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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 23-May-2026 05:06:05 JST 
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"I think that holding grudges is the kind of contemporary version of having standards."
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 23-May-2026 05:00:09 JST
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"A book is the closed thing there is to a human being."
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 01:23:08 JST
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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. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 00:31:10 JST
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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 -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 14:41:03 JST
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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."
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 09:50:37 JST
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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.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 08:24:29 JST
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Barney Frank has passed away! R.I.P. https://www.axios.com/2026/05/20/barney-frank-dies-lgbtq-wall-street-regulation . -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 08:06:23 JST
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♪ 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.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 02:36:41 JST
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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?
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 09:42:09 JST
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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 -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 03:23:21 JST
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♪ Chick Corea & Hiromi Uehara, "Fool on the Hill" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjInbqxqrbQ
Lovely.
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In conversation from activity permalinksimsa03 started following ぐぬ管 (GNU social JP管理人).
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 03:23:14 JST
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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.)
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 14-May-2026 08:29:59 JST
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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. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 13-May-2026 08:30:00 JST
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♪ Can, "Vitamin C" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrkUiCugQDE
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 13-May-2026 08:26:22 JST
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♪ Can, "Moonshake" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL4B69x8X7s
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 13-May-2026 00:59:36 JST
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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 .
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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. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 12-May-2026 12:41:48 JST
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Should there be a founding of a D7 alliance (as proposed by Anders Fogh Rasmussen), then Israel should immediately be invited to join. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 12-May-2026 12:35:29 JST
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Contrary to the lofty claims of politicians like Alexander Stubb or Mark Rutte that Russia hasn't achieved even one of its war goals set out in December of 2021 by president Putin, it is clear that the destabilisation of NATO by the Trump administration is a major win for Russia. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 12-May-2026 12:21:47 JST
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen, "An Alliance of Middle-Power Democracies Led by a D7" https://files.gotocon.com/uploads/files/138/d7-formatted_1778445542.pdf
Arguing for a close alliance of Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and the United Kingdom as fouding members (security, technology, trade).
Finally a reasonable proposal to advance an alliance of liberal democracies to counter autocracies (Russia, China) in times when the U.S. is no longer a reliable partner but in destabilizing NATO has handed Russia a major win.
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