most murders are committed by someone the victim knows - a partner, neighbor etc. but in cases where there is no relationship between murderer & victim? the killer is a cop about a third of the time. if you are killed by a stranger, there is a 1 in 3 chance that stranger is a cop.

Not sure what to do with this, but wow: scholar.google.com/scholar?cite...

There's incredible selection bias in that graph given it's from openrouter. it's mostly people who care about *alternatives to ChatGPT and Claude* use openrouter.

"Software automation can be helpful, but it helps if you're self-aware, not in a cult, trained to use it, inherently skeptical, and living in a society with working ethical and public interest guardrails that hasn't been devoured by artifice and corruption." "We ain't that."

I see the X grifters and scammers are already pushing Count Binface cryptocurrency, so you know he's really arrived.

This is a fantastic article

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If England barely fights off the Norwegians, but then is too exhausted to resist France, you do realize we’re getting a tapestry about it

Really important point. As in physical systems, there is potential energy/power that can be used for many things, and the thing it is used for. It can be efficient or wasteful, constructive or destructive

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At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

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New study finds government-controlled media can shape AI responses, making models more likely to present governments positively when responding in the languages where that media dominates. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This may be the only truly good, thoughtful piece I've read about AI. And this is one of the reasons that I subscribe to @theatlantic.com

Reupping this for those folks to the east and all you fellow Morning People ☕

Hey, I got a Thing published about how pancake printers are like chatbot lawyers! cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/min...

Action is needed. Here are some broad directions.

This is awesome and needs to be watched! Even by you, random BlueSky denizen who is only vaguely aware of Lorem Ipsum

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AI without guardrails is being deployed seemingly everywhere. I know a chemical engineer and he is terrified of AI being mainlined into industrial sites willy nilly. This is going to end in sadness, and explosions.

One more step toward their goal of making the US an uneducated backwater of expendable low cost labor for a handful of multi-billionaires.

NEW: The Trump administration's DOJ has been systematically removing materials from its websites regarding the many indictments and convictions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In response, @lawfaremedia.org has been systematically restoring them:

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WHY??? PS: Duck Duck Go.

Brief conversations with sycophantic chatbots increased extremism and certainty-- for at least a week. Sycophantic AI also inflated people’s perceptions that they were better than average on desirable traits. People even bet $$$ that they scored better than average on tasks measuring these traits.

New study finds that people who prefer excitement- and suspense-heavy entertainment (like thrillers, crime, horror, and mystery) were more likely to believe conspiracy theories, particularly those who are more easily drawn into stories and enjoy suspense. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Today’s stage of the Giro is one of the best bike racing I have ever seen

This isn't Cyrus, this the Golden Calf, all we're missing is fire from heaven cooking Mike Johnson in the midst of Congress.

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NEW: From dismantling guardrails that upheld the integrity of past elections to gutting federal agencies and installing allies who supported Trump’s claim that the 2020 vote was stolen, here are the key takeaways from our recent investigation.

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Build the dang spider or the terrorists win!

I'm beginning to believe that the easiest way to solve the whole AI problem is to 1) Make all AI services opt-in, and 2) have a per-token charge for any interaction above a certain level of usage. I'm pretty sure that the "need" for new data centers would drop to zero

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impeach trump push for repeal of bbb re-fund every program that trump defunded subpoena every motherfucker make it so those assholes can't make a single breath without 20 congressional committees investigating every atom

No one seriously thinks it is. Venture Capitalists are investing other people's money into anything that looks like it will fail so they can collect their commissions and fold. Think Mel Brooks' "The Producers"

As an ongoing happy supporter of the Banner, this is great news!

a movie couple who would definitely have a podcast

Congratulations to photographer Andrew Harnik who has won the White House Correspondents’ Association award for presidential news coverage with one of the greatest Oval Office photos ever captured.

In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

A few years ago I looked up the police budget for every major US city I could find and Baltimore was double the next highest per capita - and I wasn’t including overtime where BPD really shines. To pay so much for such nightmarish results is infuriating.

I had forgotten how good Le Guin is. Thanks for reminding me. Now I have to read LHoD again

Go to the talks and the rehearsals if you have the chance. Fun! No pressure!

Random numbers are wild. I mean, you have *no* idea

I had an idea of starting an alt-channel named something like "boring sane facts". Not edgy hot takes, but like, grounding facts. Like, the earth is round. Bombing children is bad. Biofuel is wasteful. MSG is safe. Vaccines don't cause autism. Removing cars from streets increases shop revenues. etc

I wouldn’t be surprised if this volatility correlates with inequality too. We are rupturing many maybe all aspects of our order when we fail to adequately regulate wealth and power for some degree of fairness and justice. Cf late 1800s through half the 20C #inequality #regulation #resilence