Jennifer Joy @Pool_Pol

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.? Because we gave them that L in 1776.

@HQNewsNow They all should have asked her the same question, one by one…

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice. You thought it was you. It is not you. Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse. Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like. The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation. Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first. What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland. Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved. They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data. The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment." The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible. This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis. The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world. Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

Exciting day for the future of affordable housing finance in California, as the inaugural meeting of the Housing Development and Finance Committee was held. Just over a month away from the launch of the California Housing and Homelessness Agency! @CAbcsh

CalHFA @CalHFA

2 months ago

Honored to host the very first meeting of the Housing Development and Finance Committee (HDFC) with @CAbcsh Secretary Tomiquia Moss, @California_HCD Director Gustavo Velasquez and CalHFA Director Tony Sertich

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@kell38707 @1NCRDB1 Land doesn’t vote. The blue areas are the population centers where everyone lives.

@MaryPeltola But term limits mean you go home whether you deliver or not... 🤔

London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally. Authorities had planned major man-made flood infrastructure, but the beavers effectively created their own system — while also boosting biodiversity and restoring the ecosystem around them.

Alice was living in a one-person tent with her husband Alfredo when she saw an opportunity for a positive future through @CAgovernor Newsom’s Homekey program, and she took it. Those are happy tears—hers and ours… @CAbcsh #HousingForAll #WhereFoundationsBegin

Steve had experienced homelessness before, but when he found himself facing the possibility again as a senior, Jenny’s Place in Modesto became his sanctuary—made possible by @CAgovernor Newsom’s highly successful Homekey program. @CAbcsh #HousingForAll #WhereFoundationsBegin

Trump’s ballroom went from $200M to $300M to $400M, and now Congress wants $1B for a tacky gold ballroom. We aren’t being governed. We’re being fucking looted.

This guy is a rockstar

First To Hear It @firsttohearit

3 months ago

REPORTER: You mentioned that, staying on as Fed governor, you intend to keep a low profile. Could you give us a little more detail on what that looks like? JEROME POWELL: *ducks down*

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Imagine getting in a time machine and going back to 1776 and telling the Founding Fathers that the King would one day be reminding America about the importance of democracy and our checks and balances. That is the timeline we’re living in.

Active Shooter

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty. Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few. It is an unjust scenario, in the face of which we cannot fail to question ourselves and commit to change things. There is no lack of resources at the root of disparities, but the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.

I've never sen anything more accurate

Donald Trump thinks fighting for this makes you a terrorist.

Acyn @Acyn

4 months ago

Trump: The environmentalists are terrorists. I call them environmental terrorists.

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Building alone cannot prevent and end homelessness. We must preserve and rehabilitate older affordable housing to maintain quality of life and prevent units from reverting to market rate.

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle

4 months ago

While San Francisco’s focus is often on new housing production, far less attention goes to maintaining what already exists, much of it home to working-class residents and low-income seniors. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/hou…

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Let me explain what just happened 👇 5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil. 5 minutes… These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch. There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made. Someone in that room picked up a phone. And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars. American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it. This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions. This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight. You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question. Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that. The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

unusual_whales @unusual_whales

4 months ago

BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market. In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold. These orders were 4–6x larger than

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The President of the United States said I insulted Jesus. You want to know what insults Jesus? Kicking the sick off their healthcare. Bombing schoolchildren in Iran. Deporting moms and babies. Covering up the Epstein files.