Publishing House Replaces Jobs with AI

Bild, the German tabloid owned and operated by major European publishing house Axel Springer, is expected to replace over a hundred human editorial jobs with artificial intelligence, a leaked email first obtained by the German paper Frankfurter Allgemeine (FAZ) has revealed.

The tabloid will "unfortunately be parting ways with colleagues who have tasks that in the digital world are performed by AI and/or automated processes," the email reads, as reported by FAZ and translated by The Guardian.

According to the report, the email detailed that those who will be replaced by AI include "editors, print production staff, subeditors, proofreaders and photo editors," and that these time-honored human careers "will no longer exist as they do today."

The decision appears to be part of broader cost-cutting efforts across Axel Springer brands, including Insider, which also cut a large chunk of employees amid its own AI pivot earlier this year.

Though several publications across the media industry have experimented with incorporating AI into their workflows, the choice to fully automate hundreds of essential editorial roles with AI feels like a significant escalation. Bild might be a messy, politicized tabloid, but Axel Springer is the biggest publisher in Europe and others could be following suit soon.  READ MORE...

GOOD ONES



On Being Wealthy

 Every once in a while, just before I fall asleep at night, I put myself into a dream like state of fantasy and imagine something happening that had an end result of me becoming wealthy.

One of those fantasies would involve me inheriting not just a fortune of wealth, but private jets, a luxury yacht, and homes in various locations throughout Europe.

Another one of these fantasies would involve me selling the novels I am writing or have written and not necessarily going on book tours and becoming well known, but just receiving more money than I really need. 

None of my dream like fantasies ever are completed as I fall asleep before that happens.  Sometimes, I dwell on too many details as to how something will unfold and falling asleep is delayed.

When I awake in the morning and think about these fantasies, I remind myself that none of them will ever come true and that they are just tools to get me to fall asleep.

While these fantasies are fun to imagine, I do not see myself as the kind of person who should become wealthy.  That may seem like an odd statement but wealthy people start out being greedy.  They then sacrifice everything around them in order to achieve their wealth goals.

Wealthy people need an understanding spouse and they need to have a personality that has little to no compassion for one's fellow man, as those kinds of weaknesses would only stand in the way of what they want to achieve.

I do not have that kind of personality.

Another drawback of mine is that I do not necessarily enjoy the wealthy lifestyle.  I don't have to fly first class.  What I try to do is get a seat at an exit which has plenty of legroom.  I don't drink alcohol, so first class seating only offers me coffee or a soft drink.

I don't like living in a big house with numerous room that are never visited unless there are guest...  And while it is nice to have a cook, I would rather cook myself.  However, the cleaning done by someone else would be acceptable.

I enjoy yard work as it keeps me from being lazy and I don't like playing golf or tennis for my exercise.

An expensive car that can go like a bat out of hell is a waste because you cannot really drive like that without getting a speeding ticket.  After numerous tickets, one loses one's license.

The only thing I would enjoy doing is giving my money away to a variety of charities.

Loving Animals

 

Robots Learn By Watching Videos

Are you among those who often dream of a day when a robot will do all the everyday household chores for you? A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has figured out how to turn your dream into reality.

In their latest study, they proposed a model that allowed them to train robots to do household tasks by showing them videos of people doing ordinary activities in their homes, like picking up the phone, opening a drawer, etc.

So far, scientists have been training robots by physically showing them how a task is done or training them for weeks in a simulated environment. Both these methods take a lot of time and resources and often fail.

The CMU team claims that their proposed model, Visual-Robotics Bridge (VRB), how can make a robot learn a task in just 25 minutes, and that too without involving any humans or simulated environment.

This work could drastically improve the way robots are trained and “could enable robots to learn from the vast amount of internet and YouTube videos available," said Shikhar Bahl, one of the study authors and a Ph.D. student at CMU’s School of Computer Science.

Robots have learned to watch and learn
VRB is an advanced version of WHIRL (In-the-Wild Human Imitating Robot Learning), a model that researchers used previously to train robots.  READ MORE...

Hippie Chick

 

Government

 

American Status: A Corruption of Integrity and Values

1. 
   Wealthy people believe they are above the law
2. Wealthy people believe the rules do not apply to them
3. Wealthy people look down their noses at everyone else
4. Wealthy people believe they are smarter than everyone else
5. Wealthy people believe they are better than everyone else
6. Wealthy people believe they should control everything
7. Wealthy people believe they are never wrong
8. Wealthy people believe everyone should cater to them
9. Wealthy people have no values, integrity, or morals
10. Wealthy people want everyone to fear them and their power
11. Wealthy people have compassion only for themselves
12. Wealthy people only care about leaving legacies behind

When I speak of wealthy people, you must understand there are categories of wealthy people.  These categories can and will vary as there are not as many people in the higher categories:

40  Billion and above

20-39 Billion

10-19 Billion

1-9 Billion

750 Million to 999 Million

500 Million to 749 Million

250 Million to 499 Million

100 Million to 149 Million

50 Million to 99 Million

25 Million to 49 Million

10 Million to 24 Million

5 Million to 9 Million

For the most part, anything under 5 million is not really considered wealthy anymore. And soon this bottom rung will be 24 million.

Members in each financial level LOOK DOWN on everyone below them.  It is not necessarily that they want to but certain financial protocols dictates that they must display this behavior.  Only associate with those that are in you some financial bracket.

This started in the military because OFFICERS will not allowed to associate with ENLISTED when not at work.  Any officer caught doing this would have they personnel jacket flagged and would not receive timely promotions.

It should be painfully obvious by now that as one gets wealthier, one loses more of their morals and more of their integrity as the unwritten rules of wealth begin to kick in.

We can thank IBM for this philosophy.  As their young executives were promoted, they were told they must start driving more expensive cars, wear more expensive clothes, live in more expensive houses that were located in more exclusive communities.  Using this philosophy, management would always have their executives in debt making it more difficult for them to go to another company.

Since I am not part of the wealthy class, I am not sure how they view wealthy musicians, artists, actors, singers, and professional athletes because physical ability should not be confused with the mental ability to make money.  However, once you are in a certain financial level, you get the respect that is due that level regardless of how you got there.

THIS APPLIES TO DRUG DEALERS AS WELL...

Classic Sunday Morning Newspaper Cartoons

 

Universe Expansion Could be a Mirage

Astronomers use the light from distant stars, such as the Helix Nebula seen here, to measure the apparent expansion of the universe. New resaerch suggests there may be more to the pictue that we're not seeing. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSC)



The expansion of the universe could be a mirage, a potentially controversial new study suggests. This rethinking of the cosmos also suggests solutions for the puzzles of dark energy and dark matter, which scientists believe account for around 95% of the universe's total energy and matter but remain shrouded in mystery.


The novel new approach is detailed in a paper published June 2 in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity, by University of Geneva professor of theoretical physics Lucas Lombriser.


Scientists know the universe is expanding because of redshift, the stretching of light's wavelength towards the redder end of the spectrum as the object emitting it moves away from us. 

Distant galaxies have a higher redshift than those nearer to us, suggesting those galaxies are moving ever further from Earth.

More recently, scientists have found evidence that the universe's expansion isn't fixed, but is actually accelerating faster and faster. This accelerating expansion is captured by a term known as the cosmological constant, or lambda.


The cosmological constant has been a headache for cosmologists because predictions of its value made by particle physics differ from actual observations by 120 orders of magnitude. The cosmological constant has therefore been described as "the worst prediction in the history of physics."

Cosmologists often try to resolve the discrepancy between the different values of lambda by proposing new particles or physical forces but Lombriser tackles it by reconceptualizing what's already there.     READ MORE...

Volcanos

 

Navy SEALS Parachute Jump

 

American Corruption

A s a young industrial power, the United States suffered from levels of political corruption commonly associated today with impoverished nations in the developing world. This is among the findings of a new working paper co-written by Harvard Law School Professor Matthew Stephenson ’03 and California State Supreme Court Justice and Stanford Professor Mariano-Florentino Cuellar tentatively titled “Taming Systemic Corruption: The American Experience and its Implications for Contemporary Debates,” which chronicles the history of corruption in the United States between 1865 and 1941.

I suppose that one would expect a new country to be corrupt at the beginning since it is learning how to flex its muscles globally but certainly after 1941, when everyone's economy was destroyed, the US took on the task of rebuilding the world along with Great Britain and Russia.

Instead of corruption getting better, corruption got worse as large corporations began to strongly influence the American government with money.  While that was going on the American government, also using money, began influencing the rest of the world by telling everyone that Democracy was the only honest form of government to have.

The irony here is that the US was being dishonest as it pursued global democracy and honesty.  After several years, some of the countries realized what the US was doing and tried to beat them at their own game.  The first threat came from OPEC...  They sent students to American Universities to learn economics, then used economic theory to compete against the US.

As the US grew and prospered, it not only tried to influence the rest of the world but it tried to influence politics and the economy within the USA.  This primarily came from large corporations but also came from self-made billionaires who wanted to influence the future and protect their wealth.

While there were small areas of corruption in business and government, nothing reached the level of corruption until Donald Trump became President.  As a result of his Presidency, the Democrats in their efforts to maintain their corrupt influence, have enlisted the support of large corporations, the FBI, the DOJ, and mainstream media.  In so doing, they have created two forms of justice as they try to eliminate the conservative voice altogether.

Once we have only one point of view, no one will ever be able to control our internal CORRUPTION...

It's All so Current

 

A Look Inside ALICE

A look inside ALICE at the Large Hadron Collider. ALICE is one of the LHC's four particle detectors. Image: CERN/LHC

Recently astronomers caught a strange mystery: extremely high-energy particles spitting out of the surface of the Sun when it was relatively calm. Now a team of theorists have proposed a simple solution to the mystery. We just have to look a little bit under the surface.

In 2022 the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory detected a flash of extremely high gamma ray radiation coming from the disk of the sun. To generate that kind of radiation required a particle with TeV energies slamming into another particle. 

This observation came on the heels of over six years worth of observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope in orbit of the Earth. That telescope found significant gamma ray detections also coming from the Sun. 

Those detections were of lower energy than the HAWC results, but pointed in the same general direction.  What was especially surprising about these observations was that these remarkably high-energy particles seemed to be emitted from the Sun when it was in a relatively quiet state. 

Occasionally solar storms and flares rip across the surface of the Sun, and naturally these generate enormous amounts of energies which can easily create high-energy particles. But when the Sun is quiet it’s much harder to identify a sufficiently large source of energy to power these kinds of processes.  READ MORE...

Rumors Confirmed

 

Controlling Your Mind

 

Earth's Water Came From Space

Earth may have formed much more rapidly than previously believed after born as tiny millimeter-sized pebbles that accumulated over a period of just a few million years.

The new theory also implies that rather than water being delivered to Earth by icy comets, this vital ingredient for life is present on our planet due to our young planet thirstily sucking up water from its space environment. 

The theory could have important implications for the search for life outside the solar system, indicating that watery and habitable planets around other stars may be more common than currently theorized.

The new theory put forward by the team suggests that around 4.5 billion years ago when the sun was an infant star surrounded by a disk of gas and dust, known as a proto-planetary disk, tiny particles of dust would be quickly sucked up by forming planets once they reached a certain size. 

In the case of the infant Earth, this "vacuuming up" of disk material ensured our planet was supplied with water.  READ MORE...

Corruption

 

Greed - Power - Control

Belief in religion and an afterlife has been replaced by belief in becoming wealthy and living large now.  Underscoring this desire is WIIFM...

What's In It For Me...  

I have worked in all sorts of business environments both as a worker, in management, and as a consultant and the negative aspects of management as just as prevalent in a CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATION as they are in a manufacturing organization, a government organization, a service organization, or a military organization.

Most of the current leaders in business and industry have backgrounds in the military which explains a lot...  and, this military influence will soon die out as less and less people are entering the military to establish their first 20-year career.

RHIP - Rank Has Its Privileges 

RHIP is present big time in all types of commerce and is primarily based upon Greed, Power, and Control.  The higher up in an organization the more greedy one becomes, the more power one receives, and the more control over other people one has.

We are taught at an early age to be GREEDY...  children watch their parents spend money and get into debt.  They listen to their parent's conversations after their parents think they are in bed asleep.

Parents push children into college for the sole purpose of earning more money in their lifetimes.

Drug dealers don't sell drugs because they are addicted typically, they sell drugs because of other's addiction and the more they sell, the faster they will rise up in the organization...  they are motivated by Greed, Power, and Control.  Drug dealers don't last long if they are addicted to the drugs they sell.

Athletes who have a talent know that their talent is going to make them wealthy.  The greater the talent the greater the wealth and the greater the power and control becomes because of that unique talent.

Actors/Actresses are the same way.  Some got it while others don't.  The same holds true for musicians and singers.

Why do you think that athletes, actors, ctresses, and musicians keep working as long as they can.  It has very little to do with their profession but with the amount of money they can generate because of their skill.  

THEY ALWAYS WANT MORE...