WASHINGTON (AP) — The Atlantic on Wednesday released the entire Signal chat among senior national security officials, showing that Defense Secretary Pete
#ProjectHotsauce2025 went into the next round today, the plants are now in proper pots. Sadly we only have one Cayenne and one Tabasco, and 20 all in all - not the best result but we'll see. We started with 6 Tabasco even, but all but one died 🙁
Update on #ProjectHotsauce2025 - most of the plants have been growing nicely, I'm just worried about the teeny tiny sole Tabasco and slightly worried about the Habaneros at this point.
Update on the chillies for #ProjectHotsauce. We've just repotted them into their final home outside.
The Tabasco is probably not going to work out, it's alive but tiny and I don't really see it producing even if it survives the summer. Also worried about some of the others being a bit too unstable (hence a bunch of help).
Most of the Jalapeños are showing buds though, so it really was time.
Gemini hackers can deliver more potent attacks with a helping hand from… Gemini Hacking LLMs has always been more art than science. A new attack on Gemini could change that. arstechnica.com/security/2025/…
Hey #Köln, nächste Woche komme ich dich besuchen >> Ich freue mich riesig über die EInladung zum #workshop bei wisskomm.social/@codeandcontex… und werde am Samstag 5.4. mit dem Rundfunkorchestra im Kunstwerk ein Set spielen. Woohoo! Danke an @dlikdh für die Organisation des Events!
Radio waves travel fast, and they can bounce, too. If you are able to operate a 25-meter dish, a transmitter, a solid software-defined radio, and an atomic clock, the answer is: yes, they can go al…
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OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibli stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a vulgar display of power.
Hayao Miyasaki is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a Japanese animation studio known worldwide for their stunning, emotional, beautiful stories and movies. At the core of Studio Ghibli’s work is a deep engagement with questions of humanity.
Having a clear out and I found this relic from the past. There are some great dev boards about these days, but i think this is the most beautiful one ever created.
whoa, that's rad. So in its pictured form, all the components are connected and usable and testable, but it looks like you could snap off each of the parts too?
@thzinc yep, exactly that. It's designed for sewing into clothes using conductive thread, so the usual use case would be to do your programming with it all together, then break it out and see it into your garment.
It's no coincidence that alt-right people have taken up AI generated artwork so intensely. It allows bypassing all the ethics and care of typically left-leaning artists. To show the ability to wield aesthetics without the social values tied to those aesthetics is a power move.
"Laughing at people who treat AI art as in any way legitimate works. Talking about AI’s environmental impact or its implications for the workforce will not work - they like that, it makes them feel dangerous. Instead of talking about taking money from artists, talk about how it makes them look cheap. If hurting and offending people is part of the point, then we can take that fun away from them by refusing to express hurt or offence, even if we feel it." - excellent tactics!
Would you PLEASE stop calling it "AI". The scientific literature refers to these things as LLMs. They are trained on our works, and there's a lot of BS out there
@vv They are actually, that's the problem. They know how to use convolution. It's not a creative act. They can read text from images, and write text into images (it used to look scrambled but they can do it better now) and they can also draw a picture of a cat. They are the same LLM things
@CubeRootOfTrue I definitely know that "AI" is a much broader field than contemporary machine learning models / deep neural network approaches. I care deeply about the much *broader* field of AI.
But @vv is right, and given that you're jumping in my mentions to complain about my language usage and you're getting the terms wrong, or at least wrong enough.
"Large language models" isn't a good term for image generating neural network approaches, please stop using "LLMs" to describe them. 😛
There's a very particular type of person who becomes 'alt-right.' They lack all creativity, any significant inner dialogue, and what we usually mistake for a 'lack of empathy' is literally a lack of imagination. These are people who ONLY change their tune through direct experience; otherwise, they are incapable of imagining being someone else.
Use of AI 'art' is just a symptom of what is, ultimately, the central characteristic of the 'alt-right': a complete lack of imagination.
"Left-leaning" in the US meaning? Because installing ethics, digital rights, author's rights, and copyright in Europe was an overall society effort (and Democrats in the USA are more what are conservatives in our countries). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors%…
Exactly. We should always ask of technology, not just what does it do, but who does do it FOR?
Here the elimination of human agency, I fear, is what is sought after.
Efficiency is the pitch they give, to make these systems appear in a favourable light.
However, I think soon we will discover sinister people willing pay much more for AI systems that ”do not talk back” than they would ever pay an employee. #tech #ai #agency
”I would not be the first to observe that we are in a new phase of reaction, something probably best termed ‘postmodern conservatism’. The main effect of this shift has been to enshrine acting like a spoilt fifteen-year-old boy as the organising principle of the reactionary movement.”.
” – if anything, they believe, the postmodern right needs to become more absurd;”
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Been thinking a lot about AI and its pros and cons. People are misusing it and making it worse at the end. Anyways, cut it short - we will get tired of purely (and poorly) AI content. The only thing which it can't reproduce is creativity.
Talking from my pain point - fake crochet and knitting pattern images. Still, people can't see the difference and awing to AI generated content. It was fun at the beginning, but now it makes me anxious.
It just clicked for me, Christine, that Ai-generated media is today's equivalent of Nazi art, Soviet statues, North Korean banners, and Communist Chinese billboards from the '60s and '70s. They're all in service of brutal power, not the uplift that Art can be. #Art #Propaganda #Ai #UncannyValley
AI can fold proteines and that helps humanity. Art what ever, nice to have tool for useless imagnary garbage. Meaning comes from experience, experience is not a social media post.
but all we need now is the bloody holodeck because the image generators are here already. ^.^
It is, and has always been, “irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas,” and to ‘post-liberal’ ‘intellectuals’, that is in fact a good thing – if anything, they believe, the postmodern right needs to become more absurd; it needs to abandon Enlightenment ideals like reason and argumentation altogether. The right wing intellectual project is simply to ask: ‘what would have to be true in order to justify the terrible things that I want to do?’
most of the ai stuff I've seen is anti Israel propaganda which suggests the far left are using it just as much as the alt right. Mind you.... horse shoe politics etc.
I’ve been dropping “AI is a fascist tool, stop using it” on every thing I come across from it; now I have a fantastic article to back that up. Thank you.
Theres a cultural disconnect between the artist producing the content and the reactionaries consuming them. Like most creatives I know are heavily leftist and often members of marginalized groups. Yet, when their work shares their experiences it becomes an object of evil for the reactionaries. They want the final producr stripped of the artist identity and empty shell that they may fill their own vile hatred into. Works that they couldn’t critically think enough to create.
While I agree with your point and your concerns it is worth noting that AI generated artwork has been used by freedom orientated activists.
For example, the wedding scene preceding the film, The People's Joker was an exemplary (albeit crude) approach at satire as a means of appropriating cultural markers. The use of an AI generated Carson was an effective mechanism for setting mood. Nethertheless, Vera Drew's speech (future suffering from the film's infamy) makes clear such asymmetries
The recently published 2025 World Happiness Report (the 13th edition of the report) has focussed on the impact of caring and sharing on people’s happiness.
Drawing on a study by Oxford University’s Wellbeing Research Centre showing that people are a lot kinder than we might otherwise expect, the research also shows that the more we believe in the kindness of others the happier we will be ourselves.
So do we find ourselves in an unnecessary viscous circle here? And how ca
The recently published 2025 World Happiness Report (the 13th edition of the report) has focussed on the impact of caring and sharing on people’s happiness.
Drawing on a study by Oxford University’s Wellbeing Research Centre showing that people are a lot kinder than we might otherwise expect, the research also shows that the more we believe in the kindness of others the happier we will be ourselves.
So do we find ourselves in an unnecessary viscous circle here? And how can we break free? It would appear that the 24 hour news cycle keeps many of us locked in a state of negativity and can harbour the sort of overstated mistrust referred to in the report. A small shift in habit – in the way we consume the information – can make it possible to escape this endless negative cycle whilst remaining connected with world events.
Who is Happiest?
For the eighth successive year Finland has topped the list of the ‘happiest countries’. The UK is 23rd and the USA is 24th – both dropping from previous years.
The director of Oxford’s Wellbeing Research Centre, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, who is also professor of economics at the University of Oxford, and an editor of the World Happiness Report, said:
“This year’s report pushes us to look beyond traditional determinants like health and wealth. It turns out that sharing meals and trusting others are even stronger predictors of wellbeing than expected. In this era of social isolation and political polarisation we need to find ways to bring people around the table again — doing so is critical for our individual and collective wellbeing.”
[Read on Ethical Revolution] The recently published 2025 World Happiness Report (the 13th edition of the report) has focussed on the impact of caring and sharing on people’s happiness.
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A new detention of a scientist. This time a woman who worked for Harvard Medical School. She was detained in Louisiana and may be deported to Russia, where her life may be in danger for having opposed war. independent.co.uk/news/world/a…
And while I'm in petition boosting mood: Petition · Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training - United Kingdom · Change.org change.org/p/protect-authors-l…
We have a temporary glitch with GitHub—probably some contributor was geolocated in a sanctioned region (no details yet). All required documents to unlock the account have been uploaded. Don't blame Microsoft/GitHub - it is just U.S. law. Please be patient. It should be unblocked soon.
Gina Häußge
in reply to Gina Häußge • • •And it looks like a Reaper might be winning the race this year for "first green"!
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Gina Häußge
in reply to Gina Häußge • • •The Reaper won the race, and by now we have some baby plants from most of the varieties. Only Tabasco and Habanero are still letting us wait...
#ProjectHotsauce2025
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in reply to Gina Häußge • • •Update on #ProjectHotsauce2025 - most of the plants have been growing nicely, I'm just worried about the teeny tiny sole Tabasco and slightly worried about the Habaneros at this point.
Time will tell. They'll move outside soon.
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in reply to Dan • • •@dfraser Frankly just some cheap generic "full spectrum" LED grow lights I found on Amazon years ago when we started with the chilli growing.
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Have them running 12h per day from 06:00 to 18:00
Dan
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in reply to Gina Häußge • • •Update on the chillies for #ProjectHotsauce. We've just repotted them into their final home outside.
The Tabasco is probably not going to work out, it's alive but tiny and I don't really see it producing even if it survives the summer. Also worried about some of the others being a bit too unstable (hence a bunch of help).
Most of the Jalapeños are showing buds though, so it really was time.
Gina Häußge
in reply to Gina Häußge • • •And the winner of the race to the first flower has been won by a Jalapeño ^^
#ProjectHotsauce2025
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in reply to Gina Häußge • • •I just learned last year to trim the first chili blossom. ✂️ 🌸
Doing so the plant will sent more growth power to the other blossoms. This should result in a better crop 🌶️
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in reply to Gina Häußge • • •Holy cow, this Tabasco is really doing its best to catch up and it might actually overtake our Reapers soon 😳
The first picture of the two below is freshly taken just now. There are flowers coming up!
The second picture shows the same plant back when we put the chillies outside in mid May.
#ProjectHotsauce2025
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