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Hell of a morning the Old Trumper is having.


‘Entire ecosystem’ of #fossils 8.7m years old found under Los Angeles high school - theguardian.com/us-news/2024/s… "Researchers find two sites with fossils including saber-toothed salmon and megalodon, the huge prehistoric shark"


I have played a little bit with OpenAI's new iteration of #GPT, GPT-o1, which performs an initial reasoning step before running the LLM. It is certainly a more capable tool than previous iterations, though still struggling with the most advanced research mathematical tasks.

Here are some concrete experiments (with a prototype version of the model that I was granted access to). In chatgpt.com/share/2ecd7b73-360… I repeated an experiment from mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1099482491… in which I asked GPT to answer a vaguely worded mathematical query which could be solved by identifying a suitable theorem (Cramer's theorem) from the literature. Previously, GPT was able to mention some relevant concepts but the details were hallucinated nonsense. This time around, Cramer's theorem was identified and a perfectly satisfactory answer was given. (1/3)

#GPT
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I've discovered who spoke the line "what were the skies like when you were young?" in the song Little Fluffy Clouds by the Orb. It's not LeVar Burton like many people think. polpo.org/blog/who-asked-what-…



🧵 #JDVance is even more dishonest than Donald Trump. The old guy lies constantly, but often he can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality. He regularly thinks he's in some other state.

Vance is a calculating deceiver who has twice admitted that he lied for political advantage.

Speaking to CNN today, Vance said that he and Trump "create stories" which are untrue, like the lies about Haitians in Springfield.

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in reply to Matthew Sheffield

This was not a slip of the tongue by Vance. 4 days ago also on CNN, he said almost the exact same thing.

Twice now, the second-highest ranking Republican has admitted to fabricating a news story for propaganda purposes.

If these flagrantly racist lies are things he admits to telling in public, what kind of lies does he keep secret?

in reply to Matthew Sheffield

As anyone who actually read his memoir can tell you, Vance has been personally at war with everyone else for his whole life. He constantly trashes others for their supposed laziness and lack of discipline.

Along his way, he's met other people like Peter Thiel, Amy Chua, Catholic integralists, and Donald Trump who found him a kindred spirit.

They handed him everything. And it's only made him hate more. And lie more.

Details on this point here: plus.flux.community/p/between-…

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FPÖ: »Euer Wille geschehe«
So fotografiert in Kammern bei Hadersdorf.

via x.com/tiefenb/status/183522877…





Just a reminder that the Auschwitz Memorial fedi account is for following & reflecting. Not harrassing.

There is no need to reply to it ever. This is coming from someone becoming increasingly #AntiZionist because of Netanyanhu's regime's atrocities in #Gaza and the #WestBank.

@auschwitzmuseum

Never again means never again. To any group of people.

Follow? Yes
Reflect? Also yes.
Boost? Maybe
Reply? Nope.

babka.social/@dukepaaron/11314…

#Auschwitz #Palestine #Palestinians

in reply to Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson

@paninid My rule has always been to repost any post where the person dies so that more can remember them and mourn their loss, and to favorite any person who survived to celebrate their good luck.
in reply to Jimbo

@lawyerjsd
After many years of following @auschwitzmuseum, here and on Twitter, I’ve scrolled across exactly two survivor posts.

There are so many posts.

So many.

A lot of posts.

Too many.

Two survivor posts, that I’ve personally seen.

The rest harden my anti-fascist resolve.



Funny, but it just doesn’t seem to happen to people who don’t cut the heads off whales or commit insurrections.

mastodon.social/@politicalwire…



This weekend, Running Down the Walls events are taking place in a dozen cities across North America, with prisoners also participating on the inside. The events will bring together hundreds to raise awareness + funds for political prisoners. Check out our list here:

itsgoingdown.org/running-down-…



This is a new work of mine, I titled it “dumbass with pink flowers”
in reply to Adriano

The world needs more of those dumbasses with pink flowers!





cw pol at FPÖ Klimakrise unwetter shitpost nö

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A campaign of terror against an ethnic minority is being driven by Donald Trump and JD Vance and their proxy army of violent extremists. Bomb threats, school closings, hospitals in lockdown—citizens unable to leave their homes. When will the national press treat this as the emergency it is?

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/p…

haitiantimes.com/2024/09/14/sp…

#pogrom

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in reply to James Gleick

There is indeed no sense of urgency on the part of the media to get this situation under control. I don't understand why that is. Surely even #FoxNews doesn't actually want people harmed physically. I mean I am cynical, but there must be some humanity left?

#USpolitics #Trump #Ohio #Springfield #immigration #crime @politics @politicalscience



Nancy Brockman’s standout resting place — her gift to those left behind as she fought cancer — has been riling up neighbors as much as she did in life

coloradosun.com/2024/09/15/sil…

in reply to petes_bread_eqn_xls

@petes_bread_eqn_xls Right?! Reading that I was like, “These horrible NIMBY turds can’t even let this woman be herself in death?”

Screw every single person in Silverton who was against her.



"alleged" nazi was welcome at Trump's golf club along with a bunch of other right-wing extremists. npr.org/2024/09/12/nx-s1-51074…
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in reply to Dan Gillmor

lots of people grow Hitler mustaches and comb their hair like a 1930s dictator. (Who are properly called Nazis)