Notices by skry (skry@mastodon.social), page 3

US Army veteran disrupts Senate hearing, denounces #Gaza genocide

“Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Aguilar, a former Green Beret, and Captain Josephine Guilbeau, a former US intelligence officer, stood up during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, declaring their constitutional duty to speak out against Israel’s war on Gaza.

Capitol Police escorted both from the room.”
https://www.trtworld.com/world/article/8b831534f11a

Video: https://www.reddit.com/r/chaoticgood/comments/1n8sij2/ghf_fucking_whistleblower_anthony_aguilar/ #uspol

@bruces According to @404mediaco CivitAI has been mainly a deepfake porn generator. Idaho should be ashamed of it. It was kicked off its cloud provider as a result of their reporting and now has been pressured by payment processors. https://www.404media.co/civitai-ban-of-real-people-content-deals-major-blow-to-the-nonconsensual-ai-porn-ecosystem/ It’s an a16z company.

@bruces “…early tests of GPT-5 revealed all kinds of anecdotal examples of sloppy answers to queries, including hallucinations, simple-arithmetic errors, and failures in basic reasoning.“ 💨 💨 💨 💨 💨

And yet: “A daily energy use of 45 GWh is enormous…, so data centers running OpenAI's GPT-5 at 18 Wh per query could require the power equivalent of two to three nuclear power reactors, an amount that could be enough to power a small country. “

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-5-power-consumption-could-be-as-much-as-eight-times-higher-than-gpt-4-research-institute-estimates-medium-sized-gpt-5-response-can-consume-up-to-40-watt-hours-of-electricity

More madness from Trump antiscience. #USPOL

“#NASA has been given orders by the White House to destroy two major satellites in space that are used by farmers, scientists, as well as oil and gas companies.”

https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/white-house-orders-nasa-deliberately-35680658 #ClimateCrisis

@bruces Wow, so interesting!

I found a possible source for that image, which has a lovely and readable version of this and other delights.

https://batrachospermum.ru/2019/06/ediacambrian_firework/

@killyourfm Singing happy fishing songs.

“In a stunning reversal, the Pentagon said it will uphold a longstanding program that supplies critical hurricane data to federal forecasters—just days before it was set to end. The move follows outcry from meteorologists and public officials blindsided by the planned cancellation at the start of #hurricane season.“
https://gizmodo.com/in-rare-spasm-of-sanity-pentagon-backtracks-on-plan-to-scuttle-storm-tracking-2000637473 #weather #meteorology #noaa #uspol

This is one of the best science explainers I've seen, and it's about peacock feathers emitting laser light. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/07/scientists-use-peacock-feathers-to-make-frickin-laser-beams/ #birds #materials #optics

@killyourfm Congratulations!!!

@killyourfm A keeper! There is quite a bit of agate to be had on the coast, I hear, but that rock has a big story to tell.

@killyourfm Personally, I wouldn’t risk permanent damage if I could avoid it. Walking each day is a superpower.

“His attack on Rosie O’Donnell yesterday shows that his ability to direct the attention of the left remains undiminished…hours before his latest inept intervention in the #Epstein matter, came in the wake of a number of stories…key National Weather Service positions were vacant when the flood hit…delay that Kristi Noem caused in the search and rescue…Kerr County’s refusal to accept a Dem-funded early warning system…Noem cut off funding to a call center while it was fielding calls… (1/2)

@killyourfm Please be safe. It’s your plan, so you can change it.

@killyourfm Wonderful photo of a wonderful scene. Wow. Thank you.

@killyourfm What kind of camera did you get?

Anker is recalling another five power banks over fire risks

Certain #Anker power banks, including MagGo and Zolo models, need to be disposed of immediately.

https://www.theverge.com/news/694891/anker-power-bank-global-recall-fire-risk-battery

#PSA #recall

Trump is killing #nasa as quickly as possible. Why? The scientists will all move on, maybe to other countries.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/trump-administration-moves-to-tighten-the-noose-around-nasa-science-missions/ #uspol #space

@whitequark They are creating a market for automating FAQs, it seems.

@tchambers Is this the same or different than https://surf.social/ from Flipboard? I didn’t expect to see doge and pepe from them.

"AI models incorrectly answered more than 60 percent of queries about news sources."

"Perplexity provided incorrect information in 37 percent of the queries tested, whereas ChatGPT Search incorrectly identified 67 percent (134 out of 200) of articles queried. Grok 3 demonstrated the highest error rate, at 94 percent."

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-search-engines-give-incorrect-answers-at-an-alarming-60-rate-study-says/

#search #llm #education #research #Fail #journalism #law