TASS is Russia’s state-owned news agency, so there’s no expectation of neutrality or journalistic best practices.

It can still be informative, as long as the stories are taken as the best plausible narrative they can construct to account for whatever it is that actually happened.

If one is opposed by 53% and the other is opposed by 71%, a title suggesting that either is “popular” is a bit misleading.

I think the group of people spending the majority of their lives communicating online would be the first to insist that people who spend their lives online shouldn’t be put in charge of anything in the real world.

The killer feature is the lack of connection to Meta.

What if the risk of self-harm is a result of using ChatGPT?

Confusion is a notification of prediction failure.

Your self is the private reservoir of knowledge and experience you draw on to interact with the world in a way that’s distinct from anyone else (and that couldn’t be predicted without access to that internal knowledge).

So a chess player that exploits an opponent’s weakness is hacking?
A snake that finds an entrance to a gopher burrow is hacking?

“Finding vulnerabilities” is the kind of dangerously overbroad generalization that gave us the DMCA.

Nah, they’ll just add a “for entertainment purposes only” disclaimer to the government itself.

“I’ve already bought one justice system, yes. But what about second justice system?”

It’s not like he went bad as a result of serving too many terms—he was a corrupt neoliberal from day one. Term limits aren’t a cure for that.

At best, B’s bank knows that B had some bills that once passed through your hands. But they have no way of knowing if you actually spent the money at B’s or if there were other transactions in between.

Even if the bill was scanned when you withdrew it at the ATM and again when you spent it, there’s no way to know if the bill changed hands in the meantime through unrecorded transactions.

If I get cash in change from a vendor who doesn’t know my identity, and spend it at another vendor who doesn’t know my identity, what is there to tie the serial numbers to?

Pope Leo leads most public figures in the US in approval ratings.

In theory, could the Pope run for president (given that he’s a U.S. citizen by birth, etc.)?

It doesn’t take much to boost the price of a stock by 400% if the stock is already practically worthless.

Now see, strokes are a different matter. Studies from China (where naturally-occurring fluoride levels in some places can range from 1.2 to 4.5 mg/L, far exceeding the U.S. recommended level of 0.7 mg/L) have indeed found a correlation between very high fluoride exposure and stroke risk.

To fight forces like big oil, we need to be able to focus our efforts appropriately. Indiscriminately attributing everything to big oil serves their purposes as much as complacency does.

Those kinds of issues would come into play if they were trying to establish a correlation between two things—it’s notoriously hard to eliminate confounding variables, spurious coincidences, etc.

But it’s far more straightforward to establish a lack of correlation, which is what this study does.

I wouldn’t say it’s not bad because of a study and “experts.”

While there are always biased studies, the data in this case comes from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a broad health and social sciences study conducted by the University of Wisconsin that’s been ongoing since 1957. You can access the data yourself here.