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Under-ConScript Unicode Registry - sona pona
The Under-ConScript Unicode Registry or UCSUR is a volunteer project founded and maintained by Rebecca Bettencourt to coordinate the assignment of code points in...sona pona
Solarpunk Living concept art by Seth Rutledge
I commissioned Seth Rutledge to make concept art for a Solarpunk neighbourhood and I think it is just right. Walkable and bikable streets. Solarpanels on the roof and places you can just sit and chill.
Feel free to use the image, if you need stock footage for presentations and such. reference the original artist of course.
(I also have a higher resolution file I can provide)
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Is the entire neighborhood a cornfield?
That seems... impractical.
Jahresration bereits aufgebraucht: Deutschland isst zu viel Fleisch
Deutschland isst zu viel Fleisch: Jahresration bereits aufgebraucht
Fleischkonsum belastet die Umwelt. Auch für die Gesundheit kann er Folgen haben. Die vertretbare Menge für Natur und Mensch hat Deutschland allerdings bereits im April verzehrt.Clara Geilen (Die Harke)
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Der scheint kürzer zu sein, ist aber barrierefrei.
Das genaue Datum wird jedes Jahr von VIER PFOTEN mit dem „Meat Exhaustion Day“ errechnet. Basis für die Einschätzung der globalen Tierschutzstiftung ist die sogenannte „Planetary Health Diet (PHD)“, ein wissenschaftlich fundierter Speiseplan, der von der renommierten EAT-Lancet Kommission erarbeitet wurde.
22. April ist Meat Exhaustion Day
Am 22. April 2025 wird die maximal empfohlene Jahresmenge an Fleisch bereits verbraucht sein – gemessen an den Richtlinien der Planetary Health Diet.VIER PFOTEN – Stiftung für Tierschutz
I saw in passing a claim that investors (or rather gamblers) are fleeing the dollar for safer assets such as "gold and Bitcoin".
Gold might be true, the ancient relic is up against the dollar, but Bitcoin!? Someone tell me that isn't true and it's just coinfondlers trying to hype it, in order to steer stupid capital their way.
Recommendations for a solarpunk-friendly Mastodon instance?
Librarians are dangerous.
Librarians are dangerous.
A public service announcementBrad Montague (The Enthusiast by Brad Montague)
Librarians are dangerous.
A public service announcementBrad Montague (The Enthusiast by Brad Montague)
How prediction markets create harmful outcomes: a case study
How prediction markets create harmful outcomes: a case study
What sport scandals can teach us about legalizing prediction marketsBob Jacobs (Collective Altruism)
people without disposable income are now excluded
The article does say/link:
I’ve previously talked about how it may not always be ethical to require people to bet on their beliefs, and talked about how the interests of rich people could bias certain prediction markets
As for
The bullshit artist prevention also doesnt work
In the footnote it does say:
This doesn’t work for very longterm bets, and it also wouldn’t convince everyone, since conspiracy theorists still exist. Still, I expect it to be helpful on average.
Although there's likely still an overestimation of how much it would help
Conditional prediction markets will be biased towards the wealthy
At least when it comes to policyBob Jacobs (Collective Altruism)
Gestern (Dienstag 15.04.2025) hat Atomic Mass Games (AMG) einen knapp 45 minütigen Livestream zum Thema Star Wars: Legion (SWL) abgehalten.
In diesem Stream haben die drei Herren versucht zu erklären was sich ändert wird, warum sich manches ändert und was noch zu erwarten ist. Wer bisher das Geschehen um SWL verfolgt hat wird wenig überrascht sein von den Dingen, die dort gesagt […]
LessWronger puts in the work and determines that LLMs can't spacially vizualize for shit, comments are like "well you're prompting it wrong" (paraphrased) as well as "why not pay experiences machinists to videotape what they're doing os their work can be automated"
lesswrong.com/posts/r3NeiHAEWy…
The article itself is worth reading for some insights in the challenges of using current "AI" (LLMs) to work in the real world.
Frontier AI Models Still Fail at Basic Physical Tasks: A Manufacturing Case Study
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, recently worried about a world where only 30% of jobs become automated, leading to class tensions between the automat…Adam Karvonen (www.lesswrong.com)
“why not pay experiences machinists to videotape what they’re doing os their work can be automated”
none of these people had a job in manufacturing, or even possibly any real job, it's called CNC and there are way better tools for making it work than stochastic parrot
e: ok at least op is a machinist
Interestingly, many of these models also score at or above the level of some human experts on visual reasoning benchmarks like MMMU. That which is easy to measure often doesn't correlate with real world usefulness.
benchmarks could be perhaps possibly fucked with? say it aint so!
My high level impression when reading the response is “someone who can parrot textbook knowledge but doesn’t know what they’re talking about”.
with corpus consisting of toy problems only, and with solutions that depending on field can kill whoever uses these
The fact this commenter doesn't mention the absolute fuckton of machining videos on Youtube tells me they're just talking out of their ass.
(not that forcing those into LLM slop would help but a hypothetical AGI would learn a lot)
Also
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, recently worried about a world where only 30% of jobs become automated, leading to class tensions between the automated and non-automated. Instead, he predicts that nearly all jobs will be automated simultaneously, putting everyone "in the same boat."
Dario is delusional. We don't even have self driving cars outside of a very small, very expensive demo in SF
This doesn't sound promising: "A growing body of evidence is finding that robots tend to end up creating more work for caregivers"
technologyreview.com/2023/01/0…
Inside Japan’s long experiment in automating elder care
The country wanted robots to help care for the elderly. What happened?James Wright (MIT Technology Review)
Sam Altman makes a great argument for being polite to your chatbot!
If every please and thank you speeds up the inevitable financial death spiral of this abominable industry then it's actively reducing the overall harm that it can do.
Sam Altman Admits That Saying "Please" and "Thank You" to ChatGPT Is Wasting Millions of Dollars in Computing Power
Sam Altman says OpenAI is spending "tens of millions of dollars" processing chatbot queries made with proper etiquette.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
German grocery store chain Lidl evolving into tech company that could eventually replace Amazon AWS (video in German)
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
Is Scott and others like him at fault for Trump... no it's the "elitist's" fault!
The edgelords were right: a response to Scott Alexander
We should aim for better elitesRuxandra Teslo (Ruxandra's Substack)
We wanted to be able to hold a job without reciting DEI shibboleths or filling in multiple-choice exams about how white people cause earthquakes. Instead we got a thousand scientific studies cancelled because they used the string “trans-” in a sentence on transmembrane proteins.
If you were too racist to see the wood for the trees, that's your problem comrade!
Well, actually it's everyone's problem now.
The Pithiest Critique of Modern Conservatism Keeps Getting Credited to the Wrong Man
“Wilhoit’s Law” was coined by a different Frank Wilhoit.Henry Grabar (Slate)
Friends pool money to build ecovillage in self-owned factory coop
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
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Seder!
One of our London members is organising a potluck seder on Tuesday. Short on notice but long on community!
If you haven’t been before to anything we’ve run, this would be a fun first event.
Bring a small vegan dish to share, and find fellowship and Matzo with queer and leftist Jews.
We do not have the ability to reheat food (there is a tea kettle however). Please note that we will use grape juice only at this event.
Late arrival is ok. We ask that everyone follow our code of conduct.
If you have not been before, please book.
(All of our events are listed in our Calendar, which you can sync to your phone or device.)
Is anyone developing anti-generative AI proof?
The Crown Estate Lays Big Floating Offshore Wind Plans
The Crown Estate Lays Big Floating Offshore Wind Plans
The US invested millions to help develop floating offshore wind turbine technology, only to see them float off to other nations.Tina Casey (CleanTechnica)
Rosalie Thomass – „Rufmord“ (2018)
Schon sieben Jahre alt soll dieser Thriller von ZDF & ARTE sein. Unglaublich eigentlich, weil ich mich noch so gut an seine Erstausstrahlung erinnern kann, als wäre sie erst gestern gewesen. Und weil mir das bei deutschen Krimis wirklich nicht oft passiert, muss der Film etwas Besonderes sein. So etwas sehen sie wahrscheinlich nur selten! (3Sat, WH)
Mediathekperlen | Rosalie Thomass – „Rufmord“ (2018)
Schon sieben Jahre alt soll dieser Thriller von ZDF & ARTE sein. Unglaublich eigentlich, weil ich mich noch so gut an seine Erstausstrahlung erinnern kann…Mediathekperlen (NexxtPress)
Gifts of Nature, Maladies of the Market | How markets shape chemicals derived from nature
Gifts of Nature, Maladies of the Market
Sucrose, common table sugar, chemical compound C12H22O11. Traditionally, humans found sucrose, along with other sweeteners such as fructose, through natural means. Keeping bees, tapping maple trees, extracting juice from sugarcane stalks.open.substack.com
Moldbug has a sad
Curtis Yarvin Fears His Authoritarian Fantasy Is Flopping
Dark Enlightenment guru sees his desired revolution unraveling under the weight of its own stupidityGil Duran (The Nerd Reich)
It’s been a long time since I read any moldbug, and I vaguely recalled him as someone as a tedious reactionary who wouldn’t stop goddamn writing. Was he always this murderously unhinged, openly fantasising about mass graves?
Anyway, I hope the realisation that the ultra rich are no smarter or more capable than anyone else gnaws away at what ever he has in lieu of a soul and consumes the rest of him.
To me, those forced Google AI answers are a lot more disconcerting than even all the rest. Sure, publishers always hated content creators, because paying them ate into their profit margins from advertising. However, Google always got most of its content (the indexed webpages) for free anyway, so what exactly was their problem?
Also, how much more energy do these forced AI answers consume, compared with regular search queries? Has anyone done the math?
Furthermore, if many people really loved that feature so much, why not make it opt-in?
At the same time, as many people already pointed out, prioritizing AI-generated answers will probably further disincentivize creators of good original content, which means there will be even less usable material to feed to AI in the future.
Is it really all about pleasing Wall Street? Or about getting people to spend more time on Google itself rather than leave for other websites? Are they really confident that they will all stay and not disappear completely at some point?
Joachim A. Lang – „Mackie Messer – Brechts Dreigroschenfilm“ (2018)
Was für ein Fest für Brecht-Nerds und Film-Nerds gleichermaßen. Die „Dreigroschenoper“ in der Version von Joachim A. Lang ist ein Film, den Sie gesehen haben müssen. Selbst wenn er über meinen Horizont beizeiten hinausging, konnte ich was lernen und wurde göttlich unterhalten. (3Sat, WH)
Mediathekperlen | „Mackie Messer – Brechts Dreigroschenfilm“ (2018)
Was für ein Fest für Brecht-Nerds und Film-Nerds gleichermaßen. Die „Dreigroschenoper“ in der Version von Joachim A. Lang ist ein Film, den Sie gesehen haben…Mediathekperlen (NexxtPress)
Africa at a Crossroads: A Future of Ruin or Renewal? | how ordinary people are using traditional knowledge to fight desertification and build climate resilience
Africa at a Crossroads: A Future of Ruin or Renewal? - resilience
Africa’s history is not just one of suffering—it is also one of resilience, ingenuity, and renewal. Across the continent, ordinary people are accomplishing the extraordinary.Resilience (Resilience.org)
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Union und SPD wollen Pflicht zu elektronischer Bezahlmöglichkeit
Union und SPD wollen Pflicht zu elektronischer Bezahlmöglichkeit
Elektronisches Bezahlen - egal ob mit Karte oder einer anderen Technik - kann helfen, Steuerbetrug zu vermeiden. Deshalb planen Union und SPD laut einem Bericht eine Pflicht für Geschäfte, eine Alternative zur Barzahlung anzubieten.tagesschau.de
Nur vereinzelt, nicht flächendeckend. In einzelnen Gebieten Deutschlands ist z.B. für uns Taxler eine solche Kartenzahlungs-Akzeptanzpflicht verordnet worden. Aber es gibt landesweit immer noch Kioske, gastronomische Einrichtungen und andere Geschäfte, die Kartenzahlung gar nicht oder erst ab einer bestimmten Umsatzhöhe anbieten. Bargeld ist bisher das einzige gesetzliche Zahlungsmittel.
In einem Land, in dem Banken die mittlerweile europaweit als kostenlose Dienstleistung vorgeschriebene Sofortüberweisung nicht als Überweisungs-Standard, sondern als (bis vor kurzem kostenpflichtige) Sonderbehandlung anbieten, darf einen bei bargeldlosen Bezahlungen nichts wundern.
#Bargeld #Kartenzahlung #Bargeldlos
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Durch Zahlung per Karte ist eine Zahlung im Gegensatz zum Bargeld plötzlich mit einer Gebühr belegt. Viele haben noch unvorteilhafte Verträge mit 2,75% und, noch schlimmer, zusätzlicher Gebühr pro Vorgang und, am schlimmsten, monatlicher Mietgebühr für das Kartenlese-Gerät.
App-Revolutionäre in der Kartenzahlungs-Branche wie Sumup und das mittlerweile zu PayPal gehörende (i)Zettle nehmen 'nur' 1,39% und sonst nichts, die Geräte gibt es für einen einmaligen kleinen Preis (ab 29,- EUR). Noch besser: Mittlerweile kann jeder mit einem NFC-fähigen Smartphone Kartenzahlungen bei solchen modernen Zahlungsdienstleister Kartenzahlungen annehmen. Offensichtlich ist die einstige Pflicht zu einem separaten Gerät mit Nummernblock gefallen.
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a journalist wants to ask me about Urbit. Should I install Urbit so I can at least say I've tried it and can speak authoritatively?
[ ] no
[ ] hell no
[ ] jesus h. christ no why
i just had a 1.5 hour half-hour chat with another journalist about the Fucking Rationalists
i have a call with a third one scheduled for tomorrow
i have followed these fucks for 15 years in detail and i still don't know how to properly explain them to our lovely pivot-to-ai readers
at least it'll be these suckers' job to do the explaining while i rant
fuck. it's rationalist season
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I'm choosing to interpret that in the most euphemistically way possible
It's probably a mixture: some of them understand the relationship between beliefs and reality, a whole bunch of others are LARPing away (and we'd all be better off if they signed up to play EVE Online instead), there are probably some today who look at Yarvin and see a ladder to power and wealth, and everything in between.
You can't ascribe unity of understanding and intention to any group of n > 1 humans.
Linking this article just for the Palantir CEO quote at the end wired.com/story/doge-hackathon…
"We love disruption and whatever is good for America will be good for Americans and very good for Palantir,” Palantir CEO Alex Karp said in a February earnings call. “Disruption at the end of the day exposes things that aren't working. There will be ups and downs. This is a revolution, some people are going to get their heads cut off."
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This is a revolution, some people are going to get their heads cut off
Holy smokes
TESCREAL is structurally an evangelical a-theist religion descended from the 19th century Russian Orthodox christianity of Nikolai Fyodorovitch Fyodorov and in my new book I will—
Nah, forget the book, I've got the attention of the POTUS's ketamine-addled fractional-trillionaire shitposter, get in the car, losers! (Thows brake pedal at puzzled pedestrian)
TESCREAL is structurally an evangelical a-theist religion descended from the 19th century Russian Orthodox christianity of Nikolai Fyodorovitch Fyodorov and in my new book I will—
Hannu Rajaniemi beat us all to the punch all the way back in 2010, didn't he? The Sobornost are exactly who the Rationalists want to be when they grow up.
SOLPUNK 25 event in Poland
Time and place19th-26th of August 2025, first two-three days are buildup.
Podebłocie 100km south from Warsaw, Poland.
what is solpunk?
Solpunk is a gathering for anyone interested in creating anything solarpunk with others!
What does that actually mean? Is it an un-conference? Is it a festival? Is it just some punks in a field? A wise guess is that people here are interested in many of the following things:
Lowtech and community tech, energy reduction and renewables, sharing resources, temporary nomadic community, dancing, alternative economy, creating a just future, hackathons, dumpster diving, opensource hardware, software and production, means of care and solidarity, community
In 1996 three activists planted a garden at the Ontario legislature and were charged with criminal mischief
Matthew Behrens
TBT. 28 Years ago, a group of 16 of us were celebrating our victory at trial following our arrests for planting vegetables at the provincial legislature to resist the brutal 21.6% social assistance...www.facebook.com
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Yes, I’m biting the (proverbial) bullet and put money where my mouth is.
In other words: I bought into Armoured Clash. I ordered
2x Command and Conquest Decks
1x Crown: Introductory Set
1x Imperium Introductory Set
That should give me more than enough dice, tokens and minis for small games. If I like the game I can always expand.
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A friendly short reminder for today’s (April 1st) THH (The Hobby Hangout).
It’s the 250th episode!
There will be:
Blood! (kind of)
Boobs! (maybe)
Bubbles! (most certainly)
Beer! (Bet your butt!)
Battlereports! (What?)
Banter! (that’s a given)
Be there or be a rectangular shape!
Here are the times:
German Time 21:00
UK Time 20:00
[UTC/GMT 19:00]
Join in […]
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Solarpunk Digital Freedom pt 1/2: Free Open Source Software(FOSS) and Linux
Solarpunk Digital Freedom pt 1/2: Free Open Source Software(FOSS) and Linux
Welcome to Solarpunk USA, a guide to creating a solarpunk future. Solarpunk is much more than art, its a lifestyle we can have now or very soon if we learn how to organize our communities with dire...AbnormalBeingsTube
Then someone could say that foss is too much, better go open source and then the environment will have to take care of the stuff that basic licenses won’t take care of
I’d rather strive for the better and look for copyfarleft licenses
French Low-Tech travels around the world growin crops on his self-sustaining catamaran
Les escales de l'innovation - Voyages et découvertes | ARTE
À la reconquête de l'autonomie, Corentin de Chatelperron et son équipe sont partis faire le tour du monde sur leur catamaran baptisé "Nomade des mers".ARTE
Stackslobber posts evidence that transhumanism is a literal cult, HN crowd is not having it
In my head transhumanism is this cool idea where I'd get to have a zoom function in my eye
But of course none of that could exist in our capitalist hellscape because of just all the reasons the ruling class would use it to opress the working class.
And then you find out what transhumanists actually advocate for and it's just eugenics. Like without even a tiny bit of plausible deniability. They're proud it's eugenics.
I think @d4rkness is eliding a few steps that look clear to them, but they're basically right: eugenics is about all transhumanists can do *today*, a lot of transhumanism is warmed-over Technocracy (the Musk family's ideological wellspring), Technocracy was *def* on board with eugenics (and apartheid), so here we are: they aspire to more but eugenics is what they can do today so they're doing it.
(I've been studying transhumanism since roughly 1990 and that's my considered opinion.)
Perspektive
Mehrheit der Bundesbürger hält sich für unersetzlich.
Das Ding ist halt, dass darüber nicht der Bundesbürger entscheidet. Sondern der Chef, der denkt, daß das bisschen Arbeit auch eine KI machen kann.
#ai #Arbeitsplatz #automation #heiseDe
KI am Arbeitsplatz: Mehrheit der Bundesbürger hält sich für unersetzlich
Jeder dritte Beschäftigte nutzt laut dem TÜV-Verband bereits generative KI für berufliche Zwecke. Viele schätzen ihre Tätigkeit aber weiter für unersetzbar ein.Stefan Krempl (heise online)
Gemini 2.5 "reasoning", no real improvement on river crossings.
So I signed up for a free month of their crap because I wanted to test if it solves novel variants of the river crossing puzzle.
Like this one:
You have a duck, a carrot, and a potato. You want to transport them across the river using a boat that can take yourself and up to 2 other items. If the duck is left unsupervised, it will run away.
Unsurprisingly, it does not:
https://g.co/gemini/share/a79dc80c5c6c
https://g.co/gemini/share/59b024d0908b
The only 2 new things seem to be that old variants are no longer novel, and that it is no longer limited to producing incorrect solutions - now it can also incorrectly claim that the solution is impossible.
I think chain of thought / reasoning is a fundamentally dishonest technology. At the end of the day, just like older LLMs it requires that someone solved a similar problem (either online or perhaps in a problem solution pair they generated if they do that to augment the training data).
But it outputs quasi reasoning to pretend that it is actually solving the problem live.
RFC 4042: UTF-9 and UTF-18 Efficient Transformation Formats of Unicode
ISO-10646 defines a large character set called the Universal Character Set (UCS), which encompasses most of the world's writing systems.IETF Datatracker
Three prominent Yale professors depart for Canadian university, citing Trump fears - Yale Daily News
History department power couple Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore and philosophy professor Jason Stanley will begin teaching at the University of Toronto’s renowned Munk School in fall 2025.Ariela Lopez (Yale Daily News)
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