A lot of #AGI denialism roots in having missed the boat.

People didn't manage to pivot their careers, or contribute meaningfully to the current trend in technology which aims to build AGIs and ASIs.

So, they will rationalize having missed the boat by hallucinating some walls coming up like a Deus Ex Machina to stop the progress, and then a next trend comes in the form of wherever they are situated.

Perhaps traditional old-fashioned #ML which "has smaller power requirements", or the world gives up with #AI and gets back to traditional software development with Java.

You can also see a lot of this #denialism by #VCs who missed the boat and are desperately clutching their Excel sheets trying to prove that the current cycle in AGI development cannot produce enough revenue to justify the investment.

They are implicitly hallucinating a wall which somehow prevents this technology from transforming our whole economic system.

So that they can take the next boat, which they pray for.

Thank you from the bottom of our GNU little heart! #ThankGNU to Niko Neufeld, Raffael Stocker, and Tomas Stary for their generous contribution to the #fsf Let's fight for freedom together! https://u.fsf.org/3vy

#WordWeavers Do your MC's dreams change during the story?

Ian's dreams have been the same sort of apocalyptic nightmarish shit since he was in his teens. The only difference is communal living in safehouses means that someone else knows about them now.

Found 6 new servers and 2 servers died off since 3 hours ago.

21,396 servers checked. 14,114,616 Total Users with 1,027,270 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

mi.moris.day a #misskey server from Private
mi.yyya-nico.co a #misskey server from Japan
mi.tomadoi.com a #misskey server from Japan
gs.umearbo.net a #gotosocial server from Private
akko.cuddleslut.fr a #akkoma server from Finland
mastodon.noahduffy.me a #mastodon server from France

Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer

Just think about 10 - 15 years ago if someone wrote what might happen, that has happened in the world we would all laugh at them

Wonder what the next 10 to 15 years will be like ... What will happen ... Stay tuned

Hugz & xXx

Schaut doch mal vorbei!

Montag 29. Juli

17-19 Uhr

Eröffnungsfest Weißenburger Staße

Testphase Fußgängerzone

Frei Eis solange der Vorrat reicht

#VCD #München #Haidhausen #Verkehrswende

“On a good day I catch a glimpse of myself, a reason to grin. My smile feels like a blessing, permission to enjoy my existence and embrace the coming day.” Isolde

(Accessibility: Picture of Isolde smiling. Text: “On a good day I catch a glimpse of myself, a reason to grin. My smile feels like a blessing, permission to enjoy my existence and embrace the coming day.” Isolde)

#Trans #Transgender #SelfCare #Positivity #Success #LGBT #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ

https://www.europesays.com/1364088/ Wounded Ukrainian soldiers undergoing rehabilitation at the JGSDF Central Hospital enjoyed their first Japanese festival. #Ukraine

CEO of X Corp and ex-communicated father, Elon Musk took a brief pause from his daily transphobic tweets to plead with users of his website to stop calling it ‘Twitter’ and start referring to it as ‘X’.

https://chaser.com.au/general-news/stop-calling-it-twitter-says-guy-who-deadnames-his-own-child/

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #deadnaming

Estampie: what they put on letters in Quebec.

Resting the climbing boots before attempting the great summits of Belfast.

Parametrix did some number crunching and estimates the Fortune 500 took a collective $5.4 billion (USD) hit thanks to CrowdStrike’s apocalyptic Falcon update and the combined failures of CS & impacted F500 orgs to design & run actual resilient IT infrastructure.

https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/64b69422439318309c9f1e44/66a24d5478783782964c1f6f_CrowdStrikes%20Impact%20on%20the%20Fortune%20500_%202024%20_Parametrix%20Analysis.pdf [report PDF]

https://www.parametrixinsurance.com/in-the-news/crowdstrike-to-cost-fortune-500-5-4-billion (PR)

Sorry, the opening ceremony was boring ... And that was the highlights ... I did see the Australian

Hugz & xXx

https://www.europesays.com/1364081/ Ich🚗iel #DeutscheMemes #IchIel #Memes #SelbstiesDerSeele

Audio from a couple of years ago surfaces of Vance suggesting that the federal government should prevent women from traveling to other states to have abortions.

🎧 „Bundestalk“ – Der politische Podcast der taz erscheint jede Woche auf taz.de und überall, wo es Podcasts gibt.
👉 https://taz.de/Podcast-Bundestalk/!6026017/

https://www.europesays.com/1364076/ NSFW: Ukrainian UAV Battalion “Bulava” of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade strikes Russian soldiers with dropped grenades and films the brutal afthermath #Ukraine #UkraineWar #UkraineWarVideoReport

Two Black Labradors Act As Greeters at the Historic Tewkesbury Abbey in Gloucestershire, England
https://laughingsquid.com/dog-greeters-tewkesbury-abbey/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Seems that Apple Music now shows where stuff has been played on the radio. It appears that some station in Lower Stoffed called 'Eastpoint' has played me a few times, and a station called
1296
AM
4RPH
Brisbane
played me twice. News to me that *anything* I'd written had actual airplay.

So word is that President Biden is expected to announce significant Supreme Court reforms on Monday, potentially including term limits and an enforceable ethics code. He is also anticipated to advocate for a constitutional amendment to limit presidential immunity.

The gloves are coming off.

TECH: CNN reports that OpenAI is testing 'SearchGPT', a search engine that 'uses artificial intelligence baked in from the beginning'.

Sports included in Paris Olympics 2024

1. Archery 🏹
2. Artistic Gymnastics 🤸
3. Artistic Swimming 🤽‍♀️
4. Athletics 🏃‍♂️
5. Badminton 🏸
6. Basketball 🏀
7. Basketball 3x3 ⛹️‍♂️
8. Beach Volleyball 🏖️
9. Boxing 🥊
10. Breaking🕺
11. Canoe Slalom 🚣‍♂️
12. Canoe Sprint 🚣‍♀️
13. Cycling BMX Freestyle 🚴‍♂️
14. Cycling BMX Racing 🚵‍♀️
15. Cycling Mountain Bike 🚵‍♂️
16. Cycling Road 🚴‍♀️
17. Cycling Track 🚴
18. Diving 🤽‍♂️
19. Equestrian 🐎
20. Fencing 🤺
21. Football ⚽
22. Golf 🏌️‍♂️
23. Handball 🤾‍♂️
24. Hockey 🏑
25. Judo 🥋
....~

Does going cashless make us more spendthrift? https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/cashless-effect

I was thrilled to join the OUT FOR HARRIS call with my LGBTQ+ family last night. We raised over $300,000 from over 20,000 participants and signed up 1,500 volunteers for the Harris Campaign. You can still join the movement! See replies for how.

The iOS 18 feature to select only specific contacts to share with an app is very nice. Now I can finally have WhatsApp show names for my contacts without trusting WhatsApp with my entire contact list. Of course, WhatsApp, being owned by Meta, are entirely trustworthy, always will be and I was being paranoid about nothing in the first place.

Maybe I'm just old, but if I see an advertisement for a #podcast I will automatically will not listen.

Good podcasts come in the form of recommendations from friends only.

https://www.europesays.com/1364063/ Ça ira ! #france #Memes #rance

Don't judge me ... I like watching the horse jumping and equestrian

Hugz & xXx

Hospital beds (per 1,000 people):

Greenland 🇬🇱: 14.4
Monaco 🇲🇨: 13.8
Japan 🇯🇵: 13.0
South Korea 🇰🇷: 12.4
Germany 🇩🇪: 8.0
Ukraine 🇺🇦: 7.5
Russia 🇷🇺: 7.1
France 🇫🇷: 5.9
Argentina 🇦🇷: 5.0
China 🇨🇳: 4.3
Italy 🇮🇹: 3.1
Spain 🇪🇸: 3.0
USA 🇺🇸: 2.9
Turkey 🇹🇷: 2.9
Canada 🇨🇦: 2.5
UK 🇬🇧: 2.5
South Africa 🇿🇦: 2.3
Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦: 2.2
Brazil 🇧🇷: 2.1
Iran 🇮🇷: 1.6
UAE 🇦🇪: 1.4
Indonesia 🇮🇩: 1.0
Pakistan 🇵🇰: 0.6
India 🇮🇳: 0.5
Nigeria 🇳🇬: 0.5
Afghanistan 🇦🇫: 0.4
Mali 🇲🇱: 0.1

World 🌍: 2.9

@cpamoa Bisous du samedi 😘 😘 😘 😘

@trefle Bisous du samedi 😘 😘 😘 😘

62% of likely voter are concerned that cheating will effect the outcome of the 2024 election

Kartoffelbällchen sind auf dem Breitscheidplatz genauso Thema wie Bevölkerungsdichten. Zwischen lauter Buden mag man Europa kulinarisch oder politisch finden.#wochentaz #Stadtleben #Europa #Stadtfest #Stadtland #Berlin #Schwerpunkt

And absolutely love watching the bulls win in the rodeo ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

TIL On his return to Earth from the Moon, Buzz Aldrin worked as a car salesman for 6 months. He never sold a single car.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_Aldrin#Post_retirement
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1edddqc/til_on_his_return_to_earth_from_the_moon_buzz/

Does anyone know if the Harris campaign has an official presence on Mastodon? (Sorry my instance hates search and makes it impossible to look for anything.)