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A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On: «We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people," Westwood said in a press release. "With survey data tainted by bots, AI can poison the entire knowledge ecosystem.”»
It's not like online surveys were particularly reliable before 😂
https://www.404media.co/a-researcher-made-an-ai-that-completely-breaks-the-online-surveys-scientists-rely-on/

#Madagascar : avant de choisir les personnes, il faut que la direction, la méthodologie et le calendrier soient clairement définis.
Et franchement, dans quelle mesure peut-on faire confiance pour le choix d'un Premier ministre Š des députés qui ont avant tout démontré leur versatilité et qui, plutôt que de défendre des idées, défendent prioritairement leurs fauteuils et tickets carburan…

The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention
Jamie Cummins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13397 https://

The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention
Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. However, there are many analytic choices which must be made to produce these samples. Though many of these choices are defensible, their impact on sample quality is poorly understood. I map out these analytic choices and demonstrate how a very small number of decisions can dramatically change the corr…

Evaluating and Mitigating LLM-as-a-judge Bias in Communication Systems
Jiaxin Gao, Chen Chen, Yanwen Jia, Xueluan Gong, Kwok-Yan Lam, Qian Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12462 …

Evaluating and Mitigating LLM-as-a-judge Bias in Communication Systems
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to autonomously evaluate the quality of content in communication systems, e.g., to assess responses in telecom customer support chatbots. However, the impartiality of these AI "judges" is not guaranteed, and any biases in their evaluation criteria could skew outcomes and undermine user trust. In this paper, we systematically investigate judgment biases in two LLM-as-a-judge models (i.e., GPT-Judge and JudgeLM) under the point-wise scoring…

What's worse than ads on your TV? Ads on your TV featuring you... All I can say is HELL NO!
https://flip.it/RX13vn

A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On https://www.404media.co/a-researcher-made-an-ai-that-completely-breaks-the-online-surveys-scientists-rely-on/

Now that's a Russian response to protests. But it's coming or of Portland
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/portland-ice-clarinet-arrested-protest-b2845329.html

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents: ‘Why are they targeting a clarinetist?’
‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

Time for a social experiment. I have 5 questions:
- What should we work towards as a society?
- What's one thing that doesn't exist now in your community but should?
- What's one action you could take in the coming year to align your life with that goal?
- What's one thing you could achieve in the coming year to get closer to making that thing exist?
- Imagine that we changed everything and you're living in the world you want to see exist. What does the world look like?
I've asked variations of these already (and am still getting great responses), but this time there's a catch. Get together some of your friends (3-5 people) and ask these questions of the group. Come up with *one* answer that everyone in the group agrees on and post it here, then write a bit about your experience.
If you don't know people locally (or otherwise can't do this in person), tag some folks in here or wherever your people are at digitally. Just add some info on if it's online or in person.
For anyone bold enough to actually do this, let me know if you'd be OK with me putting this in an upcoming entry (https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/).

Movable Antenna Enhanced Covert Dual-Functional Radar-Communication: Joint Beamforming and Antenna Position Optimization
Ran Yang, Zheng Dong, Peng Cheng, Lin Zhang, Wanting Lyu, Yue Xiu, Ning Wei, Chadi Assi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09949

Movable Antenna Enhanced Covert Dual-Functional Radar-Communication: Joint Beamforming and Antenna Position Optimization
Movable antenna (MA) has emerged as a promising technology to flexibly reconfigure wireless channels by adjusting antenna placement. In this paper, we study a dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) system enhanced with movable antennas. To ensure communication security, we aim to maximize the achievable sum rate by jointly optimizing the transmit beamforming vectors, receiving filter, and antenna placement, subject to radar signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) performance and transmission covertness…

White House responds to newly released Epstein emails (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-government-shutdown-house-vote-aca-schlossberg-live-updates-rcna242798/rcrd93045?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/251112/p63#a251112p63