Looks like volunteers managed to rescue from Grindavík today:
- 49 cats
- 4 hamsters
- 90 pigeons
- as well as sheep, parrots, and a few frogs
(IIRC, many of the sheep, horses, and hens were rescued yesterday)
Looks like they managed to rescue most of the remaining animals and the ones that remain on the list might have been rescued by the owners without notifying the organisation managing the list
“Residents of the eastern part of the city allowed in to collect their belongings - RÚV.is”
Still holding out hope for a best-case scenario of no eruption.
“Fauxtomation | A Working Library”
But perhaps a more instructive question is, how will the work be degraded? What do those jobs become?
Hearing about a company that’s switched over to Microsoft Authenticator for all of their company accounts and, wow, does that sound like the most dysfunctional authentication system I’ve ever heard about. So badly designed.
“Inside New Orleans’ struggle with facial-recognition policing - POLITICO”
Not sure many people outside of Iceland understand why it’s important for us to see even only a few sheep saved from the evacuation area
“The product manager role is a mistake - Software Product Development Pills”
The neighbourhood cats don’t seem concerned about a potentially impending natural disaster or world events.
Does the Guardian have a policy against correct spelling or is copy-paste broken on the writer’s computer? Not an Icelandic character in sight
Neyðarsöfnun Rauða Krossins vegna jarðhræringa við Grindavík
“CSS { In Real Life } | Stop Using AI-Generated Images”
By choosing AI-generated images over those made by a human, editors are taking away one of the only sources of income available to those entering the field. This means that fewer people will choose to train in the profession.
So, turns out the Swedish series Anxious People (Folk med ångest), that’s on Netflix, is a lot of fun.
It’s really the antithesis of Nordic Noir. Full of humanity, compassion, optimism, and kindness.
Just the earthquakes alone seem to have caused a lot of damage in Grindavík.
“Crisis point in AI? - by Gary Marcus - Marcus on AI”
If meaningful AI regulation gets scuttled here in Europe because those who keep talking up LLMs have instilled a FOMO in EU leaders…
Well, then I wish all of you who keep talking up the tech a heartfelt “fuck you”
“Your Small Imprecise Ask Is a Big Waste of Their Time | Stay SaaSy”
In all the years I’ve been making websites, I don’t think I’ve ever worked with a manager who was capable of learning this lesson.
So, at this point we just got to hope that either the magma just gives up at the last minute or that it decides to surface any place that isn’t Grindavík or the power plant.
Looks like we’re about to have another volcanic eruption. Boo.
‘Thoughts on “generative AI Art”’
Your reaction of “this is exactly what I imagined” says more about the long road ahead that that idea still needed to go than about how good these systems are.
“Is the Internet really broken? – Elizabeth Tai”
The Internet hasn’t been a pleasant place for people like me, a writer for a long time. The fact that we are the prime generator of content for the Internet is ironic. There won’t be the Internet without us.
This x1000.