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Keep up the resitance:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2026/may/14/elon-musk-sam-altman-ai-feud' #Sora’s demise ultimately stemmed from several intersecting considerations shaped by grassroots action: flatlining usage, rocky public perception, tightening financials, and heavy constraints on computational resources.
Here’s the thing about empires. They don’t just seek to devour everything – they depend on it for their survival. In other words, the very thing that appears to give them paramount strength is their greatest vulnerability. '
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Julistekki o ny si.
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Incredible story, told in a charmingly laconic way. The plot twists hardly need boosting…
' The #ANC had been trying to figure out how to target Koeberg [nuclear power plant] for years. '
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' The value of an operative who could re-enter the plant, with a face that looked like it belonged there, was greater than any unit cutting through a fence from outside. Why send a unit when you already had a ghost? '
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Just an ordinary workday: colleagues are slopping out machine-generated bullshit to please other machines, the sellers are babbling away human-generated bullshit to get idiots buying the machine-generated bullshit.
I stare at my machine in a mindless state – barely more conscious than a robot vacuum cleaner – distantly wondering, when was the exact moment when my working life turned into this.
Situation normal.
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Meanwhile George Clinton reminisces Prince:
’ He was always asking me how I could get away from the venue after a concert finished, because he couldn’t get out. The last time I saw him playing in London with 3rd Eye Girl, two years before he passed, he yelled, “My friend George Clinton, on the balcony!” at the end. The spotlight fell on me and while everyone was looking up he snuck out, leaving me with all his fans. ’
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Tämmöisen juliste tuli amulla töihin rämpiessä vastaan.
Kannatin.
https://www.hiljaistenoikeus.fi/
’ Haluamme luonnolle perusoikeudet perustuslakiin. Tällä hetkellä ne puuttuvat ja lainsäädäntömme on luonnonoikeuksien näkökulmasta alisteinen ja vajaa.
Ristiriitatilanteissa luontoa koskevat oikeudet eivät ole riittävän vahvoja suhteessa perustuslaissa määriteltyjen oikeussubjektien (ihmiset, yritykset ja julkisoikeudelliset tahot) perusoikeuksiin ja etuihin. ’
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David Chase on disappearing #Gandolfini during The #Sopranos shoots:
' “Well, fortunately, I wasn’t the one who dealt with him going missing,” he replies. “That was Ilene Landress, our line manager. She was the one who found out where he was and did everything that needed to be done.” '
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' “He never refused to do anything. He never said, ‘I’m gonna go wait in my trailer, and when you’re ready to shoot it the way I want it, come get me.’ That never happened.” '
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John Cage – the #Italian #quiz show winner!
' In the 1950s, the American #avantgarde composer #JohnCage turned a thoroughly wholesome hobby into an unexpected source of cash. The hobby was #mushrooms (non-psychedelic varieties). '
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' Cage appeared in five episodes in 1959, where he was quizzed on – of course – his beloved mushrooms. At the end, the composer walked away with 5m lire, equivalent to about £70,000 today. He used his winnings to buy a Steinway piano. '
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Whoa. I’m a big #Pentangle fan too but I can’t but bow before this avowal of love and indeed, awakening:
' These songs, stories and customs seemed to emanate from a very different kind of #Britain to the one invoked by anthems such as Rule, Britannia! or by the union jack. They had little to do with monarchy, military or empire; instead they conjured a vision of Britain that was enchanted, subversive and strange: a Britain I felt I could belong to. '
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Mutta siis: toimii pankkikortin lähimaksulla. Silloin vissiin veloitetaan tunnin lippu, joka on 1,25 €. Halvempi puoli tuntia voimassa oleva lippu on euron.
Lentokentälle pääsee busseilla 1,2, 3G ja 88. Yhtä pysäkkiä ennen kenttää on isohko Nørdika-ostoskeskus, joka on erittäin tuliais-compatible.
Tuolla infoa bussilipuista:
https://judu.lt/en/for-public-transport-passengers/ticket-types-and-prices/
EDIT: 88: pysäkkiä ennen, 1 ja 2: kaksi pysäkkiä ennen kenttää. 1 & 2 ajavat Nørdikan pihaan. 3G: ei aja sitä kautta.
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Arvasin, että vaikka olin selvitellyt, miten bussilippuhommelit toimivat #Vilna’ssa, niin pieleen menisi kuitenkin.
Tahkoin pankkikorttia bussin lukulaitteella, eikä mitään tapahtunut. Katsahdin kysyvästi vieressä seisovaan tyttöön. ”Ilmaiset liput tänään”, tyttö sanoi, asetti kuulokkeen takaisin korvalleen ja palasi musiikkinsa pariin.
Ja _nyt_ huomasin, että niinhän näytöllä luki tosiaan. NIIN SITÄ TAAS KÖYHÄÄ HUIJ— eikun siis, mahtavaa!
S’on #Liettua’n itsenäisyyspäivä, näetsen. Opin myös.
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CW: Kerjäläisooppera Vilnassa
Outoja kohtaamisia matkustellessa, osa sejase: Törmäsin toissailtana #Vilna’n keskustassa ujosti rahaa pummanneeseen nuorehkoon naiseen. Pahoittelin, että ei mul kyl oo yhtään käshii. Tää oli et ei se mitään, hyvää jatkoa. (1/5)
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#80s #diy #homecomputer wizardry in #yugoslavia!
’ [The #Galaksija kit] was so successful that it highlighted the pressing need for Yugoslavians to have access to computers, and around a year after the first Racunari magazine was published, the authorities altered the regulations that prevented the legal import of foreign #microcomputers. The Galaksija had done its job of introducing computers to a whole generation so well that it became outmoded almost immediately. ’
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A word of support for #NFP by Thomas Piketty & Julia Cagé:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/03/france-hard-left-new-popular-front-far-right’ Some now seek to scare #leftwing and centre-left voters by claiming that the NFP’s programme for government would be dangerous for the #French economy. They are wrong. ’ (…) ’ In historical context, it should be considered a pragmatic, #socialdemocratic set of proposals aimed at reducing inequalities and preparing for the future. There is nothing radical in this agenda. ’