@jdrm@social.linux.pizza2025-08-06 09:04:05
Nos reíamos de que Reagan preguntara a una vidente decisiones de política durante su presidencia. Pues en Suecia estšn con la versión 3.0 de consultar a un oršculo: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/05/chat-gpt-sw…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-08-05 09:33:16
According to capitalists:
✅ Working for a company like Google or Microsoft that is complicit in genocide.
❌ Displaying images of the genocide.
Maybe if the consequences of your work are considered “Not Safe For Work”, you shouldn’t be doing that work in the first place.*
But, no, it’s just much easier to look away, isn’t it? After all, you’re just following orders, right?
* Update: because I just *know* that someone will pipe in maliciously with “oh, so you mean…
@oekologisch_unterwegs@mastodon.online2025-08-05 09:06:44
Das #Rezept des Tages:
Mein #Flammkuchenrezept habe ich von Freunden aus Hessen. 🍕🔥 Mit einem selbstgemachten Teig, bestrichen mit Crème fraîche und bestreut mit #Schinkenspeck, rot…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-05 23:14:35
Police are investigating after the home of Circuit Court Judge Diane Goodstein, 69, roared in flames on Edisto Beach.
On Sept 3 Judge Diane Goodstein had put a hold on DOJ's request to deliver South Carolina voter lists to the federal government.
Goodstein's four-bedroom, four bath home went up in smoke at around 11.30am on Saturday, Oct 4
Her family, including her ex-senator husband Arnold Goodstein, was rushed to hospital.
South Carolina Chief Justice John K…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-10-07 00:01:48
Cardinals' Jonathan Gannon says he apologized to Emari Demercado for outburst following backbreaking fumble
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cardina…
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2025-10-05 07:50:30
One reason why we chose #Baiersbronn for our last vacation was the #Landesgartenschau (#Garden show?).
It would have been a gem for flower and garden
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-06 00:56:01
Sources: AI video startup Runway is looking to raise ~$500M at a $5B pre-money valuation; rival Luma AI aims to raise $1.1B at a $3.2B pre-money valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/runway-luma-talks-mul…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-09-05 13:15:19
"""
In melancholy, the spirits are carried away by an agitation, but a weak agitation that lacks power or violence, a sort of impotent upset that follows neither a particular path nor the aperta opercula [open ways], but traverses the cerebral matter constantly creating new pores. Yet the spirits do not wander far on the new paths they create, and their agitation dies down rapidly, as their strength is quickly spent and motion comes to a halt: ‘non longe perveniunt’ [they do not reach far]. A trouble of this nature, common to all delirium, does not have the power to produce on the surface of the body the violent movements or the cries to be observed in mania and frenzy. Melancholy never attains frenzy; it is a madness always at the limits of its own impotence. That paradox is explained by the secret alterations in the spirits. Ordinarily, they travel with the speed and instantaneous transparency of rays of light, but in melancholy they become weighed down with night, becoming ‘obscure, thick and dark’, and the images of things that they bring before consciousness are ‘in a shadow, or covered with darkness’. As a result they move more slowly, and are more like a dark, chemical vapour than pure light. This chemical vapour is acid in nature, rather than sulphurous or alcoholic, for in acid vapours the particles are mobile and incapable of repose, but their activity is weak and without consequence. When they are distilled, all that remains in the still is a kind of insipid phlegm. Acid vapours, therefore, are taken to have the same properties as melancholy, whereas alcoholic vapours, which are always ready to burst into flames, are more related to frenzy, and sulphurous vapours bring on mania, as they are agitated by continuous, violent movement. If the ‘formal reason and causes’ of melancholy were to be sought, it made sense to look for them in the vapours that rose up from the blood to the head, and which had degenerated into ‘an acetous or sharp distillation’. A cursory glance seems to indicate that a melancholy of spirits and a whole chemistry of humours lies behind Willis’ analyses, but in fact his guiding principle mostly reflects the immediate qualities of the melancholic illness: an impotent disorder, and the shadow that comes over the spirit with an acrid acidity that slowly corrodes the heart and the mind. The chemistry of acids is not an explanation of the symptoms, but a qualitative option: a whole phenomenology of melancholic experience.
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-07 02:08:10
The United Nations General Assembly will convene its September session in Geneva instead of New York,
following the United States’ refusal to grant entry visas to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and dozens of senior Palestinian officials
President Abbas is expected to address the Assembly in Geneva,
where he will call for international protection, recognition of Palestinian sovereignty,
and accountability for war crimes.
The Geneva session is expected to amp…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-05 15:27:24
The world continues to dawdle politically in its response to the climate crisis
but clean energy is booming,
-- responsible for almost all new energy capacity and drawing double the investment of fossil fuels globally. The market has shifted.
Most starkly, though, Trump has become the planet’s foremost advocate of fossil fuels,
throwing the might of the US presidency into a rearguard battle to keep the world mired in the era of combusted carbon.
There is now no …