@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-06-07 19:46:20
Musk appears to delete X posts claiming Trump was in Epstein files (ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/musk-appears-delete-posts-claiming-trump-epstein-files/story?id=122609304
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p45#a250607p45
@servelan@newsie.social2025-06-07 23:39:22
Not necessarily walking back - everyone's seen it, served its purpose
Musk Deletes His 'Really Big Bomb' Claiming Trump Appears in Epstein Files
https://gizmodo.com/musk-deletes-his-really-big-bomb-claiming-trump-appears-in-epstein-files-2000612895
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2025-07-07 21:29:37
Fox News isn't banned in Canada, despite viral posts claiming otherwise – but it could be | Fact Checking | #thecanadianpressnews
so there's hope. they cite Fox has 66% market share for US cable news, but what is the market share of cable news itself? Nielsen's says streaming share for "TV" is now more than the combined share of cable and broadcast.
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/fact_checking/fox-news-isnt-banned-in-canada-despite-viral-posts-claiming-otherwise-but-it-could-be/article_3566ffe6-45a5-54bf-981a-51f72ba0eada.html
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-07-07 01:04:55
Ask your local weather service & electeds about your warning system. Because it’s not at all guaranteed they’re even thinking about it.
https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/114806023804308265
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-08-07 07:29:47
Claiming that LLMs bring us closer to AGI is like claiming that bullshitting brings one closer to wisdom.
Sure, you need "some" knowledge on different topics to bullshit successfully. Still, what's the point if all that knowledge is buried under an avalanche of lies? You probably can't distinguish what you knew from what you made up anymore.
#AI #LLM
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-07 14:18:56
US national parks staff in
‘survival mode’ to keep parks open amid Trump cuts
Park bosses say they’re running visitor centers and even cleaning bathrooms
as remaining staff try to keep sites open
“It’s nearly impossible to do the leadership role expected of me,”
said one superintendent who heads a park in the western US
who didn’t want to be named for fear of retribution from the administration.
“I’m doing everything now.
That means I regularly…
@adresscomptoir@mastodon.social2025-08-07 06:49:21
Heute 18:30, Wilhelmsdorfer Park, 1120 Wien: Barbara Eder, Clemens Marschall und ich führen zu Inseln und anderen Abgründen! #kultursommerwien
https://www.kultursommer.wien/kalender?slo
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-06-03 16:40:45
Prime Video names Nicole Clemens, ex-president of Paramount Television Studios, as VP and head of international originals for Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/prime-vide…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-07 06:21:10
AI research nonprofit EleutherAI releases the Common Pile v0.1, an 8TB dataset of licensed and open-domain text for AI models that it says is one of the largest (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/06/eleu
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.social2025-07-06 17:16:03
Listen to The Briefing Room. @DAaronovitch on the really important question. Why has the rise in people claiming disability benefits been so much higher in UK than elsewhere? This is much more interesting than journos harping on about "humiliation".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002f9fz
