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Eine Ikone der Musikgeschichte wird 80 Jahre: Cherilyn Sarkisian bekannt als #Cher
#Music #Activist
Artikel: www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/cher-turns-80-years-old-an-icon-of-music-history/ar-AA23ClAP

Eine Karriere der Superlative: Cher wird 80
Mit Songs wie "If I Could Turn Back Time" oder "Believe" wurde Cher zur Legende, einen Oscar hat sie auch gewonnen. Jetzt wird die Sängerin 80.

Outside the AI bubble, a backlash has been brewing for some time
— and not only among students booing pro-AI commencement speakers.
Just 10 percent of Americans say they're thrilled about the future of AI, a Pew poll found in March;
that same month, some 80 percent of registered U.S. voters in an NBC poll said neither Democrats nor Republicans are doing a good job on the AI front.
That number also appears in an April survey of white-collar workers:
80 per…

The AI vibe shift is real: Why the backlash is growing
As 'tokenmaxxing' dies out, Silicon Valley is having second thoughts.

TFW you have a phrase stuck in your head and you can't remember where you first heard or read it... it's Shakespeare. For me, at least 80% of the time, it's Shakespeare.

A Florida lawyer who describes himself as Donald Trump’s boyhood “best friend”
is pushing the president to declare a national emergency
to enable him to take control of November’s midterms, according to a report.
Peter Ticktin, 80, is a long-time believer in the claim that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” from Trump by a vast voter fraud conspiracy
told CNN in a new interview that the threat remains real

Trump’s childhood pal is pushing him to declare national emergency and seize control of midterms: report
Lawyer Peter Ticktin claims Democrats are conspiring to steal November’s vote, this time with a view to removing Trump and JD Vance from power and installing Hakeem Jeffries in their place

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Yulia Tkach, Platon Maiborada Academic Choir & Максим Созонтович Березовский:
🎵 Choral concerto "Cast Me Not Off in the time of Old Age"
#YuliaTkach #PlatonMaiboradaAcademicChoir #МаксимСозонтовичБерезовский

How Sam Altman's 80 personal investments, many from his time at YC, benefit from ties to OpenAI; 10 companies have discussed business deals with OpenAI (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/see-how-s…

It is encouraging to see that so many countries are making the transition from a 20% share of electric cars to 80% over the average lifespan of a car (15–20 years)
https://leraffl.github.io/LeRaffl-Gallery/#worldmap (transition time between thresholds view)

So organisations/companies realize that the topmodels are way too expensive for 80-90% of the things they want to use AI for. So they will move to cheaper models/versions, opensource models, on premis etc. At the same time OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI need more revenue to cover their outrageous costs/investments. How will they solve this? Just with big defense/government contracts?
#AI

Wrote about this a while back, and it just arrived. This is the violet vinyl of one of my favorite LPs of 2024 (and my all time favorite dungeon synth record), Warlock Corpse's 'Bloody Tears of the Desert'. So damn beautiful!
There were only 200 of these made, and there's still some available here:

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
石間秀機:
🎵 Depending by the Time
#石間秀機
https://open.spotify.com/track/2VvuV1gNePxCK6n6FAbM9S

A new report has found that nearly 80% of datacenters are also exposed to extreme climate hazards
-- including flooding, extreme winds and wildfires.
Those impacts are leaving the infrastructure vulnerable to disrupted operations, increased time offline and inflated insurance and repair costs, the research from climate risk analytics firm First Street shows.