What are you reading?
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Shave er…shavee
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Probably because nobody wants to sleep with you.
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Fiscal bad news
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/6099509-us-debt-vat-solution/
https://www.investmentnews.com/retirement-planning/us-debt-crisis-nears-tipping-point-watchdog-warns-congress/268270
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Reasoning together
Jürgen Habermas, the great defender of deliberative democracy, lived up to its demands: he never feared changing his mind
"People retreat into whichever group agrees with them and lose their grip on a shared standard of true and false"
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“I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views,…” - Abraham Lincoln
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Flawed AI Summaries Distort Eyewitness Memory
Key Facts:
Severe Omission Rates: Across consumer multimodal AI models (including ChatGPT and Gemini), automated video summaries omitted an average of 51.6% of central events, with 95% failing to mention the incident’s core occurrence: a car hitting a pedestrian.
Recall Accuracy Halved: Participants who read an accurate summary correctly recalled key scene details 83.6% of the time, compared to only 44.8% of those exposed to an inaccurate AI summary.
The “Human-in-the-Loop” Fallacy: Labeling a summary as AI-produced failed to insulate observers from memory contamination; participants internalized errors regardless of their stated familiarity with or trust in artificial intelligence.
Source: Georgetown University / University of Washingtonhttps://neurosciencenews.com/ai-false-memory-llm-31261/
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Interview with Sylvester Stallone at 80.
Philip Montgomery for The New York Times
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Farmer's Cyclopedia of Agriculture, published in 1902, long before Monsanto changed the world.
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Back in the days when pigs could go into the corn fields to "hog down" and no gmo's to thinkabout. Raw milk was good, butter and lard were good, ……..
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Avoid sugar while on antibiotics
https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/health/sugar-antibiotics-microbiome-gut-bacteria-wellness
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the AI industry has an accountability problem—namely, that no one seems to be taking meaningful action to hold firms responsible for their bots’ actions
As OpenAI claims it’s trying to stop danger in its tracks, the company is also churning out new products. On Tuesday, at OpenAI’s annual DevDay, the company unveiled Dots, new personalizable “always-on” AI agents, which appear as cute, colorful, anamorphic blobs. But before you ask an innocent-looking fuzzy lump to order you dinner or change your email password, remember where exactly you’re placing trust
https://links.wired.com/z/c/977/af1cbda301154221978aecc460120c4f/cd26ac85f3d448dca9cd6a02837c1e5e
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^^Makes me think of a bumper sticker I once saw: "I'll believe a corporation is a person when Texas executes one"
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain2
