The poll results are sobering.
I'm in minority, choosing with one exception the human passages -- but it wasn't a fair poll as I recognized some of the entries.
Why Vladimir Putin is the biggest winner from the war in Iran www.politico.eu/article/why-...
What happened in 2004?
Shots fired
Franz Ferdinand* gets involved in war www.politico.eu/article/fran...
Churchill is one of my fave content creators
The holy father drew a fascinating line in the sand, declaring that despite AI’s capabilities now or in the future, a chatbot could never stand-in for a flesh-and-blood priest. “To give a homily is to share faith,” he said, and AI “will never be able to share faith.”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
I’m not a computers guy, is this a good thing?
This manages to be totally unsurprising and WOW.
"In the fight against common childhood illnesses, scientists have turned to an unusual source: the blood of paediatricians. It turns out this is a treasure trove of powerful antibodies."
www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
"I spent 20 minutes writing an article on my personal website titled "The best tech journalists at eating hot dogs". Every word is a lie.
...
Less than 24 hours later, the world's leading chatbots were blabbering about my world-class hot dog skills."
bbc.com/future/artic...
Ok. The durian ice cream was a mistake
ICC judge sanctioned by US urges EU to fight back
Nicolas Guillou said the Trump administration’s use of sanctions undermines European democracy and called for Europe to curb reliance on American tech.
www.politico.eu/article/nico...
The MAGA-friendly European think tanks Trump wants to fund
The Heritage Foundation identified European groups for U.S. backing.
www.politico.eu/article/maga...
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for
gradient.horse
They're just like us
Non-Biathlon Skier Would Also Like Gun
Shocked to learn that Saif Gaddafi has been killed. I spent a ridiculous amount of time writing about him when the #ICC wanted to prosecute him. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
I'm starting to think Diana and Meghan weren't the problem
Finally, some good news.
We're finally learning what it's like to die. And it's not as bad as you think...
www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-bo...
My take on Sinners: Give me a sequel featuring the Choctaw vampire hunters
My take on One Battle After an Another: Give me a sequel featuring the foul-mouthed, revolutionary nuns
French diplomats are taking on MAGA — one meme at a time
Paris is rolling out a confrontational online strategy to counter disinformation from the United States and beyond.
www.politico.eu/article/fran...
Night follows day. The north star always shines. The mountains do not move. And the new Dutch government is fiscally conservative and opposed to Eurobonds
www.telegraaf.nl/politiek/eer...
A peace deal between Russia and Ukraine looks close, except on everything that matters
Three issues still block an agreement to end the war.
www.politico.eu/article/peac...
No worries, the lioness can just chop from the bottom
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Things are looking brighter in Brussels
Researchers found that a text-to-image generator, when linked up with an image-to-text system and instructed to iterate over and over again, eventually converges on “very generic-looking images” they dubbed “visual elevator music.”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
🇵🇱 The paradox of my people is that we will tell you that life is shit, the sky is grey for the fifth month in a row, and nothing makes sense, but we will click "things are getting better" in a poll and end up more optimistic than Austrians or Croatians.
Those famously sunny Poles
Europeans are gloomy about pretty much everything. Who can blame them? www.politico.eu/article/euro...
