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1).
โFrench farmers sprayed manure on government offices and set up roadblocks in protest against a mass cull of cows.
โFrench farmers sprayed manure on government offices and set up roadblocks in protest against a mass cull of cows.
2).
In the towns of Millau, Pรฉrigueux and Bergerac, farmers sprayed liquid manure on local government buildings as tractors and trucks dumped bales of hay, tyres, and garbage in front of them.โ
Dec. 14, 2025
In the towns of Millau, Pรฉrigueux and Bergerac, farmers sprayed liquid manure on local government buildings as tractors and trucks dumped bales of hay, tyres, and garbage in front of them.โ
Dec. 14, 2025
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@bfmbusiness bfmtv.com/economie/entreโฆ
@LeHuffPost (@AFP) huffingtonpost.fr/france/articleโฆ
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@bfmbusiness bfmtv.com/economie/entreโฆ
@LeHuffPost (@AFP) huffingtonpost.fr/france/articleโฆ
We say people were โtreated like cattleโ to describe injustice. Strange how we recognise that as bad for humans, but not when itโs literally done to animals.
Being โherdedโ isnโt the issue. Humans queue willingly all the time. The problem is coercion, fear, disrespectโand being forced somewhere for someone elseโs ends.
Thatโs exactly what happens to farmed animals. Theyโre not guided for their benefit, but forced into trucks and slaughterhouses. If itโs wrong for us, why is it โhumaneโ for them?
1).
โAustralian police said on Tuesday both men [Sajid Akram, 50 and Naveed Akram, 24] had travelled to the Philippines last month and the purpose of the trip is under investigation.
โAustralian police said on Tuesday both men [Sajid Akram, 50 and Naveed Akram, 24] had travelled to the Philippines last month and the purpose of the trip is under investigation.
2).
Philippine immigration officials said both men travelled to Manila and onward to Davao in the south of the country on November 1 and left on November 28, just weeks before the Bondi shooting.
Philippine immigration officials said both men travelled to Manila and onward to Davao in the south of the country on November 1 and left on November 28, just weeks before the Bondi shooting.
3).
The father travelled on an Indian passport, while the son was on an Australian passport, officials said, adding it was not conclusive they were linked to any terrorist group or whether they received training in the country.
The father travelled on an Indian passport, while the son was on an Australian passport, officials said, adding it was not conclusive they were linked to any terrorist group or whether they received training in the country.
Letโs celebrate Vijay Diwas ๐ฎ๐ณ
A tribute to the Indian Armed Forces and the victory of 1971.
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#VijayDivas
#VijayDiwas2025
A tribute to the Indian Armed Forces and the victory of 1971.
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#VijayDivas
#VijayDiwas2025
India entered the 1971 war with clear objectives:
To destroy Pakistanโs Eastern Command, prevent reinforcements from the West, and end the war decisively through speed and joint warfare.
To destroy Pakistanโs Eastern Command, prevent reinforcements from the West, and end the war decisively through speed and joint warfare.
The war formally began on 3 December 1971, when Pakistan launched pre emptive strikes against India. India responded across land, air and sea.
1).
โArsen Ostrovskyโs wife and two young daughters were getting ready for the lighting of Hanukkah candles at Sydneyโs scenic Bondi Beach on Sun evening when Ostrovsky wandered off to get some food from a nearby stall.
Then, at around 6:40 p.m., shots rang out.
โArsen Ostrovskyโs wife and two young daughters were getting ready for the lighting of Hanukkah candles at Sydneyโs scenic Bondi Beach on Sun evening when Ostrovsky wandered off to get some food from a nearby stall.
Then, at around 6:40 p.m., shots rang out.
2).
@Ostrov_A immediately turned back to rush to his family. But ยปthere was such chaosยซ, he said, with bodies falling everywhere in a hail of bullets. He got hit, and went down, too.
@Ostrov_A immediately turned back to rush to his family. But ยปthere was such chaosยซ, he said, with bodies falling everywhere in a hail of bullets. He got hit, and went down, too.
3).
Wounded, Ostrovsky desperately tried calling his wife to check on her and their two daughters, ages 4 and 8, but was unable to get through. For the next 15 minutes, he was unsure of their fates.โ
Dec. 15, 2025
@WSJ archive.ph/EnuRZ
Wounded, Ostrovsky desperately tried calling his wife to check on her and their two daughters, ages 4 and 8, but was unable to get through. For the next 15 minutes, he was unsure of their fates.โ
Dec. 15, 2025
@WSJ archive.ph/EnuRZ
1).
โAn asylum seeker intervened in the Bondi Beach terror attack but was shot at by police and attacked by members of the public.
โAn asylum seeker intervened in the Bondi Beach terror attack but was shot at by police and attacked by members of the public.
2).
New video footage from the scene shows the man climbing the stairs to the bridge where the two gunmen lay injured after being shot by police marksmen.
New video footage from the scene shows the man climbing the stairs to the bridge where the two gunmen lay injured after being shot by police marksmen.
3).
The member of the public is seen kicking a weapon away from the terrorists โ but police continue firing at the bridge, causing the man to duck for cover.
The member of the public is seen kicking a weapon away from the terrorists โ but police continue firing at the bridge, causing the man to duck for cover.
1).
โShooter Naveed Akram has woken from a coma.
Mr Akram was hospitalised on Sunday night after being shot by police. His father, Sajid, was shot dead by an officer during the attack in which 15 innocent people died at Bondi Beach.
โShooter Naveed Akram has woken from a coma.
Mr Akram was hospitalised on Sunday night after being shot by police. His father, Sajid, was shot dead by an officer during the attack in which 15 innocent people died at Bondi Beach.
2).
The 24-year-old has now regained consciousness, a source has confirmed. @nswpolice Commissioner Mal Lanyon on Monday indicated Mr Akram would be charged once he woke up.โ
Dec. 16, 2025
@australian archive.ph/pQaFY
The 24-year-old has now regained consciousness, a source has confirmed. @nswpolice Commissioner Mal Lanyon on Monday indicated Mr Akram would be charged once he woke up.โ
Dec. 16, 2025
@australian archive.ph/pQaFY
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Everyone "knows" that AI doesn't actually understand language rulesโit just predicts the next word like a glorified autocomplete.
I'm about to ruin that "fact" for you.
New research suggests OpenAI's o1 isn't just speaking language anymore. It's analyzing it like a human linguist. ๐งต๐
1/
First, let's define the battlefield.
There is a huge debate in cognitive science: Is AI a "stochastic parrot" (mimicking patterns without understanding) or is it developing a genuine internal model of the world?
2/
To find out, researchers Beguลก, Dฤ bkowski, and Rhodes designed a trap.
They didn't want to test if the AI could use language (we know it can). They wanted to test "metalinguistic ability."
Can the AI step back and explain the mathematical structure holding a sentence together?
3/
But here's the catch.
If you ask GPT-4 to analyze a famous sentence, it might just copy an answer it saw on Wikipedia during training. That's cheating.
So, the researchers created entirely new languages.
4/
They invented "toy" languages with made-up words and hidden sound rules (phonology).
They fed the AI strings of gibberish like:
"k u r x"
"a b G a"
(spaced to avoid token bias)
And asked: "What is the rule governing these sounds?"
This is a logic puzzle, not a writing prompt.
5/
They pitted four models against each other:
โข GPT-3.5
โข GPT-4
โข Llama 3.1
โข OpenAI o1
The results for the first three were... embarrassing.
GPT-4 and Llama 3.1 hallucinated rules. They failed to see the patterns. They scored below 14%.
6/
And then, there was o1.
o1 didn't just guess. It crushed the test.
It correctly identified complex, "unnatural" sound rules in 63% of the casesโpatterns that never appear in natural language.
That's not memorization. That's rule extraction.
7/
Why the massive gap?
The researchers speculate it's the Chain-of-Thought (CoT) mechanism.
Previous models try to solve the problem in one breath. o1 "thinks" iteratively. It breaks the puzzle down, tests a hypothesis, and refines it.
Just like a human scientist.
8/
This is the "Aha!" moment.
Critics have long argued that LLMs can't do "iterative reasoning." They said re-prompting doesn't help.
This paper strongly challenges that assumption. When the architecture allows for "thinking time," metalinguistic ability emerges.
9/
Let's look at a specific example from the paper.
Sentence: "Eliza wanted her cast out."
Is "cast" a noun (plaster cast) or a verb (throw her out)?
o1 didn't just say "it's ambiguous." It wrote the code to draw both syntactic trees.
For a computer trained on Reddit, that's not mimicry. That's logic.
10/
So, what does this mean for you?
Stop treating all LLMs the same.
For creative writing? GPT-4 and Claude are great.
For this kind of deep structural reasoning? o1-class models are a new species.
11/
The "Stochastic Parrot" argument is dying.
Parrots mimic sounds. They don't decipher the grammatical rules of a language they just met 5 seconds ago.
We are witnessing the emergence of synthetic reasoning.
12/
If you want to dive deeper, the paper is "Large Linguistic Models: Investigating LLMs' Metalinguistic Abilities."
It's a dense read, but it fundamentally changed how I view the "intelligence" in Artificial Intelligence.
I translate cutting-edge AI research into threads that don't require a PhD.
If this rewired your brain:
Subscribe to me for more deep dives
RT the first tweet to share the knowledge
Drop your take below: Are o1/o3 reasoning models thinking, or just faking it really well? ๐
I'm about to ruin that "fact" for you.
New research suggests OpenAI's o1 isn't just speaking language anymore. It's analyzing it like a human linguist. ๐งต๐
1/
First, let's define the battlefield.
There is a huge debate in cognitive science: Is AI a "stochastic parrot" (mimicking patterns without understanding) or is it developing a genuine internal model of the world?
2/
To find out, researchers Beguลก, Dฤ bkowski, and Rhodes designed a trap.
They didn't want to test if the AI could use language (we know it can). They wanted to test "metalinguistic ability."
Can the AI step back and explain the mathematical structure holding a sentence together?
3/
But here's the catch.
If you ask GPT-4 to analyze a famous sentence, it might just copy an answer it saw on Wikipedia during training. That's cheating.
So, the researchers created entirely new languages.
4/
They invented "toy" languages with made-up words and hidden sound rules (phonology).
They fed the AI strings of gibberish like:
"k u r x"
"a b G a"
(spaced to avoid token bias)
And asked: "What is the rule governing these sounds?"
This is a logic puzzle, not a writing prompt.
5/
They pitted four models against each other:
โข GPT-3.5
โข GPT-4
โข Llama 3.1
โข OpenAI o1
The results for the first three were... embarrassing.
GPT-4 and Llama 3.1 hallucinated rules. They failed to see the patterns. They scored below 14%.
6/
And then, there was o1.
o1 didn't just guess. It crushed the test.
It correctly identified complex, "unnatural" sound rules in 63% of the casesโpatterns that never appear in natural language.
That's not memorization. That's rule extraction.
7/
Why the massive gap?
The researchers speculate it's the Chain-of-Thought (CoT) mechanism.
Previous models try to solve the problem in one breath. o1 "thinks" iteratively. It breaks the puzzle down, tests a hypothesis, and refines it.
Just like a human scientist.
8/
This is the "Aha!" moment.
Critics have long argued that LLMs can't do "iterative reasoning." They said re-prompting doesn't help.
This paper strongly challenges that assumption. When the architecture allows for "thinking time," metalinguistic ability emerges.
9/
Let's look at a specific example from the paper.
Sentence: "Eliza wanted her cast out."
Is "cast" a noun (plaster cast) or a verb (throw her out)?
o1 didn't just say "it's ambiguous." It wrote the code to draw both syntactic trees.
For a computer trained on Reddit, that's not mimicry. That's logic.
10/
So, what does this mean for you?
Stop treating all LLMs the same.
For creative writing? GPT-4 and Claude are great.
For this kind of deep structural reasoning? o1-class models are a new species.
11/
The "Stochastic Parrot" argument is dying.
Parrots mimic sounds. They don't decipher the grammatical rules of a language they just met 5 seconds ago.
We are witnessing the emergence of synthetic reasoning.
12/
If you want to dive deeper, the paper is "Large Linguistic Models: Investigating LLMs' Metalinguistic Abilities."
It's a dense read, but it fundamentally changed how I view the "intelligence" in Artificial Intelligence.
I translate cutting-edge AI research into threads that don't require a PhD.
If this rewired your brain:
Subscribe to me for more deep dives
RT the first tweet to share the knowledge
Drop your take below: Are o1/o3 reasoning models thinking, or just faking it really well? ๐
Seems that if we probe enough, we discover that these systems are building their own world models.
Related also to the notion that architecture should mirror solution structure:
Mega Thread: I Have Art on My Feed
A personal Twitter diary of art in web3.
Around 1,500 artworks shared so far and many more to come.
Nearly 200 days already, and every new day will be added to this single thread.
Just for the love of it. Thank you for your great art. โค๏ธ
๐งต๐
A personal Twitter diary of art in web3.
Around 1,500 artworks shared so far and many more to come.
Nearly 200 days already, and every new day will be added to this single thread.
Just for the love of it. Thank you for your great art. โค๏ธ
๐งต๐
Day 1
Day2
@michaeldweiss 1).
โIn the following years, as Russia became more and more of a neuralgic subject in American politics, Samuel Charap [1] [2] [3] continued to travel to Russia, engage with Russian counterparts, and look for ways to lower the temperature of the relationship.
โIn the following years, as Russia became more and more of a neuralgic subject in American politics, Samuel Charap [1] [2] [3] continued to travel to Russia, engage with Russian counterparts, and look for ways to lower the temperature of the relationship.
@michaeldweiss 2).
Going to Valdaiโthe annual conference where Vladimir Pootin pretends to be a wise tsar interested in discoursing with professors on international politicsโhad become somewhat controversial.
Going to Valdaiโthe annual conference where Vladimir Pootin pretends to be a wise tsar interested in discoursing with professors on international politicsโhad become somewhat controversial.
@michaeldweiss 3).
But, before the war began, went to the conference whenever he could, and several times even asked Pootin a question.
โ ยปItโs my job to understand these people, and I was given firsthand access to themยซ โ he said.
But, before the war began, went to the conference whenever he could, and several times even asked Pootin a question.
โ ยปItโs my job to understand these people, and I was given firsthand access to themยซ โ he said.
A @Planet satellite image of Novorossiysk taken today shows the aftermath of the Ukrainian underwater drone attack on a Russian Kilo-class submarine. Still hard to conduct a precise BDA, but at least we can see that the explosion occurred approximately 20 m from the vessel.
A still, high-resolution @Planet satellite image of the port of Novorossiysk showing damage from a Ukrainian submersible drone, taken today, Dec. 16, at 8:18 a.m. local time.
@planet Interestingly, back in 2021, Russia used this exact pier to place specially trained dolphins, which were later moved to Sevastopol. Good for them! (Although these dolphins are trained specifically to prevent attacks like the ones carried out by Ukraine.)
