I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Reminder that severe acute infections and deaths have not been the main issue with COVID for several years. The issue remains repeated infections and long-term consequences.

a desert road with mountains in the background Alt: a desert road with mountains in the background

Et qui dénonce cette absurdité à garder encore et encore la tête sous le sable à propos du covid long ? Je veux dire à part @lehmannchristian.eurosky.social, qui ?

Vous vous souvenez quand les libéraux de la Great Barrington hurlaient qu’il ne fallait surtout pas confiner. Qu’il valait bien mieux laisser les gens s’infecter en masse, parce que sinon l’économie allait prendre trop cher.

Résultat ?

Des milliards parce que les gens vont mal.

@jensfoell.de you might like this game: coming up with random file names and see what falls out of LLMs as an answer :D

Sam Altman Says It'll Take Another Year Before ChatGPT Can Start a Timer An $852 billion company, ladies and gentlemen.

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work*

Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

So, I put the calculation experiment from my article on this in

www.linkedin.com/pulse/chatbo...

Right answer! Cool!

But it went from 0.2 watt hours to 6.8 watt hours. IE, it goes from 2.5 million times more energy than a calculator to ~62 million times more energy than a calculator

This is going to leave the US so deeply unskilled. This is exactly how technofascists like to see it.

As @olivia.science & I wrote: “the AI industry has lobbied government agencies to mandate the use of its products, claiming that without them, students will be unprepared for the job market.”

ENTRETIEN. « Si rien ne bouge, on va dans le mur » : le président de France universités s’inquiète des budgets des facs Les comptes des universités françaises sont dans le rouge. Alors que les présidents de facultés et les représentants du ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur tentent actuellement de trouver des soluti...

#franceuniversites #esr #csiesr comment accueillir en France les EC US wokiste migrant islamo-gauchiste pro-palestinien qui fuient Donald le Clown Orange avec des budgets pareils... Ahah ce n'était que de la comm. tout est cohérent finalement

www.ouest-france.fr/education/et...

these are people for whom the only virtues are being smart and rich. you know, monsters

NEWS: Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration

"It's an extinction-level event for science".

This would decimate the world's leading scientific system, from NASA to NIH, and eliminate social, economic and behavioral science at NSF
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

An image of the entire Earth, with Northern Africa and the North Pole visible at the lower left. It looks like daytime but it is actually illuminated by moonlight. There’s a bright arc along the lower right where the sun is coming through from behind. There’s a bright dot on the lower right (Venus) and a glow (zodiacal light). A few stars can be seen in the dark beyond the Earth.

An image of the entire Earth, with Northern Africa and the North Pole visible at the lower left. It is dark with muted colors. There’s a very bright arc along the lower right where the sun is coming through from behind. There’s a small dot on the lower right (Venus). The background is dark with a few faint stars visible.

The whole-Earth-at-night photo from the #Artemis II mission was brighter than many expected. That was mostly due to camera settings; here’s another pic taken just before with diff settings. Digital photography is always subjective—even before processing! (HT @swapnakrishna.com @jasonc0.bsky.social)

On attend des précisions, mais effectivement ça dépend souvent des pharmacies. On va remettre à jour la carte collaborative
(pour mémoire : vaccins-covid.gogocarto.fr)

La campagne de printemps de vaccination Covid 19 va bientôt ouvrir 🎉 (du 20 avril au 30 juin)

Un DGS urgent publié aujourd'hui précise le "public cible" :
* Personnes âgées de 80 ans ou +
* Personnes immunodéprimées
.../...

More to see in that image:

* Aurora Australis (bright green, upper right) & Aurora Borealis (plane green, lower left) visible as faint streaks

* The bright dot in the lower right is Venus

* The white haze in the lower right is zodiacal light: dust in the plane of the Solar System lit by sunlight

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

Visuel MEAE MASSACRE DE BOUTCHA FEVRIER-MARS 2022 À L'INVERSE DE CE QUE S. LAVROV AFFIRME, ENTRETIEN EXCEPTIONNEL Le chef de la diplomatie russe dans le LE MASSACRE DE BOUTCHA N'EST PAS UNE MISE EN SCÈNE

Visuel MEAE MASSACRE DE BOUTCHA FEVRIER-MARS 2022 RÉPÉTER DES MENSONGES N'EN FAIT PAS DES VÉRITÉS, EN MÉMOIRE DES VICTIMES DE BOUTCHA, LA FRANCE SE SOUVIENT.

Les services du Quai d'Orsay ont beaucoup plus bossé pour débunker l'interview de Lavrov que Léa Salamé pour la préparer.
😡 Ce n'est pas ainsi qu'un média de service public devrait fonctionner !

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently."

Microsoft: LOL

has anybody read this from the union of unions, yet?

> Governing Artificial Intelligence in the Higher Education Sector Sociotechnical perspectives, regulatory challenges and working conditions Edited by Aída Ponce Del Castillo

PDF: etuceprodstorage.blob.core.windows.net/assets/files...

Discussed here.

@attie.ai, for those who wanna press the funny buttons too

#FunFactESR : le montant nécessaire pour que les universités ne soient pas en déficit est dans l'épaisseur du trait de ces nouvelles dépenses (dont l'efficacité n'est pas prouvée).

Someone infected for 2.5 years leading to this variant: noteworthy

50 spike mutations vs. BA.3: noteworthy

Immune escape: noteworthy

Still highly divergent variants evolving: noteworthy

Mitigations: Clean air. Ventilation. N95s.

Minimizing: Same as before.

Docentes denunciam conflito de interesses “gritante” na criação da “Cátedra Google-USP em IA Responsável”, que será financiada pela big tech, hostil à regulamentação das plataformas - Adusp A USP e a big tech Google (Alphabet) firmaram novo acordo de colaboração, desta vez em torno da criação de mais uma “cátedra” do Instituto de Estudos Avançados (IEA), que será dedicada ao estudo de qu...

Sobre a cátedra
adusp.org.br/universidade...

Uma estrutura de governança de IA para instituições de ensino superior: riscos e desafios Por Artur Marques, Bruno Valente, Camila Leporace, pesquisadores do Instituto de Estudos Avançados (IEA) da USP, e outros autores*

Enquanto a USP tiver uma cátedra financiada pelo Google, minha primeira reação será achar que quem quer que esteja falando sobre IA lá não tem moral
jornal.usp.br/artigos/uma-...

They: “But we use AI responsibly!”

Us: “Do you mean, smoke with a filter?”

olivia.science/before/ @olivia.science

Recently, due to repeated threats from the far-right, one of the bravest people I will ever meet decided to leave Germany. If people like that have decided that the price of staying is too great, then just imagine how much danger German democracy is in. Just imagine it.

154/ 'The head of Europe’s central bank just said financial markets don’t understand what they’re in for.

This is Christine Lagarde saying the damage is already done. Most people have absolutely no idea.'
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