@Techmeme@techhub.socialThrive is taking a stake in the San Francisco Giants via a new venture that will invest in franchises and cultural institutions that can't be replicated by AI (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/thrive-ca…
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizzaDoes anyone know of a good CD replication service in the UK or Europe? A German artist is publishing a monograph and wants our joint audio work included as CD in a sleeve within the book. We won’t need jewel cases then - just good quality CDs replicated (with images on them) to go in the monograph’s sleeve.
Thank you for any help! It’s all new to me (if there’s been physicals the label always handles it), and the artist would rather I ask people that are likely to know rather than haph…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialAlso: we're seeing what happens when white people are actually motivated en-masse (and the George Floyd response was actually another decent example of this).
General strike -> capitalist class goes "oh shit we need to deescalate" -> temporary reprieve.
White people actually putting their bodies on the line (or at least near enough to it that ICE killed them) got results. This is direct evidence of just how much oppression depends on the social fragmentation it invests immense energy into creating in order to not get its ass kicked both ideologically and literally.
Also for those white people like me who are scared to participate: I don't have the numbers, but there were something like 50,000 people who stood up (even if we just want to count observers and joiners-of-whistle-crowds I'd guess at least 5,000-10,000). Two in that category died (more like 30 have died in the direct-targets-of-ICE category). So don't look at Pretti and think "protesting is so risky." Consider that both the odds of being the one or two killed are low, and that if you don't stand up quickly and strongly enough against this shit, the body count will grow much higher.
This isn't over, and continued escalation and resistance is super critical now. Rather than hoping the twin cities story is a story of heroes elsewhere who solved the problem, make it a story of an inspiring example that gets replicated in LA, Chicago, and all around the nation where ICE is trying to metastasize into an unaccountable secret police.
@arXiv_csDB_bot@mastoxiv.pageEpoch-based Optimistic Concurrency Control in Geo-replicated Databases
Yunhao Mao, Harunari Takata, Michail Bachras, Yuqiu Zhang, Shiquan Zhang, Gengrui Zhang, Hans-Arno Jacobsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21566
@pre@boing.worldFor the entirety of modern economic history, human intelligence has been the scarce input. Capital was abundant (or at least, replicable). Natural resources were finite but substitutable. Technology improved slowly enough that humans could adapt. Intelligence, the ability to analyze, decide, create, persuade, and coordinate, was the thing that could not be replicated at scale.
Human intelligence derived its inherent premium from its scarcity. Every institution in our economy, from the labor market to the mortgage market to the tax code, was designed for a world in which that assumption held.
We are now experiencing the unwind of that premium. Machine intelligence is now a competent and rapidly improving substitute for human intelligence across a growing range of tasks
Which is what saves us from this scenario I guess? Because the machine likely isn't really a substitute for human intelligence.
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