New news about DeepSeek and Qwen 2.5-Max AI Models. All I’m hearing is “My AI model Can Beat Up Your AI Model!” Sorry for any burst bubbles. That’s all I hear when I read the hype about the DeepSeek and Qwen 2.5-Max AI Models. We’ve heard this song before. Alibaba released Qwen 2.5-Max, supposedly unseating…
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Hello and happy Caturday – time to discuss AI’s dumbest move yet. This week, Fortune describes an AI that can tell if CEO’s are depressed on earning calls. According to the article, ‘AI-powered mental health assessments have already allowed researchers to identify correlations between CEO depression and business risks.’ This application of our new favorite…
Meta got roasted like a coffee bean on Friday – reminding us of ‘Titanic steel’ and how authenticity and integrity are everyone’s problem in 2025. But never mind that now. Three days into 2025 and things suck. Internationally, neverending war and nationally, home-grown terror. Locally, Eugene’s new year madness includes police brutality and vehicular manslaughter,…
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If you have a WSJ account, you can read about how Amazon is losing billions on Alexa – then you can listen to me talk about how it’s all their fault. No one argues that an AI home assistant can add value to your life. But Alexa ain’t an assistant – it’s a glorified money…
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Valuable new information on future Mars explorers and the people who love them. Yes, it’s important to look before we leap onto the red planet. Determining the safest Mars caves for future astronauts is part of the 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference and yes, they’re serious. Here’s why: Mars has no ozone layer! Did…
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I ran across a supercool resource yesterday – a Solarpunk-style High Speed Rail is moving forward in California and you can see a bunch of HD concept art / videos right here! Of course, your first question might be ‘how is this solarpunk?’ The answer is simple. ‘Solarpunk works to address how the future might…
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Notes from Lunduke highlight why we need a federated internet – and why mesh networking may be the answer. The Internet Archive – one of the Internet’s last major resources for ‘free and open information’ faces an existential threat. Could this have been avoided? Maybe. As I said last year, my best wishes are that…
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New important futurology topic – the dystopia of utopia – a common scifi trope. We should remain aware of is the flawed logic and failure of utopia, especially in the context of Futurology. A utopia would be ‘an ideal commonwealth whose inhabitants exist under seemingly perfect conditions. Hence utopian and utopianism are words used to…
The science has spoken, folks – your stupid makes us stupid, with broad implications to futurology, climate change, and scifi. If you take nothing else from this essay, take this: stop being stupid – your stupid is an existential threat to life on Earth. Need more info? Let’s get after it. ‘Stupidity’ is a subjective…
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