gotta love how people think vassal states can make an easy u-turn and abandon the hegemon based on vibes and without any retribution, I also assume they would be consistent and say Canada would have to immediately cut those closer ties with China when a dem gets elected in the future

https://xcancel.com/SztabGenWP/status/1842161867029921867

Wiesław Kukuła, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces (so ‘main army guy’ as far I can tell) to cadets during an inauguration speech for the 2024/2025 academic year at the Military University of Land Forces in Wrocław:

“The transformation is a process that we manage in such a way as to change the Armed Forces - from the ones we have now, to the ones we will need to win the future war. Everything indicates that we are the generation that will have to stand up with weapons in our hands to defend our country. And I don’t intend to lose this war, neither I nor any of you. We will win it,”

Some retired politicians were saying he should resign over that, libs and soc dems currently in power said he was out of line and should let the politicians make statements like that but also should not resign, and some of the conservative opposition said this is a good statement actually because it makes the Russian generals afraid lol.

yeah… I assume this is them signaling their plans for if they lose that google default search engine money (which is likely I guess?)

Despite skepticism over whether nuclear fusion—which doesn’t emit greenhouse gases or carbon dioxide—will actually come to fruition in the next few years or decades, Gates said he remains optimistic. “Although their timeframes are further out, I think the role of fusion over time will be very, very critical,” he told The Verge.

don’t worry climate folks, we will throw some dollars at nuclear fusion startups and they will make us beautiful clean energy for AI datacenters in just a few years, only a few more years of big fossil fuel use while we wait, promise

Oracle currently has 162 data centers in operation and under construction globally, Ellison told analysts during a recent earnings call, adding that he expects the company to eventually have 1,000 to 2,000 of these facilities. The company’s largest data center is 800 megawatts and will contain “acres” of Nvidia (NVDA)’s graphics processing units (GPUs) to train A.I. models, he said.

I want football fields of gpus

Ellison described a dinner with Elon Musk and Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, where the Oracle head and Musk were “begging” Jensen for more A.I. chips. “Please take our money. No, take more of it. You’re not taking enough, we need you to take more of it,” recalled Ellison, who said the strategy worked.

give us more chips brooo

anything but the actual useful thing right

The chief scientist even commissioned a wooden effigy to represent an “unaligned” AI that works against the interest of humanity, only to set it on fire.

yeah that OpenAI coup attempt was the AI true believers trying to stage a power grab and kick out the profit-first guys, as can be expected MS will always back the profit-first guys

it’s finding that text from various training data sources and putting it together, or maybe even copying it all from one source lol, that google ‘AI is sentient actually’ whistleblower had a religious background if I remember right, Ray Kurzweil says he just misses his dad and wants to recreate him through AI, there’s a lot of spiritual/religious types that have these worship inclinations for AI, and then there are grifters like Sam Altman who just want to make money on any hype of the day, is in this group too

kind of like how a non-compliant cab company would be shut down but Uber was ok because ‘it’s a tech company’ (with a big lobbying team)

the usual gang is back just in time huh, and the ‘Jill Stein Russian asset’ bit too

always interesting to watch so called politicians abandon the veneer and just duke it out, recall it happening in assemblies of Ukraine, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, Georgia, Kosovo

good day fellow sea urchin, just passing by

been thinking of re-watching SAC, especially to see how the politics hold up

BBC - Czech Republic struggles to contain surge of whooping cough [18/03/2024]

In the first week of January, say the Czech authorities, there were 28 registered cases of whooping cough. That figure now stands at 3,084 – a number not seen since 1963. Sufferers include the 80-year-old mayor of Prague, Bohuslav Svoboda, who is an MP as well as an eminent gynaecologist.

Health Minister Vlastimil Válek told Czech Television the current rise in cases is down to a combination of two things: a resurgence in respiratory diseases as society abandons strict Covid measures; and incomplete immunisation in children. The whooping cough vaccine is applied in five stages, the first three in the first 12 months of life. Almost all children receive these initial doses. However, only 90% end up receiving the final two, administered around the ages of six and ten. This, said Mr Válek, would explain why the greatest rise is among Czech teenagers.

Reuters - Poland’s capital Warsaw earmarks $30 million for bomb shelters and other security [13/03/2024]

Poland’s capital Warsaw will spend 117 million zlotys ($30 million) in the next two to three years on bomb shelters and other security measures, with war in neighbouring Ukraine in its third year, the city’s mayor said on Wednesday. “On our own initiative we undertook an inventory of places for sheltering,” Rafal Trzaskowski told a news conference after the publication of a report by Poland’s Supreme Audit Office into the provision of bomb shelters in the country.

According to the fire service, less than 4% of the population can count on a place where they could shelter, the audit said. The report also found there was a lack of basic regulations for shelters, including the necessary equipment and technical features required of protective structures. Underground car parks and metro stations were among around 7 million square metres of space in Warsaw that could serve as shelters, the mayor said.

nice one