Scary Biscuit

@ThermopylaeRIP That’s really shit. Hope you’re on the mend and feeling better.

🦔A researcher invented a fake eye condition called bixonimania, uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server, and watched major AI systems present it as real medicine within weeks. The fake papers thanked Starfleet Academy, cited funding from the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and the University of Fellowship of the Ring, and stated mid-paper that the entire thing was made up. Google's Gemini told users it was caused by blue light. Perplexity cited its prevalence at one in 90,000 people. ChatGPT advised users whether their symptoms matched. The fake research was then cited in a peer-reviewed journal that only retracted it after Nature contacted the publisher. My Take The researcher made the papers as obviously fake as possible on purpose. The AI systems didn't catch it. Neither did the human researchers who cited it in real journals, which means people are feeding AI-generated references into their work without reading what they're actually citing. I've covered the FDA using AI for drug review, the NYC hospital CEO ready to replace radiologists, and ChatGPT Health launching this year. All of that is happening in the same environment where a condition funded by a Simpsons character and endorsed by the crew of the Enterprise was being presented as emerging medical consensus. The people making these deployment decisions seem to believe the pipeline from research to AI to patient is more supervised than it actually is. This experiment suggests it isn't supervised much at all. Hedgie🤗 nature.com/articles/d4158…

With Reform UK pledging to deny new visas to people from countries seeking slavery reparations from Britain, our study found the public are opposed to paying reparations - although ethnic minority adults are not Black adults: 71% support Ethnic minority adults: 50% All adults: 24% White adults: 19% Results link in replies

As with Ukraine, European leaders are keen of having a role rather than actually playing one.

The daughter of a good friend of mine is fighting advanced cancer. Lisa is 39 and has two young boys. Her family are trying to raise money for specialised surgery. But they are up against the clock. Please donate and share. All help greatly appreciated. gofundme.com/f/give-lisa-mo…

Lee Kuan Yew on the failure of the European welfare system:

With inflation at 7.5%, you lose half of your money in 9 years. The only way to outperform that consistently, that I have found, is crypto. Just this year I’ve already lost half my money.

@OldRoberts953 Nice. Junction of New Bond St & Maddox St.

Good morning

@allhailtwit Cracking shot.

Who remembers him? 180 unique historic street images of the UK and Ireland taken by me in the 1950s and 1960s, together with detailed descriptions of the locations, are in my new book "Forgotten Times" (Amberley Publishing.)

@carlfhoward @MarcherReborn It’s clear as day: Labour hate Britain and so do most of the people who vote for them. They REALLY do. Decline is only inevitable for as long as people like them are in charge.

@MarcherReborn Decline was inevitable sadly. What's not clear is why Labour are accelerating it.

We’re living through the greatest managed decline in British history

NEWS: Anthropic's new model, Claude Mythos, is so powerful that it is not releasing it to the public. Instead, it is starting a 40-company coalition, Project Glasswing, to allow cybersecurity defenders a head start in locking down critical software. nytimes.com/2026/04/07/tec…

I know Bill Maher is not a lot of people's favorites. But here he is making sense once again. Israel is not going anywhere.

“The whole modern world is at war with the nature of man, and it calls this war ‘progress.’ It breaks the tools of the soul and then wonders why the soul no longer works.” — G. K. Chesterton

@BigBrainPhiloso His argument is nonsense and entirely misses the point.

Professor Jonathan Glover dismantles one of philosophy's most charged arguments with a smirk: John Finnis's research argues that the human embryo deserves full moral respect from the moment of fertilisation. His central claim being that all the genes are there. Glover's response here is not a counter-argument. It's a reductio ad absurdum delivered with a smile. "Now of course on this argument a tadpole or even a bit of frog spawn would count as a frog — because there all the genes are present." He continues, warming to the theme: "And if you're ever invited by Dr Finnis to go and see his butterfly collection, don't be totally disappointed if it turns out to be a jar of caterpillars — because once again, all the genes are there." And once more: "If after that he invites you to stay on for a chicken dinner, don't be surprised if what you get is scrambled egg." The joke itself does the philosophical work. Glover's point is that genetic completeness alone cannot confer moral status — otherwise we'd be morally obligated to treat caterpillars as butterflies and frog spawn as frogs. The presence of a full genetic blueprint tells you what something will become, not what it currently is. The distinction between potential and actuality is one of the oldest in philosophy. Glover resurrects it here not with dense argument, but with three images so vivid they're almost impossible to argue against. What makes a human being morally significant? What it is, or what it will become?

@BurnsideWasTosh Huge LOL

There she is!

@heidiponyrider “Physician, heal thyself”.

@ScaryBiscuit Imagine that as your "Healthcare provider "😳

These people have lost their minds. Seriously.

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