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Semafor

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Semafor
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Abu Dhabi’s G42 eyes chip options beyond Nvidia

semafor.com/article/09/01/2025…

Abu Dhabi’s G42 eyes chip options beyond Nvidia

The Abu Dhabi-backed AI firm is still courting customers for what could be the world’s largest data center campus outside the US.

^{Kelsey Warner (www.semafor.com)}

Beth

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Beth
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Same ol' place, Contin Woods, but sniffs are an important part of walks.

#Forest #DogsOfMastodon #ScottishHighlands

Skye the border collie sniffing intently in the grass at the side of a path through pine forest and undergrowth.

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Ukraine War Bulletins and News

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Ukraine War Bulletins and News
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⛔️🇪🇺European Commission confirms GPS attack on President von der Leyen’s plane in Bulgaria, Russian role not ruled out (more) ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/… #Mastodon #Ukraine #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #NukesForUkraine #Germany #SHAPE #ICC #WarCrimesTribunal #ICJ #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar #11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState

European Commission confirms GPS interference with von der Leyen’s plane in Bulgaria, Russian role not ruled out

The charter plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to Bulgaria on Sunday indeed encountered GPS signal interference during its landing at Plovdiv airport. — Ukrinform.

^Ukrinform

#media #USA #france #us #germany #unitedstates #berlin #uk #japan #mastodon #News #italy #taiwan #PACE #paris #NATO #eu #finland #EuropeanUnion #Denmark #Rome #unitedkingdom #Ukraine #brussels #London #ICC #COE #southkorea #press #OSCE #RussiaUkraineWar #icj #Shape #RussiaIsATerroristState #nukesforukraine #warcrimestribunal #11yrinvasionofukraine

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The Kyiv Independent

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The Kyiv Independent
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As Putin shakes hands with Modi, Xi, here’s the state of Russia’s allies
https://kyivindependent.com/who-are-russias-allies-and-what-role-do-they-play-in-2025/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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As Putin shakes hands with Modi, Xi, here’s the state of Russia’s allies

After three years of international isolation, Russian President Vladimir Putin is back at the forefront of the global stage. On Sept.

^{Tania Myronyshena (The Kyiv Independent)}

@Latest News

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anubis2814

in reply to The Kyiv Independent • 3 settimane fa • •

@The Kyiv Independent Allies is a stretch. Xi wants a war of attrition for Russia so it will help keep the war dragging for as long as possible killing as many Russians as possible so Russia becomes so weak that it can seize or gradually annex Siberia, especially lake Bikal with 1/4th the world's freshwater.

@The Kyiv Independent

vitaut 🤍❤️🤍 🇺🇦

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vitaut 🤍❤️🤍 🇺🇦
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Looks like you can't have a nice API for compile-time formatting that gives you a static string because we only have transient allocations.

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vitaut 🤍❤️🤍 🇺🇦

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Barry is probably writing a paper that will fix it in 10 years.

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vitaut 🤍❤️🤍 🇺🇦

in reply to vitaut 🤍❤️🤍 🇺🇦 • 3 settimane fa • •

by which time I'll be living on a farm

relianceschool via Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.

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relianceschool
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Nature can adapt to climate change – but not at this speed

The natural world is built for change. Seasons shift. Rivers rise and fall. The climate gradually warms and cools again. Animals migrate, adapt, and evolve in response to these rhythms. This is how Earth has always worked – and how it’s supposed to work.

The pine forests of the Western U.S. offer a perfect example. For thousands of years, ponderosa and lodgepole pines evolved with periodic wildfires that swept through every decade or two. These fires weren’t disasters – they were essential.

Lodgepole pines actually depend on fire to reproduce. Their resinous cones only open in intense heat, releasing seeds onto the ash bed below. Ponderosa pines developed thick, fire-resistant bark to survive the low-intensity ground fires that cleared out undergrowth. These frequent, cool burns created open forests with widely spaced mature trees, healthy and highly productive ecosystems that provided clean water, timber, and wildlife habitat.

So the problem today isn’t change. It’s the speed of change.

Changes that used to take centuries or millennia are now unfolding in a matter of years. Levels of climate-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have risen to well above 400 parts per million, a concentration that last occurred about 15 million years ago.

But even more concerning is the rate of change: By burning fossil fuels, we are emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere 30 times faster than at any point in the last 100 million years. That’s like putting nature’s slow-moving film on fast-forward – only the device is overheating as a result.

Nature can keep up with climate change – but not at this speed

Earth’s systems evolved to handle disturbance, but human-driven climate change is pushing them past the breaking point.

^{Jennifer Marlon (Yale Climate Connections)}

#climate

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Miguel Afonso Caetano

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Miguel Afonso Caetano
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"Well, a significant problem with the United Nations is that it is ultimately guided by the political views of its member states, particularly the most powerful ones—the permanent members of the Security Council. I am talking here mainly about the United States, but I would not overlook the United Kingdom and France either. Other wealthy and influential states, primarily in Europe or European settler states elsewhere, such as Canada and Australia, are also deeply devoted to Israel. They have been reluctant to take measures that would rein Israel in and, on the contrary, have often encouraged and emboldened it, frequently turning a blind eye when Israel has engaged in particularly troubling actions. As a result, they have significantly constrained the United Nations’ ability to address Israel’s violations of international law effectively.

I think we can trace that position back a century or more, even before the creation of Israel, to when the mandate was given to the British at the end of the First World War. The British had long coveted the territory of Palestine and had encouraged Zionism for decades before receiving the mandate. In effect, what they sought was a settler state in the Middle East that would allow them to influence and control the region as much as possible.

I don’t believe that underlying objective has changed. This explains the deep devotion to Israel not only by the United States but also by the major European powers, for whom the Middle East remains of immense economic and strategic importance. They need to maintain control over the region, and they cannot rely on other governments there in the same way they can rely on Israel—although some, like Saudi Arabia, are also closely aligned with and loyal to the European powers and the United States. But they cannot count on them in the same way they can with Israel."

populismstudies.org/professor-…

#EU #Israel #Germany #USA #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #HumanRights

Professor Schabas: US, Germany, and Others Could Be Held Liable as Accomplices to Genocide in Gaza - ECPS

In an extensive interview with the European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS), Professor William Schabas—one of the world’s foremost authorities on

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Charlie Stross

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Charlie Stross
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Yes: but also don't discount the sanity-corroding effects of looking at a line on a graph and knowing that if it goes over a certain level your options will vest and make you a multi-zillionaire who never needs to look at lines on graphs ever again, or at least will be able to do so from the sun deck of your own personal megayacht.
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@cstross@wandering.shop My suspicion is that by this point a not insignificant portion of C-suite personnel are in full-blown LLM psychosis, and not just in the tech industry. Those things eat through brains like battery acid.

^neoliberal

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Graydon

in reply to Charlie Stross • 3 settimane fa • •

LLMs are an attempt to incarnate the mammonite god, who will prove they love you by giving you all the money.

Theology of inevitabilities (you're going to die; you're going to make mistakes first) could be too reductive; there probably does need to be a capacity for awe in there. But it could be awe at the amount of money attached to the prophets.

(That one of the few things the education system effectively teaches is fear and terror of being seen to make a mistake likely matters.)

impfmilf

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impfmilf
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#Hundenasenmontag #dogs #dogsofmastodon #Struppi

Ein kleiner, heller Mischlingshund scheint an weißen Chrysanthemen zu schnuppern.

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