The deers of Nara show that giving them food and protecting them is an easy way to achieve that.

I had never seen deers as aggressive as monkeys towards humans!

Let me guess: open source?

That’s according to a peer-reviewed study funded by the Ford Motor Company, a company that makes most of its profits from gas-powered vehicles.

If you want to see if a tech is part of a renewable future, it is direct emissions that should be counted. EVs are at zero. They don’t emit CO2 when running, when being produced or when being disposed of. They use electricity and transport, two things that we can provide without emitting CO2. They are a piece of the puzzle of a sustainable society, something thermal cars will never be, and something these graphs hide.

Of course we will be better off without cars and trucks, but the road towards them being totally gone is long, and it is time we don’t have.

C’est principalement de basses raisons électorales. C’est comme la corrida dans le sud. La majorité s’en fout mais ça permet aux conservateurs de draguer 5% de votes locaux en échange de quelques dépenses à la con. Je te parie que ce bateau est pas prévu pour être rentable et est subventionné à mort.

Been there, done that :-)

30 minutes of video is a lot of time to go a bit deeper, especially if you assume the audience knows half of the movies mentioned.

For me it stopped when it started getting interesting.

And “ghosts” are such a cop out to not talk about the hard questions.

Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love GitS which is a stunning piece of art, but it barely scratched the surface.

The subject deserves a better treatment than this relatively shallow pop-scifi video. This has been a question in science-fiction for more than a century. No, it did not start with Star Trek, Asimov dates it as far back as 1818 Frankenstein. If you are bold you can see this theme in the 2000 years old story of Talos, the bronze colossus that wanted immortality (ancient Greece was surprisingly full of automatons, Rhodes was known for them).

The question is what does imbue humans with what makes us see them as humans? Please don’t use the word “soul”. It is meaningless and religious, does not refer to any observable thing.

And don’t use “intelligence” as an interchangeable word with that undefined property, that most sci-fi authors have took to call “sentience”. That word is not human-centric and they typically apply sentience or the question of sentience to aliens or machines.

We have a hard time seeing as sentient something that has zero sense of ego. You can make an extremely intelligent machine with no ego, no sense of self. This is what you have in LLMs.

Giving them a sense of self and ego is probably feasible, but it is both useless and a huge responsibility. Maybe will happen first as an art project, but then you have to question the morality of creating something that does not want to die (or at least expresses it) but is not recognized as a person.

It also interrogates our notion of the linearity of the self. If such a sentient being can be forked, suspended, copied, have memories wiped out, fake memories implanted, personality changed, willingly or unwillingly, that opens a lot of philosophical questions.

I wish the community would embrace them, but so far all we have had are extremely superficial debates over “true” intelligence, usually defined as the difference between what humans can do and machines can do, an ever-shrinking territory.

La vie est faite de joies simples.

Il y a cette fausse idée que la politique est un creuset d’idées nouvelles. Non, les politiciens volent leurs idées ailleurs. C’est pas là que ça commence. La société civile (nous, vous) devons nous emparer de ces débats et rendre ces idées incontournables et ils s’en empareront.

Yes but at one point when people have to choose between their device catching fire and 15% more range, a lot of reasonable people realize what is the most important.

It is a bit dangerous with lithium batteries but the industry is switching quickly to a safer tech that will make these DIYers a viable and safe option

“Helping Israel commit genocide” has been ever US president’s policy for decades at least. Deciding that suddenly this is unacceptable, but only for the left-wing candidate is sus as hell.

“Most obvious fascist candidate in US history”

“Does not go to vote”

“Wait we can have genocide and fascism at the same time?”

I was also pleasantly surprised that the /r/solarpunk subreddit promotes slrpnk.net. I asked about it and I loved their answer:

Yes, we’re very keen to promote other communities. Reddit will collapse sooner or later, but this community is also a very large gateway, and so quite vague/broadbrush. The most interesting and innovative work tends to happen in smaller places.

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point

And to be fair, I doubt Biden would support it personally if he had the political ways not to.

You have two candidates supporting genocide in Palestine and one that also supports genocide in Ukraine as well as concentration camps at home.

See it as an harm reduction mechanism, not an enthusiastic support. If you can’t land the plane safely, choose to crash on the river rather than on the kindergarten.

Je renchéris avec le Droit à la paresse, de Paul Lafargue

J’allais dire que avec ou sans IA les employeurs ne devraient pas avoir accès à du flicage sur leurs employés mais en fait, dans le cadre des relations employeurs employés classique de notre société, c’est totalement normal.

Je sais pas, perso c’est cet asservissement qui me semble anormal et qu’on devrait combattre. Le reste c’est discuter la longueur des chaînes et l’épaisseur de la paille…

Then making it light makes sense because some of these visitors will have slow computers and expensive bandwidth. (And probably a much bigger co2 impact per site visited but I have the weakness to think that knowledge is worth it)