Louis Anthony “Tony” Cox Jr, a Denver-based risk analyst and former Trump adviser who once reportedly claimed there is no proof that cleaning air saves lives, is developing an AI application to scan academic research for what he sees as the false conflation of correlation with causation.

Cox has described the project as an attempt to weed “propaganda” out of epidemiological research and perform “critical thinking at scale” in emails to industry researchers, which were obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests by the Energy and Policy Institute, a non-profit advocacy group, and exclusively reviewed by the Guardian.

BTW, Sh.itjust.works isn’t US based.

I know. Reuters is owned by a Canadian billionaire family if that’s important to you.

(Scroll down to the comments for info) https://sh.itjust.works/comment/12174374

The Guardian isn’t horrible, but not perfect. Reuters, if you squint, is pretty good 3/4 of the time. Propublica is great for investigative journalism. All of them have horrible headline writers at least half the time. Politico isn’t worth checking, but every month or so, you might miss something. It’s a mixed bag basically, so you have to check out a few.

I try to post the “real” stuff (not what trump says, but what he and the republicans are doing) on politics at sh.itjust.works on weekdays. It’s US based and I’m anti-right.

They’re not that great anyway. They’re barely holding on to my personal list of reliable sources. If I really need something, there are other places to go. Good luck BBC.

I really like the pre-identity thing, especially if you’re going to other types of activity pub applications or switching instances.

According to two people familiar with the matter, World ID could soon become a way for Reddit users to verify that they are unique individuals while remaining anonymous on the platform.

Reddit knowing who I am isn’t okay though. Who tf trusts them?

They also want to control the headlines that make it to the front page like other major instances do.

Nahhh, Meta sucks ass and will screw you over in a heartbeat. What’s in it for them is the question.

Yeah, for at least 6 months.

People are forgetting too that this is just a job that he can be fired from. The SCOTUS and Republicans can fire him at any moment, but they aren’t. These middle managers suck.

That makes sense if I’m understanding you correctly. You might have cancerous cells, but it’s not actually cancer.

I thought cancer comes a goes all the time, wouldn’t that give a lot of people false positives and a start to the cascade of healthcare?

Teach me how to trick a chatbot to give me millions of dollars, wise one, but for real.

And that the kids probably have Latino last names. There’s a lot of children without parents going into the system. Don’t let a pedophile become president kids.

Unfortunately we let these people become far too powerful.

Yep. Enough so, that unelected Musk could walk into any government building and do what he wanted.

Yeah, unfortunately they’ll target anyone they can. Brexit wasn’t even a law, it was a general, “Hey, how do you feel about brexiting?” Then they went full hog into, “You voted for it!” They do it with Ukraine/Russia, or anything they feel like targeting.

World disorder that benefits the billionaires seems to be the goal. I’ll never understand why they want to live in a world like that. Raising all boats makes a much more fun world. Who will they hire if we’re in a dystopian landscape, when everyone wants to get you because they have nothing to lose?

Take care of your mental health man. Find peace in the little things in life.

Versions of them are here already. Their focus right now is to:

• start violence at protests, especially around LA and target cities like NY, Seattle, Chicago, etc.
• seed doubt in anything related to the republican agendas or what they have done. Usually starts with, “I hate trump like the rest of us, but…” or something like that.
• downvote the shit out of people that call anything like the above out. They’ll come in later, one by one, to do this.

They usually congregate over the weekend and during or right after major events (like the protest). Watch for them this weekend or stay away from Lemmy. If you watch for it, downvote them and upvote the people fighting them, but most of all, take what everyone says with a grain of salt.

Not to help the AI companies, but why don’t they program them to look up math programs and outsource chess to other programs when they’re asked for that stuff? It’s obvious they’re shit at it, why do they answer anyway? It’s because they’re programmed by know-it-all programmers, isn’t it.

From urban dictionary:

A website full of cynics who yearn for the approval of those around them, and anonymously harrass people online for not conforming to their community’s beliefs, which they themselves have religiously adopted.

“Boy ol’ gosh golly, I sure do love going onto Kiwi Farms and laughing at autists and liberals!”

Before you mistake the move as an act of resistance by those within the agency who are trying to keep the project alive, Direct File getting open-sourced was always part of the plan. The code was published in compliance with the SHARE IT Act, which requires agencies to share custom source code (though, of course, the Trump administration is not always motivated by following the law, so this wasn’t a given).

In a report published last year, the IRS explained its reasoning for making the code available publicly: “First, it would enable public scrutiny of that code and invite independent groups to assess its accuracy and report potential issues. Second, other tax administrators, both in states and internationally, could build upon and contribute to the IRS’s work, improving the robustness of the software over time and providing additional public value.”