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I *always* used to get sick when I traveled on planes.
Now I wear a (kf94) mask in the airport and during takeoffs & landings, and I haven't gotten sick since I started doing that.
https://mastodon.social/@plaguepoems/114892834963771706

Commander of Ukraine's elite police-formed brigade dies in car crash: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/commander-of-ukraines-elite-policeformed.html

“You Either Have A Philosophy Or You Don’t”—Raiders HC Pete Carroll On ‘Competition Wednesday’ https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/22/you-either-have-a-philosophy-or-you-dont-raiders-hc-pete-carroll-on-competition-wednesda…

Der Philosoph im Gremium überbrachte einen Segen von orientalischen Bischöfen und fand meine schmunzelnd vorgetragene Frage, seit wann denn Philosophen Segnungen übermitteln dürften, nur halb witzig.

I have the priviledge of taking a whole semester for my research this fall, and intend to blog / think out loud as I work my way through #Pedagogy, #Philosophy, #Art,

If you see posts about how Netanyahu is playing Trump — which is plausible, Trump’s a vain nincompoop and people play him all the time — please •mind the undertone•.
Are they really taking about Netanyahu? Or is “Netanyahu” standing in for a larger group?
Is the focus on Trump being a gullible fool? Or is the focus on insinuating that some shadowy group secretly controls world politics?
Take a moment to digest this from @…, notice and recognize the pattern, and be aware as you scroll.
https://babka.social/@dukepaaron/114725457675254104

In the #ISE2025 lecture today we were introducing our students to the concept of distributional semantics as the foundation of modern large language models. Historically, Wittgenstein was one of the important figures in the Philosophy of Language stating thet "The meaning of a word is its use in the language."

Operating system drama is basically YouTube drama but with way more keyboard clacking and less ukuleles. Friends turn into rivals overnight just because of which OS you use. It is wild to see people treat software choices like reality TV show rivalries.
What makes me even sadder is how something that should come from understanding and research turns into a full-blown philosophical fight. Choosing an OS should be about what works for you, not a reason to start a digital soap opera.

Are there any email worms doing the rounds yet that use LLMs to individually craft super-plausible email body text to get people to click on stuff?

AI is now routine in IT, but this shows the risk of treating AI as "knowledgeable". Its design relies on vast quantities of mostly unvetted data. They are plausibility engines shaped by biases and delusions in the culture that trained them.
#llm #AI

ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds
A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.