This is wild: essentially every LLM—ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini—keeps using the same character when asked to make up a story, a guy called 'Elias Thorne'. He appears so much it's impacting Google Trends data and the self-published book market. Now we might know why www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
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LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo...
Yep, this. Have been leaning in big time to things that bring me joy so I have the energy to stand up to disinformation and distrust. Watching Big Tech poison public discourse right down to the neighbourhood level is a hell of a thing, but we are not free to desist from the task of standing against.
New data visualization: The evolution of languages, including isolates and extinct. There are four sources, including missionary data I personally stole. Complete, interactive, needing feedback!
Branches are collapsible; you can focus an individual family on the bottom. This has been a monster.
Ottawa's supervised consumption sites are expected to close.
People with lived experience have warned that these closures would lead to the outcomes the government is trying to prevent.
Good policy starts by listening to the people most affected by it.
#HarmReduction #PublicHealth #MentalHealth
Iva Cheung 🍗
Some good news amid the ongoing awful everything else.
'medics in London have successfully used the technique to effectively cure five NHS patients with severe lupus aged between 19 and 50'
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
An interactive radial tree of 8,481 world languages across 26 families. Expand, collapse, and theme the canopy of human language.
This is why we have TV's so we can avoid big crowds like this and AVOID getting sick!
World Cup creates perfect conditions for infectious diseases to spread – here are the biggest threats health experts are watching for theconversation.com/world-cup-cr...
This is fine. youtube.com/shorts/Fs4aA...
Andrew Appleton
🥰 Lychee season 💕
The Human Outcome
Wear your helmets! I had a bit of a spill on the bike yesterday but luckily my helmet broke instead of my head. The ER doctor said she’d seen five cyclists that day and three of them weren’t wearing helmets and ended in brain bleeds. I’m totally ok except rather stiff and sore.
