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“Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida.” Via 404 media
Replace AI with ANY other business and you’d STILL end up with the most self indulgent, completely meaningless speeches
That’s the common thread I see in AI hype like this.
It’s all just deeply devoid of humanity. Grads deserve so much better.
RE: https://mastodon.online/@WikiPicBot/116600184708155093
Finally I understand the weird parallel cruise-ship-smokestacks on big freestanding Cinemark theaters.
Trump is looking to create a $1.7 billion fund to do precisely what he accuses Soros of: paying protestors.
Every accusation is a confession.
RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116589746099103602
At the same time there's a trend toward guys (not seen this yet from a woman) to dismiss water depletion/contamination, noise pollution, air pollution, heat island effects & grid impacts as "crank science" because there have been a few exaggerated claims w.r.t. heat or water & crank-science about infrasound exists.
These are REAL, WELL-DOCUMENTED PROBLEMS, & that's not changed by the fact that a few cranks have published on infrasound now & then.
#WritersCoffeeClub 5/17. If you work exclusively digitally, could you work by hand? (_Or vice-versa!_)
I would work differently, for sure, but I could do it. I'm not especially productive right now so I don't know what impact would be, but I certainly wouldn't be able to match my best productivity.
Caveat that if I had to use a manual typewriter it would be pretty hard: the arthritis which has dogged me for 40ish years is really just starting to heat up these last 4 or 5.
Is there a Fedi service that aggregate all the links posted from my followers into one RSS feed that I can subscribe to for the times that I don’t log onto the Fediverse? I did find mastodon to RSS but that uses an algorithm to only show the links that are most clicked, and I want a service that shares every link that my followers post even if no one clicks on it.
I am not looking to self host. I’m looking for a fully managed service.
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