“…the workforce management efforts of this administration are like a child taking his box of crayons to the Constitution. And even if the courts decide that our Constitution really is scrap paper for a toddler’s pink dino doodles, the ruling will never make the administration’s efforts thoughtful, calculated, or anything other than a scribbled blob we’ve all decided to call “pretty” to save the feelings of tantrum-prone egos.”
https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/113941004852205163
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Warren Questions Bessent Over Musk Access to Treasury Payment System
[#]giftlink
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/warren-bessent-treasury-musk-doge.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uE4.C46n.E2zRXYY4AnRl&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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“Small curses, Dr. Slop, upon great occasions,” quoth my father, “are but so much waste of our strength and soul’s health to no manner of purpose.” — Tristram Shandy
https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_new/113795532005860714
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Douglas Engelbart
Born 100 Years Ago Today
30 Jan 1925
“By ‘augmenting human intellect’ we mean increasing the capability of a man to approach a complex problem situation, to gain comprehension to suit his particular needs, and to derive solutions to problems.” — Douglas Engelbart (1962)
An essay on Engelbart’s motivation, with links to video and other historical sources on his life and work.
[#]Engelbart #hypertext #botd
https://tractionsoftware.com/traction/permalink/Blog2386
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“Bob Dylan was frequently referenced in the monologue, with Chalamet comparing Dylan to Willy Wonka, whom Chalamet has also played. “They’re both eccentric. They’re both innovators, and they both captured and enslaved hundreds of Oompa Loompas.”
https://mastodon.social/@variety_feed/113892910969091662
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“We spent the day looking at newspapers throughout the world, clipping weird stories.…many tips came from readers who called in; their stories were checked, but never past the point where they might disintegrate. “We don’t know whether stories are true,” said Clontz, “and we really don’t care.”
Hand-tooled #aislop 🤡🤖🤡
https://journa.host/@mathewi/113889732984367831
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“…people who had high blood pressure readings while lying down but not while seated had an estimated 53 percent higher relative risk of coronary heart disease than people with normal blood pressure. They had a 51 percent higher risk of heart failure, a 62 percent higher risk of stroke, a 78 percent higher risk of fatal coronary heart disease, and a 34 percent higher risk of all-cause mortality.”
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/113884342892712558
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🧵Sir Humphrey Appleby, Permanent Secretary, DAA
“…Peter Kyle, the Secretary of State for DSIT, in a statement. “My Department will put AI to work… We will use technology to bear down hard to the nonsensical approach the public sector takes to sharing information and working together to help the people it serves.”
Sir Humphrey couldn’t have said it better himself. Actually he did—in 21 episodes of ‘Yes Minister’ and 16 of ‘Yes, Prime Minister’ through 1990. Plenty of good #LLM training.
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That’s Department of Administrative Affairs Permanent Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby if you please…
https://flipboard.com/@techcrunch/latest-techcrunch-stories-jbo08kpjz/-/a-cWndLyI4QUujAouUU4GMZg%3Aa%3A3199687-%2F0
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“When you have history, with citations, you can demolish many conspiracy theories – some of which are still around and were aired in the comments to our previous article. Knowing how some of this pivots on just two or three people pulling a few all-nighters really explodes some of the corporate blather that too many people still take as gospel today.” +++ read and guide https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/113849135381337833
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“We find that replacement of just 0.001% of training tokens with medical misinformation results in harmful models more likely to propagate medical errors. Furthermore, we discover that corrupted models match the performance of their corruption-free counterparts on open-source benchmarks routinely used to evaluate medical LLMs. Using biomedical knowledge graphs to screen medical LLM outputs, we propose a harm mitigation strategy…”
[#]LLM #misinformation #datapoisoning
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03445-1
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“Suzi Watford, the Post’s chief strategy officer, has been showing off a new Post slogan internally, “Riveting Storytelling for All of America,” as part of a slide deck about the future of the newspaper, according to the Times. “
https://flipboard.com/@gizmodo/tech-fknh6odjz/-/a-9W7Ao4VUR9CuzWHbc6dZoQ%3Aa%3A1876139665-%2F0
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“According to Business Insider, Copilot, which Microsoft claims is being used by nearly 70% of Fortune 500 companies, is proving to be inefficient, costly, and insecure for many organizations. Per a recent Gartner survey, only 3.3% of IT leaders said that Copilot has provided significant value to their employers.”
[#]copilot
https://flipboard.com/@techcrunch/enterprise-quiknu3oz/-/a-Wu6BhkV6S7yc9rKgBmKQig%3Aa%3A3199687-%2F0
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[#]weirdcarmastodon Want this!
https://mstdn.social/@KayJanes/113811956206413650
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“Gracey says he was inspired by Williams griping about “being dragged up on stage to perform like a monkey,” and he decided to make that idea literal and tangible.”
https://mastodon.social/@polygon/113810837171047416
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A 28 minute video of the aftermath of the fire by Fabian Lewkowicz, a Santa Monica photojournalist. No narration or talking heads, just live sound and sobering video, mostly stabilized shots from a moving bicycle. Slow down and watch.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p/post/3lfd5zfcrjc2d
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🧵PA Farm Show 2025
Apples
PA Farm Show Apple reviewers have strong opinions on Honeycrisp versus Evercrisp (see Alt Text)
[#]PAFarmshow #Apples
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🧵PA Farm Show 2025
North Hall - Dairy Cattle
[#]PAFarmshow
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🧵PA Farm Show 2025
Butter Sculpture
"From Moo to Marvel: Dairy Cows Power Pennsylvania"
[#]PAFarmshow
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/pa-farm-show-butter-sculpture-2025/
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Spud and friend
PA Co-Operative Potato Growers
“We look forward to the 109th Annual Farm Show, where we are excited to be offering fresh potato donuts in the Main Hall next to the Butter Sculpture this year”
[#]PAFarmshow #mascot #potato
https://pacooppotatoes.com
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