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Do not yell at me simply because I am in front of you and the people responsible for the problems are not. It is extremely unpleasant.

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  • I was feeling pretty concerned until he got to the concrete examples he gave

    “Such models do not develop a life of their own once they are launched. They are functions of their training data,” he said, arguing that the platform is now written from a fixed worldview he labels GASP – globalist, academic, secular, and progressive.

    On Gaza, Sanger said Wikipedia’s coverage is “clearly very one-sided,” in favor of Palestinians, and backed founder Jimmy Wales’s intervention on the “Gaza genocide” article, where Wales argued the introduction should contain more of the Israeli perspective.










  • I don’t have the setup but if you do, they have a way to share your data with scientists

    As I wrote in BAN Issue #1042, the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket is going to hit the moon next week, on August 5, 2026. The impact time is predicted to be 06:34:33 UTC (02:34:33 Eastern US time). The upper stage will impact near the crater Einstein in the northwest portion of the moon, which, unfortunately, will be lit by the sun at the time. That will make seeing any impact flash difficult.

    But not impossible! A paper has come out detailing the event, and the plans to observe it. It’s not likely to be visible by amateur telescopes, but hey, “amateurs” have pretty sophisticated equipment these days, so I would encourage anyone with a good setup and some experience give it a try. You’ll need to take video — the flash will be very brief, so capturing it during a short image exposure of the sunlit moon is extremely unlikely. The paper also talks about how to share data if you get any.