jimbo baggins
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jimbo baggins
@jrobros40
I'm very voluntarily persona non grata; in darkness Light persists, in Light darkness abates; Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine






English people when everybody uses our legal systems, political systems, industrial inventions and our language, but then say our culture isn't worth saving. 🏴🏴🏴


What happened to the Golden Age? Are we in the Golden Age right now? What is it supposed to feel like?

The Apple series ‘For All Mankind’ depicts how a future woke totalitarian propaganda could work. It gives an alternative history where America never got to the moon with just white guys - and the Soviets got there first because they had women in the program. Communism doesn’t collapse on itself, it survives. The entrepreneur pushing for Mars is black, rather than a white South African whose former country is falling to pieces. And on and on. It’s also just very well produced. It’s entertaining - and it is full of ‘what if’ sort of questions. But it’s the kind of thing that could become perceived truth in the digital age. Already we hear worries about movies having scenes clipped - and people saying ‘own physical media.’ I noticed a scene in Oliver Stone’s Nixon had been cut on a digital platform because it contained a slur against gays. All digital media can be manipulated this way in future if all we have is streaming rather than a DVD player. You can do the same thing with books. It’s just a useful thing to consider. We know very little about the past - what we have are things like government documents or diaries of influential people. We don’t know what we have lost, and we don’t know how reliable our sources are. Going forward we may not know what has been deliberately manipulated - actually changed to give us a completely false view of the past.

“Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.” 🦎👮♂️🐊 ~ Confucius

🦔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…









Why bother holding elections in Canada when the votes of thousands can become null & void by a single persons decision to change parties. The will of the people didn’t make that decision, one person did. It should be an immediate by-election.







Loving your country should never be synonymous with loving your government.

Majority of Canadians open to joining EU, new poll suggests theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…










