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Here the IMF is finally saying the things about an AI bubble that people in my Fedi TL were saying 2 years ago. I could mock them for being late to the Market Analysis party they’re supposed to be hosting — and I do, I do mock them — but also I’m happy to see that this conversation has broken through to IMF circles.
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High valuations and debt put sector in danger, while fund also warns on government borrowing and cyber-attacksHeather Stewart (the Guardian)
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@ditsch42 Claude is also trained on all Adobe code as well. Remember that an LLM can "read" object code just as easily as source code.
Object code isn't so easy for humans to read, but that's really just an incidental side effect of making the code easy for CPUs to read. An LLM doesn't care either way.
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We had the same conversation for over 20 years.aria.dog
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I barely managed to get After Effects 24 running under Linux and render stuff there. There is also EffectsCraft...
It is bad though that it is not hand made. But for my use case, I need animation more.
totally agree with you and find the raging weird and off putting.
The only way the optimism might make sense to me (being one who feels trapped by Adobe) is that the new software claims to be able to open and save Adobe formats perfectly. The FOSS software can’t do this. Being able to handle Adobe files well is a prerequisite to making a clean break with Adobe.
Otherwise, the hue is completely misdirected.
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Honestly, that part isn't particularly depressing to me. What is depressing is this list of supposedly FOSS projects that have bought into the "AI" scam. Including, of course, the Linux kernel itself.
codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open…
Alternatives to FOSS projects choosing to use and/or support LLMs/AI, as well as tips for requesting better policies or forking.Codeberg.org
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New York (AFP) – Movie star Susan Sarandon and "Hacks" actress Hannah Einbinder were among people detained by police in New York on Thursday as they moved in to break up a protest against Benjamin Netanyahu.AFP footage shows NYPD officers cuffing "Thelma & Louise" star Sarandon at the demo in the city as the Israeli prime minister was readying to address the United Nations General Assembly.
The New York Post reported Einbinder had also been marched away from the demonstration organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, where protesters held banners that read "Stop Arming Israel" and "End the Genocide."
A spokesperson for the NYPD said officers had responded to reports of an "unscheduled demonstration" where people were blocking an intersection.
"Members of the NYPD Community Affairs Bureau issued... warnings, advising participants that they should leave," the spokesperson said.
"They continued to block the intersection. Multiple individuals who didn't comply were taken into custody," she said, without providing the number of people arrested.
Inside the General Assembly, dozens of envoys from across the world walked out as Netanyahu began his speech, where he assailed both enemies and allies that have crossed him in recent months, including Britain and France, which have recently moved to recognize the state of Palestine.
"They accuse Israel, tiny Israel, of colonialism -- some colonialism. And who's accusing us? Among them are people in Britain and in France. For God's sakes, they invented the term," he told the assembly.
Sarandon, whose movie hits also include "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," "Dead Man Walking" and "The Witches of Eastwick," is no stranger to protests over Israel's war in Gaza.
The US actress told journalists at the Venice Film Festival this month that she was losing work because of her outspoken views.
"I've still had movies taken away recently because there are agencies that are telling people not to hire me still. But that's the power structure," she said.
"I think there has been a change in terms of the understanding of the situation and the general public, but there are still very strongly held positions within my industry that are held by Zionists and who have not relaxed their feelings towards me.
"But I found my family, I found my people, and I'm okay," she added.
Movie star Susan Sarandon and "Hacks" actress Hannah Einbinder were among a reported 100 people detained by police in New York on Thursday as they broke up a protest against the Israeli prime minister.RFI
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USA is where it is because Americans can't be bothered to be inconvenienced, even a bit.
Incredible.
I'm playing devil's advocate here- this is a common thread in American politics around protesting. Anyone who's been around politics long enough hears this exact complaint constantly, and it usually goes hand in hand with 'it alienates people to your cause'.
I really just wanted people to contribute to how this should be responded to. Not sure if the 'devil's advocate' idiom is confusing people or if people just don't want to talk about it.
You don't respond to it at all lmao.
People complaining about protests will sooner or later be protesting themself as capital catches up to them. Ignore haters and support the working class.
Critical infrastructure, funnily enough, isn't a right over there though.
Apparently neither is safe drinking water.
Extreme heat generated by this year's El Nino is projected to cause up to 67,000 additional deaths across the Sahel over the next six months, with Nigeria facing the highest death toll of any country in the world.The Climate Impact Lab, a research group based at the University of Chicago, predicts there will be 66,800 extra deaths across the Sahel, the dry belt along the southern edge of the Sahara, between September and February compared with a normal year.
Nigeria alone accounts for 31,400 of these, followed by Sudan with 17,500, Niger with 10,000 and Chad with 8,000.
Worldwide, around 239,000 more heat-related deaths are likely to be seen over the same six months. Counting from June, when the current El Nino began, the estimated global toll rises to 451,000 by the end of February.
“This is such a large number that it can be numbing, but it is made up of parents and children, grandparents and neighbours, people going to work, caring for families and living their lives,” said Michael Greenstone, a University of Chicago economist and co-founder of the Climate Impact Lab.
The El Nino phenomenon is marked by unusually warm waters in the tropical Pacific and can disrupt weather around the world. This year's could become the strongest on record.
The projections cover deaths caused by extreme heat alone, but they come in addition to the death toll from droughts, wildfires and flooding linked to higher temperatures and shifting rainfall, said the report, which was published on Wednesday.
Some of the heaviest losses will come later in the six-month period. Nigeria could record 15,400 additional heat deaths between December and February – leaving more time to act.
Heat warnings, cooling centres, hydration stations and protection for outdoor workers are among measures that could help reduce the toll, the researchers found.
“This report allows decision-makers to see exactly where emergency actions can be taken now to save tens of thousands of lives in the coming months,” Greenstone said.
Some of these measures are already under way to protect communities.
“Increasing emergency response and better targeting our efforts can save many lives this year,” said Tamma Carleton, the lab's faculty head of research and an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
“But 20 years from now, once today's extreme temperatures become the new normal, we don't want to be in a constant state of emergency.”
The projections will be updated as El Nino develops, the lab added.
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Extreme heat generated by this year's El Nino is projected to cause up to 67,000 additional deaths across the Sahel over the next six months, with Nigeria facing the highest death toll of any country…RFI
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"German Environment Minister Carsten Schneider told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday that the plan "combines independence, affordability and climate protection.........It is not just extreme weather events around the world that demonstrate how urgently we need to do more to protect the climate," he said. "If the situation in the Strait of Hormuz determines whether people can still afford their daily commute to work, that is not a good state of affairs."
If there's been an upside to the Middle East War, it's that it's been a giant advertisement for renewable energy. Not just cheaper, cleaner, & better, crucially it means energy-independence, too.
Smart move by Germany. Their industrial and manufacturing base is getting clobbered by China because they stuck with the dying fossil fuel paradigm for too long. Every other EU nation has committed to ending fossil fuel use, hopefully this further accelerates their efforts, too.
Germany sets out plan to phase out fossil fuels by 2045
Germany has said it plans to phase out the use of coal, oil and gas by 2045, reaffirming a climate strategy focused on electrification.Rana Taha (dw.com)
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I don't understand your comment.
I'm referring to Mark Carney, Canada's prime minister, and his plans to increase oil production and plans to build pipelines across the country to deliver oil to Asia and Europe when everybody's already planning their transition away from fossil fuels. Canada and the U.S. are way behind and China is way ahead of the curve. Europe is somewhere in the middle. It's only a matter of time.
Canada should be investing in green energy alternatives, but we got this MAGAt of a premier in Alberta who wants her province to become the 51st state so she can go eat the shit out of Donny's diaper-wearing ass.
plans to build pipelines across the country to deliver oil to Asia and Europe
Europe is accelerating it's fossil fuel exodus. Asia has already trailblazed alternatives.
By the time these pipelines, and terminals, and refineries are completed how much of a fossil fuel economy will be left?
Canada should be investing in green energy alternatives, but we got this MAGAt of a premier in Alberta who wants her province to become the 51st state so she can go eat the shit out of Donny’s diaper-wearing ass.
Sure. But that's not the problem I'm seeing with this plan.
Europe is accelerating it’s fossil fuel exodus. Asia has already trailblazed alternatives.By the time these pipelines, and terminals, and refineries are completed how much of a fossil fuel economy will be left?
That's what I'm saying. It's pointless. Injecting money into these projets will ruin Canada's economy essentially.
I mean, you joke but...
Sending power and communication concurrently is more an engineering problem with cost issues than an impossibility.
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Wait a second, my utility company was telling me the same thing 20 years ago. I wonder if their voluntary and toothless promises made a difference?
** checks current energy mix ** Nope, they still only allocate green energy as legally required, since they can still build (and earn rate of return on) more fossil fuel infrastructure. Surely they wouldn't lie twice?
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In my state, I've tried to confirm that they can't count what you voluntary choose as green energy, as also counting under their mandatory green quota.
Other states are different where you have more than one power company. My state doesn't have that, just green washing.
You guys have the option to switch utility companies?...
We're a monopoly here. To change companies you have to physically move.
In the US, most people have one option, a legal monopoly whose rates are set by the municipal government, and customers treat the energy company as one entity even if there is a grid operator and many electricity producers. There are exceptions (as with anything in the US) but that's the general rule.
In other news, I'm really tempted to pull the trigger on a pallet of PV panels and DIY that install, but then I remember the inverter doubles the cost.
Schneider, of the center-left Social Democratic Party,
CDU energy minister, and with CDU head of state, have campaigned/said they are going the other way. Is Schneider speaking for a unified government here? Backed up by rest of cabinet?
It's been long apparent to anyone not in a oil/car executive's pay that building your national infrastructure around imported oil is a huge national security danger. Not just a risk, but a known event that you're ensuring will take out that nation once the gas stops flowing.
I feel the CDU is full of shit in many things, but if they could finally get behind moving to rewables across the board by rightfully positioning it as the national defense strategy it is, then get moving.
It's not only about transport of themselves, food prices are increasing, and have been since covid.
The people who are affacted most by food prices are also the people living in low cost of living areas, where the salaries are also the lowest, and you're not going to find a lot of busses in the countryside.
A country could easily become carbon neutral by killing all of its citizens.
But you wouldn't advocate for that, because while it would succeed in the semantics it would fail in the pragmatics.
The citizens have to be able to survive the transition, bro.
Germany's Fossil Fuel Transition Roadmap (Sept 2026):
Source: German Federal Ministry for the Environment, "Germany's Roadmap for Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels" (Sept 2026).
I'd be the first to cheer if Germany can pull this off, but I'm a bit cynical about their energy policy. Between keeping coal around for so long, shutting down their nuclear power plants without replacing them, and over-reliance on wind I'm a bit apprehensive.
Doubtful but hopeful.
Should've used UNLIMITED POWER (nuclear)
And I thought the NUCLEAR trollbots couldn’t get any dumber. I was wrong
You clearly don't know anything about how nuclear works. You could power everything in your life until the day you die for waste the size of a coke can.
And I didn't say anything about wind power. You specifically mentioned nuclear, so that's what I'm talking about.
Do germans have gas connections to heat their house and cook?
Yes
Who could have predicted such a war? Or the climate collapse? Or the invasion of Ukraine?
They all just came out of nowhere.
The war against Iran did not come out of nowhere. The USA has been overt about wanting "regime change" for Iran since 2001, and since Trump's last term especially. Meanwhile Iran has been very open about how they would respond in case they were attacked by the USA: punish all US-aligned countries in the region, close the Strait of Hormuz, close Bab al-Mandab, and target Israel directly and indirectly.
So this was very predictable and that's why lots of people have been talking about it since 2017.
My tinfoil hat theory is also that the US currently do not have the enough energy to supply all the expanding data centers, so we're starting our imperialism again for oil.
Shortly after the Venezuela insurgency where we stole their oil, Trump rambled on about how he met the CEO of Nvidia, and he bragged about securing oil for him, I wish I could dig up that clip again.
I'm sure Iran was also for stealing their oil for our data centers. Israel probably convinced us that we would win a joint operation, and everything else was convenient excuses to justify an invasion.
I think you're right, but my read is a bit broader. I think that they've been planning a confrontation with China for the past decade, and that Venezuela, Cuba and Iran are just part of the "sequencing" of that war. They see these countries as chess pieces and they need to move those around before going in for the main objective.
But I think two things didn't pan out the way that they had planned. First, China is moving away from oil much faster than they had anticipated, and second, the AI race turned out to be much closer than they had hoped.
The USA's position is basically that whoever "wins" the AI race is going to control the planet for the upcoming decades, because it will provide such massive advantages for industry and warfare. And the USA is used to being a decade ahead of everyone else technologically - but in this instance they're neck-and-neck, because China is producing good chips despite not having the best fabs, and China is producing good LLMs despite throwing way less compute at their models. At the same time, I think everyone was a little surprised at how good LLMs actually are (I know that's a controversial thing to say on Lemmy, but that's what they believe).
So I think this sped up the timeline for the war on China by a lot. Suddenly they felt the need to act immediately, going down their sequence of conquest which was supposed to put them in a much better bargaining position against China.
AI was also a big part of the supposed diversification of the Gulf State economies, where UAE/KSA was supposed to get data centers in exchange for alignment with Israel. They'd fuel the data centers with fossil fuels, cool it with who-knows-what, and get a small part of the slice. Hence why Iran has targeted those data centers.
lol, set it far enough in the future that it's a worthless promise aka kick the can down the road.
if they'd said by 2030, then i'd pay attention.
Actually renewables have accounted for 58% of Germany's electric usage so far in 2026. That's five times what it was twenty years ago.
Edit: source
Electrification is the key to replacing natural gas for heat. But there's no point in doing that until the grid is renewable. Burning natural gas in a home is about twice as efficient as using a power plant and then powering a heater.
So yes, the grid isn't the full picture, and I shouldn't have put the two statistics together like they contradict one another, but Germany is making very rapid progress in the places they need to.
Geneva (AFP) – The planet's water cycle is becoming increasingly erratic, swinging between too little and too much, the United Nations warned Thursday, with an unprecedented El Nino expected to exacerbate the long-term trend.Last year was among the driest for the world's rivers in over three decades, the UN's World Meteorological Organization said in a report.
In 2025 -- one of the warmest years on record -- glaciers also shrank across all regions, even as groundwater levels in many parts of the world are in multi-year decline, it found.
Overall, the WMO's annual State of Global Water Resources report showed that the Earth's freshwater storage -- the total amount of water stored in groundwater, lakes and rivers, soil moisture, vegetation and ice and snow -- continued a decade-long decline.
Some elements of the water cycle change rapidly -- like precipitation, river flow and soil moisture, responding to weather within days or weeks.
WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo voiced particular concern about the decline in "slow reserves", like groundwater and glaciers, which she said had traditionally served as the planet's "savings account".
They have served as "a buffer that absorbs bad years so that a single drought or a single dry season does not translate directly into a water crisis", she told reporters.
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The planet's water cycle is becoming increasingly erratic, swinging between too little and too much, the United Nations warned Thursday, with an unprecedented El Nino expected to exacerbate the long-term…RFI
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Did you know meteors have seven different stages (plus a bonus one)? Actually, no one did until a recent paper came out.
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How an asteroid passes through Earth’s atmosphere and eventually becomes a meteoritePhilip Plait (Bad Astronomy Newsletter)
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Does anyone have resources for parents on how to not be a dogshit parent to trans people?
Yes i just had that talk, he says he wants to learn so i want to give him a chance.
Edit: feel free to boost. I'd def like as many options as possible!
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@StillIRise1963 PFLAG is the best group for helping parents of LGBTQ kids I know of. Ideally they would join a chapter in their area and get help from other parents, but here’s some online resources:
pflag.org/resource/transgender…
Transgender resources from PFLAG to help you support your trans loved one or be a better ally.Jey Alder (PFLAG)
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boosting this, I can't really comment on much other than the fact that within my family my dad always encourage me to think for myself even when we disagree (I had a brief atheist phase)
My mom on the otherhand was mostly worried about the medical side (I was too) so we worked on that together with an endocrinologist to be safe
Why loved ones grieve us when we begin our transitionsDoc Impossible (Stained Glass Woman)
The ACLU works in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.outspokenmedia (American Civil Liberties Union)
From a glossary of useful words to and book recommendations, these resources cover a wide range of topics to help you support your child.Mermaids
@Tanuki @berniethewordsmith Hi again. I have always played it by ear. Something that could help a bit is, after passing on some of the information that other people have given you, have a sort of date with them, an "ask me anything". It's not very spontaneous, but it could help *you* to say that you can't be all the time in the position of an educator. You can give them a little time to adjust, volunteer to give information about your own transition & feelings, and ask them to move on after that.
Also, if you're in an association or have a group of trans friends, suggest a very relaxed meeting, like a coffee.
Very often the problem, if there is a problem, is a lack of real life references. Seeing that there are many ways of being trans would be educational too.
Lots of luck!
🦠 Could microbes someday help us build habitats on Mars?
Pioneer Labs engineered a bacterium designed to use resources derived from Martian dirt, water, and atmosphere to produce bioplastics inside a protected bioreactor.
And planetary protection is part of the design: it can’t sustain growth on the Martian surface.
blog.pioneer-labs.org/p/announ…
#Mars #Astrobiology #SpaceExploration #PlanetaryScience
A useful, safe, first step toward terraformingPioneer Labs (Essays from Pioneer Labs)
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Avoiding AI entirely is difficult, but you do have a few options if you're trying to build a desktop completely free of generative code.Jordan Gloor (New In Linux)
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GenAi v “Thinking” & “Reasoning”
There is a tendency for deep arguments to rapidly wander into shallow arguments about word definitions. With lots of arguments continuing about the nature of generative Ai, the obvious problemsome1 word is "intelligence". I'd like to say that what are being called "AI" are not intelligent but I don't have a clear meaning for what intelligence is. We all get that though and it is also clear, that whatever Chat-GPT is doing isn't what…
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GenAi v “Thinking” & “Reasoning”
There is a tendency for deep arguments to rapidly wander into shallow arguments about word definitions. With lots of arguments continuing about the nature of generative Ai, the obvious problemsome1 word is “intelligence”. I’d like to say that what are being called “AI” are not intelligent but I don’t have a clear meaning for what intelligence is. We all get that though and it is also clear, that whatever Chat-GPT is doing isn’t what goes on in people’s brains.Of course, there is no good reason why it should be. The whole history of machines is one of taking things a human did and automating the functional result of what the human (or animal) did. Sometimes, the process the machine follows is close to what a human does, and in other cases not. A sewing machine, uses a special kind of stitch process that makes sense for a sewing machine. A car resembles a horse drawn carriage only vaguely and we don’t expect the engine to have the same parts as a horse.
Ai-boosterisms2 likes to pretend that these services are doing the same thing or an equivalent (but even better!) thing as a human brain, but it is more semantics than substance with the word “intelligence”. We can, collectively, extend our use of the term to cover Claude (or god-forbid Grok) or we can choose not to. Intellectually, I am open to the idea of forms of intelligence that are very different to what humans have, but I find the current technology does not fit with my vibes on that word, and that’s all we’ve got.
However, there are words that orbit “intelligence” that are not synonyms but are closely related. How do I feel about those words?
“Think” and “thinking” is an interesting one. For me it presupposes a degree of intelligence, but I don’t find it odd to say that a dog or a bird is “thinking”, in that gap between perception and action. So, for me at least, I don’t regard “thinking” as necessarily being a human-level act. How about computers? Colloquially, I’ve often taken to describe some delay from a program while a data-intensive process is completed as the machine “thinking about it”. That’s an analogy though and a degree of personification that I know is false. That a big SQL query on a database takes time is not at all like a person puzzling over something. I’d say “think”, “thinking” and “thoughts” about generative Ai is a way of rhetorically assuming what still needs to be proven i.e. that the machine can be called “intelligent”.
But let’s take a step further out and consider “reasoning”. This word is connected to “reason” which might be taken as synonym for “intelligence”, but it has more specific connotations. “Reasoning” implies a process. When I reason, I am conscious of my reasoning but consciousness is not intrinsic to the process. For example, when I cook I am conscious that I am cooking, but if I could make a machine that cooks, it wouldn’t need to be conscious, just complex.
Machines that can do reasoning tasks (or if we prefer, task that would require a human to reason if we got a human to do the task) are not new. A lot of artificial intelligence research in the past has been orientated around reasoning-like task such as playing formal games like chess, or creating mathematical proofs. Following deductive rules is not quite a synonym for “reasoning” but it’s close in a way that the other words I’ve discussed are. Such rule following behaviour is something computers can do, and the idea that somehow logical thought can be mechanised pre-dates computers.
Yes, but Large Language Models aren’t “reasoning” in the logic/deductive sense though, are they? LLMs are using a kind of stochastic, word sequence generation process based on vast statistical patterns captured from human examples. It is still mathematics but not mathematics that is analogous to logical deduction based on premises about the subject under consideration3. That’s all true or rather that WAS all true. In 2024, if you asked Chat-GPT things it mainly was doing the one very-big trick of solving the equivalent of vast multi-dimensional set of simultaneous equations about associations of words without any premises about the significance of those words.
Here I think we do have a bit of a gap between anti-genAi rhetoric and the current state of genAi. In 2024 it was easy to get Chat-GPT et al to beclown4 themselves by asking it basic problems, from counting letters in a word or comparing a kilo of feathers versus 2 kilos of gold. Many of those comical tricks no longer work. How come? As I mentioned before reasoning-models, in the sense of models intended to follow chains of logic etc, predate large language models. One early fix was to link up an LLM to a service like Wolfram-Alpha, an older service for solving maths and algebra problems online.
This is a powerful trick but still far from flawless. The language capacity of an LLM, process the words a human inputs into a query for a reasoning model, which does its stuff and serves back an answer, which the LLM expresses in words. That’s not how a human actually solves, say, a maths word problem but it is an the outline of it5.
So “reasoning”, is a trickier word. Unlike “intelligence” and “thinking” what current genAi is doing is closer in terms of my vibe-check to “reasoning”. The underlying mechanics is not the same (I don’t think my brain is doing tensor maths to find the next word I am using6) but it is at least sort of functionally similar.
Anyway, here is my word scorecard:
- Is genAi “intelligent”: no
- Do genAis “think”: no, not really
- Can genAis “reason”: maybe a bit of stretch but maybe yes
Anyway, I think if I solve a online crossword, I might be able to navigate to Betelgeuse.
- The spell checker is saying “problemsome” isn’t a word but I’m tired of “problematic”. To me problematic sounds like a 1950s machine for dispensing problems without the need of a shop assistant. ↩︎
- “boosterism” also is not a word the spell checker recognises. ↩︎
- There is still logic there but at deeper layer, just as there is logic in any computer program. ↩︎
- Oh come on, “beclown” is definitely a word. ↩︎
- You will see in problem solving literature that kind of word-to-maths-to-word structure for describing how we solve maths problems but it is intended as a simplification. Introspection about your own process will show that things can involve more back and forth. ↩︎
- But maybe it is which means you could repurpose a human brain to calculate general relativity problems for near-light speed navigation. Or maybe you can even if it isn’t, if we can map “find the next plausible word in a sentence” as a problem to a huge maths calculation for a computer than maybe it works vice-versa with however a human brain finds a word. ↩︎
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The "star" key on a telephone is actually represented by a sextile ⚹ according to ITU recommendation E.161
Many smartphone dialers get this wrong and use an asterisk *, full-width asterisk ＊, or asterisk operator ∗
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@Dangerous_beans There are so many great dashes!
- hyphen minus
﹣ small hyphen minus
－ full width hyphen minus
− minus sign
soft hyphen (yeah, there's an invisible hyphen)
‐ hyphen
‑ non-breaking hyphen
‒ figure dash
– en dash
— em dash
﹘ small em dash
― horizontal bar or quotation dash
⁓ swung dash (which is not a tilde)
⸚ hyphen with diaeresis
⸺ two em dash
⸻ three em dash
⹀ double hyphen (not an equal sign)
゠ katakana double hyphen
〰 wavy dash
︱ vertical em dash
The possibilities are endless! Well, finite, but way larger than you'd think.
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what in the hells is the hyphen with umlaut for?
edit: y'all keep sharing your more creative interpretations by all means, but the serious answer is covered now, thanks! (prettyaweso.me/@chunshek/11731…)
@iris@neuromatch.social Likely for typesetting plural forms in German dictionary entries, e.g., „der Bogen (⸚)“ indicating the plural would be „die Bögen“. @LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt @Dangerous_beans@aus.socialChunshek :HomestarRunning: (Mastodon)
for frog faces with large mouths
/(°⸻°)\
/(°〰〰°)\
Edit: ah it combines well, lol
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@deFractal @iris @Dangerous_beans German here. I have never seen it in any German dictionaries, although it's nice to know that we could make use of it there.
To me, the umlaut hyphen much rather represents both the median German facial expression and median German emotional state. But what do I know ⸚
@synec @iris @Dangerous_beans An umbrella for my letter a's
ca⃛tsa⃛l⃛a⃛d
@iris
⸚ means: "I am watching you intensely"
And in combination:
⸚≺ means "camera is rolling"
⸚≮ means "camera is off"
@iris must be the oldschool 😐, yes?
🤭
germans sometimes mutate vowels in pluralization and this is a thing in old dictionaries to indicate that happens
baum (⸚e) yields bäume
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@iris @Dangerous_beans when 2 german words with are hyphenated together, if the first is ending in an umlaut and the second is starting with one, then the hyphen needs to be umlauted aswell
e.g.
- Menü⸚Ähnlichkeit
- Windbö⸚Überlegenheit
Tütü⸚Übeltäterin
The pipe symbol (|) on IBM keyboards originated from early ASCII and character set standards, evolving from a logical "OR" symbol into a broken bar (¦) before returning to a solid line on modern displays and keyboards
Some or all if these are not really the pipe symbol 🫤🤷♂️
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.Nostalgia Nerd (YouTube)
This is certainly one of the most informative Fedi posts ever!
Now, I only have to think about which keyboard shortcuts to assign to which dash.
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I’d suggest making “-” a dead key with n levels to cycle through the dashes.
Great idea! I'm gonna try this!
Hyphen with diaeresis has a mood ❤️
@Dangerous_beans why are there two and three em dashes but not two and three en dashes?
What’s the ratio there, would a three en dash be the same size as a two em dash? Would it depend on the font?
Just when I started to think typo squatting was dead
I am in awe of your compilation skills.
This also led me to track down what font the Mastodon SW on this site is using which actually *displays* all of these. It must be very up to date on Unicode symbols.
WRONG: Roboto Regular, it turns out.
CORRECTION: It appears it's actually Microsoft YaHei that has all of these; Roboto is missing a number of the cool ones like the 2 em- and 3 em-dashes.
@Dangerous_beans a few more:
ー katakana-hiragana prolonged sound mark
ｰ Halfwidth katakana-hiragana prolonged sound mark
〜 Wave dash (different from a fullwidth tilde: ～ )
(I'm on my phone so some might've been mangled but those are the full Unicode names)
One of my Unicode Toys works as text mutator and can add all (I hope) of those
qaz.wtf/u/interleave.cgi?use=d…
dashing ➜ d⁓a⁓s⁓h⁓i⁓n⁓g
Since you didn't include the equal sign you probably left out a lot of OTHER mathematical symbols that are Dashes to the Unwary?
Elegance is restraint.
If you added the correct usage, and examples, you'd have a small book!
also psuedo dashes:
一 han character for 1,
ー katakana long vowel
- posted by Seraphine
@Dangerous_beans and there's washing-powder Dash :
@Dangerous_beans Break out of discreet typography! Continuous type has arrived; scale your dashes to any dimensions you want.
Also applies to the colon-semicolon-quartercolon continuum. lars.nocrew.org/semicolon.html
@aldeka @Dangerous_beans There are so many colours in the rainbow
So many colours in the morning sun
So many colours in a flower
And I see every one.
— Flowers are Red, Harry Chapin, on Living Room Suite.
Probably haven't listened to it for 30 years, but still remember the lyrics.
> Nobody needs to hear this, but…
Disagree, my life is better not having to say star and octothorpe
Sextile and octothorpe is much better ❤
@xethos Oh, it's still known as "star" in language. It's just the typographic symbol that's a sextile.
And the octothrope is meant to be known as "square", but they note:
In some countries an alternative term (e.g. "hash", "pound" or "number sign") may be necessary for this
purpose, particularly where the form in Figure 4 is commonly used
I though the 'star' key was base after the backside of a cat? TIL
1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣9️⃣
*️⃣0️⃣#️⃣
A conventional telephone set having a pushbutton pad is modified to include a memory system through which any information keyed on the pushbutton pad must pass before it is transmitted on the telephone line.patents.google.com
@Tourma Officially, it's called "square", but they note:
In some countries an alternative term (e.g. "hash", "pound" or "number sign") may be necessary for this purpose, particularly where the form in Figure 4 is commonly used
@lennby @Tourma I'm on team square, the official name of the key.
Though the ITU does note:
"In some countries an alternative term (e.g. "hash", "pound" or "number sign") may be necessary for this purpose, particularly where the form in Figure 4 is commonly used"
Using "octothorpe" is definitely a rebellion against the International Telecommunication Union
@irom right, but at least here in the u.s., we never said 'press hash for more options' - it was always 'press pound.'
then, in a college programming class (i was much older than the rest of the undergrads), people were saying "hashtag include" and generally referred to the symbol as a 'hashtag' in format strings, python comments, etc.
I kind of wonder if that's actually in an ISO standard like ISO 7000 ("Graphical symbols for use on equipment - Registered symbols").
(And I don't want to pay up my nose to get a copy of ISO 7000 and check if telephony symbols are there. I know e.g. the automotive dashboard symbols are there.)
@umbraroze It's from the ITU so you can read it for free: itu.int/rec/T-REC-E.161/en
"Arrangement of digits, letters and symbols on telephones and other devices that can be used for gaining access to a telephone network"
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include('memes.h')
MEME_LOTR_SECOND_BREAKFAST(
"What about the standard?",
"You already have the ITU standard.",
"Aye, we have the Industry Standard.",
"But what about the International Standard?"
)
now do octothorpe
@w8emv That's officially known as "square", but they note:
In some countries an alternative term (e.g. "hash", "pound" or "number sign") may be necessary for this purpose, particularly where the form in Figure 4 is commonly used
The human body is proportioned with a mathematical symmetry that allows you to do amazing things like run, dance and hold all of your organs.Rachel Wenitsky (Reductress)
@elithebearded tech.lgbt/@LilahTovMoon/117320…
@w8emv That's officially known as "square", but they note:In some countries an alternative term (e.g. "hash", "pound" or "number sign") may be necessary for this purpose, particularly where the form in Figure 4 is commonly used
I also wonder about innie nipples and outie nipples.
Don‘t tell it to the #asterisk guys 🤫
*️⃣
(from unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/… )
Thank you for featuring one of my minor but very persistent pet-peeves.
While I have your attention, dear reader, have you ever wondered what the # sign on the key opposite the sextile is called? like… really, by the people at Bell Labs?
Octothorp! Here's why:
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things like this is why I hate most fonts!
My current one shows the asterisks (and asterisk operator) as five-pointed, with a bar vertical to the top. Sextile is six-pointed (obviously) with horizontal bar.
But the full-width-asterisk? six-pointed, with vertical bar! WHY‽ Why not just make asterisk "full-width", so larger?
And don't even get me started on how asterisk and asterisk operator look near identical, but not 100%? You'll never see what's what unless both are right besides each other, but they still bothered to do different glyphes?
It's just 4 near-identical glyphs with one indicating "I should be bigger" in the name. And there's like 4+ WTFs.
oh that’s not even the right character! That’s technically an astrological symbol
@Elizafox My image is a screenshot from the ITU-T E.161 specification that Unicode is referencing (apparently without really following it)
itu.int/rec/T-REC-E.161-200102… (page numbered 3, page 9 in the pdf)
The efficiency isn't amazing, but it could be a game changer for powering devices far from shore.Jon Martindale (ExtremeTech)
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What a waste of time and effort.
Area required on land is minuscule.
🌊 Neptune's tiny inner moons may be fragments of much larger worlds.
JWST found hydrated minerals on their surfaces — materials that require liquid water interacting with rock. But these small, frozen moons couldn't have produced them themselves.
The evidence points to an ancient system of larger moons, potentially shattered after Triton arrived.
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Neptune’s small inner moons may preserve clues about a much larger world that no longer exists.SETI Institute
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I don't care if Megyn Kelly (formerly of Fox News) calls me "confused." She never met me nor has she ever heard a word I've said.
I think Megyn Kelly and Fox are confused, and frankly we all shoulda started calling them "foxused" a long time ago.
huffpost.com/entry/megyn-kelll…
The right-wing commentator made the extreme declaration on her show.Ron Dicker (HuffPost)
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Can anyone recommend a #PeerTube instance for a #wildlife & #nature video channel I'd like to set up for a local non-profit.
I've had a look at joinpeertube.org/instances Local.Earth doesn't seem to be working any more, and I can't really find anything after a couple of hours of looking
Boosts welcomed, thank you! 🙏
#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Fediverse
EDIT
I've decided to go with hosting our own PeerTube instance, focussed initially on video hosting our partner's video work -- huge thank you to @beartrix for recommendation for Weingärtner IT. Wish me luck!
weingaertner-it.de/index.php/p…
Find and create an account among a list of existing PeerTube platforms. Filter PeerTube platforms according to your preferences: by theme, category or language!JoinPeerTube
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Hi! I'm the admin over at dudelike.wtf. A PeerTube instance that welcomes video creators who make original videos with the intent in engaging their audience through art, education, or entertainment.
This is a hard rule. We do not accept videos that you would find on a lost thumb drive. All videos must be directed towards engagement. We believe that the success of PeerTube isn't just about having people make videos. Its about the audience too. Its the difference between panning back and forth across a mountain with no context, and talking about the mountain and giving either its history, its place in art, or just talking about how it makes you feel.
We offer 10gbs to start (more can be added if needed) and all videos are transcoded to 1080p and 420p.
If you are interested, just check out the rules of the instance and request an account. When you do, make sure that you add that you'll be making nature videos.
We usually respond within 24 hours.
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Have you thought about a managed host ?
I can recommend these people weingaertner-it.de/ ... I get nothing but please let them know BearTrix sent you ... Hugz
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#Dienstleistungen und Hosting, Mastodon Hosting, writefreely Hosting, Pixelfed Hosting und andere Fediverse Dienste als Managed HostingWeingärtner IT Services | your managed fediverse and beyond...
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It would be best for them ... They own and control their branding ... You'll be fine ... I can help if you need it the people at weingaertner-it.de/ can too ... I'm in the same boat as you
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#Dienstleistungen und Hosting, Mastodon Hosting, writefreely Hosting, Pixelfed Hosting und andere Fediverse Dienste als Managed HostingWeingärtner IT Services | your managed fediverse and beyond...
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It's super easy, I used to be a brunette and now a blonde ... Giggles
I have no tech qualifications and I found it easy
Get them to pick the url ... Video.{their url} ... Then in the DNS point that url to the peertube instance
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@MelissaBearTrix
If you both start or get aware of #peertube instances , let us know.
It's so difficult to find good #peertube video channels to follow
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@dilmandila@mograph.social @luca @MelissaBearTrix @dilmandila@tv.dilstories.com @sisi_collective I'm really focussing on hosting videos at the moment; I'm loathe to use YouTube. But will be interesting to see how the social aspects of PeerTube pan out.
Have just signed up for account, setting up the DNS now!
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@dilmandila@mograph.social @luca @dilmandila@tv.dilstories.com @sisi_collective
If it has a lot of features... And keeps getting better
And I'm sure if you ask here someone helpful will help ... Hugz
What I find is it good if they want to direct so wine to a video, and it's not YouTube....it makes them looks very professional
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One thing I found fascinating about PeerTube is the peer aspect.
Everyone watching a video at the same time contributes bandwidth, and other instances can do so unilaterally.
Should help cut costs.
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A home for hosting wildlife and nature videos by the partners in the Ceredigion Nature Partnership. PeerTube is a Fediverse video platform using P2P directly in your web browser.Natur Ceredigion PeerTube
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@MelissaBearTrix and now, they're online! tv.naturceredigion.cymru/c/nat…
thank you again for recommendation 🙏
A home for hosting wildlife and nature videos by the partners in the Ceredigion Nature Partnership. PeerTube is a Fediverse video platform using P2P directly in your web browser.Natur Ceredigion PeerTube
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Everyone have a look at this new peertube instance
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Yay ! ... Great work ... Hugz
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At long last, my translation of the novelette "The Sea's Decree" by Spanish writer Armando Boix has been published in Adventures BookZine #20!!! (Fittingly, this is also my 20th published speculative translation!!! 🎉 )
"The Sea's Decree" explores new beginnings, curses, and the terrible annual Halloween sacrifice that must happen to prevent the Mediterranean Sea from reclaiming Barceloneta.
Pick up your copy of Adventures #20 here: shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?par…
Another multi-genre issue, carefully curated and designed to ignite your summer reading. Featuring icons like Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, this volume delivers the perfect blend of nostalgia, raw tension, and mystery.shop.ingramspark.com
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Una especie de árbol de 300 millones de años, declarada extinta en estado silvestre en la década de 1990, ahora cuenta con alrededor de 10.000 ejemplares maduros. El ciprés de acantilado chino sobrevive casi en su totalidad dentro y alrededor de la reserva de Xuebaoshan en Chongqing, gracias a dos décadas de trabajo de cultivo de semillas y propagación que recientemente le valieron un premio de restauración ecológica en Ginebra. China Daily
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202608/21/…WS6a88407ea3106bc57421cd17.html
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A 300-million-year-old tree species declared extinct in the wild in the 1990s now numbers around 10,000 mature trees. China’s cliff cypress survives almost entirely in and around Chongqing’s Xuebaoshan reserve, the product of two decades of seed-banking and propagation work that just won an ecological restoration award in Geneva. China Daily chinadaily.com.cn/a/202608/21/…
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But the coal plants have been there so long that the fuel pile and the fly ash pile and the machinery foundations ARE "the environment", now.
Turning that traditional, established environment into grass pasture should have required a major environmental assessment.
Along with recycling fees to put the coal and fly-ash back when the solar farm is decommissioned, of course.
@RoyBrander I'm not saying you're wrong, but ...
Can't we please just celebrate the win?
@mike @RoyBrander
I don’t understand the urge to assume the worst. It looks like the sheep and solar are nearby, close enough for interconnection, but not to be eating toxins.
mprnews.org/story/2025/06/03/s…
Xcel Energy is managing vegetation at its Sherco Solar project by using sheep to graze beneath the solar panels. It’s an example of agrivoltaics, a growing practice of pairing renewable energy with agriculture that provides mutual benefits.Kirsti Marohn (MPR News)
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Carney pushes idea of making Canada 'associate member' of EU
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney wants closer links with the European Union and is exploring whether his country could become an "associate member" of the bloc, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
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»Kanada will nach #Europa«
t-online.de/nachrichten/auslan…
» #Kanada strebt angesichts der verschlechterten Beziehungen zu den USA einem Zeitungsbericht zufolge eine engere Anbindung an die Europäische Union (EU) an.«
n-tv.de/politik/Kanada-koennte…
🇨🇦 🤝 🇪🇺
#Canada #Welcome #Bienvenue #Willkommen #EU
Bei ihren Beitrittsregeln ist die EU eigentlich wenig flexibel. Doch für Kanada könnte der Staatenbund einen neuen Status einführen, heißt es in einem Bericht.reuters (t-online)
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Full membership needed, Canada wants to join, fully.
Get rid of the dollar, bring on the Euro.
Not surprising, given that #USA cannot be trusted. (At least, under it's current fascist governing regime.) The only other large country in North America that #Canada could work with is #Mexico. (Not to discount the 20 other smaller countries.) Canada's relationships with #UK and #France are probably stronger, though, so the #EU interest makes sense.
Good luck, Canada!
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Ancient Rome’s Largest Fresco and Mosaic Complex, Featuring Depictions of a Mysterious Maritime City, Opens to the Public After 2,000 Years
The massive artworks, created in the first century C.E., were discovered in the 1990s during excavations of the Baths of Trajan
by Sarah Kuta
smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/…
Books about Ancient Rome at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?q…
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With both sides at the unwinnable stalemate stage, there's every reason to think the Middle East War could drag on until 2027 or '28. China has long been preparing for the day it might need to get by with restricted oil supplies, hence its prioritization of renewables/EVs on national security grounds.
The knock on effects of this will be to also speed further Chinese EV tech development. This will set up a virtuous cycle where EVs (already superior to combustion cars) get even better, and cheaper, and reduce global oil demand even more.
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.Lauri Myllyvirta (Carbon Brief)
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Not surprising at all, and re. Chinas coal, then it is being processed into other types of energy/resources in ways that are completely new to the west, so not polluting. China are in control of the situation, and have even used surplus resources to help out other local nations against the repercussions of the US elite and their blind-sided western populations.
Sorry for the long comment, but the above article relates directly to current geo-political events where US are attacking China. The article - one among thousands - shows that US are failing, and I don't think I can summarise the connecting events shorter atmo:
For those of us that have followed the US oligarchy's war on the rest of the world for a long long time, and followed how they constantly tried to sabotage China's rise, it has been a huge relief to see that enemies of the US Epstein class - "The Empire of Lies" as it is also called - have prepared for everything that is happening now. They ALSO knew what was going to happen, and what the standard/predictable CIA playbook were.
Everything that happens right now have been predicted, and heard/read directly from the arrogant western oligarchs, so there was little surprise for anyone but the ordinary western population that, through the oligarch owned media, thought that we were the good guy's. We weren't, and never was. The reason we thought so, was because US have created the wildest propaganda apparatus, and the most docile/in-fighting/misinformed population in human history - quantity + quality that have never been seen before !
In fact, all the current geo-political conflicts, are really just the US Epstein class panicking and attacking China with everything they got. They had to first weaken Chinas friend/energy provider, Russia through Ukraine (and then command EU oligarchy to take over), and then cut off fossil fuels/energy from Iran, to chinas production machine. They will try to block Chinese trade through other straits if possible, but its no longer likely to succeed. The US elite have completely failed on every single front they have created and the US is no longer a unipolar hegemony, and will only sink deeper and deeper towards poverty, though they will make sure to drain/sacrifice their vassal nations as much as they can first.
However, only the western populations and smaller nations with corruptible leaders were this blind-sided, and an incredible amount of westerners actually believe that all of this was purely Trump/Maga's fault - despite it going on - and accelerating - for over 100 years - WHILE activists was telling everybody about it ! They still don't realise they have been, and are being manipulated - badly..
So, atmo, Western public narrative/emotions are still filled by the "Bad Russia" lynchmob via a standard CIA manufacturing consent campaign, despite an absolute shitload of counter evidence showing what actually happened in Ukraine, and other places in the world. That evidence is not shown to the western population via oligarch owned media, so anger in the created lynch-mob/echo-chamber are predictably hindering the mob in wanting to discuss what happened, or even just listen to those that try to break the US driven western narrative.
Front 1: The now hated Russia already knew that US created Ukraine as a nazty proxy-warrior to harm Russia, and prepared for the coming Nato attack over many years. Nothing US or their EU vassals have instantiated have surprised them in this conflict, except perhaps the suicidal insanity of the EU vassal leaders, or how bad Nato fighting really is. Russia have completely drained out all of Nato's resources, and we now see them turn up the heat while completely controlling the very angry but functionally lame EU/West. There is no 'stalemate', and there never was, so no matter that some peeps don't like it, it was a Russian attrition War at its finest, and the war was already won from the beginning. Russia is doing great. Too bad that US and their bunkers EU vassals have killed so many innocent Ukrainians - "For the Empire !!" 🙁 Nobody needed to die and Russia did try many times to seek deals, but US elite wanted to continue until the last Ukrainian.
Front 2: Iran also knew what was coming, have prepared themselves very well, and have pummelled the other nazty US proxy-warrior, Israel, and all US bases in the area. They also knew that US would try to control either their Oil, or block Hormuz strait to weaken China. Their preparedness and conversations with other 'enemies' of the Epstein class have completely upended US M.East power structure, Izrael and the corruptible golf nations, and there's not much US can do now except hand over nukes to local criminals/terrorists that they support/control. Iran is still functioning and selling Oil to China. There is no 'stalemate', and there won't be. Iran is harmed, but are in control of the situation.
Front 3 - the main one: China also knew that US would trigger this ridiculous stunt. After all, they have been the target of US terrorist actions on the belt&road projects for many many years, and anyone could see that US economic Ponzi-scheme only survived on wars, aggression and exploitation/extortion - like extort/steal Oil from Venezuela - just everywhere on the globe. US, or the CIA tried to get a Taiwan proxy warrior up and running, but didn't have time to finish the job, and bc the Ukraine campaign have drained them, US Oligarchy had to trigger attacks against all friends and supporters of China instead + attacking China financially with tariffs and worthless blockades. Not a scratch have come to China yet.
China have been developing under the radar and are also turning up the knob. Every day we see how China launches new insane technology - far beyond anything in the West - and are completely managing everything US throws at them, sanctions, sabotaging the 'belt and road project', reducing fossil energy needed by China's production via Hormuz closure, and so on. China, have hardly noticed it relative to what the western population is about to experience. The result of the Epsteins attack on China is that US and the entire western vassal system are in an implosive process, while China and its nearest friends are doing well now, and will survive the US elites current panic and violent tantrum just fine. China have already won - without much fuzz really.
Earlier fronts: Unfortunately, smaller and closer nations got harmed by the US elites pscho warring for profit/power and by the western population that gave the green light for it. Many CIA instigated riots were triggered - the so-called "Color-revolutions" were all just CIA manipulation for the Epstein shtters, and many middle-east nations suffered, lost control to terrorist organisations supported by the US etc. Too many to mention, really.
Venezuela, and the rest of the good peeps of South America are under constant attack from the Epstein cnts and their Oligarchy presidents.
So, ALL of the above have been prepared, executed and evaluated by every sitting Oligarch President in the US - no matter if "Democrat" Biden, Obomba, Clinton etc, or "Republican" like Trump, Bush? etc were chosen for the Oligarchy presidency. No-one have tried to reverse what the previous puppet from the "other" uni-party did. That alone should raise some eyebrows in the west, but unfortunately, people are still too blind-sided and angry at anyone else but the elite pschos that are running the show. All of the above are documented and well-known for long time activist, anti-imperialists and real journalists (yes, there are still a few in the west).
I agree with most you say. If you look at the official government calendar and see how many heads of state, have visited China in the last 6 months, it is mind-blowing. Almost every single world leader and lesser known countries have paid a visit.
Especially leaders from African countries have received a more elaborate welcome than that orange sack of shit.
The move of China to soft power from the prior sabre rattling is something to behold.
China always plays the long game and have backup plans for their backup plans. Something western government either don't or refuse to understand. Like the whole chip van thing. Now Xiaomi released their new flagship phone, Xiaomi 18 and it uses their own Ring O3 3nm which has the highest antutu score.
People in general completely underestimate the tenacity of the Chinese people.
In regards to the energy usage and reliance on oil, read this article.
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source These figures are outdated and just an insight of what is taking place, once you see the graph further down the post you will understand what the Chinese are creating… by cryptoandcoffeehive.blog
The good news is that all of these forces will be going into reverse for fossil fuels, and simultaneously cascading their decline.
The report identifies 5 key areas renewables have self-perpetuating feedback loops.
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Replacing saturated and animal fats with unsaturated and plant-based fats is associated with a lower risk of death among men with nonmetastatic prostate cancer.Maya Brownstein (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
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Jerusalem (AFP) – The Democratic Republic of Congo said Thursday it would move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, joining a small group of countries including the United States in taking the symbolic step of backing Israeli sovereignty in the contested holy city.After a visit by President Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi, the two countries in a statement said they would take steps for "the relocation of the embassy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem", without giving a timeline.
Tshisekedi and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a meeting spoke of their "shared commitment to strengthening diplomatic relations", the statement said.
Tshisekedi has spoken warmly about Israel for years, saying his support is driven by his Christian faith. He has also been eager for support from the United States, which has increasingly pressured Rwanda over armed rebel advances in DR Congo.
The announcement comes weeks after Colombia's new hard-right president, Abelardo de la Espriella, also announced that he would move his country's embassy to Jerusalem, a sharp shift from his leftist predecessor who criticised Israel over its Gaza offensive.
The vast majority of countries, if they recognise Israel, keep their embassies in Tel Aviv on the grounds that the status of Jerusalem will be settled in a final resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
President Donald Trump shattered that consensus in 2018 during his first term by moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, which is home to Israel's parliament, prime minister and most other major governmental institutions.
Since Trump's move, only a handful of small, US-aligned countries have followed suit -- Fiji, Guatemala, Honduras, Papua New Guinea and Paraguay.
Kosovo and Somaliland, which are not member-states of the United Nations, have also opened what they consider their embassies in Jerusalem.
Argentine President Javier Milei, another right-wing Latin American who is an outspoken supporter of Israel, has promised to move his country's embassy to Jerusalem.
The shift has not yet taken place, however, reportedly due to disagreement over an Israeli company's plans to drill in the British-ruled Falkland Islands, which Argentina claims and calls the Malvinas.
Israel captured the eastern part of Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed it, declaring Jerusalem, home to Judaism's holiest site, to be its eternal, undivided capital.
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You know, if you have to put ‘democratic republic’ in the name of your country, you’re probably not.
Say, the USA should rename itself to the Democratic Republic States of America
Santiago (Chile) (AFP) – Hundreds of Chilean protesters comparing right-wing President Jose Antonio Kast's security policies with those of late dictator Augusto Pinochet clashed with police in Santiago on Thursday.The police fired tear gas and used water cannon to disperse the protesters as they moved through the central Plaza Italia chanting that Kast is "just like Pinochet."
Kast took office in March promising to crack down hard on organized crime and illegal immigration.
He is Chile's most right-wing leader since the end of Pinochet's brutal 1973-1990 military dictatorship.
To tackle crime, Kast's government has proposed eight constitutional amendments.
One would allow the president to declare a state of emergency for up to eight months, without congressional approval, in the event of a serious threat to public security.
Authorities would have powers to restrict basic freedoms such as freedom of movement and assembly and, most controversially of all, intercept communications in specific geographic areas.
The reforms, which have yet to be debated in Congress, have drawn criticism from rights groups, opposition leaders and even members of the ruling coalition.
"He is giving himself powers that a president in a democracy shouldn't have," Camila Aramena, a 22-year-old public administration student who took part in the protest, told AFP.
Chile is one of the safest countries in Latin America but has been rocked by a surge in murders and kidnappings in recent years, coinciding with the arrival of foreign crime gangs such as Venezuela's Tren de Aragua.
The homicide rate was 5.4 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2025, twice what it was a decade earlier.
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Washington said it “would be watching closely” to see which allies help in its campaign against the court during a closed-door meeting this summer.Victor Jack (POLITICO)
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Ok, genuinely, tech journalists need to investigate why so much money is being laundered into Omarchy. A bunch of slopware from a white supremacist does not deserve $18 million when real Linux projects have gone unfunded for years. There has to be something else going on here.
Time to move away from DigitalOcean.
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@sesivany @TheEvilSkeleton He invented Ruby on Rails. It's a pretty big deal. Of course he's got those kinds of contacts.
I don't use it. No idea if the hype is bullshit or not. But Ruby on Rails is a pretty big deal a lot of people depend on.
Look it up.
@Elizafox @slotos @crazyeddie @sesivany @TheEvilSkeleton yup, he is someone who managed to turn his influential FLOSS project into a lot of social capital.
he created ruby on rails in 2004, when everybody was still figuring out this 'internet' thing (and how to scale it up). for reference, wordpress came out in 2003.
if you wrote something similar today, you wouldn't be able to gain even half the traction that ruby on rails did. and the fact that it was website software that would be used by a lot of businesses (similar to wordpress), was how he could leverage the software he wrote for business connections, like eventually shopify (wanna guess what they use?). it's very sad to see how much personal connections to the investor class matter, and how little him turning fash changed (appearently the shopify owners have some similar politics, though. like attracts like).
idk, he was extremly well-known to be a toxic asshole long before he became a fascist though. i feel like there's a lesson in here somewhere to double down on collaborative, community-based development, to push back against cults of personality, and that if someone is being a toxic asshole, we need to throw them out, even if they did some important things at some point. not sure how much that would have changed, but it might have protected the ruby community from some of the damage, at least :/
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In DigitalOcean's case, can you confirm this to me?
> But the part of this patronage that really made me smile was how quickly it all came together. I reached out to Paddy Srinivasan, DigitalOcean’s CEO, on X on Wednesday. We had a call that same night. I sent a proposal on Saturday. By Sunday, we’d finalized everything.
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From the looks of it, he asked the CEO on Twitter.
DigitalOcean is joining the Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron, contributing $1 million a year for three years! That’s a $3 million commitment to the development, maintenance, and spread of Omarchy. What…Omarchy
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@whack If I got a $1.8M lump sum to start a company, Linux would cease to have accessibility issues and I'd be creating more jobs for humans that would need them.
Alas....I can only dream...
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tech journalism is arguably the most corrupted subfield of journalism given its target audience is either addicted to tech, financially strapped to it, or both
As soon as I was old enough to travel on my own, London was where I wanted to go. Compared to Copenhagen at the time, there was something so majestic about Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, and even the Tube around the turn of the millenium.world.hey.com
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Omarchy looks to me like a marketing vehicle. Putting money in it and your name on it is like putting your logo on an F1 team or football club.
I know next to nothing about Omarchy. But if it can lure devs away from Apple (or MS) and onto Linux that would be cool.
There was this recent discussion about #Omarchy and the #Omacon foundation donations:
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From me:
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… to projects where it’s actually going to benefit people.“Sure, if you ignore the consequences of making your project funding, maybe your salaries and financing of new professional project contributors directly dependent on the whims of the #Omacon Foundation and #DHH, that might sound like a splendid idea.
Their long-term strategy might actually be to align the liberal FLOSS ecosystem to their fascist motifs. To suffocate opposition.
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Tales from my butt: almost no distros have the funding Omarchy has.
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This is UNHINGED. As far as I know, the only PC Linux distros with any money are Ubuntu, Red Hat, SteamOS, and maybe SUSE.$18.5 million is very likely more than the total money spent by ~35 of the top 40 Linux distros.
The Elementary founder works on just $75,000 a year.
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Since writing my article, even more people and companies have decided to fund Omarchy and DHH:
Contributing $100,000 each:
- Ryan R. Hughes, partner at Oodle
- Ed Huang, cofounder and CTO of PingCAP
- Adrien Treccani, founder of Metaco
- Max Schoening, Head of Product at NotionContributing $100,000 a year for three years:
- Four TechnologiesContributing $1.5 million in tokens:
- Meta Superintelligence LabsContributing $150,000 in tokens each:
- Anthropic
- Fireworks
- OpenAI
- OpenRouteromarchy.org/news/2026/08/omaco…
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@alexia most NPOs take a year or more to be recognized in the federal database. They likely are a state level NPO presently, the money and donations can be used to demonstrate why the need federal NPO status as they start operating.
So check state business filings
Just as Russian oligarchs laundered their looted national treasury via real estate, with the full cooperation of the West's financial services....
... petrostate despots & oil oligarchs are laundering their looted PIF's and national treasuries via Silicon Valley, again with the full cooperation of the West's financial services.
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Many speculated online about why the Twitter CEO and Donald Trump's son-in-law attended the World Cup final together in Qatar on Sunday.Anna Commander (Newsweek)
Has Digital Ocean lost their fucking mind!?
I'm trying my best to not go out on a rant here but it takes some serious effort. (And I clearly failed)
I can deal with "Your distro is not my distro, but your distro is ok"...
But jumping over Arch and going straight to the latest in techbro tech with yt neon colors is a tad to fucking much.
I'll show myself out.
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I despair at what it will take to finally get people to acknowledge that white supremacy is a VERY COMMON THING for white people to genuinely like.
Which pretty handily explains why it keeps getting funded.
@H0W25 Sentences. Learn how to write using SENTENCES. A sentence is single, discrete, grammatical statement, which ends with a full stop (marked by a period). Sentences organize your remarks into a logically coherent structure that other people can more easliy parse and understand. NOT doing that is the writing equivalent of a sugared-up toddler or drunken, stupid teenager babbling endlessly and nonsensically. Just beating the shit out of a keyboard is not communicating.
Next lesson: Paragraphs
@danger__dan Are you asking a question? Or just being obtuse? Does your use of a question mark signal your lack of willingness to stand by unpopular views you have and face your peers? I ask, because I see that a lot. The vast majority of bigots are cowards, and a huge proportion of fools lack conviction because they really don't know what's going on, and they know it.
Anyway, bye. If you're not a troll, then you're just not ready for serious adult conversation.
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It might not be super obvious, but:
> In 2000, more than sixty percent of the city were native Brits. By 2024, that had dropped to about a third
But the Wikipedia article he links to says over two thirds were born in the UK. So instead, when he says "about a third", he's likely referring to the table that lists that number for "white British" inhabitants.
So he's not worried about culture, or behaviour. It's about skin colour.
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OMG the cope amongst the nazi left is hilarious.
NEW VIDEO!!! The Korean War is still ongoing, but what if it ended much earlier in a victory for the north?
Presenting "What If North Korea Won?" which is part 1 of a 2 part alternate history series I am doing on the Korean War. youtu.be/QTfX_VmuXBw
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.The Alternate Historian (YouTube)
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LLMs cannot, by their very nature, lead to AGI. They very badly need people to believe it is AGI though, because their growth model does not work without it.
(This excludes the financials, which are just straight-up fraud on wheels)
I would say these claims now border on fraud. It will be fascinating in 20 years when we are looking back on this bubble and wondering how so many smart people were so easily swindled.
AGI / ASI can't happen without an entirely new paradigm. This ain't it chief.
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On the other hand, do humans produce anything without knowing things first? 😛
(there are unsupervised learning techniques for machine learning, LLMs aren't, they're supervised learning)
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@jaystephens 💀 People have already been poisoned against it which is fucking depressing.
They think the bullshit OpenAI is doing is what all AI is, and that every person who wants AI has evil aims to destroy creativity and the world at large and shit.
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#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, const char ** argv) {
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That's the same that Yann LeCun said leaving Meta, and I followed his researches since the 90s to early 2000s.
But if people believes so widely on chem trails and vaccine hoaxes, what would you expect with a well packaged marketing move, arranged as a high technical breakthrough?
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Generative "AI" still can't generate "full glass of red wine" and it never will, because there aren't enough pictures to train it on. (because common picture is half of glass of wine)
It can never produce anything that didn't get as input.
We won't get AGI from that for sure.
Your belief on how "generative AI" works is (very) outdated.
"Border on fraud"?
What techbros are pushing rn is way past the borders.
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💯 on the finances
But if the marketing statements only border on fraud, it's because the "truth in advertising" laws are too weak.
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> wondering how so many smart people were so easily swindled.
The same way the Germans said "We knew nothing about that". It preserves their innocence and pretends they weren't a mark too.
The idea that historians will be confused about how so many people are swindled is a weird thing to me; they'd be really bad historians if they don't understand human nature and societal motivations. Then again, maybe it's the same thing as economists now that ignore any motivation beyond money.
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The AI bubble is a circular finance fraud that disguises a montrous degree of fossil fuel money laundering & election meddling.
The most corrupt industry on earth hopes data centers will save them from inevitable demand destruction or a mandatory fossil fuel phase out.
It's an industry facing its own annihilation poorly by getting in bed with technofascists.
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Saudi Arabia's millennial crown prince got to see the inside of Apple's new $5 billion campus.Kif Leswing (Business Insider)
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AGI is a misnomer. It's really a way of saying "intelligent AI", but the I in AI already stands for intelligence, so calling ig IAI would expose the swindle.
Current "AI" is not intelligent. It's artificial, yes, but so is microplastics.
The mistake I think you’re making is assuming that intelligence and subjectivity are isomorphic. I see no reason to believe intelligence necessarily implies a worlding consciousness with interiority, subjective experience and a sense of self.
I can easily imagine a technical system surpassing human capacity in all cognitive domains without there ever being anything it’s like to be an LLM. (This is by no means enthusiasm for, endorsement of or comfort with any such possibility, but I think we need to reckon with the plain set of facts confronting us.)
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18 trains, 100 hours 9 minutes, 4008km as the crow flies, 6281 route-km
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NameDrop.io is a great little feature, to let folk know how to pronounce your name. I was looking up the bio of Mai Nguyen, whose book "Cleo Dang would Rather be Dead" is shortlisted for the Giller prize. At the end of the bio on her website, it says:
"Born in Winnipeg and raised in Halifax, Mai currently lives in Toronto with her husband, daughter, and French bulldog.
Her name is pronounced like My Nwin (namedrop.io/mainguyen)".
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Nothing would make me happier than for us to talk about the fact that one of the Ig Nobel winning studies strongly implies we should start milking cockroaches to supply the gym bro industry.
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The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and "24/7" lectures.Jennifer Ouellette (Ars Technica)
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“It is like a baseball pitcher throwing three balls at once, two of which are illusions,” he wrote. “The batter has to figure out which one is real before deciding whether to swing.”
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is dealing a heavy blow to literature and literary judging, Taiwanese writer Chu Yu-hsun (朱宥勳) said on Saturday, adding that nearly 40 percent of the novel submissions he reviewed this year appeared to be AI-generated.台北時報
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The abrupt defunding of USAID sent shockwaves worldwide. In the first of a series supported by the Pulitzer Center and in collaboration with Science Magazine, we take an on-the-ground look at the impact of defunding health services in key places worldwide.
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The Big Power of Small Annoyances
In a small black box, in a cupboard just out of reach of my desk, I keep one of my few treasured possessions: a set of Oblique Strategies cards, signed by their co-creator, the artist and musician Brian Eno. The cards, each carrying a brief instruction, are a prompt for creative people.
Some are practical: “Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do
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In a small black box, in a cupboard just out of reach of my desk, I keep one of my few treasured possessions: a set of Oblique Strategies cards, signed by their co-creator, the artist and musician …Tim Harford
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Demian
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •M.S. Bellows, Jr.
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in reply to M.S. Bellows, Jr. • • •Licho
in reply to M.S. Bellows, Jr. • • •@msbellows destroying 80% of all wealth hits different when 1% owns most of it.
@dgodon @inthehands
Incessant
in reply to M.S. Bellows, Jr. • • •@msbellows @dgodon this seems to be the case. The problem isn't the "crash" , but rather they are preparing the next case of "too big to fail", and making the taxpayers bail them out.
This is the danger.
We already know they're over-allocated.
Demian
in reply to Incessant • • •@iveyline
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •The provenance of the money flooding into the AI bubble matters.
Fossil fuel private equity interests were hoping to use data centers as a way to keep its captive consumer markets. By any means necessary.
Fossil fuel money funds Yandex.
straitstimes.com/world/europe/…
Fossil fuel money funds Google & Peter Thiel.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
Fossil fuel money funds SpaceX.
fortuneindia.com/amp/story/bus…
Silicon Valley is funded by fossil fuels
cnbc.com/amp/2019/06/30/koch-n…
axios.com/2017/12/14/koch-trie…
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UK imposes sanctions on Russian 'shadow' ships and Yandex Bank
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Nicole Parsons
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desmog.com/2025/12/11/the-koch…
Fossil fuel money funds Bezos & Zuckerberg.
theverge.com/amazon/667916/jef…
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
cybernews.com/ai-news/meta-dat…
Fossil fuel money funds Larry & David Ellison
americanprogress.org/article/p…
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Fossil fuel money funds Microsoft.
scroll.media/en/2025/09/15/mic…
forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/202…
Jeff Bezos makes his most ghoulish deal yet
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Petr Skála
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •RiaResists❌ 👑
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •Makes total sense.
And it allows big oil to continue destroying the planet. (🙄)
Petr Skála
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •Big Ben
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •youtu.be/5hTMYk7orHw
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in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •768kB 🚴☕🌍
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •chx
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in reply to chx • • •mathew
in reply to chx • • •@chx Find small-cap ETFs and ETFs focusing on stocks with a low but positive P/E ratio. That will automatically exclude all the AI bubble stocks. You'll still hurt when the crash comes, but much less.
There's also Defiance Large Cap ex-Mag 7 ETF (XMAG) which contains the S&P 500 minus Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and SpaceX.
Jan Wildeboer 😷
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Coming Soon: Global Financial Stability Report, October 2026
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Kristin Henry: artist. Runs vis.social.
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Svavar the Neurozesty
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •The Bank of England has been saying this since at least July.
politico.eu/article/bank-of-en…
Bank of England warns an AI crash could plunge UK into recession
Elliot Gulliver-Needham (POLITICO)Poloniousmonk
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •World financial stability is already dead.
Start looking past it to whatever comes next.
🎀𝓀𝒶𝓃𝑒𝑒𝓁🎀
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •…meanwhile in breaking news.
Wish the sun to stand still 🌞
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •The US govt will end up bailing out a system for making people unemployed.
Watch.
Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •This is not a foregone conclusion unless we allow our own apathetic cynicism to make it so — but it is certainly a real danger against which we need to fight hard.
infosec.exchange/@tasket/11743…
Wish the sun to stand still 🌞
2026-10-14 01:47:52
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in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •It will hurt, but the longer we have to wait for the crash, the worse it will be.