What's a new skill you picked up recently to combat #brainrot ?
"brain rot (n.) the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging. Also: something characterized as likely to lead to such deterioration." (Oxford Dictionary).
This was word of the year in 2024.[1] Now in 2025 with more and more #GenAI assisted tasks, this becomes even worse, as a study suggests.
[2]It is not surprising; in tech we know something called #TutorialHell which discribes the state where you just follow along tutorials believing that you are learning somehting, but as soon as you need to solve a problem yourself, you realize that even after hours of tutorials you can't, because you actually never learned anything, even though you did everything by the letter.
I realized in ~2016, that I've been working in tech for over 10 years, and being so into it, that even for non-tech tasks I would think like I would when programming something and be even surprised if others did not. That was the moment, where I feared becoming what in Germany we call #Fachidiot (i.e. a one-track genious, that's an idiot in everything else).
To combat this, I picked up #日本語 (#Japanese). Just because I found it a real hard challenge. I think, doing something like this is essential: Learn something new, you've never done: a language, an instrument, a motor skill, or - if that is not your field - programming. Important is, that it get's you into doing something completely new, to animate your brain. Because, as it is well known: The brain works like a muscle: The more you use it, the better your mental and intellectual state gets - the less you use it, the more it deteriorates. And with the temptations of our modern world ( #socialmedia #GenAI #workoverload #populism #shorts #doomscrolling etc.) this has become more important than ever.
Auch an alle, die gerade beim #CSDZwickau dabei sind
Danke, dass ihr heute für die Rechte queerer Menschen einsteht. Auch trotz oder gerade wegen all der Rechtsextremen, die sicherlich wieder versuchen werden eure Demonstration für Menschlichkeit zu stören.
Dopo tanti anni sono ritornato alla festa dell'Unità di Reggio Emilia che per qualche giorno sarà ancora quella provinciale, ma dal 2 al 14 settembre diventerà quella nazionale.
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/ Hérault, Le Cap d'Agde / Série « Arcadie - D’ici et de maintenant - La France, comme elle va... » France, 22.08.2025 / website thomas-catifait.com / L’homme marque de son empreinte le territoire qu’il habite, inscrivant dans le paysage les traces de son occupation. Éléments vernaculaires de nos paysages, témoins du temps passé, révélatrices du temps présent ou supports du temps qui s’écoule, elles sont le reflet de la situation sociale, économique et politique de ceux qui vivent là. Cette série photographique, initiée en 2011, montre cela, constituant un "portrait de lieu", personnel et subjectif. Le "portrait de lieu" de la France d’aujourd’hui. D’ici et de maintenant. Man leaves his mark on the territory he inhabits, inscribing the traces of his occupation in the landscape. Vernacular elements of our landscapes, witnesses of the past, revealing the present, or bearing the passage of time, they reflect the social, economic, and political situation of those who live there. This photographic series, initiated in 2011, shows this, constituting a "portrait of place", personal and subjective. The "portrait of place" of today’s France. From here and now. #photographie #photographiecontemporaine #artistefrancais #france #paysagesfrançais #paysages #rural #architecture #petitpatrimoine #tracesdupassé #commercesdupassé #photography #artpicture #landscapephotography #frenchlandscape #ruralphotography #architecturephotography #storefronts #oldshop #dicietdemaintenant #moyenformat #sigma #sigmadp1quattro #sigmadp2quattro #sigmadp3quattro #leica #leicacamera #leicaphotography
#Russia Meduza and Mediazona have found a loophole in Russian government statistics, which have been largely classified since 2022 specifically with the purpose of hiding the scale of their losses in the war in #Ukraine - the National Probate Registry.
Using quite smart statistical analysis, they have calculated that Russia lost around 94’000 soldiers only in 2024, which is almost 2x more when compared against the preceding 2023 when the recorded losses were 50’000.
In total this makes 220’000 Russian registered KIA since 2022 until end of summer 2025.
I will add that this number is consistent with obituary registers such as “Goryshko”, which just recently marked 130’000 KIA identified by name. This is consistent with the National Probate Registry, because obviously not every KIA get a published obituary.
But then, there’s the darker side of Russian losses - the MIA (missing in action). The system of financial incentives created by Russian MOD makes it economically profitable to classify losses as MIA rather than KIA. A killed soldier needs a family that is additionally persistent in demanding information about his fate.
Many former prisoners, foreigners or contract soldiers without family are simply left in the field or buried in mass graves because it’s in nobody’s interest to count their deaths.
That “foreigners” category has one more, even darker side - because many soldiers forcibly mobilised from the so called DPR/LPR “republics” were never officially included in the official Russian army statistics, and they are also not included in Russian Federation registers, such as the National Probate Registry.
Dopo l'acclamato tour 2024, il leggendario chitarrista dei Genesis Steve Hackett torna in Italia per altri sette concerti a partire dal 2 settembre, portando in scena lo spettacolo "Genesis Greats - Lamb Highlights & Solo", che nel cinquantesimo anni…
Wenn nur eine Seite spricht — Wer kommt bei der #Nahost-Berichterstattung zu Wort? Eine exklusive Auswertung deutscher Leitmedien durch Jacobin zeigt: Israels Militär und Regierung dominieren. Unabhängige Quellen werden kaum genutzt.
Wer kommt bei der Nahost-Berichterstattung zu Wort? Eine exklusive Auswertung von 5.000 Schlagzeilen deutscher Leitmedien zeigt: Israels Militär und Regierung dominieren. Unabhängige Quellen werden kaum genutzt.
"Un viaggio tra spazio, tempo e memoria, tra quello che è stata e quello che potrebbe essere Napoli come una sorta di enorme macchina del tempo, una città sospesa dove ogni cosa si trasforma presto in qualcosa d'altro". (ANSA)
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L'archivio, per ora solo parzialmente accessibile al pubblico, di una #eccellenzaitaliana è disponibile online da oggi. E, se passiamo sopra al tono magniloquente (trattasi pur sempre di comunicazione aziendale), è una gioia per gli occhi. È stata annunciata anche una sede fisica dalle parti di #Milano. La Living Legacy di #GiorgioArmani | Archivio Armani archivio.armani.com/it/homepag…
Das reichste 1 Prozent der Schweiz besitzt fast die Hälfte des Gesamtvermögens. Das könnte sich bald ändern: Denn die Schweizer Jungsozialisten wollen per Volksabstimmung eine 50-Prozent-Steuer auf Vermögen ab 50 Millionen Schweizerfranken einführen.
Das Bild zeigt ein Screenshot eines Threads auf einer Social-Media-Plattform, vermutlich Twitter, mit einem schwarzen Hintergrund. Oben links steht "Thread" und rechts sind ein Alarm- und ein Menü-Symbol zu sehen. Der erste Beitrag stammt von "withvision" und wurde vor 18 Stunden veröffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine Anleitung zur Erstellung eines Dialogflow-Projekts in Google Cloud, einschließlich der Definition von Intents und Entities, der Integration mit Twilio und der Implementierung von Anruf-Logik. Der Beitrag hat 49 Likes, 1 Kommentar und 3 Retweets. Darunter befindet sich ein Kommentar von "chatsanniemanden" mit 70 Likes, 1 Kommentar und 3 Retweets. Der Kommentar erwähnt die Warteschlange und die Verbindung von Anrufen. ― Das Bild zeigt einen Screenshot eines Threads auf einem sozialen Medien- oder Foren-Plattform, auf dem ein Benutzer namens "withvision" über seine Erfahrungen mit einem KI-Anrufbeantworter berichtet. In seinem ersten Beitrag, der vor 22 Stunden veröffentlicht wurde, beschreibt er, wie er einen kleinen KI-Anrufbeantworter entwickelt hat, um Spam-Anrufe zu reduzieren. Er erwähnt, dass eine Firma aus Aachen mit einer Telefonnummer aus Dortmund einen KI-Kaltakquise-Anruf gemacht hat, und dass der KI-Anrufbeantworter 30 Minuten lang mit der KI diskutierte. Der Beitrag hat 499 Likes, 25 Kommentare und 5 Teile. In einem weiteren Beitrag, der vor 18 Stunden veröffentlicht wurde, teilt "withvision" seine Schritte zur Entwicklung des KI-Anrufbeantworters, einschließlich der Erstellung eines Dialogflow-Projekts, der Definition von Intents und Entities, der Integration mit Twilio und der Implementierung der Anruf-Logik.
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"I temi di cui ci occupiamo sono tutti legati alla crisi nella quale viviamo, fatta di guerre che non finiscono mai e del culto della forza che sta diventando il segno delle relazioni diplomatiche. (ANSA)
Xiaomi announced on Friday a voluntary recall of 146,891 units of its PB2030MI power bank, produced between August 1 and September 22, 2024. The recall
30% of all word-based domain extensions are managed by 1 large corporation in the United States.
The biggest words based corporation was called Donuts Inc — A corporation that for the longest time went unnoticed because the name is not what it implies. They eventually became Identity Digital Inc, which is owned by Ethos Capital.
Ethos Capital is one of the larger investment and capital marketing companies in the country, which is located in my state of Massachusetts, USA.
The second-largest corporation for words based domains was Afilias Inc, which also was bought out by Identity Digital Inc. Which, once again, is owned by Ethos Capital.
Nearly every word-based domain is sponsored and governed by a corporation. The majority of those are in the United States. But Identity Digital Inc, which is owned by Ethos Capital, controls a large sum of them, and you can see the full list on Wikipedia (see URL).
La Dette, toujours la dette... Mais au fait, quand le banquier te file 100.000€, il les sort d'où ?
L'Argent-Dette. (2006, revisitée 2010) informassue.tuxfamily.org/page… Long métrage d'animation, dynamique et divertissant, de l'artiste et vidéographe Paul Grignon.
/ Hérault, Le Cap d'Agde / Série « Arcadie - D’ici et de maintenant - La France, comme elle va... » France, 22.08.2025 / website thomas-catifait.com / L’homme marque de son empreinte le territoire qu’il habite, inscrivant dans le paysage les traces de son occupation. Éléments vernaculaires de nos paysages, témoins du temps passé, révélatrices du temps présent ou supports du temps qui s’écoule, elles sont le reflet de la situation sociale, économique et politique de ceux qui vivent là. Cette série photographique, initiée en 2011, montre cela, constituant un "portrait de lieu", personnel et subjectif. Le "portrait de lieu" de la France d’aujourd’hui. D’ici et de maintenant. Man leaves his mark on the territory he inhabits, inscribing the traces of his occupation in the landscape. Vernacular elements of our landscapes, witnesses of the past, revealing the present, or bearing the passage of time, they reflect the social, economic, and political situation of those who live there. This photographic series, initiated in 2011, shows this, constituting a "portrait of place", personal and subjective. The "portrait of place" of today’s France. From here and now. #photographie #photographiecontemporaine #artistefrancais #france #paysagesfrançais #paysages #rural #architecture #petitpatrimoine #tracesdupassé #commercesdupassé #photography #artpicture #landscapephotography #frenchlandscape #ruralphotography #architecturephotography #storefronts #oldshop #dicietdemaintenant #moyenformat #sigma #sigmadp1quattro #sigmadp2quattro #sigmadp3quattro #leica #leicacamera #leicaphotography
The EU's foreign policy chief said the bloc needs to dive deep into the issue of frozen Russian assets, to be prepared in case of an eventual ceasefire or peace deal.
Dass Fans des rechtsextremen kroatischen Popstars Marko Perković alias Thompson faschistische Parolen rufen, ist nichts Neues. Doch bei seinem letzten Konzert – dem größten in der Geschichte der EU – »feierten« Hunderttausende.
Do you want your brain to remain your own? Do you want your government to recognize that neural privacy is a fundamental human right?
"How to Fix the Internet" interviewed Neuroscientist Rafael Yuste and human rights lawyer Jared Genser, who together established the Neurorights Foundation, and have contributed to getting laws passed nearly unanimously in three states of the USA.
I'm going to write to my representatives in #Georgia and encourage them to follow the lead of CA, CO, and MT.
The human brain might be the grandest computer of all, but in this episode, we talk to two experts who confirm that the ability for tech to decipher thoughts, and perhaps even manipulate them, isn't just around the corner – it's already here.
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Now look I'm not trying to give you false hope. But I'm just saying I have a very particular songlist queued up and ready to go and it has "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead" on it.
Un soldat africain pendant la bataille d'Hastings (1066) ? Réponse de médiéviste : 1/ c'est possible ; 2/ c'est très improbable ; 3/ on s'en fiche car c'est de la fiction ; 4/ ces réactions outrées sont très signifiantes. Je détaille chaque point ⬇️
1/ C'est possible. Les sociétés anciennes sont plus connectées qu'on ne le pense souvent, et l'Afrique, y compris l'Afrique subsaharienne, n'est pas coupée de la Méditerranée. Il y a des flux de biens et de personnes (marchands, soldats, esclaves, pèlerins, etc).
1/ Ces flux ont d'ailleurs laissé des traces archéologiques, y compris en Grande-Bretagne : dans cet article, des fouilles dans un cimetière anglais du VIIe siècle ap JC où on a retrouvé une personne ayant un ancêtre récent originaire d'Afrique de l'Ouestphys.org/news/2025-08...
Archaeologists have analyzed the DNA of two unrelated individuals buried in 7th-century-AD cemeteries on the south coast of England, revealing that they both had recent ancestors, likely grandparents, from West Africa.
1/ Donc, en théorie, oui, un mercenaire africain aurait pu, via une vie aventureuse ou un passage par la case "esclave", se retrouver dans les rangs des Normands en 1066. On a une poignée d'exemples : en 1120, l'évêque de Laon a un serviteur éthiopien. Donc, oui, ça peut arriver !
2/ Cela reste très improbable. Les Scandinaves n'étaient assurément pas tous de grands blonds aux yeux bleus, et au fil de leurs voyages il y a dû avoir un paquet de métissages (plus ou moins volontaires), mais aucune source ne mentionne de vikings à la peau noire.
2/ ce qui ne veut pas dire qu'il n'y en avait pas, d'une part car "absence de preuve n'est pas preuve de l'absence", d'autre part car les médiévaux se fichent un peu de la couleur de la peau, donc auraient pu ne pas le mentionner.
3/ On s'en fiche ! Ici c'est une représentation contemporaine, une fiction, avec des acteurs. Les soldats de l'époque n'avaient de toute manière pas la taille qu'ont les gens d'ajd, ni la même santé, les mêmes dents, les mêmes cheveux, etc. Et ils ne parlaient pas en anglais contemporain... !
3/ Même la représentation la plus "réaliste" possible achoppera toujours sur l'impossibilité de restituer "fidèlement" le passé (je mets des guillemets car ces notions n'ont en réalité pas grand sens ni grand intérêt). Ce sera toujours une représentation contemporaine.
3/ Quand vous allez voir Richard III au théâtre, vous n'exigez pas que l'acteur principal soit un anglais âgé de 33 ans, bossu et membre de la famille royale d'Angleterre. Vous acceptez l'acteur tel qu'il est, précisément parce que c'est un acteur (ou une actrice !)
4/ Alors pourquoi ça râle ici ? Parce que les comptes qui râlent voient dans cette présence un projet politique ("wokisme") qui leur est insupportable. L'argument du "réalisme historique" n'est qu'un prétexte qui leur permet en fait de légitimer leur racisme.
Ah oué, c'est comme les mecs qui râlent sur la présence d'un samouraï noir dans un jeu-vidéo avec des aliens technologiquement très avancées qui créent la race humaine au cours de l'antiquité, se font passer pour les dieux des mythes européens antiques et on sait tout ça grâce à une machine qui retranscrit les souvenirs précis des ancêtres cachés dans l'ADN…
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