Mark O'Culár

Futurism On Deaf Ears Mar 18, 10:15 AM EDT by Maggie Harrison Dupré Before Google Was Blamed for the Suicide of a Teen Chatbot User, Its Researchers Published a Paper Warning of Those Exact Dangers "A user," the Google researchers cautioned, could be "persuaded to take their own life." Image: a collage of kids staying up late on their phones, with several hiding under their covers.

NEW: Months before Google was accused in a lawsuit of facilitating the suicide of a teen user of the Google-tied chatbot startup CharacterAI, researchers at Google DeepMind warned in a paper that chatbots could target minors and manipulate vulnerable users into suicide.

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Séamas O'Reilly: Trump and Musk's malfeasance hits America like an asteroid "Planes literally falling from the sky is a heavy-handed metaphor for all that’s been going on but it is, unfortunately, what we’re left with."

I wrote this about the thundering charlatan who's shackled America to his incompetence. On planes falling from the sky, and asteroid impacts at full speed and slow motion.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Paragon and Pegasus have both leveraged WhatsApp to silently install spyware onto people's devices -- with no user interaction. Paragon used the ability to send malicious PDF documents in 2024, Pegasus used the call functionality in 2019. www.reuters.com/technology/c...

Anarchism & Don Quixote in The Expanse

Anarchism & Don Quixote in The Expanse

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Very good read here with reference to representation of alternative politics in popular creative formats. (Major spoilers here, if you've not seen the brilliant series: The Expanse)

#anarchism #sci-fi

A fragmentary clay tablet with broken lines of text preserved. At the bottom is a multicoloured ruler showing that it is about 7cm wide. On a blank portion is written in ink upside down “K. 5968” and right-side up “k 9334”, meaning that these are two different fragments joined together to make a fragmentary whole.

I’ve spent most of my life steeped in anxiety, and one thing that made me feel less alone was knowing how unsurprisingly not new anxiety and related experiences are.

It’s in fragments, but this is one of many clay texts from ancient Mesopotamia that describes anxiety (possibly depression)

The Repression of Artistic Expression during the Franco Regime: Music, Metaphor, and Resistance Music is an integral part of human history. From the beginning of time human kind has been attracted first to rhythm, then melody, as both listener and performer. Music has evolved in complexity begin...

full paper available here...

www.academia.edu/27992037/The...

"The Repression of Artistic Expression during the Franco Regime: Music, Metaphor, and Resistance"
a paper by S. M . Jackson

the dog did it! this is just a decoy.

Brilliant work. Terrible and awesome image. The stuff.of nightmares and realities.

A new print from a new painting, The Garden of Earthly Delights. That was a lot of work, I will never try a Bosch painting ever again.

wefail.art

Fascism is in fashion again.
What will the clothes look like?
Step up Hugo Boss.
Balenciago surely have a design on this.
Chanel this energy.
What will the oligarchs Vuitton?
Oh Dior!

Oh.. wow! Gotta see this.

MSPM_S01 // Kanzeon xap mo xnok dub, by A.AV from the album Multi screen projection music_screen_01

A 16 minute DEEP DubTechno exploration made for the Documentary "Kanzeon" about the power of music as magik + healing used in Japanese old folks homes, contains out takes/field recordings/rituals/healings from the film
#Techno #DubTechno #ambient
theestateovcreation.bandcamp.com/track/mspm-s...

Fuck Batman

Check out this channel... amazing imagery from around the world.. Tony has an brilliant eye and captures his stories in a unique way, helped in part with his wonderful charm with people.. www.youtube.com/@tonysworld57 #photography #travel #documentary #people

Duck walk

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.

A reminder to myself and others in these times of division

"Create Dangerously"
- Albert Camus

(I still will keep my eye on xTwitter, as it is important to witness what happens there and not turn a blind eye to the dregs of humanity)

LOL!! When that other platform "clearly" accepts scam advertising.. what does that say about it being a 'news' platform with any element of trust?!

Have a proper gander.

The Empire Did Nothing Wrong

YouTube video by Philosophy Portal HYPERHUMANISM (w/ Carl Hayden Smith) / The Edge @ The Portal

HYPERHUMANISM (w/ Carl Hayden Smith) / The Edge @ The Portal

#mindfood #philosophy #ai

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNuB...

aye! another good example. :)

Funny observation... I like Alan Watts... but there is also an Alan Watt... a very different kettle of fish.

What are the chances some people were recommended the former and found the latter and broken their brains down a conspiracy rabbit hole?! 😜

ChatGPT is transcribing what I say into Welsh. I don't speak Welsh! (and neither does ChatGPT officially)

Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500 Explore how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries in this large-scale research visualization.

Explore it here..

calculatingempires.net

screen grab from Calculating Empires website

Calculating Empires
A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500

#visualisation #media #data #empire #timeline #time #technology #control #mapping #history

incomparable

An official sticker I set aside inside an apt book in the past to find in this present future!

cover image for the Chinese sci-fi movie Journey to the West (2021)

still image from the Chinese sci-fi movie Journey to the West (2021)

I watched this wonderful #movie on the airplane back from China recently. Happy to find a copy on the YT. Recommended #scifi #comedy

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Journey to the West (Yu zhou tan suo bian ji bu) 2021

www.imdb.com/title/tt1507...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYm7...