Nice to see that my bestie Stefan is having a great time in Australia (TW: massive spider). 🇦🇺🕷
we are pleased to announce that we have internalized the key lessons of the breakout science fiction hit “torment nexus 3: okay you dumb fucks, if you ever build the torment nexus then you must destroy it and here’s how” and created the Indestructible Torment Nexus, which is resistant to all of the flaws that it enumerated in our product
Why are all flashlights marketed as "tactical"?
What if I want a strategic one?
@thomasfuchs I settle for one thats operational
Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons.
@evacide
Wouldnt have thought to witness such an ongoing shitshow in my livetime.
@zeppe 19 viste.
La mancanza di "Firefly" di fatto invalida tutta la lista.
I'm sorry.
Huge turnout of visitors at the Researchers Night in #Bologna #NdR. Could literally not leave my desk with #Electronagnetism experiments for seven hours, it was a continuous flow of children and people wanting to touch and try everything!
#physics #science
Those maintaining positions of power will always encourage the freedom to talk about ideas, but never to act.
-- Moxie Marlinspike
RE: https://mastodon.social/@pruef_hh/117330816245426941
Bring mindestens drei Menschen am 10.10.26 zur nächsten Demo in der Stadt in deiner Nähe mit.
Wir sind um 14:00 Uhr wieder am Oberen Schlossgarten bei den Landestheatern in Stuttgart
#SaveTheDate #PRÜF #Demokratie #Freiheit #RechtsExtremismus #PRUEF #PRUEF1010 #BundesVerfassungsGericht #GemeinsamStattEinsam #Stuttgart #Dresden #Potsdam #Hamburg #Schwerin #Bremen #Magdeburg #München #Saarbrücken #Düsseldorf #Köln #Mainz #Berlin #Kiel #Hannover
the first two MNT Reform Nexts were picked up by UPS today btw, on the way to Crowd Supply. i'm curious who will end up getting them 😁 (one hyper purple and one hyper black)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@histoftech/117334396698185569
Good news for USians. I've been getting my shot every year since the pandemic, in fact got one scheduled for next week.
My favourite paintings. no.55
Peter Doig, Pelican (Stag) (2003)
Peter Doig's large scale paintings are often quite mysterious (or perhaps enigmatic), and this one is no exception. Its almost as if we have caught fleeting sight of the subject as we have turned from a path through a tropical rain forrest. What I like about this is exactly this feeling of transience & serendipity; what's going on, not sure. I also love the interplay of abstract(ish) colours & figuration.
@gabrielesvelto we need different words
Best I can come up with :
Unicycling across the Alps is risky
SUVs are dangerous
We tend not to differentiate linguistically whether the danger is to the person taking the risk (unicycle) or imposed on a third party (SUV).
»Die Reaktionen auf die Wahlen in Berlin (Altpapier von Montag) zeigen nun, dass der "halluzinatorische Antikommunismus" (noch einmal Seymour) auch bei Leuten verbreitet ist, die sich nicht der "extremen Rechten" zugehörig fühlen dürften.
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Der "Allianz aus rechtsradikalen Spinnern und einflussreichen Hauptstadtjournalisten" ist die Situation jüdischer Menschen herzlich egal.«
Text von @renemartens .
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In dem Vortrag zeigt @nadia_z auf, wie deutsche Leitmedien permanent journalistische Standards verletzen, wenn es um #Palästina und #Israel geht und zugunsten Israels die Berichterstattung verzerren. Sie postet hier auf Mastodon auch viel gute Medienkritik.
"re:publica 25: Nadia Zaboura - Verlorenes Medienvertrauen, gefährdete Demokratie?"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=XhDy5JG6Xks
"re:publica 26: Ganz normale Medien und ihr Beitrag zum Comeback des #Faschismus"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-dgKKrGmbkM
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“Our software went rogue!” No. You programmed it wrong.
I think it's worse than you think. They didn't program it wrong at all: they programed it to do hacking, and it did do hacking exactly as intended and expected. The harness asked the LLM to generate random text about possible vulnerabilities and then the harness tested those vulnerabilities. If said vulnerabilities weren't, the harness asked the LLM for more.
It sure looks like the AI bros are criminals and liars.
Of course, "for the purpose of criticism" is an allowed fair use in many jurisdictions.
Of course, Spotify do not care.