Uncategorized
-
I’m a Chess Champion. Here’s Why I Play Chess Against ChatGPT
—akinbostanci—Getty Images Large language models (LLMs) are bad at chess. And yet, as a three-time National Chess Champion and a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, I love to play against them. Not because they push me to play my best, but because of what they reveal about human nature. Playing chess with LLMs has taught…
-
Government Workers Say They’re Getting Inundated With Religion
On Easter Sunday, US Department of Agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins sent out an email titled “He has risen!” to the entire agency. In the email, Rollins calls the story of Jesus Christ the “greatest story ever told, the foundation of our faith, and the abiding hope of all mankind.” One USDA employee called the email…
-
The electric grid’s next power source might be sitting in your driveway
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There’s a technology sitting idle in garages and driveways across America that provides a solution to its own potential problem. As more and more electric vehicles tap into the grid, their giant batteries add to the system’s…
-
RFK Jr. may make it easier to get peptides — but what do doctors think?
They’re the small molecules with the big buzz. You couldn’t live without peptides, which regulate essential functions such as metabolism, tissue repair and immune response. The body naturally produces thousands of them, like collagen and oxytocin, while some are sold as synthetic compounds, like Ozempic and aspartame. And since 2023, 19 of the manmade ones…
-
A New Horror Movie Depicts Realistic Snuff. That’s Not the Most Disturbing Thing About It
“If you’re going to bring Faces of Death into the modern era,” says director Daniel Goldhaber, “on some level, you have to contend with the fact that Faces of Death is everywhere.” In 1978, John Alan Schwartz’s low-budget, exploitation horror movie Faces of Death was unleashed upon the world. Less a movie than a feature-length…
-
LAUSD strike is off, schools to open Tuesday with tentative union deals in place
The Los Angeles Unified School District strike has been called off after LAUSD reached a tentative agreement early Tuesday morning with Local 99 of Service Employees International Union. Schools will be open as usual on Tuesday. The tentative agreement was the third and final milestone needed to avert a walkout and school shutdown in the…
-
MAGA’s drooling over this disgrace represents a dark irony
In the current social media swamp climate that’s laden with AI deep fakes and X bots pushing propaganda, there’s been a fascinating reaction to the Eric Swalwell scandal, which ended one of the worst weeks in this country’s history when we desperately could’ve used a win. We’ve come to expect a giant news story dump…
-
At least 16 injured in mass shooting at high school in Turkey after ex-student opens fire: report
A former student opened fire at a high school in southeast Turkey on Tuesday, wounding at least 16 people before killing himself, an official said. The 18-year-old attacker, armed with a shotgun, fired randomly at a vocational high school in Siverek, Sanliurfa province, before hiding inside the building. A former student opened fire at a…
-
The Moms Who Sponcon Their Daughters’ First Periods
The world of momfluencers is, to put it mildly, a highly fraught one. With the rise of trad wives like the beauty queen/rancher Hannah Neeleman, aka Ballerina Farm, as well as the 24-year-old model and mother of four Nara Smith, there’s never been more pressure on moms on the internet to present a pristine, highly…
-
JD Vance accuses Iran of ‘economic terrorism’ over its blocking of Hormuz Strait, says ball is in Tehran’s court
Vice President Vance accused Iran of “economic terrorism” over how it has blocked the Strait of Hormuz – but said the ball is in Tehran’s court when it comes to securing a peace deal. “Well, as the president of the United States showed, two can play that game,” Vance told Fox NewsMonday – just hours…