#DaronAcemoglu on models for autonomous #agenticAI
"human #agency is critical for #human #learning & flourishing. The very act of making decisions & contemplating outcomes affirms our own sense of agency & purpose.. if #AI becomes pri'ly a means of accelerating #automation, any hope of widely shared prosperity will be dashed.. entire #society wld be subjected to "war-of-attrition" games in which AI agents push every conflictual situation to e brink of breakdown" #mustread
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2999774/two-models-for-future-autonomous-agentic-ais
“It isn’t just that the planet is overheating, the environment falling apart, poisons spreading globally, the decline of food, fresh water, soil, forests and a dying ocean. It isn’t just overpopulation, weapons of mass destruction, pollution, pandemics, out-of-control technologies, growing inequity and misinformation.
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/04/a-statement-by-the-minister-for-the-environment-in-the-new-australian-government/
#auspol #human #environment #climate #nature
It’s all of the above, coming together at the same time. This is the Human (made) Emergency.”
#Trump appointee to Secretary of #Health and #Human Services, #RFKjr urges #CDC to cease #PublicHealth recommendation of water #fluoridation because he read some pseudo-#science claiming it causes IQ loss.
Meanwhile, the worm eating his brain
is like… #USpol #Resist #DoNotComply
#palestine #StopGenocide #StopArmingIsrael
"Amid escalating horror, #UN experts urge States to take concrete action to end impunity for #Israel"
"More States must join the #HagueGroup, a bloc of states that is coordinating efforts to ensure #accountability for Israeli breaches of #international #law and uphold decisions by the International Court of Justice (#ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (#ICC), a group of independent #human #rights experts* said today."
[P] Sigh. The racist rabbit-hole with Quest for Glory III is really getting me down. I'll see discussions about the game begin, corpulent with fastidiously fashioned faux obloquy only for the truth to creep in around the edges as they felt safe in the sickly repose of bigoted like-minds. Too much swahili; too much blackness; too much black culture; don't like the way the black folk talk. It's depressing, but ultimately... predictable. It's just depressing.
@wellingtonrock
I don't think many women had abortions for the reasons listed
I not saying none but the reasons listed cheapen what they went through and wrestled with and the concerns were many, varied, confusing conflicting and complictaed
What it "allowed" them is their basic, indisputable and precarious at all times, right of autonomy
I think that it was not your intention but words like these are dangerous and misleading
#ICE director Todd Lyons: "We need to get better at treating this like a #business ,where this #mass #deportation operation is something like you would see and say, like #Amazon trying to get your Prime #delivery within 24 hours. [...] So trying to figure out how to do that with #human beings.”
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/10/world/politics/ice-deportation-amazon-prime/
#Animals #Chimpanzee #Human #Apes #Primates #Intelligence #Grooming #Animal #Monkey #Fascinating #Wildlife #Nature #Woman #Chimp #Groom
A compelling, fascinating and strangely beautiful video. Have you ever seen a chimpanzee grooming a human? Nope, me neither, and this is absolutely amazing. The chimp’s very systematic, compassionate, and clearly knows what she’s doing.
Animals are way smarter than we think, and here’s the proof…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INAH_Rq0gdw
Avian #influenza A(#H5N6) virus detected during live-poultry #market #surveillance linked to a #human #infection in #Changsha, #China, from 2020 to 2023, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/04/avian-influenza-ah5n6-virus-detected.html
Study: Seafaring Hunter-Gatherers Were Accessing Remote Islands Long Before Arrival of First Farmers https://www.byteseu.com/907130/ #Hearth #Homo #HomoSapiens #human #HunterGatherer #Latnija #Malta #Mediterranean #MediterraneanSea #StoneTool
Things that make you believe in humanity after all. If there were no art, humans would never have developed beyond the stage of a weak predator at the end of a chain. That is the only thing that gives them the right to continue to exist. If they deserve to continue to exist at all. #music #art #human https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sXy45WTdDo
Last day for the #FediHUMAN giveaway. Thanks to all who have given HUMAN a try, I hope you’re enjoying it. And thanks to the #fediverse for leaving a space free of corporate algorithms.Visit https://bretthodnett.com/FreeHUMAN.html and use the code ‘fedihuman’ to get your free EPUB!
#Mexico reports first #human #death from #H5N1 avian #influenza, https://www.chinanews.com.cn/gj/2025/04-09/10396538.shtml
According to reports, a three-year-old girl who was diagnosed with the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus in #Durango State in northern Mexico died of respiratory complications caused by the virus infection in the early morning of the 8th.
#Mexico: The Ministry of Health reports the #death of the first #human case of avian #influenza A (#H5N1), https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/04/mexico-ministry-of-health-reports-death.html