"We Be The Humans"
Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"
Joined Aug 2018
My Jam Today
Otro Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps
by Juan Pablo Balcazar
Juan Pablo Balcazar – Bass
Marcel·li Bayer – Sax
Dani Comas – Guitar
Oriol Roca – Drums
https://underpool.bandcamp.com/album/otro-quatuor-pour-la-fin-du-temps
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@Museek! 🥳
Happy birthday to a human who does so much for her communities, and who navigates hurdles that would *not* exist in a more just world. 💛🫂 May you feel surrounded today by love, family, and hope, and may the year ahead present more triumphs than setbacks - for you, and for all the people that your advocacy so powerfully supports.
Fuck You Nvidia
Yeah, right. “Nvidia announced a collaboration with Hippocratic AI on Monday, a healthcare company that offers generative AI nurses who work for just $9 an hour. Hippocratic promotes how it can undercut real human nurses, who can cost $90 an hour, with its cheap AI agents that offer medical advice to patients over video calls in real-time.”
https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-wants-replace-nurses-with-ai-1851347917
2024 AI Elections Tracker
“As more than 2 billion people in 50 countries head to the polls this year, artificial intelligence-generated content is now widely being used to spread misinformation, as well as to confuse and entertain voters. Throughout 2024, Rest of World is tracking the most noteworthy incidents of AI-generated election content globally.”
A Thousand Suns
An Original Science Fiction Anthology Series
It’s the future. How far? Far enough that our modern society is little more than a ghost haunting humanity. Far enough that we’ve spread far beyond Earth, off onto many worlds.
Episodes 1-6 available now.
This is the AI Grey Goo scenario: an internet choked with low-quality content, which never improves, where it is almost impossible to locate public reliable sources for information because the tools we have been able to rely on in the past, can never keep up with the scale of new content being created. Where the volume of content created overwhelms human or algorithmic abilities to sift through it quickly and find high-quality stuff.
By Ian Betteridge
https://ianbetteridge.com/2024/01/24/the-information-grey-goo
Why the world cannot afford the rich.
Equality is essential for sustainability. The science is clear — people in more-equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than are those in unequal, consumer-driven ones.
By Richard G. Wilkinson & Kate E. Pickett
On a personal note: I agree with the following.
If anything – I’m in the “No Miracles Needed” camp – by which I refer to Mark Jacobson’s exhaustive book proposing we have everything we need in solar, wind and storage technology to get us through the great filter.
But I am NOT a technoptipist, In the common usage of that term. I am in the "Re-distribute" the current miracles camp.
I have been reading a lot of Ivan Illich
https://bookshop.org/p/books/tools-for-conviviality-ivan-illich/17686474
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🤔Random thoughts inspired by #coso
Religion, race, sexuality, political party, weight, financial status, social standing, family born to, likes and dislikes, health status & more, do not define me; they are just descriptions.
What I feel truly defines me is how I think and act towards fellow humans, animals, &, all things living on a daily basis. What I can bring into the world from my soul is what defines me. I further my definition by seeing the world respecfully through another's eyes
(Many links in this)
"The root of my ill-ease with the term 'DeGrowth' is “who does it hurt”.
"We have gone beyond the end of capitalism into techno-feudalism and the beginning era of the Klepts – and are very much in the foothills of The Jackpot.
Actually I’d plump for semi-automated convivial social democracy."
Matt Jones
The aid bills are great.
Yet the one piece that will most piss off Putin is...
The House passed a foreign aid package on Saturday as well as what's called the REPO Act that will allow the Biden administration to confiscate billions of dollars’ worth of Russian assets sitting in U.S. banks and transfer them to Ukraine for reconstruction.
#MakingMusic
On Linux
Ubuntu Studio remains the quickest one-shot way to get at Linux and free software for music, sound, video, media, and 3D. And they deserve some extra love now, especially since Apple Silicon has slightly deflated desktop Linux attention. Here’s a look at the long-term support version that just hit beta, due later this month.
https://cdm.link/2024/04/ubuntu-studio-in-new-lts-beta-still-the-easiest-creative-linux-distro/
Abstrakt
LBT
Leo Betzl –Piano
Maximilian Hirning -Bass
Sebastian Wolfgruber –Drums
(2023)
The military is very likely to have done preparatory planning and may have stocks of the most urgently required military aid already in Europe. This will speed up delivery to Ukraine once the legislation is signed by the President.
Pentagon spokesman General Ryder has recently noted that “We have a very robust logistics network that enables us to move matériel very quickly as we’ve done in the past. We can move within days.”
https://mickryan.substack.com/p/the-ukraine-aid-bill-passes-in-the
Electronic
Tone Science Module No.9 Theories and Conjectures (DiN:TS09)
by Various
https://dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tone-science-module-no-9-theories-and-conjectures-din-ts09
Just got off the phone with a young gal I know. We met in a NA meting, she is clean about two years, but very unhappy. She enrolled in a community college, and is flunking out because she is bored, and sees no hope of getting a good paying job out of it.
We talked about building trades apprenticeships, and so she did some research. Turns out all the the local building trade unions are hard up for apprentices. She now is very excited about her future.
Consider apprenticeship !
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What does an earthquake sound like? + FREE Sample Library
"We Be The Humans"
Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"
Joined Aug 2018