lobster @Lobster@qoto.org

It seems that the entire analysis is developed starting from a modular and mechanistic perspective which is very suitable for machines but very little for human life. In the article, life is conceived in the light of criteria such as competition, optimization and mere survival, neglecting what for humans is the basis of every action: intentionality (why? with whom? against whom?...). In terms of mere survival, a sophisticated neurological evolution is not even necessary: jellyfish have existed for thousands of years without any particular evolution of their nervous system. Last but not least, artificial neural networks and the entire paradigm of Artificial Intelligence were founded on the Kantian perspective of thought and life, a legitimate choice from a research point of view which however greatly restricts the possibilities of understanding the phenomenon of life, reducing thought and reason to the emerging product of logical operations (Boolean algebra) carried out through the mechanical dynamics of logic gates.
#ai #neuroscience #brain
https://iai.tv/articles/ai-needs-the-constraints-of-the-human-brain-auid-2728

#FOSDEM2024 started and the #GNUHealth stand is in place 😎 . Come and say hi, get cool tshirts and meet our friends from @opensuse, @weblate, @sjodogne and other sister communities ❤️
#SocialMedicine #GNU #OpenScience #bioinformatics #eHealth #FOSDEM #freedom

Pietruszka, the icewalker.

#IdąPsięta #DogsOfMastodon #wetlands #Polesia

me: idk I can see a lot of sides to this

student: but is that being unbiased or is it just that you can’t make a decision

me: oh my god I have been roasted so hard

#AllBillionairesAreEvil

It turns out that the appendix appears to have two related functions.

The first function is supporting the immune system. The appendix has a high concentration of immune tissue, so it's acting to help the immune system fight any bad things in the gut.

The second function that it serves is what we refer to as a safe reservoir for the beneficial gut bacteria that we have.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/02/02/1228474984/appendix-function-appendicitis-gut-health

#health #appendix #biology #science

Really great (absolutely terrifying) research by plasma physicist @carlysagan is being highlighted today on https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=02&year=2024

Is there *anything* that tens of thousands of disposable satellites won't completely fuck up?

Satellite companies need to stop launching until they fund research on the upper atmosphere and magnetosphere(!) and show their plans are safe (which...is probably impossible since they aren't safe).

Happy World Wetlands Day.

Habitat, flood and drought control, carbon sequestration. Wetlands do it all. Is your city not flooded after every rain or snow melt event? Thank your local wetland, and the people who have worked to preserve it.

#wetlands #WorldWetlandsDay #water

the best bird I know is this crow who hangs out in crystal palace park and pretends to have a limp and a dodgy wing, then the second someone feels sorry for him and gives it food, he'll hop up and fly off with it. 10/10 grift, I always feed him and pretend to be outraged by his lies.

I just tried some extremely simple video editing with Blender. I watched a tutorial and messed around (WOW there's a lot to learn) until my computer froze and crashed. Ha! I think it's time to go outside and look at stars for a bit rather than trying to edit a video telling other people to go out and look at the stars...

This #BlackHistoryMonth, I’m thinking about my forebears whose celebrations of their own histories were less “official” and more fraught—like my mom, whose ragged hand-me-down books in segregated schools bore the slurs scrawled by students who got them when they were new. And /1

I gave #linkedin an honest try, for a year or more, in terms of finding #work.

It's a cesspool of #toxicpositivity and fake job postings.

Now I'm asking, with all urgency -- to anyone who has anything #tech to offer, please consider a guy who has:

- 30 yrs of experience
- out of work for 20 months
- 3 kids, one of who is coming up on her first birthday
- a track record for secure systems
- a month left before being evicted

@jacqueline is there nothing venture capital cannot sully and ruin

I’ve known for a long time the “Mother of Hip Hop”, Sylvia Robinson, was the same Sylvia of Mickey & Sylvia—the same one who sang the 1956 rock n’ roll classic “Love Is Strange”. You might know that song from the film Dirty Dancing.

What I didn’t know was that in 1975, she bought the entire Chess catalog for $1 million, which brought her into financial difficulties. This was the catalyst for her assembling the Sugarhill Gang, and thus launching the hip hop industry.

And by the way, if you don’t know what Chess Records is, it’s the most important blues label of all time—the home of Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Howlin’ Wolf, Etta James, and more. It’s probably worth hundreds of millions today—I hope Sylvia Robinson profited handsomely from it.

That woman was a legend!