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Diversity: bio-, language, everything. Keeper of the Seeds. Fighting fascists since kindergarten. #AbolishBillionaires #FixTheGlitch portioid @ iNaturalist . developing #DuoNat, the biodiversity explorer.
Fig. 1328 from C. L. Koch, Die Arachniden (1846): Maevia picta, today Phintelloides versicolor (Salticidae). Female. Locality as printed: "Insel Bintang in Hinterindien". inaturalist.org/taxa/967406 All figures: koch.kimbaro.com #spiders #SciArt #NaturalHistory
Donald Trump is the Republicans' Hernan Cortez.
Fig. 199 from C. L. Koch, Die Arachniden (1836): Singa melanocephala, today Singa hamata melanocephala (Araneidae). Locality as printed: "Gegend von Triest". inaturalist.org/taxa/245664 All figures: koch.kimbaro.com #spiders #SciArt #NaturalHistory
Just because you don't know what consciousness (Chalmers' hard problem) is, doesn't mean it's complicated.
Found a midge this morning, Goeldichironomus carus, that appears to mimic a jumping spider.
I cut up the 1554 figures of Hahn/Koch's amazing "Die Arachniden", and built a 42×37 A3/A1 poster and a gallery website from it. These copper engravings were hand-painted for each published copy. #iNaturalist #arachnids #spiders #biodiversity
Die Arachniden: every figure on one poster
1,554 hand-colored figures of spiders, scorpions, harvestmen and mites by C. W. Hahn and C. L. Koch (1831 to 1847), arranged by family, with a searchable key.
koch.kimbaro.com
We have to make good choices. We have no time to rush.
The White House has reportedly instructed the Pentagon to prepare options for fresh military strikes against Iran that could take place before Americans head to the polls.
Leak Reveals Trump Plot for Stunning Election-Day Surprise
The president is plotting a major move as his party faces disaster.
thedailybeast.com
Unfortunately, I *don't* think that by now at least some people at altmanAI are like "Are we the baddies?" It's because everybody who's decent has left in wave after wave. They're the Boko Haram of #AI. Shut them down.
Mitchell and Webb: "Are we the baddies?"
YouTube video by CrystalRoseCreations
youtube.com
Interview with Daniel Roher and Tristan Harris. The latter by the way not #TESCREAL, and still warning that this shit will get out of hand if we don't act now. #ai
“The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist”: Daniel Roher, Tristan Harris Discuss New Film
As the development of artificial intelligence accelerates, more voices inside and outside the industry are warning that the technology poses major risks to humanity. The new film, The AI Doc: Or How I...
democracynow.org
Nice to see that somebody is not playing the silly "what % is your p(doom)" game. Leike's error bars mirror my own (I'd have said 20-80). If you say eg. "20%", yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man. Whoever says it's 100% or 0% is claiming certainty when there isn't any. #ai
Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 4d agoOne of the handful of articles telling it like it is instead of misinforming the public. By @saragoud.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org Yes. Its bad science based on numbers out of various behinds, but that's not how most of the rest of the media is discussing it. thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...
I keep trying to understand the current position of most of the populist left regarding #AI. This comparison is by Gemini. It mirrors my own thoughts about this.
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
Gianmarco Soresi@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 4d agoMan who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
kind of darkly funny that lots of people will keep claiming they voted for this shit in order to 'preserve free speech' and to 'fight the thought police'.
Michael McFaul@mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 4d agoWhat is going on with our president? Calling people "THE ENEMY" for exercising their First Amendment rights is deeply disturbing. That's what autocratic leaders do, not American leaders. Doing so for such a trivial, vain matter is just nutty.
TIL I learned that Dario Amodei, while still at OpenAI, tried to commit them to stop competing with other “value-aligned, safety-conscious” projects that “come close to building #AGI before we do.” #ai #anthropic www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
You don't hate Mondays, you hate #capitalism. You don't hate free sharing of information, you hate capitalism. #CopyrightIsTheft
I just learned that one reason we have this weird pink/blue crap for child gendering is because clothing manufacturers pushed it, so they can sell more clothes. Because now you can't give your 3yo son's closes to your 1yo daughter. Extra fun that it got reversed in the 1940s. #captitalism
I want a beneficial intelligence that has access to all of the world's knowledge. So do you. I want no person to worry about their basic needs being met, or to be treated unfairly. So do you. So why are we not fighting for this future, or at least working on imagining it? #ai
Claude Mods is some serious recursive shit #ai
Britons kept in dark about scale of climate crisis, say viewers of ‘first-of-its-kind’ emergency briefing
Britons kept in dark about scale of climate crisis, say viewers of ‘first-of-its-kind’ emergency briefing
Nine out of 10 people felt motivated to act after watching film outlining threats to food security, economy and public health
theguardian.com
BRAZIL ELECTION: “Clearly, [Flávio Bolsonaro’s] plan is a corrosion of democracy so [Brazil] becomes a Hungary or Bukele-style system.” “This is the announcement of a coup.”
‘Another coup d’état’: fears grow as Flávio Bolsonaro vows to ‘re-democratise’ Brazil
After a surprise first-round victory, critics suggest son of disgraced ex-president could seek to continue his father’s authoritarian project
theguardian.com
Information wants to be free. Copyright is theft. "Theft/Stealing" means taking something away. Copyright infringement is illegal *copying*. Content monopolists' decades-long propaganda convinced small creators that the way to go is artificial scarcity and balkanization of information;
P(Doomien) Miller@damienmiller.bsky.social · 6d agoI just don't understand how people can eulogize Swartz and simultaneously conclude that the world needs *more* intellectual property enforcement
Chait makes an interesting point here: We need actual laws to protect us, so we can prosecute the companies later, in case the rule of law returns to Epstein Island. #ai
The Curious Left-Wing Argument Against New AI Regulations
The governing challenges raised by AI expose several unfortunate tendencies in the populist anti-monopoly movement.
theatlantic.com
