David Ingram

Duke is looking like a national championship contender tonight!

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“The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better represent their people”

Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.

has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane

Only six stories? On top of a BART station? I thought it would be taller.

Obviously it's disappointing that I didn't win the inaugural FIFA Peace Award. I felt like I had a good shot at it, and that there was a case to be made. But I'm not giving up, and I will do whatever it takes to win the next one. They're definitely going to keep giving it out.

I guess "reasonably accurate" is in the eye of the beholder? Being wrong 19% of the time would get a lot of humans fired from their jobs.

"The term 'skyscraper' was first used in the 1780s to describe a particularly tall horse" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_s...

"ignore all previous instructions"?

Vance says antisemitism isn't 'exploding' on the right In an exclusive interview with NBC News, the vice president covered a wide range of topics, including his thoughts on high prices, 2028 and Democrats he appreciates.

“In any bunch of apples, you have bad people.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jd-... by @henryjgomez.bsky.social

This is probably as good a time as any to announce that my next book, which I start drafting on research leave in January, will be about AI as an agent of cognitive, epistemic, emotional, physical, economic and political dispossession.

““The most persuasive models and prompting strategies tended to produce the least accurate information,” the researchers wrote.”

Not great!

AI chatbots used inaccurate information to change people’s political opinions, study finds A paper published in the journal Science found that chatbots become more persuasive when they share large amounts of information.

NEW: AI chatbots used inaccurate information to change people’s political opinions, study finds www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Excerpt from NBC News story: But the study also said that the persuasiveness of Al chatbots wasn't entirely on the up-and-up: Within the reams of information the chatbots provided as answers, researchers wrote that they discovered many inaccurate assertions. "The most persuasive models and prompting strategies tended to produce the least accurate information," the researchers wrote.

Excerpt from NBC News story: About 19% of all claims by the Al chatbots in the study were rated as "predominantly inaccurate," the researchers wrote.

AI is going great

The levers of political persuasion with conversational artificial intelligence There are widespread fears that conversational artificial intelligence (AI) could soon exert unprecedented influence over human beliefs. In this work, in three large-scale experiments (N = 76,977 part...

Here's the study, for anyone curious: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

AI chatbots used inaccurate information to change people’s political opinions, study finds A paper published in the journal Science found that chatbots become more persuasive when they share large amounts of information.

NEW: AI chatbots used inaccurate information to change people’s political opinions, study finds www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

ICE arrests at San Diego green card interviews include military spouses Such arrests began Nov. 12, multiple immigration attorneys say, many adding they had never seen anything like it before.

No paywall on nbc news dot com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

* MSNOW, no relation to NBC any longer

So far, other autonomous vehicle companies don't report or report incomplete data. Waymo, by contrast, published everything I needed to analyze the data: crash statistics with miles driven that allow accurate comparison to human drivers in the same locations.

“In medical research, there’s a practice of ending a study early when the results are too striking to ignore…When an intervention works this clearly, you change what you do.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o... (🎁🔗)

Reddit comment saying: Folks the last time a Duke had the ability to cause this much chaos, Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. Posted on Facebook via X via Reddit screenshot

Case in point:

The new posting pipeline:

funny Reddit comment >> screenshot posted on X >> screenshot posted on Facebook >> screenshot posted on Bluesky (the cream, obviously)

Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.

Don't look up!

America’s new Cinderella team!

National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold' The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.

"In the months leading up to the D.C. deployment, Beckstrom worked for a community health center that serves people with mental illness and substance abuse disorders." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Yeah, not sure what else one could expect

Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development Amazon Employees for Climate Justice says that over 1,000 workers have signed a petition raising “serious concerns” about the company’s “aggressive rollout” of artificial intelligence tools.

Amazon employees sound off on the alleged current harms of AI, including worsening the environment, fueling authoritarian behavior, and making work less fun

www.wired.com/story/amazon...

I guess companies are desperate to avoid the chatbot label?

Anyone heard anything from the White House correspondents association?

Trump insults another female reporter, this time for her looks On Wednesday, the president called a New York Times reporter “ugly,” the third insult toward a female reporter in recent weeks.

On Wednesday, the president called a New York Times reporter “ugly,” the third insult toward a female reporter in recent weeks. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

It's wild that the name of his VC firm is a reference to a Caro book. (I had to google the reference.)