@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-06-08 11:00:47
baidu: Chinese online encyclopedias (2011)
Four networks from Chinese online encyclopedias Baidu (百度百科, http://baike.baidu.com/) and Hudong (互动百科, http://www.hudong.com/
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-06-09 10:20:22
“I’m usually fine with surveillance capitalism but this is too much, even for me.”
#surveillance #capitalism #BigTech
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-06-09 16:48:12
"""
"[…] Wanting a man got me into awful troubles more than once. But wanting to get married, never! No, no. None of that for me."
"Why not?" Tenar demanded.
Taken aback, Moss said simply, "Why, what man'd marry a witch?" And then, with a sidelong chewing motion of her jaw, like a sheep shifting its cud, “And what witch’d marry a man?"
They split rushes.
"What's wrong with men?" Tenar inquired cautiously.
As cautiously, lowering her voice, Moss replied, "I don't know, my dearie. I’ve thought on it. Often I’ve thought on it. The best I can say it is like this. A man’s in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell." She held up her long, bent, wet fingers as if holding a walnut. “It’s hard and strong, that shell, and it’s all full of him. Full of grand man-meat, man-self. And that’s all. That’s all there is. It’s all him and nothing else, inside."
Tenar pondered awhile and finally asked, "But if he's a wizard—"
"Then it's all his power, inside. His power’s himself, see. That’s how it is with him. And that’s all. When his power goes, he’s gone. Empty." She cracked the unseen walnut and tossed the shells away. “Nothing."
"And a woman, then?"
"Oh, well, dearie, a woman's a different thing entirely. Who knows where a woman begins and ends? Listen, mistress, I have roots, I have roots deeper than this island. Deeper than the sea, older than the raising of the lands. I go back into the dark." Moss’s eyes shone with a weird brightness in their red rims and her voice sang like an instrument. “I go back into the dark! Before the moon I was. No one knows, no one knows, no one can say what I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon. Who dares ask questions of the dark? Who’ll ask the dark its name?"
"""
(Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu)
@erikdelareguera@mastodon.nu2025-06-09 11:08:59
Frankrikes president Emmanuel Macron kräver att de sex franska medborgare som förts bort från #Madleen av israeliska styrkor "ska få återvända till Frankrike så snart som möjligt", enligt Elyséepalatset, skriver Le Monde.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-06-08 16:04:19
The US Ambassador to Canada is a gas lighting, lying nutcase like his Administration.
“"Coming to the U.S., that's a decision for the Canadians to make. Searching devices and all of that is not a well-founded fear. We don't do that. America is a welcoming place," he said.
"I've heard that from Americans coming into Canada as well, OK? Saying, 'You know, we've not received a warm reception when we've gotten to Canadian customs,'" he said.”
#usa #canada #never51
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/border-device-searches-us-ambassador-1.7555350
@rberger@hachyderm.io2025-04-08 01:29:10
"But Wall Street professionals, like so many other ostensibly smart people, refused to see Trump clearly, mistaking his skill as a demagogue for wisdom as a policymaker. “I don’t think this was foreseeable,” a mournful Ackman posted on X on Monday. “I assumed economic rationality would be paramount.” What an odd assumption to make about a man who bankrupted casinos.
Berezin thinks Wall Street still hasn’t come to terms with the cost of the nascent Trump presidency. “I do think that at this point we might have passed the event horizon, meaning that even if Trump backs off from the tariffs, there’s been enough damage done to the U.S. economy, to the global economy, to investor confidence, consumer confidence, that we’re probably going to see a recession regardless of what happens,” he said.""
#GiftArticle #USPolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/trump-stock-market-wall-street.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-E4.q7Gk.5YS3EpoLnh8C&smid=url-share
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-06-09 16:33:19
These pieces are much harsher than Fred’s, much more in the LLM-bashing camp, but feel relevant here:
https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/generative-ai-runs-on-gambling-addiction-just-one-more-prompt-bro/
Fred’s point is that a bad interaction model creates hidden work, then humans do that work and “the machine claims the praise.” These other two pieces make the point that this phenomenon of giving the machine credit for unrecognized human work is age-old, taps into some deep trapdoors in human cognition.
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@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-06-09 05:15:08
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Neue Farbe für Wände: Nachhaltig durch Pilze und Algen?
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-06-08 11:32:48
Useful to understand:
"I can tell you how it’s going to end” for Trump’s new courtiers, Wolff predicts. “It’s going to end terribly for everybody.” ... a lot will be sacked. Some will be indicted... But “in 100% of cases,” insists Wolff, “it ends in tears.”
https://www.economist.com/1843/2025/06/06/a-historical-guide-to-surviving-and-thriving-in-the-court-of-trump?giftId=a04100b1-948e-42b1-9c50-660430689d86&utm_campaign=gifted_article
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-08 14:40:56
Treefera, which uses satellite imagery, drone imagery, and AI to provide real-time insights into supply chains, raised a $30M Series B led by Notion Capital (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/03/treefera-secure…
