for some reason the left (goldman sachs) refuses to take AI seriously

So OpenAI's big, world- changing AI gadget is...a speaker. With a camera. That you talk to. Really breaking new ground there Sam.

I recently logged on to twitter after not looking at it for 12-18 months and I can only describe the atmosphere as “rancid”. Every single user I saw was clearly on edge and even the few tweets on my feed that weren’t right wing disinformation or violent misogyny felt distinctly hostile. No thanks.

Worth repeating: Claims of "AI" democratizing anything (coding, creative endeavors, etc) are always BS. The thing locking out people from doing that is not having the time/resources. You want to democratize coding/art/creativity? Give people paid time off to do it and access to infrastructure. Easy

@runsingletrack.bsky.social does amazing work with their Barkley coverage from Frozen Head. Looking forward to experiencing 2026 Barkley in video form tonight! #bm100

It seems like US people are walking Hebron with Breaking The Silence like Tilo Jung, German Journalist did in 2018 now. Nothing changed and evil is reigning in plane sight ever since. Recommended watch, hours of Hebron, 2018. m.youtube.com/watch?v=7ayi...

"thin places" are locations where the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is said to be particularly thin.

Apollo Optik verkauft ein Deutschland Meta Smart glasses, die in den Startlöchern stehen sämtlichen Content den ihre Kameras sehen gegen Metas Gesichtserkennungssysteme abzugleichen. Globales Panoptikum. www.businessinsider.com/meta-ray-ban...

Universities 1 year ago: "Neat idea, but unfortunately it won't be useful for research without academic advisory board approval." Universities today: "Just saw your video! Can use your infrasound experiment data?"

he isn't confronting north Korea because they have nukes dummy the overwhelming lesson of this century is: get nukes. as many as possible. It is the only way to protect your sovereignty.

Now do one for US confirming a plan for healthcare.

Incorrect. The one way to improve TNG would be to just admit that Will and Deanna are poly. Trust me, there are *regular* visits to their cabin-in-the-woods planet from their lady friends and gentleman callers.

"Zero Gravity Mindset." Okay, that StanfordOrKetamine framing is trickling down from the top of the heap, then "What if I could eat ketamine and replace Stanford in a millisecond," a legit modern business query medium.com/activated-th...

*I suspect that Kubrick wisely snipped this thing out of the film-strip because he understood that it would make people forget about the Black Monolith *The Monolith is mystic '60s space-age hokum, while this gadget is a stark expository lump of the viewer's actual future experience with media

Congratulations to the course. Until next year #bm100

Promising headline that completely overstates what is expressed in the actual text Discord's response can be summed up to saying they're aware of the ethical and security problems, but they're not doing anything of substance to protect or respect users, and will make zero substantial policy changes

Violets are violet Roses are rose They have their own colour names Why not use those?

Perfect conditions to find books in the woods to rip pages of depressing content from. #bm100

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Now we have a good amount of free time and people look for things to do. One of the media tried warming a banana over the camp fire. She was very disappointed in the result. #BM100

1/16 Deutschland ist (noch) kein faschistisches Regime. Aber ein Abgleich mit den 14 Warnsignalen nach Umberto Eco enthüllt Erschreckendes. Danach sind wir nämlich auf dem besten Weg dorthin. Glaubt ihr nicht? Dann lest weiter.

• Siemens System 4004 (1968). Die Arbeitsspeichergröße konnte von 32 kB auf 512 kB ausgebaut werden.

🚨 Are people sicker now than in 2019? Civil servants in England are. Sickness absence rates have *risen by between 12% to 23% across the age groups*. Are things getting worse? It certainly looks like it. This is exactly what we predicted repeat covid infection would do.

Sorry, liebe Grüne, aber dieses "Wir haben in Baden-Württemberg den Vertrag mit Palantir gar nicht geschlossen, sondern das war unser Koalitionspartner CDU, und wir konnten gar nichts machen"-Narrativ, mit dem ihr überall herum lauft, ist die schwäbische Variante von "Flood the Zone with Shit".

If you listen to one thing this week, make sure it’s this one. Evans describes a US centred perspective in his excellent keynote but what he’s talking about shouldn’t be dismissed by my fellow Germans. Windows are closing everywhere.

The first big fascist wave in Germany and Italy was driven by the humiliation and suffering of WW1. Our current wave of American fascism is largely driven by rich guys who want it to be illegal for you to laugh at them.

Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?

are…uhh…are we the penis?

While I might become unable to interpret reality without applying nihilism soon, I can at least still claim that my nihilism is rather cheerful.

A legit use case for AI was finally found and I missed it.

Europarechtswidrig und fehleranfällig: Mit dem Referentenentwurf „Einführung einer IP-Adressspeicherung" will das BMJ alle Internetprovider zur #Vorratsdatenspeicherung verpflichten www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view...

"Das Problem überbordender Bürokratie ist nicht zu viel Staat, sondern ein schlecht gemachter. Die Antwort darauf nicht Deregulierung, sondern smarte Re-Regulierung: durchsetzbare Regeln, funktionierende Verfahren, ein Staat, der schützt & ermöglicht.“ Kluger Gastbeitrag @felixbanaszak.bsky.social

International law governing conflict isn’t just “at a breaking point.” It was intentionally destroyed to protect Israel’s war on Gaza.

you don't need the epstein files to know that the anti-trans movement is a pro-child-rape movement, but maybe the explicit link will make that fact more salient

Übrigens haben auch die Leute die keine Angehörigen pflegen oder Kinder zu versorgen haben ein unverhandelbares Recht auf Teilzeit. Lasst euch nicht erzählen, dass ihr ständig produktiv, verwertbar und nützlich sein müsst oder dass ihr eure Bedürfnisse nach Ruhezeit verargumentieren müsst!

half of all tech news lately is some variation of "the computer company has discontinued their well known product, the computer"

Back in the days when I was touring the US my encounters with border patrol looked like this: Rude people boarded the bus, and woke me up, sometimes there were dogs, saw my German passport, suddenly smiled and told some cool Ramstein Air Base story. Look where we are now. www.dw.com/en/germans-t...

Private Equity killed a building block of electronic music culture, Berlin's Native Instruments. The shutdown of licensing servers could kill music equipment and render original music projects unreadable. This is a consumer, industry and culture problem and this needs action. @ec.europa.eu

Could the secret police PLEASE use silencers when they shoot civilians for backtalk all this noise is disturbing my vibe coding

Good morning #GoodMorning #chickens 🪶

Die Forderung nach Abschaffung der „Lifestyle-Teilzeit“ verfängt, weil sich gerade in Deutschland viele für fleißig und produktiv halten und andere für faul. Zugrunde liegt diesem Ressentiment, dass man seine Arbeit nicht mag und anderen deswegen missgönnt, ihre Zeit mit was anderem zu verbringen.

Die Bundesregierung plant eine riesige anlasslose Zwangsspeicherung von allen IP-Adressen und weiteren Begleitdaten bei allen Providern: Nein zur #Vorratdatenspeicherung www.ccc.de/de/updates/2...

kurzfristig krankgemeldet aus lifestylegründen

Die Schmerzgriffe gegen Klimaaktivisten waren rechtswidrig, das OLG-Urteil ist rechtskräftig. Frag den Staat zeigt das „Handbuch Einsatztraining“ fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exkl... #Informationsfreiheit

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

Ja, amerikanische Verhältnisse in Deutschland zu verhindern, heißt natürlich, die AfD zu verbieten, aber es heißt auch, Dobrindt auf die Finger zu klopfen, wenn er mal wieder Palantir-Software kaufen will und die Gotham-Installationen in Hessen, NRW, Bayern und BaWü von den Rechnern zu schmeißen.