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(179) The End of Censorship? NEW Free AI Image is Totally UNCENSORED! - YouTube Added: Dec 14, 2025
The End of Censorship? NEW Free AI Image is Totally UNCENSORED!
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Try VERV todayhttps://verv.fm/Thanks to VERV for sponsoring this videoMy list of banned words + All my test promptshttps://delightfuldesign.eo.page/cct29Link...

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GitHub - Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image Added: Dec 14, 2025
GitHub - Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image
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Contribute to Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Z Image | ComfyUI_examples Added: Dec 14, 2025
Z Image
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Examples of ComfyUI workflows
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jayn7/Z-Image-Turbo-GGUF ¡ Hugging Face Added: Dec 14, 2025
jayn7/Z-Image-Turbo-GGUF ¡ Hugging Face
Weâre on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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Democrat Says White People Should Feel Guilty For Being White In Racist Rant - YouTube Added: Dec 14, 2025
Democrat Says White People Should Feel Guilty For Being White In Racist Rant
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Build vs buy is dead â AI just killed it | VentureBeat Added: Dec 14, 2025
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Dr. Judea Pearl - On Zionophobia, Jew Hatred, and the Promise of AI (THE SAAD TRUTH_1960) - YouTube Added: Dec 14, 2025
Dr. Judea Pearl - On Zionophobia, Jew Hatred, and the Promise of AI (THE SAAD TRUTH_1960)
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Judea Pearl is The Chancellorâs Professor of computer science and statistics and director of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory at UCLA. He was the recipient ...

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Islam and the Cutting of the Gordian Knot (THE SAAD TRUTH_1961) - YouTube Added: Dec 14, 2025
Islam and the Cutting of the Gordian Knot (THE SAAD TRUTH_1961)
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This episode stems from an XSpaces session that I hosted on December 14, 2025: https://x.com/GadSaad/status/2000224950943207751?s=20_________________________...

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Victor Davis Hanson: We've Had Enough of the Fraud and Failure to Assimilate - YouTube Added: Dec 14, 2025
Victor Davis Hanson: We've Had Enough of the Fraud and Failure to Assimilate
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On this episode of âVictor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,â Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc discuss the Democratsâ acceptance of fraud and todayâs immigran...

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From Somali scams to phantom patients, Democrats keep defrauding us | New York Post Added: Dec 14, 2025
From Somali scams to phantom patients, Dems keep defrauding us
Site: New York Post
Is welfare fraud the Democratsâ goal, given how much theyâve incentivized it â and how little theyâve done to stop it?

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Medicaid expansion cost $1 trillion, double estimate: study | New York Post Added: Dec 14, 2025
Medicaid expansion cost $1 trillion, double the estimate â Harris would make it worse
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New research found that Obamacareâs Medicaid expansion cost more than $1 trillion over the past 10 years â an unaffordable tab that will grow even faster under a Harris administration.

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The Joy of Code in the Age of Vibe Engineering - DEV Community
Added: Dec 14, 2025The Joy of Code in the Age of Vibe Engineering
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Iâve always liked programming because I could get the machine to bend to my will. Programming has a...

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For the First Time, AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert | WIRED Added: Dec 14, 2025
For the First Time, AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert
Site: WIRED
If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained âmetalinguisticâ abilities?
Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was âthe animal that has language.â Even as large language models such as ChatGPT superficially replicate ordinary speech, researchers want to know if there are specific aspects of human language that simply have no parallels in the communication systems of other animals or artificially intelligent devices. In particular, researchers have been exploring the extent to which language models can reason about language itself. For some in the linguistic community, language models not only donât have reasoning abilities, they canât. This view was summed up by Noam Chomsky, a prominent linguist, and two coauthors in 2023, when they wrote in The New York Times that âthe correct explanations of language are complicated and cannot be learned just by marinating in big data.â AI models may be adept at using language, these researchers argued, but theyâre not capable of analyzing language in a sophisticated way. That view was challenged in a recent paper by GaĹĄper BeguĹĄ, a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley; Maksymilian DÄ bkowski, who recently received his doctorate in linguistics at Berkeley; and Ryan Rhodes of Rutgers University. The researchers put a number of large language models, or LLMs, through a gamut of linguistic testsâincluding, in one case, having the LLM generalize the rules of a made-up language. While most of the LLMs failed to parse linguistic rules in the way that humans are able to, one had impressive abilities that greatly exceeded expectations. It was able to analyze language in much the same way a graduate student in linguistics wouldâdiagramming sentences, resolving multiple ambiguous meanings, and making use of complicated linguistic features such as recursion. This finding, BeguĹĄ said, âchallenges our understanding of what AI can do.â This new work is both timely and âvery important,â said Tom McCoy, a computational linguist at Yale University who was not involved with the research. âAs society becomes more dependent on this technology, itâs increasingly important to understand where it can succeed and where it can fail.â Linguistic analysis, he added, is the ideal test bed for evaluating the degree to which these language models can reason like humans. Infinite Complexity One challenge of giving language models a rigorous linguistic test is making sure they donât already know the answers. These systems are typically trained on huge amounts of written informationânot just the bulk of the internet, in dozens if not hundreds of languages, but also things like linguistics textbooks. The models could, in theory, simply memorize and regurgitate the information that theyâve been fed during training. To avoid this, BeguĹĄ and his colleagues created a linguistic test in four parts. Three of the four parts involved asking the model to analyze specially crafted sentences using tree diagrams, which were first introduced in Chomskyâs landmark 1957 book, Syntactic Structures. These diagrams break sentences down into noun phrases and verb phrases and then further subdivide them into nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and so forth. One part of the test focused on recursionâthe ability to embed phrases within phrases. âThe sky is blueâ is a simple English sentence. âJane said that the sky is blueâ embeds the original sentence in a slightly more complex one. Importantly, this process of recursion can go on forever: âMaria wondered if Sam knew that Omar heard that Jane said that the sky is blueâ is also a grammatically correct, if awkward, recursive sentence. Recursion has been called one of the defining characteristics of human language by Chomsky and othersâand indeed, perhaps a defining characteristic of the human mind. Linguists have argued that its limitless potential is what gives human languages their ability to generate an infinite number of possible sentences out of a finite vocabulary and a finite set of rules. So far, thereâs no convincing evidence that other animals can use recursion in a sophisticated way. Recursion can occur at the beginning or end of a sentence, but the form that is most challenging to master, called center embedding, takes place in the middleâfor instance, going from âthe cat diedâ to âthe cat the dog bit died.â BeguĹĄâ test fed the language models 30 original sentences that featured tricky examples of recursion. For example: âThe astronomy the ancients we revere studied was not separate from astrology.â Using a syntactic tree, one of the language modelsâOpenAIâs o1âwas able to determine that the sentence was structured like so:
The astronomy [the ancients [we revere] studied] was not separate from astrology.
The model then went further and added another layer of recursion to the sentence:
The astronomy [the ancients [we revere [who lived in lands we cherish]] studied] was not separate from astrology.
BeguĹĄ, among others, didnât anticipate that this study would come across an AI model with a higher-level âmetalinguisticâ capacityââthe ability not just to use a language but to think about language,â as he put it. That is one of the âattention-gettingâ aspects of their paper, said David Mortensen, a computational linguist at Carnegie Mellon University who was not involved with the work. There has been debate about whether language models are just predicting the next word (or linguistic token) in a sentence, which is qualitatively different from the deep understanding of language that humans have. âSome people in linguistics have said that LLMs are not really doing language,â he said. âThis looks like an invalidation of those claims.â What Do You Mean? McCoy was surprised by o1âs performance in general, particularly by its ability to recognize ambiguity, which is âfamously a difficult thing for computational models of language to capture,â he said. Humans âhave a lot of commonsense knowledge that enables us to rule out the ambiguity. But itâs difficult for computers to have that level of commonsense knowledge.â A sentence such as âRowan fed his pet chickenâ could be describing the chicken that Rowan keeps as a pet, or it could be describing the meal of chicken meat that he gave to his (presumably more traditional) animal companion. The o1 model correctly produced two different syntactic trees, one that corresponds to the first interpretation of the sentence and one that corresponds to the latter. The researchers also carried out experiments related to phonologyâthe study of the pattern of sounds and of the way the smallest units of sound, called phonemes, are organized. To speak fluently, like a native speaker, people follow phonological rules that they might have picked up through practice without ever having been explicitly taught. In English, for example, adding an âsâ to a word that ends in a âgâ creates a âzâ sound, as in âdogs.â But an âsâ added to a word ending in âtâ sounds more like a standard âs,â as in âcats.â In the phonology task, the group made up 30 new mini-languages, as BeguĹĄ called them, to find out whether the LLMs could correctly infer the phonological rules without any prior knowledge. Each language consisted of 40 made-up words. Here are some example words from one of the languages:
θalp Ęebre ði̤zṳ ga̤rbo̤nda̤ Ęi̤zṳðe̤jo
They then asked the language models to analyze the phonological processes of each language. For this language, o1 correctly wrote that âa vowel becomes a breathy vowel when it is immediately preceded by a consonant that is both voiced and an obstruentââa sound formed by restricting airflow, like the âtâ in âtop.â The languages were newly invented, so thereâs no way that o1 could have been exposed to them during its training. âI was not expecting the results to be as strong or as impressive as they were,â Mortensen said. Uniquely Human or Not? How far can these language models go? Will they get better, without limit, simply by getting biggerâlayering on more computing power, more complexity and more training data? Or are some of the characteristics of human language the result of an evolutionary process that is limited to our species? The recent results show that these models can, in principle, do sophisticated linguistic analysis. But no model has yet come up with anything original, nor has it taught us something about language we didnât know before. If improvement is just a matter of increasing both computational power and the training data, then BeguĹĄ thinks that language models will eventually surpass us in language skills. Mortensen said that current models are somewhat limited. âTheyâre trained to do something very specific: given a history of tokens [or words], to predict the next token,â he said. âThey have some trouble generalizing by virtue of the way theyâre trained.â But in view of recent progress, Mortensen said he doesnât see why language models wonât eventually demonstrate an understanding of our language thatâs better than our own. âItâs only a matter of time before we are able to build models that generalize better from less data in a way that is more creative.â The new results show a steady âchipping awayâ at properties that had been regarded as the exclusive domain of human language, BeguĹĄ said. âIt appears that weâre less unique than we previously thought we were.â
Original story reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine, an editorially independent publication of the Simons Foundation whose mission is to enhance public understanding of science by covering research developments and trends in mathematics and the physical and life sciences.

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Musk Claims South Africa Has More Anti-White Laws Than Apartheid Era / X Added: Dec 14, 2025
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Eloise on X: "@politvidchannel đ¤Łđ¤Łđ¤Łđ¤Łđ And which pathetic one would that be ." / X Added: Dec 14, 2025
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Chart Links Individualism to Prosperity in Global Divide / X Added: Dec 14, 2025
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DNA From Beethoven's Hair Reveals a Surprise 200 Years Later : ScienceAlert
Added: Dec 14, 2025DNA From Beethoven's Hair Reveals a Surprise 200 Years Later
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On a stormy Monday in March, 1827, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven passed away after a protracted illness.

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Huge Study Finds Very Worrying Results for Medical Marijuana Patients
Added: Dec 14, 2025Huge Study Finds Very Worrying Results for Medical Marijuana Patients
Site: Futurism
Psychiatrists studied years of medical cannabis research and concluded that medical cannabis doesn't help patients on acute pain or insomnia.

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Bombshell cannabis study reveals hidden risks of medical pot | New York Post Added: Dec 14, 2025
Bombshell cannabis study reveals hidden risks of medical pot that may actually outweigh any benefits
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High hopes for medical cannabis are going up in smoke.

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Scientists Discover Strong Upside for Men Getting Castrated
Added: Dec 14, 2025Scientists Discover Strong Upside for Men Getting Castrated
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Men get castrated tend to live longer than their uncut peers, which is also seen in the rest of the mammalian world, scientists said.

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Geoffrey Miller Challenges AI Abundance Promises / X Added: Dec 14, 2025
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Charles Dickens and Christmas Carol Creativity | Psychology Today Added: Dec 14, 2025
Charles Dickens and Christmas Carol Creativity
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Activities like walking entrain brain circuits and release creativity and calmness, whether we are just living day to day or trying to escape from the ghost of Christmas present.

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President Trump Delivers Remarks at a Christmas Reception - YouTube Added: Dec 14, 2025
President Trump Delivers Remarks at a Christmas Reception
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The White House

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CERN Scientists Solve Decades-Old Particle Physics Mystery Added: Dec 14, 2025
CERN Scientists Solve Decades-Old Particle Physics Mystery
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Researchers from TUM, working at CERN, have made a groundbreaking discovery that reveals how deuterons are formed. Another long-standing question in particle physics has been answered. Scientists working with the ALICE experiment at CERNâs Large Hadron Collider (LHC), led by researchers from the

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This Black-Spotted Pond Frog Can Attack And Snack On Giant âMurder Hornetsâ Without Being Harmed | IFLScience
Added: Dec 14, 2025Watch The Worldâs Most Metal Frog Take Down A Giant âMurder Hornetâ
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Amphibious? Amphi-BADASS.
Giant hornets are typically not a force to be reckoned with. With size and a venomous sting capable of taking down a human on their side, thereâs a good reason why theyâre often called â murder hornets â. But now, new research has discovered an animal that snacks on these beasties like itâs no big deal â and even caught it on camera. The animal in question? A black-spotted pond frog ( Pelophylax nigromaculatus ). Previous work had already identified hornet remains in the stomach contents of this species, so it was already assumed they were likely capable of attacking and eating them. The question left unanswered was how; were these frogs just really good at avoiding getting stung, or did they have some sort of tolerance to it? âAlthough stomach-content studies had shown that pond frogs sometimes eat hornets, no experimental work had ever examined how this occurs,â said Kobe University ecologist Shinji Sugiura in a statement. Sugiura was about to change that. In the new study, he first placed individual pond frogs in a clear plastic cage, then presented them with a worker hornet of one of three species: the yellow hornet ( Vespa simillima ), the yellow vented hornet ( V. analis ), or the Asian giant hornet ( V. mandarinia ), the latter of which is the largest hornet species in the world. Capturing the interactions on camera, Sugiura found almost all of the frogs actively attacked the hornets, with a 93 percent snacking success rate for V. simillima, 87 percent for V. analis, and 79 percent for V. mandarinia. All the while, they were being stung; in one part of the footage, after a frog had successfully eaten a hornet, the stinger can be seen embedded in the frogâs mouth. And yet, the frogs studied came out of the ordeal seemingly unbothered and with a tasty snack in their belly. In other words, these unsuspecting pond frogs appear to be highly tolerant to the hornetâs sting. âWhile a mouse of similar size can die from a single sting, the frogs showed no noticeable harm even after being stung repeatedly. This extraordinary level of resistance to powerful venom makes the discovery both unique and exciting,â said Sugiura, who suggested that black-spotted pond frogs could become a model organism for investigating venom tolerance and pain resistance in vertebrates. Future work, he said, could examine âwhether pond frogs have physiological mechanisms such as physical barriers or proteins that block the pain and toxicity of hornet venom, or whether hornet toxins have simply not evolved to be effective in amphibians, which rarely attack hornet colonies.â The study is published in Ecosphere.

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'Spectacular' phenomenon emerges off the coast of San Francisco Added: Dec 14, 2025
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why is there a RAM shortage? - Google Search Added: Dec 14, 2025
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I tried AI music generators again and theyâre absurdly good now
Added: Dec 14, 2025I tried AI music generators again and theyâre absurdly good now
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Some AI songs actually slap now.

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Disney's New Movie Rivals Sydney Sweeney's 'Christy' as Top 2025 Flop Added: Dec 14, 2025
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Spam, deceptive practices, & scams policies - YouTube Help
Added: Dec 14, 2025Spam, deceptive practices, & scams policies - YouTube Help
The safety of our creators, viewers, and part
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It looks like USB-C, but this symbol changes everything
Added: Dec 14, 2025It looks like USB-C, but this symbol changes everything
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Watch out for lightning strikes.

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Jasmine Crockettâs Senate Run: Democrats Blame GOP for an Unelectable Candidate | National Review Added: Dec 14, 2025
Jasmine Crockettâs Senate Run: Democrats Blame GOP for an Unelectable Candidate | National Review

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SNL Draws Backlash Over Apparent AI-Generated Imagery - LateNighter
Added: Dec 14, 2025SNL Draws Backlash Over Apparent AI-Generated Imagery - LateNighter
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SNL has not confirmed the use of generative AI, but imagery used in two different segments of this week's show has drawn scrutiny for having visual hallmarks commonly associated with the technology

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Elon Musk Echoes Historian's Global View of Slavery's End / X Added: Dec 14, 2025
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What a Bodega Taught the Socialist | National Review Added: Dec 14, 2025
What a Bodega Taught the Socialist | National Review

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The Washington Post's AI Generated Podcasts Are Already an Error-Laden Disaster
Added: Dec 14, 2025The Washington Post's AI Generated Podcasts Are Already an Error-Laden Disaster
Site: Futurism
The Washington Post's egregiously error-ridden AI podcasts are causing a meltdown inside the newspaper's newsroom.

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Scientists finally sequence the vampire squid's huge genome, revealing secrets of the 'living fossil' | Live Science Added: Dec 14, 2025
Scientists finally sequence the vampire squid's huge genome, revealing secrets of the 'living fossil'
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The genetic link between squids and octopuses may just be found in the vampire squid genome.

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The new identity of a developer: What changes and what doesnât in the AI era - The GitHub Blog Added: Dec 14, 2025
The new identity of a developer: What changes and what doesnât in the AI era
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Discover how advanced AI users are redefining software development through delegation, verification, and a new era of AI-fluent engineering.

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Rob Reiner THROAT SLIT By Son Reports News | Tim Pool - YouTube Added: Dec 15, 2025
Rob Reiner THROAT SLIT By Son Reports News | Tim Pool
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Tragedy. Rob Reiner you are a legend and will always be remembered. RIP1Become A Memberhttp://youtube.com/timcastnews/joinThe Green Room - https://rumble.com...

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Tim Pool Debates Jamie Kennedy On Military Intervention, Peace Through Strength - YouTube Added: Dec 15, 2025
Tim Pool Debates Jamie Kennedy On Military Intervention, Peace Through Strength
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