RADIKAAL: Kim Lane Scheppele on Viktor Orbán’s Hungary
This is excellent 👆
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This is excellent 👆
ChatGPT is very good at inventing credible-sounding research papers – stuff that could, at first glance, be real, but isn’t. Here is a long thread about what is probably/possibly going on behind the scenes. Long story short: don’t trust this machine. It’s the AI equivalent of a man that is both mediocre and overconfident.
Food for thought here
It’s Friday afternoon, some algorithm surfaced this for me, and I could not agree more. Share with those who need to hear this.
It was probably only a matter of time. To use the technical term: FFS
In the run-up to Christmas, I missed this excellent Radikaalpodcast episode with Maria Sobolewska & Rob Ford (not a 🍁) talking about their Brexitland book. Hosted by Cas Mudde, definitely worth a👂.
This article on the Duck by Dan Nexon, about rather unfortunate consequences of the publish/perish incentives,makes some very good points
When I was a boy, the sea off Sellafield was supposed to be the most radioactive body of water in the world. No idea if this was true, but this article about the past, present, and unfortunately very, very long future of Britain’s nuclear fuel industry is excellent.
This small experiment is quite interesting, because it reveals a tiny bit of Mastodon’s network topology. I remember that I saw one of Brendon’s test posts.
This, from 2021, is still interesting