I'm into local history, linguistics, and digital humanities. I also love privacy, so I'm likely to stay a rather silent reader here.
All this to make a handful of people richer. Not even happier, because the wealthy are some of the most miserable SOBs on the planet. Just richer.
New ScientistUnder current climate policies, 79 per cent of the world’s glaciers will disappear by 2100, endangering the water supply for 2 billion people and raising sea levels dramatically
Narrator: They did not learn any lessons from COVID. "Wash your hands" and "don't panic" is as far as they ever got with infection control. www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Vaccinate, isolate, ventilate: will we finally learn the lessons from covid this flu season?With flu surging again, Stephen Reicher and colleagues draw on the experience of covid-19 to argue that predictable winter pressures demand more than individual responsibility, they also require syste...www.bmj.com
I found I still had a couple of the process pic videos for some of my aerial embroideries! Here's one of them - 'The land is a patchwork rainbow', 2023, which was inspired by Dutch tulip fields. This embroidery landscape was so fun to create! 🌈🌷🌸 #art
My Autumn aerial embroideries I made last Autumn... I've made a start on this year's landscapes now! Lots and lots of colourful and brown trees coming soon 🧡💛🍂 including another geometric one maybe? #embroidery #art
Left: In a desperate effort to find reasonable use case, OpenAI is running ads during the baseball playoffs about how you can use ChatGPT to plan a road trip. www.youtube.com/watch?v=go4o... Right: What happens if you actually do that. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Why has no-one written a Latvian-set hardboiled detective novel called ‘Riga Mortis’?
We're Google, and we're going to brick your perfectly functional thermostat after buying the company that made it.
I'm not going to repost any of the insane antisemitic conspiracy bullshit that grok is spewing today, but it highlights how absolutely essentially is that we not let LLMs become a form of epistemic grounding for our society.
Ah, no, last week was only the end of the _world_ , the end of the _season_ is today! #doctorwho
Grupa "Jaunība" izdevusi dziesmu "Sienas" ar Elvīras Blomas dzejoļa fragmentiem. Tas ir pirmais singls no gaidāmā albuma "Daži racionāli apsvērumi".
Grupa "Jaunība" izdod pirmo dziesmu "Sienas"Tas ir pirmais singls no gaidāmā albuma "Daži racionāli apsvērumi".satori.lv