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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-16 05:10:40

Reliz Ltd., which operates crypto lender BlockFills, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and reports $50M-$100M in estimated assets and $100M-$500M in liabilities (Timmy Shen/The Block)
theblock.co/post/393644/blockf

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-03-15 01:11:05

UF disbands College Republican chapter, citing antisemitic activity (Chelsea Long/Gainesville Sun)
gainesville.com/story/news/pol
memeorandum.com/260314/p74#a26

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-03-14 03:26:11

A US judge stays Cumulus Media's antitrust lawsuit against Nielsen, following Cumulus' filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week (Cameron Coats/Radio Ink)
radioink.com/2026/03/12/cumulu

@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-03-15 23:59:30

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Unclassified
anrimeal:
🎵 Chapter III - Source and time
#anrimeal
open.spotify.com/track/128EraZ

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-02-14 08:11:18

"On Wednesday evening, the Twin Cities chapter of Indivisible, a nationwide grassroots progressive advocacy organization, hosted a training on how to be an effective constitutional observer of ICE operations. In Minnesota alone, some 23,000 people have received the training, according to the organization."
showed how to fight ICE and win - Salon.com
salon.com/2026/02/13/minneapol

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-02-14 08:55:41

(paywalled) The sensorimotor theory of phenomenal consciousness sciencedirect.com/science/chap "a way of reconceptualizing the notion of qualia so that the experienced quality of phen…

@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-03-15 23:58:26

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Unclassified
anrimeal:
🎵 Chapter III - My Coast
#anrimeal
open.spotify.com/track/6BMBZeL

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-04-07 21:13:38

Why Kirk Cousins believes Las Vegas is the perfect next chapter raiders.com/news/why-kirk-cous

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2026-02-12 19:51:30

I'm reading Brecht's "Life of Galileo" at the moment.
Substitute the Roman Catholic Church for the Trump regime, ReformUK, and the rest of that shower and you could be reading the news from 2026.
fediscience.org/@hausfath/1160

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-02-11 10:59:26

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
clipping.:
🎵 Chapter 319
#clipping
clppng.bandcamp.com/album/chap
open.spotify.com/track/6QbyIrA

@kingconsult@berlin.social
2026-03-10 13:08:30

Wired reports: #Bluesky CEO Jay Graber @… is stepping down – Venture capitalist Toni Schneider @toni.bsky.team will take over as interim CEO.¹
Graber will become Bluesky’s Chief Innovation Officer.
Graber's statement:
#SocialMedia

@petaqui@masto.es
2026-03-13 08:17:48

“Todos los humanos son emprendedores […] porque la voluntad de crear estš codificada en el ADN humano, y la creación es la esencia del espíritu emprendedor. ~ Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha“ — El mejor negocio eres tú
Suena a a publicidad pero no lo es, y escribo yo, Alex, petaqui, no es el mensaje copia y pega de una aplicación. Pero es verdad que #Headway ayuda a descubrir nuevas ideas y a desarrol…

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2026-04-12 01:01:04

If you are a logophile or perhaps a lexophile, or if you watch British TV, you know the name, Susie Dent. She’s got a new book, a mystery, called Guilty by Definition. TBH I’m not a fan of mysteries, but I am a fan of her, so I picked this up when I saw it. 1 chapter in and I’m hooked. Editors at an Oxford dictionary get a letter that references the year the senior editor’s sister disappeared. #bookstodon

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-03-09 19:21:17

Mike Evans signing with 49ers: Buccaneers franchise icon beginning new chapter in San Francisco

cbssports.com/nfl/news/mike-ev

@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-02-07 20:57:06

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
SAULT:
🎵 Chapter 1
#NowPlaying #SAULT
saultglobal.bandcamp.com/album
open.spotify.com/track/6ohSXVL

Under pressure from Republican state attorneys general, the agency that advises
the U.S. Supreme Court and federal judges on scientific and technical matters has
withdrawn the entirety of its content on climate change from a new judicial reference manual.
The move by the Federal Judicial Center leaves judges without any official support on how to weigh evidence about basic weather and climate changes
-- just as numerous climate cases make their way through state and f…

@kctipton@mas.to
2026-03-11 17:22:57

El Paso Catholic Diocese files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization amid clergy sexual abuse lawsuits - El Paso Matters elpasomatters.org/2026/03/06/e

@brian_gettler@mas.to
2026-03-31 12:13:44

Scholarly (history) tables of contents, EN vs FR:
English: no more than 3 words per chapter title. These are merely signifiers, empty, regardless of length, until one has digested the argument each lays out. Why waste ink and paper on such pointless abstraction?
French: describing a chapter in fewer words than are contained in the chapter betrays the essence of the work. Still, we know that nothing is perfect and brevity has its merits so here is our 27-page table of contents.

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-04-07 19:11:19

Why Kirk Cousins believes Las Vegas is the perfect next chapter raiders.com/news/why-kirk-cous

@simon_jf@mastodon.scot
2026-03-06 13:48:41

Luca Padovani, Simon Gay, and I recently wrote a book chapter intended as a tutorial introduction to Mailbox Types.
The chapter is in the final phases of the review process (although we are waiting on final confirmation of acceptance), so I've put a draft on my website: simonjf.com/drafts/mb-behapi-d

@BugWarp@wikis.world
2026-04-11 02:59:48

Rob Navias: "From the pages of Jules Verne to a modern day mission to the moon, a new chapter of exploration of our celestial neighbour is complete. This mission is over but the melody lingers on."
Me:
#ArtemisII

Serge Gainsbourg crying while smoking
@HeidiSeibold@fosstodon.org
2026-03-19 08:30:14

Munich Research Software Engineering Meetup today, 18:00 – 19:30, at Max Planck Information and Technology (MaxIT) in Laim
Afterwards: Joint dinner
#RSEng

@cjust@infosec.exchange
2026-03-08 13:48:24

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Me looking outside to see what
chapter of Revelation we're
doing today.
@islamoyankee@mastodon.social
2026-02-18 01:06:14

Book Chapter in Civility Unbound
The idea of civility is predicated on a well-structured society that has norms that should benefit everyone. This essay questions whether such a society exists in the United States and whether what we call “civility” is simply a euphemism for “control.”

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-09 14:26:23

Chapter, which uses AI to help seniors enroll in Medicare, raised a $100M Series E, doubling its valuation to $3B and bringing its total funding to $285M (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/3-

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-03-13 02:20:36

New-age Titans unveil new-look logo, uniforms and helmets nfl.com/news/new-age-titans-un

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-04-08 00:13:37

Kirk Cousins has perfect mentality for Raiders chapter sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-ve

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-02-10 20:29:37

Federal Judicial Center Pulls Climate Change Chapter From Official Manual for U.S. Judges — ProPublica
propublica.org/article/federal

@cyrevolt@mastodon.social
2026-02-05 12:44:38

Happy to contribute to #Cilium (#documentation).
Good tools deserve good docs. ✨
github.com/cilium/cilium/pull/

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-01-25 15:41:44

This is a fashion trend. It’s not just functional; camo serves no purpose of disguising whatsoever on Minneapolis streets. Militaries are dressing the part — and ICE is playing dress-up.
Avery Trufelman’s excellent podcast Articles of Interest spent an entire season on this topic, under the name “Gear.” Here’s on relevant episode.
2/2
articlesofinterest.substack.co

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-02-10 21:55:49

Under GOP Pressure, Federal Agency Pulls Climate Change Chapter From Official Manual for U.S. Judges (Abrahm Lustgarten/ProPublica)
propublica.org/article/federal
memeorandum.com/260210/p124#a2

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2026-04-03 23:22:04

“Madness is something rare for individuals; but it is the rule for groups, parties, peoples, times.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter 4, Aphorism 156

@johnhobbs@mstdn.ca
2026-02-09 14:26:43

Turning 50 heralds an invigorating chapter, rich with life’s wisdom and opportunities. It's vital to shift from limitations to endless possibilities. You're NEVER too old to set a NEW goal or dream anew. Embrace this stage with vibrant enthusiasm. 🎉 #Empowerment #NewHorizons

@wvmierlo@zirk.us
2026-02-06 17:32:29

Look what arrived in the post: New Directions in Digital Textual Studies, expertly and diligently edited by Christopher Ohge and Kristen Schuster. My chapter on "Unlocking Literary Heritage: From Cabinets of Curiosity to Digital Storytelling" is surrounded by the work of a bunch of really terrific scholars. @… Peter Webster, Mary Erica Zimmer,…

@wraithe@mastodon.social
2026-04-04 21:40:46

Been playing The Long Dark for a few years & only just now, playing through Chapter 5 of “Wintermute” did accidentally I learn that you can kill a bear with a flare gun.
Astrid: “I swear to god, Bear Officer, I was just trying to scare him away…”
Bear Officer: “why are you reloading?”
A: “…no reason.”

Video clip from “The Long Dark” showing the corpse of a bear lying on the boardwalk of a dock in a frozen bay with snow all around, with a flare from a flare gun still burning in its mouth.
The POV character walks around the bear, examining (honestly I was making sure the damn thing was dead) and then reloads the flare gun
@cheryanne@aus.social
2026-03-05 08:24:49

Disability Practice Safeguarding Quality Service Delivery: A Podcast Series From The Living With Disability Research Centre
Each episode coincides with one of the book's chapters, featuring discussions the chapter's author and a series of take-home messages to apply to disability service delivery...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory:

Disability Practice Safeguarding Quality Service Delivery: A Podcast Series From The Living With Disability Research Centre
Screenshot of the podcast listing on the Great Australian Pods website
@frankel@mastodon.top
2026-01-21 09:00:12

#Arrow's #Either: The #Kotlin Chapter of our Scary Words Saga

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-10 12:25:53

xAI co-founder Tony Wu says he "resigned", following co-founder Igor Babuschkin's exit in August 2025; Wu was in charge of reasoning and reported to Elon Musk (Juro Osawa/The Information)
theinformation.com/briefings/a

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-03-13 03:16:15

Titans unveil new uniforms, ‘The Shield’ logo ahead of 30th season in Tennessee nytimes.com/athletic/7114012/2

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-26 10:05:39

An interview with Audrey Cooper, EIC of The Baltimore Banner, on local news decline, growing regionally, paywalls, experimenting with AI, and more (Editor and Publisher)
editorandpublisher.com/stories

@stsquad@mastodon.org.uk
2026-02-03 11:20:57

I have no idea what #musk has been huffing but clearly no one is willing to tell him no. #spacex have developed a really cool re-usable launch system but it seems like hubris to claim managing data centres in space gives you some sort of competitive advantage. Aside from making hardware swaps impossible…

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-02-13 21:57:37

From the Raiders’ Reset to Brady’s Misstep — Plus the NFL Number That Matters si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/from-r

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-01-29 14:11:25

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
SAULT:
🎵 Chapter 1
#SAULT
saultglobal.bandcamp.com/album

@scott@carfree.city
2026-01-29 08:42:09

You don't hate cars enough. I thought I knew everything there was to know about hating cars, and this book is showing me: not quite. Much of the nature chapter is new to me. @…
lif…

@hex@kolektiva.social
2026-02-25 06:14:29

I have some critiques of "Fighting in the Streets." The last chapter would get you killed. The coms advice are absolutely terrible, which makes me question other elements of the book. But it does provide a framework for thinking about what a militant resistance looks like, and what framework needs to exist to make it possible.
It's a short read, and worth it for the thought experiment. You can read TM 31-210 all you want, but it won't do anything for you without the social framework that makes more than one attack possible. It always comes back to community building, even if (especially if) you're wanting to make sure militant resistance is an option on the table.
archive.org/download/fighting-

@trochee@dair-community.social
2026-03-28 00:26:12

work director just tried to console us after the layoff
with the parable of the house on fire from the Lotus Sutra, chapter 3
i guess that makes us lowly employees... the children in the burning house? and he has bravely deceived us into running out, by telling us there are toys outside?
i don't even understand this as a Buddhist parable
but i _definitely_ think it was inappropriate for a director of engineering to say it to a group of colleagues mourning their l…

@seav@en.osm.town
2026-03-28 21:19:21

Congratulations to @… 🇨🇴! The Asociación de Cartografía Colaborativa de Colombia or AC3 is now the newest Local Chapter of the #OpenStreetMap Foundation as of 26 March! 🎉

@marcel@waldvogel.family
2026-01-22 05:20:00

"So long as the pain of using the service is lower than the pain of leaving it, the companies can turn the screws on users to make their lives worse in order to extract more profit from them. This is why Musk killed the block button and why Zuck fired all his moderators."
plural…

@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz
2026-02-24 20:24:45

#Requiescat For Paul Brainerd. geekwire.com/2026/pagemaker-pi

Circa late-1980s photo of Paul Brainerd wearing his signature aviator glasses.
@wvmierlo@zirk.us
2026-02-06 17:32:29

Look what arrived in the post: New Directions in Digital Textual Studies, expertly and diligently edited by Christopher Ohge and Kristen Schuster. My chapter on "Unlocking Literary Heritage: From Cabinets of Curiosity to Digital Storytelling" is surrounded by the work of a bunch of really terrific scholars. @… Peter Webster, Mary Erica Zimmer,…

@bici@mastodon.social
2026-02-25 03:21:25

PageMaker was years ahead of its time, and was essential to igniting the desktop publishing revolution.
RIP PAUL BRAINERD
daringfireball.net/linked/2026
via @…

National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info
State attorneys general won’t get climate chapter removed from a legal manual
arstechnica.com/science/2026/0

That's a beautiful aircraft.
Here's a picture from its first flight October 28, 2025, which was subsonic.
The idea is supersonic flight with no sonic booms.

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft lifts off for its first flight Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, from U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. The aircraft’s first flight marks the start of flight testing for NASA’s Quesst mission, the result of years of design, integration, and ground testing and begins a new chapter in NASA’s aeronautics research legacy.
@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-03-31 16:35:25

Call for Chapter Proposals: Tana French and Ireland
ift.tt/xSgUzai
updated: Monday, March 30, 2026 - 3:03pmfull name / name of organization: Ellen Scheiblecontact…
via Input 4 RELCFP

@gevoel@mastodon.green
2026-02-16 17:07:01

An El Niño is brewing
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki
> And with it the next, pivotal, chapter of the climate fight.

@Tuxramus@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-23 04:44:48

The Penultimate Chapter! ⏳
Final stream tonight before we move to Bulgaria! 🇧🇬 Exploring a new Valheim world and hanging out with the best community on Linux. Pull up a stump and let’s celebrate! 🛡️🐧
📺 Watch here: twitch.tv/tuxramus

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2026-03-26 19:32:20

New Cowboys EDGE Rashan Gary's Jersey Number Belonged To Disgruntled All-Pro si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/n

@carstingaxion@dewp.space
2026-01-16 20:59:04

“ Collectively, these optimizations target common real-world bottlenecks, improving consistency across a wide variety of configurations. HTTP Archive data supports this pattern, showing that WordPress performance variance is driven more by configuration than by core limitations.”
💐 Flowers for the #WordPress performance team, gifted by

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-03 01:55:46

If assumptions hold, SpaceX-xAI could own a full stack of capabilities, from launch to orbital bandwidth to frontier AI models, and offer AI on demand anywhere (Eric Berger/Ars Technica)
arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/spa

@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page
2026-02-25 10:44:31

The Diffusion Duality, Chapter II: $\Psi$-Samplers and Efficient Curriculum
Justin Deschenaux, Caglar Gulcehre, Subham Sekhar Sahoo
arxiv.org/abs/2602.21185 arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21185 arxiv.org/html/2602.21185
arXiv:2602.21185v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Uniform-state discrete diffusion models excel at few-step generation and guidance due to their ability to self-correct, making them preferred over autoregressive or Masked diffusion models in these settings. However, their sampling quality plateaus with ancestral samplers as the number of steps increases. We introduce a family of Predictor-Corrector (PC) samplers for discrete diffusion that generalize prior methods and apply to arbitrary noise processes. When paired with uniform-state diffusion, our samplers outperform ancestral sampling on both language and image modeling, achieving lower generative perplexity at matched unigram entropy on OpenWebText and better FID/IS scores on CIFAR10. Crucially, unlike conventional samplers, our PC methods continue to improve with more sampling steps. Taken together, these findings call into question the assumption that Masked diffusion is the inevitable future of diffusion-based language modeling. Beyond sampling, we develop a memory-efficient curriculum for the Gaussian relaxation training phase, reducing training time by 25% and memory by 33% compared to Duo while maintaining comparable perplexity on OpenWebText and LM1B and strong downstream performance. We release code, checkpoints, and a video-tutorial on: s-sahoo.com/duo-ch2
toXiv_bot_toot

@rasos@fairmove.net
2026-01-17 09:05:38

Could we become co-owner of #AI models, that used training data, which I published under a viral license?
We have briefly discussed this question in the Austrian #CreativeCommons chapter and came to the conclusion, that copyright can by only claimed by human beings. So the model itself and wha…

@me@mastodon.peterjanes.ca
2026-02-18 15:08:48

Impressed (commendatory) that it takes until the fifth paragraph of this article to — still indirectly — identify *which* Canadian Olympic hockey team it's about. cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/

What will people do when AI can handle most current white-collar tasks?
I don't know.
And that's the whole point.
Nobody knew what displaced agricultural workers would do, either,
-- until they did it.
The absence of a visible next chapter isn't evidence that there won't be one.
It's evidence that we're bad at predicting what humans will invent when constraints shift.

@seav@en.osm.town
2026-02-19 06:27:39

The comic / graphic novel will be ending soon and then the wait for the final Netflix movie will start. #Heartstopper 🏳️‍🌈
#LGBTQ #AliceOseman

Alice Oseman [Creator]

Hi everyone! | wanted to let you know that we are approaching the end of the Heartstopper webcomic. Which is very very sad and strange and scary for me!! But | thought it might be helpful for you all to know that the comic will end on April 11th this year. Chapter 8 will end on April 1st, and on April 11th there will be an epilogue.

Thank you for being here for this final part of the journey ♥️
@johnhobbs@mstdn.ca
2026-01-29 13:45:28

Retirement isn't an end – it's an exhilarating new chapter full of untapped opportunities. 🌟 At any age, redefine your purpose and chase those passions. Let's challenge the idea that age limits potential. Remember, the best way to predict your future is to create it! ⚡️ #NewBeginnings #RetirementJourney

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-03-31 16:35:26

Call for Full Chapter on Toni Morrison, including field / area scholarship review
ift.tt/2F9Xhzr
updated: Monday, March 30, 2026 - 3:04pmfull name / name of organization: Maureen E. Ruprechtcontact…
via Input 4 RELCFP

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-02-19 01:43:22

‘Love That Stormy Detail’: Trump Floated Through a Parade as a Jaw-Dropping Spectacle, and One Hilarious Detail Revives a Chapter He Forgets
atlantablackstar.com/2026/02/1

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-03-17 19:25:49

College Republicans sue University of Florida's president over deactivation of its chapter (Mike Schneider/Associated Press)
apnews.com/article/florida-rep
memeorandum.com/260317/p81#a26

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-19 21:15:46

Docs: DHS has signed a five-year, $1B blanket purchase agreement with Palantir, allowing agencies like ICE to skip the competitive bidding process (Makena Kelly/Wired)
wired.com/story/department-hom

@johnhobbs@mstdn.ca
2026-02-25 14:19:34

Imagine this: Age is just a gateway to limitless potential! 🚀 Like Churchill, we too can change our destinies. With confidence, embrace each new chapter – our potential is boundless. It's never too late to start anew and make history. Let's redefine what's possible! #NeverTooLate #EndlessOpportunities

@UP8@mastodon.social
2026-01-25 16:46:03

Students represent the Cornell Chapter of the WIldlife Society
#photo #photography #cornell #cornellclubs

An asian woman with a blue t-shirt and dark colored cargo pants stands next to a poster for The Wildlife Society with an open laptop in front of it and on ther other side a taller man has a brown jacket and blue jeans.  Both have short hair and behind it all is a curved wooden ceiling with a bright tow of windows at the top of the frame.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-03-24 18:45:14

Falcons QB Tua Tagovailoa embracing competition, excited to work with Michael Penix Jr. nfl.com/news/falcons-qb-tua-ta

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-21 12:21:05

Ukrainian-founded language learning marketplace Preply raised a $150M Series D led by WestCap at a $1.2B valuation; the startup has a 150-person office in Kyiv (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/lang

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-02-25 06:25:19

NEW PUBLICATIONS> Recent publications from 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha
ift.tt/2buJRkS
Treaties and Empire Seminar Series: Trần Thị Xuân (Hamburg University) - Interpreters and Foreign…
via Input 4 RELCFP

@johnhobbs@mstdn.ca
2026-02-21 14:02:59

As we approach the threshold of retirement, the dream of tranquil seaside mornings or serene coffee sips under sunlit trees becomes reality. This chapter allows us to explore the world, savor simplicity, and craft memories with loved ones. Truly, retirement's potential is Boundless! 🌅✨ #RetirementDreams #SimplePleasures

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-01-18 18:04:19

Cynicism, "AI"
I've been pointed out the "Reflections on 2025" post by Samuel Albanie [1]. The author's writing style makes it quite a fun, I admit.
The first part, "The Compute Theory of Everything" is an optimistic piece on "#AI". Long story short, poor "AI researchers" have been struggling for years because of predominant misconception that "machines should have been powerful enough". Fortunately, now they can finally get their hands on the kind of power that used to be only available to supervillains, and all they have to do is forget about morals, agree that their research will be used to murder millions of people, and a few more millions will die as a side effect of the climate crisis. But I'm digressing.
The author is referring to an essay by Hans Moravec, "The Role of Raw Power in Intelligence" [2]. It's also quite an interesting read, starting with a chapter on how intelligence evolved independently at least four times. The key point inferred from that seems to be, that all we need is more computing power, and we'll eventually "brute-force" all AI-related problems (or die trying, I guess).
As a disclaimer, I have to say I'm not a biologist. Rather just a random guy who read a fair number of pieces on evolution. And I feel like the analogies brought here are misleading at best.
Firstly, there seems to be an assumption that evolution inexorably leads to higher "intelligence", with a certain implicit assumption on what intelligence is. Per that assumption, any animal that gets "brainier" will eventually become intelligent. However, this seems to be missing the point that both evolution and learning doesn't operate in a void.
Yes, many animals did attain a certain level of intelligence, but they attained it in a long chain of development, while solving specific problems, in specific bodies, in specific environments. I don't think that you can just stuff more brains into a random animal, and expect it to attain human intelligence; and the same goes for a computer — you can't expect that given more power, algorithms will eventually converge on human-like intelligence.
Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, what evolution did succeed at first is achieving neural networks that are far more energy efficient than whatever computers are doing today. Even if indeed "computing power" paved the way for intelligence, what came first is extremely efficient "hardware". Nowadays, human seem to be skipping that part. Optimizing is hard, so why bother with it? We can afford bigger data centers, we can afford to waste more energy, we can afford to deprive people of drinking water, so let's just skip to the easy part!
And on top of that, we're trying to squash hundreds of millions of years of evolution into… a decade, perhaps? What could possibly go wrong?
[1] #NoAI #NoLLM #LLM

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-02-25 07:28:40

NEW PUBLICATIONS> Recent publications from 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha networks.h-net.org/group/annou

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-02-25 06:26:04

NEW PUBLICATIONS> Recent publications from 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha networks.h-net.org/group/annou

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-03-19 14:02:08

Forget Maxx Crosby; the Las Vegas Raiders have a new priority raiderramble.com/2026/03/19/fo

@johnhobbs@mstdn.ca
2026-02-17 13:54:56

As we approach the threshold of retirement, the dream of tranquil seaside mornings or serene coffee sips under sunlit trees becomes reality. This chapter allows us to explore the world, savor simplicity, and craft memories with loved ones. Truly, retirement's potential is Boundless! 🌅✨ #RetirementDreams #SimplePleasures

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-02-25 11:04:16

NEW PUBLICATIONS> Recent publications from 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha networks.h-net.org/group/annou

@johnhobbs@mstdn.ca
2026-03-07 22:46:31

Aging today offers a wealth of opportunities for personal growth and vitality. With breakthroughs in health science and abundant support, seniors can thrive like never before. Let's empower our loved ones to achieve wellness and financial independence as they embrace this new chapter. 🌟 #EmbraceAging #SeniorWellness

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2026-03-19 16:00:13

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
- Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Donald Macleod follows the irresistible rise of Italian opera composer Gaetano Donizetti. Today, a new chapter for Donizetti as he moves to Paris in search of artistic freedom.
Relisten now 👇
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sfnp

@johnhobbs@mstdn.ca
2026-03-24 13:24:43

Winston Churchill wisely said, "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." Retirement isn't an end; it's a launchpad for new adventures! Embrace it with enthusiasm and explore your potential where barriers once existed. You're ready for this exciting chapter! 🌟