Which Country has 18 out of 25 of the world's top landowners? When so much land and resources is owned by so few, what are the ramifications?

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl

Zahl der Firmeninsolvenzen: Bald so viele Pleiten wie zur Zeit der Finanzkrise

It is in the financial interest of streaming services to discourage a critical audio culture among users, to continue eroding connections between artists and listeners, so as to more easily slip discounted stock music through the cracks, improving their profit margins in the process.

I feel this is slowly happening to all types of media., not just audio. The slow dumbification of culture

So the AI boom of the last 12 years was made possible by three visionaries:
One was Geoffrey Hinton, a University of Toronto computer scientist who spent decades promoting neural networks despite near-universal skepticism.
The second was Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, who recognized early that GPUs could be useful for more than just graphics.
The third was Fei-Fei Li. She created an image dataset that seemed ludicrously large to most of her colleagues. But it turned out to be essential for demonstrating the potential of neural networks trained on GPUs

haha, heute Retro

In Hamburg ging der Stromverbrauch von Straßenlaternen seit 2020 um 30 Prozent zurück, da zunnehmend LED verwendet werden. So auch in Ampeln und Leuchtverkehrszeichen, dort lagen die Einsparungen durch LED-Lampen demnach bei 69 beziehungsweise 83 Prozent

Working on problems in the order I noticed them is rarely the most effective order. So the WTF Notebook gives me a place to park the impulse to fix it now, damn it! until I have more context for deciding what to work on first

Why have so many teens and twentysomethings stopped going out?

Un-glaub-lich