croissanthology

Did YOU want to watch CCTV's AI Martial Arts cartoon about the Straits of Hormuz crisis? Complete with fighting Persian Cats? Well I subtitled it for you so you can enjoy it in all its trope-laden glory! Remember kids, the mountains will stay standing while the green water flows, and the true art of war is not figuring out how to fight, but how to stop!🥷😼🦅

🇳🇱 Farm in the Netherlands uses Bitcoin mining to keep stable temperatures inside the greenhouse 👀

I am pleading with the forces of the universe to convince Villeneuve to tackle yet another "unfilmable" sci-fi series.

If you are in San Francisco, I don't think there is anything more important you can do with your time than attending this - unless you work for an AI lab in which case there is something better you can do: resign.

Paul Ehrlich opposed many of technologies that would create the abundance that sustained a growing population: Paul Elrich on nuclear power in 1992: "Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun."

This is old news by now, but for those who don't already know -- there's a preliminary injunction hearing scheduled for next Tuesday (3/24) in Anthropic's N.D. Cal. case. If that goes well for Anthropic, they could get a court order stopping the SCR designation from going into effect then, or shortly thereafter. The government's opposition to Anthropic's PI motion is due today (that should be interesting reading) and Anthropic's allowed to file a reply to that opposition no later than Friday.