How, when and where will all these satellites come back down?

Yet they keep ‘MS’ in the name to trade on the reputation.

You mean, MegaSlop NOW is pushing slop on all its channels? How could this be?

MegaSlop: Making it all make slop.

It’s nothing new. Trump is just a bit less subtle about it.

Quality control seems to be getting a bit sloppy.

Despite the title, the article presents many well reasoned arguments that Europeans are making many important contributions to technology and society and that it is better to do it the European way rather than becoming better at creating monopolies and extracting wealth from society, like the big American tech. companies.

Who needs separate apps when you can just tell copilot what you want and it can put the slop straight into your trough?

Didn’t OpenAI say it’s right about 25% of the time?

Maybe WHO could declare a mental health emergency and mandate a lockdown and minimum 8 hours per day of AI use. And ban references to ‘slop’ - It’s really bad for the mental health of the billionaires when they hear their scam referred to as ‘slop’.

Petroleum industry in Mexico:

it is the fourth largest oil producer in the Western Hemisphere

Might have something to do with it.

And don’t forget the other common modes of attack: election interference, kidnapping and assassination of political leaders, funding and providing arms to militant groups to destabilise and foment regime change, piracy and direct military invasion of sovereign nations.

The threats are real.

Akram said he had gone to the police to report the misinformation but they had just told him to disable all his social media accounts. He said he was also unable to reach X to get their assistance. Instead he resorted to making his own video which he posted to Facebook and Twitter, in a bid to clarify that he had been wrongly identified and called for the posts with his photograph to be reported and taken down.

The response of the police is grossly inadequate in this case. With the kind of hatred that results from the mass shooting, this man’s life is obviously in danger of some angry, upset person deciding to attack him for retribution and revenge. Disabling his own social media accounts does nothing to prevent this. The police should have contacted the social media companies with the authority of a government agency to have them deal with the issue promptly. Or they should have referred the issue to some other government agency empowered to act. It’s not adequate to simply age verify everyone but let such dangerous misinformation go unchecked.

Actually, thinking leads to writing and writing leads to thinking. It’s not a one-way causal relationship. There is a positive feedback loop, when all is well. Until the thinking and writing collectively leads to exhaustion, at which point it’s time for a break and come back at it another time - maybe another day, after a good sleep.

Yes, only if you actually use it. But the question was: How will they prove that I have any social media history? the premise being that one can deny the existence of any history while actually using social media. Age verification will make this increasingly difficult and risky. If you use social media and deny it and they can prove you lied about using it, there will be consequences.

Have you heard about ‘age verification’ to ‘protect the children’? You too will be age verified. They will know all your accounts. That’s the whole point of age verification. It is to eliminate anonymity.

I did a little more searching with similar conclusion: most of what’s available is pretty extremely biased and unreliable. But it does seem there may be a connection beyond the vaccine he created being manufactured by Merck.

This CBS News article from 2008 says:

Offit holds in a $1.5 million dollar research chair at Children’s Hospital, funded by Merck. He holds the patent on an anti-diarrhea vaccine he developed with Merck, Rotateq, which has prevented thousands of hospitalizations.

That appears to be a quote from a Couric & Co Blog entry but that is “the official blog of the CBS Evening News”, so I guess CBS is quoting themselves and the information is as reliable as CBS. Unfortunately the linked blog entry no longer exists.

Offit is the current Chairholder of the Maurice R. Hilleman Chair of Vaccinology according to UPENN website. I guess that’s a reliable source. CBS didn’t name the chair funded by Merck but the Maurice R. Hilleman Chair of Vaccinology was established by Merck, according to UPENN.

On the other hand this UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences CME Information Sheet, which lists Offit as a speaker, says:

No members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients to disclose.

I don’t see anything about ongoing funding of the Maurice R. Hilleman Chair of Vaccinology by Merck. Only that Merck established it (presumably providing some endowment), and the possibly related report by CBS. Maybe $1.5million was the initial endowment.

B8B - Business ate business.

Is there any truth to the allegation that Dr Paul Offit received $1.5million from Merck? I don’t see any disclosure of such conflict of interest in the The Guardian article but it comes up when I search for information about him.

You know it’s only a matter of time until computers are ‘sold’ by subscription.

MEPs insist that age assurance systems must be accurate and preserve minors’ privacy

The EU, where War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength and Surveillance is Privacy.