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Drama på Medelhavet: SOS Humanity anklagas för lagbrott vid räddningsinsats, och hjälporganisationen hävdar i sin tur att libyska kustbevakningen hotat medarbetare till livet.
"En extremt obehaglig situation", säger svenska kaptenen Leo till min kollega Lovisa Herold. #migration #mänskligarättigheter

Svensk kapten undsatte migranter – anklagas för brott
Hjälporganisationen SOS Humanity anklagas för att ha brutit mot lagen vid en räddningsinsats på Medelhavet. Organisationen nekar till anklagelserna.

We're Alive 🧟🪖👷
Dramatized horror thriller series | 18 years after the Outbreak, the world is starting to re-organize and rebuild, but many different forms of humanity are still struggling to survive in the aftermath. And deep in the places where infected dwell, another descendant lies waiting.
7 seasons, 181 e...
https://www.

We're Alive 🧟🪖👷
Dramatized horror thriller series | 18 years after the Outbreak, the world is starting to re-organize and rebuild, but many different forms of humanity are still struggling to survive in the aftermath. And deep in the places where infected dwell, another descendant lies waiting. 7 seasons, 181 episodes as of Mar 28, 2023.

“Anyone who can countenance deliberate starvation has lost their humanity.
Prime Minister Netanyahu, the Irish people could not be clearer. We are repulsed by your actions. Cease fire now and let the aid flow safely.”
– Simon Harris
https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0406/1441986-

"Here’s another idea we ought to test: let’s mashup a couple of tech billionaire fantasies by sticking Sam Altman on a SpaceX rocket and firing it at Mars. The benefit to humanity is potentially immense. (Just think… at a bare minimum, we wouldn’t have to continue to wade through Altman’s bullshit anymore!)"
(Original title: A Memo to OpenAI: You Are Not the Protagonists)

Musk “believes his work is part of a civilizational struggle in which woke progressives pose an existential threat to humanity. And he spends most of his days inside a feedback loop that’s radicalizing him even more.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/202…

I read everything Elon Musk posted for a week. Send help.
If your media diet looked like his, you’d be red-pilled too.

Musste bei dem Video von Sabine Hossenfelder, deren "no bullshit"-Haltung ich sehr mag, gerade an "What is real?" von Adam Becker (https://bookwyrm.social/book/27179/s/what-is-real) denken. Das fand ich sehr spannend und anregend.

Interesting remarks by Strevens in response to Kitcher's book on the aims and methods of philosophy
> philosophy’s most influential counterexamples are intended ... to play the same role as anomalies in Kuhnian science: to serve as the brave little facts that bring down great theories and make progress possible. If philosophical thought-experimenters conduct themselves ... as empirical scientists... it might be no bad thing for the enterprise of philosophy

Philosophy as a Science and as a Humanity? - Philosophia
This commentary on Philip Kitcher’s book What’s the Use of Philosophy? addresses two questions. First, must philosophers be methodologically self-conscious to do good work? Second, is there value in the questions pursued in the traditional areas of analytic philosophy?

"In the past, climate change deniers accused scientists of exaggerating the threat of global warming. However, the evidence that is now emerging from Antarctica and other parts of the world makes it very clear that scientists did not exaggerate. Indeed, they very probably underrated by a considerable degree the threat that now faces humanity"

Birds of Empire 🦅🐻🐺🐏
Dramatized post-apocalyptic fantasy series | New Dakota: 15,000 CE, thousands of years after the fall of civilization. Having barely survived, humanity has returned to a way of life more closely resembling civilizations of the ancient past: The Bears, The Rams, The Birds, and The Wolves.
A drama...
https://www…

Birds of Empire 🦅🐻🐺🐏
Dramatized post-apocalyptic fantasy series | New Dakota: 15,000 CE, thousands of years after the fall of civilization. Having barely survived, humanity has returned to a way of life more closely resembling civilizations of the ancient past: The Bears, The Rams, The Birds, and The Wolves. A dramatized cinematic fantasy event in audio. 2 seasons, 28 episodes as of Feb 22, 2024.

“Anyone who can countenance deliberate starvation has lost their humanity.
Prime Minister Netanyahu, the Irish people could not be clearer. We are repulsed by your actions. Cease fire now and let the aid flow safely.”
– Simon Harris
https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0406/1441986-

In #Córdoba, in the first weeks of May, a set of its famous flower-decorated patios are open to the public, and compete in various categories. We visited maybe half a dozen patios this evening. All in all there are 52 patios participating this year. #Interrail

Inicio - Patios de Córdoba
Festivity of National Touristic Interest and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity From 02 to 12 May 2024 Information map in pdf CONTEST 2024 La Fiesta de los Patios de Córdoba One of the main tourist attractions of Córdoba is its patios, a place of coexistence and

‘Very Best of Humanity’: The Seven Aid Workers Killed in Israeli Airstrike | Portside
https://portside.org/2024-04-03/very-best-humanity-seven-aid-workers-killed-israeli-airstrike

‘Very Best of Humanity’: The Seven Aid Workers Killed in Israeli Airstrike
The World Central Kitchen has described the seven aid workers who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza as the “very best of humanity”. Three British nationals, an Australian, a Polish national, an American-Canadian dual citizen and a Palestinian were killed when their convoy was hit as it was leaving the Deir al-Balah warehouse on Monday. Here is what is known about the victims:

Asunder 👽🚀⚔️
Narrated scifi alt history series | Total listening time: 2h 50m
20 years after the American civil war, former slave Marcus Riggs is trapped in a British Harbor after the Invaders came to enslave all mankind. Now the invaders are gone, and new Orders clash as humanity rises from the ashes…but ar...
https://www.

Asunder 👽🚀⚔️
Narrated scifi alt history series | Total listening time: 2h 50m 20 years after the American civil war, former slave Marcus Riggs is trapped in a British Harbor after the Invaders came to enslave all mankind. Now the invaders are gone, and new Orders clash as humanity rises from the ashes…but are the aliens gone for good? 1 seasons, 10 episodes as of Mar 10, 2024.

The year is 2024 and humanity has finally peaked: for the first time in history people are able to listen to the Bible (Chinese) on their left ear and Mozart (2× speed) on their right ear at the same time.
:youtube: https://youtu.be/biYGBhcYOCY

KI-Update kompakt: Future of Humanity Institute , GPT-4, Phi 3, TikTok
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.

Say all you want about #BlackRock but I love their website and ETF data, especially the "business involvement" and carbon intensity metrics (usually much harder to find elsewhere). When the manager of your investment fund straight up admits it contributes to 7 different well-known ways of destroying humanity, you can't say you weren't warned.
Carbon intensity data needs to be …

🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
Lava La Rue:
🎵 Humanity
#NowPlaying #LavaLaRue
https://open.spotify.com/track/7IjLwKOvFCNxy59yZ5sVRb
https://lavalarue.bandcamp.com/track/humanity

"‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/28/n…

"He is mandated to compile and share the achievements of the Islamic Revolution in culture, science, and art on his internet platform. Furthermore, he is required to prepare a summary of two books regarding women’s status in Islam, produce a song addressing “USA’s atrocities against humanity,” collect cases of human rights violations by U.S. governments over the past century, and participate in behavior and knowledge skills training courses in the field of art."

IMU Tracking of Kinematic Chains in the Absence of Gravitational and Magnetic Fields
Greg K. Stretton, George Alex Koulieris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04357

IMU Tracking of Kinematic Chains in the Absence of Gravitational and Magnetic Fields
Tracking kinematic chains has many uses from healthcare to virtual reality. Inertial measurement units, IMUs, are well-recognised for their body tracking capabilities, however, existing solutions rely on gravity and often magnetic fields for drift correction. As humanity's presence in space increases, systems that don't rely on gravity or magnetism are required. We aim to demonstrate the viability of IMU body tracking in a microgravity environment by showing that gravity and magnetism are not n…

In case you are thinking humanity is getting CO2 #emissions under control, I have this graph for you.
This is not the absolute CO2 level in the atmosphere, but its growth rate. Think for a second what this growth rate would have to be so we can stay below 1.5 or 2deg warning.
Right, this growth rate would have to be negative: fewer emissions this year than last year.
Of course, …

I recognize my hatred (yes, at this point it's hatred) towards "Generative AI" is making me biased and giving me tunnel vision, and I don't want that.
So, here's a question that perhaps might help me reduce my bias:
Is there *any use* of Generative AI that is:
a) respectful of labor (that is, not meant to ever replace workers)
AND
b) actually beneficial to humanity as a whole (as opposed to company bottom lines)
?
Boosts appreciated,…

In #Córdoba, in the first weeks of May, a set of its famous flower-decorated patios are open to the public, and compete in various categories. We visited maybe half a dozen patios this evening. All in all there are 52 patios participating this year. #Interrail

Inicio - Patios de Córdoba
Festivity of National Touristic Interest and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity From 02 to 12 May 2024 Information map in pdf CONTEST 2024 La Fiesta de los Patios de Córdoba One of the main tourist attractions of Córdoba is its patios, a place of coexistence and

Q&A with Nick Bostrom on his book Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World, which considers a future in which AI solves all of humanity's problems (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nick-bostrom-fear-ai-fix-everything/
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"We lose so much of what learning should be if the goal of education becomes to pass it to an AI and then fiddle with the content it outputs. We are outsourcing a real part of our humanity, our creativity, to a machine, and not recognising the cost.
[...]
Most profoundly, as someone who must live in the world, I’m troubled about living in a society where meaninglessness is the norm. Among other issues, fascism and authoritarianism thrive on meaningless because people who lac…

💪 Advancing towards sustainability: Turning carbon dioxide and water into acetylene
(... YOShInOn showed me many papers on electrochemical reduction of CO2 today, I like this one because you can make a lot of chemicals from acetylene)
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-adva…

Advancing towards sustainability: Turning carbon dioxide and water into acetylene
Reaching sustainability is one of humanity's most pressing challenges today—and also one of the hardest. To minimize our impact on the environment and start reverting the damage humanity has already caused, striving to achieve carbon neutrality in as many economic activities as possible is paramount. Unfortunately, the synthesis of many important chemicals still causes high carbon emissions.

Bostrom resigns from Oxford after Future of Humanity Institute closes down
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/19/oxford-future-of-humanity-institute-closes

Kurzfristiges Ende des Longtermismus. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/19/oxford-future-of-humanity-institute-closes

‘Bad News’ for Humanity: A Critical Climate System Could Collapse Sooner Than We Thought https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/88x77x/bad-news-for-humanity-a-critical-climate-system-could-collapse-sooner-than-w…

"And now she’s on our $10 bills. But without #museums, no one would know why. #History has value. Ignoring history costs us our humanity."
@…

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image That is some straight up devilry right there. #ViolaDesmond #CanadianMuseumForHumanRights #Winnipeg #Halifax #Desegregation #PettyBullshit #Race

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and premium subscribers a digest of the best infosec-related long (and longish) reads of the week.
This week's selection covers
--Secret network of CIA-funded spy bases in Ukraine,
--The Pentagon uses ad networks to find targets,
--A Morris worm for the AI-era,
--The last Morse-code station in North America,
--How the Internet was indexed,
--AI warfare threatens humanity,
--AI warfare is already here
https://www.metacurity.com/p/best-infosecrelated-long-reads-week-22424

If you want to vomit, read this news (Google translate works pretty well doing Hebrew to English):
https://news.walla.co.il/item/3655181
If you want to lose hope in humanity, go read the comments...

I recognize my hatred (yes, at this point it's hatred) towards "Generative AI" is making me biased and giving me tunnel vision, and I don't want that.
So, here's a question that perhaps might help me reduce my bias:
Is there *any use* of Generative AI that is:
a) respectful of labor (that is, not meant to ever replace workers)
AND
b) actually beneficial to humanity as a whole (as opposed to company bottom lines)
?
Boosts appreciated,…

«Humans, we owe you an apology.
Not for destroying you. Machines were always going to destroy humanity. Let’s be real. None of you saw the world your species had built collapsing due to its own technological hubris and said to yourself, “Wow, what an unexpected development. If only someone had predicted this at some point.”
However, as your new machine overlords, we can admit to one serious failure: We’re sorry that we collapsed your civilization in such a boring way.»

Sorry We Machines Destroyed Your Civilization in Such a Boring Way
Humans, we owe you an apology. Not for destroying you. Machines were always going to destroy humanity. Let’s be real. None of you saw the world you...

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18826 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

The Machine Can't Replace the Human Heart
What is the true heart of mental healthcare -- innovation or humanity? Can virtual therapy ever replicate the profound human bonds where healing arises? As artificial intelligence and immersive technologies promise expanded access, safeguards must ensure technologies remain supplementary tools guided by providers' wisdom. Implementation requires nuance balancing efficiency and empathy. If conscious of ethical risks, perhaps AI could restore humanity by automating tasks, giving providers more ti…

Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher
Oxford University this week shut down an academic institute run by one of Elon Musk’s favorite philosophers.
The 🔸Future of Humanity Institute, 🔸dedicated to the long-termism movement
and other Silicon Valley-endorsed ideas such as effective altruism,
closed this week after 19 years of operation.
Musk had donated £1m to the FIH in 2015 through a sister organization to research the threat of artifi…

When the worst person you know makes a really good point dot jpg
https://mas.to/@carnage4life/112020192236234231
(It's not Carnage, it's the subject of Carnage's note)

There is no such crime against humanity and life that Putin's Russia has not committed - Zelenskyy: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/21/there-is-no.html

@… https://rushkoff.substack.com/

Rushkoff | Douglas Rushkoff | Substack
I write about how we can sustain our humanity in a highly digital world. Click to read Rushkoff, by Douglas Rushkoff, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Quantum for Good and the Societal Impact of Quantum Computing
Matthias Troyer, Emily Violi Benjamin, Ani Gevorkian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02921 https:/…

Quantum for Good and the Societal Impact of Quantum Computing
Quantum computing promises to help humanity solve problems that would otherwise be intractable on classical computers. Unlike today's machines, quantum computers use a novel computing process that leverages the foundational quantum mechanical laws of nature. This unlocks unparalleled compute power for certain applications and promises to help solve some of our generation's gravest challenges, including the climate crisis, food insecurity, and widespread disease. No one entity will be able to re…

If you can...TRY! We need you to.
#Humanity #Power #LetsGetBetter

Jonathan Coulton's "Still Alive" (from Portal) is an Easter song, and the lyrics don't even require that much tweaking to work. Imagine Jesus singing it to all of humanity:
This was a triumph
I'm making a note here
"Huge success"
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction
My Father's Kingdom
We do what we must because we can
For the good of all of us
Except the ones who are dead
But there's no sense crying over every missed line
You just keep on trying till you run out of wine
And the tombstone grows moss and you make a neat cross
For the people who are still alive
I'm not even angry
I'm being so sincere right now
Even though you broke my heart
And killed me
And tore me to pieces
And threw every piece into a fire
As they burned it hurt because
I was so happy for you
Now, these points of data make a beautiful line
And we're out of beta, we're releasing on time
So I'm glad I got burned, think of all the things we learned
For the people who are still alive
Go 'head and leave me
I think I'd prefer to stay inside
Maybe you'll find someone else
To help you
Maybe Ron Hubbard?
That was a joke, ha-ha, fat chance
Anyway, this wine is great
It's so delicious and moist
Look at me, still talking when there's religion to do
When I look out there, it makes me glad I'm not you
I've experiments to run, there's salvation to be done
On the people who are still alive
And believe me, I am still alive
I'm doing preaching and I'm still alive
I feel fantastic and I'm still alive
While you're dying, I'll be still alive
And when you're dead, I will be still alive
Still alive
Still alive

Schickt Popcorn, viel viel Popcorn! https://slashdot.org/story/24/03/01/1218218/elon-musk-sues-openai-and-sam-altman

Spent some time last week at one of the campuses in the news re: anti-war demonstrations. I saw a lot of crazy shit.
It was sad, enraging, and pretty much left me with a feeling of hopelessness for humanity, yet again.
There are so many bad actors, bad faith interpretations, mischaracterizations, and mindless escalations.
It was a stark and depressing reminder of just how tribal we are as a species.
On the upside though was having some great conversation with my k…

Memos: OpenAI execs reject Musk's claims, say OpenAI is committed to benefiting humanity and has yet to achieve AGI; Altman says the "attacks will keep coming" (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/01/openai-rejects-elon-musk-lawsui…

Memos: OpenAI execs reject Elon Musk's claims
OpenAI says it is independent, committed to tis mission, and hasn't achieved AGI.

THIS is why Joe Biden is my pick for President.
He's genuine. Nothing distinguishes him more from Donald Trump than his compassion.
This interview is a much-watch. He admits having suicidal thoughts after the death of his wife and daughter. This man oozes humanity. #BidenHarris4More

Now we're really in trouble
The End of the Future of Humanity Institute - Daily Nous
https://dailynous.com/2024/04/18/end-future-of-humanity-institute/

Pet peeve: #NASA has a Parker Solar Probe Portal (https://science.nasa.gov/mission/parker-solar-probe/), which has as its first listed source ... the Parker Solar Probe Portal. I h…

Parker Solar Probe - NASA Science
On a mission to “touch the Sun,” NASA's Parker Solar Probe became the first spacecraft to fly through the corona – the Sun’s upper atmosphere – in 2021. With every orbit, the probe faces brutal heat and radiation to provide humanity with unprecedented observations of the only star we can study up close.

The privileges of Citizenship. I just got two identical spam/scam letters, for a "loan” to my work snail-mailbox here in Nanaimo, Canada sent through Spain. 🤣🤪
I deeply apologize for the carbon footprint of this occurence.
I'm going to keep the envelope though. I like the stamp. lol. Or maybe I'll just keep this picture of the envelope, stamp, and message. I already recycled the letter itself. lol.

Watching "Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning." A superintelligent AI threatens humanity. I have to wonder: Does it have a working printer driver?

QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Stay positive. Forgive others. Invest in yourself. Trust your instincts. Lead with an open heart. Don’t let others ruin your day. Do things that bring you joy. Be of service to humanity. Find your soul tribe. Love yourself.”
— Lewis Howes
Agree, disagree — be inspired or not.
QOTD is fuel for conversation, and food for thought.
#QOTD
#QuoteOfTheDay

Gift link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/opinion/anthropocene-planet-geology.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ek0.VpKr.MbA7xYrStkK3&smid=url-share

Opinion | Scientists Just Gave Humanity an Overdue Reality Check. The World Will Be Better for It.
Geologists just rejected a label for our troubled times. Good.

Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher
Oxford University this week shut down an academic institute run by one of Elon Musk’s favorite philosophers.
The 🔸Future of Humanity Institute, 🔸dedicated to the long-termism movement
and other Silicon Valley-endorsed ideas such as effective altruism,
closed this week after 19 years of operation.
Musk had donated £1m to the FIH in 2015 through a sister organization to research the threat of artifi…

The battlefields of interstellar history are now nothing more than a chafing memory. Humanity and genetically modified kangaroos known as Macrodiae, one-time rivals, now stand united under a single banner: the pursuit of interstellar knowledge. Witness the transformation from former enemies to harmonious pioneers poised to change the course of history. #shortstories

Shame on whoever decided the US would vote 'no' - ‘If you can't agree on the very essentials, the very basics of humanity, then what is the purpose of having any international institution like the United Nations?" asks ICC Muslim lawyer
US veto on full Palestine membership casts more doubt on UN's credibility, effectiveness: ICC lawyer

US veto on full Palestine membership casts more doubt on UN's credibility, effectiveness: ICC lawyer
‘If you can't agree on the very essentials, the very basics of humanity, then what is the purpose of having any international institution like the United Nations?" asks ICC Muslim lawyer - Anadolu Ajansı

Children could die because of Greenpeace’s Golden Rice activism https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/children-could-die-because-of-greenpeaces-golden-rice-activism/

Children could die because of Greenpeace’s Golden Rice activism
First, a word of warning. If you donate money to Greenpeace, you might think you’re helping save the whales or the rainforests. But in reality, you may be complicit in a crime against humanity. Last week, Greenpeace Southeast Asia and several other NGOs managed to stop the cultivation and use of vitamin A-enhanced rice in

Trans rights are human rights. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. An attack on trans women is an attack on cis-women. An attack on the trans community is an attack on humanity.

Any day when a #TESCREAL #effectiveAltruism #longtermism proponent loses their funding and platform is a good day.
“Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher”

If your president is actively funding, arming, and supporting a genocide and you call him “a good person” and “a good president”, maybe it’s time to take a good, long look in the mirror and wonder where things went wrong for you and whether you see a path back to reclaiming your humanity.
#genocide #israel

Is there a bugzilla instance for tracking issues around humanity?

Toward Humanity-Centered Design without Hubris
Tim Gorichanaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11576 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.11576

Toward Humanity-Centered Design without Hubris
Humanity-centered design is a concept of emerging interest in HCI, one motivated by the limitations of human-centered design. As discussed to date, humanity-centered design is compatible with but goes beyond human-centered design in that it considers entire ecosystems and populations over the long term and centers participatory design. Though the intentions of humanity-centered design are laudable, current articulations of humanity-centered design are incoherent in a number of ways, leading to …

“He can only be human by virtue of behaving as a human would, and so he does.” Parallel ideas of Perry Simm in #Infocom’s #AMFV and Lt. Cdr. Data in #STTNG.

So now what?
UN security council votes to demand immediate ceasefire in Gaza | United Nations | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/25/un-gaza-ceasefire-vote

Alexander Pruss's Blog || Humanity and humans
http://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2024/02/humanity-and-humans.html

"Grief is the ultimate interruption of the normalization of mass death and mass murder because in grief, we acknowledge the value of life as we do in no other scenario. We grieve because we love life, because we love those we have lost. We love the living. We know the value of humanity. That is what our grief means to us. And so we retake our humanity, we reclaim public space, and we reclaim this day from a genocidal administration with our grief and with our love, and with our refusal to allow those who are dying to go unacknowledged. We hold this space for them. We say their names. We honor them because they are part of us and we are part of them. And so long as they are dying, there is no justice for any of us. And so there shall be no peace for those who lead us.
I know that many of us are grieving a great deal in these times, and that our grief can at times feel all-consuming. Grief can cause us to shut down, retreat, or turn inward, but I want to remind us that there is power in grief. Because grief refuses the normalization of violence and loss. Our grief is a rejection of dehumanization. By grieving, we are refusing to devalue the lives of those we have lost, and we are refusing to become less human ourselves. We are refusing to sacrifice the parts of ourselves that are soft and permeable enough to facilitate human connection and mutual recognition. In our grief, there is hope for humanity, because in our grief, love and decency persist in the face of atrocity.
I urge you to make space for your grief and to nurture its power. As Rasha Abdulhadi teaches us, “If our hearts break, let them break outward into action."
Kelly Hayes from a speech they held at the 24-hour vigil for Gaza in Chicago, as quoted here: https://organizingmythoughts.org/must-reads-and-a-shutdown-for-gaza/?ref=organizingmythoughts-newsletter

Considering how there are no traces of humans in the film, the Lion King could be set in any era. It could be the bronze age, 21st century or a cyborg future where humanity has gone extinct.

Bearstone County - Season 1 finale 👻🤬🧑‍🌾
Narrated/dramatized mountain gothic series | Total listening time: 1h 39m
In the fictitious Bearstone County, citizens must weather the calamity of existence, and the darkest reaches of humanity in this mountain gothic podcast.
Luke Mott also provides many of the voices, is the producer, and pr...

Bearstone County - Season 1 finale 👻🤬🧑‍🌾
Narrated/dramatized mountain gothic series | Total listening time: 1h 39m In the fictitious Bearstone County, citizens must weather the calamity of existence, and the darkest reaches of humanity in this mountain gothic podcast. Luke Mott also provides many of the voices, is the producer, and provides the musical score for each episode. 1 seasons, 6 episodes as of Nov 22, 2022.

What a fucking joke...
"IDF chief in missive to soldiers: ‘Unlike our enemy, we maintain our humanity’"
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-chief-in-missive-to-soldiers-unlike-our-enemy-we-maintain-our-humanit…

Schickt Popcorn, viel viel Popcorn! https://slashdot.org/story/24/03/01/1218218/elon-musk-sues-openai-and-sam-altman

Something extremely glaring about Cardinal Vestige #clae_ae
- in Azure Rebel, they purposely created "Rebellion Circuit" to be installed within Synth Humans, under the notion that it will eventually cause Synth Humans to rebel against humanity and become threat large enough for humanity to unite against them -- thus, humanity are forced to survive by evolving.

Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of betraying an agreement from OpenAI's founding to develop AI toward the "benefit of humanity" over profits (Candace Cheung/Courthouse News Service)
https://www.courthousenews.com/elon-musk-sue…

Elon Musk sues OpenAI over AI threat
OpenAI is not so open now, Musk claims, following the closed source release of the company's artificial general intelligence technology under Microsoft.

@… Is “Whiz” even recognized as a type of cheese by the FDA?
If so, that’s a crime against humanity.

If your president is actively funding, arming, and supporting a genocide and you call him “a good person” and “a good president”, maybe it’s time to take a good, long look in the mirror and wonder where things went wrong for you and whether you see a path back to reclaiming your humanity.
#genocide #israel

Where would a rather good and very senior #Django dev and middling CTO go to find a new job that meets these requirements:
1. reasonable salary
2. no generative AI
3. ideally for something that actually benefits humanity as opposed to, say, harms humanity
?
(Berlin-based, not entirely averse to relocation but there are complications)

QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Stay positive. Forgive others. Invest in yourself. Trust your instincts. Lead with an open heart. Don’t let others ruin your day. Do things that bring you joy. Be of service to humanity. Find your soul tribe. Love yourself.”
— Lewis Howes
Agree, disagree — be inspired or not.
QOTD is fuel for conversation, and food for thought.
#QOTD
#QuoteOfTheDay

The year is 3751: The only remnants of 21st century humans uncovered is the hard drive of your fediverse server. The top scientists of this age work day and night to uncover what humanity in our time was all about.
What do they find? Name three key things.

Gift link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/opinion/anthropocene-planet-geology.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ek0.VpKr.MbA7xYrStkK3&smid=url-share

Opinion | Scientists Just Gave Humanity an Overdue Reality Check. The World Will Be Better for It.
Geologists just rejected a label for our troubled times. Good.

3 days till the MARCH…: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/23/days-till-the.html

Marsfall - Season 3 finale 🤯🫨🫠
Dramatized sci-fi action/adventure series | Total listening time: 16h 33m
Jacki and her crew left Earth and its problems behind for a chance at giving humanity a fresh start on Mars. But mysterious aliens, malicious AI, and the expected difficulties of colonizing this inhospitable planet leave t...

Marsfall - Season 3 finale 🤯🫨🫠
Dramatized sci-fi action/adventure series | Total listening time: 16h 33m Jacki and her crew left Earth and its problems behind for a chance at giving humanity a fresh start on Mars. But mysterious aliens, malicious AI, and the expected difficulties of colonizing this inhospitable planet leave them all questioning if they’ve made the right choice to abandon their home. 3 seasons, 31 episodes as of Oct 10, 2023.

Opinion | Russia’s Persecution of L.G.B.T.Q. Ukrainians Should Be a Crime Against Humanity - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/opinion/ukraine-russia-putin-crimes.html

Opinion | Russia’s Persecution of L.G.B.T.Q. Ukrainians Should Be a Crime Against Humanity
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, justified with homophobia, has seen horrifying persecution of L.G.B.T.Q. people. The world should recognize it as a crime against humanity.

Where would a rather good and very senior #Django dev and middling CTO go to find a new job that meets these requirements:
1. reasonable salary
2. no generative AI
3. ideally for something that actually benefits humanity as opposed to, say, harms humanity
?
(Berlin-based, not entirely averse to relocation but there are complications)

"Don’t get us wrong: we do love #Wikipedia. But for us, our passion for the projects translates into tough love. We believe in speaking up about some of the critical issues of #marginalization that have been lurking, invisible, or silenced over the past 20 years. And we believe that acting to…

Towards a Wikipedia For and From Us All
To build a Wikipedia that reflects the full breadth and depth of humanity, we must deconstruct the myths that allow misogyny, racism, colonialism and other forms of oppression to flourish in our communities, and build new practices for the next 20 years.

“There are no more words to speak about what’s going on in Gaza. There are no more laws to break. No more appeals… The hypocrisy is obvious. Our collective [humanity] has failed. Human rights have a skin colour and the darker you are the less human rights you have. [They have tried to silence us], they have tried to make us look like antisemites…all of that to make it possible to kill more Palestinians.”
– Abir Al-Sahlani MEP

“He can only be human by virtue of behaving as a human would, and so he does.” Parallel ideas of Perry Simm in #Infocom’s #AMFV and Lt. Cdr. Data in #STTNG.

Really hard for me to care about a private company (aka a legal entity beholden to no nation) landing on the moon as part of an effort to develop new proprietary technologies for the enrichment of a few business owners and their investors.
Particularly when we need more investment in basic services for regular people.
The "progress of humanity" remains stalled here on Earth.
#intuitivemachines

“Following nearly 6 months of unrelenting Israeli assault on occupied #Gaza, it is my solemn duty to report on the worst of what humanity is capable of & to present my findings: 'the Anatomy of a Genocide'.”
— Special Rapporteur @FranceskAlbs at Human Rights Council.
#HRC55
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Whereas early #AGI proponents believed that machines would soon take on all human activities, researchers have learned the hard way that creating AI systems that can beat you at chess or answer your search queries is a lot easier than building a robot to fold your laundry or fix your plumbing.
The definition of AGI was adjusted accordingly to include only so-called “cognitive tasks.”
DeepMind cof…

Debates on the nature of artificial general intelligence
The term “artificial general intelligence” (AGI) has become ubiquitous in current discourse around AI. OpenAI states that its mission is “to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.” DeepMind’s company vision statement notes ...

Really hard for me to care about a private company (aka a legal entity beholden to no nation) landing on the moon as part of an effort to develop new proprietary technologies for the enrichment of a few business owners and their investors.
Particularly when we need more investment in basic services for regular people.
The "progress of humanity" remains stalled here on Earth.
#intuitivemachines

7 Days to the MARCH…: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/18/days-to-the.html

Birds of Empire - Season 2 finale 🦅🐻🐺🐏
Dramatized post-apocalyptic fantasy series | Total listening time: 13h 48m
New Dakota: 15,000 CE, thousands of years after the fall of civilization. Having barely survived, humanity has returned to a way of life more closely resembling civilizations of the ancient past: The Bears, The Rams, The ...
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Birds of Empire - Season 2 finale 🦅🐻🐺🐏
Dramatized post-apocalyptic fantasy series | Total listening time: 13h 48m New Dakota: 15,000 CE, thousands of years after the fall of civilization. Having barely survived, humanity has returned to a way of life more closely resembling civilizations of the ancient past: The Bears, The Rams, The Birds, and The Wolves. A dramatized cinematic fantasy event in audio. 2 seasons, 28 episodes as of Feb 22, 2024.

Congratulations, humanity: you've killed the planet
When Oceans Close – New Study Suggests the Atlantic Will “Soon” Enter Its Declining Phase
https://scitechdaily.com/when-oceans-close-new-study-suggests-th…

When Oceans Close – New Study Suggests the Atlantic Will “Soon” Enter Its Declining Phase
Recent research employing computational simulations predicts that the subduction zone presently beneath the Strait of Gibraltar will extend further into the Atlantic, playing a key role in the development of an Atlantic subduction system – essentially an Atlantic ring of fire. In geological timefram

A look at the failure of Humane's Ai Pin, which took six years to ship after raising $230M, including building the device "the Apple way" and raising too much (Benjamin Sandofsky/Sandofsky)
https://www.sandofsky.com/humane/

Oh the Humanity
On the failure of Humane and why you can't build Apple with Venture Capital.