on constant change (hopefully for good)
"The choices and actions implemented in this decade will have impacts now and for thousands of years" - IPCC AR6 SyR
https://ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/
#biodiversity #Biodiversität #ClimateChange #overshoot #degrowth #nature #Natur #energy #Energie #Klimakatastrophe #climateaction #climatecrisis #Klimakrise
If you want a rigorous analysis of why statistical #AI models collapse when continuously trained on their own data without external supervision and constraints, read this amazing paper from last year.
If you want to get a visual intuition of how model collapse looks like, look at this video.
When AI stares at its own reflection for too long, and its inference is purely rooted on statistics rather than reasoning, this becomes statistically inevitable.
Keep this in mind whenever you hear someone talking about “AI models learning from their own outputs” without addressing the statistical parrot issue.
George Clooney is an actor.
Put him in the role of a surgeon in front of a camera, and he will do and say things the average non-surgeon viewer will agree are surgeonish. After an hour of that, we are, as average non-surgeon viewers, satisfied and entertained.
Put him in an operating theatre, and the patient will fucking die because he's not a surgeon and knows nothing about really doing surgery.
This is a post about LLMs.
I was totally shocked to read this post from Antonio Guterres. After he called out the "moral failure" at COP30 he posts a hopium-laden message that "the Paris Agreement is working". He argues that without the PA the world would be heading to 4°C and then moves on to falsely state that we head to 2.5°C... This is a very disappointing message from someone who is known for calling things as they are.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/paris-agreement-working-ant%C3%B3nio-guterres-lfhfe/
Where in the world are wealth and income most unequal?
"The richest 10 % of the world’s population owns three-quarters of all personal wealth."
"The richest 10 % of the world’s population now owns three-quarters of all personal wealth, according to the ... World Inequality Report 2026."
"...the top 50 percent of earners take home more than 90 % [of income], while the poorest half of the world receives less than 10 %..."
#capitalism #inequality #economy
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/10/where-in-the-world-are-wealth-and-income-most-unequal
15 min
AMOC is shutting down.
The point which Rahmstorf declares it to the room you can feel the emotion as the information sinks into the audience.
For Europe in particular, this is world altering news. It doesn’t matter if you get rid CO2 emissions anymore, a threshold has passed and it’s on its way to do whatever it’s going to do.
The world had better deal with it, particularly Europe.
#JamesHansen #LeonSimons #ClimateScience #climatechange #globalWarming
Original open access article
Hansen et al. 2023, Oxford Open Climate Change 3(1):kgad008
Global warming in the pipeline
#StefanRahmstorf #GrantFoster #ClimateScience #climatechange #globalWarming
Original open access article, pre-print
Rahmstorf & Foster 03 March 2025, Research Square
Global Warming has Accelerated Significantly
Recent record-hot years have caused a discussion whether global warming has accelerated, but previous analysis found that acceleration has not yet reached a 95% confidence level given the natural temperature variability. Here we account for the influence of three main natural variability fact...
do you also hate how annoying most of the internet has become little by little within like one or two decades or so? you can't read through most web pages without being incessantly bombarded by ads, videos and links and, to makes things worse, the content creators, if it isn't an ai, write in a way to try to make you read -no, not read, scroll- as long as possible so you get more ad exposure. all for the ads, all for the clicks.
Dear Fedi friends.
As some of you may know, I have a wonderful daughter Lila who had a severe form of epilepsy at the age of 5 months. This epilepsy is called West Syndrome.
We had to go through a hell of a treatment to stop her seizures. The thing that helped her was called "Synacthene Retard". It's basically ACTH, a synthetic hormone similar to adrenocorticotropic hormone produced by our anterior pituitary gland.
My daughter was one of the last kids who had a chance to get the Synacthene Retard from the lab that produced it (Alpha Sigma). This was late March 2024. And in May 2024 Alpha Sigma said they discontinued this product without ANY public explanation.
I am trying to inquire about the disappearance of Synacthene Retard from French pharmacies. I am looking for contacts of a medical journalist or an expert in pharmaceutics to help me lead this investigation. It may save lives of dozens of other kids with that suffer from West Syndrome. Thank you!
janhoglund
Fabio Manganiello
Mx. Eddie R
GhostOnTheHalfShell
Ivi Choc
xeniax ⏚