tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
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Don’t say “Twitter is losing active users”,
say “dX is negative”.
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Trollfabriken är inte historia, den drivs fortfarande men såväl regering som opposition och medier har resignerat inför att SD vägrar vika ner sig. I Sverige är vi dåliga på att hantera skandaler när så sker. SD visar att det går att bita ihop och köra på. www.dn.se/sverige/sa-h...
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if this really happened, the employee who used generative AI to “expand” the photo should be immediately fired.
We can’t eliminate genAI anymore than we can eliminate plagiarism, but we can limit its normalization by making discovery so costly that people are too terrified to take the risk.
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Galenskap är att göra samma sak gång efter gång och förvänta sig ett annat resultat. Jag har jobbat 21 år på Af så det här är inte min första rodeo.
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En el blog > Regreso de la cápsula reutilizable Shijian 19, un nuevo proyecto espacial chino con raíces históricas https://danielmarin.naukas.com/2024/10/12/regreso-de-la-capsula-reutilizable-shijian-19-un-nuevo-proyecto-espacial-chino-con-raices-historicas/
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But for the space-obsessed, raised on a largely sanitised heroic view of the Space Race (including me as a kid of the 1960s), it is entirely axiomatic that pursuing space exploration & exploration is the primary way for nations & blocs to become "winners" in our future world.
It's a weirdly distorted view of the priorities of a civilisation on the brink of self-inflicted catastrophe, but one they are never ashamed of sharing, berating others for their lack of will, imagination, & cojones.
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More widely, there is a certain religious zealotry in parts of the space community, as if it's entirely self-evident that human destiny lies in the stars & if eggs need to be broken to achieve that omelette, then so be it.
Witness some members of the space industry in Europe today berating EU leaders for allowing the continent to slip behind the US in fighting for this new frontier.
As if it's even slightly evident that this is a priority shared by the majority of the European public 🤷♂️
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It is remarkable to me the degree to which many space bubbleers, mostly sensible & rational people in my experience, are willing to separate their dreams of space exploration & colonising the planets from the reprehensible views & actions of their would-be god.
Of course, some of the cult actively support his worldview & feel that no dissociation is needed at all, but it's the cognitive dissonance of the former which somehow scares me more.
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Your 80-year old reminder of the ethical decision you make if you choose to dissociate your fantasies of space exploration & love of rockets from the politics of the people building & launching them.
Credit: Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive), via Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_141-1879,_Rakete_V2_nach_Start_cropped.jpg
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If GH can stand for P as in Hiccough,
If OUGH stands for O as in Dough,
If PHTH stands for T as in Phthisis,
If EIGH stands for A as in Neighbor,
If TTE stands for T as in Gazette,
If EAU stands for O as in Plateau,
The right way to spell POTATO should be:
GHOUGHPHTHEIGHTTEEAU
See also: “Ghoti”
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
