I go to a meditation group, that meets once a week and has special weekend events and it turns out that the new COVID has seized hold of at least a 3rd of the people there. They were all vaccinated for covid BUT they had not gotten the NEWEST vaccination for the latest variants that was released two or three months ago. I got that vaccination at the first opportunity. They're feeling sick, to greater and lesser degrees--I didn't come down with this covid. *Get that vaccination!*
Strongly recommend NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU, an unusual #horror film--I'm not sure if many people will understand the last act & ending. I think it's perfect & as different as can be. It all comes together. It's aliens meet alienation. There are only five words of dialogue! An ingenious cinematic experiment & some of the best alien variants I've ever see. These aliens--despite being based sorta on gray aliens--are fabulously creepy.Be patient with it. THINK about the end...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcA02w6rm44
@0c1a9324@e0c06ded It may be a side effect but it seems very pragmatic and that argues for evolutionary selection. It has value for a species. But I think DNA has some secret we haven't uncovered yet.
@e0c06ded@0c1a9324 yes-- but it almost all organisms it still maintains the "planned obsolescence". Longer life for some, yes. But still quite finite. Still set up to to break down. Aging is not an accident of nature, it's a tool of nature. It has variances sure.
We, like all organisms, are designed for planned obsolescence. Aging seems built in, no accident of nature, and I suspect it's not just for population control, but serves the general interests of the perpetual experiment that is evolution. The churn must keep churning. This means more births, and removing earlier variants, in a perennial, persistent way, to produce newer experiments in evolution. DNA seems to be varying itself, yet carrying a message into the future.
Would you ask Facebook AI Snoop Dogg for frozen yogurt suggestions?
Tech companies seem to be ignoring an essential question: What is all this AI for, anyway?
"Meta this week unveiled AI that lets you chat with virtual likenesses of celebrities.
"But in their zeal to outgun each other with AI, companies have overpromised and underdelivered..."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/29/ai-doesnt-work-alexa/
People often point at the manufacturing pollution and carbon output of making electric cars but the stats show that even so, the overall output of an electric car leads to half the carbon output into the atmosphere of a gas-driven one. YET...we shouldn't let EV makers off the hook. *If they are motivated to,* they can revamp battery making etc to be non polluting. The tech exists for it. But no one insists on their working it up. EV manufacturing that pollutes is only half invented.
@6dd55ceb
'we should also harness far-away planetary surfaces inhospitable to biologic life to build giant server “farms” from hypothetical materials like “computronium” — a kind of “programmable matter” that could host vast pools of mechanical Einsteins that could lead to the next big breakthroughs for intelligent life.'
mm-kay
@6dd55ceb As for this: "Effective Altruism aims to reframe philanthropy in terms of both efficiency and ultimate outcomes. Rather, say, than giving a blanket to the freezing person right in front of you, it might make more sense to devise systems to insure specific people get different resources to maximize their long-term chance of impacting the world." -- it's just another form of trickle-down theory.
When I think about adapting to climate change, where I live in the NW, I think of four big climate outcomes to deal with: Increased risk of house fire, wildfire air pollution, collapse of the electrical grid (due to just everyone having their AC on full blast) and...the one I don't like to think about, in the overly armed USA, a widespread American famine. You probably know why climate change will cause famines...I'll be writing about it here this week: https://instantfuture.org/
The food industry pays ‘influencer’ dietitians to shape your eating habits
Registered dietitians are being paid to post videos that promote diet soda, sugar and supplements on Instagram and TikTok
free link https://wapo.st/3sTupax
I'll be out of town for a few days and I don't go on the web on my phone, and I don't have a laptop, and I won't have access to my PC so I won;t be online for that time--and I mention this in case anyone makes a comment about something I've said and I'm not responding, or sends me a direct message. Be back sunday night.
@e2bc32de All kinds of people are shaking their fist at the fediverse concept, as it's described in the article. I don't exactly understand it. But more privacy? If you're exposed to more social media sort of willy-nilly, again as in the article I was commenting on, how is it more private? Not that *I* care about privacy for my own posts. I don't get real personal in them. I often let people know about projects, books and so on I'm bringing out, public appearances, so I like the idea...just asking..
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