Notices by Nitin Pai (nitin@thinktanki.social), page 7

Bob Dylan’s question has a new answer.

“Additional automated systems, including one called “Where’s Daddy?” also revealed here for the first time, were used specifically to track the targeted individuals and carry out bombings when they had entered their family’s residences.”

https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

Nice machine, game changer, ground breaker.

But if I had unlimited discretionary funds and was shopping for a top of the line machine today... I don't think I'd buy the GS3 MP.
I'd buy a Lelit Bianca V3 machine. And a kick ass grinder to pair with it.

Will have an article detailing why, very soon.

#espresso #lamarzocco #gs3 #lelit #bianca

cc @espresso

Now that there’s AI we don’t need to make human scapegoats anymore

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes

Well, thank you for reminding us that the passport you carry determines how human you are. Will keep that in mind.

Instead of saying “stop this shit right now” these guys are saying “we need transparent investigation into how the shit happened.”

Hey!

Sad to see the bias in New York Times’s reporting of the Middle Eastern conflict.

Until I’ve seen a plausible physics-based explanation of how the Havana syndrome attacks were conducted, I remain sceptical.

@anathema_device @Jessicascott09

@Jessicascott09 @anathema_device April Fool’s alert.

OpenAI’s marketing guys need to think of new ideas. The “OMG! Our tech so powerful that it’ll destroy everything” routine is *yawn*

#Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #FUD

So heartwarming to see the US concerned about rights and freedoms of people in other countries. https://journa.host/@w7voa/112180117395607954

@tpolecat 🙋🏽♂️

When you travel in time the imprint, the shape of the present moment is a powerful force. Both the past and future have already been shaped, although the deep past is more rigid, and the deep future, much softer. Our minds can alight within any moment of their continuity. But in doing so we forget, we are reformed into the past version of ourselves, knowing only what we knew then, and nearly always doing the same things we have always done.

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It is when people are led to believe they can do no wrong that they turn into demons.

How to create a demon.

Take a human,
Treat him or her as an angel.

@mrbrown As long as Hotel 81 is Hotel 81 all is well with the universe.

New Scientist: “A possible impact crater discovered in India may have been caused by the largest meteorite to strike Earth in the past 50,000 years.

The meteorite could have caused a fireball, a massive shock wave and wildfires that would have spread through an area inhabited by people from the Indus valley civilisation thousands of years ago.” (via @AnirbanM)

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2423902-huge-crater-in-india-hints-at-major-meteorite-impact-4000-years-ago/

#history #India

Michael Hirsh has a good review of Fareed Zakaria’s new book https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/25/fareed-zakaria-age-of-revolutions-review/

#ForeignPolicy #Geopolitics

Why should the world trust the West? https://www.nitinpai.in/2024/03/25/the-wests-disregard-for-global-norms-is-endangering-the-world