TICtank 11.12#17.12
"Blackouts" em Kyiv, James Earl Ray em Lisboa, "younger olders" e desportos estranhos?
The Legasov Tapes: from academician V. Legasov audio tapes which he recorded after the Chernobyl accident and not long before his death.
What’s the fittest fitness for the “younger older”?
Putin’s oligarchs the EU prefers not to punish: On the day of the Russian invasion, Putin summoned 37 oligarchs to the Kremlin. The European Union would use attending this meeting as a reason for imposing sanctions on several of these businessmen, but eleven oligarchs - including the two richest people in Russia - escaped EU sanctions.
The story of VaccinateCA: The unofficial strategy, the result the system actually obtained, was that early access to the vaccine was preferentially awarded based on proximity to power and to the professional-managerial class. [Editor’s note: This is a very long essay, but we promise it’s worth it.]
AI bot ChatGPT writes smart essays — should professors worry? “one of the known vulnerabilities of [large language models, LLMs] is their failure to handle negation, as Allyson Ettinger demonstrated years ago with a simple study. When asked to complete a short sentence, the model would answer 100 percent correctly for affirmative statements (‘a robin is…’) and 100 percent incorrectly for negative statements (‘a robin is not...’).”
Artificial intelligence is permeating business at last. Perhaps It Is A Bad Thing That The World's Leading AI Companies Cannot Control Their AIs
Silicon Valley utopians imagine AI solutions to ecological crisis, while being oblivious to the real material and ecological harms their fantasies wreak.
AI Sculpting: co-creation in the age of artificial intelligence
Aristocrat Inc. How a small computer chip company, owned by the author’s mother, became the target of a sprawling pan-Asian crime ring that operated throughout Silicon Valley
The hobbies of 5 great geniuses
a retractable lens system in a smartphone camera array:
Radiooooo: the Musical Time Machine
The Impotence of World Cup Protests vs How to design a perfect World Cup: There may never be another World Cup as intimate as this one. Since 1998 each tournament has featured 32 teams. In 2026, 48 will compete.
32 Weird Sports from Around the World