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It’s amazing how these people talk about AGI as if it was actually possible (it’s not).

What’s being sold as “AI” currently is slightly random statistical token chain generation; it has zero to do with thinking, intelligence or creativity.

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‘We could hit a wall’: why trillions of dollars of risk is no guarantee of AI reward

Progress of artificial general intelligence could stall, which may lead to a financial crash, says Yoshua Bengio, one of the ‘godfathers’ of modern AI
Dan Milmo (The Guardian)

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Games I love like Warsim, The Wastes, and usurper inspired me to think about creating my own console-based game. Then I wrote 750 lines of code just to make a reusable system for console menus. And realized the save system is going to be another 500 lines, probably. And then the settings system. And after thinking about 2000 lines of code before I can get to anything even resembling the simplest game mechanic, I'm not inspired, anymore. Why is 99 percent of programming doing the least interesting part of any project?

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Ontario opposition NDP Leader Marit Stiles said it best. “It’s the same Doug Ford playbook; do nothing, then complain to grab headlines," Stiles said. "Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe flew to China with the Prime Minister to advocate for his province’s canola farmers.
"Meanwhile, Ford was sitting at home, leaving Ontario workers with no one to fight for them. If you’re not at the table, you’re not fit for Premier." cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/dou…

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London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires
Founded by Keir Starmer’s comms chief, Portland helps rich clients ‘protect their reputation’ – with a shady, off-the-books service
thebureauinvestigates.com/stor…

London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires

Claire Wilmot (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism)

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Hello #Fediverse,

as #FOSDEM 2026 is approaching I was thinking about bridging the livestreams to #PeerTube as well.

Streams are under #CreativeCommons license that allows sharing videos, so there is no big deal in it.

As there are plenty of rooms (and we dibs Social Web for #VHSky :) ), it would be fun to coordinate streaming accross multiple instances to stream as much rooms as possible without overloading single instance.

What do you think, anybody interested?

Also, anybody has idea how to actually bridge m3u to PeerTube? @j4n3z maybe?

#fediverse #peertube #fosdem #creativecommons #vhsky @j4n3z

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Let’s be honest, Ring was already some technocratic, dystopian BS, but if you needed a reason to finally, finally kill it with fire, here’s your reason: Ring is partnering with Flock to help ICE spy on you and your neighbors for the government 👀

#Technology #InfoSec
techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amaz…


Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch

Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."
Amanda Silberling (TechCrunch)
#infosec #technology
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