AI was able to generate at least two porridge crisis scenarios after being trained only on Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We are not ready

enjoying the photos in cold steel, available at your local archive archive.org/details/cold-s…

It’s weird how many celebs get married to people that look almost exactly like them.

Total death toll in Gaza is now estimated at 368.000. Not 18.000, not 40.000 (figures people still use), not 186.000 (Lancet), not 200.000 (Nader - to his credit: in March), but 368.000.

think tankers funded entirely by Saudi Arabia looking down on the guys getting paid by Russia

The weird thing with Macron re-playing late Weimar politics is that there was actually a Soviet state with an expansionist ideology right nearby at the time. Macron has to hand power to the far right to resist the threat of… reducing the retirement age?

korbessa is straight up destroying these branches

More and more people—in tech companies, consultancies, regulators, universities, among others—are saying this and proving it to be true: AI does very bad work and creates more labor for humans. crikey.com.au/2024/09/03/ai-…

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A 26 year old American peace activist was just shot in the head and killed by an Israeli sniper in the West Bank

me, six years ago (splinter.com/the-market-can…). TL;DR naturalizing mass shootings has both the effect of psychic normalization AND keys up the all too familiar political economic approach to "natural" disasters: IE, risk is socialized, security is privatized, operators make $$$

when an American dies by the hands of alleged terrorists we get jingoistic bloodthirsty calls for retribution but when Israel does it we get passive voice

The simpsons joke I’ll never forget is when they are in the basement of the insane asylum in the imaginary small German town ravaged by the war, Spitzen-on-the-Dein and find a monkey who has experimented on and it screams “Dark is life, dark, dark is death,” in human words

both new entrepreneurs and established players in a multi-billion dollar school security industry (products, consultants trainings), home and charter school groups, more. it's all in the article itself