Thomas Escritt

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Here is a subtle and important point that Jessica Huseman understands better than either the New York Times or the Washington Post right now: Journalists have an obligation to give the government (or anyone) the opportunity to respond to criticism, but that doesn’t mean they then must publish any non-responsive rant the government then generates. https://masto.ai/@socprof/115029299175030948

I'm pretty sure, it is not a new idea, but as I was waiting for the bus, it suddenly struck me:

LLMs (falsely called "ai") are a cargo cult.

Some people dropped a few boxes with apparently magic qualities on this planet, and we're increasingly rebuilding all our civilisation around them.

Life imitates art

#Cats #Caturday

@kattascha absolutely amazed this exists. “Our app to manipulate children’s emotions” is the literal pitch!

This is the surface of a comet! Dust is swirling around the surface of Comet 67/P -- captured in 2016 by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft, processing by Jacint Roger Perez.

Still one of the most remarkable scenes in space exploration.

#space #science #astronomy #ESA

Hadden we nou maar een naam voor windvangende "vleugels" op een schip. Het ligt op het puntje van mijn tong....

Sad that Jan Wouter, at whose regular cinema soirées I first saw the exquisite Mädchen in Uniform (1931) has died, aged 80

https://youtu.be/fv8itsR63lU?si=QR4Hb4UHjMqSdMZv

mädchen in uniform (1931) – english subtitles

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I found this funnier than I should have.
Der Glöckner von Notre Dame arbeitet übrigens nur von Montag bis Donnerstag. Also quasi Mo-Do.