Scam ads on Facebook Dan Lyke / comment 0
Santa Clara County Sues Meta for Making Billions from ‘Scam Ads’ on Facebook and Instagram
The complaint alleges that Meta tracks up to 15 billion scam ads shown to users every day across its platforms, generating $7 billion in revenue. The county said in its complaint that Meta’s own systems flag ads that are likely scams but, instead of stopping them, charges scammers a premium price.
Conservatives & worse health outcomes Dan Lyke / comment 1
Nature Human Behavior: The political polarization of health outcomes in the USA
Using individual-level medical data and death records, this study shows that conservative Americans experienced worsening health and higher mortality than liberals during the 2010s. Here we find evidence consistent with two potential mechanisms. First, demographic realignment within political coalitions brought less healthy individuals into the conservative camp. Yet by the 2020s, demographic change, public policy and COVID-19 do not fully account for the widening gap in mortality rates. Public opinion data are consistent with a second mechanism: declining trust in medical professionals among right- leaning individuals, including lower willingness to seek care, follow clinical advice or believe in medication effectiveness, even for issues unrelated to COVID-19.
$4.9m to open the strait... Dan Lyke / comment 0
He was told to sign a non-disclosure agreement, furnish a copy of his identification card, and was issued with a "letter of guarantee" for reimbursement within 15 business days
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If like our household you are hooked Dan Lyke / comment 0
If, like our household, you are hooked on the Hallmark series "The Way Home", someone has pieced together the song "Breathe" and recorded it.
a lie citing interface Dan Lyke / comment 0
You Can't Spell @cantspell@mastodon.social
You can't spell artificial intelligence without a lie citing interface
AI filtering history Dan Lyke / comment 0
This thread: Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents.
I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.
Wait so basic functionality in MacOS Dan Lyke / comment 2
Wait, so basic functionality in MacOS has been broken for at least two and a half years?
Sigh.
full trippy mode Dan Lyke / comment 0
The transcripts. Holy shit. “Will I be OK?” Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says
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COVID was not the cause of test declines Dan Lyke / comment 0
Oh, you mean the complaints about remote learning not working were largely bullshit, and the children's happiness at not being forced into bullying situations was seen as a downside? Golly, who might have thought that the advocates for violence against non- conforming children might be willing to draw false conclusions?
Kids' test scores began declining way before COVID. These schools are making gains
The pandemic-era backslide in math and reading scores for students across the U.S. was not a sudden catastrophe but the continuation of a brutal, decade-long "learning recession" that began years before COVID-19's arrival. That's according to the latest Education Scorecard, an annual deep-dive into student data from The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University and Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research.
Medical AI transcribers full of errors Dan Lyke / comment 0