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I keep saying #AI is the latest scam from Big Tech. And too many SAAS, businesses, and tools are being conned into investing in it.
1)The expense to run AI LLMs is astronomical! And it has yet to turn a profit
2) That cost is going to significantly damage all but the largest businesses implementing AI tools
3) It’s being downplayed, but AI can LIE. The industry calls it “hallucinations,” but it’s a marketing label for LIES. You just can’t trust results generated by AI. That means the onus falls on the user to fact check and perform due diligence. That’s yet another layer of responsibility and labor.
And the environmental impact of the server requirements and power needed to run these models is alarming.
My prediction is the AI bubble is going to burst soon.
The oldest surviving film in the world, and possibly the first film ever made. It lasts just a few seconds, is shot at 7 frames per second and shows people in a garden at Oakwood Grange in Roundhay, Leeds, England on the 14th of October 1888. It was made by the French film pioneer Louis Le Prince on a camera of his own invention, and it is his son that we see walking across the garden. In a bizarre real life unsolved mystery, Le Prince disappeared in unexplained circumstances a couple of years after the film was made.
There were earlier forms of animated pictures, and earlier experiments with capturing movement on multiple single-frame cameras, but this was the first known film in the modern sense of using a single camera to create a series of continuous frames.
You can fnd out more on its Wikipedia page at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundhay_Garden_Scene, and you might also want to check out the 2016 feature-length documentary "The First Film" at https://www.guerilla-films.com/the-first-film.
This film is now in the public domain.
Author responds after shadow chancellor says party would be ‘really happy’ to ‘give her assurances’Peter Walker (The Guardian)
So the Japanese Emperor is a a big fan of the River Thames and on his stage visit to the UK asked to see the Thames Barrier.
It is indeed an impressive feat of engineering, but the sad truth is it needs massively upgrading if it to continue to protect London in the near future.
It’s not designed to be used 50 times a year, but that is already happening. It could wear out by 2030 at the current rate. To upgrade it to last till 2100 will cost at least £16 billion. But politicians are asleep 💤
"We were the first companion," the dog said, "the first ally and friend."
"Well done you," the cat said.
"After us, the humans befriended cows, sheep, goats, and pigs."
"Humans domesticated so many animals."
"And you."
"Us?" the cat said. "We only domesticated one. Humans."
I don't know what marketer needs to hear this, but every time you promote a new "#AI" feature it drives me *away* from your product.
A tool I haven't used? Hard pass.
A tool I've used and loved for years? Perhaps it's time to reevaluate our relationship.
Sure, I'm one person, but I'm certainly not alone.
"Newly identified tipping point for ice sheets could mean greater sea level rise"
Small increase in temperature of intruding water could lead to very big increase in loss of ice, scientists sayDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
Furries have spent years complaining about Telegram's "one account per phone number" feature: "oh no, my dad got Telegram and saw my sexy furry profile". And now Telegram is enshittifying, what's the reaction? "Let's move to another system that has the same feature!" 🤦♂️
Privacy doesn't just mean encryption, and it doesn't just mean messaging someone without them seeing your phone number. It means keeping your work, hobbies, and family life separate. For most of us, breaking that separation is a funny meme, but for some, it might mean losing their home or their job. That's why furries should be migrating to Matrix.
An AI thing I'm watching play out at another org:
1: Expert A, with a deep understanding of a nuanced and difficult problem answers a question they've been given, offering several options.
2: Director B, recipient, uses an AI to summarize it and then runs it up to leadership saying, "A says this." That generated summary is subtly and very wrong.
3: A is now being held responsible for plans made based on B's AI-generated and very wrong rewriting of his recommendations.
Fun times.
Other countries acknowledge the needs of young kids - great examples here being Finland, Japan, Czech Republic and Switzerland. They want their families to be able to travel them on public transport because this is cheaper and greener for all. In making provision for kids, they no doubt make the journey experience better for all.
But here in the UK we’re making do with plans to have buggies unfolded in a compartment…this is progress I guess!
https://familyfriendlytrains.com/case-studies/
Austria The family zone on ÖBB Railjets are “designed specifically for fun and games”. There is a children’s cinema as well as tables with decorated with board games. Compartment …Campaign for Family-Friendly Trains
In the Coyotic Justice System, the yappers are represented by two separate, yet equally important groups. The yotes who create all the mischief, and the public defenders that shield them from prosecution. These are their stories.
*Gavel noise*
#furry #furryfandom #fursuit #fursuiter #fursuitphotography #fursuiteveryday
“Today, I am making a genuine and direct appeal to Sir Keir Starmer to think again and commit again to £28bn of investment to achieve green growth and reach net zero.
We believe that anything that falls below that level of ambition and investment will fail to meet the scale of this challenge and fail to grasp the opportunity of the emerging green economy.”
John Swinney, leader of SNP
Whatever the political games being played here, this is also a truthful acknowledgment of what needs to happen
I keep wanting this. It's definitely a feature I've wanted (needed) plenty of times. Just a few days ago I had to pick an upcoming stop, guess how long the bus would take to get there and use that to plan the rest of my route.
Worst part of updating my talk: looking up how fucking many more Starlink satellites there were than last time I gave a version of this talk. 200 more than a month ago. Fuck.
There are now 6,209 Starlinks in orbit, fully 62% of the 10,009 active satellites in orbit.
All of these "fully demisable" Starlinks are planned to burn up and deposit their metal in Earth's atmosphere. I just saw multiple 100-pound pieces of another SpaceX "fully demisable" rocket, so I'm sure it'll be just fine.
Thinking.... thinking... thinking... still nothing. head empty
#fursuit #kemonofursuit #fursuiteveryday #kemono #furry #furryfandom #fursuiter #fursuiting #kemonosuit #fursuitphotography #furrycommunity #catfurry #catfursuit #fursuits #ef27 #eurofurence
Omg that's amazing!
Someone made a tool for windows that makes it appear as if your pc is a malware research pc. So a lot of viruses won't even run when they are tricked into thinking they're on a research pc, cause they don't want to get caught.
It creates blank processes that don't do anything but just have the names of common research tools and such
Somehow in our 24hr news churn, this story about #Farage and Sandy Hook has been lost today.
‘The Reform UK leader was interviewed by Alex Jones on his Infowars platform in 2018, just after the parents began legal action against the radio show host for claiming that the massacre was faked. Farage did not dispute Jones’s assertion that he was being targeted by “frauds”.’
In a 2018 interview with US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Reform UK leader said liberals were ‘the very fascists they criticise’Peter Walker (The Guardian)
Had a girl ( a friend NOT GF)
ICU nurse Emergency room at Hospital (CRASH RN)
night shifts were a nightmare.. then
Weekends 10x worse.
Lunatics on full moon nights, they kept track lookout her comes the crazies 😟🤪🤪🤪🤪
First responder have their moments as well, just ER. it's ALL the time
unruly patients... got so bad that have the LAWS ( statures) posted to deter harassment in the Hospital
( it is a felony!) -they got so fed up they started *prosecuting* like airlines
Netflix can now serve 100Gbit/s of video (so something like 12,500 individual 4K streams) with an appliance using 100 watts of power. That’s 8 milliwatts for each 4K stream.
Remember that number the next time someone tells you that watching a Netflix show is as bad as driving an SUV or some shit.
☀️🐕 Reminder for all creatures whose hemisphere is summer and have a feral animal companion who needs regular walks:
🕐 Before your companion goes outside with you, go outside alone and place your bare hand or paw on the ground for five seconds where sunlight falls directly, especially asphalt or stone.
🔥 
🔥If your hand or paw burns, definitely any other paw will. So you two will have to walk strictly in the shade or wait for the sun to go down if that is not possible. 
Instafops.net is now IPv6 enabled!
Well it already was able to connect to other servers over IPv6, but now users can also access Instafops.net over an IPv6 only connection.
People: "Free/Open Source software can't be used for making professional content on the internet."
Me: [looks up from making popular YouTube videos with FOSS] "what?"
Source: learningsuccessblog.com
(Ironically, too much text to fit the alt tag, will post in a reply.)
#ADHD
@einalex Yeah, here is Scotland what is devolved has meaningful differences to UK policy, and is generally progressive in a way I’m happy to contribute towards. It’s just the rest is a bit… shit
Had heard about that new tax in Massachusetts and it seems great. Who knew good policy was a good idea!?
And it seems the mainstream media are asleep too…why don’t they want to acknowledge that this impressive work of engineering designed in the 70’s is at the end of its life?
With sea levels set to seriously rise, where are the plans for a new barrier, barrage or potentially dam…because that is what we’ll need very soon.
Does #Starmer understand the story of Canute?
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/30/before-the-flood-how-much-longer-will-the-thames-barrier-protect-london
Before the flood: how much longer will the Thames Barrier protect London?
Karen McVeigh (The Guardian)Because not a week passes without another scientific acknowledgment that #ClimateBreakdown is happening…it’s happening faster than previously predicted and we are running out of time to adapt.
This is today’s story about glaciers melting with relatively low temperature increases…and it leads to tipping points and feedback loops that we cannot comprehend.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/25/newly-identified-tipping-point-for-ice-sheets-could-mean-greater-sea-level-rise
Newly identified tipping point for ice sheets could mean greater sea level rise
Damian Carrington (The Guardian)So if we don’t want Buckingham Palace, Houses of Parliament, the City and all it’s diverse inhabitants to be flooded…we have to act now.
The UK government has to spend money on adaptation. They don’t have a choice. Leave it later and it will cost far more and potentially be too late.
#Labour may say it can’t afford £28 billion on green projects…but are they really going to abandon the capital?
World breaks 1,400 temperature records in a week as heat waves sweep globe | Semafor
Caroline Anders (www.semafor.com)@nini
Look, I’d love them to save us all…I’d love to see real action taking place in East Anglia which is flat and suffers from coastal erosion because it’s equally vulnerable. But volume of people (of all incomes), assets and prestige of being an internationally renowned capital city means surely if there is going to be meaningful adaptation it’s in London…but if not, there really is no plan.