Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@social.cleverlibre.org

Extreme Heat Could Cost The U.S. Economy $100 Billion A Year https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimfoerster/2023/07/18/extreme-heat-has-broad-economic-impacts-beyond-public-safety/

A coworker misheard a discussion about movies and got the impression I’d said that Lars Von Trier had directed the new Barbie movie. Now that’s a #Barbie #movie I’d pay to see.

Crookston Castle in Glasgow. Built around 1400, it's the only surviving medieval castle in the city, and is its the second oldest building, after Glasgow Cathedral. Extensively damaged in a seige in the 1540s, it was later repaired. However, now only the northeast of the original four corner towers remains standing.

#glasgow #castle #scottishcastles #glasgowbuildings #glasgowhistory #glasgowarchitecture

‘We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come - Guardian Australia https://apple.news/A6oGzLPv4R1SjZAZV50NU7A

Right now, the Ukrainian Cultural House is burning in Mariupol.

Perseverance reveals more detail on Martian organic chemistry https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/07/12/perseverance_data_provides_more_detail/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Polish kids brought to Nazi Germany to do hard labor for the Third Reich, 1940

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#NoRussiansInTheOlympics
⚠️⛔️International Gymnastics Federation allows Russians and Belarusians to compete on condition setting up IOC showdown (more) https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/07/19/7412071/ #Ukraine #Press #News #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive #TroopsDieAsAlliesStallJets
#USputsOilB4Food

'Parental discretion advised': Marjorie Taylor Greene displays explicit photos of Hunter Biden at hearing https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-hunter-biden-2662304473/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

💙💛 😠 The son of the designer of the Russian Lancets works for the UN, and his wife lives in Britain

But the big question for Western institutions is why do these relatives of terrorists live and work successfully in international institutions? They are also engaged in "disarmament".

#ukraine #ukrainewar #warinukraine #russia #loiteringmunition #kamikazedrone #suicidedrone #loiteringmissile

BREAKING: Bernie Kerik exploring FLIPPING on Trump, setting up voluntary meeting with DOJ and Jack Smith's team, and Kerik has NOT received a target letter.

Not surprising, given that Kerik is often attached at the hip with Rudy Giuliani -- and Giuliani appears to have filpped.

Fraudster who was granted clemency by Trump is accused of running massive Ponzi scheme: Feds https://www.rawstory.com/eliyahu-weinstein/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Josh Hawley are going to introduce a new bill that would outright ban ownership of individual stocks by members of Congress and their aides
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#catart

Reasonable people, in ignorance: "no one is saying we should [take unreasonable actions]"

Zealots: "We must immediately [take unreasonable actions] and more, just this is not enough!"

Ladybird beetles: a gallery.

#Insects #photography #Coccinellidae

https://www.alexanderwild.com/Insects/Coleoptera-Beetles/Coccinellidae

It's a bit perverse to put images or writing *online* which allows free global access by anyone and then say "oh, but don't crawl my site for AI training."

Wut?

Unless something is password protected or behind a paywall, there's nothing to stop any human or machine from *looking at* or downloading that thing.

It's been 25 years since the internet became the world's information hub. And by definition that means good and bad actors alike have access to your online data.

Yes, we have the DMCA and other copyright protections in place. No, being online doesn't grant someone else usage rights to *duplicate* posted content.

However as a practical matter copyright only covers unauthorized direct re-use of someone else's content. It does not and CANNOT cover merely *looking at* the content.

And that is what AI training is. What is it NOT, is "plagiarism" or "theft."

Text and image generators are NOT duplicating. They are creating new, original content. Crucially, they draw from a wide range of sources, just as a human would, meaning that there is no single copyright claim to be made based on content influences. It would be impossible to tease out every individual influence in AI art, just as it would be for human art.

This is why copyright claims on AI art are almost certain to fail in court. If they succeeded, it would open an epic legal and ethical can of worms that would be used to stifle art for generations.

#llm #generativeart #aiart #plagiarism #theft

Today in 1976, 47 years ago: in Nepal the Sagarmatha National Park is created (where Mount Everest is located).

#OnThisDay

Ars Technica: US military leans into megaconstellations after their “resiliency” in Ukraine https://arstechnica.com/?p=1955030 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #spacesituationalawareness #Science #Space #space