MS--Open AI's ~parent company--already has massive US military contracts. This is the biz model.
This news is also one more alarm re. the current AI paradigm, its reliance on concentrated corp power, & the undemocratic decision making power this gives these (primarily) US-based corps.
theintercept.com/2024/01/12/op…
OpenAI Quietly Deletes Ban on Using ChatGPT for “Military and Warfare”
The Pentagon has its eye on the leading AI company, which this week softened its ban on military use.Sam Biddle (The Intercept)
In 1894, a Boston man bet another $20K that no woman could travel around the world by bicycle.
So Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, then penniless, learned to bike & set out to prove him wrong & earn prize money.
From 1894-95, she did just that (sailing between continents). Kopchovsky kept her husband & family a secret, using the alias Londonderry. She won $10K for her accomplishment & returned to raise her family.
jwa.org/thisweek/jun/25/1894/a… #HistoryRemix #history
First woman to cycle the globe begins journey | Jewish Women's Archive
Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, known as Annie Londonderry, began a round-the-world bicycle trip. She became the first woman to travel around the globe by bicycle.Jewish Women's Archive
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Another raindrop. Nikon F3HP, Arista Premium 400 (rebadged Kodak Tri-X), Rodinal 1:50.
![The purpose of a system is what it does Article Talk
LR A 4 The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a systems thinking heuristic coined by Stafford Beer,'l who observed that there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do."[2] The term is widely used by systems theorists, and is generally invoked to counter the notion that the purpose of a system can be read from the intentions of those who design, operate, or promote it. When a system's side effects or unintended consequences reveal that its behavior is poorly understood, then the POSIWID perspective can balance political understandings of system behavior with a more straightforwardly descriptive view.](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1203808 "The purpose of a system is what it does Article Talk
LR A 4 The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a systems thinking heuristic coined by Stafford Beer,'l who observed that there is \"no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.\"[2] The term is widely used by systems theorists, and is generally invoked to counter the notion that the purpose of a system can be read from the intentions of those who design, operate, or promote it. When a system's side effects or unintended consequences reveal that its behavior is poorly understood, then the POSIWID perspective can balance political understandings of system behavior with a more straightforwardly descriptive view.")
Use of habitat for agricultural purposes puts primate infants at risk
Frequent visits to oil palm plantations are leading to a sharp increase in mortality rates among infant southern pig-tailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina) in the wild, according to a new study.ScienceDaily
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HAHAH! How Dr Who special effects are done!
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David Tennant Geeking out over the Making of Tom Bakers Regeneration
David Tennant is granted access to the raw camera footage of the regeneration from Tom Baker to Peter Davison.#DoctorWho #TalkingDoctorWhoYouTube
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Moms for Liberty Out of NYC!
If Bohemian National Hall doesn't cancel its contract with the far-right hate group Moms for Liberty, we will show up in numbers.
January 18 @ 5:30pm
321 E 73rd St (Upper East Side)
Bring signs, noisemakers & donations!
Donations will be for our newest neighbors. Please bring, new socks and underwear, bags, suitcases, boots, coats, and other warm clothing.
Wear a mask!
Another of the more colorful examples in XPL, Northwest Africa (NWA) 4801 Meteorite Thin Section - Angrite.
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NWA 4801 Meteorite Thin Section - Gigapixel
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Norway to allow mining waste to be dumped in fjords
Environmental campaigners say move will threaten marine life and put biodiversity at riskTone Sutterud (The Guardian)
I'm proud to announce that today the staff of High Country News magazine have launched a union!
We are calling on HCN leadership for voluntary recognition. You can help support us by sharing on socials, following @hcnunion, and signing our letter of support here: hcnunion.org/support/
How to Support
Here are three steps you can take to support the High Country News Union: Show your support on social media by saying: “I support HCN’s workers”! You can tag us on X, Mastodon @HC…High Country News Union
In just 2 days, over 200 people have signed our union's letter of support --- WOW! 🤩 Plus all the lovely supportive social media comments --- our CWA organizer says this is the biggest outpouring of support she's ever seen for a campaign. I am feeling the love, y'all. 🥰
We're a small newsroom (mighty, but small) so we need all the support we can get! We have until tomorrow to pressure HCN leadership to voluntarily recognize our union. Please sign if you haven't! 💖 ✊
How to Support
Here are three steps you can take to support the High Country News Union: Show your support on social media by saying: “I support HCN’s workers”! You can tag us on X, Mastodon @HC…High Country News Union
Shutting down Artifact - Artifact News - Medium
We’ve made the decision to wind down operations of the Artifact app. We launched a year ago and since then we’ve been working tirelessly to build a great product. We have built something that a core…Artifact Team (Artifact News)
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You know that whole #Wayland multi window protocol debacle, well today we have the person who made all 3 protocols on the show @matk #Linux #OpenSource
Video: youtube.com/watch?v=EGFQ6bLepA…
Audio: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho…
#202 Solving Wayland's Multi Window Problem | Matthias Klumpp
I've spoken quite a bit about multi window apps on Wayland and today we have the Matthias Klumpp the man himself who is trying to solve exactly this problem ...YouTube
What’s everyone up to as storms & frigid temperatures sweep across the U.S.? I’ve been inside juggling a family snow day + dissertation.
Stay safe out there friends. ❄️
Perfect Friday Thing: Emoji Kitchen
Ok, if you haven’t seen this before (or even if you have), I need to warn you that Emoji Kitchen (and this other Emoji Kitchkottke.org
Grab some treats in the Awesome Games Done Quick Humble Bundle gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/grab…
#SteamDeck #LinuxGaming #Gaming
Grab some treats in the Awesome Games Done Quick Humble Bundle
Humble Bundle has teamed up with Awesome Games Done Quick for a bunch of fun games, along with supporting the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Overall it looks like a nice deal if you don't already own the games.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Are you a fan of Nextcloud apps but don't know howto create your very own? 💡
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Nextcloud App Development Tutorials: 1 step closer to creating an app! - Nextcloud
Nextcloud is offering new development tutorials for developers interested in creating their own Nextcloud apps. Learn about our method and how you can get started today!Mikaela Schneider (Nextcloud)
Palm oil giants push out smallholders in Guatemala; deforestation risks remain
Mario Rene Xol used to enjoy life in Aldea Tierra Negra, an Indigenous village bordering the Lachuá-Ik’bolay Key Biodiversity Area (KBA) in northeastern Guatemala.alexandrapopescu (Conservation news)
¿Qué hay detrás de las colas para la venta del iris?
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#Worldcoin
#privacidad
El dominio del mundo digital está migrando de «los dueños de Internet» a los «dueños de los datos digitales», multimillonarios con empresas que gestionan volúmenes gigantescos de información, clasificada en forma precisa y bien segmentada. La recopilación de datos biométricos arrincona el ejercicio de derechos humanos fundamentales.
Linux Mint 21.3 released with Cinnamon 6.0 and experimental Wayland support gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/linu…
Linux Mint 21.3 released with Cinnamon 6.0 and experimental Wayland support
One of the easiest Linux distributions to use, Linux Mint, has a major new release available with Linux Mint 21.3 'Virginia' now officially released. This is probably one of their biggest releases in quite some time.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Proton Experimental brings fixes for Bayonetta, Ground Branch and more for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/prot…
#SteamDeck #Linux #LinuxGaming #Proton
Proton Experimental brings fixes for Bayonetta, Ground Branch and more
The first update of 2024 for Valve's Proton Experimental has landed, bringing with it new game support along with fixes for multiple games so here's what's new for Linux and Steam Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Old World - Wonders & Dynasties is a content-filled DLC out now, making an already great 4x game even better gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/old-…
#Linux #4x #StrategyGame #LinuxGaming
Old World - Wonders & Dynasties is a content-filled DLC out now
Old World is easily one of the best 4X games to be released in recent years, that is still quite largely overlooked compared to others in the genre and it only keeps getting better. A big new content DLC Wonders & Dynasties has just been released.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
The Ferris Bueller Finale With Music From Inception
One of the many reasons that Ferris Bueller’s Day Off works so well as a film is that the music kicks ass *and* it mesheskottke.org
Probably the most important and mindblowing scrolling I have done in years:
"Wealth shown to scale" by #MattKorostoff
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Wealth, shown to scale
Wealth inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way.mkorostoff.github.io
The first stable Steam and Steam Deck update of 2024 is here gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/the-…
The first stable Steam and Steam Deck update of 2024 is here
Valve has released the latest Steam Client stable update for both the Steam Deck and Desktop Steam, pulling in all the recent changes like the re-designed Steam Workshop subscriptions system.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
AYANEO Next Lite with a customized SteamOS-like HoloISO fully revealed gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/ayan…
#SteamOS #Linux #AYANEO #HandheldGaming
AYANEO Next Lite with a customized SteamOS-like HoloISO fully revealed
AYANEO has now revealed the specifications and pricing for the Linux powered AYANEO Next Lite, which will be using the SteamOS-like HoloISO, although customized by AYANEO for the handheld.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Nice to see some competition in form of a lower powered device with a cheaper price than the steam deck show up. I have a few friends who really only want to play indies on the go, but would like the modifiability and flexibility and pricing of a PC game with that, so I think this is a perfect device for that purpose!
Also super unrelated, but I wonder if some kind of "comment by Fediverse" on GamingOnLinux would be a possibility at some point. 😀
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I was filling out the survey when I wanted a new line.
I pressed shift+enter but it turns out my cursor was not in a text/form area.
It submitted the form without any confirmation. That's probably a bug?
I was answering dumb AI questions when it happened. So have fun parsing my answers up to that point.
Cheers 🥂
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Delphi: Amphiktyonen. Demeter. Omphalos and snake.
Münzkabinett Berlin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Annie Londonderry's story was brilliantly rendered in "Spin", a play by Evalyn Parry, which featured a bicycle on stage as a musical instrument: evalynparry.com/spin/
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Evalyn Parry's SPIN - Trailer
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •“I think [bicycling] has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand & rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives woman a feeling of freedom & self-reliance. It makes her feel as if she were independent. The moment she takes her seat she knows she can’t get into harm unless she gets off her bicycle & away she goes, the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.”
- Suffragist Susan B. Anthony, 1896 nytimes.com/2019/11/06/obituar… #history #bike /2
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •evalynparry.com / Evalyn Parry’s SPIN
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