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Here’s an excellent discussion of ‘#AI’ BS. Professor Teresa Heffernan, Literature Versus the AI Industry: Techno Monarchists and the Drive to Reduce the World to Numbers.
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16208906-literature-versus-ai-industry
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This article about hat protocol was actually more interesting and entertaining than I had imagined it would be.
But, most entertaining is the the name of the historian, Bernard Capp.
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Science - Photography - Woodturning - Climate - Weather - Curious - Running - Cycling - Computing - Sense - Nonsense
I think the way the Guardian writes out acronyms as proper nouns is weird.
Also: more bad news about the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Will this encourage governments to act more quickly? No.
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This is the dream, I guess.
In #Canada it seems getting something to work politically means giving up on the things we need to do.
"The sooner we move from a debate focused on targets to one focused on how you structurally change the economy and decarbonise in a way that works both economically and politically," she says, "the faster we will move on climate action."
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Good news!
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I see students in first year university classes who cannot write a sentence, who cannot use elementary school math. Applying a grade just for attendance won’t help what’s really wrong.
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"Liberal majority government will run 'much more efficiently"
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/james-maloney-liberal-majority-9.7163845
This sort of thing makes me recall "The Tactful Saboteur"
Internal sabotage as a means to slow down and regulate government.
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Science - Photography - Woodturning - Climate - Weather - Curious - Running - Cycling - Computing - Sense - Nonsense
Science - Photography - Woodturning - Climate - Weather - Curious - Running - Cycling - Computing - Sense - Nonsense
What if the thing no one has ever determined is real is really two things?
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"New Study Suggests Gravitational Waves May Have Created Dark Matter" that no one has ever observed at all ever.
https://scitechdaily.com/new-study-suggests-gravitational-waves-may-have-created-dark-matter/
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Oh, a rocket! Many noble. Such Hero! So sacrifice!
A 'whole civilization will die tonight'.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/livestory/u-s-israel-iran-war-trump-deadline-9.7154523
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Apparently I'm pretty angry about the state of the world. See you tomorrow!
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RE: @ketan@climatejustice.social
“the group that used ‘AI’ scored 11.7 percent higher on a measure of their own confidence”
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@Wolf@social.incognoble.com If you want your mind blown read @adapalmer@wandering.shop's novel Too Like the Lightning, and the rest of that series.
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Science - Photography - Woodturning - Climate - Weather - Curious - Running - Cycling - Computing - Sense - Nonsense
Science - Photography - Woodturning - Climate - Weather - Curious - Running - Cycling - Computing - Sense - Nonsense
Please just stop burning fossil fuels.
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Science - Photography - Woodturning - Climate - Weather - Curious - Running - Cycling - Computing - Sense - Nonsense
I've got three new bowls from Garry oak this week. These were cut green (the wood was still fresh and wet) and the square sided dish warped like a potato chip.
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