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13·5 days ago“I want everybody to stop dying. They’re dying. Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’ll have that done"
“I’ll have that done in 24 hours. I’ll have it done. You need the power of the presidency to do it”
532·5 days agoFor the first experiment with 354 participants, one group was tasked with solving 15 basic fraction problems without help, while another had ChatGPT open on the side to use for assistance and to even ask for the answer. The group with AI access started off more accurate than the group without it. Then, after 12 problems, researchers took away the AI tool. Almost immediately, the people in that group stopped solving questions accurately.
A similar thing happened when they ran the experiment on a second, larger group of 667 participants. Whereas the AI users got answers wrong or gave up entirely when the AI assistance was withdrawn, the group without AI stuck with the task and were more successful at the end.
Researchers then ran a third experiment with 201 participants and an SAT reading comprehension prompt. The results echoed those from the fraction problems: When the AI tool was removed, persistence and accuracy dropped.
The perverted orange ancestor did not get his medal…
1·7 days agoI really hope that…
It pains me to say this, but we are in the midst of a revolution…
Every time I think he’s reached the limit of his stupidity, he manages to top it. Amazing
US tells European allies to ‘immediately’ act to lower diesel prices
Milwaukee (AFP) – The United States on Thursday told its European allies to help lower global diesel prices by releasing strategic reserves “immediately,” with EU member states due to discuss the crisis on Friday.
“Our European partners should accelerate delivery on their existing commitments and make additional supplies immediately available to address ongoing disruptions,” US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a post on social media.
Istanbul (AFP) – An Istanbul court convicted a popular Turkish comedian on Monday of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and another offence but ordered his interim release pending appeal, an AFP reporter in the courtroom said.
Iran proposes Hormuz plan, Trump reportedly refuses
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – Iran offered a plan to reopen the strategic Strait of Hormuz, Tehran said Friday, but within hours reports indicated that US President Donald Trump rejected the proposal.
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However, with hours of his comments The Wall Street Journal reported Trump had rejected the proposal, citing US officials familiar with the matter.
The report noted that the 80-year-old president was skeptical Tehran would meet his demands and added he sees a renewed bombing campaign as likely.
Trump also posted an image to his Truth Social platform of a map showing the Strait of Hormuz circled and labelled “Trump Strait.”
Earlier media reports suggested the new plan calls for a cessation of all hostilities in the Middle East for seven days, including in Lebanon.
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https://www.rfi.fr/en/middle-east/20260926-iran-proposes-hormuz-plan-trump-reportedly-refuses
1·21 days ago😂
2·26 days ago100 Boings ajoutés !
Bodies of Philippines ferry fire victims brought ashore as toll hits 35
Coron (Philippines) (AFP) – Philippine disaster agency workers carried coffins to a cemetery in the resort town of Coron on Saturday, intended for the temporary burial of victims of a ferry fire that has killed dozens of people.
AFP watched as the bodies arrived by sea to begin the painstaking process of identification by forensic specialists, days after a fire tore through the M/V June Aster “in seconds”, according to the coast guard.
The confirmed death toll is 35 people, counting 30 bodies included in the initial transfer from the wrecked ferry and five others recovered earlier, but officials have said more bodies remain aboard the vessel.
A local official told AFP that teams in Coron, Palawan had dug 70 graves on the instruction of disaster officials.
The one-metre (three-feet) deep graves are intended to hold the victims’ remains until DNA testing is completed, Kristine Ablana, a tourism official serving as an official spokesperson, told reporters on Saturday.
Relatives will first be brought into a room to identify personal items that may have belonged to family members.
“Once someone is able to verify… that this photo or these belongings are indeed those of their relative, they will be asked to provide a DNA sample,” Ablana said.
Authorities have not said exactly how many bodies remain aboard the stricken vessel, which sits grounded about 7.5 kilometres (4.5 miles) off the coast.
“The team has already went inside again to check… they have found (additional bodies). But we are still looking at them one by one,” coast guard Commodore Geronimo Tuvilla told reporters.
“As of now, our objective is the respectful recovery of the remains.”
Coast guard spokeswoman Noemie Cayabyab told AFP on Friday that the initial transfer had been capped at 30 bodies due to the capacity of the patrol vessel transporting them.
Five others had been confirmed dead in the immediate wake of the fire.
Thirty passengers, including two Chilean nationals, and 13 crew have been rescued, while about 50 people remain unaccounted for, according to the coast guard.
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DR Congo school fire stampede death toll rises to 26: UNICEF
Kinshasa (AFP) – A fire and stampede at a school in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo killed at least 26 children, the UN children’s agency said on Friday, with some pupils leaping from windows on high floors to escape the carnage.
The blaze in the city of Bukavu on Thursday began around 9:00 am (0700 GMT) while the children were in lessons, forcing some to try to escape by jumping from higher floors, a teacher told AFP.
“In the middle of class, I suddenly heard students screaming, some were jumping from the upper floors, and others were running away through the doors,” Simon Kasamira, a teacher at Ujamaa primary school, told AFP at a clinic where he had been admitted.
“Parents came from all over looking for their children. That’s when I saw a huge fire engulfing our school built of wooden planks,” he said.
Smoke rose from the site of the fire as locals picked through the wreckage, an AFP correspondent saw.
The fire sparked a stampede as the children struggled to escape, with students “trampled” after falling down, inspectors from the Congolese education ministry said in a report on Friday.
Those trapped inside suffered from “asphyxiation”, it said.
“Fires broke out simultaneously at three different locations about 500 metres (yards) apart,” the report added.
UNICEF said the disaster injured 25 children.
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2·2 months agoHorrible
Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil activists found guilty of inciting subversion
Hong Kong (AFP) – A Hong Kong court found on Friday two activists, who organised annual vigils marking China’s deadly Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, guilty of “incitement to subversion”.
Lee Cheuk-yan, 69, and Chow Hang-tung, 41, “incited other persons to organise, plan, commit or participate in acts by unlawful means with a view to subverting the state power”, a press summary handed out to reporters said.
A three-judge panel said they found both defendants had committed acts that constituted “overthrowing or undermining the basic system… established by the Constitution” of China.
They face a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail, with sentencing expected at a later date.
Lee and Chow were charged with subversion crimes in 2021 and have been behind bars since, under a Beijing-imposed national security law.
On Friday, they sat silently in the dock as the judges returned their verdict.
Hong Kong and Macau used to be the only places on Chinese soil that permitted public vigils to mourn those who died on June 4, 1989, when Beijing sent troops and tanks to crush protests calling for political reform in and around the capital’s Tiananmen Square.
The defendants were leaders of the now-defunct Hong Kong Alliance, the group that organised annual vigils in the city’s Victoria Park.
But public commemoration has been effectively banned since Beijing imposed a national security law on Hong Kong in 2020, following huge and sometimes violent pro-democracy protests the year before.
Prosecutors said the two leaders’ remarks over the years were not merely expressions of personal opinion, “but were intended to incite others to commit unlawful acts”.
They accused Lee and Chow in previous hearings of “endangering national security in the name of human rights”, adding that freedom of speech and association are “not absolute rights”.
A third defendant, 74-year-old former lawmaker Albert Ho, pleaded guilty in January. A guilty plea typically results in a reduced sentence.
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Kyiv said it was “in close contact with the Bulgarian side to clarify the circumstances” of the incident, the latest case of a drone straying into NATO airspace as Ukraine fights off Russia’s invasion.
“We can say with certainty that the Ukrainian Armed Forces did not intentionally direct any assets toward Bulgaria,” Ukraine’s foreign ministry spokesman Georgiy Tykhyi said, blaming Russia’s invasion for the incident.
Total alienation