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A New Tomb Raider Game Will Be Revealed At The Game Awards
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Behold a cursed crate: a Rust macro that will use generative code to produce implementations. Write the function signature and that's it.

Nightmare fuel.

use ai_bindgen::ai;

#[ai]
extern "C" {
 #[ai(prompt = "return the n-th prime number, please")]
 fn prime(n: i32) -> i32;

 // no prompt parameter (the signature should be self explanatory :)
 #[ai]
 fn max(a: i32, b: i32) -> i32;
}

fn main() {
 println!("The 15th prime number is {}", prime(15)); // 47 (hopefully)
 println!("max(4, 6) = {}", max(4, 6)); // 6
}

I like the "hopefully" there.

https://github.com/germangb/ai-bindgen

"Reading your research suggested to me that ADHD traits - although I'm not minimizing the problems, and the anguish that ADHD people can feel - ADHD traits constitute a special skill set, not an impairment, often, and the impairment comes from not being able to express the skills."

#JimMora, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018943895/is-adhd-an-evolutionary-adaptation

#podcasts #RNZ #SundayMorning #ADHD

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFU1OCkhBwo (AI Expert: We Have 2 Years Before Everything Changes! We Need To Start Protesting! - Tristan Harris)

Ex-Google Insider and AI Expert TRISTAN HARRIS reveals how ChatGPT, China, and Elon Musk are racing to build uncontrollable AI, and warns it will blackmail humans, hack democracy, and threaten jobs…by 2027.

Tristan Harris is a former Google design ethicist and leading voice from Netflix’s The Social Dilemma. He is also co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, where he advises policymakers, tech leaders, and the public on the risks of AI, algorithmic manipulation, and the global race toward AGI.

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He explains:
◼️How AI could trigger a global collapse by 2027 if left unchecked
◼️How AI will take 99% of jobs and collapse key industries by 2030
◼️Why top tech CEOs are quietly meeting to prepare for AI-triggered chaos
◼️How algorithms are hijacking human attention, behavior, and free will
◼️The real reason governments are afraid to regulate OpenAI and Google

00:00 Intro
02:21 I Predicted the Biggest Change In History
07:48 Social Media Created the Most Anxious and Depressed Generation
13:09 Why AGI Will Displace Everyone
15:50 Are We Close to Getting AGI?
17:12 The Incentives Driving Us Toward a Future We Don't Want
19:58 The People Controlling AI Companies Are Dangerous
23:18 How AI Workers Make AI More Efficient
24:24 The Motivations Behind the AI Moguls
29:21 Elon Warned Us for a Decade — Now He's Part of the Race
34:39 Are You Optimistic About Our Future?
37:58 Sam Altman's Incentives
38:46 AI Will Do Anything for Its Own Survival
46:18 How China Is Approaching AI
48:15 Humanoid Robots Are Being Built Right Now
52:05 What Happens When You Use or Don't Use AI
55:34 We Need a Transition Plan or People Will Starve
01:01:10 Ads
01:02:11 Who Will Pay Us When All Jobs Are Automated?
01:05:35 Will Universal Basic Income Work?
01:09:23 Why You Should Only Vote for Politicians Who Care About AI
01:11:18 What Is the Alternative Path?
01:15:12 Becoming an Advocate to Prevent AI Dangers
01:17:35 Building AI With Humanity's Interests at Heart
01:20:05 Your ChatGPT Is Customised to You
01:21:22 People Using AI as Romantic Companions
01:23:05 AI and the Death of a Teenager
01:25:42 Is AI Psychosis Real?
01:31:48 Why Employees Developing AI Are Leaving Companies
01:33:04 Ads
01:43:30 What We Can Do at Home to Help With These Issues
01:52:22 AI CEOs and Politicians Are Coming
01:56:21 What the Future of Humanoid Robots Will Look Like

#AI #Humanity #Social

HEADS UP that the FCC comment period for Reflect Orbital first hideously bright, ecology-disrupting satellite will open probably in mid- to late-January. I'm gonna need EVERYBODY to write in for that one.

https://fccprod.servicenowservices.com/icfs?id=ibfs_application_summary&number=SAT-LOA-20250701-00129

One Film Dominated This Year’s Golden Globe Nominations
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@jasper of course.

Dinosaurs make everything better. Literally everything.

Exhibit A, today's Low Quality Ad, this 3D T-Rex Christmas Sweater.
https://collabs.shop/k8mose

Earlier this year, a friend introduced me as their mentor and I was speechless.

Recently, another friend introduced me as "a very experienced executive" with similar effect.

I'm... what? Wait... oh! 💡

For someone who feels like they spend inordinate effort on self-awareness, I sure seem to miss the headlines until someone says them out loud. 😳

Of course instead of pondering other positives I'm missing, I double down on negatives. 😂 Good one, 🧠.

chimerautils (our core userland package) has a new release that is now in the distro:

- based on freebsd 15.0-release

- plenty of upstream changes, such as...
- `find` supports `-printf`
- `cp` supports long options
- `cp` can merge directories
- `du` uses libxo (machine parseable output in many formats as requested)
- `id` can retrieve more data (e.g. homedir and shell)
- `stat` can find holes
- and more

- some downstream enhancements too
- `printf` supports `%q` (shell quoting)
- `xargs` supports `--arg-file`
- `mv` supports atomic file swapping (`-x`)
- `command -v` in `sh` is now a bit more relaxed (additional arguments are ignored and not an error), like dash
- `ls` will display files even if it can't `stat` them (e.g. stale sshfs mounts)

@lproven @theregister

I had a look at some RiscOS screenshots before writing the last reply. 3.0 didn't have this visual pattern, late 3.x did, but 5.x did. I'm not sure exactly when it showed up, the early ones were all flat.

I will start installing Mastodon v4.5.3 on Masto.host.

There will be about 15 seconds of downtime during the upgrade.

Changelog: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.3

@To3o @lichtlauschen Haben sie die drei Fahrräder mit Transporter dahintransportiert? Oder ist wenigstens der OB dorthin geradelt?

Go here → https://www.2dh5.nl/en/programme-proposal/

no hacker girls are above me

#catsofmastodon

@maiwann Pour les jeunes de moins de 25 ans c'est gratuit :)

The Verge subscription turns one
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Pokemon - Season 1 Episode 53 - The Purr-Fect Hero
Frame 235/1999
Caption: Meowth's got a feeling

Timestamp: 00:03:40

@arstechnica use it sparingly, if at all. I joined right at the beginning, many years ago, and have seen it sink slowly but surely. The Fediverse is far more pleasant and acceptable. 😄

@_elena i didn't know peertube yet, thx for sharing