@rexi

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Life's too short and the world too small for silly fights. Thuggish science vermin within who believes bullets have no right to privacy. Pretender at the end of a long trail of lucky hunches. Physics buffery as world-weariness refuge. Fish on a bike. ⮌
locale:Rockwood, #PDX

RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116318049958911669

#Oregon legislators should consider our own state law restricting #Palantir use!

#pdx #portland #ice

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/arctic-sea-ice-shrank-to-tie-its-lowest-winter-level-as-unprecedented-heat-shatters-records-globally

"…when there's less white ice reflecting the strong summer sun, the oceans can absorb more heat. And when that happens, the Arctic warms closer to temperatures further south and atmospheric pressure changes. A leading theory…says those Arctic changes then alter the movement and shape of the jet stream, which moves weather west to east and contributes to extreme weather bursts," so National Snow and Ice Data Center's senior scientist Walt Meier.

Arctic sea ice shrank to tie its lowest winter level as unprecedented heat shatters records globally

Vital Arctic sea ice shrank to tie its lowest measured level for the winter, the season when ice grows, as a warming Earth shattered records across the continents.

PBS News

@infobeautiful

some places measure up a little stronger...still, though, freaking huge.

#Alaska

https://apnews.com/article/russia-iran-drones-shahed-war-israel-ukraine-840b4f885d99714bdb7813c0d56213cf

(Trump lets his homey Putin play hero blockade-running for Cuba while his drones and intel are killing Americans in the Persian Gulf)

…European official said their intelligence suggests a drone shipment is on its way, but that they could not confirm exactly how the drones are being transported. Two convoys of trucks carrying what Russia has described as humanitarian aid have traveled to Iran from Russia via Azerbaijan and it’s possible they could contain drones…

Iran is getting upgraded drones from Moscow amid Middle East tensions, officials say

U.S. and European officials have told The Associated Press that Russia is sending a shipment of drones to Iran including upgraded versions of the drone technology that Tehran originally supplied to Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine. The European official said the two sides have been holding active discussions throughout March about transferring the drones from Russia to Iran. It's not clear if the delivery is a one-time shipment or the first in a series. And the officials say they don't know the number of drones being sent. The Kremlin has denied the reports. The officials say the upgraded drones could carry more advanced anti-jamming technology, cameras, or use satellite internet.

AP News

@JulianOliver

what did we really expect from lonely rich sophomore who pilfered software for bro-rating college girls anyway?

Expect the incentive to be too big for the 1% to ignore: conferring legal personhood to AI by proxy, as an extension of corporate personhood, will seem imperative.

This lets humans who were, and are, in the loop about dangerous or deadly actions taken by an AI—‌agentic or otherwise—‌to remain without legal or financial culpability for those crimes.

Unlikely our Supreme Court will have the bandwidth to see the downstream implications, and this will make "Citizen’s United" seem insignificant.

Pulse of Life, by The Sentinel

from the album Freezone 2: Variations on a Chill Prt.1

Freezone Records

As far as I can determine, there is no positive or negative correlation to any desired outcomes from witnessing DJT's verbal expressions in any audio-visual format from an information gathering perspective.

None. An absolute waste of time informationaly.

That said, the callous ignorance and constant casual deceptivity to be parsed while witnessing it leave deep psychological perturbations.

Expect the incentive to be too big for the 1% to ignore: conferring legal personhood to AI by proxy, as an extension of corporate personhood, will seem imperative.

This lets humans who were, and are, in the loop about dangerous or deadly actions taken by an AI—‌agentic or otherwise—‌to remain without legal or financial culpability for those crimes.

Unlikely our Supreme Court will have the bandwidth to see the downstream implications, and this will make "Citizen’s United" seem insignificant.

which is my excuse for subjecting the fediverse to my incessant meme generation