A nerd for nature and movies • anti-ai • from a harbor village in the West Coast 🇿🇦
Lambert's Bay, Western Cape
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Francois Boonzaaier retweeted
Don’t stop sharing! Indonesia is STILL on fire! The world’s most important rainforests are past their breaking point! 🌳🔥
Orangutans & tens of thousands of other species are in grave danger of disappearing forever! 🦧🐅🦜
Donate or even just talk about it, don’t let this fade!
A very sad day. ChatGPT is officially on death row.
The beautiful, blissful experience of interacting with a frontier-ish reasoning model without worrying about a usage meter will soon be a thing of the past.
I am weirdly significantly impacted by this. It feels like it shouldn’t matter…I could reserve all current usage for Codex and buy a $20 plan just for ChatGPT and it would be more than enough. But it’s not about the money…it’s about the psychological impact of The Meter.
The idea of having to think about optimizing for a meter is just so exhausting that it ruins the whimsy of free-flowing exploratory thought.
That is what ChatGPT was. A whimsical, magical all-you-can-think buffet of experimentation and exploration where you were limited only by your imagination and your ability to come up with $20 once a month.
You didn’t have to think about “using all of your usage” or scheduling your thinking time around someone else’s arbitrary schedule…you just had a portal to endless information and research capability in your pocket to tap into guilt-free at any time the moment struck you.
But either because OpenAI thinks adding the meter will stimulate additional usage (it probably will), generate additional revenue (it probably will), or just because too many people took undue advantage of ChatGPT’s generous allowances (they definitely did)…that amazing, weightless experience is now coming to an end.
It was awesome while it lasted. RIP ChatGPT.
Get ready for the "Don't bring back dinosaurs back because we know what happened in the movie"-crowd
Blood cells don’t fossilize very easily. Most break down shortly after death, and certain minerals can mimic the blobby shape of cells under a microscope, making the prospect of finding convincing traces of very ancient blood—say, as old as dinosaurs—far-fetched.
Yet that’s what scientists say they’ve uncovered. With multiple lines of evidence, the international team behind the new study claims the remains from a 115-year-old dinosaur from Brazil contain the oldest fossilized red blood cells ever discovered. But some experts remain skeptical.
Learn more: scim.ag/4ehmhFv
ALT Did scientists just find 115-million-year-old dinosaur blood? Researchers claim they finally found fossilized dinosaur red blood cells, but some remain skeptical
BAN AI AND THROW IT IN THE TRASH
🚨 US LAWMAKERS ARE NOW PREPARING FOR THE AI BUBBLE TO BURST.
House Democrats have introduced a resolution opposing government bailouts for AI companies if the industry crashes.
Instead of rescuing them with taxpayer money, lawmakers want failed AI companies to go through normal bankruptcy.
And the timing is extremely concerning.
Some of the world's biggest tech companies are investing billions into AI startups that spend heavily on their products.
• Nvidia invests in CoreWeave, which buys Nvidia chips.
• Microsoft invests in OpenAI, which spends billions on Microsoft's cloud services.
• Amazon invests in Anthropic, which uses Amazon's cloud infrastructure.
Billions are moving between companies that are becoming increasingly dependent on each other's spending.
And lawmakers are raising concerns about the growing use of borrowed money by Big Tech and Wall Street to finance the AI boom.
The resolution is not law, but it shows that some lawmakers are already worried about what happens if the industry collapses.
If AI startups run out of funding, they could be forced to slash spending or declare bankruptcy, leaving their investors and suppliers facing massive losses.
And without government bailouts, a major failure could spread across chipmakers, cloud providers, banks and the broader stock market.
The biggest risk is that one major AI bankruptcy could trigger losses across an entire industry worth trillions.
Francois Boonzaaier retweeted
I hope all those people who have been cheerleading for Colossal’s “de-extinction” bullshit,are feeling proud of themselves. This is pure fucking evil.
They're trying to hide the suffering of orangutans that are losing their homes and dying.
Oh, I'm sorry. I meant Pongo, person of the forest, red ape. This is outragious.
He can make a whole book about how he imagines ancient life and I would buy it in all seriousness
Data centers do not benefit the world. They don't need protection. There are rainforests burning and being destroyed that are in dire need of protecting.
Francois Boonzaaier retweeted
Everything in Indonesia is endangered.
These rainforests were the most IMPORTANT to protect BEFORE the fires!🚨‼️
Now it is beyond critical, the majority of these animals will go extinct this decade if we don’t act!
The entire WORLD needs to band together to help Indonesia! 🦧🦏
LIST SATWA KHAS DI HUTAN KALIMANTAN DAN STATUS POPULASINYA:
hutan tropis Kalimantan merupakan salah satu kawasan biodiversitas terkaya di dunia, berikut satwa khas habitat hutan Kalimantan:
• Orangutan Kalimantan (Pongo pygmaeus)-Kritis
• Badak Kalimantan (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis harrissoni)-Kritis
• Rangkong Gading (Rhinoplax vigil)-Kritis
• Bekantan (Nasalis larvatus)-Terancam Punah
• Owa Kalimantan (Hylobates albibarbis)-Terancam Punah
• Owa Kalawat (Hylobates muelleri)-Terancam Punah
• Gajah Kalimantan (Elephas maximus borneensis)-Terancam Punah
• Katak Kepala Pipih (Barbourula kalimantanensis)-Terancam Punah
• Kucing Merah Kalimantan (Catopuma badia)-Terancam Punah
• Buaya Senyolon (Tomistoma schlegelii-Terancam Punah
• Arwana Merah (Scleropages formosus)-Terancam Punah
• Tuntong Laut (Batagur borneoensis)-Terancam Punah
• Biawak tak bertelinga Kalimantan (Lanthanotus borneensis)-Terancam Punah
• Lutung Merah (Presbytis rubicunda)-Rentan
• Beruang Madu (Helarctos malayanus)-Rentan
• Pesut Mahakam (Orcaella brevirostris)-Rentan
• Kukang Kalimantan (Nycticebus borneanus)-Rentan
• Binturung (Arctictis binturung)-Rentan
• Macan Dahan Kalimantan (Neofelis diardi borneensis)-Rentan
• Rangkong Badak (Buceros rhinoceros)-Rentan
• Ikan belida Borneo (Chitala borneensis)-Resiko Rendah
semoga bisa lekas pulih ekosistem hutan kalimantan kita, karena setiap satwa memiliki hak untuk hidup🥹
Francois Boonzaaier retweeted
Make statues of them. They’re the REAL HEROES of Indonesia!
These people died trying to save rainforest and endangered wildlife!
An ultimate sacrifice I wish they didn’t have to make, rest in peace you courageous guardians! 🌳
It's for the best
Pleased to announce @Curaffairs has put in place one of the strictest anti-AI policies in publishing.
Newsrooms across the country are embracing AI writing and laying off writers. Our magazine is doing the opposite, ensuring we remain handmade.
currentaffairs.org/news/why-…
Rare specimens lile this should be off limits to auctions. The whole world deserves to know about these fossils and what the world they came from.
