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Right-wing candidate Karol Nawrocki wins after close race, official results show - theguardian.com/world/live/202… that's a pity #poland




De vraag hoe kunst van invloed kan zijn op maatschappelijke vernieuwing houdt componist Louis Andriessen begin jaren zeventig in zijn greep. Alles in hem kolkt, de kurk knalt eraf. Maar eenvoudig is het niet. groene.nl/artikel/altijd-zijn-…


canadian children: please mother may we have Ball

mother: we have Ball at home

Ball at home:



Oggi è il 2 giugno, festa della Repubblica. Ma l'Italia clericale (pure con un governo che si proclama "sovranista") è suddita del #Vaticano. Tra le perle, le email istituzionali di Palazzo Chigi per "promuovere la condivisione della parola di Dio".👇
blog.uaar.it/2025/03/03/cleric…


Our identities are not always set in stone; it's OK if yours changes!

Infinite diversity in infinite combinations! 🖖

#Pride #QueerPride #Pride2025
#IDIC #Queer

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Het gevolg “van onze geintensiveerde spul-lenverslaving, … de opdringerigheid van de industrie, die ons op agressieve wijze aan een koopinfuus houdt” en van “overheden die het maar laten gebeuren”? Een plastic lepel in je hersenpan. Letterlijk. Confronterende column van Kelli van der Waals in @Trouw:


US veterans agency orders scientists not to publish in journals without clearance - theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j… "Move that seeks political control of doctors’ and scientists’ published research fits a pattern of censorship by the Trump administration, veterans advocates say"

in reply to Glyn Moody

Today I learnt the word "fissiparous", meaning tending towards divisiveness or scattering!

[truly an ugly sounding word, with its hissing sound, don't you think?]




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Die #Anstalt zum Thema #Kunststoff.
Es ist alles noch viel schlimmer als man denkt.
zdf.de/video/shows/die-anstalt…




Very good points, a reply to a CEO who wondered why his engineers were resistant to using LLMs for coding:
in reply to LillyLyle/Count Melancholia

In fact, #AI systems are being caught left and right trying to #viralize their shit, breaking out of systems, and copy themselves like a #worm to the point that they are more "#viral" than the #AGPLv3"* and certainly more than the #GPL as per #Microsoft's #HalloweenDocuments.

  • At best all those "AI" tools are just #WastefulComputing that shits out #AIslop that is worse than the most demotivated & unpaid intern can come up or they literally want to break out of their "#containment" as if they were sentient (which they ain't - at least almost all are)!
in reply to Kevin Karhan

I'd be very wary of using anthropomorphic terms like "want" and "trying" as it can make people think that transformer algorithms like LLMs have a consciousness (something people are already doing).

On another note, though, "sentience" is often misused, but not here. It just means being aware of one's own condition. A cow knows when it's wet, or cold, or hot, so a cow is sentient. LLMs generally have no such awareness, they are not sentient.