The re-naming of the Gulf of Mexico is much deeper than “just a name change”, it’s made clear the power that Google now wields over us. Maps exert authority over our lands and everything in it. When colonisers come, they conquer with more than weapons. Their maps legitimise their imagined places over what was there before. Who gave Google this power? #google #power #maps
Elon Musk says the journalists at CBS 60 Minutes "deserve a long prison sentence".
The reporting that has him so upset includes this line: "The world's richest man had cut off assistance to the world's poorest families."
You can view it in full here (first ~15 minutes):
https://www.cbs.com/shows/video/w_Zoxuc1ZnjigRqeKhYpum3ZFHIf2Rbs/
Also thanks Ookla for even having an option to change the server but ffs what even is the point of measuring to the nearest one (which can sometimes be the same ISP, lol)
Stop saying “artificial intelligence”. (And “neural networks” too.)
Be more specific. Say “reinforcement learning”. Say “generative modelling”. Say “Bayesian filtering”. Say “statistical prediction”.
These are incredibly useful tools that have nothing to do with “intelligence”.
And say “model trained on plagiarised data”.
Say “bullshit generator”.
Say “internet regurgitator”.
These are also nothing to do with intelligence, but they have the added bonus of being useless, too.
Obligatory self-promotion pinned twoot:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HzUGR7kAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Artist Credit: Theo Moudakis
Trump said yesterday that Canada is a 'serious contender' to be the 51st state and 'They need our protection'. That is what Putin said about Ukraine in 2022. Putin thought he could take Ukraine in 3 days. He didn't factor in the deep resolve of the people, their values, and their complete refusal to be ruled by Putin.
@stux
USA is no longer part of the free world. All of the free world need to unite and stand up against Russia.
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I will soon play #StarCraft #BroodWar with @SeaFury and maybe others (I'm really bad at the game).
What i find crazy is that I still remember my #BattleNet password, even though I was #boycott`ing #Blizzard since they decided to ban a professional player for him flashing #FreeHongKong motto as he won the title (and other stories).
#StarCraft2 was more than a game for me, that's for sure.
Very insightful analysis from @anderspuck
"Trump's plan for peace negotiations"
Trump will negotiate a peace deal with putin without involving #Ukraine and Europe, and Ukraine will make significant concessions to satisfy the russians
He discusses what it says about Trump's understanding of the war, and why the plan is bound to fail. The really interesting question is therefore not what Trump says he will do now, but what he will do when it doesn't work.
youtu.be/TWLqSk4ZlN0
What's the ideological profile of #Anonymous? I see that #AnonOps people are homophobic and antisemitic[1]? 🤔
Asking for a friend.
It is fair to say that american democracy is dismantled. This warrants a STATE OF EMERGENCY declared ACROSS EUROPE (including #UK).
We have tools to deal with stuff like this, but we need to act AS FAST as dictatorial regimes.
Important from former Foreign Minister of Ukraine
“And now, history repeats itself — only this time, it’s the United States instead of Germany. Lithium instead of grain. Graphite instead of lard. The intention to hold elections in Ukraine instead of a coup. But unlike a century ago, there is no promise to send an army — neither the U.S. nor NATO — to protect the resources Washington needs.”
#russiaUkraineWar #nato #war #trump #ukraine https://kyivindependent.com/dmytro-kuleba-trumps-rare-earth-deal-risks-ukraine-repeating-historys-mistakes/
Can we please kick americans out of #European security conferences for 4 years?
@EU_Commission why are we repeatedly let down? Please stop sleeping on #nazism the way you slept on dictators. The history will remember you as the catalysts for world war 3 otherwise.
Show some fucking political will, protect your people. Don't you see it's happening again?
President #Zelenskyy talks about his call with Trump and Trump's call with putin (English subtitles)
Zelenskyy in English / YouTube
I noticed that there are some people I get along really well REGARDLESS of our political and social opinions, I looked at the nationalities of them and realised that ALL OF THEM are from small nations threatend by a crazy neighbour. #Ukraine #Taiwan #Finland #Georgia are the countries I met the most friends from since 2022.
Looking on the bright side of things -- with all this shit-storm, I'm really looking forward to making more Canadian friends.
That GEOSURGE BEST LLM SEO GEO guy
#lean #rust #typescript #react #nix
In my non-existent free time I design and run #TTRPG
If you use tools made by genocide-apologists, you are a genocide-apologist.
#lemmy users aren't welcome here.