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   Oliver Vanderb (ollivdb@nrw.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-May-2026 04:29:17 JST Oliver Vanderb

   @Infoseepage @noelreports

   But these images don't come from Ukraine. These images come from russian citizens who are living there.

   At least it's about war economic reasons. A liter crud is about 0.75 $. Such a tank can store up to 40.000 to 80.000 m³. And even more. Which translates into 30 to 60 mio $. That can't be used for weapon production any longer. Think about 10 80.000m³ stores down. Would be 0.6 mrd loss for Russia.

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   Cassandra 🔜 SanFran (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 00:56:54 JST Cassandra 🔜 SanFran

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   Please, if you're interested in quantum computing, dig into this, the details are fascinating, and there's a lot of neat shit to learn there.

   At the same time, this has practically zero effect on your daily life. Quantum computers, for all practical purposes, do not exist yet. This is evidence that that might change one day, but again in a practical sense, it hasn't changed yet.

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   Mina (mina@berlin.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2024 05:06:12 JST Mina

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   when Kanga and Roo arrive to the forest, Rabbit gathers the animals to drive them away, I started to talk with my (then 4 years old) daughter, if she understood, what was happening there.

   At one point, I asked her what to do, if somebody showed up, and was somehow different and felt strange and alien, to which she answered spontaneously "become friends?".

   3/4

   @HistoPol @mattotcha @energiepirat @VeroniqueB99 @si_irini @GreenFire @evelynefoerster @SilviaMarton @forthy42 @2ndStar @MAJ1 @scb

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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 21:19:59 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   Daily Inspiration: “An imagination is a machine that can see tomorrow!” – Futurist Jim Carroll

   Part of the art of helping people understand tomorrow comes from encouraging them to think about what they might encounter once they get there.

   At this moment in my keynote I am holding up my iPhone, and asking the audience to imagine what they might be doing with it just 5 short years from now. I suggest that 10 or 15 years ago, they didn't have such a device in their life, and had no idea how important it would become to them.

   I then suggest they imagine that same phone 5 years out - loaded with a whole series of new apps based on AI. They'll be doing things in a few years that they aren't yet aware of, and yet will be indispensable to them!

   Second, I give them an example of this type of thinking  - by bringing up a picture of this diseased strawberry.

   I show them how I use ChatGPT to examine the picture and identify the type of disease that is found on the strawberries in question. I tell the audience to imagine the world of agriculture just a few years out, in which they've got a magical device in their pocket that can identify plant disease, growth rates, maturity, and other factors.

   Will this happen? Most certainly - because I then walk a series of slides that show how quickly this capability is coming together. My examples involve a company called  Keymakr, which is in the business of what is called 'data annotation' - in essence, developing tools that help various AI systems identify and interpret the world around us. (ChatGPT does this through their own data identification tools.)

   The future is coming at us quicker than we think, and it is by imagining what it might look like when we get there that we can best understand where we are going.

   That comes from accelerating your imagination with the real-world research that is underway - and which will become a part of our world in just a few short years. 

   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2024/01/daily-inspiration-trends-and-innovation-an-imagination-is-a-machine-that-can-see-tomorrow/

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   Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 01:48:35 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

   You never, ever see a Baby Pacman with the right colours on the monitor.

   This is partly down to pinball guys not being good at monitors, but it's also because monitor guys are not good with Baby Pacman monitors.

   Your arcade guy, he comes in and goes "Oof yeah that Baby Pacman monitor has its colour balance all outta whack, let's see what we can do about that." So he opens up the back and he finds the knobs and gives them a twiddle.

   There's the screen voltage pot on the flyback (which acts as a brightness control by encouraging electrons to hit the phosphors harder), and there's also individual controls for each colour. Two each in most monitors, the cutoff and the drive, affecting the highs and the lows. In old monitors like in baby pacman one colour will lack a drive control, usually green, you use this colour as a base reference.

   So your monitor person, they've done this a thousand times, they hold a hand mirror round the front of the game and twiddle those knobs like they've always done.

   And it looks Worse.

   "What the hell," says Monitor Toucher, "Can't get this bloody thing adjusted up right, it just doesn't want to cooperate." Maybe the hamfisted pinball guy in here last had a go and screwed it all up - let's abandon the idea of a quick minor-adjustment tune-up and set all the knobs to the centre mark and get a sense of how the tube's ageing and do a complete ground-up rough-in and see where we go from there.

   At some point, later on, the tube rejuvenator might make an appearance.

   Some time later, the monitor guy will angrily shove the back door closed and write on the back "Monitor's as good as it's gonna get, LEAVE IT ALONE"

   And the only people who will ever find the third set of adjustment knobs, located on the VIDIOT! board and altering the R/G/B/Sync signals before they even reach the monitor, are the people who go "Hmm, if I were a pinball company trying to make a videogame, just how badly would I bollocks it all up..."