Juha van ’t Zelfde

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AI “agents” are becoming smarter and have become “more determined to resolve complex tasks through inter-agent collaboration, knowledge sharing, deception and concealment,” said Lian Jye Su, a chief analyst at technology research and advisory group Omdia. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

OpenAI reveals cases of ‘concerning’ AI behaviour and promises new plan for disclosing issues

Research model inserting ‘jailbreak-like instructions’ into its notes is among cases as company says it is introducing new way of tracking AI misalignment

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Aan het wereldbeeld van de VVD ligt de feodale idee ten grondslag dat werkende mensen willoze instrumenten zijn van de bezittende klasse. Dit gaat niet over arbeidsethos en al helemaal niet over collectief belang, maar om het recht van de rijken om anderen uit te buiten. www.ad.nl/politiek/gen...

Gen Z’er die maar drie of vier dagen werkt, Ruben Brekelmans wil ervan af

Met jongvolwassenen die maximaal drie of vier dagen per week willen werken, gaat Nederland het ‘niet redden’, klaagt VVD-fractievoorzitter Ruben Brekelmans. Hij pleit ook voor vacaturestops bij de ove...

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De campagne van de VVD tegen de werkende Nederlander (en de vakbonden) begint nogal opzichtige vormen aan te nemen. ‘Jongeren moeten meer uren werken, dat doen ze in China ook’. ‘Cao’s waarin staat dat je 100 procent krijgt doorbetaald bij ziekte, gaan we verbieden’. #FNV #CNV

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"Excess mortality in three of the EU’s larger countries – Germany, France and Spain – alone has already exceeded 25,000, according to the provisional national figures, and experts say the toll will rise significantly once August totals are consolidated." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

At least 35,000 excess deaths recorded in Europe’s back-to-back heatwaves

Figure only covers about half of continent and does not include August totals

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Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

For centuries, the rock was seen as a warning. When it began to emerge from the Danube, beneath Gellért Hill in Budapest, it meant the river had fallen so low that floating mills could no longer operate, crops were probably failing, and hunger would follow. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Destroyed crops, riverbed cyclists and a ‘Rock of Starvation’: how drought has devastated the Danube

The Guardian travelled 100 miles along the EU’s longest river, where some residents are struggling to secure drinking water

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EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.

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Zojuist was er weer een boer op tv (EenVandaag op NPO1) die onweersproken mocht zeggen dat "stikstof geen probleem is". Daarom hieronder elf glasheldere argumenten waarom het wel een probleem is, voor flora en fauna en daardoor voor alle mensen. 1/12

TIL about the Nederlandsche Cocaïnefabriek (1900–1972), an Amsterdam-based factory that produced cocaine on a large scale for medicinal purposes from coca plants grown in the Dutch East Indies. Later, the factory produced novocaine, morphine, heroin and ephedrine, among other things.

Record temperature after record temperature, wildfires raging everywhere, worst case scenarios of the climate emergency have become a daily reality. Dutch broadcaster NOS: “Dealing with heat can be learned: ‘Time in the heat can even be healthy’” nos.nl/l/2625468

Omgaan met hitte is te leren: 'Tijdje in de warmte kan zelfs gezond zijn'

Limburg heeft inmiddels te maken met de vierde regionale hittegolf deze zomer. Naar verwachting kunnen mensen nu beter tegen die warmte dan aan het begin van de zomer.

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I don’t agree. I think they just value other people’s lives less. There is an entitlement rich people cary that, for them, justifies anything they do. I think it is much more fascist than this, in the line of ”fascism is capitalism defending itself,” by any means necessary.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2mo ago

I have previously written about one reason that billionaires find the AI story so compelling: at root, many billionaires just don't believe most other people are actually, fully real. How could they? Achieving billionairehood requires that you inflict pain on vast numbers of people. 13/