What I hate about grief is how it sucker-punches you.
Get up, I'm fine, I'm fine.
Have my breakfast, I'm fine, I'm fine.
Read someone's random post about how people in Japan eat KFC for Christmas. Blubbering mess.
#philosophy #archives #fundraising #HubertDreyfus
'A massive trove of legendary lectures by philosopher Hubert L. Dreyfus is currently confined to aging cassette tapes in a closet in the Berkeley Hills.'
Holy crap what a stat
'Between 2001 and 2014, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan cost the US an estimated $1.5 trillion to $1.7 trillion in direct spending. Global AI spending, according to Gartner, is forecast to reach nearly $1.5 trillion this year, putting today's AI boom in the same cash-burning league as two major wars.'
Google has gone completely off the fucking rails
'Last week, an update on the Google Support forum revealed that over the last few months, staffers have been working on Portraits, an “experimental feature” it said “lets viewers conversationally interact with AI representations of participating creators and gives these creators insights into topics that their audiences are interested in.”'
#community #food #gardening
'A new review published in Current Opinion in Psychology suggests that community gardens function as vital social infrastructure that contributes significantly to individual and collective health.'
#ElonMusk #Tesla #PublicSafety
'A new chapter in an ongoing investigative report from Bloomberg starts from the news that at least 15 people have died in Teslas where the electrically powered doors would not open after a crash.'
#politics #Epstein #crime
'Prior to the DOJ’s attempt to walk back what little transparency was to be found, COURIER retrieved every item from the initial release and published it in a searchable database that is available to the public.'