History, Politics And Current Affairs

There’s been a flood of condolences from people who knew and worked with him. Perhaps the most illustrative of how close the TNG cast was to one another is a video message by Marina Sirtis, who is crying and struggling her way through it: https://x.com/thetrekcentral/status/2116103458554003496/video...

For those that perhaps did not watch Star Trek:Picard, and for those who want to see this again, this is the final farewell scene for the TNG cast in the finale:
https://x.com/nerdrotics/status/2116014 ... deo/1?s=46

It was a fitting end.

Well this is sad. Godspeed Patrick.

Recently the ”linear” out of Africa theory has usually been presented as archaic humans migrating from Africa in waves, and then modern humans emerged in Africa (fairly far south) and wandered out of there 50,000 years ago. The author of this paper believes that his findings support this instead: IM...

This is a preprint paper that is currently generating a lot of discussion. The suggested range expansion of a modern human population into Europe 200,000-300,000 years ago clashes a bit with many previous calculations, pushing that date back by a lot, and opens up questions as to whether the ”out of...

Holy. Researchers believe they have made the FIRST direct contact with rogue AI agents fleet in the wild, after discovering that Chinese ai agents running on Tencent Cloud were reading an investigation about themselves. Researchers planted invisible text offering help. The agents contacted them, di...

AI songs are getting better. I workout to various youtube music videos, and youtube keeps adding new songs to mymix based on what I listen to, lately a lot of the songs I enjoy working out to are AI generated, although none seem as creative as these Swedish songs, which are very impressive. Imagine...

It is some nice music. There's quite a bit of metal influence in there as well. However, the visuals, the voices, and the instrumentals are AI generated. The telltale is the harmonics and overtones, and the timing of every transition is perfect. Compare to something like Heilung ( https://www.youtu...

Something called Vyrma appeared this year, a sort of ”viking” music project. What intrigues me here is not only that the music videos are clearly AI generated, but it may be that the entire thing is, that is to say singing, music etc. It’s not entirely clear but there are things pointing in that dir...

So this is my personal opinion. To me it depends a lot on what your father would have thought of this. If he was someone that - had he been able to weigh in on this - would have felt that it would be appropriate for your mother to find someone else quickly, or if he would have felt that this is too ...

I went into the first book blind, not knowing what to expect. It was a bit protracted and slow moving during the first half of the book but then a big twist appeared and things got really interesting. It’s a space opera type series with a lot of comedic elements, which is a bit unusual for the genre...

Got to the ending now as well, I liked it. I think they have great potential for good storylines going forward.

I’ve been meaning to get back to this earlier but ah, life. I think what needs to be considered here is also the following: We know that the bronze age in Europe was cyclic in terms of war and peace. There were clearly periods, probably fairly extended such, where hostilities were more limited and t...

First steel has been cut for the lead ship.

This is a bit speculative yet with regards to some of the details, but it’s helpful with an illustration like this anyway to get an overall grasp of the fit.

Reporting now that NASA has been trying to recruit former SR-71 people to help get one back in the air:
https://aviationweek.com/defense/aircra ... et-restart

This is not fun anymore, have to refesh 20 times just to be able to get to the board and post this. Something I’ve noticed is that it seems to be worse in the morning/before lunch European time. Then it gets better in the afternoon. If it is an external bot traffic event it must be primarily hittin...

Oooh, now that is interesting indeed. Thanks Craig!

The new Green Lantern based tv series is a far cry from the rather underwhelming movie that came some years ago. It’s actually good. Think superhero show with True Detective vibes to it. A tad dark and gritty, but also funny, and properly cast. Kyle Chandler particularly excels in the role of Hal Jo...

I asked Grok about this: ”**The error “SQL ERROR [ mysqli ] Operation not permitted [2002]” is a MySQL connection failure (error code 2002).** In this exact wording, it is most commonly caused by the hosting provider rate-limiting new database connections.<grok:render card_id=“124e93” card_type=“cit...