Vordio

Vordio

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Audio geek. Also make tools for sound editing, sound design & post production. https://vordio.net/

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Wolfie Christl
@wchr.bsky.social

"AI agents are agents of the person or organization that deploys them—and should be treated by the law as such. ... To allow businesses to hide behind the excuse of faulty AI ... would introduce disastrous incentives for corporate misbehavior" www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

schneier.comAI and Liability - Schneier on SecurityEarlier this month, a German court ruled that Google is liable for its AI search summaries. Rejecting defenses like “users can check for themselves,” and that they generally know “that information gen...
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Oh god. Boeing is trying to design a pilot free passenger plane. It's basically a massive drone. Hopefully it's an investor scam & won't ever actually become real. Making things is so passée that most of the economy is an investor scam now. Innovation is ~95% weird accounting tricks these days.

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WATERSHED Investigations
@watershed-i.bsky.social

UPDATE: In Thornton-Cleveleys, where we uncovered high levels of internationally-banned PFOA, Wyre Council has finally classed some land as 'contaminated' - a move they say paves the way to pursue polluters for the cost of cleaning up these sites: share.google/WMg3BVDbZKIe...

share.googleThornton Cleveleys land designated as contaminatedLawyers investigating soil contamination claim in Thornton Cleveleys issued a statement after Wyre Council designated allotments as ‘contaminated’.

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Max Roser
@maxroser.bsky.social

The Wikipedia community has built a tool that makes it possible to embed our interactive Our World in Data charts right in any Wikipedia page. I have always admired Wikipedia and all the people contributing to it. And I'm very happy that our work now can get used this way!

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Philipp Markolin
@philippmarkolin.eurosky.social

Every accusation is of course an admission In fact, Bolsanaro allies did intimidate voters and just stopped public transport in cities so the poor masses leaning Lula have a hard time reaching voting stations At the same time, US oligarch Zuckerberg used Meta to throttle Lula and promote Bolsanaro

Brandy Zadrozny@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social

After a stunning election victory for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil, U.S. right-wingers are falling back on an old favorite: baseless claims that the contest was rigged. www.ms.now/news/flavio-...

ms.nowFlávio Bolsonaro’s defeat in Brazil has MAGA crying ‘rigged!’The election result in Brazil is a blow to President Donald Trump, a friend to authoritarian strongmen and longtime ally of Bolsonaro and his family.

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Richard Littler
@richardlittler.bsky.social

How to inspire zero confidence in the integrity of academic publishing. Like going to your GP and, instead of giving you a blood test, they take out a pack of Tarot cards.

Springer Nature@springernature.com

How can AI support researchers in peer review? Springer Nature and Google DeepMind are partnering to co-design an AI peer review assistant that helps reviewers navigate manuscripts and focus on where their scientific judgement matters most. Learn more: spklr.io/63320EVgT8

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Cartoon Brew
@cartoonbrew.bsky.social

China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend. By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...

cartoonbrew.comChina’s First AI Feature Flops At The Chinese Box OfficeBona Film Group’s AI experiment struggled to attract attention, months after the humble 'Niu Lai’ turned online ridicule into almost $10 million in sales.

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Adam Schwarz
@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

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Colm Murphy
@colmpm.bsky.social

The comedian Tom Allen has a fun line related to this: "podcasts, or as we used to call them, Radio 4."

Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social

Kinda fascinated by this sort of thing. Like the full all-star cast Harry Potter audible books, which I presume did well? Are we re-inventing the radio play?

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Oisín McGann
@oisinmcgann.bsky.social

Time-travelling resistance fighters, decades from now, looking at this photo, saying: 'You're telling me that on this day, all of our targets were in the same room?'

alec@suddensense.bsky.social

this has to be the worst photoshoot i have ever seen, i think they just gave up

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Adam Schwarz
@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

The achievement of Serbian students overthrowing Aleksandar Vučić can't be overstated. In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and two months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.

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c0nc0rdance
@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social

This is such a fantastic photo: "The Witches' Tea Party" but I want to use it to explain the origin of the tall, pointy witches hat. The real story of this photo: These are residents at the Hospital of the Holy & Undivided Trinity: an almshouse in Castle Rising, Norfolk, England established 1610.

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Andrew Ducker
@andrewducker.bsky.social

Why is AI-generated language so hard to understand?

arxiv.orgWhy is AI-generated language so hard to understand?There is a widespread sense that AI-generated text has recently become harder to understand. In this study, we investigate a set of psycholinguistic features that are known to correlate with human processing difficulty (e.g., object relative clauses, long syntactic dependencies, low-frequency n-grams). Using a novel corpus of AI-generated text across diverse domains, we find that AI models use these difficult features more often than paraphrases generated by round-trip translation. Compared with human writing, all nine frontier and near-frontier models use more inanimate subjects with animate verbs and more low-frequency n-grams, and most also use longer dependencies, more stacked nouns, and more reduced object relatives in conversation; we also demonstrate substantial variation across model families. We propose and test a hypothesis as to why: while human language is optimized for successful communication, AI-generated text is increasingly optimized for other goals like math, code, and reasoning, in which there is a pressure for \textit{information density} rather than successful communication. We provide a proof-of-concept for this hypothesis by fine-tuning a language model under a length penalty, which leads to a divergence from human-like linguistic behavior. Our findings highlight the axes of misalignment between linguistic processing demands in humans and LLMs, and point toward possible remedies.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social
@lastpositivist.bsky.social

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social

Incredible gender difference in voting intention in Brazil.

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spaghezzy
@spaghezzy.bsky.social

Quite concerning that the contents of these crackpot studies will inevitably be picked up by LLMs and fed to unsuspecting ignorant people who rely on generative AI models as search engines 🙃

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

So in a huge surprise to absolutely no one, it turns out that NIH director Jay Bhattacharya's new journal based on the premise of letting his friends and only his friends publish essentially whatever they want is full of crackpot nonsense from retired cranks.

publichealth.realclearjournals.orgAre air quality‒health effect claims a statistical analysis fluke?There are literally thousands of epidemiology (observational) studies in the literature claiming that air quality causes adverse health effects, including mortality. There are three profound examples ...

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Colette Delawalla, PhD
@cdelawalla.bsky.social

The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

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