Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Have you heard these claims?

“AGI is imminent!”

or

“At current rate of progress, AGI is inevitable!”

We explain why, and present a formal proof that, such claims are false and misleading.

https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/09/17/debunking-agi-inevitability-claims/

Wow, every time I'm forced to use a Microsoft technology (the bloody VisionFive2 RISC-V Debian image is held on OneDrive), I puke in my mouth a little. It all seems so pointlessly complicated and yet functionally primitive at the same time. 🤢

Welfare for billionaires in Oklahoma City -- yet another example of the way the ultra wealthy, with the connivance of politicians, rip off the public via lies and threats. https://popular.info/p/the-oklahoma-city-boondoggle?utm_campaign=email-post&r=qs4z&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email Fine reporting, as usual, by @juddlegum

fascists work to divert your attention from the people who are robbing you to people they can make disgust you.

https://www.treehugger.com/environmental-impact-flying-vs-driving-5116489
"For instance, according to 2019 data from the U.K. Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), a domestic flight will emit about 22% less carbon dioxide per person, per mile than a diesel car with one passenger. But, when you also factor in contrail clouds, a domestic flight generates 49% more emissions overall."

Uh, like, so Burning Man isn't my kink either, but I really hope that everyone who's grousing about people driving out to the middle of the desert don't do recreational air travel, because impact-wise, that's really kind of similar.

Some context.
Here’s why I say “Finally” with such emotion. I posted this on Facebook yesterday:

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #FossilFuels #RenewableEnergy

🚨Tens of thousands in NYC march against fossil fuels as #AOC hails powerful message🚨

Tens of thousands of climate activists took to the streets of New York City on Sunday in a “march to end fossil fuels”, with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez telling the crowd that the movement must become “too big and too radical to ignore”.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/17/march-to-end-fossil-fuels-new-york-city?CMP=share_btn_link

People who #WorkFromHome all the time ‘cut #emissions by 54%’ against those in office | #GreenhouseGasEmissions | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/18/people-who-work-from-home-all-the-time-cut-emissions-by-54-against-those-in-office

#US #Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #Emissions #WorkPatterns

In my latest story for @thetyee i write about the Calgarians losing their homes to rent hikes and evictions. And what the housing strategy means for people in a similar situation.

#yyc #yyccc #Calgary

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/09/15/Calgary-Eviction-Rents-Gong-Show-Key-Council-Vote/

This is good advice that will not be heeded. Unfortunately, Democratic politicians, just like Republican politicians, compete first and foremost for DONORS, not for VOTERS. They don't care at all if they lose the election, as long as the donations keep coming in, and there's always an election coming up, so...🤷‍♂️

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/whose-fault-is-it?

Anybody else find it a UX blunder when you want to click the top of a tabular list (e.g. my emails in Thunderbird, or most other clients I've seen) and you accidentally click just above the first entry, on the column heading bar, which then *@#$&-ing sorts by that column, causing a bunch of blue air and a flurry of clicks just to try to get back to where you were before? There should be a much smaller target for 'sort-by-column' in most scenarios. Or perhaps a 'lock sort-by-column' button...

It is not a "culture war." Do not spread their bile. It is right-wing authoritarian manipulation of you, media. Do not fall for it.
Red states quit nation’s oldest library group amid culture war over books https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/09/15/american-library-association-book-bans/

Me just now boarding my first flight abroad since 2019:

Boarding Agent: Stand in front of the face scan.

Me: I decline.

Agent: You must.

Me: No, I don't.

Supervisor: (to agent) Just board her. (to me) You'll have to do this eventually.

Me: I'm a lawyer who fights these things. Not on my watch.

Just a little notice for pro-gun US politicians!

Here in Europe we play the same games, watch the same movies and read the same books and browse the same internet but we do not have daily mass shootings

"Daily deaths by gun" is not something normal and should not be accepted

Please stop finding excuses and start protecting your people

The "Free" Market Will Not Fix The World.

Highlights

• Data on real wages suggests that, historically, extreme poverty was uncommon and arose primarily during periods of severe social and economic dislocation, particularly under colonialism.

• Where progress has occurred, significant improvements in human welfare began only around the 20th century. These gains coincide with the rise of anti-colonial and socialist political movements.

#Socialism #Communism

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169

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I've seen a lot of "I've spent years learning this tool and now it's wasted". Majority of that gamedev knowledge is transferable, it's not gone. It might be different on a new tool but you'll know how to do it, it's easier to search the equivalent then not knowing at all.