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A century of glaciers melting, condensed into a few seconds. Impressive video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQWfDRejcPw/?igsh=Zm51d2Qzb2xtNHM4

Michel Galati on Instagram: "A century of change condensed into a few seconds. In collaboration with @glacionaut I transformed historical and contemporary photographs of Swiss and Austrian glaciers into short AI-animated sequences (Dream Machine by @lumalabsai ). Each clip shows the passage from past to present. The climate has always changed, true, but never this fast. In the past two years alone, Swiss glaciers have lost more than 10% of their total volume (source: Swiss Academy of Sciences). What once took centuries now happens in decades. And yes, the music is The Four Seasons by Vivaldi. An homage to nature, and perhaps a reminder of what we stand to lose. 📍 Photos: @glacionaut 🎥 AI Animation: @flashologo 🗓️ Period: ca. 1875–2024 • 🇮🇹 Un secolo di cambiamento racchiuso in pochi secondi. In collaborazione con @glacionaut, ho trasformato fotografie storiche e contemporanee di alcuni ghiacciai svizzeri e austriaci in brevi sequenze animate con l’intelligenza artificiale (Dream Machine di @lumalabsai). Ogni clip mostra il passaggio dal passato al presente. Il clima è sempre cambiato, è vero, ma mai così rapidamente. Negli ultimi due anni i ghiacciai svizzeri hanno perso oltre il 10% del loro volume (fonte: Swiss Academy of Sciences). Ciò che un tempo accadeva in secoli, oggi avviene in decenni. E sì, la musica è Le Quattro Stagioni di Vivaldi. Un omaggio alla natura e, forse, un promemoria di ciò che rischiamo di perdere. 📍 Foto: @glacionaut 🎥 Animazioni AI: @flashologo 🗓️ Periodo: ca. 1875–2024 • • #ai #dreammachine #ray3 #imagetovideo #glaciers #switzerland #austria #climatchange #history"
44K likes, 814 comments - flashologo on October 28, 2025: "A century of change condensed into a few seconds. In collaboration with @glacionaut I transformed historical and contemporary photographs of Swiss and Austrian glaciers into short AI-animated sequences (Dream Machine by @lumalabsai ). Each clip shows the passage from past to present. The climate has always changed, true, but never this fast. In the past two years alone, Swiss glaciers have lost more than 10% of their total volume (sou…

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#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Internal Amazon documents and sources: executives believe Amazon is on the cusp of replacing 500K jobs with robots and aims to automate 75% of its operations (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons-…

Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots
Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations.

I appreciate all the legal thoughts laid out here in this piece (via @…), and yes, Congress and all the relevant parties should move in all these fronts.
I find it hard, however, to take completely seriously a legal strategy document of this length that (1) imagines Congress doing any of this and (2) mentions the SCOTUS only twice, and then only in reference to its past upholding of law. I’m not convinced this is a piece that fully appreciates the severity of the current situation and the degree of institutional rot.
https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/115758300023480323

This widely-linked story is, I think, much ado about nothing. Anyone who's seen the inside of an Amazon warehouse immediately thinks “Shouldn’t robots be doing this?” and that includes every Amazon biz and engineering leader, starting like 25 years ago. There is no doubt that the whole warehouse sector would love to replace humans with robots. It’s hard. So what’s new? Is it possible LLM fairy dust will solve the problem? Unconvinced.

Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents
Amazon is leaning into automation plans that will enable the company to avoid hiring more than half a million US workers, according to leaked documents.

Black Coffee from lnbits likes internet of things, but doesn't like the way it tends to work with centralised servers and spying companies running them.
But what if your coffee pot and lights and smart plugs were nostr instead?
Nobody can cut your machine off, it has it's own keys and encryption, you could even ruin your own relay to talk to it instead of using public relays.
Remote control without having to expose the home network.
You could even make it require zaps and so make a vending machine.
Demonstration by sending lightning requests to the coffee pot on stage works better than the mikes that have been feeding back this afternoon 😆
#nostr #nostrshire #internetOfThings

WBD's "unsolicited interest" statement indicates that it is willing to sell its valuable studio and streaming business instead of splitting itself into two (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/wbd-sale-mul…

The possible sale of Warner Bros. just got a lot more interesting
Warner Bros. Discovery rejected Paramount's bid — now it wants more bidders for some or all of the company.

How does genocide happen in 2025? Because of toadies like Keir Starmer.
He should be sitting at The Hague alongside Netanyahu, Trump, Friedrich Merz, and everyone else who is complicit in the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people.
#israel #genocide

So in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.

Business Insider joins Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace pilot, which compensates publishers when their content is used in AI-generated results (Barbara Peng/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/announcing-our-new-ai-partnersh…

Announcing our new AI partnership with Microsoft
This pilot creates a framework for a lasting, usage-based partnership between publishers and technology platforms to ensure quality content is credited and rewarded.