FundMECFS

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[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 3 points 1 day ago

I hereby propose during the Next Cycle, we switch to: Really Really Free Markets

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 7 points 1 day ago

“Praying Barbie” 😭 ROFL

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

“If you do not accept the Han Chinese settler colonial ethnostate, you are a sinophobe.”

Is the exact same logic as “If you do not accept the Jewish Zionist settler colonial ethnostate, you are anti-semetic”.

Criticising a state project does not equal criticism of the ethnic group in it. This is bad faith false equivalence used by MLs.

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That’s not how it works here sadly. I’m not in US.

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 5 points 1 day ago

Also People:

Let me install bee boxes with hundreds of thousands of invasive bees to harvest honey.

(which will obviously end up outcompeting the native ones)

and then suprised pickachu face when the natives do indeed decline after you add hundreds of thousands of invasives.

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 61 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (20 children)

Imagine being the richest person on earth and best you can come up with for a new restaurant is the most boring menu at ridiculous prices.

Edit: To be fair tho, gonna need a source on this. Since OP hasn’t provided a link or anything.

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 58 minutes ago) (8 children)

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[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 4 points 1 day ago

Nice. If the harvest is large I’m sure you’re gonna make some neighbours and friends happy!

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Fun, albeit slightly pedantic, fact. Slavic languages, like Muscovite (which became “Russian”), only spread to Siberia during the Russian Tsardom’s settler colonial invasion in the late 1500s.

Before then we had lots of different indigenous languages, many in Turkic or Uralic language groups. So “Ivan Mammothovic” is an anarchronism.

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 7 points 1 day ago

Use the Windscribe 10gb per month free. It works well. And if you need more use RiseUpVPN. But note it is slow. And that its completely free and volunteer run. It’s the kind of thing that if you get an income you should probably donate to if you used a lot. It’s mainly used by activists in authoritarian countries.

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 3 points 1 day ago

I’m so fucking jealous of Randall Monroe. They’ve got the coolest job.

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Russia’s “swarm” tactics against Ukraine are increasingly cutting through Ukraine’s defences, with drones striking targets at three times the typical rate in recent months, according to official data. 

Mass attacks of Shaheds, an Iranian-designed drone now manufactured in Russia, appear to be overwhelming Ukraine’s beleaguered air defences, with the drone hit rate reaching its highest levels since Moscow’s invasion. 

Ukrainian air force data suggests about 15 per cent of the drones penetrated defences on average between April and June — rising from just 5 per cent in the previous three months. 

The sheer volume of Russian attacks has also increased sharply this year, with a heavy assault on Sunday night into Monday morning including 426 Shahed style attack drones, Ukraine’s air force reported. 

The success of the drones in recent months demonstrates how cheap mass can overwhelm even sophisticated and layered air defences, and has shown Moscow’s ability to rapidly adapt fighting techniques to stretch Kyiv’s resources.

 

cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/post/119938

The appearance of thousands of formulaic biomedical studies has been linked to the rise of text-generating AI tools.

Data from five large open-access health databases are being used to generate thousands of poor-quality, formulaic papers, an analysis has found. Its authors say that the surge in publications could indicate the exploitation of these databases by people using large language models(LLMs) to mass-produce scholarly articles, or even by paper mills — companies that churn out papers to order.

 

The appearance of thousands of formulaic biomedical studies has been linked to the rise of text-generating AI tools.

Data from five large open-access health databases are being used to generate thousands of poor-quality, formulaic papers, an analysis has found. Its authors say that the surge in publications could indicate the exploitation of these databases by people using large language models(LLMs) to mass-produce scholarly articles, or even by paper mills — companies that churn out papers to order.

 

Researchers have been sneaking secret messages into their papers in an effort to trick artificial intelligence (AI) tools into giving them a positive peer-review report.

The Tokyo-based news magazine Nikkei Asiareported last week on the practice, which had previously been discussed on social media. Nature has independently found 18 preprint studies containing such hidden messages, which are usually included as white text and sometimes in an extremely small font that would be invisible to a human but could be picked up as an instruction to an AI reviewer.

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