Science, as summed up in a few links

The next frontier in wildlife preservation: fighting ant smuggling.

How about an ancient wasp whose butt worked like a Venus fly-trap?

Open AI’s Studio Ghibli meme.

An AI that defeated the best human Go players, lost to a human opponent.

AIs that lose may cheat and “while cheating at a game of chess may seem trivial, as agents get released into the real world, such determined pursuit of goals could foster unintended and potentially harmful behaviours.

No, we are not on the brink of true artificial intelligence. We are on the brink of corporate America exploiting AI to make our lives worse — hell, we’re already there.

A convincing argument that acupuncture is nothing but a placebo.

A year later he shared a video stating that a pilot “proved” the earth is flat because the sun and the moon were visible in the sky at the same time, a phenomenon which occurs on most days.” — from an article about Brett Bussman, a newly appointed Republican Party leader in Minnesota.

How the Felon came to recommend drinking bleach to cure covid. Unsurprisingly the product, chlorine dioxide, is being touted as an autism cure too (of course it is).

The Felon’s plans for remaking the State Department include that “the department must greatly expand its use of artificial intelligence to help draft documents, and to undertake ‘policy development and review’ and “’perational planning.’ I’m sure Silicon Valley is chortling at the government handout.

FOTUS is burying scientific information on cancer, atmospheric research and oh, the Felon’s decided auto emissions aren’t harmful.

You will be shocked — shocked — that Raiders of the Lost Ark gets archeology wrong.

Ted Cruz thinks solar eclipse research is too woke for government support.

Why we get the Monty Hall game-show problem wrong.

Mark Zuckerberg claims that while yes, Meta trains AI on copyrighted books, they’re individually worthless to the project so no harm, no foul.

DC covers by Bob Brown, Strange Tales by Jack Kirby, House on the Borderland cover by Ed Emshwiller. All rights remain with current holders.

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