@stanford. @SAISHopkins. Croatian 🇭🇷, NorCal-born🐻, ex-NYCer 🗽. 😷+💉for others🙏🏻. Lung cancer advocate @GO2forLungCancr. 🇺🇦🌻. RT/♥️ = bkmrks for self.

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Breast cancer patients shouldn’t be denied hope of a new lifesaving treatment because Russ Vought thinks women’s health research is woke. I will fight this plan tooth and nail.
Breaking News: Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would help cement President Trump’s ability to control billions of dollars in scientific grants funded by the National Institutes of Health. nyti.ms/4yhi6RS
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I don’t think there’s a statement that better captures the conservative world view
“This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me,” says Dave Lowe, a lifelong conservative Republican who lives near a proposed data center in Texas.
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For 55 years The Kennedy Center operated with a SURPLUS and you never heard the word bankruptcy. Do you want know what happened? Donald Fucking Trump happened.
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The Russians now target firefighters. This is not a war about real estate
This is Odesa after a Russian attack today‼️ ​Russia struck an 11-story building, and when firefighters arrived and started their work, Russia struck it again. ​10 people were injured, including 2 firefighters. ​At the time of the first attack, people were in a shelter, which saved their lives. ​Again, this is a big city on Friday, in broad daylight. This is terrorism.
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“Cognitive surrender” is such a perfect way to describe what is happening to a lot of people with AI. Not just students.
MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students. A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet. Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle. The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable. The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust. Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates. The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output. The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.
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I'm not going to mince words. That bastard is completely in the russians' pocket, just like his father-in-law. The genocide committed by russia against Ukraine means nothing to him. All that matters is the money his clan wants to make by resuming business with Moscow. A disgrace.
🇺🇸🇺🇦 Jared Kushner on Ukraine: President Putin's laid out his line of what he wants to achieve. If Ukraine, you know, wanted to withdraw to that line, then obviously, you know, we have the rest of the deal set up and put together. Ukraine right now does not want to do that. The economic costs of war are tremendous. I said this when I was in Ukraine. War is just negative sum and everyone loses from war and I think that economics and business and peace is very, very positive sum.
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I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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This is what happens when you’re so accustomed to the benefits of modernity - sanitation, clean food & water, low infant mortality - that you forget where it all came from, how much effort it took to build, & how bad things were before. This is the literal definition of decadence
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BREAKING🚨 Texas just MOVED its first maternal death report since Roe fell from September 1 to December 1, so voters won't see how many women DIED under the abortion ban before they vote.
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This scumbag thinks it’s a real estate deal. That’s why you don’t put people like this in charge of US foreign policy.
Jared Kushner says peace should be a “win-win” deal that helps Putin achieve his “aspirations.”
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"We are not ready to give our freedom to this fucking terrorist, Putin”
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Vanity, naivety, ignorance
Steve Witkoff: "I've made, I guess, about eight visits to Moscow to meet with President Putin and his team. And Jared and I together have made at least three. We've always been treated respectfully by President Putin and his team."
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While US envoys talk about helping Putin achieve his aspirations....
Those fucking russian bastards have started targeting apartments in Kherson with FPV drones and posting videos of their own war crimes‼️
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every slavic tale be like
❤️🇺🇦 Somewhere in Ukraine
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Controversial moment at the 2018 World Cup when Otamendi (an Argentina player) did this to Rakitic and pogba. He only got a yellow card
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It's funny. Trump is out here bragging about how he was the only one who could bring a World Cup to America. But, the selection was made when Obama was the president in 2016. This was not the first World Cup America has hosted (1994). Trump lies because no one ever checks him on his lies. He loves to take credit for the successes of others. He has to be the most pathetic president we've ever witnessed.
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Both the orcas and the long-beaked common dolphins are regulars in the bay. Typically, the whales — which eat other mammals like harbor seals, elephant seals, sea lions and gray whale calves — go after one animal together. But they may have eaten up to five dolphins on Sunday. sfgate.com/bayarea/article/d…
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Five whale watchers got a front-row seat Sunday as a family of orcas tore through a pod of dolphins in Monterey Bay during an unusually intense feeding event. Their captain caught the encounter on video.
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19 year old Isabella Gonzales. Killed in Donald Trump’s endless war.
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