Prudence and Adventure on the1906 National Bank of Scotland on St Enoch Square in Glasgow. They were created by Phyllis Archibald, the only female sculptor I know of whose work adorns an Edwardian or Victorian building in the city.
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They're putting blue food coloring in everything
"Why is my burger blue?" I asked, innocently. "Oh! We're making all of our food blue, all the best restaurants are doing it now." the waiter explained. But I didn't want my burger to be blue.Luna Winters (Luna's Blog)
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Getting More From Manure: Denmark Trip Shows Pennsylvanians the Possibilities of Biogas | Agriculture Business & Agritourism News
If you want a sense of what Pennsylvania’s biogas industry could become, and how farmers could benefit, look to Denmark.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Anthropic’s cofounder has shared provocative predictions
1. Smarter than human AI (AGI) will arrive in 2-3 years.
2. AGI will lead to 20% unemployment rates.
3. AGI will lead to abundance as AI can solve all of humanity’s problems.
4. The big risk is we can’t control an AI smarter than us and it turns out to be evil.
Seems to miss the obvious risk of evil governments or corporations using the AGI in ways that harm people. Arguably we’re already there today with Gen AI.
Here’s why Jeffrey Epstein’s tangled web is conspiratorial catnip
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-07-20/trump-jeffrey-epstein-sex-power-government-conspiracy?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Jeffrey Epstein presents elements of a classic conspiracy
Combining an ancient trope with modern cynicism, the sex-trafficking scandal has ingredients that keep it fresh long after other conspiracies faded. President Trump used it for political gain.Mark Z. Barabak (Los Angeles Times)
Norway Seabirds | National Sports
In one of the top Arctic birding destinations in the world, environmental and health challenges are threatening some of the seabirds that are part of Norway’sBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
The word 'ye' in names such as Ye Olde Inn ('the old inn') was originally simply pronounced 'the'.
The pronunciation with y is due to a misinterpretation of the first letter.
'Ye' originated as a second-best way of writing 'þe'. The first letter, þ, was called thorn. It was a letter for the th sound that originated in Old English.
Where did þ come from? How did it disappear? And why was it substituted by y in the word 'ye'?
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Wild Hydrangea - Grow Native!
Large clusters of flat, creamy white, flowers open in June and last for many weeks. Plants bloom most of the summer. Pollen-rich flowers attract many insects. Plants form rounded mounds. […]Grow Native!
Pro-Palestinian Protest Featured Hanged Skeletons in Holocaust Uniforms ━ The European Conservative
Swedish police have launched a criminal investigation into whether a pro-Palestinian demonstration in the northern university town of Umeå constitutedBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
As part of the President of Ukraine’s Bring Kids Back UA initiative, tennis players Elina Svitolina met with Ukrainian children who had been returned from temporarily occupied territories and deportation.
This was more than just a sports event it was a moment when children could simply be children again: laughing, playing, and feeling safe.
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Notes on Infinity by Austin Taylor: Review by Paul Di Filippo
Notes on Infinity , Austin Taylor (Celadon 978-1250376107, hardcover, 400pp, $29.99) June 2025. In a vanished era, before science fiction was a well-known commonplace commodity whose dimensions and…Locus Online
/3 I have no issues with training after a meal beyond preferring to wait at least half-an-hour.
Oh, I also take various vitamins, minerals, and amino acids in pill or softgel form.
I also take naps! Not every single day, but probably more days with naps than without in a week. And I try to get plenty of sleep. I have a lifetime of insomnia and bad sleep habits behind me. I still stay up too late. But I try to sleep until I'm well rested.
@SebastianKa83 Bezüglich Calisthenics: es müsste gesagt werden, dass ich klein bin. Ich bin 160 groß. Das macht einen Unterschied! Es gibt mir einen deutlichen Vorteil bei Dingen wie Liegestützen und Klimmzügen.
Mit meiner Schulterbeeinträchtigung (hauptsächlich rechts) die letzten Monaten, sind meine Klimmzüge viel schwerer geworden, ich kann momentan nur etwa 14-15 schaffen, obwohl ich vor vier Monaten 22 pronativ und 24 supinativ in einem Set machen konnte. Aber Liegestütze bleiben fein.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), led by Mehmet Oz, announced the move on Thursday, saying that it has informed states of a “clear shift away from policies that extend beyond statutory limits,”
specifically restricting Section 1115 waivers that have been sought and approved in dozens of statesacross the U.S.
“CMS will allow currently approved initiatives to run out their course but does not anticipate extending them nor approving new waivers,”
the agency said in a statement, which came less than two weeks after Donald Trump signed into law the largest Medicaid cuts in U.S. history.
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'Terrible Development': Trump Admin Restricts State Efforts to Help Kids Stay on Medicaid
"The Trump administration will stop at nothing to rip coverage away from American families, even kids they claim they want to protect," said Sen. Ron Wyden.jake-johnson (Common Dreams)
Thailand and Finland advance educational collaboration with new joint projects
Thailand and Finland are moving forward with educational collaboration under a Memorandum of Understanding signed earlier this year between the two countries’BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Lord Mayor ChunChun wearing a perennially fashionable catnip fish hat. You should try it too sometime!
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New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:
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Volcanic Haze May Persist Across Iceland Until Next Week
To provide the best experiences, we and our partners use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologiesBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Nearly 100 people killed seeking aid in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian officials say
Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance.
#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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in reply to Dare Obasanjo • • •Phil Wolff
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in reply to Dare Obasanjo • • •samiamsam
in reply to Dare Obasanjo • • •i'm sure it will be fine
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Fazal Majid
in reply to Dare Obasanjo • • •Legit_Spaghetti
in reply to Dare Obasanjo • • •Those are bold predictions, considering...
zenkat
in reply to Dare Obasanjo • • •"AGI can solve all of humanity's problems" is based on the assumption that intelligence is the limiting factor in human development. But that's clearly untrue.
For example -- we've known how to solve climate change for decades now. It's not a lack of intelligence that prevents solutions -- it's entrenched interests and captured political systems. How will AGI solve that?
All systems have bottlenecks, the limiting factor that constrains growth. So when "intelligence" is no longer the bottleneck, the important question is what will be the limiting constraint instead. That's where to focus.
Eberhard Wolff
in reply to Dare Obasanjo • • •Why is nobody laughing at them? chatgpt.com/share/6870b219-af4… news-nest.com/2025/05/07/chatg…
ChatGPT’s Hallucination Problem Is Getting Worse—And No One Knows Why - NEWS NEST
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in reply to Dare Obasanjo • • •donald_brady
in reply to Dare Obasanjo • • •2. If we ever get AGI the societal disruption will eliminate almost all non physical jobs.
3. AGI will never lead to abundance under current societal structures.
4. The bigger risk a small elite owning / controlling everything - we’re almost there anyway.
farlukar
in reply to Dare Obasanjo • • •> 1. Smarter than human AI (AGI) will arrive in 2-3 years.
AFAIK, $EXCITING_NEW_THING has been coming in 2–5 years since always.
MidniteMikeWrites
in reply to Dare Obasanjo • • •Óscar Morales Vivó
in reply to Dare Obasanjo • • •Total Sonic Media
in reply to Dare Obasanjo • • •Aiono
in reply to Dare Obasanjo • • •AI will be very smart says the guy who founded an AI company.
I remember discussing uncontrollable evil AI couple years before in an EA group. I think it's basically a distraction from actual problems. Also these predictions are basically nonsense because you can't even accurately estimate software delivery times let alone predict when a research breakthrough will happen.
nutbunnies
in reply to Dare Obasanjo • • •Michael Argentini
in reply to Dare Obasanjo • • •Reinald Kirchner
in reply to Dare Obasanjo • • •before they start solving ALL problems of humanity, I would love to see them solve some problem of humanity. Maybe just one. One single, tiny problem.
But I can't see any of that.
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in reply to Dare Obasanjo • • •No algorithm made by a subset of humans can outsmart all humans, in all scenarios, all of the time