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holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content

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Schwarzarbeit: Fahnder nehmen Friseure und Nagelstudios ins Visier - WELT Die Politik will mit einem neuen Gesetz den Kampf gegen Schwarzarbeit verschärfen. Ins Blickfeld rücken Friseure und Kosmetikstudios. Die Zollgewerkschaft will noch zwei weitere Wirtschaftsbereiche au...

German media is currently awash with stories about barber shops and nail salons being hotspots of money laundering and tax evasion. The framing of the story is profoundly racist and makes these small businesses into scapegoats for Germany fiscal woes.

www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

Wow, do you have the rest of this chapter? That first page grabbed my attention like nothing else lately. I would love to read this paper.

Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵

Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif killed in Israeli attack in Gaza City Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.

Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.

This is genuinely western liberalism summed up in a 30 second video. Incredible. Put it in an art gallery.

Israel’s new measures do nothing to stop the starvation crisis in Gaza, say aid workers Humanitarian workers say airdrops and corridors to allow trucks into region have done little to stop the rising death toll

Aid groups report that Israel is refusing to allow any olives or other “fruits or vegetables with pits or seeds that could be planted” into Gaza. They will only allow in pitted olives.

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

An eloquent image:

Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults.

I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.

Glad my graduate alma mater cut 60 degree programs in subjects that require people to think so that they could offer this. Looking forward to living in a world full of Prompt Engineers.

No, a LOT of them think that. Science may be one of the most social forms of knowledge production we have. Arguably it’s at least as social as creative writing. Actual scientists will tell you this. Yet, millions of people think they can do science alone with an LLM.

Destruction in Paradise: Kyrgyzstan’s Ala-Archa National Park Under Siege The construction of A-frame houses, cafes, roads, and funiculars in Ala-Archa National Park appears to violate multiple Kyrgyz laws protecting natural areas.

You can’t stay indifferent when your love is this deep.

This isn’t just a story about #mountains — it’s about what lives within them: the forests, waters, glaciers, and the people who protect them.

#Kyrgyzstan’s #Ala-Archa National Park Under Siege

thediplomat.com/2025/06/dest...

There are whole movies that don’t have the twists and turns of this paragraph.

I don’t mean to gainsay an eminent economist and a fellow countryman, but US did not become powerful because of its science. It deliberately developed its scientific infrastructure because and after it became rich and powerful. JB Conant said it best in 1948.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

And now it’s China’s turn because you start doing science proper once you become an affluent nation. This was a great opening vignette in James Delbourgo’s essay on teaching global history of science.

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If this dynamic is correct, then a nation in the process impoverishment will lose science. Decline, I find, is a good word. And I think that’s what’s happening in the US. It is turning towards a kind of science that befits a poor nation — more engineering and practice than science.

I believe US is no longer wealthy enough to sustain basic science. Its elite schools will need to focus on generating profit for the top dogs in two ways: 1. Only training profit-generating workers, 2. Turning into for-profit corporations to put more money into the pockets of the top dogs.

I also find that this shock that we are all experiencing in higher ed is just an after-effect of the economic realities of this country — it really is a developing country where the top 1% skews the GDP per capita and masks the fairly serious poverty of the rest.

Report: Creating a 5-second AI video is like running a microwave for an hour That's a long time in the microwave.

So…about AI’s energy use…

“…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”

Add to this that the approved house budget raises the endowment tax from 1.4% to 20%

It's great that Harvard wrote a letter but please remember that they have *already* complied with the trump administration by removing the directors of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and severing a formal relationship with a Palestinian university. Actions speak louder than letters.

Slightly obsessed with this little shoe repair place in central Osh.