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  1. Last 7 days
    1. in making one’s defense, and cross-examine when no one answers.

      Those who maliciously [d] and slanderously persuaded you—who also, when persuaded themselves then persuaded others—all those are most difficult to deal with: one cannot bring one of them into court or refute him; one must simply fight with shadows, as it were,

      Synopsis: Rumor is a difficult thing to fight

    1. 据爆料,Google内部不止跑着这一个模型。在同一批标签下,还赫然挂着从00到09编号的10个专属训练槽位。

      这一数据点需要独立验证,因为它是整个报道的核心证据之一。如果属实,将证实Google确实在RSI方向上进行了大规模投入,并拥有完整的训练体系。这些训练槽位的规模、用途和实际产出都需要进一步核实。

  2. Jul 2026
    1. I also thought about longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Those of us of a certain age know the rumors about his cross-dressing, which have been repeated as fact in pop culture for the last 50 years.That rumor originates from a single, widely discredited 1993 biography and remains completely unsubstantiated by mainstream historians.
  3. Aug 2024
    1. the latest trend in investment to fight online rumors, which is far too focused on technological fixes for what is fundamentally a human problem.

      Often, because misinformation is spread using technological means, we focus on using technology to dampen the spread of rumors. The root of the problem is really a human one, however, so it may help significantly to focus efforts on that locus.

      Link to Swift quote about lies and truth: https://hypothes.is/a/Ys0x_m65Ee6GOPtD0OROJw

  4. Jul 2021
  5. Oct 2017
    1. Según ha podido saber El Confidencial Digital, de fuentes de la cúpula económica del Gobierno, con esta “línea de crédito extraordinaria” Moncloa va a tratar de hacer frente a uno de los mayores problemas económicos que debe resolver el país el ejercicio que viene.El préstamo, que se calcula que rondará los 10.000 millones de euros, vendrá recogido en las cuentas públicas para 2018. Unas cifras que el Gobierno aprobará en el Consejo de Ministros de mañana, viernes.

      De momento es un rumor