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Thursday May 14th, 2026

$4.9m to open the strait... Dan Lyke / comment 0

Man lost $4.9m to impersonation scam claiming Signapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong sought 'funding assistance' for Hormuz

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.

https://youtu.be/-FyvmLOE9e4?si=2Rsrs3g73a6BeJ20

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.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255271725

Wednesday May 13th, 2026

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.

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Medical AI transcribers full of errors Dan Lyke / comment 0

CBC Toronto: Medical AI transcriber for Ontario doctors 'hallucinated,' generated errors: auditor general.


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