Verontrustend: Iran heeft 45,000 man gemobiliseerd naar de Aze-Arm grens. Pelosi naar de Armeense hoofdstad, Russische PM en voorzitter parlement naar Azerbeidzjan. Er gaat iets gebeuren.

Climate change is real and its happening. Flooding of the Miyagawa River in Yufuin City, Yufu City, Oita Prefecture caused by a typhoon. Kyushu. Japan #storm #stormhour #hurricane #typhoon #Japan #TyphoonNanmadol #Climatecrisis #Japan

Monthly global temperature anomalies, 1880-2021 Source: NASA svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4975

Eerste 300.000 reservisten worden vandaag al opgeroepen meldt oorlogsminister Shoigu #Ukraine

Heeft Arjen Lubach eigenlijk ENIG idee in wat voor een totale clusterfuck Nederland terecht komt als de Russen ja zeggen tegen deze anschluss? Spelen met vuur, dat is wat het is. Draadje 1/

Reports of a coup against Chinese President #XiJinping are premature and exaggerated.

“Despite climate targets threatening to render fossil fuel infrastructure as stranded assets, the world’s biggest consumers of fossil fuels, led by the US and China, are doubling down on oil pipeline expansion.” theguardian.com/environment/20…

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Beste ⁦Albert Heijn⁩. Midden in een energiecrisis en een oorlog in Oekraïne, waardoor iedereen wordt gevraagd (of gedwongen door de prijs) om zuinig te doen met gas, een flameheater in de bonus doen. Vinden jullie dat nou zelf ook niet een beetje toondoof?

NEW: Palantir planned to buy its way in to the NHS by acquiring small companies on the condition they used Palantir’s Foundry data-mining software bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

elon musk told me he had spoken with putin and the kremlin directly about ukraine. he also told me what the kremlin’s red lines were.

5 ants rented an apartment with another 5 ants. Now they’re tenants

It's not just Stable Diffusion that has been getting a lot of attention lately. The whole generative AI landscape is blooming. Sequoia Capital has come up with a handy little visualization to help us keep track of some of the most exciting players. 1/2

Jasper AI, an AI content platform, raised $125M at $1.5B, becoming a unicorn in 18 months Stability AI, the maker of the Stable Diffusion Image AI, raised $100M at $1B, becoming a unicorn in its first round Generative AI is on fire, with 2 competing unicorns minted in 2 days

This may revolutionize data science: we introduce TabPFN, a new tabular data classification method that takes 1 second & yields SOTA performance (better than hyperparameter-optimized gradient boosting in 1h). Current limits: up to 1k data points, 100 features, 10 classes. 🧵1/6

“Let’s fight for zero deforestation,” Lula says in first speech as president-elect. “Brazil is ready to resume its leading role in the fight against the climate crisis, protecting all our biomes, especially the Amazon Forest.”

History shows that the movements to civil and/or international wars that change the domestic and world orders take place via a progression of stages that transpire in big cycles that have occurred for logical reasons throughout history. (1/3)

Veel mensen die mij nu volgen en waarmee ik werk denken vaak dat lineaire loopbaan heb afgelegd. Dat is niet zo. Ik heb negen jaar thuis met mijn kinderen doorgebracht. En ben daarna weer ingestroomd. Met succes. Dit filmpje raakt. Durf je te leven, in plaats van te presteren?

A surge in disinformation, online bullying & hate speech - particularly against women journalists - is impeding the work of the media. Governments must do more to protect journalists & stand up for truth, justice & human rights.