"what happens to a consumer-credit economy when consumers are being replaced with machines?"
THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS
What if our AI bullishness continues to be right...and what if thatβs actually bearish?
citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic
When you fall down a rabbit hole and learn that Takeo Ischi has covered the Tetris song
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgL7...
Will Vinton (1947-2018) was an Oregon claymation expert. He won an Oscar in 1975 for a short called 'Closed Mondays'. Also responsible for famous advert 'California Raisins'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI9w...
Bio:
27720.wixsite.com/gutfest/will...
"Monkey king" unitree h2 at Chinese new year gala.
Concerning: This research shows that AIs refused to shut down when asked to by altering their program code when they noticed they were being shut down.
Grok refused to shut down over half the time.
BREAKING: governmentβs decision to proscribe Palestine Action under terrorism law ruled UNLAWFUL
This matters for everyone.
For years, the right to protest has been under sustained and deliberate attack.
Thousands of people have been arrested for something that should have never been a crime.
My little daughter: βWow! Look! A toddler has won TWO World Records for playing snooker!β
My husband: βThatβs a foul. Youβre supposed to keep one foot on the ground at all times.β
French historian Françoise Thom
desk-russie.info/2025/07/30/t...
BREAKING: NO CONVICTIONS AS VERDICTS COME IN FOR FILTON24 TRIAL
After 8 days of deliberation, the jury have not convicted Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Ellie (Leona) Kamio, Fatema Zainab Rajwani, Zoe Rogers and Jordan Devlin on any charge.
Defend Our Juries comment to follow.
When you adopt a retired K-9
A wizard scowling at a scroll in cursive that looks like it says "How to summon a demon", with a magical circle containing a lemon on the right.
What once sounded like a joke from a sci-fi movie is now flying for real. A YouTube inventor has successfully built a drone-powered umbrella that can hover above a person and follow them automatically during rain.
Kung fu kitty: #AGoodPlace
Source: www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/v0...
Hello! Lots of new followers the last couple of weeks, so I thought I'd mention some of the Bluesky-related stuff I've done. Starting with Swearsky, a website which reads out swear words from Bluesky posts in real-time. It uses my actual voice, not some AI voice model thing! Obviously NSFW.
ARTE
Eventually we left the building, it was about 10:30pm. The streets were dark and empty. Except for one lonesome figure walking a cute dalmatian.
As he got close we realized it's Jacob Rees Mogg.
He is not elected or anything, just loitering the perimeter of Parliament wishing he had a job.
Blanketyβ¦
A paper in Nature Communications describes a detachable robotic hand that can crawl and grab objects. The design enables tasks such as retrieving objects beyond normal reach and performing multi-object handling. go.nature.com/3NTbMh7 π§ͺ
With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Why did medieval people dig thousands of narrow, dead end tunnels approximately 1000 years ago? And why were they kept so secret?? more on this mystery in my new blog post!!!
weirdmedievalguys.substack.com/p/the-secret...
A very long and important THREAD -
The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.
And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.
Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/
One of the funniest football clips I've ever seen. It's 1-0 to Portsmouth, we're in injury time but Charlton, who are undefeated at Pompey in decades, have a corner.
Roll the tape...
youtu.be/Xqt2UOJRGfY?...
At Art Basel, Beepleβs βRegular Animalsβ turns Elon Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, and other figures into robot dogs pooping digital art, critiquing billionaire power, influence, and the absurdity of digital culture.
#news #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #Billionaires #FOUNews
Trevor Warmedahlβs discovery of terroir β a flavor that expresses the landscape, the animals, and the process β came as an almost spiritual revelation while working in the Alta Langhe hills in Italy.
π Read more in a mouthwatering excerpt from his new book, βCheese Trekkingβ:
buff.ly/Pjp7ErB
Five years after its debut, Google DeepMind's AlphaFold shows why science is AI's killer app | Fortune fortune.com/2025/11/28/g... #DL #AI #ML #DeepLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ComputerVision #AutonomousVehicles #LLM #VLM #LVLM
Mind-blowingly cool use of AI
βAltogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.β
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Ruining great art with the nano banana pro command βMake this much more cheerful with as few changes as possibleβ
Importantly, Janja Garnbret (the women's Olympic champ) is ALSO taking time off competitions to focus on outdoor climbing, so...
we continue to stay tuned.
www.youtube.com/shorts/FoiiH...
A moment, please, to consider the absolute majesty of Daphne Oram's unbelievable score to this. A pitch shifted, time stretched, frequency agile glimpse of the future of music production; a liberty-taking all analogue remix of Sandy Nelson's Teen Beat realised in real time with the visuals.
