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Curious by nature, esp. Human behavior, History, Environmental Science and Exploring AI, VR, ML within this New World of extended perception it shapes. Traveller in latent space, using tools as tools and not solutions.
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A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

Here is the official Harvard University website! www.harvard.edu The current catalog of FREE COURSES at Harvard is being EXTENSIVELY EXPANDED. Check their website occasionally for new FREE courses added.

What is the point of working when there is hardly a job left on the planet which doesn’t guarantee the end of civilisation? open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

QP Butterfly Art Carloz the butterfly (from 9/2022)

My #Copyleft #AI find of today is a fully replicatable reimplementation of the #Whisper speech recognition model, using only #CreativeCommons Attribution and #PublicDomain data sources: huggingface.co/espnet/owsm_v3.…

The Morgan Library digitized Mary Shelley's personally annotated copy of #Frankenstein and made it available online! #TwoForOne #TCMParty www.themorgan.org/collection/f...

'Afro Art' is a series of portraits celebrating the beauty and versatility of black hair inspired by Baroque period artworks, by Kahran Bethencourt (and partner Regis) aka Creative Soul #womensart

Japanese artist Shinrashinge (b.1993) is renowned for his innovative "paper cup manga," where he ingeniously transforms simple paper cups into mesmerizing animated art

Es beginnt nicht mit einer Lüge. Es beginnt mit einem Wort. Heizungshammer. 1/

Study begun pre-COVID finds remote work increased sleep by 1/2 hr/night, decreased commute by 4.5 hr/week replaced with work, family & leisure and led to healthier eating. Remote and hybrid employees report higher job satisfaction and well-being. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/16/s...

Great job everyone

A bright shining weekend ahead. Oil the robots, fill the refrigerator, pull on the short stuff!

Researchers recently used AI to show that sperm whales may have a “phonetic alphabet” from which they construct complex communications and that elephants might address each other by name. 🧪

"Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, it causes physical changes in the brain. In seconds, new circuits & memories are formed that can change the way you think about the world forever. Memory leaves its mark so that we are able to carry around the past inside our heads" - George Johnson

ChatGPT got 780m visitors in April. That is dominant, and a business and culture changing level.

Robots in love

Todays Mermaid, the Champagne Bubble Mermaid ☺️🍾🧜‍♀️

Letters F to N in Jacobus Publicius' "mnemonic alphabet", 1482. Each object echoes a letter's shape, a technique used to aid memory. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/m... Our attempt in emojis: 🖇🏹 🥐👌🏾 🎼🎏🐌🛏🕴🏻🎷 🎋💪🏿🎹 ⛩🎾👎🏾🍭🎗⚡️🌴⚓️🍕🦋🙅🏻‍🤸🏾‍💤

A new artist's book event - the end artist book fair - runs next weekend at Newlyn Exchange, Cornwall, UK. Friday 9th (13.00 – 18.00) and Sat 10th May (10.00 – 16.00) artists will show work, talk about their ideas and sell their books. FREE ENTRY, all welcome. newlynartgallery.co.uk/activities/t...

Think about how I can become a copywriter who writes shopping texts so that AI agents prefer to buy them

Theses: solarpunk cities provide sustainable growth for all of us. from below, longterm

Watch out! Villain in the bushes

Sesame Street had him pegged back in 1988.

drifting through the week

Little Blaubär on travel