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the search giant manipulates ad prices, and now it’s clear that Google treats consumers with the same disdain. The “10 blue links,” or organic results, which Google has always claimed to be sacrosanct, are just another vector for Google greediness

wired.com/story/google-antitru

Model collapse occurs when new generative models train on AI-generated content and gradually degenerate as a result. In this scenario, models start to forget the true underlying data distribution, even if the distribution does not change.

blog.irvingwb.com/blog/2023/09

and our currency -
is an iou -
of-for-by -
us to you -
to help us all -
create value for -
us all -

Because -
where you have trust -
you have credit -
trustworthiness is
creditworthy -

It's like -
we construct -
society -
believing nothing -
is trustworthy -
and to make things work -
we must believe -
that we can trust -
things will work -
and -
we could actualize -
a society trustworthy enough -
fore -
life flourishes -
when things are trustworthy -

the innovations that allowed our species to survive and flourish were not spear, wheel or internet,
but midwifery and gynaecology, wet nursing and
prenatal care. Without super-social cooperation, we’d have disappeared

theguardian.com/books/2023/sep

a solar desalinator with high water output, via a multi-stage system of evaporators and condensers. It offers cost-effective solar desalination, making solar-produced drinking water cheaper than tap water for the first time.

pv-magazine.com/2023/10/02/mit

mhm -
twitter transforming -
a haunted cloud -
of specters -
of echoes distance -
of brownshirts -
the hoofs of musk-fox herds -

In society after society, across human history, poetry rises up in times of crisis, when official language is failing us and we must reach anew to give voice to what is deepest and truest about ourselves and the world.

onbeing.org/blog/three-calling

and i'm just here -
letting my attention -
be soothed -
absorbed -
filled -
and where -
did the time -
go when -
i blinked -

Scientists in China have synthesized spider silk from genetically modified silkworms, producing fibers six times tougher than the Kevlar used in bulletproof vests.

phys.org/news/2023-09-spider-s

and eye want -
to return to -
eye want to garden -
my attentions -
towards some cultivated -
reliable attractors-of-reasoning -
for the pheromone-cloud -
in-citing collective-intelligence -

as if eye -
can imagine -
being able to know -
what really going on -

FOX News -
because inquiring -
minds want to know -
oops -
wrong line -
and old news -

ponder -
their trustworthiness -
working for 45-et-al -
after all -
a hive of calculators -
for ends -
and their means -
even with mall-lined ideals -
a-vailing of rages -
fore-certain -
clarities -
and shaping of -
histories -

this lovely -
i walked with today -
radiant in-being -
and in an easy -
comfort-with -
feeling ourselves -

and she still -
fills me -
awakening my sensing -
a knowing-of -
immense -
good fortune -
o lucky i-am -

hangovers -
random-sychronicities -
binding -
plause-ables -
in-science-ing-lifeworlds -
mythos -
of moral-whirls of -
guilts-over -
all narrative is about -
guilts -
moral-standings -
in which we re-cognize -
the social -
morals-in-of-by-morals -
morels-off-morals -

mhm - will the government shut down being championed by - shut down the justice system bringing the to justice?

developing what it believes will be the first Large Behavior Model, or LBM – a framework that'll eventually expand to become something like the embodied robot equivalent of ChatGPT

whatever can be automated - will be

newatlas.com/robotics/toyota-l

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john verdon

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