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kcarruthers, 1 hour ago to random

We are doomed as a species 🤦‍♀️😷
https://arvr.social/@mpesce/112443991548195663

mpesce, 2 hours ago to random

Raw Milk Enthusiasts Demand Milk Infected With H5N1

"Deliberately trying to infect yourself with a known pathogen flies in the face of all medical knowledge and common sense."

https://futurism.com/neoscope/raw-milk-enthusiasts-demand-milk-infected-avian-flu-h5n1

mpesce, 1 day ago to random

AI-savvy teachers are armed with the power of carefully crafted prompts for tools such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini. These innovators are quietly revolutionizing their classrooms.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/14/5-ai-prompts-for-educators-using-chatgpt-and-google-gemini/

chrisjrn, 3 days ago to Eurovision

Oh thank fuck 🇨🇭

#Eurovision

kcarruthers, 5 days ago to random

Conservative Heritage Foundation plan calls for Trump to kill everyone on federal death row: "A conservative plan for Donald Trump’s potential second term calls for the swift execution of everyone on federal death row, continuing the historic federal execution spree that took place during the Trump administration."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-death-penalty-plan-b2542656.html

mpesce, 5 days ago to random

'I was having fish and chips back in 1985 with my wife in Notting Hill Gate. He was at another table and said: “Ian, how are you? What are you doing after dinner? Do you want to come over and do something?” So we went back in the studio, smoked a large spliff, and did the opening of Slave to the Rhythm.'

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/09/ian-mcshane-when-i-was-about-to-get-it-on-with-richard-burton-he-said-i-reminded-him-of-elizabeth

mpesce, 6 days ago to random

Microsoft just agreed to support the development of 10.5 gigawatts of new renewable energy capacity around the world, a massive amount of electricity to fuel its AI ambitions and climate goals.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/09/microsoft-made-the-biggest-renewable-energy-agreement-ever-to-fuel-its-ai-ambitions/

mpesce, 6 days ago to random

Steve Albini, Storied Producer and Icon of the Rock Underground, Dies at 61

Vale.

https://pitchfork.com/news/steve-albini-storied-producer-and-icon-of-the-rock-underground-dies-at-61/

mpesce, 7 days ago to random

As just mentioned on ABC News, here's a link for a petition to Cumberland City Council to overturn the book banning decision

(please amplify)

https://equalityaustralia.org.au/our-work/areas-of-work/cumberland-council/

mpesce, 7 days ago to random

This is wonderful news - and we need to lean in.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/renewable-energy-passes-30-of-worlds-electricity-supply

mpesce, 8 days ago to random

Translation: THEY WOULDN'T SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP

mpesce, 9 days ago to random

“No computer, no AI can replace a human touch,” said Amy Grewal, a registered nurse. “It cannot hold your loved one’s hand. You cannot teach a computer how to have empathy.”

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/06/nurses-say-hospital-adoption-of-half-cooked-ai-is-reckless/

jonoabroad, 11 days ago to random

"List in your head every product that failed because it couldn’t scale. There’s a much longer list of products that failed long before they needed to."

https://adriano.fyi/posts/2023-09-24-choose-postgres-queue-technology/

mpesce, 12 days ago to random

The point Genius Group is so wantonly missing is that Turing was a real person whose life meant something, both in terms of the history of computing and mathematics, but also in society.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/03/not-a-genius-move-resurrecting-war-hero-alan-turing-as-your-chief-ai-officer/

mpesce, 12 days ago to random

Pet parrots prefer live video-calls over watching pre-recorded videos of other birds

The study...suggests that the clever birds, who often suffer from loneliness in captivity, may be able to tell the difference between live and pre-recorded content on digital devices, and strongly prefer interacting with other birds in real time.

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-pet-parrots-video-pre-videos.html

mpesce, 13 days ago to random

mRNA Cancer Vaccine Reprograms Immune System to Tackle Glioblastoma

Researchers at the University of Florida report they have developed an mRNA cancer vaccine that quickly reprograms the immune system to attack glioblastoma in a first-ever human clinical trial of four adult patients.

https://www.insideprecisionmedicine.com/topics/oncology/mrna-cancer-vaccine-reprograms-immune-system-to-tackle-glioblastoma/

mpesce, 14 days ago to random

Calling in the cops doesn't actually end a protest, it just defers it to a more advantageous time. The folks who style themselves as authorities should understand this by now and yet they do seem to be taking this realisation slowly and rather poorly.

mpesce, 14 days ago to random

Happy International Workers Day to those who celebrate!

Meaning... all of you workers.

🏴

mpesce, 15 days ago to random

APROPOS OF NOTHING IN PARTICULAR IMMA JUST LEAVE THIS HERE FOR YOU LOT TO READ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Columbia_University_protests

mpesce, 15 days ago to random

And they said irony was dead

https://mastodon.social/@Cdespinosa/112358216786011787

mpesce, 15 days ago to random

To summarise those last two toots: Patriarchy has always been about power, and power, as Foucault pointed out to us half a century ago, does not like to be pointed at, and will do everything in its power to hide its operations...

mpesce, 15 days ago to random

"In a groundbreaking discovery, the ancient scroll was found to contain a previously unknown narrative detailing how the Greek philosopher spent his last evening, describing how he listened to music played on a flute by a Thracian slave girl.

Despite battling a fever and being on the brink of death, Plato – a disciple of Socrates and a mentor to Aristotle, who died in Athens around 348BC – retained enough lucidity to critique the musician for her lack of rhythm..."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/29/herculaneum-scroll-plato-final-hours-burial-site

mpesce, 15 days ago to random

The reason the women's march devolved into a political brawl about Albo is because we've been suppressing womens' truths for so long it has become functionally impossible to acknowledge them. Every reflex in the Australian body politic does everything in its power to change the subject immediately rather than confront the horror (and shame) head on.

mpesce, 15 days ago to random

The housing sector is so utterly out of balance in Australia that you have to make a motza at the nation's most successful startup in order to be able to buy into it.

Consider that.

mpesce, 16 days ago to random

Wow first time in 18 months I've ever reported and blocked someone on Mastodon