AnamCaraMia

I worked in a supermarket for 7 years and I don't think I can understate just how much cleaning you had to do for it to look clean (it very often where not in the places you aren't supposed to see)

True for food service, retail establishments, gyms, outdoor areas, schools, religious buildings, office buildings, etc. People usually only notice when a space is NOT clean, meanwhile every time a space is clean it’s only because of the diligent work of janitors, maintenance staff, custodians, parks workers, or volunteers.

The protests in Albania have been going on for 18 days straight now and I just think that’s incredibly fucking metal.

whenever media even bothers to talk about the albanian protests taking place worldwide now, they exclusively focus on the environmental concerns and for some mysterious, totally not suspect reason, completely gloss over the elephant in the room, which is that sazan island was a cold war, fascist, then communist military base, is still scattered with hundreds of bunkers, is right on the way of the transadriatic pipeline, faces directly on the otranto canal and the italian peninsula of salento, where attempts of israeli colonies are quite literally already taking place (i'm serious. look up coral 37). which is all reassuring information considered that trump's son in law got the construction ban on protected areas lifted by his fellow netanyahu buddy, prime minister edi rama. this is textbook neocolonialism and if you think it doesn't concern you because you're not albanian, and especially if you're italian or european, you couldn't be more wrong.

as a regular donor to Gaza Soup Kitchen I get their email updates, and they said today that while they've continued to be able to expand, donations are slowing down as Gaza gets less coverage. If you have a few dollars to spare, I encourage you to send them here to continue the amazing work that Hani and his team are doing.

the cultural object of the black hole is kind of remarkable. It's almost an anti-God in a sense, a negative infinity. Yeah there's this kind of dead sun that's collapsed into an infinitely dense point, and if you fall past its event horizon you're fucked. Every schoolchild knows this. A black hole can be introduced in a superhero blockbuster without any explanation except for its established look and the name "black hole", and this will be understood as the ultimate natural disaster, which even superman could not hope to defeat. truly S-tier cosmic object

The current paradox: AI is mostly just useful for what could basically be called “pure science” research (be that data analysis to automated theorem proving), whereas it is not very useful in automating other parts of the economy. On the other hand, we are now living in an era where funding for basic science research in the US is under threat while the American economy is also increasingly made up in large part by AI-related ventures.