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from my link log —
Avoiding fallback and cold paths.
https://timkellogg.me/blog/2021/01/29/cold-paths
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Ausstellungs-TiPP #Basel
#Museum Tinguely Carl Cheng (geboren 1942): "Natur Never Loses" bis zum 10. Mai 2026. Grosse Retrospektive über sechs Jahrzehnte visionäre #Kunst des vielseitigen Künstlers

It should be noted that the Nacirema absolutely do kill those outside of their tribes during highly ritualized combat. In fact, they are known and feared by many surrounding tribes for their war-like nature. But the previously mentioned taboo seems to be against the execution of the ritual for either enslavement or sacrifice of outsiders for sacrifice or enslavement within tribal territory. Similarly, the Nacirema will not seize slaves during their war raids to bring within their territory. However, it does seem that the tribute system which the Nacirema impose on other tribes favors slavery.
The Elihcian people even tell stories of a chief who tried to end a slave-like practice among their people and refused tribute to the Nacirema. The chief of the Nacirema send emissaries to plot the murder of great chief of the Elihcian with the strongest nobles who were the largest slave owners. The war chief of the Elihcian, a friend of the Nacirema chief, then took over the tribe, enslaved many and paid even more tribute to the Nacirema chief. Many tribes to the South of the Nacirema have very similar stories.
Strangely, again, the Nacirema do not see themselves as war-like. Rather, they see themselves as peaceful. When talking about war and war-raids, they will even sometimes use a phase that means "maintaining" or "sustaining peace" to describe them.
Again, it seems to be the use of ritual that allows them to declare slavery and human sacrifice as "justice" and to declare war as "peace."

Sources: carmakers find a workaround for chip shortages amid Nexperia's internal battle, buying wafers from its Dutch arm and then shipping themselves to China (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/bb384dae-e927-469e-bd7f-c82b7760b9f5

I would like to go on record to say that I don't hate LLMs. That would be like disowning maths.
I hate how people sell it with promises that are simply lies and urging people to use it for things that it is unsuitable for, with the commercial LLMs how they train models on stolen data, how users talk themselves into believing they're talking to a human or something human-like while deskilling themselves, how institutions and organizations shoehorn it into every fucking thing, the way it is usurping computing resources and increasing prices for personal computing, how the big companies underhandedly continuously threaten everyone with "if we don't invest enough the Terminators will get us" and how it is used for very obvious large-scale financial fraud. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"You put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better because they can stand outside of it and recognise themselves inside it."
—Holly Hunter
#acting #coaching

Cowboys unofficially eliminate themselves from playoffs with dud loss to Vikings https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/14/cowboys-vikings-game-recap-week-15/87770531007/

Maybe this whole AI era is a mash-up of Terminator meets Brewster’s Millions.
Sam Altman (Brewster) is sent back in time to start such a laughably bad AI hype cycle that it effectively changes the course of human history, steering us away from our doom.
Through his efforts, what could have been a human-eradicating AI leaves us with hallucinations, weird sex bots, AI avatars of our dead loved ones, and AI-powered toys telling children to hurt themselves.

India lacks specific policies or zoning regulations for overseeing quick commerce dark stores, which are projected to hit 5,000 to 5,500 by FY2026 end, per HSBC (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technolo…

The dark side of dark stores
The army of on-the-clock delivery boys, imperilling themselves and pedestrians, has become a familiar sight across urban India. They emerge, bearing essentials you ordered, from the hub that enables the ten-minute delivery—the dark store. Some 5,000 dark stores have mushroomed across India’s cities in the last few years, with wide-ranging implications on traffic, safety and much else. Who is responsible for their oversight?

Seems the FBI is not yet ready to take in surrendering forces from fictional terrorist organizations. No word on whether or not they could take surrendering Nazgul, Decepticons or Cobra from GI Joe either.
#USpol #antifacsist