Raptor's Nest

Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it’s ‘scary’ | Fortune Andrew Chien told Fortune he’s been a computer scientist for 40 years but we’re close to “some seminal moments for how we think about AI and its impact on society.”

delete chatgpt and stop using generative AI 🖤🤍

It was refugees and asylum seekers up until recently, and it's now suddenly indefinite leave to remain. Next, it will be naturalised citizens. Then 2nd and 3rd generation citizens. There will be no end.

They actually say it's wrong that minorities feel hurt by racist behaviours and if they feel hurt or feel unsafe, then they should leave the country, go back to where they came from. They say that. I've seen this happen.

You're not allowed to call out racist behaviours as racist, so the next best thing you can do is to tell a human story of how those behaviours hurt ethnic minorities. But then they tell you that minorities shouldn't get hurt by that. That's what they say. You can't win.

Sometimes your paper gets critiqued from people you weren't expecting - like from ppl out of that field. I wonder if that's a reflection of how bad your work was that it triggered ppl like that to comment on it - or if it had made enough an impact to draw random criticism from random people...

A bully believes that kindness is weakness. A fool believes that bullying is strength. A true warrior knows that a bully is weak, and that compassion and kindness are strengths they could never comprehend.

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

This is a powerful message by Green Party Leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social

#ZackPolanski #greenparty

"It is understood, however, that the rule would not apply to EU nationals with settled status in the UK, as their right to receive benefits forms part of post-Brexit arrangements with the bloc."

...so it's not just xenophobia...

Tories say people denied benefits in UK can return to home countries Mel Stride outlines plans to slash £47bn a year from public spending, including £23bn welfare cut

“Another part of the plan would limit benefits to people with UK citizenship, removing it even from those who have been in the country for years or even decades and have indefinite leave to remain”

If this is not xenophobia then I don’t know what is.
Sickening.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘Benefits’ are not a privilege, they a safety net for individuals AND for society. They protect people from starving to death AND they protect businesses from collapsing because people can keep shopping for essentials. Benefits are thus ‘ESSENTIAL’ to a functioning society.

Also, what if there's no "home" to go back to?

yeah like even state pension needs you to be here for 10 years to even be eligible for it even while you're paying in after arrival. imagine being here 30 or 40 years then being told "sorry no pension btw"

"well they could just leave", with zero thought put into the fact that maybe the non-eu resident is married to a british citizen, or both residents have ILR and can't have dual nationality and are faced with their family split off to 2 totally different nations. not a shred of basic "waitaminute.."

“The rule would not apply to EU nationals with settled status in the UK, as their right to receive benefits forms part of post-Brexit arrangements with the bloc”

An explicitly racist policy then

If you attend or work at a university in the UK, chances are you know someone who is on Indefinite Leave to Remain. Please consider what the recent attacks on ILR from both Reform and Labour are doing to those people you probably know.

BBC will do everything possible to sideline & undermine voices that challenge the regime it works so hard to protect & perpetuate. For real change join @greenparty.org.uk
Follow and share widely any social media from @zackpolanski.bsky.social let’s build a movement despite efforts to silence us.

Whether you're a Green Party supporter or not, this stinks!

Zack on Bold Politics podium

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

If I were a British citizen, I'd certainly join the Green Party.
Why?
Because as soon as Zack Polanski was elected, he started to say sensible things, explaining his decisions and the way problems should be solved, in a very clear way.
I can sense honesty, true commitment, will to change things.

Academics take one headshot at the start of their career and then use it for the next 40 years.

By way of context, that's more than 50% bigger than the Lib Dems.

I'd actually forgotten how extraordinary it is that when I won the leadership - I wasn't interviewed as it was too close to our party conference interviewed.

And then refused a second time!

Part of the antidote to all of this is creating our own media platforms.

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Brawn before bite in endemic Asian mammals after the end-Cretaceous extinction The first 10 million years (Myr) following the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction marked a period of global greenhouse conditions and dramatic rise of placental mammals. Because ~80% of known...

New preprint: Brawn before bite in endemic Asian mammals after the end-Cretaceous extinction. #Paleontology #Mammals #Extinction

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

TLDR: S. China mammals diversified dentally, tracked environment, then leveled up bite mechanics all within the first 10 m.y. post K-Pg.

YouTube video by ABC 7 Chicago ICE agents raid South Shore apartment building: 'They just treated us like we were nothing'

ICE flew a military helicopter into Chicago.
Stormed an apartment complex in the middle of the night.
Entered the homes of American citizens.
Separated kids from parents.
Dragged them into the street, some naked.
Put them in trucks.
No warrants.
Fascism.
youtu.be/vFh5yBIxTpc?...

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars