AI Astrology Is Getting a Little Too Personal
Cryptic life guidance is one thing. Telling me to ditch my therapist is another.
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How popular are post-growth and post-capitalist ideas? Some recent data — Jason Hickel
Here is a list of studies, surveys and polling results that shed some light on popular perceptions of post-growth and post-capitalist ideas. I will seek to update this list periodically. Scientists’ support for post-growth 1. A survey of nearly 800 climate policy researchers around the worl
Degrowth for Engineering and Engineering for Degrowth
The steady-state/degrowth movement opens the possibility of re-defining “needs” and reorienting engineers to achieving equitable prosperity on our one shared planet.
It’s Not Just Ukraine and Gaza: War Is on the Rise Everywhere
An authoritative new study finds there are 183 regional and local conflicts underway in 2023, the highest number in three decades.
An authoritative new study finds there are 183 regional and local conflicts underway in 2023, the highest number in three decades.
Derek Thompson on X: "What is HAPPENING here? Between 2012 and 2023, it appears that average OECD reading, math and science scores have declined consistently. This is not (just) about pandemic learning loss. It’s not about one US city. It’s not even just the US. This is the entire developed world. https://t.co/CRj4z8YKPT" / X
What is HAPPENING here?Between 2012 and 2023, it appears that average OECD reading, math and science scores have declined consistently.This is not (just) about pandemic learning loss. It’s not about one US city. It’s not even just the US. This is the entire developed world. pic.twitter.com/CRj4z8YKPT— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) December 12, 2023
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Humane officially launches the AI Pin, its OpenAI-powered wearable
Humane’s AI wearable is here — but what is it for?
Why you need to worry about the ‘wet-bulb temperature’
Scientists think we need to pay attention to a measure of heat and humidity – and it’s edging closer to the limits of human survivability
Microplastics May Be a Significant Cause of Male Infertility
Due to the problematic degradation properties of plastics, the decomposition of
plastic results in the formation of numerous microplastics (MPs), less than 5 mm
in diameter. These MPs enter the soil and the ocean, eventually passing through
the air, water, ...
Cleo Valentine - Cleo Valentine: We now know architecture can cause stress
In terms of architecture, it’s possible that the features that consistently produce minor stress responses in our bodies are the most insidious, precisely because they often go unnoticed.
The Black GPT: Introducing The AI Model Trained With Diversity And Inclusivity In Mind
Latimer, named after African-American inventor Lewis Latimer, is a new platform trying to make generative AI more inclusive.
3D-GPT: 3D MODELING WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS
Design giant Ideo cuts a third of staff and closes offices as the era of design thinking ends
The storied design consultancy Ideo has been shedding staff throughout 2023 as it navigates a future where its traditional services are less in demand.
Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence | The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Purpose. Artificial intelligence (AI) holds extraordinary potential for both promise and peril. Responsible AI use has the potential to help solve urgent challenges…
Beam Solar Energy From Space? These Scientists Achieve a Breakthrough
Caltech researchers are experimenting with a space-based solar power system that would assemble itself after being launched by rockets.
‘No normal seasons any more’: seed farmers struggle amid the climate crisis
Floods, freezes and heatwaves threaten seed production as farmers scramble to produce strains that resist climate chaos
Kids too young for protests on roblox
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Adobe created a symbol to encourage tagging AI-generated content
The icon will represent AI-generated content.
New Breakthrough in Energy Storage – MIT Engineers Create Supercapacitor out of Ancient Materials
Constructed from cement, carbon black, and water, the device holds the potential to offer affordable and scalable energy storage for renewable energy sources. Two of humanity's most ubiquitous historical materials, cement and carbon black (which resembles very fine charcoal), may form the basis for
The water naturally forms a branching network of openings within the structure as it reacts with cement, and the carbon migrates into these spaces to make wire-like structures within the hardened cement.
fractal-like structure, with larger branches sprouting smaller branches, and those sprouting even smaller branchlets
existing batteries are too expensive and mostly rely on materials such as lithium, whose supply is limited,
nanocarbon-black-doped concrete
upercapacitors can be charged and discharged much more rapidly than batteries
Since the concrete would retain its strength, a house with a foundation made of this material could store a day’s worth of energy produced by solar panels or windmills
working up to a 45-cubic-meter version to demonstrate its ability to store a house-worth of power.
Hey designers, they’re gaslighting you.
“Prove your value.” “Justify your presence.” “Demonstrate impact.” Too many organizations have convinced designers that they’re the…
The roadshows aren’t working. The presentations and the decks just do not work. Our hypothesis is that showing up in the work consistently, as a discipline — and being very loud about our work — is probably the best way for us to show the value of our work.
Shining a Light on “Shadow Prompting”
We must resist normalizing opacity in the design of generative AI systems, says Eryk Salvaggio.
3D Gaussian Splatting from Hollywood Films!
Turning movie shots into 3D scenes using 3D Gaussian Splatting. We found movie clips online, converted scenes to image sequences, trained their GSPLATS, and brought them to UNREAL ENGINE 5.
3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering Paper:
https://repo-sam.inria.fr/fungraph/3d-gaussian-splatting/
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Instagram apologises for adding ‘terrorist’ to some Palestinian user profiles
Parent company Meta says bug caused ‘inappropriate’ auto-translations and was now fixed while employee says it pushed ‘a lot of people over the edge’
Nestlé Irish baby milk factory to close as China birth rate drops
The closure of the plant in Askeaton, County Limerick, will mean more than 500 job losses.
Adobe Presented Magical Animated Dress That Can Change Patterns
A new outfit every day.
Is “laziness” the key to creativity? The Lazy Report argues for the art of kicking back
In the first of our new Insight reports, we investigate whether the hunt for productivity might be hindering our creativity.
Hull set to allow ‘right to grow’ on unused council land in UK first
City councillors pass motion to let community groups, charities and neighbours cultivate fruit and veg
Electric power emissions barely rose in H1
The globe could be "nearing the point of falling power sector emissions."
Microsoft is reportedly losing huge amounts of money on GitHub Copilot
Might GitHub Copilot become more expensive soon?
Researchers Propose a Fourth Light on Traffic Signals – For Self-Driving Cars
The new light would enable autonomous vehicles to help control traffic flow – and let human drivers know what’s going on.
This concept we’re proposing for traffic intersections, which we call a ‘white phase,’ taps into the computing power of autonomous vehicles (AVs) themselves,
possible for AVs to communicate wirelessly with both each other and the computer controlling the traffic signal
mobile control paradigm
Playing with climate, casually
I read this story on Canary Media with interest – “Solarpunk is going mainstream. This couple’s $1M Kickstarter proves it. Canary chats with the co-creators of the forthcoming video gam…