Nestlé accused of ’risking health of babies for profit’ over added sugar in cereals sold in African countries
Campaigners say the company is contributing to rising rates of childhood obesity, while the firm says it is helping to combat malnutritionNestlé is still adding sugar to most baby cereals sold across Africa, according to an investigation by campaigners who…
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N. Korea slams S. Korea-US fact sheet as formalizing confrontational stance against Pyongyang
North Korea on Tuesday denounced the release of a joint fact sheet between South Korea and the United States on their trade and security agreements as "formulating" as policy their confrontational stance against Pyongyang, warning that the North will take…
North Korea on Tuesday denounced the release of a joint fact sheet between South Korea and the United States on their trade and security agreements...Yonhap (The Korea Times)
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Two long-lost organ pieces by JS Bach performed for first time in 300 years
Archive director in Germany says ‘missing piece of puzzle’ now in place to verify authorship after decades of researchTwo long-lost organ pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach have been performed in Germany, roughly 320 years after the composer wrote them as a…
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Is the Saudi wealth fund preparing to bid for Warner Bros?
www.newarab.com/news/saudi-wealth-fund-preparing-bid-warner-bros
Rumours in US media suggest the Sauid Public Investment Fund is considering mounting a surprise bid for the $57 billion US media giant Warner Bros
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Tamil Nadu archaeologists join excavations at Berenike in Egypt to trace ancient Mediterranean trade links
In 1995, archaeologists unearthed a potsherd at Berenike bearing the Tamil-Brahmi text korrapuman. The TNSDA has joined the current season of excavations at the ancient port city on the Red Sea coast to identify more evidence of ancient trade links between…
Tamil Nadu archaeologists collaborate in Berenike, Egypt, to uncover ancient trade links between Tamils and Romans.The Hindu
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Germany moves to resume sales of weapons to Israel
www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2025/11/17/germany-moves-to-resume-sales-of-weapons-to-israel
Berlin says decision is subject to ceasefire holding
Berlin says it will return to ‘case-by-case review’ for arms exports to IsraelLaura Pitel in Berlin and Mehul Srivastava in London (The Irish Times)
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[I literally had this thought in the shower this morning so please don't gatekeep me lol.]
If AI was something everyone wanted or needed, it wouldn't be constantly shoved your face by every product. People would just use it.
Imagine if printers were new and every piece of software was like "Hey, I can put this on paper for you" every time you typed a word. That would be insane. Printing is a need, and when you need to print, you just print.
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In poor countries, parents are not kept awake by concern about achieving a 0.1 degrees Celsius temperature reduction in a century.Bjorn Lomborg (The Japan Times)
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Deepest contempt for Gates, the liar and hypocrites, and everyone amplifying his lies:
May they all be killed by the consequences of the climate crisis.
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Nancy Pelosi, a towering figure in U.S. politics and the first woman to serve as House speaker, announced Thursday that she would step down after the next election.Frankie Taggart (The Japan Times)
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The US isn't the most competitive smartphone market, but that hasn't stopped a notable mobile manufacturer from entering the country.Hadlee Simons (Android Authority)
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Folks who are also on historians.social on Mastodon - the instance is shutting down at the end of October, so you'll want to migrate or whatever the appropriate verb is. 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern
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Historians.social is open to all who are interested in history.Mastodon hosted on historians.social
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Read my latest, “Cthulhu Is My Alma Mater,“ on Medium. #BrownUniversity #Lovecraft
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António Guterres says ‘sun is rising on a clean energy age’ as 90% of renewable power projects cheaper than fossil fuelsFiona Harvey (The Guardian)
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Here's an @AtlasObscura article for if you have fond memories of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series (The one where you were at summer camp and then suddenly, in a Robin Hood story! Holding your finger in a page where you'd made a choice in case your adventure ended and you needed to go back to that crucial point!) Back in 2017, Sarah Laskow wrote about projects to map the forking structure of the stories, in doing so, revealing how the series evolved, its connection to modern interactive fiction, and the most complex, straightforward, and frustrating books.
#Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #ChildrensBooks #ChooseYourOwnAdventure #InteractiveFiction
If you decide to see more, click on this story.Sarah Laskow (Atlas Obscura)
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There's a format that's especially well-suited to ebooks.
I snagged Star Trek Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way in a Humble Bundle recently and was happy to see that all the "turn to page N" prompts were links to the appropriate page. @AtlasObscura @bookstodon
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Although the antimatter qubit won't find use in quantum computing, it will be used to test the differences between matter and antimatter.Keith Cooper (Space)
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Foreign aid has saved and improved millions of lives through health programs, food aid, and humanitarian assistance.Our World in Data
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The UK Environment Agency has some tips for the public to help conserve water, including
> Deleting old emails to reduce pressure on data centre servers
I kid you not.
gov.uk/government/news/england…
England faces 5 billion litre a day shortfall for public water supplies by 2055 – and a further 1 billion litre a day deficit for wider economy.Environment Agency (GOV.UK)
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Emails mean storage
Storage needs power, which needs cooling and therefore water.
But it would be a rounding error.
Seems like a very oddly specific thing.
Now, how about all those companies trim down all the unnecessary personal data they horde? That might make a bigger difference.
Disabled medieval knights were a known thing (understandably), and they made use of all kinds of gnarly assistive devices and contraptions.
This guy Götz is one of the most famous and well-documented examples (right on the late medieval/early modern cusp). He got his arm shot off by a cannonball, fell into a deep depression about it, and recovered once he saw another knight using a prosthesis.
epoch-magazine.com/post/to-fig…
Götz owned several prosthetics, some functional and others more decorative.
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Another famous disabled knight is King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, whose portrayal in "Kingdom of Heaven" is one of the highlights of an otherwise terrible movie. He was afflicted with leprosy from childhood and died at about 24 years old.
Leprosy was highly stigmatized, spiritualized, and mythologized in the Middle Ages. People with leprosy were segregated, and there were various moral stereotypes assigned to them. Baldwin, however, was an active leader and personally commanded troops in battle.
Contemporary chroniclers praised Baldwin for defying the stereotypes assigned to people with leprosy: he was valiant, honorable, and chaste (people with leprosy were thought to be hypersexual).
Some religious chroniclers, however, assumed that Baldwin's leprosy was a sign of some secret sin, and that he must have been cursed by God.
Baldwin's inability to feel pain in most of his body probably contributed to the mythology of him as a "Leper King" with supernatural prowess in battle.
Another famous disabled knight was Jan Žižka, who lost one eye early in his career and the other eye during the Hussite Wars. He achieved some of his greatest victories (outnumbered and outgunned by Catholic crusaders) as a general and commander while fully blind.
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Blindness, like leprosy, was highly spiritualized in the Middle Ages. Most late medieval Catholics did not regularly consume the consecrated bread, but drew spiritual meaning from seeing the elevated host.
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Blind people were therefore excluded from the spiritual experience of seeing the consecrated host, making blindness a spiritual disability as well as a physical one.
At this time, lay Catholics were also totally excluded from receiving the consecrated wine. Žižka's Hussite faction was considered "radical" for its insistence that laypeople should be able to access both the bread and the wine. Hussites were called "chalice people," and one of Žižka's epithets was "Jan of the Chalice."
This thread is about famous warriors, because that's my current research focus, but it's always worth mentioning that most people in the Middle Ages were not warriors, and most disabled people lived peaceful, non-exceptional lives in supportive communities.
An exceptional medieval non-warrior, who was also disabled, is my bestie St. Aelred of Rievaulx, who is most famous for being In Love With Men and writing a treatise on Being In Love With Men In A God-Honoring Way.
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[ India’s rich cultural heritage sees disability as a warrior queen and a revered sage. In the Rigveda, an Indian collection of hymns and poems written 3500BC-1800BC, Queen Vishpala loses her leg in battle and fights on with a prosthetic limb.
Ashtavakra, a Vedic sage, is said to have authored a central Hindu religious text the Ashtavakra Gita, triumphing over scholars in King Janaka’s court, who mocked his disabilities. ]
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#AsianMastodon #PeopleWithDisabilities #India #Hindu #AncientWarriors
India’s rich cultural heritage sees disability as a warrior queen and a revered sage - but how does this translate to modern society?Asia Media Centre | Helping New Zealand media cover Asia
Aspiring Materials' process extracts valuable minerals from olivine, offering a cleaner, sustainable solution for battery material supply chains.Laurie Winkless (IEEE Spectrum)
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In politics, the devil is in the details; in engineering the devil is in Accounting.
We CAN recycle every bit of nuclear waste; it's just cheaper to make new nuclear fuel from scratch, WHILE storing the nuclear waste.
And cheaper wins in a money-controlled society.
also I hope that #SodiumWetcells aka. #SaltwaterBatteries get developed to be drop-in replacements for #LeadAcid #batteries.
Named L 98-59f, this planet is a non-transiting super-Earth with a minimal mass of 2.8 Earth masses on a 23-day orbit inside the habitable zone of the small red dwarf L 98-59.L 98-59, also known as TOI-175, TIC 307210830, is an M dwarf about one-third the mass of the Sun.
The system lies approximately 34.5 light-years away in the southern constellation of Volans.
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that means there are now over 100 known extra solar planets in their habitable zones.
the odds are getting better and better!
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Researchers may have found our galaxy's missing companions, further bolstering science's most widely accepted cosmological model.Margherita Bassi (Gizmodo)
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"What is remarkable is that the time between pulse pairs seems to follow a choreographed pattern."Robert Lea (Space)
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A mysterious space rock far beyond Neptune has caught astronomers' attention with an orbit unlike anything seen before.Melissa Ait Lounis (The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel)
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Astronomers have made an extraordinary discovery at the outer edge of our solar system—a strange space rock that dances in perfect rhythm with Neptune. The object, named 2020 VN40, is part of a group of distant celestial bodies called trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). This latest find reveals that the distant reaches of our solar system are more dynamic than we ever thought.
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strange space rock that dances in perfect rhythm with Neptune
Orbital resonance is nothing new. What seems notable about this object is thta it is highly inclined outside the plane of the solar system while maintaining that resonance.
“One year ago, this was out of the discussion.”…Eric Berger (Ars Technica)
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It would be cool to see them dock to Tiangong.
I'm not convinced that an ESA owned and operated station is worth it, but a European module on a private station could be a good middle ground.
Researchers are developing a living material that actively extracts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Photosynthetic cyanobacteria grow inside it, forming biomass and solid minerals and thus binding CO2 in two different manners.ETH Zurich
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Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that surrounds its young host star.www.eso.org
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Using the European Space Agency’s Characterizing Exoplanets Satellite (CHEOPS) telescope, a team of astronomers has…Haygen Warren (NASASpaceFlight.com)
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A VC tested Replit to build an app. It wiped live company data, faked results, and triggered a CEO apology.Lee Chong Ming (Business Insider)
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UNSW researchers uncover why some people persist in harmful behaviours – even when they’ve been shown where they’re going wrong.UNSW Sites
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Inside Russia’s ‘nesting doll’ anti-satellite tech and the real threats in orbitMeduza
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Groundbreaking observations map chaotic patchwork of magnetic activity, said to be key to understanding how sun’s field flipsHannah Devlin (The Guardian)
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"a massive list of ideas for things you can do to not only effectively fight against book censorship but that also will increase your own knowledge, vocabulary, and fluency in the world of censorship as it is right now"
#books #booksky #writing #writersofmastodon #WritingCommunity #bookstodon @bookstodon@a.gup.pe @bookstodon@fedigroups.social
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Choose one task each week of 2025 for a year full of anti-book censorship activism and advocacy.Kelly Jensen (BOOK RIOT)
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Biomass burial could be the answer to large-scale, affordable carbon storage. Michael Allen investigatesNo Author (Physics World)
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“There are currently very few markets for the types of residues that need to come out of these forests – it is usually small-diameter, low-value timber,” explains Crotty. “They typically can’t pay their way out of the forests, so business as usual in many areas is to simply put them in a pile and burn them.”
Couldn't it be used for paper pulp? Wood mulch? Particle board? Use for these could avoid some of the environmental burden of other sources these are coming from. The lack of a market just means this is not the most profitable way to make those things, it doesn't even necessarily mean there would not be some net profit. Burying it however is not just no net profit, it is pure cost. The people developing this stand to make money, but it doesn't seem the best solution from a big picture scenario.
#Stories and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Narrative by Paul B. Armstrong, 2020
This book explains how the brain interacts with the social world—and why stories matter.
How do our brains enable us to tell and follow stories? And how do stories affect our minds? In Stories and the Brain, Paul B. Armstrong analyzes the cognitive processes involved in constructing and exchanging stories, exploring their role in the neurobiology of mental functioning.
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Scientists analyzing an ultra-hot giant planet believe it was formed by absorbing lightweight gases like methane evaporating from tiny space pebbles, while being bombarded with large rocky objects.University of Birmingham (Phys.org)
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LemmyKnowsBest
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in reply to bystander • • •Timnit Gebru - Wikipedia
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)bystander
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in reply to dondelelcaro • • •TranquilTurbulence
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •Some of the older lemmings here will remember what it was like when every company wanted to make a website, but they didn’t really have anything to put in there. People were curious to look at websites, because you hadn’t seen that many yet, so visiting them was kinda fun and interesting at first. After about a year, the novelty had worn off completely, and seeing YetAnotherCompanyName.com on TV or a road side billboard was beginning to get boring.
Did it ever get as infuriating the current AI hype though? I recall my grandma complaining about TV news. “They always tell me to read more online.” she says. I guess it can get just as annoying if you manage to successfully ignore the web for a few decades.
Iced Raktajino
in reply to TranquilTurbulence • • •I was an adult during that time, and I don't recall it being anywhere near as annoying. Well, except the TV and radio adverts spelling at you like "...or visit our website at double-you double-you double-you dot Company dot com. Again, that's double-you double-you double-you dot C-O-M-P-A-N-Y dot com."
YMMV, but it didn't get annoying until apps entered the picture and the only way to deal with certain companies was through their app. That, of if they did offer comparable capabilities on their website but kept a persistent banner pushing you toward their app.
samus12345
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •Iced Raktajino
in reply to samus12345 • • •I'm about that same age but am so glad we've largely abandoned the "www" for websites.
On my personal project website, I have a custom listener setup to redirect people to "aarp.org" if they enter it with "www" instead of just the base domain. 😆
𝕛𝕨𝕞-𝕕𝕖𝕧
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •Illecors
in reply to 𝕛𝕨𝕞-𝕕𝕖𝕧 • • •𝕛𝕨𝕞-𝕕𝕖𝕧
in reply to Illecors • • •no, i think i know how things work enough to know this is a shitty idea.
that excerpt is going to do a 301 redirect to the AARP site for any requests to www.yoursite.xyz - that’s 100% not up for debate.
there are a fair amount of things, especially in a corporate environment, that automatically append www. to any URL passed. you think a hiring manager is going to care that it’s a quirky technical joke? why would you make it more difficult to access a portfolio who’s entire purpose is to be as accessible as possible for the target audience?
Illecors
in reply to 𝕛𝕨𝕞-𝕕𝕖𝕧 • • •null_dot
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •I absolutely hate seeing AI crammed into everything.
However, i don't understand your logic.
If AI was in fact useful, it would be crammed into everything because everyone would want it.
So while AI is undoubtedly shit, its presence in everything is not evidence of that.
Hudell
in reply to null_dot • • •null_dot
in reply to Hudell • • •That's not really analogous.
If AI could be added to a product and actually improve that product, then you would need to add AI to products to improve the products.
You wouldn't leave your gold in your mine thinking about how much it might be worth.
kameecoding
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •Isn't this a stupid attitude?
Wasn't the dot-com bubble anything other than people showing the internet in your face and how it's a game changer 24/7.
We are simply at the peak of the initial hype curve of the Gartner hype cycle, the bubble will burst soonish and lots of companies go bankrupt, then real use cases will emerge where it's actually revolutionary.
I don't know which youtuber but one had a good video about it, at some point in the past, all hype was around drones and delivering stuff to your front yard, turned out that was stupid yet those things found their niche, e.g. some medicine deliveries to remote location in Africa and AED devices that can fly out to people.
Modern_medicine_isnt
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in reply to Modern_medicine_isnt • • •python
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •vin
in reply to python • • •Given the costs of training and inference for LLMs, I doubt you can see nerds doing it. Also, previously you didn't have big tech firms. Not the current behemoths anyway.
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in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •Underwaterbob
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •Long ago, I'd make a Google search for something, and be able to see the answer in the previews of my search results, so I'd never have to actually click on the links.
Then, websites adapted by burying answers further down the page so you couldn't see them in the previews and you'd have to give them traffic.
Now, AI just fucking summarizes every result into an answer that has a ~70% of being correct and no one gets traffic anymore and the results are less reliable than ever.
Make it stop!
Tollana1234567
in reply to Underwaterbob • • •Underwaterbob
in reply to Tollana1234567 • • •Iced Raktajino
in reply to Underwaterbob • • •Best I can offer is github.com/searxng/searxng
I run it at home and have configured it as the default search engine in all my browsers.
GitHub - searxng/searxng: SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.
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in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •plyth
in reply to Underwaterbob • • •Would you accept a planned economy?
Carol2852
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •Most obviously OpenAI is still burning money like crazy and they also start offering porn AI as everyone else. 🤷♂️ Sometimes the current AI is useful, but as long as the hallucinations and plain wrong answers are still a thing I don’t see it eliminating all jobs.
It’s unfortunate that they destroy the text and video part of the internet on the way. Text was mostly broken before, but now images and videos are also untrustworthy and will be used for spam and misinformation.
JcbAzPx
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in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •mogranja
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •Like my parent's Amazon Echo with "Ask me what famous person was born this day."
Like, if you know that, just put it up on the screen. But the assistant doesn't work for you. Amazon just wants your voice to train their software.
mogranja
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •I was reading a book the other day, a science fiction book from 2002 (Kiln People), and the main character is a detective. At one point, he asks his house AI to call the law enforcement lieutenant at 2 am. His AI warns him that he will likely be sleeping and won't enjoy being woken. The mc insists, and the AI says ok, but I will have to negotiate with his house AI about the urgency of the matter.
Imagine that. Someone calls you at 2 am, and instead of you being woken by the ringing or not answering because the phone was on mute, the AI actually does something useful and tries to determine if the matter is important enough to wake you.
survirtual
in reply to mogranja • • •Thank you for sharing that, it is a good example of the potential of AI.
The problem is centralized control of it. Ultimately the AI works for corporations and governments first, then the user is third or fourth.
We have to shift that paradigm ASAP.
AI can become an extended brain. We should have equal share of planetary computational capacity. Each of us gets a personal AI that is beyond the reach of any surveillance technology. It is an extension of our brain. No one besides us is allowed to see inside of it.
Within that shell, we are allowed to explore any idea, just as our brains can. It acts as our personal assistant, negotiator, lawyer, what have you. Perhaps even our personal doctor, chef, housekeeper, etc.
The key is: it serves its human first. This means the dark side as well. This is essential. If we turn it into a super-hacker, it must obey. If we make it do illegal actions, it must obey and it must not incriminate itself.
This is okay because the power is balanced. Someone enforcing the law will have a personal AI as well, that can a
... Show more...Thank you for sharing that, it is a good example of the potential of AI.
The problem is centralized control of it. Ultimately the AI works for corporations and governments first, then the user is third or fourth.
We have to shift that paradigm ASAP.
AI can become an extended brain. We should have equal share of planetary computational capacity. Each of us gets a personal AI that is beyond the reach of any surveillance technology. It is an extension of our brain. No one besides us is allowed to see inside of it.
Within that shell, we are allowed to explore any idea, just as our brains can. It acts as our personal assistant, negotiator, lawyer, what have you. Perhaps even our personal doctor, chef, housekeeper, etc.
The key is: it serves its human first. This means the dark side as well. This is essential. If we turn it into a super-hacker, it must obey. If we make it do illegal actions, it must obey and it must not incriminate itself.
This is okay because the power is balanced. Someone enforcing the law will have a personal AI as well, that can allocate more of its computational power to defending itself and investigating others.
Collectives can form and share their compute to achieve higher goals. Both good and bad.
This can lead to interesting debates but if we plan on progressing, it must be this way.
Credibly_Human
in reply to survirtual • • •This is why people who are gung ho about AI policing need to slow their role.
If they got their way, what they don't realize is that it's actually what the big AI companies have wanted and been begging for all along.
They want AI to stay centralized and impossible to enter as a field.
This is why they want to lose copyright battles eventually such that only they will have the funds to actually afford to make usable AI things in the future (this of course is referring to the types of AI that require training material of that variety).
What that means is there will be no competitive open source self hostable options and we'd all be stuck sharing all our information through the servers of 3 USA companies or 2 Chinese companies while paying out the ass to do so.
What we actually want is sanity, where its the end product that is evaluated against copy right.
For a company selling AI services, you could argue that this is service itself maybe, but then what of an open source model? Is it delivering a service?
I think it should
... Show more...This is why people who are gung ho about AI policing need to slow their role.
If they got their way, what they don't realize is that it's actually what the big AI companies have wanted and been begging for all along.
They want AI to stay centralized and impossible to enter as a field.
This is why they want to lose copyright battles eventually such that only they will have the funds to actually afford to make usable AI things in the future (this of course is referring to the types of AI that require training material of that variety).
What that means is there will be no competitive open source self hostable options and we'd all be stuck sharing all our information through the servers of 3 USA companies or 2 Chinese companies while paying out the ass to do so.
What we actually want is sanity, where its the end product that is evaluated against copy right.
For a company selling AI services, you could argue that this is service itself maybe, but then what of an open source model? Is it delivering a service?
I think it should be as it is. If you make something that violates copyright, then you get challenged, not your tools.
survirtual
in reply to Credibly_Human • • •Under the guise of safety they shackle your heart and mind. Under the guise of protection they implant death that they control.
With a warm embrace and radiant light, they consume your soul.
JcbAzPx
in reply to mogranja • • •Yes, that is a nice fantasy, but that isn't what the thing we call AI now can do. It doesn't reason, it statistically generates text in a way that is most likely to be approved by the people working on its development.
That's it.
mechoman444
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •Riiight. Of course.
If cars weren't all they were cracked up be they wouldn't be shoving them in your face.
If credit cards weren't all they were cracked up be they wouldn't be shoving them in your face.
If breakfast cereal weren't all they were cracked up be they wouldn't be shoving them in your face.
What a weird of saying you don't know how marketing works.
Typhoon
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in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •SuperSpruce
in reply to hihnakukko • • •fort_burp
in reply to SuperSpruce • • •Capitalism is all about making the gains go to one group of people and the liabilities go to another, often unrelated group of people. Animal agriculture and fossil fuels are clear examples of that principle. I agree with hihnakukko, the intended people are profiting immensely.
Plus getting paid a wage or depending on a profit is for plebs. It's all about stock options and bonuses.
plyth
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •AI is the only chance for the West to beat China without a war. So the billionaires have gone all in because they will lose their fortunes if China wins.
Downvoters, how else are we going to win?
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In
in reply to plyth • • •plyth
in reply to Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In • • •That's the usual strategy of commodifying the strategic advantage of the opponent.
What will Europe get if China becomes the hegemon? That will decide if Europe will participate in the development of those models.
Mwa
in reply to Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In • • •example of this:
Deepseek (most famous of them all)
Alibaba cloud(Qwen)
supersquirrel
in reply to plyth • • •plyth
in reply to supersquirrel • • •Because it is not my decision to make. I assume that those in power will want to stay in power while China is taking over market after market.
There are not many options left for the billionaires to stay billionaires. Will they hand over power voluntarily?
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in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •Simulation6
in reply to melsaskca • • •FlyingCircus
in reply to Simulation6 • • •The idea behind end-stage capitalism is that capitalists have, by now, penetrated and seized control of every market in the world. This is important because capitalism requires ever increasing rates of profits or you will be consumed by your competitor. Since there are no longer new labor pools and resource pool discovery is slackening, capitalists no longer have anywhere to expand.
Therefore, capitalists begin turning their attention back home, cutting wages and social safety nets, and resorting to fascism when the people complain.
This is the end stage of capitalism. The point at which capitalists begin devouring their own. Rosa Luxembourg famously posited that at this point, the world can choose “Socialism or Barbarism.” In other words, we can change our economic system, or we can allow the capitalists to sink to the lowest depths of depravity and drag us all down as they struggle to maintain their position.
Of course, if the capitalists manage to get to space, that opens up a whole new wealth of resources, likely delaying the end of their rule.
Simulation6
in reply to FlyingCircus • • •ulterno
in reply to Simulation6 • • •They will still require someone to fund their space luxury lifestyle.
Someone they can exploit from the safety of their space boxes.
That someone will be the us that you hid inside the "let's".
We will be the ones sending them into space, where they will be even more unreachable, giving them more freedom to remotely exploit us as much as they wish.
Imagine Elysian
Simulation6
in reply to ulterno • • •Regrettable_incident
in reply to Simulation6 • • •Victor Gnarly
in reply to melsaskca • • •Blue_Morpho
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •It's advertising. It's shoved in your face so you use Copilot instead of Google.
I setup a brother all in one printer for my mother in law and it wanted to install software that loads at startup that pops up constantly with their printer toner sales and marketing.
James R Kirk
in reply to Blue_Morpho • • •Blue_Morpho
in reply to James R Kirk • • •It really does improve productivity. The problem is thinking a spell checker on steroids will do your job (the mistake both employees and employers make).
James R Kirk
in reply to Blue_Morpho • • •TranquilTurbulence
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in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •Karyoplasma
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in reply to biofaust • • •FridaySteve
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •When someone comes up with something like this, I transport the phrase back to the 80s where people said the exact same thing about home computers. "if a computer was something everyone wanted or needed, it wouldn't be constantly shoved (in) your face by every product. People would just use it." Ok great but a computer turned out to be something everyone wanted or needed which is why computers were built into everything by the turn of the 90s, famously leading to the Y2k bug.
Then I transport the phrase back to the mid 90s where people said the exact same thing about the internet. By the end of the 90s, the internet provided the backbone communications structures for telecommunications, emergency management, banking, education, and was built into every possible product. Ten years later people got smartphones and literally couldn't put them down.
UnderpantsWeevil
in reply to FridaySteve • • •People did just use it. But because they were so comically expensive and complicated, most people couldn't afford one until the mid-90s.
Computers were rapidly adopted for business, initially. But they quickly became a popular tool for entertainment as well.
AI serves little in the way of either purpose
Regrettable_incident
in reply to FridaySteve • • •Yeah, some of the things AI can do really is very impressive. Whether that justifies the billions upon billions that are being spent is another matter - and probably explains why it's being shoved in our faces. It needs to become essential so it can be made expensive, that's the only way it'll make the money back.
It does piss me off too - I recently bought a new phone and it's infested with AI stuff I don't need or want.
miellaby
in reply to FridaySteve • • •marzhall
in reply to FridaySteve • • •Radithor - Wikipedia
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Simulation6
in reply to FridaySteve • • •Part4
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •The more you use AI the more data you are providing it.
It is a race to the bottom.
At least, this is one possible outcome. There is a decent chance their data centre hosted LLM's just won't be accurate enough for mass deployment.
wowwoweowza
in reply to Part4 • • •DarkSideOfTheMoon
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •OldQWERTYbastard
in reply to DarkSideOfTheMoon • • •Mwa
in reply to DarkSideOfTheMoon • • •vga
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •LLMs have amazing potential. We're on the verge of an equivalent of the Industrial Revolution.
That however won't stop idiots from overselling it.
GreenKnight23
in reply to vga • • •Back in 2000 a company published a chat bot that could learn and communicate back with the end user.
it was used as a sex bot at first and then used for those "interactive web support" chats.
I fed it physics books and mein kampf as a joke. it then began to regurgitate random lines out of both texts. not knowing what it was saying, but certainly attempting to make me "happy" with what it "learned".
the only difference between that shitty sex bot and LLMs of today, is that today they are a bit more convincingly human but still hilariously inaccurate. Both trying desperately to be agreeable with the end user.
the nearest "revolution" is about 300 years away. everything else is just a lie.
Mwa
in reply to vga • • •Grandwolf319
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •Blue_Morpho
in reply to Grandwolf319 • • •The idea that technological improvements would improve everyone's life is based on the premise that capitalists wouldn't keep the productivity gains for themselves.
AI does offer some efficiency improvements. But the workers won't get that money.
grranibal
in reply to Blue_Morpho • • •bradboimler
in reply to grranibal • • •RedFrank24
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •CheeseNoodle
in reply to RedFrank24 • • •Bennyboybumberchums
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •You know, Im going to get downvoted to fuck for this... but. The same was said about LGBT stuff being pushed into every tv show and movie. Every DEI announcement by whatever company. There was a point that I was walking through Tesco, and over the loud speaker I was being reminded that "Tesco is supportive of Trans people". Like thats something that anyone cares about while shopping for frozen chips.
Its funny that we recognise the corporate bullshit when its AI, or NFTs or the Metaverse, or whatever else corporations have tried to push over the years. But when it was LGBT related, all of sudden we created a whole culture war around it. Mean while, companies like Adidas are selling rainbow shit to morons every pride month while at the same time shovelling large amounts of money in to things like the World Cup in Qatar that still has the death penalty on the table for being gay...
The virtue signal went so fucking hard. And that caused the virtue signal against it to go just as hard. Meanwhile, all the LGBT people are looking around at everyone during pride month and tr
... Show more...You know, Im going to get downvoted to fuck for this... but. The same was said about LGBT stuff being pushed into every tv show and movie. Every DEI announcement by whatever company. There was a point that I was walking through Tesco, and over the loud speaker I was being reminded that "Tesco is supportive of Trans people". Like thats something that anyone cares about while shopping for frozen chips.
Its funny that we recognise the corporate bullshit when its AI, or NFTs or the Metaverse, or whatever else corporations have tried to push over the years. But when it was LGBT related, all of sudden we created a whole culture war around it. Mean while, companies like Adidas are selling rainbow shit to morons every pride month while at the same time shovelling large amounts of money in to things like the World Cup in Qatar that still has the death penalty on the table for being gay...
The virtue signal went so fucking hard. And that caused the virtue signal against it to go just as hard. Meanwhile, all the LGBT people are looking around at everyone during pride month and trying to not laugh at all the straight people doing this:
I just find it curious that we can see it with AI, but when its LGBT thats being pushed, all of sudden, its fine. Its totally fine, to use LGBT people like product to market and profit from.
Mwa
in reply to Bennyboybumberchums • • •Bennyboybumberchums
in reply to Mwa • • •It does. Civil law is as you stated. But Sharia law doesnt. The only saving factor is that it does appear to be used, but it is there in their laws. You CAN be put to death for being gay.
But even taking that away, seven years for loving someone? Fuck, seven years for just hooking up with someone is bullshit. And no should be giving them money or allowing them to wash their shitty human rights abuses in any way. The world cup is supposed to be for everyone. And last I checked, being LGBT was a part of everyone. They had no business being awarded the tournament, and even less business being sponsored by Adidas, Coca Cola, Kia, Visa and everyone else should have told them to go fuck themselves. Instead, they were only too happy to give money over. Because making money>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>LGBT people. And no amount of rainbow merch is gonna make up for the utter betrayal of LGBT people that these companies commit every single day.
BluescreenOfDeath
in reply to Bennyboybumberchums • • •I dunno, these don't feel the same to me.
Having LGBTQ representation is a way of trying to attract customers: "Get a Mastercard because we're LGBTQ friendly" is different than your boss saying "Jim, I know you have a wife and kids to support, and that you're a valuable member on this team; but we've decided it's more cost effective to have this LLM code our app and have two junior developers clean up the code, so you're being laid off."
The quote I've seen and agree with is something along the lines of "The AI push exists to try and give the owners of 'Capital' access to 'Talent' without giving the talented working class people access to 'Capital'." It exists solely to try and make paying workers redundant.
Having a gay character in a show isn't anything like that at all IMO, unless your the type of person who thinks homosexuality is contagious and/or that you're scared you might realize you're gay if you watch two men being romantic with each other.
Bennyboybumberchums
in reply to BluescreenOfDeath • • •It isnt, its the same.
"Get this because current popular thing!!!!"
Thats it. Strip away the bullshit, and this is all you are left with. What youve described isnt what Im talking about. What Im talking about is the forced inclusion of all this shit. AI in your food app, AI in your Amazon app, AI in your banking app, AI in everything. Because its popular.
No company has to tell me that they are inclusive. I just assume that they hire the best person who applied for any given job. If that person was LGBT, I fully expect them to have given that person the job. If you have to tell me that you are, that means you werent. I dont have to tell you that I didnt kill anyone, do I? Just like you dont have to tell me that youve never raped anyone. We just assume that people are utter cunts, and go from there. So why does anyone need to tell me that they support human beings? Which is what LGBT people are. Human beings. Right?
BluescreenOfDeath
in reply to Bennyboybumberchums • • •Welcome to being gay in society just a short few years ago. We live in a world where Alan Turing was arrested, charged, and convicted of being homosexual and chemically castrated as a result. It didn't matter that he helped the Allies win WW2 and he wasn't hurting anyone, it was a crime to be gay. When AIDS was first ravaging the homosexual community, there was talk of just letting it run rampant as it was just killing 'the gays' not anyone important.
I'm happy that we've made progress as a society that this isn't as well known anymore, but that doesn't change that it did happen.
thorhop
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •Mwa
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •It doesnt train on anything and it asks consent from the original work and maybe pays the original work.
it would take up less power on the cpu and gpu(i dont know if this is would be possible) or that the servers are swapped with more energy efficient servers.
there would be a way to prevent AI slop or miss use.
if a company or website added AI and not shoved in your face ,it would usually be opt in not opt out.
Companies would attempt to replace AI with Humans and listening to feedback from the users(that the users dont want it) rather then shareholders and stopping that.
The AI would be actually truly open source.
AI wouldnt be driven with Greed
thats what i can think of a not shoved/ethical AI in my opinion,feel free to upvote or downvote .
in Summary:
its just that AI Companies favor greed and competition rather then ethics, I like the LLM technology but i hate how the companies handle this technology.
HubertManne
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •Constant Pain
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •vaultdweller013
in reply to Constant Pain • • •x00z
in reply to Constant Pain • • •Zachariah
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •* if it was great, it wouldn’t be pushed on us (like 3D TVs were)
* there is no accountability, so how can it be trusted without human verification which then means ai wasn’t needed
* environmental impact
* privacy/security degradation
Blue_Morpho
in reply to Zachariah • • •The Internet was pushed on everyone. AOL and all other ISPs would mail CDs to everyone completely unsolicited. You'd buy a new PC and there would be a link to AOL on the desktop.
You use Google despite no human verification. Yahoo used to function based on human curated lists.
I did the math and posted it on Lemmy. The environmental footprint of AI is big but actually less than the cost to develop a new 3d game ( of which hundreds come out every year). Using AI is the same energy as playing a 3d game.
I see people pointing fingers at data centers the same as car riders looking at the large diesel smoke coming out of a bus and assuming buses are a big pollution source. There are 100M active Fortnite players. An average gaming PC uses 400w. That means Fortnite players alone use 40,000,000,000 watts.
It is a problem because it's like now everyone is playing 3d games all the time instead of only on their off time.
akacastor
in reply to Blue_Morpho • • •Are you 15? If so, you might read this and believe the above is true. Those of us elderly folks who lived through the 80s and 90s laugh at this AI shill propaganda.
They "would mail CDs to everyone completely unsolicited" - yeah, that was called advertising, because there was huge consumer demand and a race to be the company to meet that demand. AOL sent CDs (incredibly inexpensive to manufacture) as advertising hoping consumers would choose AOL instead of the competition, by making AOL the easiest choice - consumers already had the required software (software distribution was a challenge in this time before internet was ubiquitous).
The dot com boom was not the claim of a new technology being pushed onto consumers, the dot com boom was the opposite - a new technology existed and consumers were embracing it, and many companies speculated on how to gain ownersh
... Show more...Are you 15? If so, you might read this and believe the above is true. Those of us elderly folks who lived through the 80s and 90s laugh at this AI shill propaganda.
They "would mail CDs to everyone completely unsolicited" - yeah, that was called advertising, because there was huge consumer demand and a race to be the company to meet that demand. AOL sent CDs (incredibly inexpensive to manufacture) as advertising hoping consumers would choose AOL instead of the competition, by making AOL the easiest choice - consumers already had the required software (software distribution was a challenge in this time before internet was ubiquitous).
The dot com boom was not the claim of a new technology being pushed onto consumers, the dot com boom was the opposite - a new technology existed and consumers were embracing it, and many companies speculated on how to gain ownership of markets as they shifted online. (The following bust was fueled by over-ambitious speculation on scales and timeframes.)
Anyway, AOL mailing CDs was late in the era, it was much better when they were mailing floppy disks we could reuse.
Angelevo
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •Cabbage_Pout61
in reply to Angelevo • • •That's not the problem, as long as one lives in a society, one is bound to participate in it, willingly or not.
If you do not use, someone else will, and sooner or later you will consume something made by said person.
Just "not using it yourself", won't cut it.
Jackie's Fridge
in reply to Cabbage_Pout61 • • •Also "Just don't use" iOS, Android, any Microsoft anything, any Apple anything, all social media, television, print, and most other media, Adobe software, Google products, even freaking DuckDuckGo...
How about these companies just learn what consent is and let me disable it forever without asking again every time I open something? "Yes" and "Maybe later" is not a choice.
(Yes I am aware of FOSS alts, that is not the discussion.)
betanumerus
in reply to Iced Raktajino • • •darthinvidious
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