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Action-Adventure „Shadow Frontier“: Ist das wirklich „Star Trek“?
Bloober arbeitet an einem Survival-Spiel, in dem man in die Rolle von Ro Laren schlüpft. Die übliche „Star Trek“-Ästhetik scheint abwesend.
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Action-Adventure „Shadow Frontier“: Ist das wirklich „Star Trek“?
Bloober arbeitet an einem Survival-Spiel, in dem man in die Rolle von Ro Laren schlüpft. Die übliche „Star Trek“-Ästhetik scheint abwesend.

Patriot Front formed in 2017 under Thomas Rousseau after the
“Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va.
The group’s manifesto calls for the formation of a white ethnostate.
https://extremism.gwu.edu/patriot-front

Important development in AI, "Small Models are Closing the Gap to Frontier AI"
https://paulkedrosky.com/chart-of-the-day-small-models-are-closing-the-gap-to-frontier-ai/

Chart of the Day: Small Models are Closing the Gap to Frontier AI
A quiet story in AI isn't that large models keep getting better, it's that small ones are catching up quickly. In 2022, reaching 60% on MMLU, a test of academic reasoning, required a 540-billion-parameter model. By 2024, a 3.8-billion-parameter model hit the same threshold — a 142-fold parameter reduction in

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs! Do you agree with the examples of bad graphs and the alternatives Chenxin Li (@chenxinli2.bsky.social) lists at #RStats

GitHub - cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends: Friends don't let friends make certain types of data visualization - What are they and why are they bad.
Friends don't let friends make certain types of data visualization - What are they and why are they bad. - cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends

Le Pen eller Bardella – på tisdagen avgörs det. https://www.dn.se/varlden/nu-avgors-framtiden-for-de-franska-hogernationalisterna/

Marine Le Pen eller Jordan Bardella – nu avgörs vem som blir presidentkandidat
Marine Le Pen eller Jordan Bardella – nu avgörs vem som blir presidentkandidat för Nationell samling i Frankrike

I had an interesting chat with a friend who mentioned a book called "The Living Company." Apparently Shell was one of the few companies that saw the 1970's oil crisis coming and was able to adapt. They did it by talking to a bunch of people randomly about the future, identifying patterns, and coming up with possible future scenarios. They then formed clear plans for these future scenarios, where those plans would cover as many related scenarios as possible.
This was actually really familiar to me, though I hadn't read the book, because that's very close to what the Seattle GDC disaster prep committee did. We identified possible disaster scenarios, then identified preparedness steps that served multiple purposes. We got boxes of n95 masks in 2018 and 2019 for wildfire smoke and did a bit of work building box-fan air purifiers. Over the years we handed out these masks to houseless folks who were most exposed to the smoke. When the pandemic hit, we were able to take some of those boxes to first responders just as manufacturing in China dropped because of their lockdowns and as others started PPE hoarding. We focused on N95 because that was one of the overlap points between the unexpected but catastrophic "flu pandemic" that we knew was possible, and the regular "wildfire smoke" problem we were just getting used to.
The book sounds like it's at least partially influenced by cybernetics. There's this Dutch cybernetics connection that I haven't quite figured out. Anyway, this guy talked about how a company needs to be sustainable and all that. My dude, you worked for an oil company. That is categorically not sustainable. All this aside, I think there are a lot of things we can and should take from capitalists (or take back, in some cases). This practice is one of them.
So maybe get together with friends and talk about what you think might happen. We live in a world of crisis, so I'll always recommend disaster preparedness. But there's more than that.
What do you think will happen in the next 5 years?
Assuming that happens, what actions would you take to push that towards the most positive outcome?
I'm listening to Revolutions and reminded of how much effort monarchies put in to preventing revolutions. Corporations can be even more advanced in their planning and preemption. What would it look like if we planned like that?

Chimpanzees and bonobos have human-like friend circles, study finds #AnimalRights

Chimpanzees and bonobos have human-like friend circles, study finds
Great apes appear to build friendships much like humans do. By studying grooming behavior, researchers discovered that chimpanzees and bonobos form close inner circles along with wider networks of weaker social connections. Chimpanzees focus on a few trusted partners and become more selective with age, while bonobos maintain a more egalitarian social style.

Bericht: Peking prüft Einschränkung des Zugangs zu Chinas führenden KI-Modellen
Der Zugriff auf Chinas fortschrittlichste KI-Modelle könnte schwieriger werden. Die Regierung in Peking diskutierte mit KI-Unternehmen mögliche Beschränkungen.

Bericht: Peking prüft Einschränkung des Zugangs zu Chinas führenden KI-Modellen
Der Zugriff auf Chinas fortschrittlichste KI-Modelle könnte schwieriger werden. Die Regierung in Peking diskutierte mit KI-Unternehmen mögliche Beschränkungen.

hyves: Hyves friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users of Hyves, an online social networking site in the Netherlands (comparable to Facebook at the time). Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends. These data were crawled in December 2010.
This network has 1402673 nodes and 2777419 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted