People are afraid of all sorts of outlandish AI apocalypse scenarios, but the only one I'm scared of (besides the massive increase in CO₂ emissions) is the facilitation of mass surveillance. The only thing LLMs are really good at is summarising. The thing that your local conspiracy nut has been afraid of all these years — that everyone is being personally watched at all times — has never before been practical. Now it is.

#AI #AIapocalypse #AIpanopticon

The fell beasts riden by the flying Nazgûl are, according to Tolkien himself, not pterosaurs but do resemble them and may have been a survivor of older geological eras. They are also described as having skin stretched between wing fingers, more like bat wings than pterosaur wings. I therefore conclude that the fell beasts are giant scansoriopterygids.

#LotR #Tolkien #pterosaurs #scansoriopterygids #dinosaurs

Today, I was asked about effective air cleaners, because wildfires have already begun to flare in North America.

Extensive global testing has found that a DIY #CorsiRosenthalBox will outperform almost every commercial HEPA unit while costing less to run.

For the US & Canada, the best source of filters to build one is Costco: Filtrete 1900, 2200, or 2500 models with at least one 20-inch dimension.

These units also help mitigate allergens and infectious aerosols like #Covid and Influenza.

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Sharing this graphic to help put today's attacks by the Tories on cyclists into some kind of perspective.

Their hate has real world implications, from cyclists being less safe as a result of harassment/attacks and by shifting the discussion away from the infrastructure improvements that would make everyone's lives better and safer.

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