I walked into the woods again today to escape everything and be with myself, surrounded by the quiet beauty of nature 🌲🍂.
There, without distractions, I simply breathed, moved slowly, and existed in a calm that made me feel vividly alive and free 🍃✨.
Hugging a tree as the golden sunset warmed the leaves, I felt grounded and at peace in that perfect moment of connection 🌿☀️.
Wishing you all a peaceful weekend, may you find moments to be kind to yourselves and others, and like me in the woods today, remember to pause and smile even when the world feels heavy 🌿😊💛.
Writers aren't getting this settlement because their work was fed to an AI -- this is just a costly slap on the wrist for Anthropic because it illegally downloaded books instead of buying them.
Nothing about this looks like a dinner with major companies. Just an emperor’s dinner party with his feudal lords that either kiss ass or worry speaking up hurts stock prices.
@pluralistic I follow very few people on flickr, and this French collector of old images is one. It reminds me of you! also check the seal it says tour of London collection. Please forgive typos I only have a left hand for the next few weeks... flickr.com/photos/taffeta/5474…
I've decided to take up writing again, mainly as a way to help me remember things better, but also because I do get some joy out of it. My first post goes live on the 7th, if anyone is interested. I suspect that it will mostly be #OpenStreetMap related but there might be some other #tech related things thrown in there as well.
Delegações estrangeiras relatam dificuldades com hospedagem em Belém e reclamam de preços acima do normal A apenas dois meses da COP30, marcada para novembro em Belém (PA), o número de delegações estrangeiras confirmadas permanece baixo.
There is a certain comfort to be found in the adage that you should not attribute to malice what you can instead attribute to ignorance, but look at the world oh, my friend, please just look at the world and know that so much of what you see really should be attributed to malice.
BBC: South Koreans detained in ICE raid at Hyundai electric vehicle site in Georgia
"...US immigration authorities have raided a massive Hyundai manufacturing site in Georgia, leading to the arrest of over 450 people, according to one of the agencies involved in the operation...."
"...The facility is part of what would be the biggest industrial investment in the state’s history and had been hailed as a huge boost for the economy by Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp...."
It's curious that ICE has better ways of detecting "illegal" workers than major corporations that presumably only hire people legally able to work here.
I suspect there's been a "don't ask, don't tell" policy with a lot of this, because US immigration policy has been so broken for so long. They probably have known of issues at many of these employers for a decade and only because of the politics today are they cracking down.
The article said most were grabbed for overstaying visas. I can picture the workers were brought in to do specialized work and could not renew their visas because of the broken immigration system. So now the work is shut down and every major corporation in the world is reconsidering making any investments here because of the uncertainty.
it doesn't even matter what the rest of the world thinks. Hyundai, SK Group, LG and Hanwa are huge companies and all have a stake in this plant. The SK president would take a call from any of these chaebol CEOs in a heartbeat. Any future SK investment in the US is going to need a nod of agreement from Hyundai, as no SK company will want Hyundai upset.
This issue should have been dealt with by a suggestion from a senior ICE official to a senior Hyundai executive at a meeting in South Korea that visas be regularised and that this would be checked on a date some months away.
As it is, the US clearly chose offence and disruption.
The timing couldn't be worse, the lead story in SK news today also being about Trump and poor choices by the US. South Korea is waiting to see what North Korea's response will be to the murder of its citizens by US troops.
I've been told ESA, the European Space Agency, spends 250 million euros a year on Amazon cloud services. Today, I received an administrative email from ESA, and it featured an embedded **1.6 megabyte** image as a footer celebrating their 50th birthday, in 4137x953 pixels resolution. Perhaps that's why their cloud bill is so tremendous. A scaled version:
As currently constructed, AI is an oligarchy-enriching, worker-immiserating, energy-depleting, brain-rotting economic bubble in waiting. Democrats can get on the public’s side here.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
Those who only wanted a stooge to pander to their insecure needs for ever more money, power, less regulations, and freedom from the voters will (via gerrymandering and stacking the Supreme Court and judiciary) and the right to discriminate and be xenophobic and not have to obey the constitution especially that pesky part about the US not being a theocracy, have inadvertently made the US not great again but rather a joke. 1/2
TOKYO (AP) — Kokichi Akuzawa almost gave up during his trek to became the oldest person to summit Mount Fuji at age 102, an achievement recognized by Guinness World Records after he reached the top in early August.
Francesca Albanese non è soltanto una voce che denuncia: è un’energia che travolge pressenza.com/it/2025/09/franc… Francesca Albanese, relatrice speciale delle Nazioni Unite per i diritti umani nei Territori palestinesi occupati, già sanzionata dall’amministrazione Trump per aver denunciato il genocidio in corso, è stata ospite di Terra!, la festa nazionale di Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra. La… Redazione Roma
Restoring a mind state backup from three hours ago so you can watch the recording of what you did with her, that's entirely new to her. Seeing her face react as she watches her self get taken apart and fucked with her own limbs amongst dozens of other enjoyable ideas you had, and have absolutely no memory of any of it.
At least it will help her understand where she got the new scuffs on her chassis.
As currently constructed, AI is an oligarchy-enriching, worker-immiserating, energy-depleting, brain-rotting economic bubble in waiting. Democrats can get on the public’s side here.
“Amnesty International is deeply alarmed by the U.S. government’s claimed strike against a small boat allegedly departed from #Venezuela, which reportedly resulted in the deaths of 11 individuals. If confirmed, the strike would constitute a clear violation of the right to life under international human rights law and set a dangerous precedent." amnestyusa.org/press-releases/…
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