Hilariously, the Royal Meteorological society chooses to keep this 85 year old article, one of the earliest studies of human-caused climate change, behind a paywall. Find it on @scihub
https://spore.social/@ed_hawkins@fediscience.org/110145986006405198
1930: Unnecessary systemic poverty, widespread radicalization, division and hatred.
2024: Unnecessary systemic poverty, widespread radicalization, division and hatred. Plus: 3,000,000,000+ #bullshitjobs and a collapsing biosphere. Thanks to systemic poverty.
"There is a sense that however profound the climate crisis challenges might be, the stakes are not yet urgent enough to warrant drastic action. "
Having finished a rereading of Stross's Accelerando, I was thinking that the whole "superhuman intelligence arises from autonomous financial instruments" thing was kind of silly; then it occurred to me that in real life one of the software systems into which the most #ai effort is being poured, started out as a website for college students to evaluate each other's hotness..
A good point! 🚀
https://www.europesays.com/1000142/ The absurd claim that DEI programs caused Boeing’s failure is similar to the scam conservative talk radio pulls on working people – deflecting blame on bad working conditions away from the greedy corporations by blaming “wokeness”, immigrants, etc. #Economy
It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"He [Dionysos] was accompanied [...] by a personal attendant and caretaker, Seilenos, who was his adviser and instructor in the most excellent pursuits and contributed greatly to the high achievements and fame of Dionysos."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.4.3
🏛 #Dionysos and a #Maenad with #Silenos, red-figure vase painting dated 360-350 BCE
@antiquidons @archaeodons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology
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Blockchain: a slow database
Crypto: an expensive slow database
NFT: an expensive slow database to store URLs
AI: a way to write slow and inefficient algorithms
LLM: a database that stores text in a slow and inefficient way
Chat GPT: an expensive imprecise query language for slow and inefficient text databases that often returns wrong results
Traveling from the US to a jurisdiction with real privacy laws is instructive. Visiting some of the same web sites I always visit, after clicking through a “manage cookies" banner from one (US) web site I saw this. Folks, I’m more than casually knowledgeable about privacy; it's one of my research areas and I write about it, and even I was shocked at the number of (I assume potential) partners in this pop-up, to say nothing of the cookie types that couldn't be disabled.
Finished "The Woman in Me" by Britney Spears. ⭐⭐⭐
This is a rough book. It's tough to believe that Britney endured all that was thrown at her. But I suppose this is the nature of abuse; it's a dynamic of the abuser's behavior and the abused's inability to find a way out.
I hope this encourages more victims to take action. And I hate that the onus is on them, as they don't deserve what's happening to them, but that's the only way things are going to improve.
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
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