Michael

Please, tell me at least that it’s not intended to be put in the mouth…

For those who, like me, don’t know who John Brown is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist)

Hello. A free VPN cannot be a secure and private VPN. (unless it is self hosted)

Is it possible to dissociate the note from the instrument? This note from a violin clearly comes from a violin. The instrument shapes the sound, even though all instruments can produce that note. However, that bite belongs to me, bow. It’s in my head. I can attach it to sad or happy emotions, or close my eyes and imagine a landscape with it.

I think this art/artist debate misses half of the action. Once the note or the art has been produced by the artist, it belongs to the public, that vibes with it in the way they chose.

Left: mr beast with his signature ‘soulless smile’

You don’t need to wax your ass if you produce teflon grade poops as asked in this thread. I found out week long feats of uninterrupted veganism helped, so i’d argue balancing fibre intake is key. But i’m not doctor, just like the person i just replyed to.

I have this problem when people use abreviations for game names. There are so many games that it’s impossible for me to understand. And good luck to find out which game it is if it’s a new one you never heard of…

We will then need people like you to bring awareness about alternatives we will be able to shift to. That’s probably how most of us ended up here

You know what else is collective ? Votes. If you think you can change the world all by yourself, aybe you’ve forgotten that being human if a profoundly collective experience.

I disagree. Boycott works. These days, you vote with your money in a more efficient way than any election. You seem to say the problem is politic. You know politics won’t change things. So you’re just saying it’s not your problem anymore. But the problem still exists. The enshittification stays there.

• Terry Gilliam’s Brazil
• Akira
• What are you doing, step-bro?

He’s ISO 7010 Jesus, suffering endlessly to save us from ourselves!

Every new thing cosmologists find in space ‘shouldn’t exist’. That’s how they advance science. At this point, this kind of title for this kind of news is so common it even ceased to be a trope. It leaves my spacetime unwrinkled.

Imagine talking about a bacteria that could save lives and never naming it! For those who want to know, it’s in the nature article: E.coli and pseudomonas are the ones cited in the source document, widely spread bacteria already in your gut. Sooooo…

Amazing movie, btw. Children of men (2006) Anticipation movie taking place in 2027.

Crackers

Victor Tangermann February 22, 2025 3 min read

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, whose company has invested billions of dollars in ChatGPT maker OpenAI, has had it with the constant hype surrounding AI.

During an appearance on podcaster Dwarkesh Patel’s show this week, Nadella offered a reality check.

“Us self-claiming some [artificial general intelligence] milestone, that’s just nonsensical benchmark hacking to me,” Nadella told Patel.

Instead, the CEO argued that we should be looking at whether AI is generating real-world value instead of mindlessly running after fantastical ideas like AGI.

To Nadella, the proof is in the pudding. If AI actually has economic potential, he argued, it’ll be clear when it starts generating measurable value.

“So, the first thing that we all have to do is, when we say this is like the Industrial Revolution, let’s have that Industrial Revolution type of growth,” he said.

“The real benchmark is: the world growing at 10 percent,” he added. “Suddenly productivity goes up and the economy is growing at a faster rate. When that happens, we’ll be fine as an industry.”

Needless to say, we haven’t seen anything like that yet. OpenAI’s top AI agent — the tech that people like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman say is poised to upend the economy — still moves at a snail’s pace and requires constant supervision.

So Nadella’s line of thinking is surprisingly down-to-Earth. Besides pushing back against the hype surrounding artificial general intelligence — the realization of which OpenAI has made its number one priority — Nadella is admitting that generative AI simply hasn’t generated much value so far.

As of right now, the economy isn’t showing much sign of acceleration, and certainly not because of an army of AI agents. And whether it’s truly a question of “when” — not “if,” as he claims — remains a hotly debated subject.

There’s a lot of money on the line, with tech companies including Microsoft and OpenAI pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into AI.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek really tested the resolve of investors earlier this year by demonstrating that its cutting-edge reasoning model, dubbed R1, could keep up with the competition, but at a tiny fraction of the price. The company ended up punching a $1 trillion hole in the industry after triggering a massive selloff.

Then there are nagging technical shortcomings plaguing the current crop of AI tools, from constant “hallucinations” that make it an ill fit for any critical functions to cybersecurity concerns.

Nadella’s podcast appearance could be seen as a way for Microsoft to temper some sky-high expectations, calling for a more rational, real-world approach to measure success.

At the same time, his actions tell a strikingly different story. Microsoft has invested $12 billion in OpenAI and has signed on to president Donald Trump’s $500-billion Stargate project alongside OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

After multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk questioned whether Altman had secured the funds, Nadella appeared to stand entirely behind the initiative.

“All I know is I’m good for my $80 billion,” he told CNBC last month in response to Musk’s accusations.

Someone who what* ?

He clearly says “You need to try, Linux”. He’s talking to someone named Linux. Someone that needs to try.