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Shatner on being in space

23.5.2024 kl. 01:39 - Sveinbjörn Þórðarson

I've never been a Star Trek fan but these words from William Shatner (Captain Kirk) are incredibly powerful:

Last year, at the age of 90, I had a life-changing experience. I went to space, after decades of playing a science-fiction character who was exploring the universe and building connections with many diverse life forms and cultures. I thought I would experience a similar feeling: a feeling of deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration. A call to indeed boldly go where no one had gone before. I was absolutely wrong... what I felt was totally different. I knew that many before me had experienced a greater sense of care while contemplating our planet from above, because they were struck by the apparent fragility of this suspended blue marble. I felt that too. But the strongest feeling, dominating everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced. While I was looking away from Earth, and turned towards the rest of the universe, I didn’t feel connection; I didn’t feel attraction. What I understood, in the clearest possible way, was that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, of adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet. This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realised that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I played my part in popularising the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is, and will remain, our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable.
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Reverse Hitler

22.5.2024 kl. 16:42 - Sveinbjörn Þórðarson

The best thing I've seen on Reddit in a while:

"AI is like reverse Hitler. We keep expecting it to kill us, but it just keeps making bad art."

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Ensk.is fjölsóttur

9.5.2024 kl. 17:15 - Sveinbjörn Þórðarson

Gaman frá því að segja að ensk.is er orðinn nokkuð fjölsóttur vefur (í íslensku samhengi), með sirka 500 staka gesti á dag og yfir 3000 uppflettingar. Greinilegt að öll þessi vinna var ekki til einskis.

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