[quote]Rural departments have long relied on cheap software solutions to keep their operations running. But fire chiefs report sharp price increases as investors have entered the market.[/quote]
Rural departments have long relied on cheap software solutions to keep their operations running. But fire chiefs report sharp price increases as investors have entered the market.
A Belarusian variation: Protests after the election. A bus stops, riot police storm out of it, and start beating the first guy they see. 'Stop!' he cries. 'I voted for Lukashenko!' Cops: 'Bullshit! No one voted for Lukashenko!'
Concertbezoekers en een agent achter de dranghekken bij een concert van de Lionel Hampton Big Band in de Houtrusthallen in Den Haag, Ed van der Elsken, 1956
ByteDance’s large language model Doubao announced on December 1 the launch of a mobile assistant and a partnership with ZTE to introduce the “Doubao AI
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I completely agree. It's now backfiring that conservative circles never considered Europe as a whole, but only as an economic union. #europe #eu RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ghkzf…
Trump plant offenbar die Rückkehr zu russischer Energie in Europa – genau gegen das, was die EU soeben beschlossen hat. Ein Blick in den "Friedensplans".
Douglas, Georgia. South Georgia tobacco sharecroppers. Fords are beginning to appear among the tobacco sharecroppers. They can bring the crop to the auction at the warehouse, take flour and groceries back to the farm and even carry the boys to Florida for a season's work in the fruit
Video. Catherine Drysdale became the first woman to win the Antarctic Ice Marathon in its 20-year history, finishing the 2025 race in 3:48:43 amid extreme conditions.
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As people made their way into the Indianapolis Union Station for a naturalization ceremony, federal officials stopped certain applicants and told them that they wouldn't be leaving the building with U.S. citizenship.
The immigrants — who had already passed every step in the long naturalization process — needed only to take the oath of allegiance Dec. 9, 2025, to become citizens. A federal directive handed down by U.S. Immigration and Customs Services on Dec. 2, however, made that impossible for more than one third of people signed up for the Indianapolis ceremony.
Zhibo Zhao, a US Citizenship and Immigration Services official present at the event, said oaths of allegiance for 38 of the 100 participants were "canceled."
Ryan Murphy from Indianapolis Star Dec. 10, 2025, 6:20 a.m. ET
As people made their way into the Indianapolis Union Station for a naturalization ceremony, federal officials stopped certain applicants and told them that they wouldn't be leaving the building with U.S. citizenship.
The immigrants — who had already passed every step in the long naturalization process — needed only to take the oath of allegiance Dec. 9, 2025, to become citizens. A federal directive handed down by U.S. Immigration and Customs Services on Dec. 2, however, made that impossible for more than one third of people signed up for the Indianapolis ceremony.
Zhibo Zhao, a US Citizenship and Immigration Services official present at the event, said oaths of allegiance for 38 of the 100 participants were "canceled."
Dozens denied oath of allegiance at Indianapolis naturalization ceremony
Ryan Murphy from Indianapolis Star Dec. 10, 2025, 6:20 a.m. ET
As people made their way into the Indianapolis Union Station for a naturalization ceremony, federal officials stopped certain applicants and told them that they wouldn't be leaving the building with U.S. citizenship.
The immigrants — who had already passed every step in the long naturalization process — needed only to take the oath of allegiance Dec. 9, 2025, to become citizens. A federal directive handed down by U.S. Immigration and Customs Services on Dec. 2, however, made that impossible for more than one third of people signed up for the Indianapolis ceremony.
Zhibo Zhao, a US Citizenship and Immigration Services official present at the event, said oaths of allegiance for 38 of the 100 participants were "canceled."
Ryan Murphy from Indianapolis Star Dec. 10, 2025, 6:20 a.m. ET
As people made their way into the Indianapolis Union Station for a naturalization ceremony, federal officials stopped certain applicants and told them that they wouldn't be leaving the building with #US citizenship.
The #immigrants — who had already passed every step in the long #naturalization process — needed only to take the oath of allegiance Dec. 9, 2025, to become citizens. A federal directive handed down on Dec. 2, however, made that impossible for more than one third of people signed up for the Indianapolis ceremony.
Zhibo Zhao, a US Citizenship and Immigration Services official present at the event, said oaths of allegiance for 38 of the 100 participants were "canceled."
"A SpaceX executive says a satellite deployed from a Chinese rocket risked colliding with a Starlink satellite," reports PC Magazine:
On Friday, company VP for Starlink engineering, Michael Nicolls, tweeted about the incident and blamed a lack of co…
“He found that at least 11 of 21 citations in the first chapter could not be matched to known academic papers. The analysis also suggested that 8 of the 11 citations in chapter 4 were untraceable.“
@fsinn It's astonishing, isn't it. And this is the multi-billion dollar enterprise that is driving 80% of growth in world economies. What a total scam. There will be consequences.
It’s also shocking to me to see how many people know of these nonsense outputs, but then brush it off as outlier issue (a random funny thing that happened that one time) and have their default belief that the output is valid unshaken. It's wild.
I came across this on mastodon too. A post linking a blog piece I thought misrepresented a political philosopher, so I checked the citations - which made no sense. I replied to the post - and the author said they were compiled using AI.
The minimum we need is a warning that AI has been used for such things - so we know not to waste time taking the results seriously.
@GeofCox @fsinn Gosh, yeah. It boggles the mind, doesn't it, how far one has to miss the point of citations to try and generate a citations section from already written (or generated as well, I suppose) text.
@fsinn I know, right? I managed to inoculate myself against the hype almost from the start by asking ChatGPT 3.5 questions about something I knew well, and getting unambiguous confabulated bullshit in response. I then saw plenty of other confabulated bullshit in other topics, all of which I could easily verify was bullshit. My own take on all that — all in the first few months of ChatGPT’s public release — was “it gets numerous easily verified facts wrong, so it is *not trustworthy* on anything”. It was astonishing to see so few other people I know come to the same conclusion.
@dpnash I’ve never used it, didn’t bother to check for any serious research in law because I already knew it was weighing blog posts from lawyers equally with blog posts from non-lawyers , nevermind “reddit-lawyers”, and it can’t be trusted to deliver complete and accurate results. I don’t use it for drafting because my clients expect 25 years of experience, not common answers. Resulting value to me: zero.
@dpnash @fsinn One of the first things I tried was asking the bot to write a brief introduction to myself. It got a lot right -- after all, there's a long Wikipedia article. Then it made up a fictional book with a strangely unspecific title and claimed that I'd written it. (No, not the Necronomicon.)
@fsinn A couple years ago I tested ChatGPT by asking about a quantum method that I applied in my PhD thesis ( a very exotic field even for quantum chemistry). I received a lengthy and elaborate answer about a similar but well-known method — it‘s all about probability. The second test was to ask about an ecotoxicological phenomenon and instructed to provide at least 5 sources. 4 of those did not exist but hat plausible titles and even some authors existed. 1/2
@fsinn 2/2 Finally, a few weeks ago I thought that maybe just text handling could be an adequate task. I supplied a long text on water temperature and it’s ecological effects. I prompted to summarise the text to some 500 letters. I received a nearly perfect short text — about the ecological impacts of erosion on freshwater ecology. The word „temperature“ did not appear a single time in the result. Case closed.
This is wholly unsurprising. People writing ethics guides on a method are generally in favor of the method. Otherwise the guide would just be one word: "Don't".
And everyone who is in favor of (LLMs posing as) "AI" is a lazy nincompoop.
I wouldn't trust Springer Nature as far as I could throw them. The majority of AI slop has come from them. That's what happens when big publishers have a parasitical relationship with academics. They couldn't care less about the accuracy of what they produce as long as they can make money off free labour.
Makes sense. AIGen is just made up things, with the work of others. None of it is genuine. AIGen IS capitalism at its core and fascist in its application.
And AI amazingly intentionally conceived as placing such a high priority on giving answers when there were none to give that confabulation is embedded.
@gbsills FYI the article is still published ( thetimes.com/uk/science/articl… ), it's just under a different URL or something similar - although it's paywalled , it's still useful to know as I was worried its removal was a retraction @gerrymcgovern
@ThreeSigma That’s the publication making it clear that determination comes from an interviewee, not their own reporter’s personal judgment. This invites the reader to find out who was interviewed and their credentials and methodology in reaching that conclusion.
@matt Experts differ on color of sky. "Blue" say some.
They are disowning responsibility for any judgement, even as they are making those judgments implicitly by editorial decisions. It is cowardice. The sky is blue. The citations are fake. Any disagreements are either disingenuous or picking nits.
@ThreeSigma They’re not claiming any difference, though. They are citing a trustworthy individual, which is the expectation in any paper we’ve been writing since high school.
@matt So why the quotation marks? They convey that the statement is subject to opinion. Now, if they're reporting eye-witness accounts, ok, the evidence comes from a source that can't be checked. But in this case the citations are clearly visible and checkable. They could check them and find them fake. Why not?
Journalism has to accept responsibility for stating the truth, not just citing people who state things.
@alberto_cottica No. It's staggering. And to think all the politicians and so many 'thought' leaders and 'serious' business people and 'academics' are falling over themselves to embrace this pile of crap.
I just downloaded the book to have a look - no English-speaking human actually read through the texts, there is a good bit of gobbledygook in there, not to mention wild statements without reference. But charge people lots of money for this “book”. It should be removed from sale immediately.
@SteveJB LLMs don't "learn" the way humans do. Look at how AI kept denying the death of Pope Francis because it was trained on data up to a certain point and could not integrate new information at all. @dpnash @fsinn @gerrymcgovern
and then to discover that one of the cited fabricated references have been cited 42 times. Other fabricated texts by colleagues have been cited over 100 times now. Trying not to feel #doomed
This is the same publisher who last year brought out a machine translation of a book on Marx‘ Capital from English into German where the Chapter heading „Population and Rent in Capital“ was rendered as „Population and (Housing) Rent in the Capital City“.
The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you’d think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across…
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