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A political operation that former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban spent years building in Brussels is coming undone along with the dismantling of his power network in his home country. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/26/world/politics/orban-eu-influence-cash/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #viktororban #petermagyar #eu #europe
I'd wage that “knowing how to use an ai” within one domain is not a transferable skill to another domain. Unless you know the domain you are vibing for, you cannot tell if the output is actually good.
It always looks impressive, because it is always huge and verbose. An expert within the domain will be able to tell you that whatever it did is verbose and bad.
Learn about the domain before you unleash agents on it. Verify. Verify. Verify every god damn line and “fact” it produces.
RE: https://disassociated.com/ai-companies-using-rare-books-train-agents-destroying-them/
Ihr erinnert euch an das weirde neue Phänomen der Unternehmen, die massenweise Bücher von Antiquariaten aufkaufen und destruktiv scannen.
Stellt sich nun nach einer Recherche von 404 Media heraus: in vielen Fällen sind das keine obskuren kleinen Klitschen, sondern der Typ, der durch Bücher und Retail schon zum Multimilliardär geworden war. Quelle surprise.
Und ich bleibe übrigens dabei: https://openbiblio.social/@Lambo/11679778973901001
@Lambo der verlinkte Post ist leider nicht verfügbar (da fehlt die 1 am Ende, scheint mir):
❌️ https://openbiblio.social/@Lambo/11679778973901001
✅️ https://openbiblio.social/@Lambo/116797789739010011
Weißt Du zufällig, ob dazu schon irgendwo ein Text aus bibliothekarischer Sicht in der Mache ist, der das Thema ohne Schaum vorm Mund diskutiert? Es es etwas ermüdend, diese Sau immer wieder durch Dorf gejagt zu sehen auf Basis sehr wackeligen Halbwissens.
Joachim
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C'est donc l"opérateur historique de la RATP, Métrobus (détenu à 66% par Publicis et 33% par JCDecaux) qui renouvelle pour 12 ans le contrat du métro parisien.
Avec objectif à la fin de la concession d'avoir doublé le nombre d'écran numérique (de 1300 ajd à 2500).
Parce qu'il n'y a aucune urgence écologique et qu'il faut absolument que prendre les transports en commun soit synonyme de se faire matraquer le cerveau de pubs.
We hebben een heel interessant profiel van DeepSeek-oprichter Liang Wenfeng in @nrc_nl . Daaruit: "Daarmee maakt hij deel uit van een opensourceinternetcultuur die ook al decennia een grote Chinese inbreng kent. Tekenend is dat opensourceplatform GitHub een van de grootste buitenlandse websites is die niet geblokkeerd worden in China, vanwege het belang van de site voor programmeurs. Ook maken Chinese bedrijven als Huawei veel gebruik van het bekende opensourcebesturingssysteem Linux." Wist ik niet. #Linux #OpenSource #China https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/08/25/liang-wenfeng-de-techno-optimist-met-een-angstaanjagend-vermogen-om-te-leren-a4933608
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@Marloezovic @nrc_nl #huawei heeft “eigen” OS voor laptops maar wellicht alleen nog in #china compatibel met phone en tablet.
Joachim
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À symptômes égaux, l’IA envoie les hommes aux urgences, pas les femmes
https://www.lesnouvellesnews.fr/a-symptomes-egaux-lia-envoie-les-hommes-aux-urgences-pas-les-femmes/
Face aux mêmes maux, plusieurs grands modèles d’intelligence artificielle recommandent beaucoup plus souvent les urgences aux jeunes hommes qu’aux jeunes femmes. L’IA reproduit certains biais déjà observés en médecine.
Oh bah, j'ai envie de dire, QUEL ÉTONNEMENT.
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
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@ClarusPlusPlus@gamedev.lgbt Follow me. I know the way in...
Dominant Species
Me every time I block an ad.
@catsalad Also me when I block another website's "AI" widget I never asked for.
"The U.S. federal grant terminations of 2025 have had a chilling effect on American science. Grantees whose awards have been renegotiated under threat of termination must now determine how the revised terms constrain the language they use when reporting their findings in peer-reviewed publications."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560326001118
"The post-Lysenko experience suggests that even if formal restrictions can be imposed and rescinded rapidly, the damage to human capital, training pipelines, and institutional trust may outlive the political conditions that produced them."
h/t @lschiff
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #SelfCensorship #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
Joachim
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Images iréelles, absolument dingues, de coulées de boues gigantesques qui dévastent tout à la frontière Chine-Tibet. Effrayant.
Bilan terrible à venir.
#Nepal #NepalFloods
Quelqu'un croise Jésus, qui lui dit en gros :
"mais vous êtes cons ou quoi ? Le bonheur, c'est dans la vie qu'il faut le construire !
Et du coup, vu que tout le monde compte sur la mort pour être heureux ça a donné ce monde de merde"
(avec citation des passages des Évangiles adéquats, je devrai retrouver ce bouquin juste pour ça, et faire chier les bigot.es)
Bref, profitez bien, toustes, et aimez-vous.
I see I have some new followers.
Thank you so much 🫶🏼
I guess you’ve followed me because of the drawings (originals, but mostly fan art—just a heads-up), but know that I tend to talk a lot about DMC, and you’ll see quite a few posts on the topic (that’s what happens when you’re trying to unlock all the achievements in DMC 5 💀).
Cheers
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Also, turns out you were added to Eugen Rochko's list of "Artists of Mastodon": mastodon.social/collections/11…
And yes I know rectangular watches are not everyones thing but I have a soft spot for them.
@ruari
Oh, yeah, midcentury-modern pillow case watches FTW!
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
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What if we kissed on the Cray supercomputer loveseat? 👉 👈
@Grace nice. sorry to call you a bot if you are not. I get hundreds of bot trying to sign up a day so it's easy to make a mistake.
@stefan It's okay. I understand. The internet is full of bots these days. Thank you for everything you've done
Nizar Kerkeni 🇹🇳 نزار القرقني
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🚨 I don’t know what to tell my children when they ask me for food, and I have nothing to give them. They are waiting for a meal that may not come today.
I’m afraid for Mahmoud. His infected wound is threatening his life, and Sham is crying from fever and pain.
We are not asking for comfort or luxury. We are asking for a chance to survive another day. Please don’t look away from my family. 💔🫂
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@arrjay It's certainly better than being in tech.
I have the shill for myself a little harder.
@arrjay (you wanna buy an action figure? www.mountaintowntoys.com/kumiai-ki-the-mighty-union-machine/ )
@kopper it's incredibly upsetting to me that so-called "indieweb" doesn't consider it a basic protocol to manage key discovery since that was the fundamental problem with centralized services and TLS more generally. particularly if messages are going to be forwarded then it seems absurd to not incorporate better support for this but i suppose json-ld is so incredibly half-assed this would make sense to them. even if it means you literally can't process messages without contacting the literally centralized server
@kopper have been realizing several public key protocols (anything ECC-related and especially lattice crypto) were constructed to make it more difficult to generate keys securely on the fly in ways that diffie-hellman enables readily and cheaply and that this is then framed as a problem with software which has to take shortcuts rather than fixing the protocol and it's amazing to me how they replicated this mathematical construction in protocols. angry all the time the sadness never ends
