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Tarot, tarantulas and TikTok: exploring our long obsession with predicting the future | Magic | The Guardian
A new exhibition at Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries examines the enduring appeal of divinationSun Dec 8 08:40:27 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/dec/07/tarot-tarantulas-and-tiktok-exploring-our-long-obsession-with-predicting-the-future
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance II New Release Date is on February 4, 2025
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. Mark your calendars as the latest release date moved from February 11, 2025, to February 4, 2025Thu Dec 5 11:34:33 2024 - permalink -- https://play.asia/blog/2024/12/05/kingdom-come-deliverance-ii-new-release-date-is-on-february-4-2025-learn-more-here/
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‘Brain rot’: Oxford word of the year 2024 reflects ‘trivial’ use of social media | Social media | The Guardian
“Brain rot” has been announced as the Oxford word of the year for 2024, amid concerns over endless social media scrolling and mind-numbing contentMon Dec 2 08:09:30 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/02/brain-rot-oxford-word-of-the-year-2024
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‘Would you survive 72 hours?’ Germany and the Nordic countries prepare citizens for possible war | Europe | The Guardian
WTF.Sun Dec 1 14:49:35 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/29/would-you-survive-72-hours-germany-and-the-nordic-countries-prepare-citizens-for-possible-war
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Canadian media companies sue OpenAI in case potentially worth billions | Canada | The Guardian
Canada’s major news organizations have sued tech firm OpenAI for potentially billions of dollars, alleging the company is “strip-mining journalism” and unjustly enriching itself by using news articles to train its popular ChatGPT softwareSat Nov 30 10:41:13 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/29/canada-media-companies-sue-openai-chatgpt
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Most depressed or bright characters
the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 characters on a 100 point scale from "depressed" to "bright"Sun Nov 24 13:32:35 2024 - permalink -- https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/characters/stats/126/
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Angela Merkel expresses ‘huge concern’ at Elon Musk’s US government role | Angela Merkel | The Guardian
Merkel, who in her new memoir raises fears for the western democratic order with Donald Trump as US president, has also expressed deep concerns about the outsized role to be played in Trump’s administration by Elon MuskSat Nov 23 09:13:28 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/22/angela-merkel-expresses-huge-concern-at-elon-musks-us-government-role
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Louis Derrac - The progressivist web had better migrate to Mastodon, not Bluesky
the progressivist web would do well to migrate directly to Mastodon, not BlueskyTue Nov 19 12:50:22 2024 - permalink -- https://louisderrac.com/the-progressivist-web-had-better-migrate-to-mastodon-not-bluesky/
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AI cloning of celebrity voices outpacing the law, experts warn | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
AI cloning of celebrity voices outpacing the law, experts warnTue Nov 19 08:23:40 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/19/ai-cloning-of-celebrity-voices-outpacing-the-law-experts-warn
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People everywhere are head down, lost in the oblivion of infinite scroll. Just stop and let the moment breathe | Justine Toh | The Guardian
lost in the oblivion of infinite scrollMon Nov 18 09:41:12 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/18/people-everywhere-are-head-down-lost-in-the-oblivion-of-infinite-scroll-just-stop-and-let-the-moment-breathe
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Climate crisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal | Climate crisis | The Guardian
studies calculating the role of the climate crisis in what are now unnatural disasters show 550 heatwaves, floods, storms, droughts and wildfires have been made significantly more severe or more frequent by global heatingMon Nov 18 08:20:47 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/18/climate-crisis-to-blame-for-dozens-of-impossible-heatwaves-studies-reveal
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I’m finally into ‘prepping’ and ready for the apocalypse | Life and style | The Guardian
Vor 20 Jahren noch ein Grund für's Krankenhaus, heute und spätestens seit der Pandemie plötzlich ein Teil des "Lifestyle"Sun Nov 17 10:14:05 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/nov/17/im-finally-into-prepping-and-ready-for-the-apocalypse
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The Onion buys conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ | Media | The Guardian
The Onion buys conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’Fri Nov 15 08:18:20 2024 - permalink -
Satirical news outlet purchases media platform run by Alex Jones at a court-ordered auction- https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/14/onion-info-wars-alex-jones
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‘The coolest girl in the world’ at 50: Chloë Sevigny’s best films – ranked! | Film | The Guardian
‘The coolest girl in the world’ at 50: Chloë Sevigny’s best films – rankedFri Nov 15 08:08:49 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/nov/14/the-coolest-girl-in-the-world-turns-50-chloe-sevigny-films-ranked
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Mattel apologises after Wicked movie dolls mistakenly link to porn website on packaging | Film | The Guardian
which showed a link to wicked.com, instead of wickedmovie.com. The address was printed on boxes for Glinda and Elphaba dolls, the main characters in Wicked, played in the film adaptation by Ariana Grande and Cynthia ErivoMon Nov 11 07:56:56 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/nov/11/mattel-apologises-after-mistakenly-linking-to-porn-website-on-wicked-dolls
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In the moral panic over vaping, we risk forgetting that cigarettes kill | Martha Gill | The Guardian
Let us start with how odd it is to be imposing bans on the most popular and effective aid for quitting smoking that we currently haveSun Nov 10 10:00:06 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/10/in-the-moral-panic-over-vaping-we-risk-forgetting-that-cigarettes-kill
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Why the deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise
So the AI boom of the last 12 years was made possible by three visionaries:Wed Nov 6 15:32:45 2024 - permalink -
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- https://www.understandingai.org/p/why-the-deep-learning-boom-caught
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Demi Moore: the US is ‘built on Puritans, religious fanatics and criminals’ | Film | The Guardian
Demi Moore: the US is ‘built on Puritans, religious fanatics and criminals’Wed Nov 6 15:13:26 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/nov/06/demi-moore-the-us-is-built-on-puritans-religious-fanatics-and-criminals-election
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We’re leaving Kubernetes - Blog
we’ve found that Kubernetes is not the right choice for building development environmentsMon Nov 4 22:01:43 2024 - permalink -- https://www.gitpod.io/blog/we-are-leaving-kubernetes
