George Browning: The reason for Pete Hegseth, Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump’s Iranian conflict has not been properly documented. Its primary cause is not military threat but religious nationalism.
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When all necessity for connection with other humans has been erased and curiosity, memory, discovery, creativity have become redundant are we still human?
Humans will anthropomorphize anything: clouds, burnt toast, pets. AGI is marketing hype. It's just code. The real danger of AI is that people are beginning to delegate life and death decisions to pattern-matching software that will never achieve any kind of human intelligence.
It's amazing to see George Carlin predict our truly shitty current situation here in America, decades ago in his stand-up.
The man was a genius and a prophet. Damn, I miss him.
“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side
all the arguments, "We cant subsidies' renewables!!!11!!"
"wind farms destroy land!!11!"
"Solar farms destroy land!1!!!!
Wont someone think of the environment..
whatever..
Meanwhile, taxpayers, once again, foot the bill for cleaning up another abandoned coal mine.. #auspol
What a brilliant example for little Aussie kids. Even if you grow up in public housing you can still aspire to stand next to a corrupt pathological narcissist, compulsive liar, sex abusing bully who’s destroying the world order, the global economy and the environment, smile and get a selfie
A blue dot in the distance.
To see these electric blue delights skipping around brings me much joy.
A male white-winged fairywren on the farm near Quorn, South Australia.
#wrensday
Another photo of the famous Cazneaux Tree, this time backlit by the setting sun.
This river red gum was made famous by Harold Cazneaux who took a photo of it in 1937 that he titled 'The Spirit of Endurance'.
Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park, South Australia.
🔥 @ayman.msnbc.com : “Question — what is the approved way to support Palestinians? What is an acceptable method? Which protest is quiet enough? Which boycott is gentle enough? Which flag is small enough? Which act of solidarity is ineffective enough to earn your approval?”
Breaking: Linda Hurley, wife of former Australian Governor General, General David Hurley, has withdrawn from the Ed Sheeran tour.
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"An AI agent went rogue" also feels like a test drive for an era when no one is responsible for the worst things these products do. Seems like a standard that could be really convenient for certain governments.