"Godzilla Minus Zero" IMAX trailer teases King Ghidorah. Director Takashi Yamazaki’s hotly anticipated sequel takes place two years after 2023 film’s events. https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/09/godzilla-minus-zero-imax-trailer-teases-king-ghidorah/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/117234848590665291

How dare we object to Peter Thiel's gaze!

#Palantir #PeterThiel #NHS

@mttaggart Heh, same source Gabrielle used.

People think I’m a kook when I buy refurbed video conferencing screens to use instead of consumer TVs.

https://blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-smart-tv-in-your-livingroom-is-a-node-in-the-aiscraping-economy/

RE: https://mastodon.online/@tomshardware/117235321978379770

Training a fruit fly connectome to run Doom has got to be right up there, computing stunt-wise, with torturing sand until it starts to hallucinate then forcing it to write Donald Trump speeches.

I want to be excited about this, but the whole thing of using these problems to show how good some company's AI tools are, while treating the mathematicians working on those problems poorly and even explicitly trying to scoop them, really freaking sucks

Especially without any sort of thorough attempt at making the result trustworthy and understandable, besides an AI-synthesized proof of such a large scale and such a sketchy origin that it may well exploit kernel bugs we don't know about yet. Rushed to "beat" a "competitor" 🤮

So, Windows 98SE and MacOS 9 were the peak of computing before our programs got enslaved by the NT kernel and XNU.

Linux always sucked, of course.

In June, Greenpeace led a unique deep sea expedition to the Arctic. Having seen all the life, beauty and understanding the importance of these ecosystems gives us more reasons to stop deep-sea mining.
Let's keep pushing for ocean protection.

Learn more here: https://act.gp/3TdtrTx

People talk about crypto and especially its most unhinged manifestation and elaboration, NFTs as antecedents to the current grift FOMO.

But they talk less about Uber, but for toothpicks. Uber, but for divorce. Uber, but for cancer.

The appification of every last, blasted thing, the mad rush to digitalize every last shred of human activity, to intermediate, monopolize, and then monetize the monopolized intermediation. I mean, does anyone remember the pizza delivery arbitrage scheme?

When Intel managed to make Moore's "Law" keep coming true, there at least was something behind the future orientation to it all. But not only has that stopped, while we were still coasting forward on the momentum built up from a half-century of its acceleration, the ravenous speculative land grab has thrown the transmission in reverse, throwing shrapnel all over.

When you get hit by any of it, if you have the temerity to say "ow!" suddenly you're an "AI hater".

We are nowhere near AGI.

I challenge ANYONE claiming such to connect their bank account and credit cards to whatever model they claim to have AGI and let me make some simple requests. With true AGI, you won't need human in the loop approval and it will act within your desires.

@benpate Yeah! I feel you man. That's why I've banned for like 3 instances B/C I can't say what I want and post what I want even if its news articles. Hey I'm just the fucking messenger. I didn't write up what I post out here.

🐭 🐒 Why do mouse and monkey brains respond differently to movement?

A new study co-authored by Bernstein member Jonathan Gant (LMU Munich) shows they may actually follow the same basic principle of information processing.

The study suggests that the difference does not arise because mouse and monkey brains work according to different rules, but because they process different visual inputs.

Read the whole story 👉️ https://bernstein-network.de/en/newsroom/news/260831/

#BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro #Neuroscience

I welcome the stance taken by the UK government on Israel’s occupation and its illegality. A much-needed beginning, even if it does not yet reverse all policies undermining Palestinian self-determination.
May the UK government and people hold firm. The pressure will be fierce.

Est-on un mastodonte à 40 ans ? 🦣

Pas encore sans doute, mais c'est une belle occasion de rejoindre le réseau Mastodon afin de partager nos actualités, nos collections, notre programmation culturelle et nos expositions.
À commencer par les temps forts de cette année qui s'annonce festive.
👉 https://bit.ly/TempsForts_40ansOrsay

"our code is filled with so many more bugs than we could see before that we have to burn the biosphere to flush them out" sure is a look.

At this point I'm not even mad at or about AI over it, so much as I am even more mad about the velocity hamster wheel.

The original sin for distros was the adoption of scheduled releases and cadence.

Go back to "we'll release when it's ready."

"In a remarkable twist, after the previous post, we discovered that Microsoft actually uses Luanti for research:"

@carneade il problema è chi le crede...

1/ #SpringerNature just published a report showing certain download and citation benefits of "gold" #OpenAccess. (I'm linking to the executive summary.)
https://stories.springernature.com/from-access-to-impact-open-access-research/executive-summary/index.html

But it's very misleading, even dishonest, in one respect. It shows that #GoldOA articles are downloaded and cited more than non-OA articles. But it attributes this to the fact that they are gold OA (charging #APCs), not to the fact that they are OA. Because it didn't test no-APC or #DiamondOA journals, attributing the download and citation benefits to the APC business model is unjustified and deceptive.

It also says that the gold OA model supports "greater equity" because it allows more downloads than non-OA models in low-income countries. But that kind of equity belongs to all flavors of OA. The report never mentions that APCs severely reduce equity by excluding authors who cannot afford to pay.

🧵

#ScholComm