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@mom_unscripted @tataalifa2 you cannot be serious

@tataalifa2 I recommend having sanitizer station just at the exit of escalators — man this is scary

Do you use this handrail on escalators? 🤢

@Remi_Grl2 but "gun owners" aren't some organized group... just a bunch of individuals that alone has virtually zero power...

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@DudeBro1967 @HedgieMarkets @rosscoulthart the problematic bit are the companies that want to increase the role of these gigo ai models in diagnosing humans

@HedgieMarkets @rosscoulthart I get the issue with Ai citing false research BUT, “he uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server”. GIGO. Garbage in , garbage out. Looks like a human created issue.

🦔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…

@Aella_Girl will likely have some consequences...

@Aella_Girl because choking doesn't require any preparation and can happen quickly? regardless of who likes it or not what isn't up for dispute is that it doesn't take much to start damaging the brain - the brain requires a constant steady supply of blood and even a brief disruption

why is this applying to choking and not anal sex? anal sex is *more* prevalent in porn, and yet there seems to be no such epidemic of 'preference falsification' where women are begging men to stick it in their butt en masse

@DrJStrategy lol, trump / the usa military cannot open the strait without incurring significant losses - they're too scared to even get close because it would be political suicide

Food for thought. Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface. The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities. Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed. In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines. In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive. A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent. By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right. In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

@SaltisBadforU @FurkanGozukara lol wrong

@FurkanGozukara Shooting down a search and rescue team is a War Crime. You cannot shoot Search and Rescue planes or helicopters as they do not have any ammunitions to attack.

@PressSec everyone is too scared to even enter the strait without asking iran first... you aren't opening shit through force

Allies are lining up behind Trump to open the Strait of Hormuz — cue the media fury nypost.com/2026/03/24/opi…

@StateDept if you won the war why don't you get on air force one and take a trip to tehran? or are you a little bit too scared for that?

PRESIDENT TRUMP: The war in Iran has been won. The only one that likes to keep it going is the fake news.

@CoronaHeadsUp they have the 3rd highest hospitalization rate....

Canada, Ontario: Infants Aged 0-4yrs "had the third highest [Covid] rate, all increasing since the last update."

@Aella_Girl do you run any statistics on the data? are there any differences that are actually significant?

I asked people which religion they were raised, and also if they were sexually assaulted as children. Here's the % of people reporting severe assault, split out by childhood religion

@Adrian_Bisson @Aella_Girl @robbensinger of course you can be told what to do or not do with your computer, that's already established... want to be part of society you have to deal with other ppl

@Aella_Girl @robbensinger “We” aren’t racing to superintelligent AI. You are not. Other people are, and you don’t get to tell other people what to do with their computers.

We should prob stop racing to superintelligent ai

@AmbitiousP21212 @sentdefender you're delusional - the usa is losing the war, they're not in a position to set terms 😂

@sentdefender How about No Missiles at all. They can have a military big enough to defend themselves. No Drone program, no Navy. No Islamic government structure at all.

After three weeks of war, the Trump Administration has begun initial discussions on the next phase and what peace talks with Iran might look like, with talks involving Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, according to a U.S. official and a source with knowledge told Axios. There has been no direct contact between the U.S. and Iran in recent days, though Egypt, Qatar and the U.K. have all passed messages between two countries, with Egypt and Qatar informing the U.S. and Israel that there is interest to negotiate from Iran. “Our view is we've stunted Iran's growth,” said one U.S. official who believes the Iranians will come to the table. The official said the U.S. wants Iran to make six commitments: 1. No missile program for five years. 2. Zero uranium enrichment. 3. Decommissioning of the reactors at the Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow nuclear facilities that the U.S. and Israel bombed last year. 4. Strict outside observation protocols around the creation and use of centrifuges and related machinery that could advance a nuclear weapons program. 5. Arms control treaties with regional countries that include a missile cap no higher than 1,000. 6. No financing for proxies such as Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen or Hamas in Gaza.

@Bgrew11 @skibidibidj @Osinttechnical it doesn't get "activated" by the pilot when they're trying to be extra sneaky

@Bgrew11 @skibidibidj @Osinttechnical stealth is derived from the shape of the plane and the materials used to build it. yes you can bolt on devices to remove stealth (in order to protect the plane's signature) but these aren't something turned on or off mid flight but bolted to the outside...

NPR: the pilot of the American F-35 hit by an Iranian missile yesterday suffered shrapnel wounds but is in stable condition. F-35 made a “hard landing” and won’t be returning to service anytime soon.

@thesnuckster @Bgrew11 @Osinttechnical lol, yeah i'm aware they attach those devices for airshows and whenever they want to obscure the radar signature but in an active war zone you're telling me they're using that? sure thing...

@farminginva @Bgrew11 @Osinttechnical en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luneburg_…

@Bgrew11 @Osinttechnical what the fuck is "stealth off"???

@Osinttechnical Pilot didn't even eject, f35 landed safely, in 3 weeks with thousands of sorties, the most Iran could manage to do was slightly damage one of our F35's flying low with stealth off. 🤣🤡

@MarioNawfal they have this but it requires constant drone surveillance over a city... not something that is happening over most places so...

🚨🇺🇸 This was CIA surveillance in 2012: Real-time aerial tracking of entire cities. Follow any vehicle. Reverse-engineer where it came from. That's what they showed publicly 14 years ago. Just imagine what it’s like now.

In a historic move, 3,800 meatpacking workers at the largest beef producer in the world are striking the company’s biggest US plant. It’s the first major US packing strike in nearly 40 years. Here’s Day 1 on the picket line:

@crusade_enjoyer who cares, the metal is useful

A virtually unmentioned issue is the illegal salvaging of WW2 sunken ships, specifically those made from metal smelted before the Trinity atomic tests. Since the first nuclear detonation in 1945, all metals have had minute residual radiation levels, making it difficult to produce the most precise components needed for complex medical devices and other sensitive equipment. These illegal scrapping operations are concentrated in the South and Central Pacific. Not only do these wrecks belong to the Western nations that lost the ships to the Japanese Imperial Navy during WW2, but they are also war graves. Asian nations primarily China, is my guess are desecrating American, British, Australian, and even Dutch war graves to build their medical device and precision instrument industries. These dead sailors and marines deserve better.