Pietro Belotti

A two-panel cartoon contrasts ocean pollution in the 19th and 21st centuries. Left panel (19th Century): A clear blue ocean contains two fish and a single glass bottle floating on the surface with a note inside that says "HELP!". Right panel (21st Century): The ocean is crowded with plastic bottles and trash, almost no clear water is visible. A fish trapped among the plastic debris is shouting "HELP!" in a speech bubble. The cartoon highlights the dramatic increase in ocean pollution over time.

It's time for action against plastic pollution.

⚠️ Only 9% of plastic is recycled.
⚠️ If current trends continue, plastic production will triple by 2060.

Today, a new negotiation begins toward a global agreement to end plastic pollution.

Our priorities for the agreement ↓

If You've Asked ChatGPT a Legal Question, You May Have Accidentally Doomed Yourself in Court Sam Altman has admitted that ChatGPT conversations can be used against you in court if they are subpoenaed.

futurism.com/chatgpt-lega...

Europe’s summer of humiliation America knew the EU was weak. The rest of the world knows it now

Europe’s summer of humiliation. A sobering read by Marc de Vos on Europe’s self imposed capitulation

Motherfucking wind farms…

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Eat
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/eat-5

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YouTube video by Benn Jordan I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.

(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Hollywood, call me. I can have this script done on a weekend.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Lesson
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/lesson

Hollywood, call me. I can have this script done on a weekend.

Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath Frontman and Heavy Metal Legend, Dies at 76 Ozzy Osbourne, the frontman for Black Sabbath and a pioneer of heavy metal music, has died. He was 76.

End of an era, truly.

variety.com/2025/music/o...

AI Overview of what seems like a search result for "difference between sauce and dressing": a correct definition of sauce, with an image of a small bowl of pico de gallo, is given, while for dressing, the image shows a bowl of possibly tahini sauce and the text is "Used to protect wounds and prevent infection, while also allowing healing [...] A standard servinc size for salad dressing is two tablespoons".

Dressings are used to protect wounds---two tablespoons are enough.

Restaurants shouldn't use AI for description Posted in r/mildlyinfuriating by u/just_a_teen1 • 78,901 points and 716 comments

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Sinner sfiorato da un tappo di champagne durante la finale di Wimbledon. Ora è positivo all'etanolo.
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Rebranding
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Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog Following the example of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which is moving 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice, the Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is doing the same. Caroline ...

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Perché cittadini e intellettuali non contano più nulla Chi si illude che il potere abbia ancora bisogno della democrazia e di razionalità recita un ruolo ormai privo di senso. Riconoscerlo è il primo passo per ritrovare la capacità di agire. Leggi

Chi si illude che il potere abbia ancora bisogno della democrazia e di razionalità recita un ruolo ormai privo di senso. Riconoscerlo è il primo passo per ritrovare la capacità di agire. L'opinione di Ece Temelkuran.

Finding Peter Putnam The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind

nautil.us/finding-pete...

'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review

'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers

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The first American ‘scientific refugees’ arrive in France Aix-Marseille University is wooing researchers who feel targeted by the Trump administration.

The president of Aix-Marseilles University is welcoming US scientific refugees.He "likened the situation to that of European academics who fled persecution by Nazi Germany both before and during World War II"

www.politico.eu/article/meet...

That time of the year when whole countries are scorched but the true problem is {insert your favorite}
Bonus for news channels describing killing heat waves with images from swimming pools and beaches

Back in black: Microsoft Blue Screen of Death is going dark At least the BSOD acronym will still work The infamous Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) will be replaced later this summer by a new black screen as part of Microsoft's Windows Resiliency Initiative (WRI).…

Back in black: Microsoft Blue Screen of Death is going dark

Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:

Trump banned important words from research - 350 of them.
So we said 🛑Touche pas à mon pote!✊ and stuffed as many of them as we could into the abstract of our new math paper. 🫵You can do the same!🫵Join the cause with your next abstract - they will have no choice but to hear us.
#AdoptCensoredWords

Microsoft-backed AI startup chatbots revealed to be human employees AI-washing at its finest.

“…instead of using AI technology to run the chatbot and create the app, the company hired 700 engineers in India to pose as Natasha in conversations with clients, and then to do the actual coding of the app.”

emotion wheel starting with "joy, fear, anger" in the center and then lapsing into gibberish

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

#ElleKappa su #Repubblica

Doodling in Math Class: Infinity Elephants This is "Doodling in Math Class: Infinity Elephants" by Vi Hart on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

I learned from her Patreon that Vi Hart has just deleted her 1.5M-subscriber YouTube channel. The worsening of YT’s policies for creators finally reached her breaking point. To help herd folks to her videos’ new home, here’s a link to an early favorite of mine.

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A four panel meme, featuring John Connor talking to The Terminator, from Terminator 2 John: Wait a second, you’re saying you’re from the future? Terminator: Great question! Thanks so much for asking. Let’s think about the answer…hmm! The current year is 1983. Working backwards logically, I’m from the year 1965, which is 300 years in the future. Anything else you’d like to know? John - stares blankly Terminator: I’m sorry, I can see that was not the right answer. I actually came from the year 829392 AD, which is 10 years in the past from this year, which is 3

I am begging for a Hollywood movie or TV writer to make something that features realistic 'artificial intelligence'

The weird part is the hypnotic synchronized purring noises.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Neuron
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/neuron

'The weird part is the hypnotic synchronized purring noises.'

After Trump DOJ snooping scandal, Wyden warns telcos still leave Senate in the dark AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile failed to alert lawmakers about surveillance, senator says AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile US failed to set up systems to notify lawmakers when government snoops came calling for their phone records - a contractual obligation that went ignored until recently, according to US Senator Ron Wyden.…

After Trump DOJ snooping scandal, Wyden warns telcos still leave Senate in the dark

Popularity of the first name Eleanor correlates with Wind power generated in Poland (r=0.993)