In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …
Information hub for our project training the largest possible historical LLMs. - DGoettlich/history-llms
In our society the classic three ways of making a fortune still apply: inherit it, marry it, or steal it. But for an...
From floods to droughts, erratic weather patterns are affecting food security, with crop yields projected to fall if changes are not made
1960 📈 2020 📉 2100
"…multiple projections suggest that climate change will soon have key crops plateauing, then sliding down again. The chart shows how crop yields could fall over the rest of the century under a high-emissions scenario."
"More than 600 million people worldwide are projected to face food insecurity – or worse – by 2030."
The racism, the predatory politics, the banality and cruelty: we struggle to make sense of it, but JG Ballard foretold everything we are living through now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
“Today’s politics is tailor-made for him. Smiles leaking everywhere, mood music, the sales campaign that gets rid of the need for a product. Even the shiftiness. People like to be conned. It reminds them that everything is a game.”
#JGBallard #KingdomCome #UKPolitics
Want to understand the sickness of Britain today? Look no further – a novel explained it all 20 years ago | Aditya Chakrabortty | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/18/sickness-britain-novel-20-years-ago-jg-ballard
H5N1 has a 50% fatality rate in humans. Yet we’re dismantling the systems designed to catch it early.
Gisèle Pelicot has shown us that shame can change sides. Her heroism can never be overstated. So let's talk about Dominique Pelicot's shame.
I am going to mark this day every year.
Gisèle Pelicot is an international hero. I hope that every single day she knows safety and love and peace.
https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/dominique-pelicots-shame/
https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/dominique-pelicots-shame/
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
Toby Buckle on why the Cassandras who saw what was coming with Trump early on, smelled the fascism all over him, tended to be female, Black, LGBTQ — and why they were resoundingly ridiculed by "mainstream" and "centrist" commentators (largely male and "reasonable") for whom the word "fascism" was a bridge too far.
#Trump #MAGA #lies #ConspiracyTheories #Qanon #pizzagate #Jan6 #WhiteSupremacy #ApprovalRating #economy #affordability #fascism
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https://newrepublic.com/article/204254/survey-2024-election-cassandras-trump-2025
The warning lights from the cryosphere have been flashing red for several years and governments and policymakers ignore this at their peril.
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