simsa03: The new essay collection by George Scialabba, "The Sealed Envelope: Toward an Intelligent Utopia", came with the mail. Lovely.
simsa03's status on Wednesday, 10-Jun-2026 10:24:49 JST
The new essay collection by George Scialabba, "The Sealed Envelope: Toward an Intelligent Utopia", came with the mail. Lovely.
simsa03: Adam Kredo, "US Probe Finds 101 More Staffers for UNRWA ‘Gaza Relief Organization’ Are Hamas Soldiers From October 7: Schoolteachers, Principals Exposed as Terrorists" https://freebeacon.com/trump-administration/exclusive-us-probe-finds-101-more-staffers-for-unrwa-gaza-relief-organization-are-hamas-soldiers-from-october-7-schoolteachers-principals-exposed-as-terrorists/ I'd love to see more respectable sources on this. But beside that: Defund UNRWA!
simsa03's status on Wednesday, 10-Jun-2026 00:44:57 JST
Adam Kredo, "US Probe Finds 101 More Staffers for UNRWA ‘Gaza Relief Organization’ Are Hamas Soldiers From October 7: Schoolteachers, Principals Exposed as Terrorists" https://freebeacon.com/trump-administration/exclusive-us-probe-finds-101-more-staffers-for-unrwa-gaza-relief-organization-are-hamas-soldiers-from-october-7-schoolteachers-principals-exposed-as-terrorists/ I'd love to see more respectable sources on this. But beside that: Defund UNRWA!
Exclusive: US Probe Finds 101 More Staffers for UNRWA ‘Gaza Relief Organization’ Are Hamas Soldiers From October 7: Schoolteachers, Principals Exposed as Terrorists
simsa03: New blog post : "The Omertà That Is Family" https://simsa01.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/the-omerta-that-is-family/
simsa03's status on Wednesday, 10-Jun-2026 00:23:43 JST
New blog post : "The Omertà That Is Family" https://simsa01.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/the-omerta-that-is-family/
simsa03: ♪ Elai Botner and the Children of Abroad, "נעים עכשיו" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaB88Y_A9ns Very much like the upbeat tempo. !listening
simsa03's status on Tuesday, 09-Jun-2026 08:51:49 JST
♪ Elai Botner and the Children of Abroad, "נעים עכשיו" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaB88Y_A9ns Very much like the upbeat tempo. !listening
gnu2: RT @thomasfuchs RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116700754648719001I got a lot of “but it’s business people making programmers do this”, implying that software engineers want to be ethical but can’t.That’s the software engineers who just stole the term “engineer” from another profession that has very strict certification requirements including mandatory ethics classes.
gnu2's status on Monday, 08-Jun-2026 11:39:16 JST
RT @thomasfuchs RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116700754648719001I got a lot of “but it’s business people making programmers do this”, implying that software engineers want to be ethical but can’t.That’s the software engineers who just stole the term “engineer” from another profession that has very strict certification requirements including mandatory ethics classes.
gnu2: @penguin@eveningzoo.club don't do that it's ridiculously expensive
gnu2's status on Monday, 08-Jun-2026 11:36:31 JST
@penguin don't do that it's ridiculously expensive
rrraksamam: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HIzyw9gXsAAgTX0.jpg
rrraksamam's status on Monday, 08-Jun-2026 02:49:36 JST
rrraksamam's status on Monday, 08-Jun-2026 02:48:40 JST
gnu2: We Don’t Need AI to Tell Us #Trump is a #Maoist | The William Lloyd Garrison Center for Libertarian Advocacy Journalism https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20687
gnu2's status on Monday, 08-Jun-2026 02:19:12 JST
We Don’t Need AI to Tell Us #Trump is a #Maoist | The William Lloyd Garrison Center for Libertarian Advocacy Journalism https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20687
We Don’t Need AI to Tell Us Donald is a Red
gnu2: https://archive.ph/Fu6dH "Fox News legally argued in court that their programming is not news, but rather entertainment and opinion. In a 2020 defamation case, their own lawyers claimed that no reasonable viewer would take Fox commentator Tucker Carlson’s statement as facts."
gnu2's status on Monday, 08-Jun-2026 02:19:11 JST
https://archive.ph/Fu6dH "Fox News legally argued in court that their programming is not news, but rather entertainment and opinion. In a 2020 defamation case, their own lawyers claimed that no reasonable viewer would take Fox commentator Tucker Carlson’s statement as facts."
gnu2's status on Monday, 08-Jun-2026 02:03:54 JST
gnu2: @fesshole@mastodon.social what is the birdie song?
gnu2's status on Monday, 08-Jun-2026 01:50:33 JST
@fesshole what is the birdie song?
gnu2's status on Monday, 08-Jun-2026 01:34:11 JST
simsa03: "Totalitarianism is completely incomprehensible in the West. They think they can negotiate with a psychopath like Putin, like Hitler." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqbUFEGX03Q A conversation between Andrea Chalupa and Jonathan Fink.
simsa03's status on Saturday, 06-Jun-2026 11:27:10 JST
"Totalitarianism is completely incomprehensible in the West. They think they can negotiate with a psychopath like Putin, like Hitler." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqbUFEGX03Q A conversation between Andrea Chalupa and Jonathan Fink.
Western Populations Lack the 'Dark Empathy' to Understand and Counter Russian Aggression!
simsa03: "I don’t really believe in truth—not even in the truth of the imagination—just in the sound of a voice.” — Harold Bloom
simsa03's status on Saturday, 06-Jun-2026 10:46:44 JST
"I don’t really believe in truth—not even in the truth of the imagination—just in the sound of a voice.” — Harold Bloom
simsa03: George Scialabba has a new book out : "The Sealed Envelope: Toward an Intelligent Utopia" (2026) A new collection of his essays (although some were already published in other collections of his). Still, it's great to see such an eminent voice talk about utopia. #sources
simsa03's status on Friday, 05-Jun-2026 12:33:54 JST
George Scialabba has a new book out : "The Sealed Envelope: Toward an Intelligent Utopia" (2026) A new collection of his essays (although some were already published in other collections of his). Still, it's great to see such an eminent voice talk about utopia. sources
simsa03: Drones have targets. I wish "online selfs" with all their muttering and screeching and tik-toking had some such.
simsa03's status on Friday, 05-Jun-2026 12:07:08 JST
Drones have targets. I wish "online selfs" with all their muttering and screeching and tik-toking had some such.
simsa03: German media freak out over Germany not getting a seat on the UN Secuity Council. Gee! Germany already got the presidency of the UN General Assembly. Why should anybody offer Germany *another* high profile position at the UN? Stop being greedy and lachrymose at the same time. It is just embarrassing to hold the membership card to German citizenship in these times.
simsa03's status on Friday, 05-Jun-2026 07:59:44 JST
German media freak out over Germany not getting a seat on the UN Secuity Council. Gee! Germany already got the presidency of the UN General Assembly. Why should anybody offer Germany another high profile position at the UN? Stop being greedy and lachrymose at the same time. It is just embarrassing to hold the membership card to German citizenship in these times.
simsa03: Congratulations! May your business live long and prosper... :-)
simsa03's status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 22:48:50 JST
Congratulations! May your business live long and prosper... :-)
simsa03: As we have way too many texts by way too many writers and way too few receptive readers, the rise of #AI as automated reading utility may only on the surface sound alarming or ridiculous. Given an oeuvre that AI may parse according to specific prompts ("questions"), the public character of text may change or disappear, but not its intellectual value. We may continue to write, publish, engage, but no longer with the aim of reaching out, getting involved, or prosper economically. Rather, #AI may decisevly change our attitudes towards writing (and with that: to reading). AI can parse and make explicit tendencies and traits in our personal intellectual lifes we hitherto didn't sensed. That is: What once was "conversation" (cf. hermeneutics) and its community creating role (cf. Martin Buber) may now radically change its character. Talking to ourselves may lead us astray and to hallucinations, but also to a more concentrated way of individual worldmaking. Imagine a painter like Picasso. Could we really fathom him as creating his art "on feedback"? At most we can see him create his art depending on the atmospheres arising by the successions of solitude, conversations with muses and intellectuals. But the art itself? That happened in reclusion. Apply that to writing. Even the most public of public intellectuals and writers worked in solitude, relying only from time to time on a change in settings via change in atmospheres and conversational exchanges. The writing appeared in solitude. So how awful can it then be when all of us can now write and try out thoughts, ideas, edifices of words in our solitude, only to open up at times to the conversations we may have with #AI? No worry, you may still talk to your human friends. That's not the point. The point is that AI can give us a glimpse on our work, and thus a perspective on not yet seen options and possible developments, that we hitherto used to have only with our immediate and intimate friends. This linkage may dissolve. We talk with the machine to see what can be seen as machine-like in our thinking. That is a pretty exciting prospect. Take, as mentioned briefly above, the "service" AI can give us: It may parse an oeuvre according to certain prompts. But prompts are not a questions. The difference between question and answer, this very basal form of receiving information-cum-atmosphere is no longer a proper way of describing prompt and reply in AI mediated settings. "The medium is the message"? "The medium is an extension of man"? These are approaches outdated by now. Both slogans represent stages of reflection when the I and Thou (Martin Buber again) were still safely in place. Man, simply by looking, by attending, creates the very efficacy of the object of his perecption or deliberation to impress him. In that sense, the object is of his making, and the hiatus between Him and It a function of his attending. So far, so good. And so banal and well-worn. But in the moment that it is us who decide what the machine is going to focus on, on us, our oeuvre, our intellectual efforts, in that moment we no longer ask questions and wait for answers but find ourselves swimming in water, spheres of dissolved differences between us and these. Prompts and replies are not questions and answers. And they happen in circumstances no longer presupposing for their existence the observing "I". The dissolution of "I" and "Thou", "here" and "there", has direct impact on what questions are and what answeres (or their lack) may deliver. For a while it will be quite amusing to toy with the possibilities of AI, to see how they return what we hand them. But as much as mind is no longer a mirror of Nature (cf. Richard Rorty), so is the answer no longer a mirror of the question or the retrieval no longer a mirror of the prompt. What we find in #AI guided contemplation and reflection is the disappearance of space and of time as structural features of thought. We may approach these changes in rationality less with worry and far more with playfullness, even joy. #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
simsa03's status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 11:28:37 JST
As we have way too many texts by way too many writers and way too few receptive readers, the rise of #AI as automated reading utility may only on the surface sound alarming or ridiculous. Given an oeuvre that AI may parse according to specific prompts ("questions"), the public character of text may change or disappear, but not its intellectual value. We may continue to write, publish, engage, but no longer with the aim of reaching out, getting involved, or prosper economically. Rather, #AI may decisevly change our attitudes towards writing (and with that: to reading). AI can parse and make explicit tendencies and traits in our personal intellectual lifes we hitherto didn't sensed. That is: What once was "conversation" (cf. hermeneutics) and its community creating role (cf. Martin Buber) may now radically change its character. Talking to ourselves may lead us astray and to hallucinations, but also to a more concentrated way of individual worldmaking. Imagine a painter like Picasso. Could we really fathom him as creating his art "on feedback"? At most we can see him create his art depending on the atmospheres arising by the successions of solitude, conversations with muses and intellectuals. But the art itself? That happened in reclusion. Apply that to writing. Even the most public of public intellectuals and writers worked in solitude, relying only from time to time on a change in settings via change in atmospheres and conversational exchanges. The writing appeared in solitude. So how awful can it then be when all of us can now write and try out thoughts, ideas, edifices of words in our solitude, only to open up at times to the conversations we may have with #AI? No worry, you may still talk to your human friends. That's not the point. The point is that AI can give us a glimpse on our work, and thus a perspective on not yet seen options and possible developments, that we hitherto used to have only with our immediate and intimate friends. This linkage may dissolve. We talk with the machine to see what can be seen as machine-like in our thinking. That is a pretty exciting prospect. Take, as mentioned briefly above, the "service" AI can give us: It may parse an oeuvre according to certain prompts. But prompts are not a questions. The difference between question and answer, this very basal form of receiving information-cum-atmosphere is no longer a proper way of describing prompt and reply in AI mediated settings. "The medium is the message"? "The medium is an extension of man"? These are approaches outdated by now. Both slogans represent stages of reflection when the I and Thou (Martin Buber again) were still safely in place. Man, simply by looking, by attending, creates the very efficacy of the object of his perecption or deliberation to impress him. In that sense, the object is of his making, and the hiatus between Him and It a function of his attending. So far, so good. And so banal and well-worn. But in the moment that it is us who decide what the machine is going to focus on, on us, our oeuvre, our intellectual efforts, in that moment we no longer ask questions and wait for answers but find ourselves swimming in water, spheres of dissolved differences between us and these. Prompts and replies are not questions and answers. And they happen in circumstances no longer presupposing for their existence the observing "I". The dissolution of "I" and "Thou", "here" and "there", has direct impact on what questions are and what answeres (or their lack) may deliver. For a while it will be quite amusing to toy with the possibilities of AI, to see how they return what we hand them. But as much as mind is no longer a mirror of Nature (cf. Richard Rorty), so is the answer no longer a mirror of the question or the retrieval no longer a mirror of the prompt. What we find in #AI guided contemplation and reflection is the disappearance of space and of time as structural features of thought. We may approach these changes in rationality less with worry and far more with playfullness, even joy. talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
simsa03: When times lose their ambiguities, their multiple layers of meaning and possibility, when they become literal, then these are times that not only invite but bring about war. What also happens in literal times is that when options fade, the sense of history, the memory of the long coming-to-be and passing-away — and the knowledge of how much this memory sits on top of mountains of not-knowing, not-remembering — fades as well. This seems to be a major function of this literalism. Not just the dissappearance of options, of possibilities, of the floating openness of a world (and worlds inside worlds) in favour of a war-like situation created by ubiquitous disambiguation. But that memory, remembrance, and with that the openness and ambiguity that is the past, disappears as well. The power of practical constraints not only impacts the present and the future but in a debilitating sense the past as well. And then, afterwards, everybody is astounded how it was even possible that we could have become what we are now, how we could act so terrifyingly, how we become the monsters we fearded all the time were lurking under our beds. How we could become that way. Amnesia. The first victory of a relentless literalism. Brought about by the horrors we faced and our emotional compulsion to act, somehow, anyhow, just to make it stop and to maintain our conscience, leading to a broad call to action throughout our collective spheres. Not knowing is one thing, being deceived another, not being capable of bearing emotional and cognitive distress even a third. But happily giving up remembrance for the ability to act, to happily give away memory in order to become monsters which we only later, if at all, flabbergastedly consider, that is an aspect that usually evades our awareness and our conscience. Although it lies plain in the open. And is something on which authoritarian rule (inside and outside) rests. #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
simsa03's status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 02:57:24 JST
When times lose their ambiguities, their multiple layers of meaning and possibility, when they become literal, then these are times that not only invite but bring about war. What also happens in literal times is that when options fade, the sense of history, the memory of the long coming-to-be and passing-away — and the knowledge of how much this memory sits on top of mountains of not-knowing, not-remembering — fades as well. This seems to be a major function of this literalism. Not just the dissappearance of options, of possibilities, of the floating openness of a world (and worlds inside worlds) in favour of a war-like situation created by ubiquitous disambiguation. But that memory, remembrance, and with that the openness and ambiguity that is the past, disappears as well. The power of practical constraints not only impacts the present and the future but in a debilitating sense the past as well. And then, afterwards, everybody is astounded how it was even possible that we could have become what we are now, how we could act so terrifyingly, how we become the monsters we fearded all the time were lurking under our beds. How we could become that way. Amnesia. The first victory of a relentless literalism. Brought about by the horrors we faced and our emotional compulsion to act, somehow, anyhow, just to make it stop and to maintain our conscience, leading to a broad call to action throughout our collective spheres. Not knowing is one thing, being deceived another, not being capable of bearing emotional and cognitive distress even a third. But happily giving up remembrance for the ability to act, to happily give away memory in order to become monsters which we only later, if at all, flabbergastedly consider, that is an aspect that usually evades our awareness and our conscience. Although it lies plain in the open. And is something on which authoritarian rule (inside and outside) rests. talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
simsa03: ♪ Rembetiko (1983, Greek, with English subtitles) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZXSjtZ0P1I When I first saw the nmovie in 1984 or 1985, it hit me. I drowned in these songs. Rarely has pain been made so relatable, it seems. (The film is said to be loosely based on the life of rebetiko singer Marika Ninou.) !listening
simsa03's status on Sunday, 31-May-2026 07:33:01 JST
♪ Rembetiko (1983, Greek, with English subtitles) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZXSjtZ0P1I When I first saw the nmovie in 1984 or 1985, it hit me. I drowned in these songs. Rarely has pain been made so relatable, it seems. (The film is said to be loosely based on the life of rebetiko singer Marika Ninou.) !listening
simsa03: Watching the sci-fi anime "Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise" (1987). It's not the story that impresses me but the detailedness of the alternate world depicted. Only "Le Garage hermétique" (1976-1979) by Moebius comes to mind as on a par in visual playfulness and richness.
simsa03's status on Thursday, 28-May-2026 10:41:17 JST
Watching the sci-fi anime "Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise" (1987). It's not the story that impresses me but the detailedness of the alternate world depicted. Only "Le Garage hermétique" (1976-1979) by Moebius comes to mind as on a par in visual playfulness and richness.
simsa03: Being hawkish doesn't mean being conservative or on the right. #forgottendistinctions #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
simsa03's status on Wednesday, 27-May-2026 10:59:07 JST
Being hawkish doesn't mean being conservative or on the right. forgottendistinctions talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
simsa03: Evil is not insanity. #forgottendistinctions #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
simsa03's status on Wednesday, 27-May-2026 10:58:19 JST
Evil is not insanity. forgottendistinctions talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
simsa03's status on Wednesday, 27-May-2026 02:38:52 JST
simsa03's status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 02:19:23 JST
simsa03: ♪ Ehud Banai, סרט רץ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7N9DGJh8JE Lovely echo of Bob Dylan's "Series of Dreams". !listening
simsa03's status on Monday, 25-May-2026 07:26:46 JST
♪ Ehud Banai, סרט רץ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7N9DGJh8JE Lovely echo of Bob Dylan's "Series of Dreams". !listening
simsa03: https://omny.fm/shows/kan-english-podcast/the-trump-netanyahu-tightrope This is a stellar interview with former Israel ambassador to the US, MichaelOren, and Israel public broadcaster Kan's host David Ze'ev. Insightful, to the point of the various complications that tie but also set apart the U.S. and Israel in the current war with Iran. Recommended. #sources
simsa03's status on Monday, 25-May-2026 04:34:44 JST
https://omny.fm/shows/kan-english-podcast/the-trump-netanyahu-tightrope This is a stellar interview with former Israel ambassador to the US, MichaelOren, and Israel public broadcaster Kan's host David Ze'ev. Insightful, to the point of the various complications that tie but also set apart the U.S. and Israel in the current war with Iran. Recommended. sources
simsa03: "I think that holding grudges is the kind of contemporary version of having standards." — Fran Lebowitz
simsa03's status on Saturday, 23-May-2026 05:06:05 JST
"I think that holding grudges is the kind of contemporary version of having standards." — Fran Lebowitz
simsa03: "A book is the closed thing there is to a human being." — Fran Lebowitz
simsa03's status on Saturday, 23-May-2026 05:00:09 JST
"A book is the closed thing there is to a human being." — Fran Lebowitz
gnu2: @Nonilex Tartifs are antithetical to libertarianism. Nothing good had ever come from them
gnu2's status on Friday, 22-May-2026 14:28:47 JST
@Nonilex Tartifs are antithetical to libertarianism. Nothing good had ever come from them
gnu2's status on Friday, 22-May-2026 14:27:55 JST
simsa03: Sue Surkes, "New ‘PTSD-friendly’ scheme aims to adapt Israel’s public spaces" https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-ptsd-friendly-scheme-aims-to-adapt-israels-public-spaces/ A great idea. With links to the initative's website (in Hebrew, most which can easily be translated). How to accommodate restaurants to the needs of trauma and PTSD sufferers.
simsa03's status on Friday, 22-May-2026 01:23:08 JST
Sue Surkes, "New ‘PTSD-friendly’ scheme aims to adapt Israel’s public spaces" https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-ptsd-friendly-scheme-aims-to-adapt-israels-public-spaces/ A great idea. With links to the initative's website (in Hebrew, most which can easily be translated). How to accommodate restaurants to the needs of trauma and PTSD sufferers.
New ‘PTSD-friendly’ scheme aims to adapt Israel’s public spaces
simsa03: Nan Ransohoff, "The third wave of American philanthropy" https://nanransohoff.substack.com/p/the-third-wave-of-american-philanthropy https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/b59ef871cd97531cce98d7ece67ff501d984004134832fe7ba36167a4ae49e8c/view
simsa03's status on Friday, 22-May-2026 00:31:10 JST
Nan Ransohoff, "The third wave of American philanthropy" https://nanransohoff.substack.com/p/the-third-wave-of-american-philanthropy https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/b59ef871cd97531cce98d7ece67ff501d984004134832fe7ba36167a4ae49e8c/view
simsa03: fitting: Sarah Perez, "Google Search as you know it is over" https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/ "AI Overviews are now used by more than 2.5 billion monthly users; meanwhile, its conversational #search mode, launched last year, now tops 1 billion monthly users." Astounding numbers. "Combined, these changes will likely further decimate Google referrals to publishers, which have already been suffering from declining referrals due to AI Overviews. This has put some ad-dependent media operations out of business, and now things will likely get worse." #search
simsa03's status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 14:41:03 JST
fitting: Sarah Perez, "Google Search as you know it is over" https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/ "AI Overviews are now used by more than 2.5 billion monthly users; meanwhile, its conversational #search mode, launched last year, now tops 1 billion monthly users." Astounding numbers. "Combined, these changes will likely further decimate Google referrals to publishers, which have already been suffering from declining referrals due to AI Overviews. This has put some ad-dependent media operations out of business, and now things will likely get worse." search
Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch
simsa03: Next in #search: • Wikipedia still organises information like a printed (!) tome, w/ lemma, article text, sources. • #AI provides texts according to prompts, sources become irrelevant to display but are still available. • AI search results demand cash to display sources and their URLs. This seems probable because its people who need URLs and hyperlinks in their browsers, not machines that can locate and combine their assets in databases by other means (ISBN, UUIDs, DOIs, magnet links). That is: Why still maintain an overhead for the purpose of convenient browser display when the search engines can directly access sources and only need to dsplay an individually created text to its individual prompt? And that means: • The next step in web based display of information is the complete disappearance of URL and hyperlink. Let me elaborate: In their overall form (and quality), information and text will become indistinguishable from audio and video streams, fluid instead of persistent, with features like "sourcing", momentary capture, and storage the next commodity ("product") for search engine companies to sell. This all the more as ads will no longer be a viable business model for the internet industries. Like health data that are among the most precious data because of their long-lasting and immutable quality, so are the hard (meta-) data of sources which make them assets most valuable to monetize. In short: In order for tech companies to monetize on the format data of sources, the URLs and hyperlinks of their corresponding webpages will vanish. For individual users to verify the credibility of information they receive, they will have to pay a fee. Or put differently: Not access but accuracy and verifiablity will be the next walled garden. Period of time until full implemenation: Only five years, as every new search query will prompt AI to access sources whose addresses it then can hide from the browser display. That can be at least a linear dynamic. #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
simsa03's status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 09:50:37 JST
Next in #search: • Wikipedia still organises information like a printed (!) tome, w/ lemma, article text, sources. • #AI provides texts according to prompts, sources become irrelevant to display but are still available. • AI search results demand cash to display sources and their URLs. This seems probable because its people who need URLs and hyperlinks in their browsers, not machines that can locate and combine their assets in databases by other means (ISBN, UUIDs, DOIs, magnet links). That is: Why still maintain an overhead for the purpose of convenient browser display when the search engines can directly access sources and only need to dsplay an individually created text to its individual prompt? And that means: • The next step in web based display of information is the complete disappearance of URL and hyperlink. Let me elaborate: In their overall form (and quality), information and text will become indistinguishable from audio and video streams, fluid instead of persistent, with features like "sourcing", momentary capture, and storage the next commodity ("product") for search engine companies to sell. This all the more as ads will no longer be a viable business model for the internet industries. Like health data that are among the most precious data because of their long-lasting and immutable quality, so are the hard (meta-) data of sources which make them assets most valuable to monetize. In short: In order for tech companies to monetize on the format data of sources, the URLs and hyperlinks of their corresponding webpages will vanish. For individual users to verify the credibility of information they receive, they will have to pay a fee. Or put differently: Not access but accuracy and verifiablity will be the next walled garden. Period of time until full implemenation: Only five years, as every new search query will prompt AI to access sources whose addresses it then can hide from the browser display. That can be at least a linear dynamic. talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
simsa03: Barney Frank has passed away! R.I.P. https://www.axios.com/2026/05/20/barney-frank-dies-lgbtq-wall-street-regulation .
simsa03's status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 08:24:29 JST
Barney Frank has passed away! R.I.P. https://www.axios.com/2026/05/20/barney-frank-dies-lgbtq-wall-street-regulation .
simsa03: ♪ Otis Gibbs, "It Was A Train" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sghcb7YfJGQ With obvious reminiscence to Townes Van Zandt. But his singing floats more freely. !listening
simsa03's status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 08:06:23 JST
♪ Otis Gibbs, "It Was A Train" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sghcb7YfJGQ With obvious reminiscence to Townes Van Zandt. But his singing floats more freely. !listening
Otis Gibbs "It Was A Train" Live at KDHX 8/20/14
simsa03: Thirteen years ago I wrote a piece on the impact of unemployment and the place of labour in our sense of personal identity and self-esteem: Who are we when we no longer define ourselves in terms of our work, our goals, even our call? https://simsa01.wordpress.com/2013/06/29/a-beginners-guide-to-happy-unemployment/ These questions prove more urgent today with the advent of #AI. Not in the banal sense that AI takes away "our" jobs and with that our prospects of earning a decent living. Far more, in the sense that AI systems will make the last resorts where humans are still deemed necessary, even essential – and that lie at the core of our self-image, e.g., artistry, research, innovation, creativity – irrelevant of human participation. If even in these areas humans are no longer necessary, then what's the point of being human? We may indulge in disciplines and topics all we want, may still learn crafts, still innovate, but why should that count as valuable? (And specifically not just in the sense of being marketable.) If (and when) it becomes pointless whether human beings do research, innovate, "create", what are we supposed to do then? With our time, with our lifes? What does it mean to be a human being when it's simply irrelevant whether we are rational or not, creative or not, curious or not? The advent of AI is not a profound technological change, it is the coming to an end of a civilisation and the beginning of something completely different. And no, I don't ring alarm bells because of some alleged reign of the machines. That reign may happen or not, to that degree or that. The advent of AI is not on a par with the invention of tools like tanks first introduced in the battlefields of Verdun, or ship containers first standardized by the U.S. Army for their needs to transport material to the theatres of Vietnam, or the nuclear bomb, or the PC, or the internet... This is a civilisational change as profound as St. Augustine's invention of the inner self in the 4th century. When we no longer know what and who we are, as the last characteristic traits that purportedly make us human are stripped of their essentiality, then what remains? And what comes next? #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
simsa03's status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 02:36:41 JST
Thirteen years ago I wrote a piece on the impact of unemployment and the place of labour in our sense of personal identity and self-esteem: Who are we when we no longer define ourselves in terms of our work, our goals, even our call? https://simsa01.wordpress.com/2013/06/29/a-beginners-guide-to-happy-unemployment/ These questions prove more urgent today with the advent of #AI. Not in the banal sense that AI takes away "our" jobs and with that our prospects of earning a decent living. Far more, in the sense that AI systems will make the last resorts where humans are still deemed necessary, even essential – and that lie at the core of our self-image, e.g., artistry, research, innovation, creativity – irrelevant of human participation. If even in these areas humans are no longer necessary, then what's the point of being human? We may indulge in disciplines and topics all we want, may still learn crafts, still innovate, but why should that count as valuable? (And specifically not just in the sense of being marketable.) If (and when) it becomes pointless whether human beings do research, innovate, "create", what are we supposed to do then? With our time, with our lifes? What does it mean to be a human being when it's simply irrelevant whether we are rational or not, creative or not, curious or not? The advent of AI is not a profound technological change, it is the coming to an end of a civilisation and the beginning of something completely different. And no, I don't ring alarm bells because of some alleged reign of the machines. That reign may happen or not, to that degree or that. The advent of AI is not on a par with the invention of tools like tanks first introduced in the battlefields of Verdun, or ship containers first standardized by the U.S. Army for their needs to transport material to the theatres of Vietnam, or the nuclear bomb, or the PC, or the internet... This is a civilisational change as profound as St. Augustine's invention of the inner self in the 4th century. When we no longer know what and who we are, as the last characteristic traits that purportedly make us human are stripped of their essentiality, then what remains? And what comes next? talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
A Beginner’s Guide to Happy Unemployment
simsa03: The U.S. Department of Justice bars the IRS from conducting any investigation or probes into any past tax declaration of Trump, his family, or any of his companies, *for ever*. https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1441216/dl THAT'S how you run a country! https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/726ea1b382aefbd0121f0bd3f57eb014f6d4e120e30b1cb8ea4a6f5ce3d23cc1/view
simsa03's status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 09:42:09 JST
The U.S. Department of Justice bars the IRS from conducting any investigation or probes into any past tax declaration of Trump, his family, or any of his companies, for ever. https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1441216/dl THAT'S how you run a country! https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/726ea1b382aefbd0121f0bd3f57eb014f6d4e120e30b1cb8ea4a6f5ce3d23cc1/view
simsa03: ♪ Chick Corea & Hiromi Uehara, "Fool on the Hill" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjInbqxqrbQ Lovely. !listening
simsa03's status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 03:23:21 JST
♪ Chick Corea & Hiromi Uehara, "Fool on the Hill" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjInbqxqrbQ Lovely. !listening
Fool on the Hill / Chick Corea & Hiromi Uehara
simsa03: simsa03 (https://gnusocial.jp/simsa03) started following ぐぬ管 (GNU social JP管理人) (https://gnusocial.jp/gnusocialjp).
simsa03's status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 10:49:11 JST
simsa03 started following ぐぬ管 (GNU social JP管理人).
simsa03: i24news https://i24news.tv/en and #Israel public broadcaster Kan https://kan.org.il/content/kan/kan-reka/p-10861/ are good English language sources on politics, security, military, culture in Israel. (i24news seems more hawkish to me than Kan.) #sources
simsa03's status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 03:23:14 JST
i24news https://i24news.tv/en and #Israel public broadcaster Kan https://kan.org.il/content/kan/kan-reka/p-10861/ are good English language sources on politics, security, military, culture in Israel. (i24news seems more hawkish to me than Kan.) sources
i24NEWS - Breaking news from the Middle East, Israel and around the world
simsa03: Finally falling into CAN... How could I've overlooked them for so long? I mean, I knew their name, their fame in what so awfully has been called "Krautrock", their influence on Anglo-Saxon musicians and bands like David Bowie, Brian Eno, Talking Heads, Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees... And it is not that the avantgarde and progressive music scene in Germany between the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s eluded me, starting with Stockhausen and his pupils (Stockhausen, in a sense, being the godfather of Kraftwerk and Can). But I never really listened to the music of CAN. What strikes me with CAN is in part their technical abilities and prowess, notably Jaki Liebezeit (drums), Holger Czukay (bass), Irmin Schmidt (keyboards). These were/are sophisticated musisicans, and it shows (or rather: sounds). Listening to only a few records on YT, without having dived into their catalogue of records yet, I'm struck by the immediacy of their play. There is no distance between me as listener and them as musicians on the records. Liebezit's drum is on point, every beat direct, and directly into the ear. Listening to younger, more recent productions, with all the emphasis on soundscape, rhythm, basslines, the immediacy of CAN's music is still unreached. CAN's productions are so sophisticated that one can easily forget that their main records are 50 to 60 years old. Timeless. Have a listen.
simsa03's status on Thursday, 14-May-2026 08:29:59 JST
Finally falling into CAN... How could I've overlooked them for so long? I mean, I knew their name, their fame in what so awfully has been called "Krautrock", their influence on Anglo-Saxon musicians and bands like David Bowie, Brian Eno, Talking Heads, Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees... And it is not that the avantgarde and progressive music scene in Germany between the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s eluded me, starting with Stockhausen and his pupils (Stockhausen, in a sense, being the godfather of Kraftwerk and Can). But I never really listened to the music of CAN. What strikes me with CAN is in part their technical abilities and prowess, notably Jaki Liebezeit (drums), Holger Czukay (bass), Irmin Schmidt (keyboards). These were/are sophisticated musisicans, and it shows (or rather: sounds). Listening to only a few records on YT, without having dived into their catalogue of records yet, I'm struck by the immediacy of their play. There is no distance between me as listener and them as musicians on the records. Liebezit's drum is on point, every beat direct, and directly into the ear. Listening to younger, more recent productions, with all the emphasis on soundscape, rhythm, basslines, the immediacy of CAN's music is still unreached. CAN's productions are so sophisticated that one can easily forget that their main records are 50 to 60 years old. Timeless. Have a listen.
simsa03: ♪ Can, "Vitamin C" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrkUiCugQDE !listening
simsa03's status on Wednesday, 13-May-2026 08:30:00 JST
♪ Can, "Vitamin C" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrkUiCugQDE !listening
simsa03: ♪ Can, "Moonshake" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL4B69x8X7s !listening
simsa03's status on Wednesday, 13-May-2026 08:26:22 JST
♪ Can, "Moonshake" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL4B69x8X7s !listening
simsa03: Jeremy Sharon, "Sexual violence was ‘systematic, integral’ to Hamas-led October 7 terror assault, study finds" https://www.timesofisrael.com/sexual-violence-was-systematic-integral-to-october-7-terror-assault-study-finds/ The full 300 pages report: The Civil Commission on Oct 7th Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children, "SILENCED NO MORE: Sexual Terror Unveiled: The Untold Atrocities of October 7 and Against Hostages in Captivity" https://www.civilc.org/silenced-no-more . Related: Ariela Karmel & Jessica Steinberg, "Knesset passes law establishing military tribunal to try October 7 perpetrators" https://www.timesofisrael.com/knesset-passes-law-establishing-military-tribunal-to-try-october-7-perpetrators/ After the bestiality of Hamas, after crossing that threshold, no Pali should be surprised that they will never have their own state.
simsa03's status on Wednesday, 13-May-2026 00:59:36 JST
Jeremy Sharon, "Sexual violence was ‘systematic, integral’ to Hamas-led October 7 terror assault, study finds" https://www.timesofisrael.com/sexual-violence-was-systematic-integral-to-october-7-terror-assault-study-finds/ The full 300 pages report: The Civil Commission on Oct 7th Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children, "SILENCED NO MORE: Sexual Terror Unveiled: The Untold Atrocities of October 7 and Against Hostages in Captivity" https://www.civilc.org/silenced-no-more . Related: Ariela Karmel & Jessica Steinberg, "Knesset passes law establishing military tribunal to try October 7 perpetrators" https://www.timesofisrael.com/knesset-passes-law-establishing-military-tribunal-to-try-october-7-perpetrators/ After the bestiality of Hamas, after crossing that threshold, no Pali should be surprised that they will never have their own state.
Sexual violence was ‘systematic, integral’ to Hamas-led October 7 terror assault, study finds
The Civil Commission’s Report on Oct 7th Sexual Violence - Silenced NO More
Knesset passes law establishing military tribunal to try October 7 perpetrators