“Overall, the study participants who saw the biased AI text shifted their positions toward those espoused by the AI.”
you can tell Wired has been doing good journalism lately because there's been increased whining by the extraction class about how Wired mysteriously changed in the decade since tech titans fully revealed themselves as sociopaths
from this recent Dorsey interview:
The only topics surveyed in the new NBC News poll that were less popular than AI? The Democratic Party and Iran
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol... by @allansmith.bsky.social
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”
“The University of Illinois Just Released a Popcorn So Good It Doesn’t Need Butter
A crop scientist and two brewers spent nearly a decade breeding a better popcorn — and you can taste the difference.”
Excerpt From:
apple.news/A-iMFrAidRDS...
Ancient viral DNA still shapes human biology today.
Research at the #mdcBerlin discovered that a viral regulatory element controls placental genes linked to the condition. The work connects genome evolution to pregnancy complications and earlier diagnosis.
🔗 More: www.mdc-berlin.de/news/news/an...
Vannevar Bush, an electrical engineer who built one of the first analog computers, was born #OTD in 1890. He headed the Office of Scientific Research and Development during WWII, proposed what became the National Science Foundation, and devised an early hypertext system. 🧪 ⚛️
It was funny to see, I don't even remember which US newspaper it was anymore, but an obit of Ali Khamenei said something to the effect of "he lived a paranoid life in which he believed the US and Israel were out to kill him, which eventually happened"
An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
tucson.com/news/local/b...
PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.
Back at the start of the Trump II administration, it was disorienting to watch powerful law firms preemptively surrender and genuflect before the King
Turns out it was because the people in charge were close friends with Epstein and were worried about getting outed
www.ft.com/content/7001...
The Iranians dared to go to the negotiations with a position paper
The reality of an actual diplomatic process, with extended talks in Geneva or Vienna or Muscat and god forbid a five-page memo from the Iranians, was so daunting to the Trump administration (probably because they have fired or let go every seasoned diplomat) that they started a regional war instead.
So... A friend was supposed to give a PURELY SCIENTIFIC talk at NIH within the next couple of weeks and it was cancelled because of a "new process" where all speakers/talks have to be CLEARED BY A POLITICAL APPOINTEE.
yeah the damage a single bad billionaire can do wildly outstrips any positive impact even a theoretically ideal billionaire can have
more, I think that the kind of person you need to be to become a billionaire tends to select for the worst outcomes in all but the rarest of cases
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
The concerning background:
-CEO of the Thiel Foundation
-Managing Director at Thiel Capital
-Managing Director of Clarium Capital (hedge fund led by Peter Thiel)
-Managing Director of Mithril Capital Management (VC fund founded by Peter Thiel that funds Palantir)
-Co-founder of the Thiel Fellowship
With Eugene Koonin, we propose a concept of “the selfish ribosome”, under which evolution of life is viewed as a ribosomal takeover, where the ribosome evolved to consume most of the cell’s resources, while other cellular componentry ensures the propagation of the ribosome. arxiv.org/abs/2602.23268
This is just evil -- State barring contractors from hiring the former USAID employees
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
But they said he was “The peace president.” 🥴
Remember that everyone you meet is fighting their own battle, sometimes with amino acids
The squeal of peeling tape, explained: weak shock waves triggered by micro-cracks in the adhesive layer of tape cause it to screech when being unspooled from its roll.
go.nature.com/4cnNc2j
This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.
This stuff is bad because it's fraudulent and it's a crisis because it may be shaping policy
this is the very obvious game plan, and if you're reading journalism that doesn't at least hint at the possibility, you're not reading journalism at all:
I think the collapse of print newspapers and the end of linear TV habits has created a context collapse for news. Where once day to day reporting and investigation and lifestyle sat side by side in one package, now they live as seperate things in people's minds, with reality warping effects
