to sit alone in my room and shitpost online