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"The product [GPT4] has reshaped the tech industry"
No, it hasn't. It has reshaped what credulous muppets spend their time focusing on. Most of the tech industry is still writing buggy C and Java while failing to patch virtual machines running end-of-life versions of Windows.
Most of the tech industry is engaged in thoroughly boring things, just like every other industry.

Between groundbreaking new engines for cars by Toyota and groundbreaking new drive trains by Hyundai, all released over the past year, I'm stunned to see all this new potential unleashed when it comes to car design.

And so much of it came about, simply because the industry is feeling the pressure to go green(er). The end result being vehicles that are lighter, more spacious, more efficient...

Nobody knows what cars will be like in ten years. And that's an absolutely wonderful thing.

“We’re trying to be the neighborhood’s communication department” said Duaba, Confluence Studio’s co-founder, while standing inside a shipping container-turned print shop in South Minneapolis. “We worked with neighbors,” said Confluence’s other co-founder Sam, “to collaboratively construct this idea of what a newsroom for neighbors could be.”

https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/the-neighborhoods-communication-department-confluence-studios-print-shop/

'The Neighborhood's Communication Department' — Confluence Studio's Print Shop - UNICORN RIOT

Confluence Studio's 'Autonomous Mobile Media Unit' is a radical print shop near the ruins of the Minneapolis Police Third Precinct building.

UNICORN RIOT

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Rosalynn Carter, tireless mental health activist, wonderful human & former First Lady, has died at the age of 96. — May she rest in peace. 🕊️💫

This is the future we could have had. They took this from us.

#retrocomputing

The anti-science movement is "organized, it’s well-financed, and it’s politically motivated. It’s doing a lot of damage to the country and to American science and scientists. And now it’s become a lethal force." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vaccine-scientist-warns-antiscience-conspiracies-have-become-a-deadly-organized-movement/
Vaccine Scientist Warns Antiscience Conspiracies Have Become a Deadly, Organized Movement

Vaccinologist Peter Hotez explains how the movement to oppose science and scientists has gained power

Scientific American

Clearing of mangrove forests along the Naf River in southern Bangladesh was the main driver for the extinction of the long-tailed macaque in Bangladesh, according to longtime experts on the species.

From an estimated 253 of the monkeys in 1981, the population plunged to just five individuals in 2010, then three in 2012, before it was declared extinct in the country in 2022.

by Rafiqul Islam
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/habitat-loss-drove-long-tailed-macaques-extinct-in-bangladesh-experts-say/

#News #Conservation #Environment #Wildlife #Animals #Bangladesh

Habitat loss drove long-tailed macaques extinct in Bangladesh, experts say

DHAKA — Experts point to habitat loss from a wide range of factors as the main reason the long-tailed macaque, one of the most widely distributed monkey species in the world, has gone extinct from Bangladesh. The mangrove forests of the southern district of Cox’s Bazar once constituted the northernmost reach of the species’ range […]

Mongabay Environmental News

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Protect Wisconsin’s wildlife from hound hunting

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