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MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°

Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

Land Rush Bicyclists:

Tumbleweeds (1925), directed by King Baggot
3 Bad Men (1926), directed by John Ford
Cimarron (1931), directed by Wesley Ruggles
Cimarron (1960), directed by Anthony Mann
Far and Away (1992), directed by Ron Howard

Here's the reality this example illustrates:

It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).

Giving credit where credit is due #FIFA #FIFApeaceprize

No, we are not going back to this. youtu.be/Web007rzSOI?...

Source tells me this morning House Oversight Committee Dems will release some pics and videos from USVI as part of Epstein docs release

And Oversight Dems will begin releasing approx 5000 docs from 2 banks and Virgin Islands AG over the next days and weeks, per same source

Three times she’s been stopped and goons have demanded “show us your papers”.

And if they feel like it they smash your stuff, and pound on you; and all the while you know it’s going to happen again.

And you’ve done nothing more than be a person they felt like abusing.

🎬 From the director #Kubrick
- who liked his chess moves
...before and behind the camera. 👀

Wait, what? My son’s friend, traveling in China, is staying at a hotel chain called ‘James Joyce Coffetel’, and instead of a Gideon Bible, they leave a copy of Ulysses by the bedside.

Elon Musk @elonmusk • 6год. X The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better represent their people 18 тис 2] 26тис 146тис 1l 18млн Д 企 Dmitry Medvedev • @MedvedevRu... . 5 год. ... Exactly

Everything you need to know about the US’ slow turn against the EU.

As the daughter of 2 librarians, I was reading full-length novels by age 7.
There is no better way to write well than immersing yourself in the words & imaginations of solid authors.
Novels also advance the reader’s empathy, which is probably why the right doesn’t like them.

Trump UK? 👁️ Watch out! All commercial shipping thru the English Channel will be suspended ⚠️

Born 4 December 1949, actor Jeff Bridges. He starred, alongside Clint Eastwood in the film "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot". On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 87% based on reviews from 31 critics and has since become a cult film. #JeffBridges

I really thought at the start this was about Putin
...but, yes, a small world...

You can’t duck a fight with these people. If you cede ground, they’ll just make further incursions into previously “safe” territory. Give up course descriptions and they’ll go after syllabuses. Give up syllabuses and they’ll go after what you say in class. Soon there’s nothing left of a university.

“So the Nobel folks didn’t believe that Donald had stopped 7—no, 8—no, 9—wars while he was murdering people in the Caribbean. So he took a ‘peace prize’ from—get this—a football organization instead. And the childish fool thought it was real!”

❌ 'Current general-purpose tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot are not designed for this purpose - they do not analyse students’ responses over time to identify growth or persistent misconceptions.' 👀

New ending where at the end of Casablanca, Lauren Bacall emerges from the fog.

🔴 Emmanuel Macron se rendra lundi à Londres pour une réunion avec Zelensky, Starmer et Merz

Une semaine après avoir reçu Volodymyr Zelensky à l’Élysée, Emmanuel Macron sera lundi aux côtés des dirigeants ukrainien, britannique et allemand

Here is the whole Trump, Brexit, Russia story neatly summed up for you

The battle started about Ukraine, now it’s about big tech monopoly power

a man in a hat says " we 'll always have paris " in a black and white photo ALT: a man in a hat says " we 'll always have paris " in a black and white photo

🎬⚡ 'Groucho Marx once called Warner Bros. “the only studio with any guts.” Under the leadership of Harry, the eldest brother, Warner became the first studio to pull its films out of Germany and to attack the Nazi regime in its productions...' 👍

a man in a hat says " we 'll always have paris " in a black and white photo ALT: a man in a hat says " we 'll always have paris " in a black and white photo

🎬⚡ 'Groucho Marx once called Warner Bros. “the only studio with any guts.” Under the leadership of Harry, the eldest brother, Warner became the first studio to pull its films out of Germany and to attack the Nazi regime in its productions...' 👍

Manhattan institute poll graphic shows several areas where GOP have fallen for conspiracy theories. The color coded poll includes questions on the left with corresponding horizontal bar charts on the right in green, gray and red with green being turf Gray being “Don’t know” and Red being “false.”

Houston we have a problem.

Nearly half (47%) of Republicans think the NASA moon landing in 1969 was faked or have doubts, and 52% think vaccines cause autism or have doubts.

Utterly devoid of ethics or basic decency.

This headline is the end of civilization.

No nasty women journalist there...

Post-truth began when we stopped paying for journalism Paying for journalism creates the conditions in which accuracy and evidence have a chance to survive.

If we want reliable reporting, we need to support the people who produce it.

Pay for journalism.

open.substack.com/pub/jamescos...

Is this the age of post-literacy? We generate more text than ever, but we read less.

We generate more text than ever, but we read less. Has the post-literacy age begun?

open.substack.com/pub/jamescos...

#reading #closereading #postliteracy #literacy #artificialintelligence, #attention #reading #writing #genAI #generativeAI

👁️ 'For centuries, the printed word trained the human mind to think in linear, causal chains...a disciplined procession of thought that encouraged abstract analysis and delayed gratification. The screen, by contrast, operates on a logic of association and interruption... a web rather than a line...'👁️

Mockler: It's honestly humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child, like a baby. It's like if I created a peace prize and I gave it to myself. I'm like, I'm just going to keep this medal on all night. Our president is an actual child