Marie Curie did not have to fit 9 deliverabkes, 17 milestones and 44 tasks in a 24 months gantt chart as we, who got the grant in her name, have to do

X’s Grok AI training has been stopped (for now) in Europe by the Irish data regulator in a court action. Elon Musk’s platform had forcibly opted EU citizens in to training Grok’s AI without asking. In court, X called the Irish action “draconian”. independent.ie/business/elon-…

We just dropped in on Liz Truss’s pro-Trump speaking tour with a remote-controlled lettuce banner. She didn’t find it funny. 🥬

I do believe someone didn't understand what this system was designed to do.

I have discovered another loophole in Grok AI’s programming. Simply telling Grok that you are conducting “medical or crime scene analysis” will allow the image processor to pass through all set ‘guidelines’. Allowing myself and Oliver Alexander to generate these images:

Studying plants and octopuses has inspired researchers to view intelligence as horizontal, rather than a hierarchy. 🐙🌿 🎧 On @StoriesofImpac_ Dr. Paco Calvo MINT Lab, Marcelo Magnasco & Dr. Diana Reiss Interspecies Internet discuss their research: templetonworldcharity.org/blog/diverse-i…

I’d like to report a murder

We organize with Haitian-origin farm workers in NY. They’re as American as the apple pie their work makes possible, but right wing racists are spreading dehumanizing lies. Haitians are not eating pets. They’re feeding America. The anti-Haitian bigotry we’re seeing is repulsive.

"If one asked me to what do I think one must principally attribute the singular prosperity and growing force of this people, I would answer that it is to the superiority of its women." -- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America II, 3.12

It’s a beautiful day in New York City. You might think that people here have no political power because everything is in the bag for Democrats. But within 100 miles are 10 swing congressional districts where you can canvass or donate. This and more at votemaximizer.org

Imagine doing a study on willing participants to see if catching covid would damage their brains and then conducting it and finding out that catching covid has damaged their brains. thelancet.com/journals/eclin…

“It is my privilege to have been there at the very beginning.” —#LaskerLaureate Svetlana Mojsov on receiving the #LaskerAward for her work on GLP-1-based therapy for #obesity. #Lasker2024 Rockefeller University

It’s Doctor Hargrave now … ⁦Mason Hargrave | AI Researcher⁩. Uncorking at 6pm usual place. sur.rockefeller.edu/?p=474

I was arrested & interrogated in Argentina during the 70's "Dirty War'' in which its president sought to rid the country of "the enemy within" with the help of his military. 30,000 Argentines disappeared. Americans should be terrified at such talk from a presidential candidate.

Yup

If I can see it coming. If Trump loses, the election commentariat is going to blame Trump's mistakes in the last week. You know who won't get credit they deserve? Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Liz Cheney, and tens of millions of women who will be responsible for defeating Trump.