D. Shostak 🌻🇨🇦 @dsshostak

IT'S OVER The New York Times just dropped the BOMBSHELL Trump raped kids with Epstein, and his administration engaged in a cover up to protect him

NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the United States hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl @johnismay @ArtemisChats

Mark this moment. This is where the endgame begins—though it might take two years to play out. A President of the United States is openly linking the *Pentagon* and rigging elections for his party. He is framing an authoritarian takeover as something the *U.S. military* wants.

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.

Long story short, a global network of tech-religious autocrats wants to accelerate the world into 'the singularity' because they think it will be cool (and they will be in charge), and they want to delete anyone (the antichrist) who thinks this might be dumb and wrong.

Now we know why Peter Thiel packed his bags for Argentina. Milei just submitted his AI legislative framework to Congress, where he proposes: - zero regulation on AI development, - a brand-new "non-human corporation" category for AI/robot-operated entities with limited liability -a low-tax regime with flexible governance rules. The Dutch East India Company gave the world the limited liability company in 1602. Milei wants Argentina to do the same for autonomous AI agents in 2026.

1/RUSSIA 2050: the latest blueprint for Russia's future, and its plans for the West, was released last year at the Dugin/Malofeev "Forum of the Future." It's a 62-page tome that's gone unnoticed in the West. I dug in, to see how it compares to prior work like Project Russia.

@patriottakes Advanced stage of narcissistic breakdown.

The race to build superintelligence isn’t about replacing jobs—it’s about REPLACING HUMANITY. Transhumanism, longtermism, accelerationism, and the other Silicon Valley ideologies want to create a new species of “posthumans” to rule the world. This will not end well for us.👇

Trump is now realizing Russia has turned on him and is doing everything he can to install people personally loyal to him in key posts, while Russia is actively trying to break up the MAGA coalition. Both sides made a stupid bargain in trusting each other.

I have well-meaning followers send me videos like this all the time, and I never want to lecture them or drive them away from caring about elephants… BUT… These are fake sanctuaries. The elephants forced to perform these acts endure horrific abuse and torture behind the scenes…….especially the adults.

Systematische Untererfassung: Belastung durch Long Covid doppelt so hoch ist wie bisher angenommen Forschungsergebnisse des Mass General Brigham zeigen, dass die tatsächliche Belastung durch Long COVID durch die derzeitigen Überwachungsmethoden deutlich unterschätzt wird und …

Zdenek Vrozina @ZdenekVrozina

2 weeks ago

Another study where long COVID does not look like a small residual problem after infection, but like broad chronic illness scattered across everyday medicine. And that is exactly why the system often fails to see it🧵

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@NickAnderegg Liking your post from the pov of a retired English prof interested in science & dismayed by the current state of science writing for the general educated public, I'd have to agree with you that it's dismal. Then I reread your post & saw that the author is THE Bonnie Henry! Argh!

I’m finally getting around to reading Bonnie Henry’s “Soap and Water & Common Sense,” and I just had to pick a highlighter for a whole new indication: Bad, bad, bad writing. You just know she thought this was clever

Keep telling the truth. Thank you to Stephen Colbert and everyone at The Late Show.

GUNSHOTS heard outside of the White House Approximately 20-30 Secret service told those of us gathered on the north lawn to run inside the press briefing room

Solidarity today and every day with Ukrainian friends. #VyshyvankaDay

Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s failed congressional campaign still owes $326,000, including refunds for illegal donations, vendor debts to GOP firms, and penalties delayed as the FEC remains paralyzed. …eintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trump-press-…

@dooadz66 @GoodPoliticGuy Weird necks

Tytan is a rhino. Notty is a zebra. Together, they are inseparable. Both are orphans at our Nairobi Nursery and both were rescued in infancy. In their sheltered corner of Kenya, this peas-in-a-pod duo are growing fast: Tytan is already sharpening his horn against tree stumps. Notty met some wild zebra recently, but she wasn't ready to join them, preferring her human caregivers. We rescue and raise orphans across many species – not just elephants. Their family at the Nursery is whichever animals are growing up alongside them. Follow us @SheldrickTrust for more interspecies friendships and family.