Notices by Yogthos (yogthos@mas.to), page 4

peak capitalism

Panama Canal requires 200m litres of water to allow the passage of a single vessel along the canal, water that is largely generated from Lake Gatun in the centre of the waterway, which is drying up fast.

Last month, further draft restrictions were announced for the canal, whereby some of the larger boxships transiting it will have to do so carrying 40% less boxes than normal.

https://splash247.com/unprecedented-drought-forces-changes-along-the-panama-canal/

Canada just surpassed 5 million hectares burned this season. That's more than the entire 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2022 seasons combined.

The U.S. sold an incredible 205.6 billion worth of weapons last year. At the same time, of the 84 countries that the EU classifies as authoritarian, the U.S. sold arms to 48.

That's 57% of the total. Which is not very consistent with the concept of "protection of democracy". But it correlates perfectly with the fact that Biden is paying the MIC for support during the 2020 election campaign.

https://theintercept.com/2023/05/11/united-states-foreign-weapons-sales/

Many BPA-Free Plastics Are Toxic. More than 50 different chemicals are now pumped into consumer products in place of BPA. These BPA-free alternatives can be as bad as — or worse than — the original.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/many-bpa-free-plastics-are-toxic-some-are-worse-than-bpa

Firms hired by FBI are creating fake online personas to infiltrate platforms such as Discord, Reddit, and WhatsApp,

https://www.leefang.com/p/private-spies-hired-by-the-fbi-and

China overtakes United States on contribution to research in Nature Index https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01705-7

Smol developer is s human-centric & voherent whole program dynthesis aka your own personal junior developer.

this is a prototype of a "junior developer" agent that scaffolds an entire codebase out for you once you give it a product spec.

Instead of making and maintaining specific, rigid, one-shot starters, like create-react-app, or create-nextjs-app, this is basically create-anything-app where you develop your scaffolding prompt in a tight loop with your smol dev.

https://github.com/smol-ai/developer/

Palantir seeing 'unprecedented' demand for its military AI

https://fortune.com/2023/05/09/peter-thiel-palantir-unprecedented-demand-ai-artificial-intelligence/

and this is what I expect the likely end game for this sort of stuff will be

https://rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_Malak.pdf

HP disables customers’ printers if they use ink cartridges from cheaper rivals https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/hp-printers-computers-ink-cartridges-rivals/

Half of America's banks are potentially insolvent – this is how a credit crunch begins

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/05/02/half-of-americas-banks-are-already-insolvent-credit-crunch/

And that if China ever becomes a "unipole" he doesn't believe it'll "try to make every country look like China and engage in a crusade", like the US is doing or the Soviets would have done.

In short, it'll let others be who they are.

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Two important admissions from Mearsheimer.

He doesn't believe China started the cold war. He says "I don't think the Chinese were especially provocative" and rejects the notion it started because China "violated Deng Xiaoping's axiom that you should lie low".

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MPT-7B (aka Llongboi) is a new open LLM released under Apache 2.0 license. Base 7B LLM trained on 1T tokens outperforms LLaMA and GPT3.

https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/mpt-7b

China’s top cybersecurity authority released a report with detailed accusations on how the CIA secretly orchestrates colour revolutions, accusing it of "overthrowing or attempting to overthrow more than 50 legal governments".

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3219414/us-controlled-empire-hackers-attacking-china-other-countries-report

an absolutely chilling read on the future of global food production

https://collapsesurvivalsite.com/reasons-theres-going-to-be-a-global-famine/

Happy International Workers' Day!

BBC coverage of the protests is a great example of western propaganda. No mention of the violence committed by the police which is well known for its brutality.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65449777

This is a really telling glimpse into the minds of the people in the US security establishment. These people think that US has a divine right to rule over the world and intervene in the affairs of other countries as it sees fit.

After examining some 100,000 nearby large galaxies a team of researchers concluded that none of them contain any obvious signs of highly advanced technological civilizations.

Either our preconceptions about the behaviors of alien civilizations are deeply flawed, or it's very lonely out there.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alien-supercivilizations-absent-from-100-000-nearby-galaxies1/