Mastodawn

Wonderboyfrommars Jul 3, 2024

Gerard Jul 3, 2024

The #SCOTUS just completed #Trump’s January 6 #coup attempt

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/03/supreme-court-trump-coup-attempt

The US supreme court just completed Trump’s January 6 coup attempt

The court’s conservative justices have thrown aside the rule of law – and their own legitimacy – to serve one man

The Guardian

Wonderboyfrommars May 27, 2024

Jan Wildeboer 😷

May 25, 2024

One of the first official acts of the new far-right coalition in the Netherlands: raise sales tax on books, concert and theater tickets from 9% to 21%. Straight from the tyrants manual. https://nltimes.nl/2024/05/16/dutch-sales-tax-books-concerts-theater-tickets-will-rise-9-21-percent

Dutch sales tax on books, concerts, theater tickets will rise from 9 to 21 percent

The four parties that negotiated a new governing coalition in the Netherlands plan to increase the value added tax on accommodations, books, concerts, museums, theater performances, and visits to events and attractions. These currently are subjected to a lower tax rate of 9 percent, but that will swell to the upper sales tax rate of 21 percent paid for most goods and services in the Netherlands, the PVV, VVD, NSC and BBB stated in their agreement.

NL Times

Wonderboyfrommars Mar 4, 2024

Interesting article about the arrival of #AGI and possible outcome to the human workforce. This would possibly reshape our understanding of our society... https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2023/12/Scenario-Planning-for-an-AGI-future-Anton-korinek

Scenario Planning for an AGI Future-Anton Korinek

AI may be on a trajectory to surpass human intelligence; we should be prepared

IMF

Wonderboyfrommars Feb 24, 2024

Volksverpetzer Feb 24, 2024

Neues Update unserer Demo-Karte: Über 950 Demos und konservativ geschätzt 3,7 Millionen Menschen, die gegen AfD und Rechtsextremismus demonstriert haben. Und es reißt nicht ab: https://www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/demo-auf-strasse-uebersicht-132/?utm_source=mstdn

3,5 Millionen auf den Straßen: Die große Demo-Übersicht!

Eine unglaubliche Menge an Menschen geht derzeit gegen die AfD auf die Straße. Hier die fortlaufend aktualisierte Demo-Übersicht. Alle Demos, alle Karten! Allein am Samstag, den 20. waren es über 350.000 Menschen.

Volksverpetzer

Wonderboyfrommars Feb 15, 2024

Techmeme Feb 15, 2024

A look at robots.txt, a good will-based social contract governing the behavior of web crawlers, as experts call for more rigid tools for managing AI crawlers (David Pierce/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/24067997/robots-txt-ai-text-file-web-crawlers-spiders
http://www.techmeme.com/240215/p9#a240215p9

The text file that runs the internet

For decades, a humble text file governed the behavior of web scrapers. But as the AI industry grows, the social contract of robots.txt is falling apart.

The Verge

Wonderboyfrommars Feb 12, 2024

Spotted at Düsseldorfer carnival. Spot on

Wonderboyfrommars Feb 12, 2024

Ukraine News Feb 12, 2024

"After Putin's interview, the former president of Mongolia trolled Putin with historical maps. 'After talking to Putin, I found a historical map of Mongolia. Don't worry, we are a peaceful and free nation,' wrote Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj on social media." #Mongolia #Putin