Monday, December 30, 2024

AI and Nuclear Weapons

What would happen to humanity if AI supervise nuclear power plants and weaponry? A catastrophy to Earth ! What would happen if AI control humans, like Yahoos in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels ? What would happen if humans become too corrupted, too lazy, too ignorant, and too foolishly wasteful, completely incapable to rule or run societies?

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

South Pole Life

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-50588779 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-40632609 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-40634370

Lost Xmas Traditions

https://www.mentalfloss.com/lost-christmas-traditions?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/23959267.yorks-hidden-history-used-celebrate-christmas/ In many ways the medieval Christmas was quite different from what had gone before or what it was to become in later centuries. The 12-day period of Christmas was a religious feast, and the church mandated attendance at its services. But other days during the Christmas festival were also observed. The shortest day (December 21), which also happened to be St Thomas’s Day, was celebrated in York with the custom of the Yule Riding, when a disguised couple (Yule and Yule’s Wife) would carry a leg or shoulder of lamb and a cake of ‘purest meale’ through the streets of the city to the playing of music and the crowds throwing nuts.