... and we know how the game ends, right?

Bonus from the IBM songbook

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/29098510

Ukraine said on Monday it had asked the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to join humanitarian efforts in Russia's Kursk region following a cross-border incursion by Ukrainian forces.

Ukraine's army remains in the Kursk region more than a month after launching the assault, in which President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Kyiv has taken control of about 100 settlements. Russia's Defence Ministry said on Monday its forces had regained control of two more villages.

"Ukraine is ready to facilitate their work and prove its adherence to international humanitarian law," (Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii) Sybiha said on X after visiting the Sumy region, from where Ukrainian forces launched the cross-borer attack.

https://t.me/DIUkraine/4469

‼️ "Crab" skull was broken - a war criminal and propagandist of the Kremlin was eliminated in Russia

▪️ According to the information available in the State Department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, on September 15, 2024, in the city of Belgorod, the skull of the Russian propagandist Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Korobov, nicknamed "Crab", was crushed - the accomplice of war crimes and the Kremlin genocide of the Ukrainian people died from the injuries.

▪️ The propagandist worked on the "Russia 1" channel, headed its Belgorod station. Palko praised war criminals from the Russian army on the air of Skabeeva's programs. He also created products for the resource of the Ministry of Defense, the Zvezda TV channel, and repeatedly received awards for this from the Kremlin dictator.

▪️ "Crab" was originally from the city of Komsomolsk-na-Amurye, Khabarovsk Territory of the Russian Federation, where he was registered at Komsomolska Street, 75, building 2, apartment 23.

📍 He actually lived in Belgorod at Gubkina Street, 45, building 1, apartment 23.

▪️ Periodically visited Moscow according to instructions.

▪️ In pursuit of recognition and rubles from the Kremlin masters, he constantly performed dirty work far from his native places - for example, in the occupied territories of Ukraine, in particular in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

▪️ The propagandist not only prepared false materials about the war, but also personally participated in the commission of serious war crimes against Ukraine.

💀 The GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reminds that there will be a fair retribution for every war crime.

🇺🇦 Glory to Ukraine!

Currently got this one on my work laptop. Model M terminal board with internal converter. The only layout changes I made versus a normal 102-key are that RCtrl is is a Windows key, and the four keys along the right side of the numpad are =, -, +, and the normal Enter.

Nazis raus.

Keep up with the exciting news coming out of the KDE apps projects with "This Week in KDE Apps"!

In this issue: NeoChat emojis, Itinerary seats, Gwenview speedups and Android support tweaks, among other things.

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/09/16/this-week-in-kde-apps/

Note that this week it is on Monday, but we will be posting about all KDE app news on Sunday from now on.

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As investors weigh OpenAI’s valuation, they might consider the humble paperclip. A cautionary tale about corporate profit maximizers building a robot that so excels in producing the office supply that it wipes out humanity might seem far-fetched. But a single-minded capitalist could make the economically rational decision to bear such a risk. As OpenAI races towards a fundraising, opens new tab that could value it at $150 billion, the implicit promise is that gains enormous enough to make that danger thinkable are on the horizon. That itself underscores the barriers to growth.

The paperclip story goes like this. One day, engineers at ACME Office Supplies unveil a hyper-sophisticated AI machine with one goal: produce as many paperclips as possible. The incomparable silicon intellect chases this task to the furthest extreme, converting every molecule on Earth into paperclips and promptly ending all life.

Profit-hungry OpenAI investors like Microsoft might be assumed, like ACME, to only value short-term gains, inviting the risk that they build their own Paperclip Maximizer. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, says that he is mindful of the risk. His company’s structure is meant to limit bad incentives, capping profit available to investors. Such protections are worth an asterisk now: a ceiling on profit was set in 2019 at a 100 times return for initial investors. OpenAI initially expected to lower it over time. Instead, the company's latest fundraising now hinges on changing that structure, including by removing the cap, Reuters reported.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's ruling Liberals, trailing badly in the polls, face a struggle on Monday to retain a once-safe seat in a special election where failure to win could boost calls for a new party leader.

The election in the Montreal parliamentary constituency of LaSalle—Emard—Verdun was called to replace a Liberal legislator who quit.

Normally Trudeau's party could count on an easy win there but surveys suggest the race is tight. If the Liberals lose, the focus will fall squarely on Trudeau, who has become increasingly unpopular after almost nine years in office.

Unusually, some Liberal legislators are breaking ranks to call for change at the top. Alexandra Mendes, a Liberal lawmaker who represents a Quebec constituency, said many of her constituents wanted Trudeau to go.

"I didn't hear it from two, three people - I heard it from dozens and dozens of people," she told public broadcaster Radio-Canada last week. "He's no longer the right leader."

The year 2023 was by far the warmest in human history. Climate extremes now routinely shock in their intensity, with a direct monetary cost that borders on the unfathomable. Over $3 trillion (US) in damages to infrastructure, property, agriculture, and human health have already slammed the world economy this century, owing to extreme weather. That number will likely pale in comparison to what is coming. The World Economic Forum, hardly a hotbed of environmental activists, now reports that global damage from climate change will probably cost some $1.7 trillion to $3.1 trillion (US) per year by 2050, with the lion’s share of the damage borne by the poorest countries in the world.

And yet we fiddle.

In today’s Canada, there is deception, national in scope, coming directly from the right‑wing opposition benches in Ottawa. In 2023, the populist Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre adopted “Axe the tax” as his new mantra and has shaped his federal election campaign around that hackneyed rhyme.