I have to admit I'm enjoying OpenAI's progression from "we're building the future of synthetic sentience, we will be the birthplace of a new silicon hypergod, everyone better watch out" to "well, artificial general intelligence is kind of hard to define, maybe that's not a useful term" to "we can't figure out how to make any money selling people personally-tailored pornography generators so we're turning their chatbot girlfriends off."
After receiving reports from various sources that Iran is facilitating the transit of ships carrying Spanish interests through the Strait of Hormuz, Euronews
Been working on a blog post idea about how the 'old', real, more simple web is still around, usable, fuck the big corpo garbage web, and so on. Been seeing other great pieces on it, gathering ideas, wanna reference them, etc. Wanna collect all of them and say something intelligent about it but wow it's gonna take a while to collect it all and write it up 😂 But be assured, it's on its way eventually. Hopefully sooner than later. I want it to be almost like a brief, simple roadmap for the real web.
quality takes time! I have been working on some articles for years now, like I have a big one on AI including prediction and it's still not done, even though many of them already happened haha Guess sometimes it can be a bit too long ;)
@madeindex nice. And no, I totally feel that. I have some VERY old drafts and ideas. Ones I've been working on forever. I have two groups of songs I've been working on for like, over 10 years probably 😂
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Prospective Vizio TV buyers should know there's a good chance the set won't work properly without a Walmart account.
"Scholars of civil resistance generally define 'success' as the overthrow of a government or territorial independence achieved because of a campaign within a year of its peak. Among the 565 campaigns that have both begun and ended over the past 120 years, about 51 percent of the nonviolent campaigns have succeeded outright, while only about 26 percent of the violent ones have. Nonviolent resistance thus outperforms violence by a 2-to-1 margin."
In the decade leading up to the covid-19 pandemic, nonviolent civil resistance grew more popular than ever—but its effectiveness had already started to plummet.
The concept itself of "totalitarianism" was developed by thinkers like Hannah Arendt to describe systems that seek to control all the aspects of society and of individual life. She applied it notably to two regimes that everything opposes ideologically on paper:
Nazi Germany (extreme right) Stalinist Soviet Union (extreme left)
"The US has caused an eye-watering $10tn in global damages to the world over the past three decades through its vast planet-heating emissions, with a quarter of this economic pain inflicted upon itself, new research has found.
China, now the world’s largest emitter, is responsible for $9tn in GDP damage since 1990, according to the findings of the paper."
What is it with Trump and big guys with hard big muscles? This comes up so often in his rhetoric that you have to assume it occupies a lot of his mindspace. Granted there’s not much going up there to begin with, but a huge chunk of it are muscly studs, apparently.
Seriously, if he would have just exclusively focused on that and skipped everything else going on in his tiny brain, the world would probably look a bit better.
Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have devised a rotating tabletop device to study wireless charging in electric vehicles. Testing on real tracks takes up vast areas at significant cost.
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Data centers are central to Jeff Bezos and Amazon’s plans to dominate AI. Meanwhile, the newspaper Bezos owns just called Bernie Sanders “part of the lunatic fringe” for proposing a moratorium on AI data centers.
I was watching a video about CERN testing that antimatter containment unit by transporting 19 antiprotons. One of the comments I saw was just "who wants to brake check the antimatter truck" and I found that profoundly funny.
People don’t like wearing things on their faces and don’t trust those who do
Says Neal Stephenson who first coined the term “metaverse” This revelation came soon after Meta canceled the Metaverse. My thought was immediately, will Meta rename itself back to Facebook? We'll get to that soon, but first let's look into Neal Stephenson's mea culpa: When I was working at Magic Leap, and people asked me why I thought that was a good idea, I would ask the rhetorical question:…
Says Neal Stephenson who first coined the term “metaverse” This revelation came soon after Meta canceled the Metaverse. My thought was immediately, will Meta rename itself back to Facebook? We̵…
if you could stroll around shenzhen you would probably find a cardboard box full of them on a table amid boxes of thousands of other ICs. it would be labeled 'warm fan master' or something
@chris haha Their future might look like: your AI reading your colleagues or friends AI text and then sending a reply based on your browsing history ;) @socialmedia
The existence of toblerone implies the existence of related triangular hydrochocolate chains such as the base alkane (toblerane), as well as the closed ring form (cyclotoblerone)
Split off the side chain to yield tobleral, reduce the carboxyl of that to yield toblerol, or oxidise the hydrogen to yield tobleroic acid, react two equivalents of toblerol under dehydrating conditions to form ditobleryl ether...
It has been obvious that Epstein was an information broker hooked up with multiple intelligence services, most likely those of Israel and Russia. The pedophilia was just part of a larger whole; a gross, horrible part to be sure, but there is a much larger story here and we always focus on only a singular part.
This isn't conspiracism, it's just fucking obvious.
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