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March 2021: "the Fagradalsfjall volcano near Iceland’s capital of Reykjavik began erupting for the first time in 800 years...it’s gifted the world with some awe-inspiring views of lava flowing from the ground.
The sight has been best captured by Icelandic drone pilot Bjorn Steinbekk, who took the straightforward approach of flying right through the eruption. "

"this video crystallized a number of things I’ve been chewing on about nostalgia, about fascism, and about the aesthetics of AI since November 8th, 2024, and it has to come out. Let’s take a journey back to the past, or rather multiple pasts: pasts that are real, imagined, and synthetically generated by algorithms running on expensive, energy-sucking hardware."

I remember reading about this back in February: BuzzFeed is planning to make a social network "to spread joy and enable playful creative expression" and "use AI to give users agency instead of stealing their agency"
Whatever that means. Looks like it's still just a placeholder and waitlist signup form.

"The economic case for solar power is stronger than ever."

"It was just last month that Brett Kavanaugh gave his explanation for why it was perfectly okay for Homeland Security goons to profile brown people and detain them based on nothing more than the color of their skin."

...by reading his own biography. Not surprisingly, it gets a lot of things wrong even when the correct information is available, and it puts a lot of emphasis on the decade-old Sad Puppies kerfuffle because apparently right-wingers are still obsessed with it or something. Some choice excerpts:
> fundamentally LLMs aren’t built for accuracy, they’re built for statistical probability, and these really are two separate things. > Having used Wikipedia for a while now, I feel reasonably sure that its biases are not “liberal,” they’re “pedantic,” > Which is to say, if you have to choose a “pedia” to trust, you might choose the one assembled by a bunch of pedantic nerds saying “well, ACTUALLY” to each other until the heat death of the universe, over the one assembled by an LLM controlled by a, insecure Nazi salute-throwing billionaire who sprints to reprogram that LLM every time it shares a fact that makes that billionaire angry or sad, or doesn’t fit into his Playskool Machiavellian ambitions and plans. In this particular case, a thousand pedantic nerds is much better than a single rich one.

An actual Unix system that's a fork of the final OpenSolaris release. Analagous to Linux in that it's a core ecosystem that distros like OmniOS and OpenIndiana are built around.

Actions to take to oppose Google's new restrictions on installing software.

Why KDE no longer posts on X:
"...4. Most of the new followers we were getting were nazi-propaganda spewing bots (7 out of 10 on average) or just straight up nazis. Our community is not made up of nazis and many of our friendly contributors would be the target of nazi harassment, so we were not sure what we were doing there and stopped posting and left."

How to donate to the Python Software Foundation