Here is an annotated version of the Citrini Memo with my own intro. It is analyslop - scare-fiction written to ingratiate AI boosters and analysts/traders with tales of ultra-automation and socialist data center policies. Shameful that the markets reacted at all.
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1p1n0...
🚨 NEW: 'Don't know' is the preferred Liberal Party leader in the latest Newspoll, followed by Sussan Ley and Andrew Hastie
“When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the constitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”
—Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
A landlord who demanded more than $32,000 from a tenant before they had even moved in, and then threatened to kick them out if they didn't agree to a huge rent hike, is fined for a string of breaches of WA's tenancy laws.
There's someone pretending to be me --if you could report and block, that would be great.
Elon has tried so hard to make Grok take his side on South Africa that it just randomly brings it up when you ask any question
Australia's new opposition leader appealed a federal court ruling that the gov't must consider future generation in fossil fuel project approvals - and won
"Sussan Ley does not have a duty of care to protect young people from the harms of climate change" - 2022
theconversation.com/todays-disap...
So I had to find out more, and sure enough: there's a video.
The singing!
Now I need to know if Irene Pepperberg has taught her greys to converse in English on video calls...
youtu.be/OHcAOlamgDc
Pet parrots were taught to do video calls, and it was a hit.
The birds not only made friends with each other, and selected who they wanted to call and when, but also picked up new skills from fellow parrots.
Good enrichment option for improving captive parrot welfare.
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dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...