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From 2022: “It would be interesting to see if this could work in other environments as well. Also from the perspective that we can teach crows to pick up cigarette butts but we can’t teach people not to throw them on the ground. That’s an interesting thought,” he said.

A série The Witcher da Netflix prometia trazer ao ecrã a complexidade do universo criado por Andrzej Sapkowski,(…). Após três temporadas com Henry Cavill e uma quarta com Liam Hemsworth, é momento de analisar esta adaptação que gerou tanto entusiasmo quanto controvérsia.

TBT 80’s.

The release of the DeepSeek model in January sparked a frenzied debate in Silicon Valley about whether better resourced US AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, could defend their technical edge.

(…) Memes of Christian Bale’s character from The Big Short, squinting in disbelief at his computer monitor. If tech stocks fall because of AI companies failing to deliver on their promises, the highly leveraged hedge funds that are invested in these companies could be forced into fire sales.

But Amazon sells cloud computing and also sells cereal. Apple has hardware and software. Meta and Alphabet are in communications. They’re not just AI companies. The theme tying them all together is that they are seen as being leaders in harnessing new technology for the benefit of their businesses.

“None of that means that AI can’t eventually be every bit as transformative as its biggest boosters claim it will be,” Karma continues. “But ‘eventually’ could turn out to be a long time.”

Martine got laid off by a government contractor in April. She applied to dozens of roles at nonprofits, law firms, consultancies, and universities, but she never came close to being hired. “I have 10 years of experience,” she told Lowrey. “I would be happy if a person told me no at this point.”

Lavrov reportedly that Putin listened to the late Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. Trump consults Roy Cohn, an infamous New York mob lawyer and key figure in the McCarthyite red scare. Is from Cohn that Trump learnt that when someone comes at you, hit back twice as hard.

When Binance accepted a $2bn transaction from an Emirati investment fund earlier this year, it agreed to have the funds be paid in a cryptocurrency developed by World Liberty Financial – a move that legitimized the Trump family’s digital currency and was highly lucrative for the firm.

In Barry Blitt’s latest Kvetchbook, it’s 2027 and Donald Trump is the only American not behind bars.

I was a long time waiting for the 3rd season of @onepunchmanbr.bsky.social Finally we had the 1st episode, and the series promises a big development. In this episode the charismatic feeling exists in the season. Mixing great quality anime, with the strongest S class hero’s and Saitama. Is just🤩.

The drink is a vivid and concrete way into a broader conversation about what import taxes actually do. “This is something that a lot of people have in their house. (…). “They’ve noticed that it’s more expensive. The cost of coffee really matters to people.”

A friend ask if Forbes had a deal with the startup to republish its content. But there was no deal. He was shocked and furious and, well, perplexed. He wasn’t alone. Forbes, the New York Times, and Condé Nast have now all sent the company cease-and-desist orders. News Corp is suing for damages.

His 1841 essay “Self-Reliance,” about which I have written before, is a handbook for breaking free of collective illusions. Here’s my three-part summary. 1. Stop lying. 2. Reframe your independence. 3. Just walk away.

Este é o presente que James Gunn ofereceu ao universo DC: não salvação fácil. Mas algo mais raro e preciosa: a possibilidade genuína de mudança numa franquia que finalmente compreendeu que super-heróis não importam porque possuem poderes. Importam porque escolhem usar esses poderes.

The erasure of generational diversity doesn’t make us more beautiful, it makes us look like freaks. (…). I wonder how Kim Kardashian felt when arriving front row with her new pixie cut, last weekend, and everyone mistook her for her mum?

She saw an LG Cosmos slide phone in a corner (…). Her mom laughed at her, and so did the Verizon guy. But she used that phone for the rest of high school. She told me that she slept better and felt better, and got better grades: “I was so much healthier and less tired all the time, less groggy.”

But if Trump is going to get it, he will have to wait at least another year: The 2025 prize was announced this morning, on the day the cease-fire went into effect in Gaza. It went to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, not to the American president.

METR team looked at actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20 percent slower when using AI than when working without it. The researchers were stunned. Nate Rush, one of the authors of the study, told me. “We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

It would be a hugely welcome development to discover that we have not merely reached social media saturation point, but that the experience has been degraded to such an extent that it has shocked people out of their stupor and is causing them to pivot to healthier uses of their time.

Still, the world’s biggest venture capitalists and tech conglomerates are willing to take that chance. Potential regulatory hurdles, implementation bottlenecks, bubble doomersayers, social backlash—none of that seems to matter, at least not yet.

The pharmaceutical industry has shown itself to be a worthy opponent for Trump, but its lobbyists haven’t yet figured out how to fight back against a president who has been much more brazen in his second term than in his first. The rules of the game have changed

“We’re now only talking about our security and about how to defend Poland against Russia, but Poland is also threatened by our very bad demographics, which will of course also impact negatively the health of our economy,” Grochowski told the Financial Times.

Not that I blame them. “Recession indicators” are appealing like the 10-day weather forecast is appealing. We turn to them not because they are accurate, but because they offer the illusion of control.

Críticos elogiaram, mas audiência dividiu-se. Alguns queriam redenção para Dexter, não execução. Outros argumentavam que romantizar serial killer, mesmo ficcional, tornara-se culturalmente problemático. “New Blood” respondeu matando seu anti-herói definitivamente. Ou quase.

As quickly as I had brought my father back to life, I had lost him, once again.

“Alien: Earth” representa uma adição valiosa à franquia Alien, oferecendo perspectivas frescas sobre temas familiares. Embora não revolucione completamente a fórmula, a série demonstra que ainda há histórias interessantes para contar neste universo.

“We all see where this is going, correct?” Letterman said. “It’s managed media. And it’s no good, it’s silly, it’s ridiculous, and you can’t go around firing somebody because you’re fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian—a criminal— (…) Oval Office. That’s just not how this works.”

In the 5th episode of Alien: Earth, the series shows as magnificent writhing in the language of cinema and photography. The scenario seeing sumptuous. The thing, is the new possibilities of the androids and new alien forms, that appear to display with the perfect life form: Alien.

Hallucinations.

Deftones appear in my life long years ago. I was a young, innocent person. The first listen of the music that they produced, it was love at first sight. Since then, a lot of albums were released. Some touch me more than others. Although, this last album released by the band is a comeback to music.

At the 3rd episode, Alien : Earth presents as a series very awakening about the narrative of Alien franchise. A lot of new points in the argument, make us, the ones that are dogmatic, see that something is different. The really focused point is in cyborg and the capacity that they have.

But the most problematic aspect of the open office may be physical rather than psychological: simple noise.

I saw yesterday the first episode of the serie Alien: Earth. It started in a way out of the normal narrative that other series and films of franchise. Although, the photography was sumptuous and with cuts in the storyline, captivate more the engagement. I have high hopes to the series.

It is a failure to be honest about the limits of the machine we have built. And until we face that, the plateau will not be a place to rest and prepare for the next climb — it will be the place where we stay.

If the deal happens, it will be a huge game change in the browsing act. I already use perplexity in my search’s. In a good way works better than the traditional search on Chrome.

After the winter on AI, the forward BOOM is unstoppable.

The masses don’t need media anymore. The masses are media.

Contrary to the neoliberal myth that the market alone can meet the needs of the population, Lisbon offers yet another example of market failure – at least for those who see housing as a place to live with dignity.

Além da trama familiar, Ginny and Georgia destaca questões sociais importantes, como racismo, maternidade solo, gravidez na adolescência, saúde mental, ansiedade e abuso de substâncias, refletindo problemas reais da sociedade contemporânea.

Younger generations have been caught in a tortured dance between backlash and progress. “On phones, there’s bukkake and dick pics and hookup apps and arcane sexual sub-identities; in the world shaped by conservative grownups, sex is invisible or forbidden unless it’s between a married heterosexual.

“From World War Two to 2010, more than half of authoritarian regimes that fell were followed by other authoritarian regimes, and Iran, in 1979, is just one of many,” he said. “Only a quarter of them led to democracy. (…) lower if it was triggered by violence or foreign military invasion.

College was affordable, and they graduated in a thriving job market. They were the first generation to reap the full benefits of a golden age of medical innovations: birth control, robotic surgery, the mapping of the human genome, effective cancer treatments, Ozempic.

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