Jonathan O’Donnell

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@aeduna I assume you've seen this article on glacier archaeology (and associated socials).
https://archaeology.org/issues/september-october-2013/letters-from/glaciers-ice-patches-norway-global-warming/
Letter from Norway - The Big Melt - Archaeology Magazine - September/October 2013

The race to find, and save, ancient artifacts emerging from glaciers and ice patches in a warming world

Archaeology Magazine
I always spend my weekends in the appropriate PPE, safety first

Again and again, people act like this technology is inevitable somehow, but it spits out absolute bullshit, is ludicrously expensive to operate, contributes to misinformation, and to fully utilize we would have to remake our whole power grid.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/23/microsoft-tries-to-launder-responsibility-for-copilot-ai-calling-someone-a-child-abuser/

Microsoft tries to launder responsibility for Copilot AI calling someone a child abuser

Martin Bernklau is a German journalist who reported for decades on criminal trials. He looked himself up on Bing, which suggests you use its Copilot AI. Copilot then listed a string of crimes Bernk…

Pivot to AI
@errantscience One of the issues we had closing the campus for lockdown was millions of dollars worth of equipment that ran 24x7 and was out of warranty. If we turned it off, we didn't know if we would be able to turn it on again.
@errantscience At first, I read this as 'supervillians'. Do they get to pretend they have days off?
Not all supervisors follow this flow diagram, some just do the box in the right hand bottom corner
@david This is the sort of excellent content that I am here for.

Closed-captioned seal has me screaming.
mibph! AAAAAAAA! fibsh!! brehh!

(I have no idea how to alt-text this, it's a video of an arctic seal on the ice making all kinds of noises, which someone attempted to caption in a language unknown to humans.)

(It’s been suggested to me that maybe all it wants is to be left alone for a nap, which is very likely, OR maybe it's trying to warn us of some impending natural disaster? Like the entire Arctic ice cap melting? They know).

@ewen Just magic!