Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023 - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023

A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”

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When Do Parties Lie? Misinformation and Radical-Right Populism Across 26 Countries

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Across 26 countries and using a database of 32M tweets, radical-right populist elites are the most likely to spread misinformation, finds @pettertornberg.bsky.social &
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Tracking the Takes and Trajectories of English-Language News Narratives across Trustworthy and Worrisome Websites

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Great in-depth examination of news media, bias, and information spread, by @hanshanley.bsky.social et al.
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Everyone knows your location How I tracked myself down using leaked location data in the in-app ads, and what I found along the way.

If something is free you are the product.

I know this is true but it is still quite scary how much data is gathered about you without your consent.

This is a great read timsh.org/tracking-mys...

A phone company developed an AI 'granny' to beat scammers at their own game The company behind the scam-baiting granny said the AI technology can keep scammers on the phone for 40 minutes at a time, keeping them away from real people.

The company behind the scam-baiting granny said the AI technology can keep scammers on the phone for 40 minutes at a time, keeping them away from real people.

Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens | Research - AI at Meta We introduce the Byte Latent Transformer (BLT), a new byte-level LLM architecture that, for the first time, matches tokenization-based LLM performance at...

ai.meta.com/research/pub... direct feed bytes to your LLM. Skipping the need for tokenizaton.

Embedding Files and Images in Go: Virtual Filesystems As Go developers, we often need to manage files and assets in our applications, such as static assets like configuration files, HTML…

Embedding Files and Images in Go: Virtual Filesystems with embed.FS: articles.wesionary.team/embedding-fi...

RaBitQ binary quantization 101 - Search Labs Understand the most critical components of RaBitQ binary quantization, how it works and its benefits. This guide also covers the math behind the quantization and examples.

Attended ElasticOn yesterday in Amsterdam. And learned about Better Binary Quantization (BBQ), which recently got implemented in Elastic and Lucene. Based of RaBitQ paper. Very interesting for everybody busy with vector search and RAG systems. www.elastic.co/search-labs/...