Wonderboyfrommars

@wonderboyfrommars
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Software dev, gamer and adoring everything beautiful
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
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
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
@tomshardware just advertising talk to boost #nvidia stock. Such talk is not surprising from tech CEOs to make even more money and we heard stuff like that before. But I think someday the act of coding will be some sort of niche. Someone needs to code the AI 🥸
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

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
@stopthatgirl7 same here. Mine is barely one year old. This thing was not available for a long time for many people. But hopefully many good games are still in line... exclusive or not doesn’t matter
Spotted at Düsseldorfer carnival. Spot on
"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