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Maybe this whole AI era is a mash-up of Terminator meets Brewster’s Millions.
Sam Altman (Brewster) is sent back in time to start such a laughably bad AI hype cycle that it effectively changes the course of human history, steering us away from our doom.
Through his efforts, what could have been a human-eradicating AI leaves us with hallucinations, weird sex bots, AI avatars of our dead loved ones, and AI-powered toys telling children to hurt themselves.

#Mural na Wasserwerku w #Görlitz.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.140…

torchsom: The Reference PyTorch Library for Self-Organizing Maps
Louis Berthier, Ahmed Shokry, Maxime Moreaud, Guillaume Ramelet, Eric Moulines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11147 …

torchsom: The Reference PyTorch Library for Self-Organizing Maps
This paper introduces torchsom, an open-source Python library that provides a reference implementation of the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) in PyTorch. This package offers three main features: (i) dimensionality reduction, (ii) clustering, and (iii) friendly data visualization. It relies on a PyTorch backend, enabling (i) fast and efficient training of SOMs through GPU acceleration, and (ii) easy and scalable integrations with PyTorch ecosystem. Moreover, torchsom follows the scikit-learn API for e…

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

It's going to be -20°F in #Minneapolis tonight, #ICE is still trying to kidnap people, separate families, and inflict awful suffering on our neighbors. We have thousands of empty houses that should be opened to be safe houses for people to move into, no questions asked, so people don't have to be s…

What’s amazing to me is that *anyone* still visits the US as a tourist.
“Hey, I know, let’s go to Fascistland… maybe we’ll get deported to fuck-knows-where and it’ll be a real adventure!” https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/115696148277070484

Mastodon Migration (@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)
Attached: 1 image Simply remarkable fall off in tourism to the United States. "The US is down at least $30 billion in tourism for 2025. International boycotts and a loss in appeal to visit due to Donald Trump has resulted in millions of trips canceled." source: Anonymous on Bluesky

Scaling up AI requires staggering amounts of power and water
— especially when considering that many areas are already dealing with strained grids or drought conditions.
Even when optimized, a single hyperscale facility can draw as muchpower as a mid-sized city
and millions of gallons of water annually.
Professor Romany Webb, deputy director of Columbia University's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, explained the challenge:
"Data centers are incred…

New map and research expose disturbing side effects of AI industry boom: 'There are going to be challenges'
As part of the latest wave of Big Tech's spending on AI, Google announced a $9 billion investment to build a new data center campus in Virginia.

Measurement of the $e^ e^-\to\eta\gamma$ cross section near the $\phi(1020)$ resonance with the SND detector
SND Collaboration, M. N. Achasov, A. E. Alizzi, A. Yu. Barnyakov, E. V. Bedarev, K. I. Beloborodov, A. V. Berdyugin, A. G. Bogdanchikov, A. A. Botov, D. E. Chistyakov, T. V. Dimova, V. P. Druzhinin, L. V. Kardapoltsev, A. S. Kasaev, A. A. Kattsin, A. G. Kharlamov, I. A. Koop, A. A. Korol, D. P. Kovrizhin, A. S. Kupich, A. P. Kryukov, N. A. Melnikova, N. Yu. Muchnoi, A. E. Obrazo…

Measurement of the $e^+e^-\toηγ$ cross section near the $ϕ(1020)$ resonance with the SND detector
In the experiment with the SND detector at the VEPP-2000 $e^+e^-$ collider, the $e^+e^-\toηγ$ cross section is measured in the energy range $E = 980 - 1060$ MeV. The measurement is carried out in the $η\to 2γ$ decay mode. Data with an integrated luminosity of 73 pb$^{-1}$ collected in 2018 and 2024 are used in the analysis. The measured cross section is the most accurate to date and is higher compared to other measurements. From the fit to the cross section data with the vector meson domina…

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata