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Any advice on what to do if you might be a victim to this?

I think it's pretty clear by now that the owner of X is using it as a political tool, so discussing technical details of the site seems pointless. I did like the new anti-toxicity …

Bluesky has become really good over the last few months, there's really no reason to support X anymore.

It's been really fun seeing the growth over the last year. Tons of people and fun/interesting posts. Feels like the early days of Twitter.

Is "decripto.org" really a reliable source?

See also https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-m...

There's so much cool stuff these days, like interstellar iron: https://physicsworld.com/a/antarctic-snow-yields-interstella...

The disclaimer really should be much tougher: "Every LLM consistently makes mistakes. The mistakes will often look very plausible. NEVER TRUST ANY LLM OUTPUT."

Until this point in history there has been a reasonable correlation between the quality of writing and the "quality" of the underlying work in most text. If effort was put into the…

Hoping for Kessler syndrome :)

I've been thinking the same thing. It'll be interesting to see if we end up with prompt-injecting ads

That was a truly horrible web-page. Does anyone have a link to the actual technology?

This perspective on regulation was interesting: https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/12/28/how-to-regulate-... "Congress should declare that big-data AI models do not infringe cop…

1) Sigh 2) Firefox still works great though, I'm a very happy user!

I really liked the interview with the three scientists in the "Decoding the Gurus" podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/interview-with-worobey... (Interview starts roughl…

Am I the only one who thinks ads (including non-tracking/privacy-respecting ads) are universally bad & should be regulated much harder than today? And mostly helps bad products and…

I was referring to the latest results using pulsars.

I'm curious what the amplitude of these waves are: what's the (order of magnitude) change in the distance to a 1000 light year distant pulsar, as the gravitational wave passes thro…

What on earth is this doing on Hackernews?

FT is good and seems to be getting better.

Really sad to see the state of Hacker News comments — ultra right wing conspiracy theories are now the norm :(

Good points from Stross in the comments: "The problem is that in practice a solution requires the political elite to collectively admit the falsehood of the axioms they built their…