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• Batya Ungar-Sargon on X: "Now it can be said! The border was open. Ukraine's corrupt government embezzled hundreds of millions of our taxpayer dollars. Somali immigrants stole billions. This week, the massive abuse of the generosity of the American people was finally reported in liberal media:" / X Added: Dec 14, 2025

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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!

  Site: YouTube

  Try VERV todayhttps://verv.fm/Thanks to VERV for sponsoring this videoMy list of banned words + All my test promptshttps://delightfuldesign.eo.page/cct29Link...

  

• GitHub - Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image Added: Dec 14, 2025

  GitHub - Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image

  Site: GitHub

  Contribute to Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image development by creating an account on GitHub.

  

• Z Image | ComfyUI_examples Added: Dec 14, 2025

  Z Image

  Site: ComfyUI_examples

  Examples of ComfyUI workflows

• jayn7/Z-Image-Turbo-GGUF · Hugging Face Added: Dec 14, 2025

  jayn7/Z-Image-Turbo-GGUF · Hugging Face

  We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

  

• 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 — AI just killed it | VentureBeat Added: Dec 14, 2025

• 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)

  Site: YouTube

  Judea Pearl is The Chancellor’s Professor of computer science and statistics and director of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory at UCLA. He was the recipient ...

  

• 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)

  Site: YouTube

  This episode stems from an XSpaces session that I hosted on December 14, 2025: https://x.com/GadSaad/status/2000224950943207751?s=20_________________________...

  

• 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

  Site: YouTube

  On this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc discuss the Democrats’ acceptance of fraud and today’s immigran...

  

• 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 Democrats’ goal, given how much they’ve incentivized it — and how little they’ve done to stop it?

  

• Medicaid expansion cost $1 trillion, double estimate: study | New York Post Added: Dec 14, 2025

  Medicaid expansion cost $1 trillion, double the estimate — Harris would make it worse

  Site: New York Post

  New research found that Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion cost more than $1 trillion over the past 10 years — an unaffordable tab that will grow even faster under a Harris administration.

  

• David Shapiro ⏩ on X: ""It's not intelligent, it only seems intelligent" "It doesn't understand math, it only seems to understand math." "It doesn't solve problems, it only seems to solve problems." Bro needs a course on basic philosophy. No True Scotsman is being tortured to death." / X Added: Dec 14, 2025

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• David Shapiro ⏩ on X: "Regarding the “Energy Abundance” narrative: If you think the industrialists are going to give everyone abundant electricity and oil forever, you don’t understand corporate fiduciary duty to shareholders. If you think the energy tycoons are going to give everyone limitless cheap https://t.co/L3g0Okhv1x" / X Added: Dec 14, 2025

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• David Shapiro ⏩ on X: "Guys, we won. He took his ball and he went home. "LLMs won't lead to AGI" - premature declaration. But also, irrelevant as LLMs continue to improve dramatically. "Sam Altman can't be trusted and OpenAI would lose it's dominance" I mean so what? Sam Altman even told Congress https://t.co/0XHN8RknMf" / X Added: Dec 14, 2025

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• The Joy of Code in the Age of Vibe Engineering - DEV Community Added: Dec 14, 2025

  The Joy of Code in the Age of Vibe Engineering

  Site: DEV Community

  I’ve always liked programming because I could get the machine to bend to my will. Programming has a...

  

• 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 “metalinguistic” 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 “the animal that has language.” 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 don’t have reasoning abilities, they can’t. 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 “the correct explanations of language are complicated and cannot be learned just by marinating in big data.” AI models may be adept at using language, these researchers argued, but they’re not capable of analyzing language in a sophisticated way. That view was challenged in a recent paper by Gašper Beguš, a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley; Maksymilian Dąbkowski, 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 tests—including, 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 would—diagramming sentences, resolving multiple ambiguous meanings, and making use of complicated linguistic features such as recursion. This finding, Beguš said, “challenges our understanding of what AI can do.” This new work is both timely and “very important,” said Tom McCoy, a computational linguist at Yale University who was not involved with the research. “As society becomes more dependent on this technology, it’s increasingly important to understand where it can succeed and where it can fail.” 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 don’t already know the answers. These systems are typically trained on huge amounts of written information—not 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 they’ve been fed during training. To avoid this, Beguš 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 Chomsky’s 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 recursion—the ability to embed phrases within phrases. “The sky is blue” is a simple English sentence. “Jane said that the sky is blue” embeds the original sentence in a slightly more complex one. Importantly, this process of recursion can go on forever: “Maria wondered if Sam knew that Omar heard that Jane said that the sky is blue” is also a grammatically correct, if awkward, recursive sentence. Recursion has been called one of the defining characteristics of human language by Chomsky and others—and 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, there’s 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 middle—for instance, going from “the cat died” to “the cat the dog bit died.” Beguš’ test fed the language models 30 original sentences that featured tricky examples of recursion. For example: “The astronomy the ancients we revere studied was not separate from astrology.” Using a syntactic tree, one of the language models—OpenAI’s o1—was 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.

  Beguš, among others, didn’t anticipate that this study would come across an AI model with a higher-level “metalinguistic” capacity–“the ability not just to use a language but to think about language,” as he put it. That is one of the “attention-getting” 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. “Some people in linguistics have said that LLMs are not really doing language,” he said. “This looks like an invalidation of those claims.” What Do You Mean? McCoy was surprised by o1’s performance in general, particularly by its ability to recognize ambiguity, which is “famously a difficult thing for computational models of language to capture,” he said. Humans “have a lot of commonsense knowledge that enables us to rule out the ambiguity. But it’s difficult for computers to have that level of commonsense knowledge.” A sentence such as “Rowan fed his pet chicken” 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 phonology—the 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 “s” to a word that ends in a “g” creates a “z” sound, as in “dogs.” But an “s” added to a word ending in “t” sounds more like a standard “s,” as in “cats.” In the phonology task, the group made up 30 new mini-languages, as Beguš 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 ʃebre ði̤zṳ ga̤rbo̤nda̤ ʒi̤zṳðe̤jo

  They then asked the language models to analyze the phonological processes of each language. For this language, o1 correctly wrote that “a vowel becomes a breathy vowel when it is immediately preceded by a consonant that is both voiced and an obstruent”—a sound formed by restricting airflow, like the “t” in “top.” The languages were newly invented, so there’s no way that o1 could have been exposed to them during its training. “I was not expecting the results to be as strong or as impressive as they were,” Mortensen said. Uniquely Human or Not? How far can these language models go? Will they get better, without limit, simply by getting bigger—layering 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 didn’t know before. If improvement is just a matter of increasing both computational power and the training data, then Beguš thinks that language models will eventually surpass us in language skills. Mortensen said that current models are somewhat limited. “They’re trained to do something very specific: given a history of tokens [or words], to predict the next token,” he said. “They have some trouble generalizing by virtue of the way they’re trained.” But in view of recent progress, Mortensen said he doesn’t see why language models won’t eventually demonstrate an understanding of our language that’s better than our own. “It’s 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.” The new results show a steady “chipping away” at properties that had been regarded as the exclusive domain of human language, Beguš said. “It appears that we’re less unique than we previously thought we were.”

  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.

  

• 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 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂 And which pathetic one would that be ." / X Added: Dec 14, 2025

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• Jonathan Ingram 🇺🇸 on X: "From Somali scams to phantom patients, Democrats keep defrauding us. And the past few weeks have shown just how much it costs Americans. https://t.co/EiYnBkPX7o" / 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, 2025

  DNA From Beethoven's Hair Reveals a Surprise 200 Years Later

  Site: ScienceAlert

  On a stormy Monday in March, 1827, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven passed away after a protracted illness.

  

• Huge Study Finds Very Worrying Results for Medical Marijuana Patients Added: Dec 14, 2025

  Huge 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.

  

• 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

  Site: New York Post

  High hopes for medical cannabis are going up in smoke.

  

• Sharon Adarlo 👽 on X: "I just wrote a @futurism piece on the surprising health benefits of castration and had to name check @bryan_johnson who hopefully takes this all in good fun. https://t.co/WN6DC3WjbR" / X Added: Dec 14, 2025

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• Scientists Discover Strong Upside for Men Getting Castrated Added: Dec 14, 2025

  Scientists Discover Strong Upside for Men Getting Castrated

  Site: Futurism

  Men get castrated tend to live longer than their uncut peers, which is also seen in the rest of the mammalian world, scientists said.

  

• Geoffrey Miller Challenges AI Abundance Promises / X Added: Dec 14, 2025

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• Geoffrey Miller on X: "Regarding the 'AI Abundance' narrative: If you think the AI industry is going to give everyone limitless stuff forever, you don't understand corporate fiduciary duty to shareholders. If the you think the AI billionaires are going to give everyone limitless free stuff forever, https://t.co/dclkSG9hXZ" / 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

  Site: Psychology Today

  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.

  

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

  President Trump Delivers Remarks at a Christmas Reception

  Site: YouTube

  The White House

  

• CERN Scientists Solve Decades-Old Particle Physics Mystery Added: Dec 14, 2025

  CERN Scientists Solve Decades-Old Particle Physics Mystery

  Site: SciTechDaily

  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 CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), led by researchers from the

  

• This Black-Spotted Pond Frog Can Attack And Snack On Giant “Murder Hornets” Without Being Harmed | IFLScience Added: Dec 14, 2025

  Watch The World’s Most Metal Frog Take Down A Giant “Murder Hornet”

  Site: IFLScience

  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, there’s a good reason why they’re often called “ murder hornets ”. But now, new research has discovered an animal that snacks on these beasties like it’s no big deal – 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? “Although stomach-content studies had shown that pond frogs sometimes eat hornets, no experimental work had ever examined how this occurs,” 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 frog’s 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 hornet’s sting. “While 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,” 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 “whether 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.” The study is published in Ecosphere.

  

• 'Spectacular' phenomenon emerges off the coast of San Francisco Added: Dec 14, 2025

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• I tried AI music generators again and they’re absurdly good now Added: Dec 14, 2025

  I tried AI music generators again and they’re absurdly good now

  Site: MUO

  Some AI songs actually slap now.

  

• Disney's New Movie Rivals Sydney Sweeney's 'Christy' as Top 2025 Flop Added: Dec 14, 2025

• Spam, deceptive practices, & scams policies - YouTube Help Added: Dec 14, 2025

  Spam, deceptive practices, & scams policies - YouTube Help

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• It looks like USB-C, but this symbol changes everything Added: Dec 14, 2025

  It looks like USB-C, but this symbol changes everything

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  Watch out for lightning strikes.

  

• Jasmine Crockett’s Senate Run: Democrats Blame GOP for an Unelectable Candidate | National Review Added: Dec 14, 2025

  Jasmine Crockett’s Senate Run: Democrats Blame GOP for an Unelectable Candidate | National Review

  

• SNL Draws Backlash Over Apparent AI-Generated Imagery - LateNighter Added: Dec 14, 2025

  SNL Draws Backlash Over Apparent AI-Generated Imagery - LateNighter

  Site: LateNighter

  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

  

• Elon Musk on X: "The Sun is an enormous, free fusion reactor in the sky. It is super dumb to make tiny fusion reactors on Earth. Even if you burned 4 Jupiters, the Sun would still round up to 100% of all power that will ever be produced in the solar system!! Stop wasting money on puny little" / X Added: Dec 14, 2025

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• Brett Pike on X: "The public school system is designed to indoctrinate children into: -CRT (Critical Race Theory) -Gender ideology -Climate ideology -Feminism, & -Atheism & everyday more parents realize that if you want to protect your child from the woke mind virus you have to start young. https://t.co/U6w2AtWNfz" / X Added: Dec 14, 2025

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• Elon Musk Echoes Historian's Global View of Slavery's End / X Added: Dec 14, 2025

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• Wilfred Reilly on X: "It is objectively true that slavery existed in all societies for almost all of history, and was ended globally by a European-led movement between 1808-2007." / 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

  

• The Washington Post's AI Generated Podcasts Are Already an Error-Laden Disaster Added: Dec 14, 2025

  The 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.

  

• 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'

  Site: Live Science

  The genetic link between squids and octopuses may just be found in the vampire squid genome.

  

• The new identity of a developer: What changes and what doesn’t in the AI era - The GitHub Blog Added: Dec 14, 2025

  The new identity of a developer: What changes and what doesn’t in the AI era

  Site: The GitHub Blog

  Discover how advanced AI users are redefining software development through delegation, verification, and a new era of AI-fluent engineering.

  

• 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...

  

• 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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