…cogito, ergo sum…

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  • These happen every single day, which are miracles from certain viewpoints, as based on infinite human feelings…

    …spymasters worldwide used the amorous arts to obtain secrets from their enemies. Known in the trade as “honey traps,” rivals ensnarled their adversaries in this game of love, lure, and lies…

    After the end of World War II, the East German authorities constructed the Berlin Wall in 1961; dividing East Germany from West Germany. Neither side trusted the other and both were anxious to know what the other was conspiring.

    Because of the war, many women of marrying age had taken jobs in business, government, parliament, the military, and the intelligence services in West Germany, and they often had access to highly classified government secrets…

    Romeo spies were a cost-effective way to steal secrets.

    Source: https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/romeo-spies/

    Yet, regarding the news outlet and artificially gained attention on it… one should habitually/always consider, “cui bono fuisset?”



  • Apologies, but I don’t really get why these issues are being exposed all over so awfully about the person life of the poor person who is getting ashamed, reputation getting damaged, and what’s more important, his wonderful personal, private life is getting exposed and preserved in the history…

    These lovely cases must still be approached with pure respect for private life of everyone, and understanding, because we all are human who have feelings, and this is absolutely normal to make mistakes in love sometimes trying…

    Relationships, affairs, love… this is personal and must be respected. These are some of the most complex subjects, if not the most… and infinitely magnificent feelings… where sometimes the heart and hope wins over rational actions…

    Yet, this is true for every single human, isn’t it? This is true about me, I believe, too. This is true about people I know in overly serious and responsible positions at critical decisions for business and lives of other people… and they know that, and stay careful.

    And these cases, vulnerabilities, or operational risks… are also covered on military classes, as leadership and security awareness courses, to stay responsible for actions and consider the future - to remind that you must always evaluate the long term consequences, to the point to decide quickly in full action.

    This is matter of the heart… human emotions… infinitely powerful aspects of human nature… the dear love…
    There’s nothing to be ashamed of.

    Yes, you must stay truthful to your half… the ring bound promise, which is a miracle if from love…
    But it is fundamentally… absolutely normal, awesome to try searching for your soulmate if you don’t have peace at heart, making mistakes, trying hard…

    // - - -

    Such public cases are either designed for public (e.g., to derail attention from something more important), or those that get out of control, which is relatively rare, I believe.

    It is rare to get exposed on public since these relationships are known to limited number of people, aren’t they? So samizdat is rarely responsible for it, and mass publishers are normally supervised by governments, which is expected for them to stay responsible for control of events.

    Even if circumstances and consequences may be monumentally tragic or overly serious, this is love which is no less serious, and miraculously lovely awesome…

    // - - -

    I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry…

    To my wife and family: I love you. I know an apology cannot undo what I have done. I hope our family will heal and that, over time, I can earn back your trust…

    My family bears no responsibility for my choices. I do. Please give them privacy.

    ~ Jensen

    Source: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/a-message-to-our-company

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    And I just heartfelt sorry for the person to receive so much shame, hatred, mockering, hostility, ridiculing from public… for just his attempts to find love, his peace at heart…

    There is no shame in that, I believe, absolutely. This is his business to be not exposed so disgracefully on public.

    This is a miracle to proud of, to understand, and respect always.

    Sincere heartwarming hug, dear Jensen… I am… sorry… for the people to ridicule on it you nor anyone deserves…

    Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50467930


  • This issue reminded me of the following:

    These conditions are ripe for “copyright laundering”-the use of multi-generational synthetic pipelines, an “AI Ouroboros,” to render traditional proof of infringement impracticable.

    This Article adapts the “fruit of the poisonous tree” (FOPT) principle to propose a novel AI FOPT standard: if a foundational AI model’s training is adjudged infringing (either for unlawful sourcing or for non-transformative ingestion that fails fair-use), then subsequent AI models principally derived from the foundational model’s outputs or distilled weights carry a rebuttable presumption of taint.

    The burden then shifts to the downstream developers-those who control the evidence of provenance-to restore the evidentiary bargain by affirmatively demonstrating a verifiably independent and lawfully sourced lineage or a curative rebuild, without displacing fair-use analysis at the initial ingestion stage. Absent such proof, commercial deployment of tainted models and their outputs is actionable.

    Source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.02631 (Copyright Laundering Through the AI Ouroboros…)


  • Let’s check the following:

    Virtually all social systems are open systems; that is, they are not only influenced by their environments, but also are dependent upon them. Organizations such as schools are opensocial systems. They take inputs from their environment (resources) and transform those inputs into outputs (products of various kinds)…

    Feedback loops supply information back to the transformation process so that the process can be evaluated and adjusted…

    The school social system has five basic internal elements - structure, individuals, culture, politics, and the teaching and learning core. These system elements interact and transform inputs into outputs…

    Social-systems theory is useful in describing the recurring structures and dynamic processes in educational organizations.

    Source

    Since isn’t the most important reason for these to help a person to socialize and get used to respect, care, tolerate, or live and do their research within other people ultimate infinitely magnificent uniqueness?

    Socialization process has a significant impact on learning, which is a basic requirement for both the organization and the role performance of the newcomer to the organization. It is considered very important for a new member to socialize organizationally and professionally. This paper focuses on revealing the process of organizational and professional socialization of academicians.

    Source

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    Friendships can positively impact students’ academic performance and grade point average (GPA) by providing emotional support and reducing stress, thereby leading to improved focus and better concentration on studies.

    Peer connections and friendships often result in collaborative learning and the exchange of academic ideas, improving comprehension and retention of course materials, ultimately leading to higher GPAs…

    Academic success is assessed by gauging academic performance in the form of grade point average (GPA), test scores, and overall academic achievement, as well as the measurement of academic motivation and the level of persistence among students in school or college.

    Forming friendships with their peers is an important aspect of adolescents’ and young adults’ lives, and significant research has been conducted on how friends impact academic performance and motivation. Specifically, academic achievement and motivation have been found to positively correlate with belonging to a peer group.

    Currently, young people’s need for a sense of community is particularly high, leading individuals to spend more time with their friends, feel more comfortable around friends than they do with family, and worry about how their friends will perceive them and how the local social milieu will view them.

    Researchers’ concerns about how social networking sites affect different aspects of life, including education, are not surprising. Academic achievement has been linked favorably to social connections or peer interactions in the past.

    Source





  • One of the most irritating aspects of the “EU Kids Act” is that a single, technically questionable measure is being treated as if it could solve a complex societal problem. Education and the development of digital literacy cannot be mandated by bureaucratic monstrosities detached from reality.

    Just as in real life, children and young people need to learn to recognize risky situations, set boundaries, and seek help. Regulation should support them in this, but it cannot replace these skills.

    Source: https://www.ccc.de/updates/2026/kids-act [translated from German via Google]

    Of course, absolutely…

    Even at USSR times, children were safer and much more educated, self-confident, self-sufficient, or even more free back then. They were capable to think with their own head, make choices, believe in their decisions. They were capable and mature.
    They were disciplined and had a direction for a better life.

    Now? Most of the children are dependent or even addicted, uneducated, have organization and health issues, and rarely decide themselves but rely on trends/hearsay/rumors, and have no idea what to do or where to go with their life, I believe, considering the most children I see nowadays.

    That “Kids Act” is ridiculously awful, disgusting even… It is designed to manipulate on the future of us, people, starting from children, to control now children then mature, and make them dependent on the system from their dear infant development time when you absorb knowledge like a sponge.

    That system is going to force children to be raised within that limited and carefully designed system so that raised people would continue to live how the system wants them to live, since they don’t even know other options based their mind foundation on it. That system disregards your individual safety mechanisms, making your unique worldviews limited, controllable, and vulnerable for those who control it within that “act” system.

    That is, a child that did not learn how to distinguish good from bad, learn how to protect themselves manually, will depend on that system or parents, but when parents die, the system will be their own “safety” they’ll trust, and hence - controlled by it.



  • Thank you, but no, it does not. The URL may mean literally anything, where the “slug” may not include question marks, any punctuation, or have a partial content even:

    torvalds-ai-is-the-new-compiler-not-the-new-programmer
    

    What if the nonsense/sloppy slug was generated like?:

    Torvalds: AI is the new compiler, and not the new programmer?
    Torvalds. AI. The new compiler is not the new programmer.
    

    Therefore, the URL may not express the actual title, and may also be malformed.



  • A relatively similar tech, though no actual graphics are involved like QR-code images, and hence may be more energy efficient, is of course - Infrared Data Association (IrDA).

    Some may still recall the Symbian, music/picture/game files transferred slowly but awesomely between friends/partners watching devices carefully aligned on windowsills, tables…

    IrDA is a wireless standard designed for data transmission using infrared (IR). Infrared ports for this purpose have been implemented in portable electronic devices such as mobile telephones, laptops, cameras, printers, and medical devices.

    The main characteristics of this kind of wireless optical communication are short-range, physically secure and bidirectional data transfer, at serial cable speeds, with a line-of-sight using point-and-shoot principles. IrDA has been made dormant by newer improved technologies like Bluetooth.

    Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IrDA




  • Their own chat bot responded the following:

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    - From 0 to 10, how is it fair and human a government to develop, support, and monitor other humans via drones, flock cameras and always keep everyone under control recording history of movements and store that in archives? Interesting topic! Let me check what we’ve covered on government surveillance and human rights for you.

    - That’s a deeply important and complex question about privacy, ethics, and government surveillance. Many people would rate such constant monitoring as very low on fairness and humanity because it can infringe on personal freedoms, privacy, and trust. Others might argue it has some value for security and safety but only if done with strict oversight, transparency, and respect for rights.

    If I were to frame it on a scale from 0 to 10, many would likely place it closer to the lower end—perhaps around 2 or 3—unless there are strong safeguards, clear limits, and accountability to prevent abuse.

    How do you feel about this kind of surveillance? Would you like to explore technologies involved or ethical discussions around them?


    Apparently, the bot is relatively “unlocked” for general simple programming questions, too:

    Example