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Mike Holderness

@holdernesseu

Freelance writer and editor: science, technology & their implications - for New Scientist, Guardian...

Also, I edit londonfreelance.org

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Seth Harp (@sethharpesq) 's Twitter Profile Photo

These days when DHS and ICE come knocking, they remotely take out your WiFi beforehand so that you can’t livestream the interaction, and to disable Ring cameras. From ⁦Radley Balko⁩’s substack. H/t ⁦Mazin Sidahmed

These days when DHS and ICE come knocking, they remotely take out your WiFi beforehand so that you can’t livestream the interaction, and to disable Ring cameras. From ⁦<a href="/radleybalko/">Radley Balko</a>⁩’s substack. H/t ⁦<a href="/mazsidahmed/">Mazin Sidahmed</a>⁩
Ed Newton-Rex (@ednewtonrex) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A new paper from Stanford adds further, incontrovertible evidence that LLMs memorize training data. The authors showed that copyrighted works can be extracted from every LLM they tried: GPT-4.1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Grok 3, and Claude 3.7 Sonnet. For example, Claude 3.7 Sonnet

A new paper from Stanford adds further, incontrovertible evidence that LLMs memorize training data.

The authors showed that copyrighted works can be extracted from every LLM they tried: GPT-4.1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Grok 3, and Claude 3.7 Sonnet.

For example, Claude 3.7 Sonnet
LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 (@longtimehistory) 's Twitter Profile Photo

ICE chase woman to stranger's house—she calls police who tell her she "has to give her up." At last minute she refuses—orders agents off her property. "I'm Native American this goes against everything I stand for!" "They shot a woman yesterday... and you have hand on your gun!

Ed Newton-Rex (@ednewtonrex) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Astonishing admission from Ollie Ilott, the Director General for AI in the British government. He says you wouldn't want an opt-out from AI training to be too easy to use, because the primary goal would be to get more work for AI companies to train on 🤯 Let that sink in. This

Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 (@gaughen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I used to laugh at stuff like this. But then these people formed a gigantic voting bloc and got control of the state's monopoly on violence and, well, it's like trying to find humor in the malignancy that is killing Western civilization.

I used to laugh at stuff like this. But then these people formed a gigantic voting bloc and got control of the state's monopoly on violence and, well, it's like trying to find humor in the malignancy that is killing Western civilization.
The Provost / سيدة الفتنة (@msentropy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Woke up this morning and decided to subject myself to reading the Heritage Foundation’s “Saving America by Saving the Family” report, released last week. It’s grim - more than you might think. As horrific as ICE brutality is, we can’t afford to ignore the broader project of

Kareem Carr, Statistics Person (@kareem_carr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

man: i wish to publish reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini

David Grossman (@davidgross_man) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Wrong! In 1942, Anne's older sister Margot was sent a summons for compulsory labor duty in Germany. Her family, in response, fled to their secret (ILLEGAL) annex. If only they had just complied...

Wrong! In 1942, Anne's older sister Margot was sent a summons for compulsory labor duty in Germany. Her family, in response, fled to their secret (ILLEGAL) annex. If only they had just complied...
Branko Marcetic (@bmarchetich) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The "woman in pink" tells CNN she went to where Pretti was eventually murdered because she had downtime before a job and heard whistles. Says she was going to drive through but saw the chaos ahead - agents attacking people, cars - and thought of Renee Good, so stopped. Says...

romanistan state-affiliated media (@djangofetts) 's Twitter Profile Photo

this is what's being argued by the UK Holocaust Educational Trust: that before 1994, when it was assumed Settela Steinbach was Jewish, this was an image of the Holocaust. after 1994, when we learned she was Roma, it was then no longer part of the Holocaust, actually

Ed Newton-Rex (@ednewtonrex) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology The dashboard says 'commitment met' for the recommendation to establish a copyright-cleared British media asset training data set. But no such dataset seems to have been established - rather, you have 'announced the creation of a marketplace'. So the marketplace does not exist

<a href="/SciTechgovuk/">Department for Science, Innovation and Technology</a> The dashboard says 'commitment met' for the recommendation to establish a copyright-cleared British media asset training data set.

But no such dataset seems to have been established - rather, you have 'announced the creation of a marketplace'.

So the marketplace does not exist
Narinder Kaur (@narindertweets) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The media are gunning for Mandelson (rightfully) but Today's question is - Why are MSM protecting Nigel Farage who is mentioned FORTY 43 times and counting £895,000 house paid for cash. Nathan Gill Russian bribes 32 former pupils say he's a racist bully Epstein Files 43

The media are gunning for Mandelson (rightfully) but Today's question is - 
Why are MSM protecting Nigel Farage who is mentioned FORTY 43 times and counting 

£895,000 house paid for cash.
Nathan Gill
Russian bribes 
32 former pupils say he's a racist bully 
Epstein Files 43
Harry Eccles (@heccles94) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is convicted Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein giving his mobile number to Nick Candy so they can 'deal...directly'.... This man is now the treasurer of Reform UK... They are all connected. The establishment is enmeshed.

ﹺ (@europa) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🇬🇧 The Ministry of Justice has ordered the deletion of the UK's largest court reporting archive. Courtsdesk, a platform launched to improve media access to magistrates' court data has been ordered to delete its archive of records by David Lammy's Ministry of Justice. According

🇬🇧 The Ministry of Justice has ordered the deletion of the UK's largest court reporting archive.

Courtsdesk, a platform launched to improve media access to magistrates' court data has been ordered to delete its archive of records by David Lammy's Ministry of Justice.

According
Middle East Eye (@middleeasteye) 's Twitter Profile Photo

French foreign minister faces criminal complaint over misquoting Francesca Albanese. Lawyers group accuses Jean-Noel Barrot of spreading false information and exposing UN expert to risk of attacks after citing comments she did not make

Ben Johansen (@benjohansen3) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Scoop: DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify approx 1,400 National Endowment for the Humanities grants the AI tool deemed as related to DEI, which were then terminated in April of last year, according to a new court filing released today. Among the terminated grants were a

Hugh Grant (@hackedoffhugh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I think that if you’re going to write a piece in the Times urging the government to use and boost more AI, the fact that you are paid by a major AI company should be in the first sentence, or at least first paragraph. I also think that the best scenario for AI is that it

I think that if you’re going to write a piece in the Times urging the government to use and boost more AI, the fact that you are paid by a major AI company should be in the first sentence, or at least first paragraph.  
I also think that the best scenario for AI is that it