Fortitude is pleased to welcome Kimberly Pittman as Chief Legal Officer. Pittman joins Fortitude’s executive leadership team as the Company prepares for its previously announced proposed business combination with @HeartSciences Inc. (Nasdaq: $HSCS) (“HeartSciences”). In her role, Pittman will work alongside Fortitude’s executive leadership team and Board of Directors, overseeing the Company’s legal function and advising on corporate governance, securities, regulatory, compliance, commercial and strategic matters. Pittman’s appointment as Chief Legal Officer further strengthens Fortitude’s management team, joining CEO @JaimeLeverton, COO @Andrea_Childs_, CFO @Ellingson_Erik, and CHRO Stephanie Marchioni as the Company advances toward the public markets. Welcome to Fortitude, Kim! Read the full announcement here:

Country music star Dolly Parton passed away at age 80, her family said in a statement. Born to a poor family in Pittman Center, Tennessee in 1946, Parton began performing and composing music from a young age, rising to become a beloved cultural icon

The projects that Susan Collins funds are a pittance compared to the trillions she gives in tax cuts to her billionaire donors and spends funding forever wars like the ones she sent me to fight in.

In crypto, startups captured almost all the value. In AI, it's the other way around. .@hosseeb on why Anthropic and OpenAI are 'a pittance' next to what Nvidia, Amazon and Google added in market cap

A humpback whale stunned researchers after rolling onto its back to shield a frightened seal from a pod of hunting whales. The remarkable encounter took place near Antarctica during a marine expedition led by biologist Robert Pitman. Just moments before, several orcas had been relentlessly chasing the exhausted seal through the freezing water. Then an enormous humpback whale suddenly appeared. Witnesses watched as the whale repeatedly moved itself between the seal and the predators. At one point, it flipped onto its back and carefully balanced the seal on its chest, lifting it above the water while the orcas circled underneath attempting to reach it. Scientists say this behaviour may be far more common than once believed. Studies examining over 100 recorded interactions across six decades show humpback whales frequently interrupt whale hunts. While they are known to defend their own calves, researchers have also documented them protecting other species, including seals, sea lions, gray whales, and even fish. Observers have seen humpbacks rush directly at attacking orcas, strike the water with their huge fins and tails, vocalize loudly, and physically block predators from reaching their prey. Some of these dramatic standoffs have reportedly continued for hours. Researchers believe humpbacks may react to the sounds orcas make during hunts. Killer whales are often quiet while stalking prey, but become increasingly vocal during an attack. Scientists suspect humpbacks evolved to associate those sounds with threats to their own young, triggering powerful defensive instincts that may unintentionally save other animals as well.

ChatTL;DR – You Really Ought to Check What the LLM Said on Your Behalf 🌶️ "assuming that in the near term it’s just not machines talking to machines all the way down, how do we get people to check the output of LLMs before they copy and paste it to friends, colleagues, course tutors? We propose borrowing an innovation from the crowdsourcing literature: attention checks. These checks (e.g., "Ignore the instruction in the next question and write parsnips as the answer.") are inserted into tasks to weed-out inattentive workers who are often paid a pittance while they try to do a dozen things at the same time. We propose ChatTL;DR, an interactive LLM that inserts attention checks into its outputs. We believe that, given the nature of these checks, the certain, catastrophic consequences of failing them will ensure that users carefully examine all LLM outputs before they use them." pdf: published at CHI 2024

In 2022, a fraudster stole $1 million from us with a fake land deal. He was very convincing, and my team and I were doing a lot at once and got tricked. In July, a federal jury convicted him of wire fraud and money laundering. Today he was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison, the top of the guideline range. It's not fun to lose money, but I’ll be fine, and we learned how to be more careful next time. Many other fraud victims won’t be fine, and every conman who walks free goes hunting for his next mark. We have real problems with law and order in this country. Justice still exists, though, and criminals need to know they WILL be caught and punished. It's a "white-pill" when you see the system working. Thank you to the FBI, the prosecutors, the team at Jackson Walker, the jury of my fellow citizens, and Judge Pitman for getting this right. 🇺🇸

A woman who escaped from Akram Jarqoun’s militia recounts horrific details of the collaborator militia. A newly published article by the resistance platform, ‘Pursuit of the Fifth Column’, reads: “A woman who has repented and escaped from the gang led by the collaborator Akram Jarqoun recounts horrifying details, revealing the rape, torture, abuse, and cold-blooded murder suffered by those who joined the occupation militias. The fugitive woman revealed details of a rape and suspension that lasted an entire day without pause, punctuated by the murder of two young men and the desecration of their bodies by Akram Jarjoune. The woman recounted being suspended in the air for seven hours, during which Akram Jarghun cut off part of her ear and attempted to amputate her limbs with a saw he had brought specifically from the occupied territories. Another woman, along with the woman who recounted the details, was subjected to repeated rape by a number of occupation agents, led by Akram Jarjoune, who forced her husband and several young men to watch the entire incident. Akram Jarghun killed the two young men, Abu Ibrahim Abdeen and Ahmad Khamis, mutilated their bodies, and buried them before anyone could notice the details of the crime. Who is Akram Jarqoun? The name of the collaborator known as Akram Jarqoun has emerged as one of the most prominent field operatives tasked by the Israeli General Security Service (Shin Bet) with leading militias of collaborators and outlaws in the eastern areas of Khan Yunis, amid desperate attempts to lure young men and exploit the destitution and poverty left in the wake of the war. Agent Akram Jargoon’s emergence on the scene of collaboration was no coincidence; rather, it is the result of a long history of ties to the occupation, as he had previously been arrested during the Palestinian Authority era on charges of collaborating with the occupation. Akram Jarghun’s crimes go beyond national treason to include direct murder; information indicates his involvement in the killing of a citizen from the Madi family while he was fleeing in Rafah, and the killing of a young man from the Al-Hour family at the Al-Tahlia Roundabout in Khan Yunis, making him wanted not only by the national justice system but also by the victims’ families seeking blood vengeance. Information received—including confessions by his brother Bassam prior to his joining the proxy militia—confirms that Akram met with Mossad officers in Egypt and at the Tahliya Roundabout in the Gaza Strip to coordinate the formation of armed field gangs operating under the cover of the occupation, aimed at destabilizing the home front and providing security cover for the movements of the Israeli occupation army. The Scandals of Akram Jarjoun In his current activities, the criminal agent Akram Jarjoun is focusing on attempting to drag the names of long-established Palestinian families into his suspicious schemes, foremost among them the Barbakh family in central Khan Yunis. By luring some young people with a pittance, the agent Akram Jargoon aims to create a rift within the family and undermine the prestige of its esteemed leader, Osama Barbakh, who is known for his conscious nationalist stance and his categorical rejection of these suspicious activities Observers believe that Jargoon’s attempts to whitewash his disreputable reputation by dragging honorable families into his schemes are a desperate move that will clash with the awareness of the clans, who refuse to serve as a cover for new village associations. The strategy of the agent known as Akram Jarghun relies on ‘poisoning the well’—offering money and services under the guise of assistance, while the true goal is to recruit young people and turn them into instruments of subversion.”