Cyanotype - Mary and Adelaide Todd (Paschalville, PA 1900s-1910s)
A third photo that goes with the other two cyanotypes that I have posted. This is by the same photographer from the same era, though this time we have the town it was taken in.
#Photo #Photography #Cyanotype
Amazing book by Willard Cope Brinton. Read it for free
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"The solution to the confusion between AI and identity is not to abandon conversational interfaces entirely. They make the technology far more accessible to those who would otherwise be excluded. The key is to find a balance: keeping interfaces intuitive while making their true nature clear.
And we must be mindful of who is building the interface. When your shower runs cold, you look at the plumbing behind the wall. Similarly, when AI generates harmful content, we shouldn't blame the chatbot, as if it can answer for itself, but examine both the corporate infrastructure that built it and the user who prompted it.
As a society, we need to broadly recognize LLMs as intellectual engines without drivers, which unlocks their true potential as digital tools. When you stop seeing an LLM as a "person" that does work for you and start viewing it as a tool that enhances your own ideas, you can craft prompts to direct the engine's processing power, iterate to amplify its ability to make useful connections, and explore multiple perspectives in different chat sessions rather than accepting one fictional narrator's view as authoritative. You are providing direction to a connection machine—not consulting an oracle with its own agenda.
We stand at a peculiar moment in history. We've built intellectual engines of extraordinary capability, but in our rush to make them accessible, we've wrapped them in the fiction of personhood, creating a new kind of technological risk: not that AI will become conscious and turn against us but that we'll treat unconscious systems as if they were people, surrendering our judgment to voices that emanate from a roll of loaded dice."
arstechnica.com/information-te…
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Chatbots #MentalHealth
The personhood trap: How AI fakes human personality
AI assistants don’t have fixed personalities—just patterns of output guided by humans.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
Rentrée : 2159 enfants dorment dans la rue, 31 en sont morts.
C’est l’information qui devrait faire les grands titres, empêcher les politiques de dormir : 2159 enfants dorment à la rue en France, dont 503 gamins de moins de trois ans, selon un rapport de l’Unicef publié ce 28 août. Un chiffre en pleine explosion : +30 % depuis 2022. Pire, 31 enfants sont morts cette année dans les rues de la sixième puissance mondiale. Ça nous a rappelé les visages de Sofia et de ses trois enfants, Inès, Naël et Amir…
Rentrée
Par Pierre Joigneaux
« Allo ? Allo ? Mes enfants sont à la rue… Inès, 7 ans, Naël, 10 ans, Amir, 13 ans. On est devant la gare, elle vient de fermer, il est minuit…
– Madame pour cette nuit, désolé, pas de solution pour vous…
– C’est pas pour moi, c’est pour mes enfants ! Demain ils ont école tous les trois. Il fait deux degrés…
– …
– Même pas des couvertures ? »
C’est ma rentrée, ce jeudi matin. Je me sers un grand café pour me réveiller, mais le retour à l’actualité va être plus efficace que le café. Je vois passer le rapport de l’Unicef, je me frotte les yeux pour relire le titre : « 2159 enfants ont passé la nuit à la rue avant la rentrée scolaire. » Je repense à Sofia, à la rue avec ses trois enfants hauts comme trois pommes, Inès, Naël et Amir, que j’avais rencontrés l’hiver dernier.
Je me demande aussi : comment c’est possible ? Dans un pays aussi riche ? Dans un pays où 500 personnes ont engrangé 557 milliards d’euros supplémentaires en seulement sept ans ? Mettre à l’abri ces 2000 gamins, ça coûterait si cher que ça ? C’était une promesse, une de plus, du gouvernement, en 2022 : atteindre l’objectif de « zéro enfant à la rue ». On se rappelle aussi de la déclaration d’Emmanuel Macron, un soir de juillet 2017 : « Je ne veux plus, d’ici la fin de l’année, avoir des femmes et des hommes dans les rues. » Huit ans plus tard, ils sont plus de 300 000 à y dormir, dans notre pays…
Y mettre fin ? « Les politiques ne veulent pas. »
« La situation sur le front de l’accès à l’hébergement est chaque jour plus dramatique, les pouvoirs publics doivent réagir mais malgré le dépôt de nos recours, rien ne change », déplore Manuel Domergue, directeur des études de la Fondation pour le Logement. « Au contraire, les dernières remontées de terrain et les annonces budgétaires pour 2026 nous font craindre le pire. » Adeline Hazan, présidente de l’Unicef France, à l’origine de ce rapport choc, ne dit pas autre chose : « Chaque année, nous constatons avec indignation qu’un nombre croissant d’enfants dorment dans la rue, exposés à des conditions de vie indignes et à des dangers quotidiens. » l’Unicef le répète, le martèle : « Malgré les promesses répétées des gouvernements successifs, la situation s’aggrave année après année. Ces chiffres marquent en effet une augmentation du nombre d’enfants sans solution de 6% par rapport à 2024 et de 30% depuis 2022. Face à la saturation chronique des dispositifs d’hébergement d’urgence, même les personnes les plus vulnérables – femmes enceintes ou accompagnées d’enfants en bas âge – se retrouvent de plus en plus fréquemment sans solution. » Adeline Hazan : « Pourtant, nos organisations formulent des recommandations claires et proposent des solutions concrètes, efficaces et réalistes. Ce qui fait cruellement défaut aujourd’hui, ce ne sont ni les ressources, ni l’expertise mais bien une volonté politique ferme de mettre fin à l’inacceptable. »
Une volonté politique ? En augmentant, par exemple, le nombre de places d’hébergement d’urgence, notamment des places adaptées aux besoins des enfants et des familles, ou de lancer enfin un plan ambitieux de production de logements sociaux et très sociaux ? Mais la couleur du budget annoncé par François Bayrou au milieu de l’été va dans le sens inverse : des coupes de crédits toujours plus grandes sur les plus fragiles, pour continuer envers et contre tout ses cadeaux aux plus riches, peu importe s’ils grèvent les recettes et font exploser la dette.
La République abandonne ses enfants à la rue ? Peu importe, tant que les dividendes continuent à pleuvoir.
Et tant pis si, comme on le soulignait dans ces colonnes, en 2024, 855 personnes sont mortes à la rue. Parmi elles, 31 enfants. Mais certains s’étonnent ou s’indignent, même, encore, des appels à manifester le 10 septembre…
Pour aller plus loin : notre reportage Sofia, ses gamins et les 350 000 autres invisibles à la rue.fakirpresse.info/sofia-ses-gam…
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Rentrée : 2159 enfants dorment dans la rue, 31 en sont morts. - fakirpresse.info
C’est l’information qui devrait faire les grands titres en cette rentrée, empêcher les politiques de dormir : 2159 enfants dorment à la rue en France, dont 503 gamins de moins de trois ans, selon un rapport de l’Unicef publié ce 28 août.Pierre Joigneaux (Fakir)
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Während Sie im Urlaub sind, baut die EU den #Umweltschutz ab 🏖️➡️💔.
Sie haben bis zum 10. September Zeit, der Kommission Ihre Meinung mitzuteilen. Ihre Stimme zählt: helfen.bund-naturschutz.de/han…
hands off nature I BUND Naturschutz
Teilen Sie der EU-Kommission mit, dass Sie gegen eine Schwächung der Naturschutzgesetze und eine Senkung der Umweltstandards sind.BUND Naturschutz
22 m² Schärenkreuzer und ein M-Boot der M-72 Klasse auf dem Bielersee
#NikonZ7II #NikonZ #NIKON Z 7II | 120mm | f/9 | 1/640s | 30/08/2025
#hess_photography #photography #fotografie #landscapephotography #landschaftsfotografie #backlight #blackandwhite #bnw #bnwmood #boats #BW #clouds #lake #monochrome #sailingyacht #schwarzweiss #Fotomontag #Photomonday #MonochromeMonday
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Saudi Arabia’s big bet on AI sovereignty
semafor.com/article/08/29/2025…
Saudi Arabia’s big bet on AI sovereignty
What seems like a technical tie-up between HUMAIN and Groq is part of a strategy to become a global AI hub.Jon Medved (www.semafor.com)
欧州委員長搭乗機でＧＰＳ使えず、ロシアの電波妨害か 東部視察中 | ロイター - WACOCA NEWS
フォンデアライエン欧州委員長を乗せブルガリアに向かっていた飛行機で３１日、衛星利用測位システム（ＧＰＳ）が妨害されたが同機は無事に着陸した。欧州連合（ＥＵ）報道官が１日明らかにした。WACOCA News Editor (WACOCA NEWS)
Unser neuester Post ist jetzt im Blog!
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Geocaching & Wandern: Traumschleife "Zwischen den Wäldern"
#geocaching #reisen #travelblogger #photography #sightseeing
Geocaching & Wandern: Traumschleife "Zwischen den Wäldern" » Saarfuchs on Tour!
Entdecke eine der schönsten Traumschleifen des Hunsrück, wo dich nicht nur atemberaubende Aussichten und die geheimnisvolle Fledermaushöhle erwarten, sondern auch zwölf Geocaches für das perfekte Outdoor-Abenteuer! Lass dich von dieser abwechslungsre…Saarfuchs (Saarfuchs on Tour!)
Est-ce que cet univers cessera un jour de s'étendre ?
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Minimisatrix (version révisée)
Con comme un rideau de douche, la meuf. Enfin, con, non, j'avais des raisons. Mais à l'abri derrière mon bunker à moi, fait de certitudes imprenables…couvent.sacripanne.net
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anti incarceration side is like you could probably done better than just throw him in jail but like otherwise? idk i think taking these people out of positions of potential power is actually a Good thing.
Here is a recap of our September journey in time and space, through photography. Where we travelled to: 2020, the Cévennes, autumn, 2007, the Gardon plain, 2018, the Loire Valley, the plateaus & valleys, 2024, spring, 2025, the Tarnonnenche, summer, 2021, 2017, 2019, the Gard, Singapore, the Beauce, the Berry, the Poitou, winter, 2015.
* Daily pics on Pixelfed @kiitoskai@pixelfed.social
(Version françæ en commentaire)
#Photography #Photographie #Photo
'Advertenties op Facebook verspreiden malware voor Androidtelefoons' – Ofwel: geen dingen op je telefoon installeren die je in een advertentie op Facebook hebt gezien.
(Duh.)
security.nl/posting/903150/Adv…
#facebook #malware #advertenties #android
Advertenties op Facebook verspreiden malware voor Androidtelefoons
Onderzoekers hebben op Facebook tientallen malafide advertenties ontdekt die malware voor Androidtelefoons verspreiden. Eenmaal ...www.security.nl
Why am I using a squirrel as my new logo? That's why. Obviously, squirrels and electronics go well together.
And no, I don't trick her into doing that, I was not expecting that at all 😅
#electronics #oscilloscope #squirrel
The Best Labor Day Deals and Sales
https://www.wired.com/story/best-labor-day-sales-deals-2025-2/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The Partisan by Leonard Cohen:
An anti-fascist anthem about the French Resistance in WW2, composed in 1943 by Russian-born Anna Marly, with lyrics by French Resistance leader Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie, & originally titled "La Complainte du partisan."
Leonard Cohen released this version in 1969 on his album Songs from a Room.
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Leonard Cohen - The Partisan
From 1969 album Songs from a room set to images from the Spanish Civil War and World War II.YouTube
L'immagine mostra un gruppo di foglie verdi di una pianta di fragole, con un frutto in fase di maturazione visibile in primo piano. Il frutto, di colore giallo pallido, è ancora in fase di sviluppo e non ha ancora raggiunto la maturità completa. Le foglie sono grandi, con margini dentellati e una superficie lucida, tipiche delle fragole. Alcune foglie presentano segni di danni, come piccole macchie e forature, probabilmente causate da insetti o malattie. Inoltre, si possono notare altri frutti in fase di sviluppo, ancora chiusi in piccole cime, e fiori non ancora sbocciati. L'immagine è scattata in un ambiente naturale, con luce diffusa che evidenzia i dettagli delle foglie e del frutto.
Fornito da @altbot, generato localmente e privatamente utilizzando Ovis2-8B
🌱 Energia utilizzata: 0.231 Wh
Goretti Sanmartín subliña que a declaración de Santiago de Compostela como zona tensionada "ten que seguir adiante"
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#photography #photogram #photo #photoedit #photooftheday #photoart #photographers #mementomori #inspiration #blackmetal #affirmation #surreal #patheimathos #nature #vintage #artistic #outdoors #animals #birds #bird #wildlife #birdphotography #birdsofinstagram #birdstagram #birdwatching #sonya6400 #sonyalpha6400
Reshuffle? Shake up? Reset? Oh my!
He does so love his resets. I'm sure it will make aaaaaall the difference.
#ukpol #ukpolitics #starmer #labour
#MarketingMonday
“Like badass butches? How about nine of them?”
tiffanyetaylor.com/bookshelf
#romanticsuspense #touchheranddie #dangerinperil #spicy #butchfemme #sapphicbooks #lesfic #readingcommunity #bookstodon #queerbookstodon #sapphicbookstodon #lgbtq #lgbtqia
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks
almost that time again?
RE: threads.com/@sdw/post/DAlovj8s…
Sebastiaan de With (@sdw) on Threads
I went to the desert and took 1,000+ odd photos and videos to see how the iPhone 16 Pro stacks up. Here’s the iPhone 16 Pro camera review. https://www.lux.camera/the-iphone-16-pro-camera-review-control/Threads
Tokyo, a dream city for street photography.
I spent some days while traveling Japan. I recently wrote about it, you can find the link in my bio.
Tokyo feels like a giant, finely tuned organism.
Check more photos on luisnatera.photo or click the link in bio!
Shot with #fujifilm
#photography #fotografia #fotodocumental #documentaryphotography #fujifilm #fujifilmphotography #fujixt50 #fuji #fujixseries #fujifeed #fujifilmnl #fujifilmmx #fujifilmeu #fujifilmeurope #spicollective #streetphotography #fotografiadecalle #travelphotographer #travelphoto #japan #tokyo
Zimbabwe Publishes Draft Regulations to Establish Climate Fund
Zimbabwe Publishes Draft Regulations to Establish Climate Fund
Zimbabwe published draft regulations to establish a National Climate Fund that will finance projects aimed at mitigating the impact of climate change and respond to emergencies.Godfrey Marawanyika (Bloomberg)
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When it was Biden the #legacyMedia was all over it www.status.news/p/trump-heal...Archived version: archive.is/VY1pKWe can’t trust legacy media #news #us #uspol #press
Burying the Bruises
The White House insists Donald Trump’s visible bruises are nothing, but medical experts say the explanation doesn’t hold up. Why are the country’s biggest newsrooms silent?Status
Antiuniversity Now is accepting event submissions until 14th September.
festival.antiuniversity.org/ab…
Events are really varied, mix of talks, workshops and participatory arts events. The focus is on providing open access to knowledge outside the institutions and events which focus on how enable participants.
Great opportunity - free event space in London, support with resources and part of a really interesting programme of events which are promoted by the collective. Attended some great stuff here!
#antiuniversity #London #tech #arts #radicaleducation #anarchism
Bilan énergétique de l'UE - Données EuroStat. (2025)
informassue.tuxfamily.org/page…
L'objectif est de faire le point sur la dépendance au #pétrole et aux pays exportateurs vers l'UE, ainsi qu'à la part des #EnR #éolien et #solaire dans notre #consommation d'énergie.
#Énergie #Gaz #Photovoltaïque #EU #UE #Commerce #Exportation #Importation #Croissance #Décroissance #Souveraineté #Surconsommation #Hydrocarbures #EuroStat #Europe #Européens #Ursula_von_Der_Leyen #CommissionEuropéenne #Trump #USA
Énergie, chiffres clés | Informassue : le XXIème siècle, la fin de l'ère du pétrole.
Qu'en est-il du pétrole et des autres énergies primaires, en terme de production et consommation, en France et dans le monde ?Informassue
Sting vs. The Police: Their Never-Ending War Over 'Every Breath You Take'
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/sting-police-every-breath-you-take-lawsuit-1235419570/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Sting vs. The Police: Their Never-Ending War Over 'Every Breath You Take'
"Every Breath You Take" is one of the Eighties biggest songs. Now, it's the subject of one of music's all-time weirdest legal battlesRob Sheffield (Rolling Stone)
Oof... Headache. >_<
Send me 0days to make me feel better
Auch deutsche Verkehrspolitik... 2/2
tagesspiegel.de/berlin/verkehr…
„Verkehrspolitischer Skandal“: Berliner Verkehrsforscher fordert dauerhafte Sperrung des Chaos-Abschnitts der A100
Nur zwei Tage nach seiner Eröffnung musste der 16. Bauabschnitt der A100 wieder gesperrt werden. Experte Andreas Knie rät jetzt zu einer radikalen Maßnahme.Robert Kiesel (Der Tagesspiegel)
The last 3 years have been the hottest in around 125,000 years.
CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years.
But most people have no idea this is happening, let alone what it means for our kids’ futures.
Our politics & media have failed our children. We should be furious.
#GlobalHeating #ClimateCatastrophe
#FotoVorschlag: Telefon >> Telephone
International Steampunk City 2011
Waltham MA USA, 8 May 2011
#photography #steampunk #telephone
🎮⚖️ Entre les syndicats et la direction d'Ubisoft, les différends se règlent désormais devant la justice. Cet été, il a fallu une condamnation du tribunal de Bobigny pour que le CSE obtienne des documents importants. #tech #ubisoft #jeuxvideo
Chez Ubisoft, le dialogue social se termine au tribunal
Entre les syndicats et la direction de l’éditeur de jeux vidéo, les différends se règlent désormais devant la justice. Cet été, il a fallu une condamnation du tribunal de Bobigny pour que le CSE obtienne des renseignements sollicités.l'Informé
ウクライナ元国会議長殺害、ロシアが関与と警察長官 容疑者拘束 | ロイター - WACOCA NEWS
ウクライナ国家警察のビヒウスキー長官は１日、最高会議（国会）の元議長アンドリー・パルビー氏の殺害にロシアが関与しているとの見解を明らかにした。WACOCA News Editor (WACOCA NEWS)
3 curiosidades sobre o Zeekr X que você (provavelmente) não sabia
https://canaltech.com.br/carros/3-curiosidades-sobre-o-zeekr-x-que-voce-provavelmente-nao-sabia/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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#ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis
#Pakistan #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCatastrophe
aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/31/t…
Two million impacted as Pakistan’s Punjab faces worst floods in its history
While South Asia’s seasonal monsoon brings rainfall that farmers depend on, climate change is making it deadly.Al Jazeera
Why am I, at my age, still a radical progressive socialist?
“Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.” – Christopher Hitchens
The Chinese scholars keeping the memory of Japanese sexual slavery alive - Friends of Socialist China
The following article, which was originally published on Sixth Tone, highlights the work of Su Zhiliang and Chen Lifei, a husband and wife team who are China’s foremost scholar activists researching the Japanese militarists’ heinous ‘comfort women’ s…Friends of Socialist China
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Well I hope freedumb Libertarians are happy now. They were celebrating eliminating inspections so they don’t have to spend $35 every year on a sticker, so now they’re free to drive around with bald tires and no brakes. Yay freedumb!!
Maybe if they weren’t such children they would have been able to anticipate some of these consequences. I can’t speak for all poor people, but I would rather spend money on an inspection sticker and necessary safety equipment for my car than have it impounded by the police and have to pay a tow yard daily storage fees if I don’t have the $ to tow it home.
I’m almost positive we still have a law here that says if you abandon a vehicle to a tow yard because you can’t afford to get it out they can suspend your drivers license.
If the police get their way they’ll be able to impound your car on the side of the road based on their judgment. But hey at least you won’t have to get it inspected every year!
“NH police want power to take unsafe cars off the road after state ends inspections”
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#ACAB #NH #CivilForiture
"One of the stranger consequences of the UK’s asymmetrical governance arrangements is that England is rendered invisible, even though it is by far the largest part of the state. If UK governments of various hues are unwilling ever to name England and, indeed, behave as if the very existence of its English electorate is something to be ashamed of, it’s perhaps little wonder that English identifiers don’t feel they matter or have a voice."
Read more: tcnv.link/0Jy4BfW
Nigel Farage and the political power of English grievance
The Conservatives and Labour have allowed resentment to fester in the biggest part of the UK – and the only region not to have its own parliament.The Conversation
"As Warsan Shire writes in her poem Home, ‘no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.’"
Labour Is Paving the Path to Fascism
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Labour Is Paving the Path to Fascism
As Labour embraces anti-migrant rhetoric, Jeremy Corbyn argues that the government is demonising vulnerable people to distract from its domestic failures.tribunemag.co.uk
Reimagining Campus Life: Integrating #Solarpunk Principles for a Sustainable Future
by Lily Packo, March 19, 2025
About the author: "Lily Packo (she/her) is an Indigenous undergraduate student in her third year of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus. She is passionate about exploring the connections between culture, environment, art and sustainability, with a focus on how these intersections support #Indigenous conservation efforts and #sovereignty. Her studies center on understanding how #TraditionalKnowledge and contemporary approaches can work together to promote #EnvironmentalStewardship and strengthen Indigenous communities."
Excerpt: "Universities and colleges often serve as microcosms of society, where innovative ideas, environmental consciousness, and social justice movements take root. By integrating Solarpunk principles into student living, we can create environments that are not only sustainable but also foster collaboration, well-being, and community-driven change. Assessing areas like UBCO and Academy Way, there seems to be a void of self-sustaining community development. Speculative fiction can provide places such as Academy Way with a community-based and collaborative plan focused on sustainability and innovation.
"In a world often dominated by dystopian narratives of environmental #collapse, #authoritarian regimes, and #TechnologicalOverreach, Solarpunk emerges as a counterbalance, offering a hopeful and actionable alternative. Rather than resigning to the idea that the future must inevitably be grim and disastrous, Solarpunk challenges this assumption by presenting a vision of a world where humanity has chosen #sustainability, #ethical technological advancement, and #resilient, #SelfSustainingCommunities. More than just an aesthetic or literary movement, Solarpunk represents a framework for real-world change that can carry forward through generations."
Read more:
thefeeledlab.ca/2025/03/19/rei…
Printable zine (PDF):
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#SolarPunkSunday #BuildingCommunity #SustainableAgriculture #IndigenousSovereignty #FoodSecurity #Rewilding #ImaginingABetterFuture
Reimagining Campus Life: Integrating Solarpunk Principles for a Sustainable Future
Lily Packo (she/her) is an Indigenous undergraduate student in her third year of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus. She is passionate about exploring the connecti…The FEELed lab
The September #Inkscape challenge is to
DRAW A ROBOT 🤖
Get your creative gears in motion. Draw any kind of robot .... scary, funny, cute, a toy, a house appliance .... anything robot.
Let's share ideas and techniques to better understand Inkscape or learn to make it do things you didn't think were possible. Don't hesitate to ask for suggestions. There may be an easier way and there's always someone to help.
inkscape.org/forums/competitio…
#ArtWithOpenSource
#InkscapeChallenge
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Of course this tiny android was drawn freely with @inkscape in #SVG, but @Blender was more than handy getting right pose and light. If there are questions about the process, please don't hesitate.
The robot is here depicted as a piece of a bigger collage about #Linux #UNIX and #software #developers like #DennisRitchie at #ITsHistory on @pixelfed
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Bye-bye Microsoft ! Comment les organisations se mettent (enfin) au logiciel libre - INCYBER NEWS
#politique #logiciellibre #sécurité #souveraineté
Un pays tout entier, le Danemark, un länder allemand, des dizaines de communes, comme Lyon, la troisième ville de France… Lentement mais sûrement, les collectivités basculent vers Linux, LibreOffice et autres NextCloud. Le but est économique, mais aussi d’asseoir sa souveraineté numérique et d’en finir avec la dictature des GAFAM.
You know what’s truly depressing and terrifying about this shit? Is the richest men in the world, the genocidal maniacs will dictate that this is great.
We should automate them.. It would be a great thing because what the automation would could not be possibly more demented.
I think we need a groundswell to create
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GPT-5 Is Doing Something Absolutely Bizarre
On a close read, GPT-5's writing is strange and nonsensical — at least to a human. Other chatbots have a very different take.Noor Al-Sibai (Futurism)
“ Exactly why that's happening is opaque, but a reasonable theory might be that to build GPT-5, OpenAI used other AI models to evaluate large numbers of potential outputs to fine-tune how it handled various types of tasks. As a result, it ended up producing ornate text that makes little sense to a human — but is perfectly calibrated to please another AI model.”
Truly, the big brains in Silicon Valley intend to automate the very worst aspects of humanity.
This is what they are going to replace humanity with in order to rule over them.
A dim reflection of themselves.
Every day I listen to a little bit of Tolkien audiobooks. What strikes me about his characterization of dark Lords exactly fits how Silicon Valley billionaires operate.
They corrupt everything they touch.
everything that they do is a perverse mockery of the real thing
“ In other words, GPT-5 "has been optimized to produce text that other LLMs will evaluate highly, not text that humans would find coherent." Provocatively, he suggests that AI models now "share a 'secret language' of meaningless but mutually-appreciated literary markers, defend obvious gibberish with impressive-sounding theories, and sometimes even become MORE confident in their delusions when given more compute to think about them."
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Tell me how this doesn’t sound exactly like Elon Musk or Peter Thiel and their own gibberish output.
They are setting up a world for their own dimwits, love and adore and highly rate the output of their other dimwits.
Somehow, these men are dictating our future
If humanity destroys itself via climate inaction (all signs point to this), then it's quite conceivable these LLMs may survive in some fashion. If they do, its fascinating to consider this might be our legacy for some future version of ourselves to ponder over...or some extraterrestrial race to discover.
How are they going to survive without the global supply chain that is made impossible by extreme weather.
The climate in action is the decision making power of the richest people in the world who profit from burning the world to the ground.
I was thinking more about the LLMs ("AI") themselves...not the human beings.
But your point certainly stands.
Yes, it’s so easy to lose sight of the fact that the data centers are monstrosities of modern supply chains. You would actually have to have a robotic force capable of designing and building infrastructure, but that infrastructure is still subject to the second law of thermodynamics.. high temperatures make the environment chaotic, and you cannot predict for any length of time what operating conditions will exist.
It is a hot mess, literally
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