TICtank 11.12#17.12

"Blackouts" em Kyiv, James Earl Ray em Lisboa, "younger olders" e desportos estranhos?

Dec 17, 2022

The Legasov Tapes: from academician V. Legasov audio tapes which he recorded after the Chernobyl accident and not long before his death.

*JFK Assassination Records: "Ninguém espera que o assassino de Martin Luther King passe dez dias em Lisboa!"*

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.

*Maximum containment labs around the world*

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.]

*Life Magnified: These stamps reveal life on Earth like many have never seen it.*

Perseverance’s First 2 Regolith Samples: Two holes are left in the Martian surface after NASA’s Perseverance rover used a specialized drill bit to collect the mission’s first samples of regolith – broken rock and dust – on Dec. 2 and 6. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Download image › — *Mars Now*

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...’).”

An illustration of MIT's PhotoGuard process that guards against AI photo editing. A similar adversarial method might prevent AI from being trained on certain images. — *Thanks to AI, it’s probably time to take your photos off the Internet*

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

An animated map showing how country averages can deceive. At the national level, few countries experienced a decline in GDP per capita between 2000 and 2019 - but at the microregion level, many areas across the world did — *Big cities drive half of global economic growth: Data highlight the importance of urban areas, not nations, in driving development*

The hobbies of 5 great geniuses

Blood gushes through elevator doors — *‘The police came because of the sea of red gore’: unseen photos from the set of The Shining*

*Watching The Greatest Hits From The Last 120+ Years*

*The Blobs are back in town… with Beethoven*

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.

*What is the FIFA World Cup Trophy Made Of?*

32 Weird Sports from Around the World

GoPro Heroes: