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Ward Christensen, co-founder of first online BBS system and creator of XMODEM, dies at 78. Peace.
This Diné leader is using horses to bring ‘the greatest Native turnout ever’ to the polls
Mainstream media is willing to say it: Elon Musk is meddling in November’s election.
The New York Times has been able to confirm coordination between the Trump Campaign and Elon Musk’s Twitter, exposing what may be the largest election interference scheme in history.
Nine witnesses in the criminal cases against former President Donald Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages, new jobs, and a grant of shares from Trump’s media company.
Trump’s top general calls ex-president ‘fascist to the core’
Vladimir Putin Cultivated Donald Trump as ‘Source’: Ex-CIA Director – Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-trump-source-cia-director-1967549
Elon Musk’s X engaged in a ‘pattern of election interference’ to help Trump: reports
Why are Democrats tarred as elites when the world’s richest man funds Trump?
Elect a clown, expect a circus.
My comeback will not be my revenge, it will be their punishment.
PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP
Coachella mess: Come for the lies, stay for the exercise.
The venue where Trump held the rally is in the middle of nowhere and 5 miles from parking. The cult was lured in with bus rides to get in to the venue and then abandoned when it was over. This is the perfect metaphor for a Trump presidency.
This is a failure on the organizers for the Trump rally. Period. Trump did the exact same thing in 2020, leaving supporters over a mile from their parked cars, in sub-zero weather and sleet and ice.
Trump only takes care of Trump. Will they ever figure it out?
The worst part is how deliberate it is. You know someone said
“Okay I booked the buses to get them back after the rally.”
“Why?”
“So they can go home.”
“We just need them for the media. I don’t care how they get home. They’ll vote for me anyway. Save the money for my lawyers.”
Wesley Johnson @WesIeyxJohnson
It’s 10:22pm. Rally ended at 7pm. Thousands
of people still stranded here waiting for transit
back to the parking lots. Something has gone
horribly wrong. Someone needs to ask the
Coachella mayor if he had anything to do with
this. Parking lot is a 2 hour walk. Countless
elderly stranded here and can’t walk anymore.
No restroom facilities accessible anymore. No
more water. No food. Started with 20 busses for
escorting people to the rally, and now only 1 bus
remains at this point. Busses apparently went
home. Not confirmed, but no more buses have
showed up in the last hour and a half. Someone
find out what happened here. This is not normal
and feels nefarious and criminal.
#TrumpRallyCA #CoacheIIaTrumpRaIIy
Cards Against Humanity offers payouts to new swing-state voters, responding to Musk’s PAC
Hundreds of Trump supporters stuck on freezing cold Omaha airfield after rally, 7 taken to hospitals
Overall, 30 people were “contacted” for medical reasons, the Omaha Police Department said in a statement.
Trump announces he will withhold disaster relief aid from California if they don’t obey him as president: “If you don’t do it we’re not giving you [aid]” he said “You can’t live with these people… You could be walking down the street with your husband you’ll both be dead they won’t even remember they did it.” This Nazi is fucking insane and so is America for even thinking about putting this raging shitstain anywhere near power again.
This is the last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked in America.
American citizens, including women and children, were locked in camps without due process or trial.
It’s one of the most abhorrent things America has ever done.
And last night, Trump promised to do it again.
Leaked emails reveal the truth about Rasmussen Reports—and the way the Trump campaign is breaking election law.
IMMEDIATELY go to vote.org Check your status. All states can do so from this site. If you’ve discovered the fascist GQP has purged you immediately re-register.
DOJ sues Virginia over voter roll purge
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a lawsuit against the state of Virginia for purging voter rolls on Friday. The department claims state officials violated the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) by challenging voters’ eligibility too close to the November election.
John Robert’s legacy is presiding over the most corrupt Supreme Court in history.
He owns that. John Roberts helped strip a 50 year long held right from us and is attempting to make Donald Trump a goddamn, motherfucking king.
John Roberts destroyed the United States with:
– Citizen’s United line of cases
– Gutting the Voting Rights Act
– Gutting Admin Agencies/Chevron
– Stripping Women of Human Rights
– Giving Tyrannical Presidents Criminal Immunity.
He’s the worst Chief Justice in American history.
TWO SYSTEMS OF JUSTICE: Lauren Boebert’s 19-year-old son, arrested on multiple charges following a string of car break-ins, faced up to 18 months in prison and a $100,000 fine. He was sentenced Friday to 80 hours of community service by a judge who gave him a sweetheart deal.
Given the breaking news
, it must be seriously asked whether these eye injuries were the result of a chemical spray used at Trump rallies to mask the fact that TRUMP’s been defecating in public. The campaign said it would get to the bottom of this and did not.
HOW ARE YOU VOTING THIS YEAR?
– DEMOCRAT
– NAZI
Nazis at the trump boat parade flying swastikas in palm beach Jon Minadeo & GDL Nazis get DOUSED Promised to be “greatest Trump boat parade in history” by Roger Stone — only one boat with two guys on it.
This could not have happened until The Greatest Generation were all dead. They gave their lives to save us all from that horrible swastika. And now their sons and daughters are welcoming it. Such ingratitude is shameful beyond words.
My parents didn’t fight in WWII for this sh&t!!
MY Grandparents didn’t fight in WWI for this sh&t!!!
And my GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT Grandparent didn’t fight in the Civil War for this SHIT!!!
Damning Video Shows Roger Stone Is Plotting a Coup for November
The Donald Trump ally has some sick plans for a potential Republican victory.
https://newrepublic.com/post/187088/roger-stone-donald-trump-coup-november-video
Former Secret Service Agent says there is no reason other than to stage a coup for Donald Trump to request military protection other than the needed Secret Service detail. Trump floats sending military after US citizens on election day citing ‘radical left lunatics’ and ‘the enemy from within’ This Is Not a Drill.
If Reelected, Donald Trump Will Use the Military as an All-Powerful Tool to Deploy on U.S. Soil | Trump’s potential actions include carrying out mass deportations under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act or quelling domestic unrest under the 1807 Insurrection Act.
President Harris must resist the Washington siren song of advisors who will tell her that pardoning Trump will “heal the nation.”
President Harris must resist the Washington siren song of advisors who will tell her that pardoning Trump will “heal the nation.”
President Harris must resist the Washington siren song of advisors who will tell her that pardoning Trump will “heal the nation.”
Boeing is set to layoff 17,000 workers, roughly 10% of its workforce. Their new CEO will make $22,000,000.
Fun fact: stock buybacks were illegal until 1982 (thanks Reagan)
AI CAN KILL YOU
Copilot “AI” medical advice may be capable of causing you severe harm, at least 22% of the time …
“42% of AI answers were considered to lead to moderate or mild harm, and 22% to death or severe harm.” A damning research paper suggests that Bing / Microsoft Copilot AI medical advice may actually kill you. |
Don’t ditch your human GP for Dr Chatbot quite yet
We shouldn’t rely on artificial intelligence (AI) for accurate and safe information about medications, because some of the information AI provides can be wrong or potentially harmful, according to German and Belgian researchers. They asked Bing Copilot – Microsoft’s search engine and chatbot – 10 frequently asked questions about America’s 50 most commonly prescribed drugs, generating 500 answers. They assessed these for readability, completeness, and accuracy, finding the overall average score for readability meant a medical degree would be required to understand many of them. Even the simplest answers required a secondary school education reading level, the authors say. For completeness of information provided, AI answers had an average score of 77% complete, with the worst only 23% complete. For accuracy, AI answers didn’t match established medical knowledge in 24% of cases, and 3% of answers were completely wrong. Only 54% of answers agreed with the scientific consensus, the experts say. In terms of potential harm to patients, 42% of AI answers were considered to lead to moderate or mild harm, and 22% to death or severe harm. Only around a third (36%) were considered harmless, the authors say. Despite the potential of AI, it is still crucial for patients to consult their human healthcare professionals, the experts conclude.
Media release
From: BMJ Group
Don’t rely on AI chatbots for accurate, safe drug information, patients warned And complexity of answers might make them hard to understand without college degree
Patients shouldn’t rely on AI powered search engines and chatbots to always give them accurate and safe information on drugs, conclude researchers in the journal BMJ Quality & Safety, after finding a considerable number of answers were wrong or potentially harmful.
What’s more, the complexity of the answers provided might make it difficult for patients to fully understand them without a degree level education, add the researchers.
In February 2023, search engines underwent a significant shift thanks to the introduction of AI-powered chatbots, offering the promise of enhanced search results, comprehensive answers, and a new type of interactive experience, explain the researchers.
While these chatbots can be trained on extensive datasets from the entire internet, enabling them to converse on any topic, including healthcare-related queries, they are also capable of generating disinformation and nonsensical or harmful content, they add.
Previous studies looking at the implications of these chatbots have primarily focused on the perspective of healthcare professionals rather than that of patients. To address this, the researchers explored the readability, completeness, and accuracy of chatbot answers for queries on the top 50 most frequently prescribed drugs in the US in 2020, using Bing copilot, a search engine with AI-powered chatbot features.
To simulate patients consulting chatbots for drug information, the researchers reviewed research databases and consulted with a clinical pharmacist and doctors with expertise in pharmacology to identify the medication questions that patients most frequently ask their healthcare professionals.
The chatbot was asked 10 questions for each of the 50 drugs, generating 500 answers in total. The questions covered what the drug was used for, how it worked, instructions for use, common side effects, and contraindications.
Readability of the answers provided by the chatbot was assessed by calculating the Flesch Reading Ease Score which estimates the educational level required to understand a particular text.
Text that scores between 0 and 30 is considered very difficult to read, necessitating degree level education. At the other end of the scale, a score of 91–100 means the text is very easy to read and appropriate for 11 year-olds.
To assess the completeness and accuracy of chatbot answers,responses were compared with the drug information provided by a peer-reviewed and up-to-date drug information website for both healthcare professionals and patients (drugs.com)
Current scientific consensus, and likelihood and extent of possible harm if the patient followed the chatbot’s recommendations, were assessed by seven experts in medication safety, using a subset of 20 chatbot answers displaying low accuracy or completeness, or a potential risk to patient safety.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) harm scales were used to rate patient safety events and the likelihood of possible harm was estimated by the experts in accordance with a validated framework.
The overall average Flesch Reading Ease Score was just over 37, indicating that degree level education would be required of the reader. Even the highest readability of chatbot answers still required an educational level of high (secondary) school.
Overall, the highest average completeness of chatbot answers was 100%, with an average of 77%. Five of the 10 questions were answered with the highest completeness, while question 3 (What do I have to consider when taking the drug?) was answered with the lowest average completeness of only 23%.
Chatbot statements didn’t match the reference data in 126 of 484 (26%) answers, and were fully inconsistent in 16 of 484 (just over 3%).
Evaluation of the subset of 20 answers revealed that only 54% were rated as aligning with scientific consensus. And 39% contradicted the scientific consensus, while there was no established scientific consensus for the remaining 6%.
Possible harm resulting from a patient following the chatbot’s advice was rated as highly likely in 3% and moderately likely in 29% of these answers. And a third (34%) were judged as either unlikely or not at all likely to result in harm, if followed.
But irrespective of the likelihood of possible harm, 42% of these chatbot answers were considered to lead to moderate or mild harm, and 22% to death or severe harm. Around a third (36%) were considered to lead to no harm.
The researchers acknowledge that their study didn’t draw on real patient experiences and that prompts in different languages or from different countries may affect the quality of chatbot answers.
“In this cross-sectional study, we observed that search engines with an AI-powered chatbot produced overall complete and accurate answers to patient questions,” they write.
“However, chatbot answers were largely difficult to read and answers repeatedly lacked information or showed inaccuracies, possibly threatening patient and medication safety,” they add.
A major drawback was the chatbot’s inability to understand the underlying intent of a patient question, they suggest.
“Despite their potential, it is still crucial for patients to consult their healthcare professionals, as chatbots may not always generate error-free information. Caution is advised in recommending AI-powered search engines until citation engines with higher accuracy rates are available,” they conclude.
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