@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"O Father Zeus, O blessed and immortal gods, take vengeance on the crew of Laertes' son Odysseus; in their lawlessness they have slain the cattle in which I always took delight, both as I climbed the starry sky and as I took m…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzDark Branches of Immortal Stars at the Galactic Center: #DarkMatter particle and antiparticle collisions could make some stars immortal.
@spamless@mastodon.social"I remember a cartoon depicting a chimney sweep falling from the roof of a tall building and noticing on the way that a signboard had one word spelled wrong, and wondering in his headlong flight why nobody had thought of correcting it. In a sense, we all are crashing to our death from the top story of our birth to the flat stones of the churchyard and wondering with an immortal Alice in Wonderland at the patterns of the passing wall."
— Nabokov
@compfu@mograph.socialI've been listening to a podcast by the German public broadcaster ARD about the end of the world. Every episode had a different topic and one was about AI. It was mostly sourced from an interview with a youtuber but one idea is now stuck in my head: what if AI doesn't launch nukes but develops into an all-powerful actor whose aims are not aligned with those of human survival? Do we have a precedent?
Yes. There are such super-human and quasi-immortal beings here on earth today…
@Stomata@social.linux.pizzaIf you had the chance to be immortal, would you take it?
5 years ago: yes
Now:......
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 081 - LXXXI
Or I shall live your epitaph to make,
Or you survive when I in earth am rotten,
From hence your memory death cannot take,
Although in me each part will be forgotten.
Your name from hence immortal life shall have,
Though I, once gone, to all the world must die:
The earth can yield me but a common grave,
When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie.
Your monument shall be my gentle verse,
Which eyes not yet created…