Halcyon @ Halcyon @discuss.tchncs.de

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Ugh, sponsored of course by Peter Thiel, the fascist transhumanist.

If we stack five whales end-to-end, we'd get a 125-meter-long "whale train," long enough to confuse any passing ship captain into thinking they've discovered a new mode of ocean transportation.

If anyone doesn’t know it yet:

The podcast Tech Won't Save Us has a wonderful series called "Elon Musk Unmasked" where they also debunked all of his empty promises.

https://techwontsave.us/elon-musk-unmasked

Also nice: Flensburger Frei.

This is well-known and even written on the labels. There are special 0,0% beer products that guarantee to be absolutely free.

As a dry alcoholic you normally know such things.

I imagine black funeral doom to this.

Yep, it's similar to Astrology where certain psychological characteristics are attributed to the signs of the zodiac.

You could just as well replace these names of the generations with the astrological signs of the zodiac, that would be just as meaningful. It's bullshit.

International travel health insurance is not that expensive in Europe. In Germany you can get it for the equivalent of around $15-20 a year. Then you are fully insured for a travel period of 8 weeks per year. Insurances like that also exist in Belgium.

The immense computing power for AI is needed for training LLMs, it's far less for running a pre-trained model on a local machine.

From Crowdstrike's Terms of Use:

"THE OFFERINGS AND CROWDSTRIKE TOOLS ARE NOT FAULT-TOLERANT AND ARE NOT DESIGNED OR INTENDED FOR USE IN ANY HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT REQUIRING FAIL-SAFE PERFORMANCE OR OPERATION. NEITHER THE OFFERINGS NOR CROWDSTRIKE TOOLS ARE FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION, NUCLEAR FACILITIES, COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, WEAPONS SYSTEMS, DIRECT OR INDIRECT LIFE-SUPPORT SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, OR ANY APPLICATION OR INSTALLATION WHERE FAILURE COULD RESULT IN DEATH, SEVERE PHYSICAL INJURY, OR PROPERTY DAMAGE. Customer agrees that it is Customer’s responsibility to ensure safe use of an Offering and the CrowdStrike Tools in such applications and installations."

https://www.crowdstrike.com/terms-conditions/

The Homer

I really had difficulty to decide which picture I was going to upload here, I got many different results that were great. Here some others:

It's hidden in the sense that the normal user does not see the true cost on their energy bill. You perform a search and get the result in milliseconds. That makes it easy to get the false impression that it's just a minor operation. It's not like driving a car and watching the the fuel gauge and see the consumption.

Of course one can research how much energy Google consumes and find out the background – IF you're interested. But most people just use tech and do not question or even understand.

AI-generated images and videos will become so flawless that they will no longer be easily distinguishable. We cannot build up media competence in the general public as quickly as is required.

Public transport in Japan really is such a delightful experience. Also the organization and the habit of the people using it. It just works. And is cheap.

Deluxe Paint on the Amiga

Raijin's Wrath

Prompt: Pikachu in the style of a Black Metal cover artwork, looking very angry and evil, screaming, with sharp teeth, wrinkled skin, corpse paint and a double viking axe guitar. There's a cryptic thorny black metal band logo above its head. In the background there's a Transylvanian medieval castle, dead trees, a crescent moon and some crows. The whole picture is in greyscales only.

Oh, that's right, that Boss looks similar. I didn't know that game.

I played Ninja Mission on the Amiga back then: