First Luigi Mangione, now this - it's becoming harder and harder for me to not think that shooting (at) rich people does lead to good outcomes.
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DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God?
ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend
A spokesperson for the Washington Hilton confirmed to PEOPLE that the hotel donated the meals at the White House Correspondents' Dinner to the local community, after suspected shooter Cole Tomas Allen...
Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn’t know it
The single most important thing to understand about tech futurism is that, when Anthropic’s predictions turn out to be wrong, they don’t have to give the money back.
I do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements"
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Chats with AI bots have convinced evolutionary biologist but most experts say he is being misled by mimicry
A very well-argued "preventing data centers from being built is left-wing, actually".
The president of Cornell backed his car into a student and a recent grad after a campus debate on Israel-Palestine. Then he lied about what happened in an email claiming he'd been the victim of harassment. Then, magnificently, Cornell's student newspaper found a video of the incident
Even if in the end it didn't work, one cannot but applaud this kind of direct action.
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Managing those AI identities will require companies to completely reassess their cybersecurity strategies.
I do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements"
www.axios.com/2025/04/22/a...
Dave Karpf
Massachusetts woman set swarms of insects on sheriff’s deputies attempting to evict elderly man with cancer
9/ J'ajoute 3 observations un peu amères pour conclure:
- l'impact environnemental n'a été cité par personne;
- les invité·es côté STEM semblaient parfaitement incapables d'engager un dialogue avec les autres professionnel·les présent·es;
- les enseignant·es du secondaire présent·es étaient...
