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[JPB @JPBotti]

Es vergonzoso que de 6 publicidades de
@DSports durante el #mundialdefútbol2026, 5 sean de casas de apuestas. Tanto necesitan la plata? Espero que dentro de poco las prohíban como el cigarrillo. Parecido con
@ESPNArgentina

#FIFAWorldCup #Mundial

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

AI will not make engineers more productive.

It will make bad engineering faster.

Here's the pattern I see:

A junior engineer asks an AI to write the simulation code.
The AI writes something plausible.
The engineer doesn't fully understand it.
The simulation runs.
The results look reasonable.
The engineer ships it.

Nobody caught the edge case in the boundary conditions.
Nobody questioned whether the model assumptions were valid.
Nobody held the equations long enough to develop intuition.

Speed without understanding is not productivity.
It's technical debt with better syntax.

The engineers who use AI well are the ones who already know enough to catch its mistakes.
The ones who don't know enough use it as a crutch and call it skill.

AI raises the floor for bad engineers.
It raises the ceiling for great ones.

The gap between them is getting wider, not smaller.

Where are you on that spectrum? Be honest.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Extinction Rebellion Global @ExtinctionR]

Rivers around the world are quietly running out of oxygen, and climate change is emerging as the main culprit. A sweeping global analysis of more than 21,000 river systems found that nearly 80% have been steadily losing dissolved oxygen over the past four decades, threatening fish, biodiversity, and the overall health of freshwater ecosystems. Tropical rivers are being hit the hardest, even more than rivers in rapidly warming polar regions.
#WaterIsLife #Rivers
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[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

We Are Living in the Dumbest Timeline

Donald Trump just posted a photo of a wind turbine next to birds and captioned it “Killing birds by the millions!”

He posted this without irony.

For every single bird killed by a wind turbine, nuclear and fossil fuel plants kill 2,118 birds. Coal alone kills roughly 7.9 million birds a year in the United States. Wind turbines? Between 140,000 and 328,000. That is not a defence of wind turbines.

We are living in genuinely, historically stupid times. Only rivalled, frankly, by the medieval peasants who blamed the Black Death on cats and promptly killed all the cats, which meant the rats multiplied, which meant more plague.

At least the peasants had the excuse of having no access to information whatsoever.

Trump has the internet. He chose this.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro]

The Pope is making exactly our point. LLMs “may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand.”

This is the core epistemic fault line.

Most AI evaluation is still based on one assumption: if a system statistically approximates human behaviour, then it is close to human intelligence.

But approximation is not intelligence.
Simulation is not understanding.

LLMs can produce the right answer without knowing why it is right. They can simulate empathy without feeling. They can imitate judgment without responsibility. They can generate coherent explanations without having a world to which those explanations are accountable.

Stop confusing behavioural similarity with cognitive equivalence.

Human understanding is embodied, affective, relational, motivational, and normative. It is not just the production of plausible text.

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Full paper in the first reply

[Amanda Fortini @amandafortini]

Just saw this on Substack. The metaphor is spot on.

[Alex Prompter @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

Wishing a Happy Birthday to Sir David Attenborough. Thank you for the knowledge, passion, and hope you’ve passed on to all of us.

Celebrate 100 years of Sir David Attenborough with Ocean with David Attenborough on @DisneyPlus and @hulu

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

Happy 100th Birthday to Sir David Attenborough! 🎉
Quite possibly the greatest living human on earth!
THE voice of nature & wildlife for my entire lifetime, THE inspiration for every environmentalist...if we all cared about life on earth even a fraction of what Sir David does, we wouldn't now be facing a global biodiversity crisis..
Sadly, I never got to meet Sir David, but his presence in my life far outweighs the vast majority of people that I have met... such is his standing and legendary status. 😍
Have a fantastic day Sir David... and THANK YOU! 🙏🐦❤️🎉

[JPB @JPBotti]

@USAinUKConsular Can you comment on what will be reviewed in the social media posts in order to make a decision? Just to understand the idea behind it. Thanks

[JPB @JPBotti]

@Uruguay @apu_uy @England @wembleystadium https://t.co/tHNCcxX552 @apu

[JPB @JPBotti]

Pobre primer tiempo de Uruguay @wembleystadium. Compacto defensivamente, no tan bien con la pelota. Inglaterra encontró un par de veces el pase filtrado para generar algun centro.
Uruguay aprovechó los espacios en pérdida en la salida para atacar
@apu_uy

[JPB @JPBotti]

@Uruguay @apu_uy @England @wembleystadium Bielsa y Tuchel en conferencia de prensa coincidieron en que la intensidad de Uruguay fue la que esperaban. Uno porque lo requería de los jugadores celestes y el otro porque le sirvió para probarse ante un equipo duro.
@Uruguay
@England
@apu_uy

[JPB @JPBotti]

@Uruguay @apu_uy @England @wembleystadium 93' Gol de @Uruguay! Valverde lo cobra de manera perfecta y empata el partido en tiempo de descuento.
@apu_uy