Meta Oversight Board rules anti-transgender videos don't violate hate speech rules
https://www.advocate.com/news/meta-transgender-hate-speech
🇺🇲 #Christofascism #transgenocide
Trump sycophant Mark Zuckerberg
#billionaires #Zuckerberg #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Threads #MetaAI #transphobia #HateSpeech #transphobia
🏳️⚧️ #TransLivesMatter #TransRights
Cinnamon could affect drug metabolism in the bod
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250424165657.htm
https://olemiss.edu/news/2025/4/cinnamon-drug-interactions/index.html
* could interfere with some prescription medications
Evaluation of bioaccessibility, metabolic clearance and interaction with xenobiotic receptors (PXR and AhR) of cinnamaldehyde
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666566224000443
#food #DrugMetabolism #pharmacokinetics #cinnamon #cinnamaldehyde #DietarySupplements
Why Tap a Wheel of Cheese? | The Cheese Professor
https://www.cheeseprofessor.com/blog/cheese-wheel-tapping
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43644970
video: Così si testa la stagionatura del Parmigiano Reggiano: "Il segreto è nel suono della battitura"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Zg3nAtyDc'
#food #cheese #CheeseMaking
How close is AI to human-level intelligence?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03905-1
nonpaywalled https://archive.fo/Uq4B0
* large language models such as OpenAI’s o1 have electrified the debate over achieving AGI: artificial general intelligence
* unlikely to reach this milestone on their own
* new capabilities of LLM radically changed the landscape
* breadth of abilities that have cause some researchers to seriously consider the idea some form of AGI might be imminent or already here
#LLM #AI #AGI #OpenAI
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt claims AI systems to be 100x more powerful
* Sam Altman [OpenAI] reportedly preps $1 TRILLION AI model training run
* Schmidt bashes scaling power law reports
* claims AI models will lead to dangers s.a. biological attacks, new forms warfare
Comments:
* environmental cost
* better to await more efficient architectures, models?
#ML #LLM #AI #EricSchmidt #OpenAI #SamAltman
Guide to AI: June 2024
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112548204571278403
Guide to AI: August 2024
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112905157337260465
#AInews #LLM #AI #ML
Better Dev Link: Issue 263 - Aug 19, 2024
https://betterdev.link/issues/263
#dev #programming #tech #development #AI BetterDev
Better Dev Link: Issue 262 - Aug 12, 2024
https://betterdev.link/issues/262
#TechNews #computing #ML #AI #NLP #LLM #programming
Last Week in AI #282 - MORE OpenAI drama, Stable Diffusion creators are back, and more!
OpenAI co-founder Schulman leaves for Anthropic, Brockman takes extended leave, Elon Musk Revives Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman, SD creators launch Black Forest Labs, secure $31M ...
https://lastweekin.ai/p/last-week-in-ai-282-more-openai-drama
#AI #ML #NLP #LLM #tech #GPT #OpenAI #ElonMusk #SamAltman #Anthropic
Your guide to AI - August 2024
https://nathanbenaich.substack.com/p/your-guide-to-ai-august-2024
These summaries are superb 👍️
#AI #ML #NLP #LLM
Watched 60 Minutes S56E40 last evening: Geoff Hinton (Toronto), machine learning, large language models, artificial (general) intelligence ...
The power of LLM is both transformative and sobering; here is a great example (Google Bard. 2023) ... current / future models leapfrog ahead ...
42 sec. clip: https://files.persagen.com/01/60_Minutes_S56E40-Bard_chatbot-2024.mp4
#ML #AI #LLM #60Minutes #GeoffHinton #GoogleBard #chatbot
Is intermittent fasting better than counting calories? Maybe not, but you might stick with it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermittent_fasting
#fasting #diet #health #IntermittentFasting #TimeRestrictedEating
🎵 Morning ☮-in
Planet Funk - Lemonade (Benny Benassi Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzLcM8xbsiA
Planet Funk - Lemonade (Benny Benassi Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EnkbQyY650
Planet Funk - Lemonade (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5DmenLd9fM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5DmenLd9fMkk
Namaste 🙏 🕊
#MorningPeaceIn #house #PlanetFunk #BennyBenassi
Orcas demonstrating they no longer need to hunt in packs to take down the great white shark
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240302171519.htm
paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/1814232X.2024.2311272
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w3Ao4pgTwM
#orca #sharks #predation #ecology
BBC Gives Up On Threads (By Instagram), Sticks With Mastodon
https://darnell.day/bbc-gives-up-on-threads-by-instagram-sticks-with-mastodon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37759871
#mastodon #bbc #MetaThreads #XCorp #Twitter
cont'd
* industry lobbying organizations
* USTelecom rep. AT&T, Verizon, Elon Musk’s SpaceX/Starlink
* spent $1M congressional lobbying 2023
* NCTA’s $2M lobbying 2023 aided corporate broadband providers Comcast, Charter, Cox Communications
Persagen >> sources >> https://persagen.com/docs/sources.html#bloomberg_news
https://persagen.com >> search: "net neutrality" AND bloomberg
"net neutrality"
#USTelecom #NCTA #lobbying #NetNeutrality #DefundCorporations #NewsMedia #DefundBillionaires #lobbyists #capitalism
A4 cont'd 3/
* admins of official “One Million March For Freedom” Facebook group linked to “Hands Off Our Children”
* lists group of socially conservative Muslim activists & contributor to American right-wing website as spokespersons
* Kamel El-Cheikh, Dr. Bahira Abdulsalam, Mahmoud Mourra, David Krayden
#Canada #1MillionMarch4Children #transphobia #FarRight #ChristianRight #CultureWars #KamelElCheikh
A4 cont'd
* many organizers, groups behind marches have well-documented track records opposing 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, protesting vaccines & public health order, or subscribing to wide range of far-right conspiratorial narratives
* 1MillionMarch4Children emerged following rally led by Christian Nationalist youth group & an anti-trans activist targeting 3 Ottawa-area schools 2023-06
#Canada #1MillionMarch4Children #transphobia #FarRight #ChristianRight #CultureWars
Addendae 3
Joe Lonsdale/Cicero Institute
PragerU
Chris Rufo's message spread thru right-wing channels
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110945862769594954
* Cicero Institute, founded by Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale
* Manhattan Institute's Heather MacDonald on homelessness, Cicero Institute
* PragerU: 23' in video
https://persagen.com >> search: "chris rufo"
"manhattan institute"
"joe lonsdale" OF "cicero institute"
"cicero institute" and "homelessness" AND legislation
#PragerU #ChrisRufo #ManhattanInstitute
A1 cont'd 2/
Providing a forum for "free speech" is the same timid response that taxpayer-supported organizations like the Vancouver Public Library give when providing a forum for Meghan Murphy (who profits from that speech).
Ditto notorious transphobe / far-right troll / pseudo-intellectual Jordan Peterson, who's been provided venues to speak at universities.
The "E" in TERF is "exclusionary:" Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist. Peterson likewise employs populist rhetoric to divide.
...