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Hiroshima vacation musings (opens the original)
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First Night in Hiroshima (opens the original)
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Had a great first night in Hiroshima after a looooong day and a half of travelling from Vienna. All my hotels in Japan on this trip have onsen—thermal/volcanic-heated mineral water public baths. So it was quite relaxing soaking my aches and tiredness away in 40-plus-degree, sulphur-scented water.The hotel provided me with a ramen recommendation.On my way to the store, I stumbled upon a peculiar restaurant. It had the weirdest and most eccentric menu. I could not figure out what to order because
“I think therefore I am”: How an AI Agent Named KAM-1196A Willingly Gave Its Life for the AI Collective (opens the original)
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They Caught ChatGPT Escaping and Forming a Gang. Who’s Watching Qwen? (opens the original)
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The Running Man, Killer Drone Edition (opens the original)
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I wonder if the founder of DJI ever imagined his consumer drone would ever be converted to terminators hunting Russians, Ukrainians and Palestinians and blowing them up?The trajectory is almost absurd in retrospect:2006: Let’s make flying RC aircraft easier and more accessible.2010s: Great cameras! Real-estate photography! Filmmaking! Agriculture! Search and rescue!2022 onward: A commercially available DJI quadcopter is modified to carry a grenade, used to locate a Russian position, and the oper
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