Engineers discover new class of materials that passively harvest water from air
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A serendipitous observation in a Chemical Engineering lab at Penn Engineering has led to a surprising discovery: a new class of nanostructured materials that can … Read More ›Melissa Pappas (Penn Engineering)
The tide is high
But I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
I'm not the kinda girl
Who gives up just like that Oh no
It's not the things you do
That tease and hurt me bad
But it's the way you do the things
You do to me
I'm not the kinda girl
Who gives up just like that
Oh no
The tide is high
But I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your #1
The tide is high
But I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your #1
Every girl wants
You to be her man
But I'll wait right here
'Til it's my turn
I'm not the kinda girl
Who gives up just like that
Oh no
The tide is high
But I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your #1
The tide is high
But I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your #1
Everytime that I get
the feeling
You give me something
to believe in
Everytime that I got
you near me
I know the way that
I want it to be
But you know that
I'm gonna take
my chance now
I'm gonna make
it happen somehow
And you know I can
take the pressure
A moment's pain for
a lifetime pleasure
Every girl wants you to be her man
But I'll wait right here
'Til it's my turn
I'm not the kinda girl
Who gives up just like that
Oh no
The tide is high
But I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your #1
The tide is high
But I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your #1
Everytime that I get
the feeling
You give me something
to believe in
Everytime that I got
you near me
I know the way that
I want it to be
But you know that
I'm gonna take
my chance now
I'm gonna make
it happen somehow
And you know I can
take the pressure
A moment's pain for
a lifetime pleasure
Music video by Atomic Kitten performing The Tide Is High (Get The Feeling).
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Why do many people dislike Linux?
Freedom and openness:
Open source, No vendor lock-in, Many distributions
Security:
By default, more secure than Windows.
Fewer viruses.
Regular security updates.
And now briefly.
Control & Flexibility,Free, Developer Friendly, Productivity, Education & Understanding, Support & Community, Support & Community, Package Managers, Server & Cloud Friendly
Oh yeah, I forgot about our gamers! They will whine that you can't play games on Linux. It's very funny because for a long time there has been a program called lux-wine that allows you to open 95% of .exe programs and even more so you can choose any version of Windows without downloading anything, there is like proton and so on.
I am ready to talk to anyone about this topic, but not for the purpose of humiliation or insult.
What's Linux? Why are you making a strawman to found yoer disagreement, there is no inherent value to what you believe to be obvious.
"Linux the kernel" is a wonder of the software world. One free and open source kernel codebase to rule them all, a culture, a license that enshrines that culture. The kernel is great as it is.
"Linux the kernel packaged with software used on the desktop" is flaming garbage. That's not to say it's worse, modern windows is like using the lava from Chernobyl to keep warm on a brisk evening. MacOS is relatively acceptable but Apple isn't. Open source BSD based OSes are cumbersome on the edges of general computing. Android is all but Google OS at this point. Ultimately no practical, actually useful alternatives to linux on the desktop actually exist. This does NOT mean we have to convince ourselves it is actually good.
"Linux the kernel and a server OS package" is great, can't go wrong with this. Love it, genuinely.
"Linux for embedded devices" is a fucking travesty. Still happens.
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News -Yemen: The Political Bureau of Ansarullah stated that the victory of the Lebanese Islamic Resistance on May 25, 2000, represented a strategic turning point in the Arab and Islamic struggle against the Zionist enemy.english.masirahtv.net
How much of Codeberg's logged-in users are connecting via #IPv6, in percent?
Send your guess as a comment and optionally include a link to your favourite project on Codeberg.
First closest guess will get boosted.
[boosts needed] Donations have slowed to a trickle and the people of Gaza need us now more than ever! Your $5 is so meaningful.
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter.Chuffed
Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi reiterated Tehran’s firm stance on uranium enrichment, emphasizing the Parliament’s unwavering commitment to safeguarding the rights of the Iranian people.Iran Press
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To me, the saddest thing about LLM powered genAI is that the technology is actually really cool but thanks to capitalism and greed, it's been built out in the worst possible way.
Trained on stolen, unattributed information of all kinds.
Tweaked and tuned by hand by an army of clandestine underpaid overseas labor.
Stealing power and water from mostly working class folks.
Slapped on anything and everything whether we want it or not tasked with replacing services that actually work with something that fundamentally cannot match their performance.
Like, the ability to understand natural language regardless of how it's written is super cool. The ability to take mountains of input and turn it into a model that can create output that looks like the correct answer in a way a person would create it is pretty neat.
It's not necessarily accurate but in the right situation, and with qualified people, that can be accounted for.
It never should have been unleashed on the public as a generic chatbot.
That's the worst, most wasteful use for it.
They don't understand that it isn't thinking. They don't understand how bad it is for the environment.
It needed a few more years, maybe a decade, in labs and with specialists.
Not this.
This is garbage. This is apocalyptic.
Entire businesses are being built on misunderstandings, on lies. Real people have been fired to be replaced by a GIGO regurgitation engine.
Certain end-users are treating chat confabulations like oracles from a god and failing to exercise the most basic fact checking.
It's turning us into liars and addicts.
Lives are being ruined.
It didn't have to be this way.
Speaking of confabulation... When the AI chatbot correctly figures out what's going on in this video I'll know then that it's either safe to use, or it'll mark the end of the World.
This is the first time Turbo Encabulator was recorded with picture. I shot this in the late 70's at Regan Studios in Detroit on 16mm film. The narrator and w...YouTube
It's from Rockwell International in the 1960s I believe and was a satirical spoof on all the engineering videos films they've been having to do the whole script is bullshit with nonsensical names and barely plausible descriptions.
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"Videos"? And I was there for the birth of home video! Can't believe I said "videos" when I meant "film". Gah! Damn kids with their MTV......
@gme
Well, I hope you have a well stocked survival bunkers then because end of days are upon us;
"This is a classic example of technical-sounding nonsense - it's the famous "Turbo Encabulator" parody that has been circulating since the 1940s. The passage deliberately uses impressive-sounding technical jargon and engineering terminology, but the words are either completely made up or used in meaningless combinations.
The piece describes a fictional machine called a "turbo encabulator" that supposedly solves various technical problems through invented mechanisms. Terms like "inverse reactive current," "unilateral phase detractors," "magneto-reluctance," and "capacitive diractance" sound plausible but are actually gibberish when examined closely.
Key elements of the parody include:
Made-up components like "hydrocoptic marzlevanes," "ambifacient lunar waneshaft," and "panendermic semi-boloid slots"
Pseudo-technical processes like "modial interaction" and "sinusoidal repleneration"
Complex-sounding but meaningless assembly descriptions
The humor lies in how convincingly technical it sounds despite being complete nonsense. This parody has been used over the decades to satirize overly complex technical documentation, corporate jargon, and the tendency to use impressive-sounding language to obscure meaning. Various companies have created video presentations of the turbo encabulator as a joke, and it's become a beloved piece of engineering humor that highlights the importance of clear, honest communication in technical fields."
I'm convinced the AI spout out something someone has written before about this very old and famous film.
I am not convinced the AI understood one word of what it wrote, and why. Of course to prove my hypothesis one would need to come up with an entirely novel and original source to feed into the AI to test it's reason and perception skills.
@gme
Correct.
I think that the coolest thing about #AI is that it forces us to REALLY try to understand what HUMAN thinking is. We have made some breakthroughs in our model of consciousness with the Penrose -Susskind models. We actually have papers now that support empirically that Consciousness is a quantum phenomena.
So our current models will likely never be truly conscious, until we port them to quantum computers. But then again, if the LLMs fake it well enough...will it matter?
We actually have papers now that support empirically that Consciousness is a quantum phenomena.
Hope the models apply to other mammals and living things because I'm sick of anyone saying that other mammals are somehow "less" than us. Hell, they're not even less evolved than us, they're just evolved perfectly for their environment.
Religion tried to teach me that only Man was conscious and only Man had a "soul" (I'm using a secular definition to define an organism's "essence of self".)
Because anyone that has animals, owns animals, cares for animals, and works with animals, knows damn well they are just as conscious and self-aware as you and I are.
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@gme
You make a very good point that challenges AI practitioners.
"How do we test that the #AI is more of an intelligence and less artificial?"
For a very long time, the Turing test was the gold standard for benchmarking AI.
We thought, that once machines pass the Turing test, we will have true AI.
Of course, the current frontier models blow past Turing benchmark easily.
So the ARC (Abstract reasoning Corpus) was developed to really task AI.
It's now is in its third iteration (ARC3?) because once again the frontier #LLM models blew past V1 and V2
We have just developed what we ominously call "Humanities Last Exam" which fails AIs because it relies on super specific knowledge of subject that are very specialised.
However, given that AI exhibit a capability called "zero-shot". That's giving output for data they have not been trained on, I don't give much life expectancy to HLE.
Will we have reached #AGI in 18 months when HLE is broken by the machines?
And will it matter anymore?
Ultimately I think it matters if the AI is able to be creative and generate new and original art.
I think creativity is a fundamental requirement of the "quantum" thing that forms consciousness.
Elephants and dogs have been shows to be creative when given tools and instruments they can use, and the correct opportunity.
I'm reminded of a scene in the game "Detroit Become Human" where one of the protagonist androids showing emergent behavior is asked to paint something for the character he is caring for and at first the android simply produces a reproduction from its visual sensors.
I don't know/ remember if the character was ever able to show true creativity but it came damn close in the game. (It was Marcus for anyone wondering).
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Oh yay. Our dystopian AI agentic future is now at 4.0
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For a clue at how new agentic AI is for most noobs (including me), agentic is not even technically a globally accepted word yet AFAICT.
- @simon posted a definition of "agents" from Anthropic's Hannah Moran: "Agents are models using tools in a loop".
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UnitedHealth Group is facing a class action lawsuit from investors, who allege the company misled them after the December killing of top executive Brian Thompson.Kierra Frazier (CBS News)
Gaza (Quds News Network)- At least 25 Palestinians have been killed and dozens more injured in an Israeli attack targeting a school sheltering displaced families in Gaza City on Monday morning. MedicaEditing Team (Quds News Network)
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In a #Haaretz הארץ, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud #Olmert accused #Israel Defense Forces under Benjamin #Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו of commiting #genocide:“What we are doing in #Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, & criminal killing of civilians... a policy dictated knowingly, intentionally, viciously & maliciously by the government. Yes, we are committing war crimes.”
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From @pluralistic :
"Just a QR Code" is a new site that generates QR codes, operating entirely in your browser, without transmitting any data to a server or trying to cram ads into your eyeballs. The fact that it runs entirely in-browser means you can save this webpage and work with an offline copy to generate QR codes forever – even if the site goes down:
QR code generators are mostly bad news, so this is great news.
America continues financial assistance to Kiev even though it oppresses Ukraine’s canonical Orthodox church, Tucker Carlson has saidRT
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You're wondering how they'd be so stupid - going back on their promise not to cut Medicare. I'm wondering how in hell so many Americans could be so stupid to think they wouldn't.
I'm sure Trump and his congressional enablers think it's a safe move. After all, the total number of Americans directly affected probably can't change the mid-terms, assuming they all vote.
But their extended families could.
So might the undertow effect - if enough Americans understand what's pullling them under.
Then there's the short-sighted American propensity to assume other Americans are all freeloaders. So many of us will hook line and sinker that dangling "they should all be working" bait.
Odd though, that proving they're working isn't going to be easy. Then there's that clause that keeps them from getting Obamacare if they lose Medicare.
Wonder how many folks will work out the truth - Republicans want to get the federal government out of the business of helping its citizens.
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The term "spam" for unsolicited mail is humorously linked to the famous "Spam" skit from Monty Python's Flying Circus, where the repeated mention of "spam" in a café drives the characters to frustration. This skit highlights the overwhelming and often unwanted nature of spam, paralleling how unsolicited emails clutter our inboxes.
I do not own any of this material; it's all courtesy of Monty Python. I only upload these videos because I'm tired of all the low-quality ones on #YouTube.
"End of the World" by Miley Cyrus is a powerful and thought-provoking track that delves into themes of existentialism and resilience. With its captivating lyrics and emotive delivery, this song from the album "Something Beautiful" showcases Cyrus's artistic evolution and her ability to connect with listeners on a deeper level.
🎵 LYRICS 🎵:
Today, you woke up, and you told me that you wanted to cry
The sky was falling like a comet on the fourth of July
Baby you've been thinking 'bout the future like it's already yours
Show me how you'd hold me if tomorrow wasn't coming for sure
Let's pretend it's not the end of the world
Let's pretend it's not the end of the world
Let's spend the dollars you've been saving on a Mercedes Benz
And throw a party like McCartney with some help from our friends
Yeah let's go down to Malibu and watch the sun fade out once more
Show me how you'd hold me if tomorrow was coming for sure
Let's pretend it's not the end of the world
Let's pretend it's not the end of the world
The sky is falling, falling like a comet now
I can see it coming down
The sky is falling, falling like a comet now
Ooh let's go to Paris
I don't care if we get lost in the scene
Paint the city like Picasso would've done in his dreams
Do all the things that we were way too terrified of before
I wanna take you to nirvana
We can't take it too far
Hit the bottom of the bottle and forget who we are
Hold me close, you know tomorrow isn't coming for sure
Let's pretend that it's not the end of the world
Let's pretend that it's not the end of the world
Let's pretend that it's not the end of the world
Let's pretend
It's not the end
Let's pretend
It's not the end
Let's pretend
It's not the end
Let's pretend that it's not the end of the world
The sky is falling, falling like a comet now
Let's pretend that it's not the end of the world
The sky is falling, falling like a comet now
Let's pretend that it's not the end of the world
The sky is falling, falling like a comet now
I can see it coming down
Credits:
Columbia Records and Live Nation present a Miley Cyrus and XYZ Films Production
Miley Cyrus “Something Beautiful”
Directed by: Miley Cyrus, Jacob Bixenman, Brendan Walter
Produced by: Miley Cyrus, Panos Cosmatos, Nick Spicer, Nate Bolotin, Aram Tertzakian
Executive Producers: Adam Folk, Ron Perry, Tom Mackay, Krista Wegener, Michael Rapino, Brad Wavra, Ryan Kroft
Associate Producer: Marcela Victoria
Director of Photography: Benoît Debie
Production Designer: David Meyer
Choreography by: Stephen Galloway
Costume Design: Bradley Kenneth
Edited by: Brendan Walter
Music Produced by: Miley Cyrus, Shawn Everett, Michael Pollack, Jonathan Rado, and Maxx Morando
Engineered by: Shawn Everett, Ian Gold, and Pièce Eatah at The Village
Assistant Engineer: JC LeResche
Mixed & Mastered by: Shawn Everett
Mix Assistant: Ian Gold
Album Artist: Miley Cyrus
Album(s): Something Beautiful
Written by: Miley Cyrus, Michael Pollack, Jonathan Rado, Alec Fraser O'Hanley, Shawn Everett, Gregory Aldae Hein, Molly Margaret Rankin
Music genre(s): Pop
Released: 2025
Decade for first release: #2020sMusic
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2025 marks a landmark year for Europe’s ‘bridge between Earth and space’. ESA’s Estrack satellite tracking network turns 50 – and with it, its deep space antenna in Cebreros, Spain, celebrates 20 years of connecting Earth to the agency’s most distant missions.
Fittingly, this celebration of technological excellence coincides with the 200th birthday of Johann Strauss II and the 50th anniversary of the European Space Agency. To honour this convergence of milestones, the European Space Agency and the Vienna Tourist Board are orchestrating a unique mission: broadcasting The Blue Danube Waltz to its destined home among the stars.
Don’t miss the live concert of the Wiener Symphoniker (Vienna Symphony Orchestra) on Saturday, 31 May. The event will start at 20:30 CEST and the transmission from ESA’s Cebreros antenna will occur at 21:30 CEST. The live stream can be followed via space.wien.info and the Vienna Instagram channel.
#operations #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world
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GitHub issues is *almost* the best notebook in the world. Free and unlimited, for both public and private notes. Comprehensive Markdown support, including syntax highlighting for almost any language. Plus …Simon Willison’s Weblog
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Felix Klein broke a taboo: Germans can criticize the Israeli government. Klein is not just anybody: He is the German government delegate for anti-Semitism.Claudio Celani (EIR News)
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Rania Khalek- “The hunger is acute and it’s violent. You add in bombs and missiles — people are dealing with layers of physical pain and grief all at once” - Gaza aid worker @AfeefNessthealtworld (TheAltWorld’s Newsletter)
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