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♫ Eight Miles High ♫ — Filosofa’s Word

As sometimes happens, one of my music choices a few days ago, Creeque Alley,  started a discussion between Roger and rawgod, and it ultimately led to them talking about this song, Eight Miles High by The Byrds.  Both of them liked it quite well, but I couldn’t really remember it, only the title.  So, I […]

♫ Eight Miles High ♫ — Filosofa’s Word

भूख प्यार की / Hunger for Love

Kaushal Kishore

भूख तो भूख होती है,
चाहे वह रोटी की हो,
या फिर हथियारों की,
काश एक भूख प्यार की होती,
जो समाहित कर लेती
अपने आप में इन सारी भूखों को…

💕💕💕💕💕💕

Hunger is hunger,
be it for bread or weapons,
I wish there was a hunger
for love too,
which would subsume
all those hungers into itself…

–Kaushal Kishore

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Sihirli Annem (My Magical Mom) s1e23: Who’s The Naughty Girl, Here? — Context, Critical Thinking, Continuous Learning: Project Do Better

Last week was , bölüm/episode 22:  Sihirli Annem (My Magical Mom) s1e22: Patience Is An Adult Virtue, As Is Finding Solutions…   . …   This episode deals with Cilek being a naughty girl at the Kindergarten and Eda not wanting to give up on Tarik. That makes her naughty in Dudu’s, her mother’s eyes. […]

Sihirli Annem (My Magical Mom) s1e23: Who’s The Naughty Girl, Here? — Context, Critical Thinking, Continuous Learning: Project Do Better

Do We Really Need Artificial Intelligence???

Filosofa's Word

AI, or Artificial Intelligence, quite frankly scares me.  It scares me in much the same way guns and nukes scare me, for while almost every tool ever invented was developed for a valuable purpose, every single one has also been used by evil people for evil purposes throughout the course of history.  When even the man who has been dubbed the “Godfather of AI,” Geoffrey Hinton, steps down from his lucrative position at Google so he can speak more freely about the potential dangers of advanced artificial intelligence, then yeah, I think we better all be leery.

Almost every tool invented since the beginning of humankind has been developed to fulfill a need, to make life easier or somehow better.  But looking back, every single tool that’s ever been invented by humans has also been used for nefarious purposes at one time or another.  The axe gave man the ability…

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COVID test recall: FDA warns of bacterial contamination in some Pilot COVID-19 At-Home Tests from Roche and SD Biosensor – CBS Minnesota

More than a half million home COVID-19 tests from Roche and SD Biosensor should be thrown out immediately, the Food and Drug Administration is warning, citing “significant concerns” over bacteria that could infect users of the tests.

Source: COVID test recall: FDA warns of bacterial contamination in some Pilot COVID-19 At-Home Tests from Roche and SD Biosensor – CBS Minnesota