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Ironically, it appears that AI chatbots hallucinate for the same reason that students feel compelled to use them:

They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.

💯%. I've come to accept how morally depraved Donald Trump is. But I'll never get over how blindingly imbecilic he is.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

For your listening pleasure

#ALERTEINFO HISTOIRE

L'empereur d'Occident Frédéric Barberousse (1122-1190) est mort noyé. Au moment de se baigner dans une rivière, il aurait oublié d'ôter son armure et aurait coulé...
Moralité; il était Moyen-nageur

Fin du flash

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath.

I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

Reposting as Sagan is so prescient from 30 years ago.

"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)

A must-read. This’d be worth creating a Facebook account just to read—and I know what a claim that is to make.

It’s a bracing essay about Elon Musk by someone very close to him.

(This is very much _not_ about me, of course, but I’ll say that if you ever doubted my writing on Musk, this will help.)

Nailed it

Je suis très heureux d'avoir étudié le français au lycée, car je peux désormais lire avec plaisir comment Le Monde, Le Figaro et d'autres journaux français décrivent les crimes commis par le prochain ambassadeur américain dans leur pays.

Rare #sudoku event yesterday. If my math still works, odds are 9! / 18, one out of 20160.

Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves.

doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

Trop l’impression d’être dans un gymnase avec des rescapés après une catastrophe naturelle ici.