Russian bot traffic has dropped to nearly 0 after Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia

without a doubt the grower of the decade for me, i really didn’t fully get it the first time but holy fuck may december is officially phenomenal

Skydance begins its reign over Paramount and Warner Bros. today. Not that promises from a newly consolidated media empire are legal tender… but let’s keep the receipts anyway, shall we? THE PINKY PROMISES: • 30 theatrical releases annually for two years, rising to 32 for the following three* • A genuine mix of tentpoles and smaller films* • $300 million in additional U.S. production spending every year* • A 45-day exclusive theatrical window • The preservation of Paramount and Warner Bros. as distinct creative identities • Protection of the historic studio lots* • $47.5 million in support for displaced entertainment workers and industry programs* • Editorial independence at CNN and CBS News* • Creative risk-taking rather than the endless strip-mining of legacy IP • $6 billion in savings without treating layoffs as the entire strategy *Legally enforceable for five years under the states’ settlement. The others are applause lines. Mark this page for five years…

Language is not fundamental to human consciousness. In terms of evolution, it arrived only recently on our timeline. Consciousness evolved over millions of years through sensory awareness, emotion, and the embodied survival instincts of our tribal past; our capacity for empathic engagement and community. Syntactic language only emerged around 100,000 years ago. This is exactly why Large Language Models (LLMs - so called AI) are the wrong pathway to true artificial consciousness. They try to replicate the late-stage "output layer" of human intelligence without building the foundational, embodied awareness that actually generates it. Statistical text prediction is a mirror of thought, not the spine, the guts, the nerves and the subconscious, empathic ability to connect with other living beings. LLMs can never feel, let alone think. We have been sold a trick, not a pathway to superintelligence. LLMs are fraudulent. Their capabilities have already peaked and we are being sold lies about their future potential. Lies with the goal of companies reaching IPO and tricking investors out of hundreds of billion$.

Jean-Luc Godard once said "I await the end of cinema with optimism", implying that the collapse of old studio based commercial cinema would allow something entirely new and purer to be born. It seems like that time is finally upon us.

“Reading the World” is a remarkable new documentary about Paulo Freire, the acclaimed Brazilian educator whose revolutionary approach to teaching connected literacy to critical thinking and democratic participation. “One of the most important points of his philosophy is that everyone has knowledge,” says Maria Luisa Mendonça, a consulting producer for the documentary.