szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

I have thus far been an AI optimist, believing that it's a powerful tool with the potential for good that is being put to the wrong uses by unscrupulous types

But now? Shut it all down and scour it from the face of the Earth

https://twitter.com/kaunisluoto/status/1699114093800534017

I love it when my interests in paleontology and rail transport intersect!

"Fossil of an extinct 30-million-old crab discovered in a pillar at Tokyo Station"

https://soranews24.com/2023/08/05/fossil-of-an-extinct-crab-discovered-in-a-pillar-at-tokyo-station/

The Great Squid People used to ride the gleaming white chalk roads in great glass globes of water pulled by teams of clattering crabs.

But then the deers took over, a Dark Age came when the roads were covered with grass.

I finished my #Duolingo #Ukrainian language course with a 542 streak. The helpful pressure of doing daily lessons is over 😢 .
What now? 🤔
I'm far from being fluent. Exploring a few options to keep learning. Any suggestions from Ukrainian learners?

Well... School just started & 3 out of 30 children in my 5th grader's class have already tested positive for COVID. 😷

Be careful out there folks!

Tesla Europe needed a way of moving employees at their factory outside Berlin. So they did they Tesla thing, and dug a tunnel and filled it with self-driving cars.

No of course not, they got a train.

Czy może mi ktoś wyjaśnić, dlaczego biblioteki wycofują prawie nowe książki ze zbiorów?
Rozumiem, że może było mało czytelników, ale:
1. Książka w stanie prawie idealnym
2. To klasyk i ważny autor
Jeśli nawet przez 10 lat nie miała czytelników, to na pewno znaleźliby się później.

Techbros: self driving cars are inevitable!

Also techbros: prove you are human by performing a task that computers can’t do, like identifying traffic lights.

If you listen closely to the Starlink satellites as they go overhead, you can hear them cry out “nationalize meeeeeeeeeee”

Did you know? The OSM.org CDN handles 2.8 billion map tile image requests *per day*! 🤯🤯🗺🗺 That's a lot of maps!

Checkout how @pnorman and the rest of @osm_tech analyse the log files to learn how OSM.org is used.
🌐 <https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/pnorman/diary/402291>
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #gischat
(Thanks to Fastly for the CDN 🙏)

The European Commission has hinted it might review the high protection status of wolves on the back of increasing tension around the predator in rural areas, but the move has been slammed by environmentalists as a political pandering ahead of upcomin https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/eu-considers-reopening-wolves-high-protection-status-as-rural-tensions-mount/ source/editor : Natasha Foote

I co, znów "policjant", nie "haker"? 🤣
https://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/afera-e-mailowa-nieoficjalnie-abw-weszla-do-domu-policjanta-z-poznania/fw7hryv,79cfc278

#Polska

#TREETRUNKTUESDAY #ThickTrunkTuesday
A tiny blep in the second picture.
#dogs #dog #rescuedogs #DogsOfMastodon #AdoptDontShop #photography #fujifilm #Bleptember

Jedna z technologi za którą mocno trzymam kciuki wchodzi pod strzechy. Chodzi o magazyny energii oparte o Wanad.

Magazyn 50kWh, ale co najważniejsze... dają gwarancję na ponad 10 tys. cykli... czyli na ponad 20 lat codziennego ładowania i rozładowywania do pełna.
Znając technologie redox-flow prawdopodobnie po tym czasie wystarczy jeden sprytny zabieg aby magazyn powrócił do swojej nominalnej pojemności.

https://voltstorage.com/en/products/commercial

Sam wanad jest obojętny dla środowiska, występuje bardzo pospolicie i na codzień macie z nim przyjmność we wszelkich dużych konstrukacjach stalowych (budynki etc.).
Można go w pełni odzyskiwać.

Niestety ceny nigdzie nie podają... wysłałem zapytanie o ofertę.

Przykładowo... serwerownia Fundacji zużywa około 10kWh dziennie... więc taki magazyn spokojnie wystarczy na 5 dni pracy bez słońca... a że zawsze coś wpada (nawet w grudniu) to spokojnie na tydzień.

Inny przykład... boiler ciepłej wody który zainstalowalem ostatnio w domu (by nie używać gazu) zużywa 90kWh miesięcznie dla dwóch dorosłych osób... więc na samą ciepłą wodę starczył by na pół miesiąca zupełnie bez źródła prądu!

THREAD: This is harrowing. Saudi Arabia wanted the names of 6000 anonymous Arab Spring dissidents from Twitter. At first, MBS tried to get their names using EDRs - requests under emergency circumstances. When that proved cumbersome, KSA basically bought Twitter.

▪️They did so by threatening to pull twitter out of their market (biggest in the Middle East) and by offering to invest in heavily in Twitter. They also positioned two spies inside Twitter who helped funnel the personal information on dissidents out of Twitter to KSA

▪️In 2011, they invested $300M. In 2022, MBS bought that investment for $1.5B, worth $1.9B later that year, making KSA (The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) the biggest shareholder of Twitter behind Elon Musk.

▪️The two KSA spies inside Twitter INFORMED Twitter that the personally identifying information they were gathering was for the Saudi Government. One received money and gifts from the KSA in exchange for the user data including $300K and a nice job after he fled the US.

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There's someone who *only* posts either about looking for followers among vulnerable groups *or* about the latest terrible things that have befallen them that mean they need money.

I followed them the first time I saw them looking for disabled people to connect with. I introduced myself. They never responded. They never talked about their life except to ask for money. I just... I don't know folks. I see people boosting the posts and I worry.

I have had to e-beg>

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