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today.rtl.lu 21d ago

NATO project tests perennial grass to clean Ukraine's war-hit soil

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thebulletin.org 1mo ago

AI can chart a course to disaster faster than humans can notice

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www.theguardian.com 2mo ago

Google DeepMind workers in UK vote to unionize amid deal with US Military

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www.theguardian.com 2mo ago

I took an algorithm to court in Sweden. The algorithm won

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www.europesays.com 3mo ago

Anthropic tests pulling Claude Code from its Pro plan revealing AI pricing truth

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www.scientificamerican.com 3mo ago

Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference

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www.theguardian.com 5mo ago

Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk's Grokipedia as source, tests reveal

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aws.amazon.com 6mo ago

Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

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www.kobe-u.ac.jp 7mo ago

Fearless frogs feast on deadly hornets

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www.bbc.co.uk 7mo ago

Deep-sea mining tests impact over a third of seabed animals

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www.nature.com 7mo ago

Deep generative classification of blood cell morphology

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www.nature.com 7mo ago

Satellite megaconstellations will threaten space-based astronomy

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www.theguardian.com 7mo ago

Pornography company fined £1M by Ofcom for not having strong enough age checks

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paulkrugman.substack.com 7mo ago

Trump: Pro-Crypto or Pro-Crime?

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apocalypse-confidential.com 7mo ago

Cultural Death in the Age of the Excessive Choice

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www.theguardian.com 8mo ago

All schools in England to be given AI-generated pupil attendance targets

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www.theguardian.com 8mo ago

As carbon markets collapse, what happens to forests they promised to protect?

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www.theguardian.com 9mo ago

The last voyage of the Scandies Rose

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www.theguardian.com 9mo ago

AI might be creating underclass, but makers of tech bubble are replaceable

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bsky.app 10mo ago

ICE in Chicago Are Wearing Meta AI Ray-Ban Glasses

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www.wired.com 10mo ago

All Hail the Technocracy

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www.theguardian.com 10mo ago

Trump hikes H-1B visa cost to $100k a year

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www.theguardian.com 10mo ago

I lived underwater for 100 days

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www.theguardian.com 10mo ago

Johnson and Cummings' secret meeting with Palantir founder revealed

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www.desmog.com 11mo ago

Google President Praised MAGA Speech Slamming 'Climate Extremist Agenda'

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www.theguardian.com 11mo ago

The 'big church move': Swedish town begins to roll historic building 5km

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lobste.rs 11mo ago

Proposal: Mark/punish AI imagery (Lobsters)

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www.irishtimes.com 11mo ago

Climate scientists criticise Ireland over new 'temperature neutrality' proposal

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www.powerpolicy.net 11mo ago

The Puzzle of Low Data Center Utilization Rates

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www.theguardian.com 11mo ago

The zone zero secret: how ultra-low-stress exercise can change your life

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I live in a village on Dartmoor, UK, complete with a pub dating back to the 12th century. But the village shop has disappeared, the internet and even the water connection seem increasingly fragile. On the other hand, working from home in my own office with a view across the valley, and working on our woodland are great for body and soul. Also, there are enough children around that our kids don’t feel isolated - at the same time we’ve never worried about traffic when they go off on their explorations.

Same here. We can live without the extra pixels. Space is the barrier though. We have a huge old cowshed that the previous owner turned into a snooker room, and we turned into a library with remote control screen. Makes watching a film more of an event. Nice playing games at “life size” scales too. We’ve been through three projectors in 15 years at ~£350 each.

We had a power cut while on holiday. No real damage or loss but the bottom layer is now re-frozen icecream, probably caused by something not quite sealed being stacked sideways.

This has always seemed to me to be the inherent contradiction in free will but I struggle to elaborate it. If it’s my choice then doesn’t that mean it’s determined in some way? In which case it’s not free. But if it’s random then that’s not “will” either. What then is the thing that could be both free and willed?