This is why I don’t get ethnic nationalism. Native cultures are endangered more by mass media than they are by migration. Maybe if there are fundamental differences between peoples or extreme resource scarcity that requires people to localize they have a point, but the Internet has done more to erode local differences than anything else.

Good intentions and all, but implementation won't be easy. Everything right now has really long lead times, we are 12-18 month lead times now, vs. 6 months two years ago. BTW, nuclear is not included in this as it's not considered a renewable energy source.

>Bakery is first restaurant chain to use Amazon One biometric technology, which faces scrutiny from lawmakers and activists

>The US bakery and cafe chain Panera will soon allow customers to pay with the swipe of a palm, marking the first restaurant chain to implement the new technology and raising alarm among privacy advocates.

The company announced last week it would roll out biometric readers in coming months that will allow customers to access credit card and loyalty account information by scanning their palms. Called Amazon One, the system was developed by Amazon and is in use at some airports, stadiums and Whole Foods grocery stores.

Panera, which has more than 2,000 locations across the country, is the first nationwide restaurant chain to use the tool. Through the new program, visitors will scan their palms to be greeted by name and receive customized order recommendations based on past preferences. They will also be able to pay with the palm-scanning tech.

Amazon One’s expansion into non-Amazon facilities has faced widespread scrutiny. In 2021, Denver Arts & Venues dropped plans to use palm-scanning technology for ticketless entry at concerts in Red Rocks Amphitheater in Denver after opposition from the digital rights group Fight for the Future.

“The marginal-at-best convenience of scanning a hand instead of a ticket is no excuse for implementing technology that will exacerbate violent systems and cause immeasurable harm,” the group said.

Panera did not specify where the technology would be available but said it had already been deployed at a number of bakery-cafes in St Louis, Missouri, where the company is based. Panera’s loyalty program includes about 52 million members.

Amazon launched its palm-reading technology at Amazon Go locations in late 2020, and is now facing a lawsuit relating to privacy violations after a shopper in New York City claimed customers were not properly notified such data would be collected.

Privacy advocates say this data is at high risk of being hacked and stolen, and, unlike passwords, cannot be changed after it is compromised. Lawmakers have raised these concerns with Amazon One in the past. In 2021, Senators Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, and Jon Ossoff of Georgia demanded additional information about the program.

“Amazon’s expansion of biometric data collection through Amazon One raises serious questions about Amazon’s plans for this data and its respect for user privacy, including about how Amazon may use the data for advertising and tracking purposes,” the senators wrote at the time.

Amazon and Panera did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The problem is translating neural signals to images. Our firing patterns are unique. We have over 80billion neurons and over 500trillion synapses. Decoding brain signals into high resolution graphics would be hard.

The work around would be training. If we are shown known videos and images it is more likely a system could learn a brain’s signals. However, I don’t think it would be possible to use a helmet off the shelf and get it to work.

It's china. Those are real world "claims" of creating a tractor beam.

I will wait until someone else replicates it.

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I love that OpenAI uses a ton of other peoples work to train their model, yet when someone uses OpenAI to train their model, they get all up in arms.

As far as I'm concerned, OpenAI has decided terms of use don't exist anymore.

From the article: The provisional political agreement, which was reached after nightlong negotiations between the EU parliament and states, seeks to raise the share of renewable energy to 42.5 percent, from 22 percent today.

The EU has set an ambitious target to become a "climate neutral" economy by 2050, with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.

The move also comes as the EU has sought to slash its dependence on Russian fossil fuels after Moscow cut gas supplies last year and the bloc placed bans on seaborne crude and other petroleum products from the country.

The figure is a compromise between the 45 percent share for renewables that was sought by EU lawmakers and the European Commission, the EU's executive branch, and the 40 percent preferred by the states.

The previous target for 2030 had been set at 32 percent.

The proposed directive seeks cutting red tape for renewable energy projects.

The goal is to "fast-track the deployment of renewable energies" as part of the EU's plan "to become independent from Russian fossil fuels, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine", said a statement from the Council of the EU which represents the bloc's governments.

Companies have complained that red tape has slowed the development of such infrastructure.

I guess people will have to learn to express themselves without material goods. What a concept.

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There have been real-world examples of Tractor Beams. Here's one:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a42676079/scientists-build-working-tractor-beam/

It’s already more expensive than gas per 100km. Not sure which one is bound to rise more.

But if it makes gas demands decline, it might lower gas prices. And then wait for electricity taxes to be upped again…

Eta : Care to explain the downvotes? This is not the sciencesub where they downvote any thought other than the published link.

FYI they charge 50-70ct /W at charging stations, at least in France, contrary to the one you upvoted is saying.
Let's say 60ct, for 20kWh per 100km
making it 12€/100km. Did you at least notice this article is about charging stations, not charging at home?

Gas (sp95/sp98) should be
around 10€/100km, but more economic exist.

Other than that I wondered about price evolution, I guess can't ask questions here either.
Another great sub.

Robots contributing to social security? I don't know, just an idea.

This isn't about "average quality" but about everything from architecture to fashion to branding converging on a pseudo-midcentury modern, upper-middle class American aesthetic, due in great part to mass/social media.

Break up mass media and consumerism.

"just because no one is working"
if no one is working, no one will have money
no one will buy anything.
there wont be a middle class

in capitalism if you do not work you die in the streets.

"just because no one is working" = everyone dying in the streets because of capitalism

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And that original thing might have only felt original due to a lack of global exposure prior - if your personal world only really consists of several thousand people, as opposed to the full reach of the internet, a lot of stuff starts to sound/feel more original.

>It’s time to cast aside conformity. It’s time to exorcise the expected. It’s time to decline the indistinguishable. For years the world has been moving in the same stylistic direction. And it’s time we reintroduced some originality.

Here's the thing, though: even if you manage to come up with something original and it becomes a success, it won't be long before that itself becomes the new cliché.

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I think it might help us combat climate change. If we find good ways to reduce our carbon footprint, we can roll them out globally easily since everywhere is basically the same place. Something along the lines of how the proliferation of corporate, chain restaurants has actually been good for food safety. That’s me trying to be optimistic. Otherwise, yea, it’s awful.

What an Asinine and ridiculous comment. How is that supposed to save the planet? How is that going to stop CO2 emissions, stop our ocean current from collapsing, stop desertification, and clean up the monumental amount of pollution in our cities and countrysides? How does creating a video in "4k, 60fps" going to reverse climate change? stop a complete ecological collapse?

It isn't and "preserving our culture" means jack shit when our planet is no longer liveable. Just stop and think before posting such stupid and ridiculous comments.

Just yesterday I was looking at the blandness of corporate advertising and all these bland cartoon characters designed to avoid offending anyone at all. We really are starting to live in a world of bland cheap architecture with bland media and nanny state rules only allowing prescribed "fun". I find it funny that there was so much fear about the conformity of communism and yet every day we inch closer to it through cheap/innofensive capitalism.