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CNN Anchors Won’t Stop Lying About Something Rashida Tlaib Never Said
  • The author trying to make a connection is not clarifying which bias Tlaib meant. It is just as likely to be misrepresenting what Tlaib meant.

    And, when you think about it, Tlaib said biases - plural - so this 'clarification' - if it was a clarification - is ignoring the other biases.

  • A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit.
  • Sure, but which of these factors do you think were relevant to the case in the article? The AI seems to have had a large corpus of documents relating to the reporter. Those articles presumably stated clearly that he was the reporter and not the defendant. We are left with "incorrect assumptions made by the model". What kind of assumption would that be?

    In fact, all of the results are hallucinations. It's just that some of them happen to be good answers and others are not. Instead of labelling the bad answers as hallucinations, we should be labelling the good ones as confirmation bias.

  • Fuck Cars.
  • Cities are inherently car centric. Think about a typical crossroads controlled by lights. When the light is green, a car can enter the junction and can then leave in any direction (sometimes it has to wait for oncoming traffic, but it can always leave when the lights change again). When the light goes green for a pedestrian at the same junction, they can cross 1 road only.

    Fundamentally, the cars are in the middle. They don't have to cross pavements (or cycle lanes) to turn. Everyone else has to cross the road.

    Of course, there are exceptions, where a junction has been designed so that, for example, pedestrians can cross diagonally. Likewise the cycle lane sometimes continues across the junction, but mostly doesn't.

  • Did climate change make the Airport, Bridge and Line fires worse: A “one-two” weather punch tied to rising temperatures sets stage for intense blazes, expert says
  • That isn't the explanation the article gives. Punch 1 of the 1-2 punch is that heavier rain - also caused by climate change - allows grass to grow higher, and that is why there is more fuel.

    I guess it's quite easy to test though: we had extensive wildfires last year; those areas should be safe from wildfires this year.

  • Video shows Israeli soldiers throwing the bodies of Palestinian men off buildings
  • Yes, we would expect Hamas to say something like that. On the other hand, the Israeli military also said this was not acceptable behaviour.

    "This is a serious incident that is not in line with [Israeli army] values and what is expected of [Israeli army] soldiers," the Israeli military said in a statement. "The incident is under review."

  • Keir Starmer alleged to have broken rules over party donor’s gifts to wife
  • I mean, it did happen under a Conservative government, and Sunak defended his failure to declare an interest by saying that he wasn't privy to his wife's business interests.

    It's quite possible that it's that very scandal that prompted Starmer to seek additional guidance.

  • No, Kamala Harris wasn’t wearing these audio earrings
  • They say "she was being fed the questions". What would be the point of being fed the questions while you are on stage?!

    I know that what they really mean is that she was being fed the answers. It just shows exactly how little effort they put into these claims.

  • Why the Linux ecosystem cannot be considered "standardized", unlike Windows and Mac?
  • The attraction of Linux is precisely that it isn't one of the two 'standards'. Your working environment doesn't get determined by some product manager in a far-away office, who has a set of target users in mind, which he's given fictional names, biographies and mugshots.

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