Small Drone Attacks Are Killing More Civilians Than Ever Before: I Made a Map About It Around the world, armed groups are intentionally killing civilians with small, inexpensive drones. And they're committing these murders at totally unprecedented rates. The figures, when they're avail...

incredible and important work from @faineg.bsky.social

little-flying-robots.ghost.io/targeted-dro...

LLMs are basically translating your original text into new text by extending it with various degrees of related (“noisy”) language. The less info you give an LLM, the more it ends up just translating that noise.

Ergänzende Leseempfehlung: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Una...

Die Kaskade · Benjamin Wittorf Über Raubritter, Ablasshandel und warum uns niemand mehr die Vorfahrt lässt.

Neuer Text: Die Kaskade → https://wittorf.works/essays/die-kaskade

Die Erde als Sichel mit der runden Seite oben und trotz des offenbar starken Teleobjektivs erkennbar weit weg, überwiegend blau mit weißen Wolken. Im Vordergrund dunkelgrau die von Kratern übersäte Mondoberfläche mit einem leicht gebogenen Horizont, der sich von links nach rechts durchs Bild wölbt.

Eigentlich dieselbe eindrucksvolle Szene wie auf dem ersten Foto. Nur hier längst nicht so stark herangezoomt. So sieht man hier ganze obere Hälfte des Mondes, der zum unteren Bildrand immer dunkler wird. Oben links direkt überm Horizont die blau-weiße Erdsichel.

Einfach nur "wow"!

imagine if i happened to be a trillionaire and bought twitter and 80% of the stuff on the site was just about big pants. you couldn't escape it. just an endless deluge of big pants propaganda

For most workplace tasks, AI is good enough to pass but not good enough to impress, MIT finds | Fortune A new study tested dozens of AI models on thousands of real job tasks. The results should reassure workers for now.

Trillions of dollars have been spent to create an artificial workforce composed of the kind of employees who if they were human would probably be fired within a year or two of being hired.
Imagine if that money had been spent getting humanity off fossil fuels instead.

Here is some more context:

In der Tat!

Because he's the Tailor of Panama.

What's the word for it, not tragedy of the commons but like similar where if you're the only one doing a hack (bot accounts) you profit nicely but if everyone is doing it you all lose because you don't profit from advertising to or propagandizing to other bots

Humanity needs photographs like these.

Maybe at least someone here, looking at them, will be reminded once more of how petty our conflicts are on this tiny blue marble in the abyss -- and how criminal are those who launch rockets not into space, but into apartment buildings full of people.

Bedankt sich in Luhmann!

This is so, so well-articulated.

Um mich mal selbst zu zitieren: «Es muss ein Recht darauf geben zu erfahren, wo und von wem unsere digitalen Gesichter gesammelt, gespeichert und ausgewertet werden. Und es darf nicht länger ein Geheimnis bleiben, welche Technologien dabei eingesetzt werden und wo ihre Schwachstellen liegen.»

The Roaring Twenties but it's more of a screaming

Die Ökonomie der simulierten Verantwortung.

Let Us Cook (Indie Arena Booth Theme 2025), by Herr Kaschke & Jana Rengers 1 track album

To lift your spirits, here are free Bandcamp codes for the @indiearenabooth.de track “Let us cook” which was also available on vinyl thanks to @blackscreenrecords.com

Code in Reply

Redeem it here herrkaschke.bandcamp.com/yum

This is yours now herrkaschke.bandcamp.com/album/let-us...

#vgm #games

Nein! Sapienza! #hitman

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THIS IS SERIOUS❗️

Singer-Songwriters & Musicians Take Heed ‼️

Video: Singer-Songwriter Murphy Campbell from North Carolina

Nr. 2006: ES KANN LANGE DAUERN, BIST DU BEGREIFST, DASS DU UNGLÜCKLICH BIST – UND NOCH LÄNGER, DASS DU ES NICHT SEIN MUSST //

Diese Forderungen sind auch ohne #Krise vernünftig.

Der System-Spiegel · Benjamin Wittorf Der Zweck deines Systems ist, was du tust.

Neuer Text: Der System-Spiegel → https://wittorf.works/essays/der-system-spiegel

Jacques Tilly, Germany’s best known maker of political carneval floats is on trial today in Moscow (he’s safe in Germany).
These are some of his floats of the past years.

PR 55: Protokoll der operativen Abstraktion · Benjamin Wittorf Organisationen und Unternehmungen produzieren permanent Rauschen. Dein Verstand begegnet der Komplexität mit Reduktion. Überlässt du diesen Prozess der Entropie, landest du im … weiterlesen

Neuer Text: PR 55: Protokoll der operativen Abstraktion → wittorf.works/journal/pr-55-protokoll-...

Infinite midwit OR: if we were playing by Settlers of Catan rules, I'd be dead already

Adam Mastroianni, as always, a pleasure to read.

If these whales go extinct, we’ll know who to blame Just 51 of these whales are left on Earth. Trump officials may have just doomed them.

HEGSETH CONDEMNS RARE WHALE SPECIES TO EXTINCTION

I have a passion for the whales of this planet planet and saving them. It makes me sick to my stomach to read this. I’ve met many whales over the years - they’re truly extraordinary creatures. www.vox.com/climate/4844...

Vorschlag für Posts am ersten April: die keine Satire sind und nicht wie Satire aussehen.

Good mini thread about the contrast between what Bluesky users want (and what they assume the point of the platform is) versus the original founding vision for Bluesky, which the current crew is more or less still guided by, with some adjustments, and is inherently at odds with most users' goals