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From the You-didn't-see-this-paper-coming department today: #PrimordialBlackHoles as Technosignatures of Extraterrestrial Advanced Civilizations -> "Our findings provide a new avenue for searching for extraterrestrial advanced civilizations by extending microlensing studies to include artificial, dynamic modulation signatures" (noting in passing that ET and Dyson Spheres and PBHs are all speculative).

Irgendetwas ist cringe an diesem Bild. Ich weiß nicht genau, was mich so extrem stört. Vielleicht die viel zu große Uhr am Arm der Frau in der Mitte...?

Ein learning aus inzwischen fast 15 Jahren Arbeit für die grüne Landtagsfraktion BW: nur ein minimaler Teil dessen, was im Landtag beraten und an Gesetzen beschlossen wird, wird der Öffentlichkeit bekannt. Und ein großer Teil davon wird nur extrem verkürzt berichtet. Die morgen anstehenden Änderung des Polizeigesetzes ist Thema der öffentlichen Debatte. Das ist per se schon mal gut. Auch hier: was in der Öffentlichkeit diskutiert wird, hat vielfach wenig mit dem zu tun, was zur Abstimmung st…

Suchaktion in Indien - Extremsportler sauer: „Ich bin nicht abgestürzt!“ #News #Nachrichten

For me I have two scanners for papers, pictures, negatives and slides. For floppies and ZIP disks I have an old SFF machine where I can extract all of the files and save them to USB sticks.
Friends and family knows that if they don't want the pictures to send them to me. I digitize and store them in archival quality holders in a room where the humidity is controlled and the temperature doesn't change very much. Last batch were family images that no one knew of and everyone r…

Hmm. Ordered some extras alongside my C64 Ultimate. Since the homepage says they use semi-local warehouses, I felt pretty good about it. For some reason they send the three extras one by one, and I received the first one from Europe. Being a bit surprised by the delivery time for the next one, I decided to track it, and it’s coming from the US :-S. I sure hope this doesn’t mean additional import fees.

heise | Jetzt wird’s märchenhaft: Lokal generierte KI-Extras für Ihre Urlaubsfotos
Mit ComfyUI und GIMP passen Sie Urlaubsfotos lokal und kostenlos an. Für diesen Workflow braucht es nicht einmal Unmengen an Grafikkartenleistung.

From Stand Earth
Despite B.C.’s Peace River region facing an ongoing severe drought, last year oil and gas companies set a new record high for freshwater extraction with an alarming 50% increase over the previous year. If that doesn’t sit right with you, you’re not alone!
Last year B.C. oil and gas companies withdrew and polluted enough freshwater for more than 110,000 households – that’s equivalent to the entire population of Nanaimo.
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“‘Ownership gives you things and elements that you can’t get from just signing a document,’” Trump told NYT.”
And how, pray tell, does this former real estate developer think ownership of things like real estate is established?
From just signing a document. 🤦‍♂️
His mind is mush wrapped in malicious childhood disappointment.

Trump insists he doesn’t need international law and his power is only limited by his own morality
In an extrordinary interview, Donald Trump defends his record on Venezuela and threats to others nations including Greenland, Colombia and Mexico in the last week

It's funny how "AI" tools are simulteanously marketed as "agents" that can run fully in the background and do stuff but whenever they do something bad it's the user at fault for not supervising the software that doesn't work.
Even when it’s directly used and the user has the chance to review everything—it’s extremely dangerous, especially at tasks it is doing fine like 95% of the time and/or when the bad things are only subtly wrong.
Imagine other tools being like this, like a steering wheel that turns the car 95 out of a 100 times. 2% of the time it steers into the other direction. 3% of the time it steers 5x as much as normally.