GANmouflage: 3D Object Nondetection with Texture Fields (paper, code)
Mammoth sized trees in the Sequoia National Forest
Give up your inquiries
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Peter Kropotkin on the Law
"The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror." - Peter Kropotkin (1842 - 1921)
The Massimo Family - "the dominant bloodline of the Black Nobility" or "one of the great aristocratic families of Rome, renowned for its influence on the politics, the church and the artistic heritage of the city" (wikipedia)
Controlled Opposition: Why Timnit Gebru Isn’t Waiting for Big Tech to Fix AI's Problems
"Gebru says DAIR’s funding model gives it freedom too. DAIR has received $3.7 million from a group of big philanthropists including the Ford, MacArthur and Open Society foundations."
#Comment: The bigger and more sophisticated the crimes, the more controlled the opposition. Best is to disengage & smile.
The energy is shifting
Murray Bookchin on ‘Green’ Capitalism
“To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well-meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.” - Murray Bookchin
“It is impossible to achieve a harmonization of man and nature without creating a human community that lives in a lasting balance with its natural environment.” - Murray Bookchin, Ecology and Revolutionary Thought
Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future
"There is no single person in existence who had a problem they wanted to solve, discovered that an available blockchain solution was the best way to solve it, and therefore became a blockchain enthusiast." 💯 👏
ArXiv.org Reaches a Milestone and a Reckoning - "Runaway success and underfunding have led to growing pains for the preprint server" (Scientific American)
If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night i bet they would live a lot differently
There are some things you can only learn in a storm 🌪️