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“AI skeptics need to update their priors: Plenty of cause for concern, plenty of room to hit these companies for unethical behavior, resource demands, etc, but we are so, so far past the era of ‘stochastic parrots’”.
LLMs are fundamentally “next-word” predictors. I still think they solidly fall in the “stochastic parrot” category. However, give it a ridiculous amount of training data and couple that with creative training strategies, the ability to incorporate external data (Rag, etc.), innovative architectures (routing and MoE), and the ability to provide its own context (agents and “memory”), then even a next-word predictor produce remarkable results.
Kristen Radtke remembers Alex Pretti. “I didn’t realize, in the hours before his name was released to the public, that the man millions of people had seen lying facedown on the pavement from multiple angles…was my childhood best friend.”
Remember Alex Pretti.
For his project called Homo Mobilis, Martin Roemers travelled the globe and photographed people with their cars, bikes, scooters, etc. You can see a selection of the photos on Roemers’ website, at The Guardian, or in his forthcoming book, Homo Mobilis (Amazon). (via @steveportigal.bsky.social)
Tags: cars · Martin Roemers · photography
As you watch photos and videos from Minnesota, one thing you need to understand is that normally, the most devastating thing a Minnesotan can bring themselves to say is, “That was…interesting.”
So if we’re screaming, “NAZI SCUM FUCK OFF,” that Nazi scum needs to fuck off.
Two crypto thieves decided to settle an argument over who was wealthier by screensharing as they transferred crypto between wallets to prove ownership. In doing so, one of them — known online as "Lick" — revealed a wallet address that crypto sleuth zachxbt quickly tied to the theft of around $90 million from US government wallets containing seized crypto assets, including a $20 million theft zachxbt reported in October 2024.
zachxbt has alleged that "Lick" is a man named John Daghita. After reporting Daghita's identity, "Lick" appeared to try to scrub his Telegram account, then dusted zachxbt's public crypto wallet from one of the theft addresses.
Daghitia is reportedly the son of Dean Daghita, the owner of Command Services & Support (CMDSS). In October 2024, CMDSS landed a contract with the US Marshals to manage seized crypto assets, which is still active. After zachxbt linked the younger Daghita to his father and CMDSS, CMDSS also scrubbed its online presence. Around that time, Lick began trolling zachxbt again, and later sent 0.6767 ETH (~$1,900) of the stolen funds to zachxbt.
CMDSS' website boasts that they are "a proven provider of mission-critical services to the Department of Defense and Department of Justice".
- Tweet thread by zachxbt
- Tweet thread by zachxbt
- Command Services & Support, Inc. , USASpending.gov
Dayum.
In a corner of Alaska, American Samoans are facing prosecution for participating in democracy in the only country they’ve ever known.
The post These Americans were prosecuted for voting appeared first on High Country News.
Wtf?! TIL - “non-citizen national”, the most un-American label we have for an otherwise native-born American citizen. Territories == colonies - they should be incorporated into the Union with full representation, or granted independence.
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