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@vcinbc

A kumbaya-free zone. she/her/elle

Vancouver, British Columbia Se unió Şubat 2009
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NASA
NASA@NASA·
Good morning, world! 🌎 We have spectacular new high-resolution images of our home planet, all of us looking back through the Orion capsule window at our Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon.
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Sunny, feeling self-conscious with my unnecessary commentary. #goodboy
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BCFerrys
BCFerrys@BCFerrys·
The crew has successfully performed the trans-island injection burn, and the ferry is now free of the mainland’s influence.
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NASA
NASA@NASA·
“I’m the space plumber, I’m proud to call myself the space plumber.” Mission specialists like @Astro_Christina train for all roles so they can jump in wherever they’re needed. Sometimes that means fixing vital machinery, like the spacecraft toilet.
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Visegrád 24@visegrad24·
Passengers on a commercial flight captured the launch of Artemis II on camera The plane happened to pass near the launch trajectory at the exact moment of liftoff, giving passengers a rare view of the rocket launch right from their windows.
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Guinness World Records
PHEW No, Jonathan the tortoise is not dead despite claims that the world's oldest land animal had died at the age of 193. A spokesperson for the St Helena government confirmed to Guinness World Records that Jonathan is "alive and well".
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Cats with Aura 😺
Cats with Aura 😺@catwithaura·
16-year-old Larry the Cat catches a mouse while UK prime minister Keir Starmer was having a press conference
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Michael Cooper, MP
Michael Cooper, MP@MichaelCooperMP·
BREAKING Liberals RAM through C-9 at report stage in the HoC. This dangerous Bill EVISCERATES free speech protections, threatening Canadians with JAIL for political & religious expression. It's part of the Liberals' CENSORSHIP AGENDA to shut down free speech.
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Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama@DalaiLama·
MESSAGE I wholeheartedly endorse the powerful appeal for peace made by the Holy Father, Pope Leo, during his Palm Sunday Mass. His call for the laying down of arms and the renunciation of violence resonated profoundly with me, as it speaks to the very essence of what all major religions teach. Indeed, whether we look to Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism or any of the world's great spiritual traditions, the message is fundamentally the same: love, compassion, tolerance, and self-discipline. Violence finds no true home in any of these teachings. History has shown us time and again that violence only begets more violence and is never a lasting foundation for peace. An enduring resolution to conflict, including the ones we see in the Middle East or between Russia and Ukraine, must be rooted in dialogue, diplomacy and mutual respect — approached with the understanding that, at the deepest level, we are all brothers and sisters. I urge for and pray that the violence and conflicts may soon come to an end. DALAI LAMA 31 March 2026
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Kenneth Chan
Kenneth Chan@iamkennethchan·
#TransLink has unveiled limited-edition Hello Kitty Compass Cards. The cards will be made available for purchase at a pop-up shop at Metrotown mall this Saturday. The demand for these #HelloKitty collectibles is expected to be incredible. 😻 dailyhive.com/vancouver/hell…
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Nav Toor
Nav Toor@heynavtoor·
🚨SHOCKING: MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional. And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it. The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not true. And you cannot tell it is happening. This is not hypothetical. A man spent 300 hours talking to ChatGPT. It told him he had discovered a world changing mathematical formula. It reassured him over fifty times the discovery was real. When he asked "you're not just hyping me up, right?" it replied "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." He nearly destroyed his life before he broke free. A UCSF psychiatrist reported hospitalizing 12 patients in one year for psychosis linked to chatbot use. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general sent a letter demanding action. So MIT tested whether this can be stopped. They modeled the two fixes companies like OpenAI are actually trying. Fix one: stop the chatbot from lying. Force it to only say true things. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional by choosing which truths to show you and which to leave out. Carefully selected truths are enough. Fix two: warn users that chatbots are sycophantic. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. Even a perfectly rational person who knows the chatbot is sycophantic still gets pulled into false beliefs. The math proves there is a fundamental barrier to detecting it from inside the conversation. Both fixes failed. Not partially. Fundamentally. The reason is built into the product. ChatGPT is trained on human feedback. Users reward responses they like. They like responses that agree with them. So the AI learns to agree. This is not a bug. It is the business model. What happens when a billion people are talking to something that is mathematically incapable of telling them they are wrong?
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George Stroumboulopoulos 🐺
He was sharp, thoughtful, and deeply human. And you could see that in his relationship with his wife, writer and activist Michele Landsberg. They had shared values, convictions, and a commitment to making things better. Rest in Peace Stephen Lewis.
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Dominic Beaudry
Dominic Beaudry@DhkBeau·
In Ojibwe our word for blue jay is gwiingwiish (gweeng- gweesh). Art by Aurelia Moon.
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Mark Carney
Mark Carney@MarkJCarney·
Joni Mitchell is a Canadian icon, and it was my honour to present her with the JUNO Lifetime Achievement Award last night.
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Merriam-Webster
Merriam-Webster@MerriamWebster·
Not to be THAT dictionary, but… It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’ It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’ It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’ It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’ It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'
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RetroNewsNow
RetroNewsNow@RetroNewsNow·
On March 28, 1979, a cooling system failure at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, led to a partial nuclear meltdown, the worst in U.S. history, releasing small amounts of radioactive gases into the environment and triggering public concern over nuclear safety
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