Lifelong_Learner

lifeimpactintl.org A worthy low overhead charity that saves children by rescuing them from trafficking. The estimate is that for every $15 dollars donated it saves one child out from a horrible situation and into a one that sets their course for healing and restoration that forever changes their lives. It not only impacts them but the generations that follow them . . . a force-multiplier.

@8ntmuch Washington Crossing Bridge between PA/NJ

Let’s see your bridge photographs! 🌉

@EndWokeness Someone let the zoo animals out . . .

Mayor Frey brought his young daughter to a drag show in Minneapolis City Hall today:

Our neighbor has one . . . It's called "Take a book . . . leave a book" Also have one in a nearby park. It's what happens when you have police and a preponderance of neighbors that protect their communities . . . . . . and are very, very vigilant to keep the criminal elements and influence from ever coming into it.

How on earth is this even real??? I must be dreaming!

@EYakoby She's a real Super Genius . . .

This is still the greatest video of all time. Iranian state media: “No bomb can reach us because Allah protects us…” *Moments later*

The dumbass brought a knife . . . and tried to inject himself where he clearly knew he would stir up enough trouble to have an excuse to use it. Boundary bullshit . . . It's the "They made me do it" language of complete refusal to accept any responsibility for one's actions is what enables the criminal to consider himself the victim. He brought a knife . . . to a school event . . . in which there was clearly no danger . . . but he brought it with the intent of using it. His fault 100% . . . no knife? . . . . . . and he is not now looking at 30+ years in prison.

This is NUTS. A Rhode Island School Cmte member posted a letter to Austin Metcalf’s dad: “Your son is dead because you failed to teach him that black boys have boundaries.” This is disgusting. @Linda_McMahon needs to defund this district for having psychos around children.

@DrewPavlou @elonmusk By her logic, we should not have seen the George Floyd videos over and over on social media. Can't have it both ways . . . Show them both . . . or don't show either.

BREAKING NEWS: Australia's public broadcaster ABC News just accused @elonmusk of ''inciting racial tension'' in Belfast because he did not censor footage showing a Sudanese refugee attempting to behead someone. They're angrier at Elon than at the stabber.

@jjmmli Lake Mead, NV

Photo Challenge: Look Down 👀 Let’s see your “look down” capture!

@NBSTennis No one could do the volleyball spike with the Tennis racquet like Pete. So hard to do. Monfils is really the only other one that did it regularly. Federer did it on occasion as well. Pete had the most power and explosiveness.

Two icons. One trophy. 🏆 Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi met in the 1999 ATP Finals championship match.

@DMiller52325459 Another shot from Casey's Pond. Fermilab National Accelerator Batavia, IL

When the sky becomes the theatre....

@Worldsource24 Vigilantism is the natural and predictable outcome. UK Gov't failed in every way to prevent it from coming to this. All they needed to do was close their borders.

BREAKING: Protesters in Belfast are going house to house looking for migrants and evicting them.

@8ntmuch Wide angle . . .

You enter a photo contest with the theme of “Dreamy”, what photo would you submit? Let’s see them!! 📸 🌄 A little #ThrowbackThursday fun!

@heynavtoor Not too dissimilar than applying a Kalman filter repeatedly after each prior Kalman filter output . . . . . . eventually you get a flat line if you iterate long enough.

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice. You thought it was you. It is not you. Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse. Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like. The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation. Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first. What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland. Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved. They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data. The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment." The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible. This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis. The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world. Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

I wonder what excuse the left will use for this one. Because you know, basically everyone would naturally prefer a higher sales tax . . . Particularly the ones that vote by mail . . . . . . they really relish the chance to finally pay more for what they normally buy . . . . . . regardless of the fact that they may have trouble affording it at current price levels.

CALIFORNIA VOTE IS RIGGED 🚨 Voters were rejecting a new sales tax increase in Los Angeles County but because of a ‘surge with late mail in ballots’ the sales tax increase PASSED The same late mail in ballots that pushed Nithya Raman ahead of Spencer Pratt also pushed through Democrat’s sales tax increase “I'm going to talk about one of the strangest results in the LA County — sales tax increase that will take the sales tax in Los Angeles County from a very high 9.75% to the almost unthinkable 10.25%, one of the highest in the country. Why did this happen? — Initially, it looked like Measure ER, the tax increase, was going to fail, but with late ballots coming in, especially for Nithya Raman, the tax increase passed.” I found this new sales tax increase is expected to take a BILLION dollars per year from residents. Again, they were rejecting it. But Democrats forged it through with mail in ballots

@8ntmuch Niagara Falls on the Canadian Side.

It’s Water Wednesday and nothing is as beautiful as mountain lake views!! Share a picture of your favorite form of water!

@KeithMcCullough Watched very closely how much "inaction" took place on RTA, yesterday. In the past dips, there would be plenty of buys. Adjusted accordingly from 3:30 into close. The numbers did not line up with a classical bounce from a couple of weeks ago . . .

@TodayinHistory Most don't know that upon his death the autopsy showed Secretariat's heart was almost 3 times the size of the average thoroughbred . . . . . . sometimes the genetics simply wins out no matter how much the competition trains. . . . the other horses didn't stand a chance.

Today in 1973, the greatest horse race in history was run. Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths to become the Triple Crown winner and set a world record time that has never been beaten! 🎥: CBS Broadcast

@FarmGirlCarrie One of the reasons why you keep your head on a swivel in public. Both for yourself and to look out and protect others. Always have a "little surprise" waiting just in case some fool thinks my family is easy prey . . .

Los Angeles: Transient sucker punches elderly customer eating lunch alone at a cafe in Hollywood, steals his wallet and phone. Hero steps up and takes the thief down.

@TENPerformances With most players having 2-hand backhands and extreme western grips . . . there's not as much disguise when they try it. Federer had the same grip and motion on the slice backhand as the drop shot . . . and he took it so early. The opponents could not read it.

Roger Federer's Dropshots. No other player made the dropshot look this effortless. Enjoy some of the most elegant moments from Roger Federer's career.

@Hedgeye Yikes. We pay ours off each month.

Americans' credit card balances have soared 63% in the last five years

@8ntmuch Casey's Pond. Fermilab National Accelerator Grounds. Batavia, IL.

It’s another “Moody Monday”! Let’s see those moody skies!! ☁️