Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org

An update on our rewilding and reforestation plans in Iceland #Rewilding #Reforestation #Nature #Ecology #Iceland #MossyEarth https://youtu.be/tG_vMjn6NEA?si=ZgR7H2bRIf0O5K7Y

Around this time every year, innocent kids are told a disgusting lie.

NORAD don't track Santa with their RADAR.. The NSA track Santa over the internet because Santa accepts cookies at every house

Good morning to readers, Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

There’s a Ukrainian Christmas carol you hear every year without knowing it.

‘Shchedryk’, known in the US as ‘Carol of the Bells’, is deeply personal to Maria, who began learning Ukrainian by reading its lyrics...

#Ukraine
#Russia

“we’ve learned that a single AI generated image uses as much electricity as charging a cell phone”

And that is why I do not consider AI Art, Art. It takes far more from the world than it gives us. You are hastening the destruction of this already dying planet.

You can @ me but I simply do not care

https://cyberneticforests.substack.com/p/what-i-learned-about-ai-in-2023

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

- Hunter S. Thompson

Just sayin’……

U.S. Deputy Marshal Bass Reeves was the most feared lawman of the old West. Standing a muscular 6‘2“ tall, he was was relentless and absolutely formidable. Alive or on a stretcher, Reeves always got his man, no matter how long it took, or how arduous the task. No sensible outlaw messed with him. But some fools had to find out the hard way.

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To read uninterrupted:
https://open.substack.com/pub/400years/p/wyatt-earp-couldnt-be-a-patch-on?r=1pv9e3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcome=true

Image: “Bass Reeves,” by James Loveless.

#BlackMastodon #histodons @blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social

!!! Translate the acquis communautaire using ChatGPT to speed up Albania’s accession to the EU?

1) You’re going to need loads of humans checking the output
2) If Rama thinks this is what’s slowing Albanian accession he’s barking up the wrong tree

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/albania-to-speed-up-eu-accession-using-chatgpt/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Let's be honest, universities use their social media profiles only for broadcasting, i.e., advertisements.

What does it say about our universities if corporations like IBM, Apple or Sony find X so revolting they stop advertising there, but our universities do not find X revolting enough to leave?

@brembs I have tried and tried to get UCL to leave Twitter. They won’t. They tell me they stand to lose too many followers. It’s pathetic. And setting up an instance of Mastodon presents “an institutional risk”. The position is nauseating. @MatteoCarandini @chrischirp @SusanMichie @jonbutterworth @helenczerski and more have all left Twitter but our Deans and Vice Provosts remain as pusillanimous as ever. So much for UCL being “a radical university”.

Posting this once again, to call myself out.