RFK Jr. has arbitrarily declared that future vaccines will only be approved if the control group in the trials got an inactive placebo. Why? No reason at all, it's just an absurd requirement he made up.

Placebo, double blind trials are the golden standard for drug / clinical trials. It seems reasonable that vaccines should be subjected to the same standard, specially those introducing new technology, like mRNA.

I don't know a lot about this project but I am not understanding why they wouldn't just move to a non-Fedora based distribution. There are *LOTS* of them.

Or fork Fedora, right?

That's what it takes now for police to catch up to 14-16 yo criminals.

They will apply for a larger number of foreign worker visas next year, due to the "shortage".

I do not believe for a second that 20-30% of deployed code at MS has been written by LLMs.

I do believe it. There's endless blobs of XAML, CSS, boilerplate HTML, that are currently squeezed out by disposable H1Bs.

if the whole thing was scripted without any real AI action taking place, to promote a product that wasn't yet running or ready for prime time.

Oh sweet summer child! Of course, scripted, every time.

with officials increasingly pointing to Russia as the likely culprit.

Just in time to sabotage any peace deal in Ukraine. Next thing, the Russians will blow up their own gas pipelines, again.

Does this mean that they will use AI to address their growing list of vulnerabilities? : https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cve.org%2FCVERecord%2F...
Does this mean that they'll significantly cut back their number of H-1B filings as well? : https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myvisajobs.com%2Femp....

"but I see no reason why a future computer program should not be."

Other than the philosophical impediments to computational consciousness (see Searle's Chinese Room), which Dawkins must surely know about.

There's nothing to suggest that these people will be approached with any claims directly.

The true purpose is intimidation.

Funny how Haitians were the first thing that came to your mind. Racists are going to racist.

It should have been a Nintendo AI alarm clock that uses an LM to select from a variety of classic Nintendo sountracks to rouse you from your sleep.

Joining other progressive luminaries like Dick Warmonger Cheney.
The Democratic party has become the extreme right wing of the Republican party.

Apple could always cross-promote their new phones with a triple bacon cheeseburger from Wendy's.

Vegan Triple iBurger Max Pro. Know your demo.

Will sell your apnea data to the insurance cartels.