English Tech & Science
- OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/
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View full threadFor 9 days, this seawater sloshed back and forth like disturbed bath-water, transferring energy into the bedrock of the fjord with every impact... And that regular 90-second beat rippled out across the WHOLE DAMN WORLD. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5et6... 8/
- For 9 days, the whole of our planet rang like a bell. BONG BONG BONG. We are all connected by bongs! (No, I don't mean....ok, I might try to disable the replies on this bit.) And when the paper on all this was published a year later... 9/
- "Patriotic controllers"
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- In seismology, the term for this is a USO: an Unidentified Seismic Object. And perhaps if this discovery had leaked into mainstream news in the way potential alien biosignatures tend to do, we’d currently be seeing a big comeback for the HOLLOW EARTH ‘theory’. Thankfully this wasn't the case. 2/
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- Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.
- yeah i got no issue with people whose job involves the use of machine learning tools for a number of technical tasks but anyone using AI to automate human communication or creativity is just instantly less of a person to me
- Last year, I announced the creation of the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park — with DARPA, PsiQuantum, and IBM already driving research and development there. I'm excited to report Diraq, an Australian quantum leader, will be joining them today.
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- A summery cartoon for @newscientist.com
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- Your periodic reminder that "fancy fonts" on places like Bluesky are unicode & are a nightmare for screen reader users. DON'T use for your name Not only that, good lucky having anyone search for you in the search bar by name. More examples in the original post on Masto: toot.cafe/@aardrian/11...
- never seen a more distilled vision of american soft power that tactical big mac command centers can be deployed anywhere in the world in under 24 hours
- This is so vague that it could ban the regulation of any kind of algorithm whatsoever; “automated decision system” is an extremely broad term!
- This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...
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- 4 artists & 3 scientists created a series of posters to communicate some of the science issues most important to us. These posters are made to be shared! We're selling them in 4-packs, so YOU can share them outside of the science circles where we hang out online. get 'em squidfacts.bigcartel.com
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