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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly@rtodkelly.bsky.social · 3d ago

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Dr Oz says the Trump administration will kick more than a million people off health insurance because some of them have "never filed a claim"

Deviant Ollam ツ@deviantollam.bsky.social · 3d ago

My video booted from YouTube yesterday is back (well, at a new URL) with a brief intro from me summarizing what happened. TL,DR: YouTube's AI tools flagged it as "firearms sales content" even though it's (a) there are no sales and (b) there are no firearms. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-_V...

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Deviant Ollam ツ@deviantollam.bsky.social · 4d ago

My latest video about medical supplies — which features absolutely no firearms and contains no links to any firearms and doesn't even mention firearms — has been removed from YouTube for violating their firearms policy.

Ash@fishyash.bsky.social · 4d ago

Friendly reminder that Duolingo was initially concieved to trick people into translating articles for free, which they later used as training data for MTL algorithms. Duolingo's primary purpose has NEVER been about teaching you a language, even from the start! slate.com/technology/2...

If it doesn’t charge users and, so far, doesn’t serve them any ads, how does Duolingo make money? It tricks you into working as an unpaid translation service. At the end of some lessons, Duolingo will ask you if you want to practice by translating a real-world document. Which will turn out to be, say, a BuzzFeed article. By melding together enough stabs at this task from high-level Duolingo users, the app can render a surprisingly accurate translation. Which is worth good money. So far, Duolingo has contracts with BuzzFeed and CNN to translate stories from English into languages such as Spanish, French, and Portuguese. This service is already earning Duolingo hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but von Ahn predicts he will be adding a raft of new clients soon. “The language translations market is huge,” he says. “It’s a $30 billion per year market.”
Japanese Talk@japanesetalk.bsky.social · 6d ago

It really irks me when people share their 300, 600, 1000 day Duolingo streaks but still don't know how to use Japanese. Here's an explanation for why apps like Duolingo don't work for learning to any fluency. jtalkonline.com/why-apps-lik...

David_j_roth@davidjroth.bsky.social · 7d ago

We have an answer for who is dumb enough to fall for the Doomsday FOMO AI sales pitch: The Department Of War. "Officials say the US can’t afford to fall behind in integrating AI in case it must one day fight China or another adversary who would potentially be able to stay one step ahead of the US."

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 7d ago

“The report, according to one of the sources, was ‘entirely false.’ But it also ‘almost started a war,’ the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.”

mollypeonies@mollypeonies.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW! How MPD Built a Police Surveillance Operation Around Renee Good’s Memorial — and What It Cost the Community MPD dedicated 101 personnel to a memorial deployment where just seven people were holding vigil. It was part of a four-day MPD operation that generated $1.92 million in overtime.

How MPD Built a Police Surveillance Operation Around Renee Good’s Memorial — and What It Cost the Community

Records reveal a coordinated system of drones, city cameras, command-post intelligence, body-worn and helmet cameras, person and vehicle checks, and evidence preservation around the memorial site as p...

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