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@jalefkowit "Remember when Microsoft made the best hardware?"

Yes. Many a year I sat typing into console terminals and wobbled my XWindows with exclusively MS keyboards and mice.

But then I like running Ubuntu on old ppc macbooks, #YMMV ( extra points if the input is ms labeled. )

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@mhoye I first had kimchi at the age of 24 or so?!? And I thought to myself it's incredible! Korean food soooooo goooood! Flash forward to 10 years ago and Barb makes kimchi and it's delicious! I assume you have seen Netflix's Nation of Kimchi netflix.com/ca/title/81686735 ?!?!? The 3 hosts are not my cup of tea :-) #Ymmv but I loved seeing Kimchi in all its forms in this show. #HighlyRecommended

www.netflix.comWatch A Nation of Kimchi | NetflixEmbark on a gastronomic adventure of kimchi and discover what makes it Korea's most symbolic food of unity, history and ever-evolving creativity.
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My other complaint is that podcasts bury the lede or whatever it's called and they waste many minutes talking about who knows what before the "reveal" of the main point. I know why folks do this (because money from YouTube or other $ related reason) but it's frustrating for me. Make the podcasts 10 minutes or less, put the "reveal" in the title and I'll listen more but it's not about me :-) #Ymmv

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I live in a world of text & always have. Yes newsletters are text but they're too much wall of text on far too many topics. I'd rather read a book if I want something longer than a text blog post :-) And yes I read at least 50 books a year mostly ebooks mostly science fiction because I find non fiction books are too long and don't get to the point :-) Most could be at least 100 pages shorter. I am ok paradoxically with sf novels 500 pages long or more because world building :-) ?!?!? #Ymmv

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@MichaelEMann @meganekenyon @newstatesman My 2c worth: "defeatism" is - maybe - a small obstacle to effective climate action in some niche situations. But it is utterly dwarfed by "denial", especially implicatory denial and other forms of predatory delay. #YMMV but my experience is that foregrounding the risks of "defeatism" tends to undermine *climate realism* (the real scale of risks we face and the radical challenge of effective action) and thus actually plays into those kinds of denial.

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@mspro @tante@tldr.nettime.org @tante@tante.cc

Ich habe folgendes gefunden:

"The Economics of Large Language Models"
sunyan.substack.com/p/the-econ

"OpenAI: Video Generation Models As World Simulators"
openai.com/research/video-gene

Leider hält sich OpenAI mit technischen Angaben zu Sora sehr zurück. Eine unwissenschaftliche Schätzung von mir (Kosten pro Frame vergleichbar Dall*E 3 (8 ct), 25s Video mit 30fps = 750 Bilder) komme ich auf 60 USD.

Sunyan’s Substack · The Economics of Large Language Models By Sunyan