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Bronx born Medievalist, Art Historian, Hispanist, Lover of Italy and Antiquity New site: www.jamesdemilio.com Swept up by politics these days, but I do post photos on ancient, medieval, and Christian art. Check @capitalsandmore.bsky.social for art only.
So Texas Republicans have now set up a TIP LINE to rat out the Texas Democrats
So PLEASE, for the sake of the public, DO NOT FLOOD THIS NUMBER with tips on Bigfoot sightings, UFO sightings, or asking why Trump is on “the list”
1-866-786-5972
Thank you!
a white guy's killing of four members of his girlfriend's family, including the parents and grandmother of an infant, in rural Tennessee. Just sayin'
Don't want to exploit tragedy, but it's worth noting that the most awful crimes in national news lately were a young white teacher's murder of a married couple in a state park near their new Arkansas home, a white veteran's killing of three patrons and a bartender in a small town Montana bar and...
2/It's also the great fallacy of "metrics". When you reduce things to "metrics" as a simple measure of "something else" behind the metrics, human beings will find a way to produce the metrics directly without that "something else", just like AI is a way of simulating thought without thinking.
1/“If we’re not prepared to deal with...fraud...we're certainly not prepared to deal with what generative AI can do to scientific literature...we have no clue...what’s going to be regarded as scientific fact and used to train future AI models...to write more papers.” www.wired.com/story/black-...
A small but growing number of academics are improperly taking credit for articles, citations, and authorships, allowing them to appear prestigious without having conducted their own research.
www.semafor.com/article/08/0...
Here we go again. The implication here is that the way AI generates its output is with human-like cognition. Which is untrue. "Cognitive capabilities humans have" is not the same is "outputs comparable to those of humans." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Top of the list on a Google search for Francesca Albanese, the courageous UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian Territories, is a sponsored link to an Israeli government website, smearing and slandering her.
Israel called Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif a "terrorist." Then they killed him.
How many more journalists killed in Gaza will it take for us to do something?
@premthakker.bsky.social reports. Read the full story: zeteo.com/p/breaking-i...
That's not like the Inquisition, is it?
