🔗 AI is Racist, Again
LOS ANGELES (June 30, 2025) – A new study led by Cedars-Sinai found a pattern of racial bias in treatment recommendations generated by leading artificial intelligence (AI) platforms for psychiatric patients. The findings highlight the need for oversight to prevent powerful AI applications from perpetuating inequality in healthcare.
This is not a new thing, and it will keep happening because of the lack of diversity of the people creating the technology. Years of stories like this about facial recognition and other AI products have changed nothing.
🔗 Crypto. Crime and Russia
Russia recruited a teenage spy. His arrest led to a crypto money trail
At a time when Europe is in a heightened state of alarm over what security agencies across the continent call Russia’s “hybrid war” of sabotage and espionage, Reuters found an emerging trend: Moscow is increasingly recruiting teenagers and complete novices.
This is a very good read on one case, but I am still struck by something else. People make money betting on Bitcoin, but the only mainstream use of Bitcoin is crime.
🔗 This from Gessen is Must Read
Opinion | The Story of Antisemitism Needs to Be Rewritten, Starting in New York - The New York Times
New York City is home to the largest number of Jews outside of Israel. But for all the noise mayoral candidates and their supporters have made about antisemitism, Mamdani is the only one I have heard so movingly acknowledge the emotional toll that the real and imagined threats of antisemitism have been taking on Jewish New Yorkers. I wonder how many people can hear him through all the din.
When Masha Gessen speaks or writes, I listen. You should too.
🔗 This is Your Brain on ChatGPT
Is ChatGPT Rotting Our Brains? New Study Suggests It Does
“As demonstrated over the course of 4 months, the LLM group’s participants performed worse than their counterparts in the Brain-only group at all levels: neural, linguistic, scoring,” the team said. “The LLM group also fell behind in their ability to quote from the essays they wrote just minutes prior.”
There is a link to the study in the link shared above
Stark Warning About NWS cuts
The chief meteorologist for NBC6 in Miami went on the air to tell the viewers what the current cuts to NOAA and the National Weather Service from the Trump administration mean. It’s important for people with megaphones to explain to people what is happening and how it will impact them.
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
— John Morales (@johnmoralestv.bsky.social) 2025-06-03T00:45:03.121Z
🔗 No, NYC is not the Hellscape Fox Portrays
NYC sees fewest reported murders, shootings in modern history to start year: mayor
New York City has recorded the lowest number of murders and shootings in modern history through the first five months of the year, Mayor Eric Adams announced Sunday.
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Yes, there was an uptick around COVID from the historic lows. No, it never became the unsafe place that the right wing portrayed. I know they say “never read the comments”, but if you see them It will make you depressed that these people live amongst us.