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Sachs' report is brutal, and finally asks some very blunt questions: what does generative AI actually do? And when we say it'll "get better," what does that actually mean, and how does that justify the massive costs and errors associated with LLMs? wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future. www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

Pop Culturewww.wheresyoured.at A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I've ever seen. ...

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Hey, Beyonce has lyrics for elections in France: "To the left, to the left, Everything you own in the box to the left"

Ping @txvoodoo.bsky.social I am curious, do you ever hear of women thinking of organizing themselves this way? X

If I were an American woman and be threatened to have my contraceptive pill rights and abortion rights removed, I would go on work strike and sexual relationships strike, until my rights would be reinstated. Is it something American women consider doing, American friends? 💪🏻

Quick reminder I can no longer voice my dislike of certain Taylor Swift songs in my house as I have a 5yo swiftie police counting my words. 😏

La carte de la honte.

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Sister rowing a boat Knud Knudsen, ca. 1867

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WOW! The oldest wine ever discovered in liquid form was found in an urn with #Roman remains in southern Spain. The reddish-brown liquid found in an untouched 2,000-year-old Roman tomb is a local, sherry-like wine. 🍷🍷 www.theguardian.com/science/arti... 🏺 AncientBluesky

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"Major Tom to Ground Control: you're on mute" Sumi ink and acrylic.

Textile artist Maria Talpeanu shows her latest work at Galerie POS in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, 49 Rue d’Hauteville.

They turned into monsters. truthofthemiddleeast.com/herta-muller/

Herta Muller — OPEN LETTER.truthofthemiddleeast.com Truth of the Middle East

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Cleaned the snails out of the barbecue (not a metaphor).

Ah, November again… I love this time of the year in Paris.

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"One day I'll fly away, Leave your love to yesterday, What more can your love do for me? When will love be through with me? Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day that dreaming ends?"

Experimenting with picture transfer on fabric. T-shirt fabric is a bit tricky but here’s a test I like. Kiki from Montparnasse, circa 1925, right here on my t-shirt.

Yes, I might be wearing a jumper, and we might not have any summer at all, but I’ll be damned if I won’t eat my Greek salad every.single.day.

Man, the level of clusterfuck in French politics raises by.the.hour. Don’t know how we’re gonna make it well into 3 weeks. 🤯

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My climate sf (with a touch of horror) novella - out July

Saturation Point by @aptshadow.bsky.social is a visceral, compelling, and harrowing vision of one aspect of our #ClimateChange future. It’s legitimately great, and I sincerely hope that as many people as possible pick this one up.

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The Criterion Collection Blu-ray of Barry Jenkins’s adaption of "The Underground Railroad" is out! www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/the-unde...

'The Underground Railroad' Blu-ray Reviewwww.slantmagazine.com Barry Jenkins's remarkable adaptation of 'The Underground Railroad' receives a gorgeous and generously loaded box set from Criterion.

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No doubt, you have old stories enough to undo you.

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This news, which is call’d true, is so like an old tale, that the verity of it is in strong suspicion.

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11th of June, I am wearing a jumper and a jacket. 🤬 #raslebol

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“Over 170 images and personal details of children from Brazil have been scraped by an open-source dataset without their knowledge or consent, and used to train AI,” says a new report by Human Rights Watch.

AI Tools Are Secretly Training on Real Images of Childrenwww.wired.com A popular AI training dataset is “stealing and weaponizing” the faces of Brazilian children without their knowledge or consent, human rights activists claim.