Bill Kimler

The special effects here made it the Avengers: Endgame of the time (1897).

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Using AI Made Doctors Worse at Spotting Cancer Without Assistance A new study offers the latest evidence of potential “deskilling” effects on AI users.

We've been hearing a lot about AI taking away people's jobs. But there is evidence that experts who lean on AI measurably lose their expertise in doing so.

This is a fascinating article with major implications for our society.

#AI #Jobs

I used to be skinny as a beanpole. What happened???

The Stupidest Glitch Imaginable Killed a $72 Million Lunar Mission in a Single Day NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer satellite was supposed to map water across the surface of the Moon, but glaring design and testing errors killed it.

"...the software that should have pointed Lunar Trailblazer’s solar panels toward the Sun instead pointed them 180 degrees away from the Sun."

I've made software mistakes before, but never a $72M mistake...

This Eye-Catching Solar EV Startup Just Got Closer to Hitting Production Aptera says it finished building the first solar-powered car on its low-volume assembly line.

This car is on my mid-life crisis wish list.

If you're not outraged by this, what will outrage you? If you can't speak out publicly against this, what will you speak out about? What is YOUR line that can't be crossed?

➡️ Was eventually released from the ICE facility days later at 5 am and had to walk to a nearby gas station in a town she didn't know and beg for help from strangers

➡️ Detained at U.S. Customs and Border Patrol
➡️ Held against her will at the airport for 30 hours
➡️ Shipped to an ICE facility in another state without being allowed to contact family or legal counsel.
➡️ Had her family LIED TO by federal authorities who denied she was being held

I know some of you aren't fans of "political" posts and prefer to see family photos or read funny quips. And I will continue to do that.

But I also need to you fully understand a new reality that has enveloped our country. Here is a US-born woman who was:

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Tomorrow, I'll post this same video with AI-generated captions to see what IT thought she was saying.

This woman below recites a portion of Chaucer's Canterbury tales just as it would have been heard back that. And that answered my question with a resounding "No!"

(At least, we have to take her word for it. How could anyone prove her wrong?)

Olde English YouTube video by Bill Kimler

A friend of mine shared this video with me. We had been talking about traveling back in time and I wondered out loud whether I would be able to travel back to England in the 1300s and understand a lick of English that they spoke.

Reactions mixed as B.C. to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time | CBC News Reactions range from applause to concern as March 8 will be the last time most British Columbians have to change their clocks, B.C. Premier David Eby announced Monday.

The leaders over in British Columbia are smart people. I hope to see the day where the same thing happens in every state in the U.S.

These men in power casually dismiss the impacts their decisions have on innocent millions.

Before you state the obvious: No, she shouldn't have dialed in to work while this was happened. None of the rest of her team did. But she said it helped keep her mind off of what's happening outside of her home. And I fully understand that.

So surreal.

I work with a software engineering team based in Israel and in a scheduled call just now, one of them dialed in from a shelter. As I'm write this from the safety of my home here in SC, she and the rest of the team there are experiencing missile strikes and have taken to shelter.

"...in the small band of space visible from their Southern California vantage point. By simply pointing their dish at different satellites and spending months interpreting the obscure—but unprotected—signals they received from them, the researchers assembled an alarming collection of private data"

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

"For three years, the UCSD and UMD researchers developed and used an off-the-shelf, $800 satellite receiver system on the roof of a university building in the La Jolla seaside neighborhood of San Diego to pick up the communications of geosynchronous satellites..."

Galleri test: Exciting results from blood test for 50 cancers The Galleri test looks for fragments of DNA that have broken off a tumour and are circulating in the blood.

Exciting for medical practitioners, maybe. But this has got to be the most terrifying blood test for a patient to wait for results!

Who wants to go out for lunch on this beautiful afternoon?

Huge Study Finds Living Near Nuclear Plants Linked With Cancer Deaths The study found a strong association between living near a nuclear power plant and rates of cancer mortality.

It's not conclusive, but a study is highly suggestive there's a correlation between living near nuclear power plants and developing cancer.

...threatened by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

“[T]hese threats do not change our position,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote in a blog post published on Thursday. He said the company “cannot in good conscience accede to [the Pentagon’s] request.”

Anthropic rejects Pentagon’s AI demands “[T]hese threats do not change our position,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote in a blog post.

It is very inspiring to know that there is still integrity among people who are in positions of power.
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The artificial intelligence startup Anthropic on Thursday rejected the Pentagon’s demand for unfettered access to its Claude AI model, suggesting it is willing to risk the serious penalties...

So stupid that small-minded individuals destroyed this interesting structure in Georgia. 🤬

Scientists Find That Igniting Oil Spills to Create Fire Tornadoes Might Actually Be Good for the Oceans A bold new experiment probed whether controlled fire tornadoes could be an effective tool for cleaning up oil spills.

Normally, I defer to experts like scientists. But whoa... maybe I'm gonna ask some of these white lab coats to calm down just a little here...

Vintage McDonald's, 1982.

I'm not in the picture, but that is my brother on the right in big honkin' 80's glasses.

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

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Never turn your back on the cat. Never.

Siri: What is the likelihood that a 15-year-old teenage girl who just got her permit the day before will wreck my new car?