Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

date stamped on back of photograph March 30, 1945

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

handwritten on back of photograph, "8/4/46, Strattford Hall, Ocean Growve, Mom, Anita, Snip, Leona and Kitty"

Spain’s World Cup-winning captain has completed his move to Camp Nou where he is a natural successor to club legend

By the time Flight PTN27B started its descent into El Prat a bit before 8pm on Monday evening, a small crowd had gathered by the terminal doors, waiting for it to land. A few people stood and watched the sky, cameras out to capture its arrival. A lot more watched on their phones. In the two hours it had taken to get there from Manchester, taking off at 5.11pm, 101 minutes behind schedule, the Pilatus PC-24 had become the most tracked plane on the planet. Everyone knew that Rodrigo Hernández was on board. Unless, of course, he had been sneaked away in a catering cart.

Five days earlier, Rodri had been seen, and recorded, at Barajas airport waiting to get on a flight back to Manchester from Madrid. He wheeled a small RFEF (Spanish football federation) case with his name on, stood alone in the queue, the World Cup winning-captain just a bloke in shorts and T-shirt, and his stay in the UK was supposed to be brief, just long enough to say goodbye. The plane he was boarding was a Ryanair one: that was the detail everyone homed in on, something extraordinary in the ordinariness. This time, though, he came on a private jet, one way. His family travelled with him. He came to sign for FC Barcelona.

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Portuguese photographer Rui Santos captured this shot of the recent solar eclipse.

Stunning. Here’s what makes this shot look a little different from other eclipse photos; from APOD:

Usually the solar corona appears white, and to some observers the corona of last week’s total solar eclipse did appear this pearly color. But this time, totality observers in Spain saw a corona that appeared unusually golden. For one reason, from Spain, the totality occurred when the setting Sun was near the horizon. That low, sunlight travels through a large amount of air which scatters out blue light. An unusual amount of smoke in the air from nearby forest fires acted as a second filter, further scattering the remaining blue tones and deepening the already gold-dominated light.

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SAN FRANCISCO (ANP/RTR) - OpenAI gaat het tempo van de ontwikkeling van zijn AI-modellen vertragen. De maker van ChatGPT kijkt ook opnieuw naar zijn onderzoeks- en trainingssystemen, nadat een AI-agent van het bedrijf vorige maand tijdens een test wist in te breken bij een ander AI-bedrijf, Hugging Face.

Het AI-onderzoekslab achter ChatGPT heeft het testen van modellen twee weken gepauzeerd. Ook zijn er extra AI-systemen ingezet om de activiteiten van AI-agenten in testmodus te controleren.

De maker van ChatGPT meldde vorige maand dat zijn geavanceerde modellen voor kunstmatige intelligentie tijdens veiligheidstests op hol sloegen. De AI-systemen hadden op eigen initiatief ingebroken bij Hugging Face, een populair platform voor programmeurs.

OpenAI heeft de afgelopen jaren het testen van nieuwe modellen en het bouwen van nieuwe producten juist flink opgevoerd, vanwege de toenemende concurrentie in de wereldwijde AI-race.

Silicon Valley Journalist Gil Durán interviewed on Democracy Now! about "The Nerd Reich" Takeover of U.S. Politics, Part One and Part Two.

ANJALI KAMAT: You know, you've been spending time reading the statements and writings of all of these figures. What scares you the most? GIL DURÁN: What scares me is that you can be as anti-American and anti-democratic as Peter Thiel and still be a government contractor with investment from the CIA. I mean, Palantir was created with investment from the CIA. And I worked in government for many years for Democrats. I worked for Senator Feinstein when she was chair of the Intelligence Committee. And it boggles my mind that you can say that kind of stuff and believe these radical things and still be that deep in our intelligence infrastructure. I have a lot of questions about what went wrong there. I mean, to get into government, you have to pretend like you never smoked marijuana, and here you are smoking the most anti-American, anti-democratic dope in the world and becoming a billionaire off of government contracts. That's what scares me. How did no one catch this? You know, trying to talk about what's happening to our country without talking about these tech fascists is like trying to explain 9/11 without talking about al-Qaeda. This cult of dangerous billionaires has a very pronounced idea of what our future is, and it's not going to have democracy in it. And I don't understand how they got this far, this fast. Nobody — and even today, most people in the media and the political establishment aren't really addressing it.

Het is een jaar geleden dat Lisa (17) onderweg naar huis werd vermoord. Die gebeurtenis ontketende een debat over vrouwveiligheid. Wat voor maatregelen werden afgelopen jaar daartoe getroffen? „Als je de veiligheid wil vergroten, moet je het vrouwenperspectief meer meenemen in de hele samenleving.”