"DT surprised many by making Venezuela’s oil the central focus of his hour-long press conference on Saturday."
Seriously, they were surprised? I'm no geopolitical expert, but it's easy to see it was always about the natural resources.
Thank you so much 🙏
Wow! That's fascinating indeed! Is there a translation somewhere? I guess I could read the Norwegian one with effort, but I suspect the 19th century language will be a tad tough for me.
Very interesting read, especially the hypothesis that our juvenile features and lower aggression traits were decisive in giving us an edge over other hominin species.
That was exactly my point, that I already made 2 weeks ago.
The little shrimp!
Do read this. It’s by Brian Eno for @thenerve.news & it’s about this generation’s BandAid.
Lullaby is based on a traditional Palestinian melody, all proceeds go to Gaza, it would be amazing for it to be Xmas no 1, but more than that, buying it is a political act 👊
Book cover for Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. The background is white. Prominently featured is a silhouette of a Black woman in profile, facing right, wearing a vibrant red and orange dress and head covering. Small, scattered red, orange, and yellow teardrop or seed shapes float around her and the text. The title "Parable of the Sower" is written in large red font on the left side. Below the title, the author's name "OCTAVIA E. BUTLER" is written in large black font.
Reading (or re-reading) this in 2025 is eerie. What a book!
How many bathrooms does one need really?
Yes, they're not identical, ML and other fields are included in the broader field of AI, that's what "X is a subset of Y" means.
Wikipedia article on machine learning.
I feel like we should agree on common definitions of artificial intelligence and machine learning. That being said, here's the beginning of the Wikipedia article on machine learning, which clearly states that it's a subfield of AI (and many other dictionaries/scientific publications say the same).
i will never tire of this meme
Machine learning is AI though, just not LLMs.
Don't just take my word for it ... @stephanielking.bsky.social and Denise Herzing provide insightful comments in this piece: www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-n...
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Here's a note I sent to our members about what we did with their money, and why we expect the Onion to outgrow the Washington Post.
We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.
Our members keep getting papers.
Cover of The Two Lies of Faven Sythe by Megan E. O'Keefe: a spaceship soaring through a purple and blue starry cosmos. In the foreground, the ship is framed by glowing crystalline structures. The title is displayed prominently in the center in light green, blue and pink, and the author's name, Megan E. O'Keefe, is written in white at the bottom.
Finished this a few days ago. I must say I'm disappointed by the flatness of the narration. There are many things to like here, smooth writing, strong characters, sapphic romance, but overall I didn't care much for the events of the story, and the world-building felt a bit rushed.
#scifi #booksky
screenshot of a YouTube video still of a chubby baby seal laying on the snow with the caption "In the glittering backlight, a fat baby seal is doing nothing special."
This might be an unpopular opinion but what this baby seal is doing is very special to me, personally.
Those movie posters are so beautifully creepy.
Hubble captured this image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on July 21, 2025, when the comet was 277 million miles from Earth. Hubble shows that the comet has a teardrop-shaped cocoon of dust coming off its solid, icy nucleus. Image: NASA, ESA, David Jewitt (UCLA); Image Processing:Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
Are NASA trolling us with the teardrop shape or have they not read Liu Cixin's Dark Forest?
#nasa #3I/ATLAS #scifi
I'm fundraising for living expenses. If I meet the goal by the 15th of November, I'll release a story that I wrote for Clarion West Writer's Workshop. It's an experimental and philosophical piece about Hypatia of Alexandria called "Knowable, Harmonious, and Good."
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Finally finished this book (not for a lack of interest, more like a case of life getting in the way) and it was really good. I could see the tangles of the plot pretty soon, but it didn't detract from the pleasure I had reading it. Warmly recommended!
Updating my LEGO White House
Tacky as shit motherfucker is such an apt description!
We should also normalize that one study doesn't a science make. Believing in conspiracies or blindly putting one's faith in misunderstood scholarship are both sides of the same coin of ignorance.
