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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ

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Diversity: bio-, language, everything. Keeper of the Seeds. Fighting fascists since kindergarten. #AbolishBillionaires #FixTheGlitch portioid @ iNaturalist . developing #DuoNat, the biodiversity explorer.

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · May 4

I quit my day job and travel the world, doing nature photography and developing the #DuoNat app.

Bearing witness to Earth's beauty.

Showing people what is.

So we don't have to show the future what was.

Follow me on an amazing journey into #biodiversity.

DuoNat account: @duonat.bsky.social

Aglaiocercus kingii (Long-tailed Sylph) from Colombia.

DuoNat: https://duo-nat.web.app/?pairId=3611&level=all&phylogenyId=5562

iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/258605683

Pseudosphex (Tiger Moths, Arctiini, Erebidae) from Colombia

DuoNat: https://duo-nat.web.app/?pairId=3616&level=all&phylogenyId=47157

iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/258512097

Glossodoris acosti (Chromodorididae, Nudibranchia) from Borneo.

DuoNat: https://duo-nat.web.app/?pairId=3620&level=all&phylogenyId=47113

iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?verifiable=any&taxon_id=847499&user_id=portioid

Orang Utan (Pongo pygmaeus) mother with child. Borneo.

DuoNat: https://duo-nat.web.app/?pairId=62&level=all&phylogenyId=43367

iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/156589713

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 13h

I recently sat down with three leaders who are part of the @obamafoundation.bsky.social's alumni network to hear more about their work to strengthen democracy in Hungary and Poland. They’re an example for us all. Take a look:

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 13h

"It would be powerful if folks from Dallas stand up for Chicago and folks from Chicago stand up for Dallas, so that narratives like 'Texas invades Illinois' can't take hold. Cities are not invading each other. The federal government is attacking Americans."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 23h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 1d

1974-2016

wasp got her

Number 16 (spider) - Wikipedia

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 2d

I'm going to get a tattoo of this. onto the face of every centibillionaire.

Chico Escuela @blaqdocdown.bsky.social · 2d

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 3d

OMG WTF

»The G-Drive couldn't have a backup system due to its large capacity«

»We could not secure our gold reserves because we had too many«

858TB of government data may be lost for good after South Korea data center fire

Destroyed drive wasn't backed up, officials say

www.datacenterdynamics.com

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 3d

that's why I'm spending a lot of effort bringing Jugendstil ornaments to my landing page (disabled now, it's super hard) :)

for now, it has water, starfish and dragonflies.

this stuff matters. it connects you to the beauty of life.

sarefo.github.io

cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 4d

children of Earth

cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 5d

late stage capitalism will probably kill us. but it's not boring.

butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 5d

ICE Gestapo attack the Police n they do nothing. WTH? #iceout #chicago

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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 6d

My daughter when she said she wanted to be a Transformer for Halloween.

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 5d

»A human chess player can defeat any number of trained monkeys working together.«

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 5d

a tree is a magnificent building

- bird

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 5d

to be fair, that was the job description. we know this since 2016.

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 5d

* obviously, because they are intelligence simulators. I don't think they can surpass the level of their input.

cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 5d

I'm not worried about today's #LLMs.

I'm worried about what LLMs might be plugged into.

It might be much less hard to build than you'd think. Or not.

LLMs are probably a dead end and will plateau at human intelligence.*

but they might help a memory learner to #FOOM.

then what.

cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 5d

also had to think of this pre-ML style transfer

THE SIMPSONS. Russian Art Film Version // Симпсоны. Артхаусная русская версия

YouTube video by Lazy Square

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 5d

disclaimer: I think I'm the one responsible for this sentence appearing in the dutch>english duolingo course, which is super famous in netherlands :D

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 5d

My Spoon Is Too Big, I Am A Banana!

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 5d

»Capitalism doesn’t pause to consider ethical quandaries. It marches on into infinity as long as there’s a dollar to be made.«

Going for infinity in a limited system is suicide.

One of AI’s Founding Fathers Thinks It Could Kill Us All

Yoshua Bengio, dubbed the "Godfather of AI," helped invent the technology—and now warns it could one day kill us.

www.vice.com

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 5d

#Scriabin 's last opus, 74.5

1914. Died age 42.

Played by Roger Woodward.

It's less than a minute! But what a nuclear bomb to go out on.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=geLJ...