Tootfinder

RCMP asked citizens to stop pursuit of stolen truck in western Saskatchewan
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/stolen-truck-citizens-pursuit-1.7645624

RCMP asked citizens to stop pursuit of stolen truck in western Sask. | CBC News
A 29-year-old man is facing multiple criminal charges related to vehicle theft and dangerous driving after an incident in western Saskatchewan this week — and police are also warning the public not to take matters into their own hands if they see a crime in progress.

Fedibird赤字ゼロチャレンジ2025の中間報告（その2）です。
Fedibird Infrastructure
364,100円
Fedibird Project
391,808円
合計
75,5908円
なんと、75万円を超えました。すごい……。
皆さん、ご協力ありがとうございます。
この支援によって、空き容量が厳しくなっているデータベースストレージの増強が可能になりそうです。
--
さて、目標金額は100万円です。
結局のところ、赤字でまわしているサービスは、何かあったときに誰も引き継げません。目標達成できるかどうかが勝負どころです。
friends.nicoは閉鎖となりました。mstdn.jp、Pawoo、mastodon.cloudはそれぞれ元の運営者からSujitechが引き継ぎましたが、毎月莫大な費用が掛かっており、Sujitechが維持できなくなったら、恐らくもう誰も引き継げません。
Fedibird…

«In the 1950 book “The Human Use of Human Beings,” the computer scientist Norbert Wiener […] argued that modern societies were run by means of messages. As these societies grew larger and more complex, he wrote, a greater amount of their affairs would depend upon “messages between man and machines, between machines and man, and between machine and machine.” Artificially intelligent machines can send and respond to messages much faster than we can, and in far greater volume—that’s one source …

Deep Hype in Artificial General Intelligence: Uncertainty, Sociotechnical Fictions and the Governance of AI Futures
Andreu Belsunces Gon\c{c}alves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19749

Deep Hype in Artificial General Intelligence: Uncertainty, Sociotechnical Fictions and the Governance of AI Futures
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is promoted by technology leaders and investors as a system capable of performing all human intellectual tasks, and potentially surpassing them. Despite its vague definition and uncertain feasibility, AGI has attracted major investment and political attention, fuelled by promises of civilisational transformation. This paper conceptualises AGI as sustained by deep hype: a long-term, overpromissory dynamic articulated through sociotechnical fictions that rend…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich from Berlin
Pianist Beatrice Rana joins the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin and conductor Manfred Honeck in Tchaikovsky's Piano concerto no 1 followed by Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002kzdn

Débat de 2023 sur les victimes de sectes, de l’emprise Š la reconstruction. Quels sont les mécanismes Š l'oeuvre, comment identifier le discours sectaire, comment trouver de l'aide pour s'en sortir et se reconstruire ? https://chardonsbleus.org/debat-victim

Pretty fascinating examination of our assumptions about what happens to societies when empires decline. And an illustration of the fact that history can always be reframed, too.
https://aeon.co/essays/the-great-myth-of-empire-collapse

The great myth of empire collapse | Aeon Essays
Societal downfalls loom large in history and popular culture but, for the 99 per cent, collapse often had its upsides

HBO is the perfect match for It: Welcome to Derry. The good news is I am not dead inside - two or three jump scares got me good 😀 I love the sixties setting.
#ItWelcometoDerry #TV

Der #Comet-Browser von #Perplexity wirkt wie ein Stern am KI-Himmel – leuchtet aber eher schwach, wenn es um den Umgang mit hochgeladenen Dateien geht. Räume sichtbar, Inhalte unzugänglich. Bis zur technischen Gleichwertigkeit mit der Webversion bleibt der Browser ein Versprechen mit Warteschleife.…

@… Q: Do you need full bells and whistles (like locking, ACLs, device files, sockets), or just plain files as a user would perceive them?