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I won the lottery! A few weeks ago I bought my first scratch off ticket in years and won zero. Then this week I bought another scratch off ticket and won $4. That means I'm up $2. I'm considering reinvesting my winnings in 4 $1 tickets. Or I could bask in entertainment value I've already received and spend my winnings on something foolish, like a taco from an unfamiliar taco truck.
It's also an occasional source of amusement. I feel like I've received at least $2 worth of fun from the purchases. Sometimes I'll give them to folks as part of a present, strictly for entertainment.
Buying more than a few per year is dumb. That's not entertainment, that's gambling.
Given that the average healthy body temperature is ~98.6โฐ F, and humidity on the Gulf Coast tends to be so high you gotta drink the air, I prefer temperatures 85โฐ or lower.
With high temperatures and high humidity, sweat can't even evaporate, forcing your internal body temperature into unhealthy feverish levels. I'm not a fan of heat exhaustion or heat stroke.
I'm also not a fan of freezing temperatures either, but at least people can dress in layers to keep warm when it's cold.
My knee-jerk reaction to this article from @adamshostack was a cynical [citation needed] re โartists from all mediums emphatically support the use of AI.โ
On further reflectionโฆwell, thatโs still my response to the eyeball-grabbing lede, yes, but the actual article is what I wish weโd had instead of this inane hype avalanche:
Artists poking at the new thing, playing with it, finding its possibilities, critiquing it, problematizing it, asking us to ask what it is, helping us see it with fresh eyes from many angles. infosec.exchange/@adamshostackโฆ
Well, this is one way to introduce a topic:
> Artists from all mediums emphatically support the use of AI, saying it augments and enhances their work, expanding what is possible.
The arts and education โ when they are at their best, anyway โ have in common this deep root: they ask us to see and to think and to feel, to see with fresh eyes, to be aware of our own seeing, to be โขactiveโข in our seeing.
In that way, both the arts and education are antidotes to the AI hype cycle, and similar endeavors of capitalism run amok.
Iโm fond of quipping that arts education is โขtheโข foundational form of education, and that education in any field should never stray too far from being arts education.
Itโs little wonder that the forces that push investment bubbles and wealth concentration are so hostile to both the arts and education. And we need to recognize that hostility, which is so often cloaked as support:
Commoditization disguised as democratization is a form of hostility.
The AI venders saying โNow anyone can make music!!โ slip quickly into โNobody wanted to work at making music,โ then โMusic is best manufactured and sold by the yard,โ then โMusic is essentially worthless.โ
But hereโs the thing: anyone could make music โขbeforeโข gen AI. Some more skilled or more artistically successful than others, sure! But thatโs not the point. โขDoing itโข is the point. โขLiving itโข is the point.
A product that promises to generate it for you so that you neither do it nor live it is antithetical to the point, is hostile to the idea of art itself.
(Note: thatโs exactly what the artists in the OP are โขnotโข doing! They are all grabbing the AI and actively โขdoingโข and โขlivingโข while poking at the curious new object.)
Similarly, hostility to education cloaks itself as support by saying that education should be useful, should be practical, should be focused only on what students need, should be narrowed to what students need, should narrow students, should narrow students into being only what capitalism needs.
I wrote extensively about this dangerous line of thought here:
โOur care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.โ
โWe cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.โ
"Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point.
i don't think i disagree with any of your "actual" points, but i kinda don't like the specific phrasing of "anyone could make music <or other art form>"
i've recently been doing some more-serious self-experiments and found that I *definitely* (neurologically?) cannot hear what other people seem to hear in music (amusia is a thing, apparently). everyone around me nowadays also suspects i have awful undiagnosed dyspraxia which made me *hate* "doing art" as a child
this particular line is very excellently said, thank you
i've been confronting the implications of this in relation to my memories of growing up in the hype of how "the coming new digital millennium will democratize access to everything", versus the current state of the world in the present day
As relentless bombardment and mass killings continue in Gaza, with entire neighbourhoods wiped out and children buried under rubble, the corporate media and political establishment have once again shown where their true priorities lie: policing languโฆ
More Americans are biting their tongues, not because they donโt care, but because theyโre afraid to speak.
From DEI to the war in Gaza, people are more afraid to speak their minds now than during the Red Scare, according to a political scientist who has been conducting surveys.
This โspiral of silenceโ is real. Itโs stifling democratic debate and amplifying the loudest, most aggressive voices.
The Metropolitan Police have confirmed that no further action will be taken against Mo Chara, a member of the Irish rap group Kneecap, following the recent terror charge brought against him in May.
B. Franklin used to write under other names, but I always assumed it was just to fill up space and generate interest in his newspaper. In retrospect, he DID write some controversial things. Perhaps the same technique to avoid getting cancelled?
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Russia's terror attacks against Ukraine have significantly increased the last 3 months and reached another height. 477 drones, 46 cruise missiles and 14 ballistic missiles were used only last night. The targets of this terror attack were all far from the frontlines.
Putin is clearly feeling emboldened by the indecisiveness of the West, especially by this US administration, but also by European timidness. It proves once more that appeasement only emboldens Russian aggression and causes more war.
Only total Russian defeat will bring peace and this starts by transferring all Russian money in the West to Ukraine, so that all kinds of weapons can be bought.
Yes, there is a European Tram Driver Championships. Yes, it is amazing. Massive thanks to @tram-em1847 and @VGFChannel for not only letting a cheeky YouTuber...
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>GC_HPWR >instead of shoving 600W into your gpu through a single wire you're gonna shove 1000W into your motherboard (plus whatever your cpu will draw) through 1x12vhpwr (read: a single wire) and 3xpcie connectors yes you need to buy a new motherboard yes you need to buy a new gpu yes if anything goes wrong anything attached to your motherboard will be fried instead of just your gpu and psu yes ANUS is behind this yes jewidia will just buy/license it, build it to a cost and make it a standard yes both motherboard and gpu prices will increase
@Gerhard Hallstein Du kannst #Hashtags folgen, indem Du die Suche nach einem solchen speicherst. Das nutze ich als Schleppnetz: Selbst wenn eine Hashtagsuche nichts erbringt, folge ich dem Hashtag. Sobald jemand einen Post damit taggt, hab ich ihn. So finde ich unter Umstรคnden fรผr unterreprรคsentierte Themen neue Accounts zum Folgen. Ich habe hier z.B. nur wenig Nachrichten zu Indigenen. Oder Achtung Reizthema, orthodoxe Juden die Israel als Staat ablehnen.
China is the Schrodinger's communist. When you're bashing them It's the Chinese Communist Party. When someone says "they've had a growth rate far better than ours for decades" "ThEy'rE CapItaLiSt"
I didnโt make the original song โ all credit goes to Duran Duran.This is just a fan cover for fun.If you see this track on Spotify or SoundCloud โ thatโs not...
If you're the kind of person who follows me, you may know about the Kessler Syndrome.
That's when collisions between satellites and space junk create enough debris to cause *more* collisions, leading to a runaway chain reaction. This could render certain regions of near-Earth space unusable!
It's one of nature's ways of containing stupid civilizations, sort of like how inflammation contains infections. So don't be surprised:
A new study by Lewis and Kessler argues that we've hit the "runaway threshold" - the point where a chain reaction is expected - at nearly all altitudes between 520 and 1000 kilometers.
Below that, or above that, space could remain usable. So we could still get out and ruin other layers of space - or go to other planets and mess up those. Luckily, planned deployments of large satellite constellations like Starlink, Amazon's Project Kuiper, etc. will reduce the risk of such a breakout.
Yes, I'm joking - we can differ on whether the expansion of stupidity into the cosmos would be a good or bad thing compared to a mostly dead cosmos, and I don't really have an opinion on that. But the study is for real, and worth checking out:
โข Hugh G. Lewis and Donald J. Kessler, Critical number of spacecraft in low Earth orbit: a new assessment of the stability of the orbital debris environment, conference.sdo.esoc.esa.int/prโฆ
In case you're curious: Lewis and Kessler say that if the population of objects in some zone exceeds the "unstable threshold", collisions will drive it up to some higher value, but that higher value could be stable. If it exceeds the "runaway threshold", it will keep growing indefinitely.
This is obviously based on some sort of simplification, since the paper says "if the number of intact objects exceeds the runaway threshold, the fragment population will run away over an infinite amount of time to an infinite number of fragments."
You can have larger and larger numbers of smaller and smaller fragments, but the model must not bother figuring out what happens when the fragments become molecule-sized. That's okay.
When WW3 kicks off, what are the chances that some country triggers the bombs that are already on one of their satellites (or just collides two of them) to purposely fling shrapnel through the orbits of enemy satellites? Wrecking satellite communications and maybe some launches for decades.
I am extremely concerned for several reasons, but I donโt want to bang on; - an order of magnitude increases in sat numbers is going to go wrong - Starlink already have to actively trim orbits several times a day to avoid collisions - thereโs no way to fix this, nor is there any control on sat design - thatโs far, far too much aluminium in the upper atmosphere.
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And as a making-of, all the 482 frames with a smol processing but before registration (alignment). The drift and jumps are caused by the motorized mount which is not perfectly following the target.
"A new study by Lewis and Kessler argues that we've hit the "runaway threshold" - the point where a chain reaction is expected - at nearly all altitudes between 520 and 1000 kilometers."
Lo siento, pero me pongo un poco pesao porque en mi entorno han pasado cosasโข y os quiero bien:
BEBED AGUA, OSTIA.
Estamos con olas de calor de narices y lo sabรฉis, asรญ que toca hidratarse aunque estemos en casa con el ventilador y nos encontremos bien. Aunque mayormente estemos en un sitio con Aire Acondicionado...
Si toca engaรฑaros porque el agua no es para vosotros os dejo un par de trucos tontos:
- No tiene pq ser agua, pero tiene que tener mucha agua. Haceos infusiones frรญas, usad saborizantes (la marca Bolero no estรก mal). Cuando haga mucho muchรญsimo calor no tirรฉis de refrescos, que el azucar al final da sed.
- Si vivรญs en un sitio donde el agua del grifo es potable, pero sabe un poco a cloro/fluor llenad una botella grande y dejadla sin tapar una noche. Le cambia el sabor e igual es mรกs tolerable.
- Si sois como yo que llevรกis botella a todos lados, rellenadla a la mรญnima. Aunque luego estรฉ calentorra como para echarle un puรฑao de arroz es mejor tenerla a no tener nada...
- Los hielos de hieleras alargadas sirven muy bien para luego echar un turulillo helado a la botella y que haga su magia de hielo.
-Motivaos con lo que haga falta, compraos una botella chula para el agua (metรกlica para poder fregarla bien a ser posible). Poned pegatinas o pintadla. Yo soy muy fan de esta que pongo abajo.
Y a la mรญnima que os sintรกis pochos (nauseas, mareos, dolor de cabeza...) buscaos una sombra y bebed poco a poco.
Y no salgรกis a dar un paseo a las 5 de la tarde, eso es tentar a la suerte...
Iโve never understood the debate about whether or not support for Israel is commanded in the Bible. If you think the Bible commands you to support whatโs being done in Gaza, then throw your Bible in the trash and get a different religion, because itโs plainly false and immoral.
It is not legitimate to offload your responsibility for your own behavior onto your religion. If your religion commanded you to sexually molest children, it would be your moral responsibility as a human being to disobey your religion and stop following it. Gazaโs no different.
This past weekend, the REV17 Anti-Child Trafficking Conference was truly remarkable. Some of the most inspiring individuals gathered to share their stories of resilience and contribute to the fight ag
Our yacy search engine is back online and fully operational. And it is now upgraded to the most recent release. Upgrading provided a substantial improvement in crawl rate but at the expense of higher memory consumption. All in all though the performance increase was worthwhile.
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โI want a father, I canโt live without him.โ Her words ki,lled me while she was talking about her father, who was ki,lled by Isr,ael. Najwa, the orphan, cried, so I cried and everyone cried. #Gaza #Help #Support #Peace
Jamie: You do such a GREAT job! So tough, so insightful, and so incredible! I watch you all the time, and you just never miss. Jamie, as President, I just wanted to tell you this, and THANK YOU for the incredible work you are doing! DJT DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Numerous people have come forward wanting to run in the Primary against โSenator Thomโ Tillis. I will be meeting with them over the coming weeks, looking for someone who will properly represent the Great People of North Carolina and, so importantly, the United States of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Republicans must remember that they are fighting against a very evil, corrupt and, in many ways, incompetent (Policywise!) group of people, who would rather see our Country โgo down in flamesโ than do the right thing and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! The Democrats would LOVE to see the Biggest Tax Hike in History (68%!), No Border Spending (Open Borders!), and a weak, underfunded Military, so we wouldnโt be able to do things like we did just one week ago in Iran. We gave the Dems a Debt Extension because it was the right thing to do, but they wonโt do it for us. The one thing they do have is an ability to stick together, and vote as one group (They donโt have GRANDSTANDERS!). They also have House and Senate Rules that give Great Power to their Leaders - Committee Chairmanships, etc. Republicans donโt have that, have never been able to get it, BUT THEY SHOULD! What we do have is wonderful people and phenomenal Policy, and that should win Elections every single time!
Much of my family left Turkey after my great-grandfather was murdered in the Armenian Genocide. Turkey, Israel, and many other countries still deny this genocide occurred. Itโs a denial that enables genocides like that in Gaza to take place today.
@lain he didn't have the gravitas for a main belt run, always smirking and laughing and demeaning his position, he's a chickenshit heel midcarder at best
well you live in france so obviously you think it's a good idea to flood a western country with 3rd world migrants. opinion discarded. ... oh you're talking about bush not trump never mind
"I am not obsessed with Israel nor - to be sure - am I obsessed with Jewish people. I would be happy to never mention Israel again if only they would stop killing children (I am a father) and stop blackmailing our politicians into supporting them.
the boys at GTW are probably as shocked as the people who have supported the Ron Paul political movement to learn that NA is Zionist and now bashing Their midlife base and everything we believe in. I especially love the lack of coverage on Epstein and Massie and all the taxpayers money involved in lobbying our congress critters and senators. Could be the ultimate exit strategy or maybe the keeper is really a handler after all just like Bidens sons lovers
@DameAtomicGinger I just don't see that they are zionists. I'd love to hear why you think they are. I'm not here to defend them, I am genuinely curios why you think they are.
They pretty much just talk about what is in the media, so of the media isn't covering Epstein, they can't cover it either.
Fight under the onslaught of mutated monsters, obsessed soldiers and even darker bosses. Just try to survive and find out what to do next in this life, simultaneously tearing your enemies to pieces.
The Earth is boiling The World is bleeding because of clowns who put money over Life
"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember, all I'm offering is the truth - nothing more."
Last Chance!
![From the Guardian article called As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel.
The exception writes "An army propaganda leaflet issued in June 1941 paints a similarly nightmarish picture of Red Army political officers, which many soldiers soon perceived as a reflection of reality:
Anyone who has ever looked at the face of a Red commissar knows what the Bolsheviks are like. Here there is no need for theoretical expressions. We would insult the animals if we described these mostly Jewish men as beasts. They are the embodiment of the satanic and insane hatred against the whole of noble humanity โฆ [They] would have brought an end to all meaningful life, had this eruption not been dammed at the last moment."](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7830147 "From the Guardian article called As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel.
The exception writes \"An army propaganda leaflet issued in June 1941 paints a similarly nightmarish picture of Red Army political officers, which many soldiers soon perceived as a reflection of reality:
Anyone who has ever looked at the face of a Red commissar knows what the Bolsheviks are like. Here there is no need for theoretical expressions. We would insult the animals if we described these mostly Jewish men as beasts. They are the embodiment of the satanic and insane hatred against the whole of noble humanity โฆ [They] would have brought an end to all meaningful life, had this eruption not been dammed at the last moment.\"")
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It's a poor and stupid tax.
It's also an occasional source of amusement. I feel like I've received at least $2 worth of fun from the purchases. Sometimes I'll give them to folks as part of a present, strictly for entertainment.
Buying more than a few per year is dumb. That's not entertainment, that's gambling.