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Hatching some plans with the man, the myth, the legend... @Gargron!
Lots of great stuff in the works for the open, social web in 2024 and beyond!
2020: Microsoft sets goal to be carbon negative by end of the decade.
2023: Microsoft's emissions are 30% higher than in 2020.
Main cause? The relentless push to meet AI demand, which requires new data centers built out of carbon-intensive steel, cement, chips.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
【Worldless】How Many Walls Will I Hit Today
Tip: https://streamelements.com/brodieongames/tipPaypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BrodieRobertsonVideoPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson...YouTube
So fun to watch!
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The Pendulum Wave
Quando le palline da giocoleria incontrano la scienza: Davide Quagliotto, collaboratore del Dipartimento di Geoscienze Unipd, presenta “The Pendulum Wave”!Il...YouTube
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Has anyone else seen Have Gun - Will Travel?
Many of the episodes were written by Gene Roddenberry before Star Trek.
I just stumbled across this book.
The Original Frontier: Gene Roddenberry's Apprenticeship for Star Trek in Have Gun–Will Travel
The Original Frontier: Gene Roddenberry's Apprenticeship for Star Trek in Have Gun–Will Travel
Abstract. Chapter Two starts from the intriguing fact that Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, wrote 24 episodes of the television Western Have GunOUP Academic
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Gene Roddenberry Originally Pitched Star Trek To Studios As A 'Space Western'
It's the Western frontier but space. Get it?Witney Seibold (SlashFilm)
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"Indexing All Life's Known Biological #Sequences" biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20…
"In this work, we take advantage of recently developed, very efficient data structures and algorithms for representing sequence sets. We make Petabases of DNA sequences across all clades of life, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, plants, animals, and humans, fully searchable and make the indexes available to the research community"
Indexing All Life's Known Biological Sequences
The amount of biological sequencing data available in public repositories is growing exponentially, forming an invaluable biomedical research resource.bioRxiv
Check out Motordoom, a freestyle sports survivor-like horde shooter gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/chec…
Check out Motordoom, a freestyle sports survivor-like horde shooter
So what do we have here then? Tony Hawk's Survivors? Motorbike Survivors? This horde-shooter bullet heaven genre mixture is never-ending (and I love it). Motordoom looks like pure insanity.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Blending dungeon-crawling with horde-shooters Gauntlet Of Power launches in June gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/blen…
Blending dungeon-crawling with horde-shooters Gauntlet Of Power launches in June
Solo developer Orangepixel is celebrating 20 years as a full-time game dev, with an announcement that Heroes Of Loot: Gauntlet Of Power is set to launch in June mixing together dungeon-crawling and horde-shooters together.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Want to see where the internet is stored?
I'm doing an event at the Internet Archive on June 8 in San Francisco: lu.ma/governable-spaces-sf
Featuring Yasmine El Baggari (Hylo), Emeline Brule (Sequoia Fabrica), Shamika Klassen (Afrofuturistic speculation)
Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Everyday Tech
What would it look like if online platforms were designed with democracy in mind? This event presents projects that are doing just that—building values like transparency, collective decision-making, and accessibility for all into their designs.lu.ma
The Warlords series and the five original Close Combat games appear on Steam gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/the-…
The Warlords series and the five original Close Combat games appear on Steam
We get a fair bit of news here and there about games getting delisted, publishers moving on from games and shutting them and more but what about game preservation? A nice bunch of classics with The Warlords series and the five original Close Combat g…Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Get Monster Hunter World, Rise, Sunbreak and Iceborne in the latest Humble Bundle gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/get-…
Get Monster Hunter World, Rise, Sunbreak and Iceborne in the latest Humble Bundle
Here's a good way for you to jump into the Monster Hunter world with Humble Bundle, plus some of the bigger DLC to go with it too.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
SteamOS 3.6.2 Preview for Steam Deck fixes up double-input for external controllers gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/stea…
SteamOS 3.6.2 Preview for Steam Deck fixes up double-input for external controllers
Valve have issued the first update to the SteamOS 3.6 Preview series for Steam Deck, throwing in a couple of needed fixes.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
No Thanks, la app para boicotear las empresas que financian y apoyan a Israel
"Entre las empresas que detecta la aplicación se encuentran Coca-Cola, Nescafé, Starbucks, Adidas, McDonald’s, Chanel, Netflix, entre otras corporaciones de industrias que van desde la alimentación hasta los cosméticos."
As much as I'm generally in favor of blaming AI for things, the explosion of fake studies is not, at its root, an AI problem. It's the very natural result of the ridiculously profitable and predatory scientific publishing industry (more profitable, according to one study, than drug dealing) doing exactly zero work in exchange for the money it charges on both ends of the process.
The party most responsible for Wiley publishing fake papers is Wiley. Let them burn.
Presentación de libro «Uso comunitario de drones ligeros para la gestión, conservación y defensa del territorio»
El jueves pasado asistimos a este encuentro, donde se habló de autonomía tecnológica, a raiz de este libro digital
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Presentación de libro «Uso comunitario de drones ligeros para la gestión, conservación y defensa del territorio» | Sursiendo
[Actualizada] El jueves 9 de mayo a las 18:00 horas, se presentó del libro digital de acceso libre «Uso comunitario de drones ligeros para la gestión…sursiendo (Sursiendo)
Sounds like a serious lack of management and director competence and integrity if the union claims are even half true. Depressing.
sfstandard.com/2024/05/15/cal-…
California Academy of Sciences considers layoffs amid deficit
Senior scientists and unionized staff raise alarms over potential layoffs at the deficit-plagued natural history museum.Jennifer Wadsworth (The San Francisco Standard)
Today Nextcloud is in Erfurt, Germany at the Bechtle IT Forum!
With a focus on digital sovereignty and open source, we're excited to share with you our mission.
Come say hello 👋
This incredible lecture by @Wolven covers so much: ableism, cybertechnics, myth, mystery, erasure, all via a deep dive into what might be 'AI'
youtube/google original: youtube.com/watch?v=l8JH0jAITn…
invidious alternative: yewtu.be/watch?v=l8JH0jAITng
Religious Belief and Practice in the Age of AI
As part of a seed grant project funded by the AIAI Network, Damien P. Williams, assistant professor of Philosophy and Data Science at the University of North...YouTube
If you wanted to check out my talk "Religious Belief and Practice in the Age of 'AI'" at the Pitts Theology Library at Emory University's Candler School of Theology but were unable to attend at the time of, it's now been published online.
This was such an amazing conversation, and the audience provided some really wonderful questions to think through and with. I'm so thankful to have gotten this opportunity and such a receptive and engaged audience for a topic I've always thought was crucial, and which I think will only be more important in the coming years:
Seriously engaging with tools and concepts from comparative religious studies, mythology, ritual studies, and the occult to help elucidate both major contextual cues about a LARGE swathe of past and present-day "AI" and tech culture, and also potential insights for how to both react to and shape those contexts.
I hope you enjoy it:
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Religious Belief and Practice in the Age of AI
As part of a seed grant project funded by the AIAI Network, Damien P. Williams, assistant professor of Philosophy and Data Science at the University of North...YouTube
Grandson says Carter is ‘coming to the end’ in brief update about former president’s health.
The world will lose an incredible human-being and a President, who was far ahead of his times.
cnn.com/2024/05/14/politics/ji…
A reminder that the rot and depravity in the GOP started long ago.
"A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election
A prominent Texas politician said he unwittingly took part in a 1980 tour of the Middle East with a clandestine agenda."
nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/poli…
This tweet has a paywall-free link to the article.
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#Carter
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June 20, 1979 - President Carter dedicated the solar-thermal panels on the roof of the White House.
“A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people.”
Carter presented an ambitious plan to put America on a path to 20% of energy from renewable sources by 2000.
Then came Reagan 🙁
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The forgotten story of Jimmy Carter’s White House solar panels
More than four decades ago, President Carter said the U.S. could harness “the power of the sun to enrich our lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil.”John Wihbey (Yale Climate Connections)
If you own a Tesla, your car is covered in cameras that take images reviewed by Tesla employees, who share them with each other, joke about them, and make them into memes.
> The idea of algorithmic governance is flawed. And he was wrong in his conclusions, because it can not be fixed by adding more cryptography
Did we read the same article? As I read it, this is exactly what both @ntnsndr and Vitalik are saying.
> Blockchains are good for one thing: payments.
This is exactly wrong. Payments are the one thing blockchains consistently fail to be good for.
I think it depends on what you mean by "algorithmic governance." Constitutional elections are an algorithm, too. I tend to think healthy governance finds the right balance of algorithmic systems and culture.
The argument of my critique is that over-reliance on economic incentives is a danger and ends up constraining the possibilities of governance designs—leaning too hard on algorithm and crowding out culture/values/humans.
This Is Why We Need Linux Distros
I've talked quire favourably about upstream application packaging but Neal has a different look on the situation and he thinks that distros act as a really i...YouTube
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Singers Falling Down the Stairs (no singers fell down stairs)
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
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Tom Petty: "I'm free fallin'!"
Michael Jackson: "OW!"
The Boutel Fil meteorite fell in Chad on July 8, 2023.
Ahmad Fairuz, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Debian Breaks KeepassXC Package For "Security"
Debian has a much bigger focus on security than many other Linux distros so much so that they will sometimes miss the mark like with this KeepassXC case, the...YouTube
Regarding the conundrum of shipping as developer intended vs distro reviewing and patching software
I think the answer is for distros to ship the package as intended unless it breaks something (like changing config files to work with the distro and other minor fixes) or has a serious issue when reviewed (like the XZ backdoor)
If it cannot be shipped as intended for any reason (legal stuff, distro policy, unable to maintain/review it, etc), then don't ship it.
Comission for a certain Magazine doing an article about Joji. Editorial was cool about me sharing a timelapse as long as I don't say where it'll be printed.
#DigitalArt #illustration #design
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: AI "art" and uncanniness; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2024/05/13/spo…
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What's the best week of the year? 🤔
Of course it's the Nextcloud Conference and Contributor Week!
Join us for a series of inspiring keynotes, panel sessions, ⚡ talks, community activities, and hands-on workshops
📆 Nextcloud Conference: September 14-15
💻 Contributor Week: September 16-20
Book your free ticket now for #NextcloudConf ! 💫
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Nextcloud Conference 2024: Sept. 14-15, Berlin - Register now! - Nextcloud
The Nextcloud Conference is not your average event - it's a community meetup that brings together Nextcloud enthusiasts, contributors, developers, users and industry experts from all over the world.Mikaela Schneider (Nextcloud)
Geert Lovink desde América Latina
“Dejemos de construir soluciones Web3 para problemas que no existen; lancemos herramientas que descolonicen, redistribuyan valor, conspiren y organicen”, propone Lovink. En América Latina somos conscientes de ello, y lo intentamos. Como humilde muestra es la iniciativa Internet Ciudadana.
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Geert Lovink desde América Latina | Sursiendo
A propósito de la publicación “La extinción de internet: política, redes y plataformas”. Texto publicado en la edición N° 11 de la revista digital Internet…sursiendo (Sursiendo)
Bruce Crosby
in reply to Muse • • •Muse
in reply to Muse • • •I think this is how my cats felt about going to the vet yesterday!