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Demand that the European Union does not leave millions of dogs and cats unprotected against illegal breeding! #AnimalRights

Demand that the European Union does not leave millions of dogs and cats unprotected against illegal breeding!
While MEPs prepare to vote on a groundbreaking regulation on the welfare of dogs and cats, animal welfare organizations warn: the proposed exemptions could leave millions of animals unprotected.

Urge FIFA to Help Stop the Slaughter of Cats and Dogs in Morocco! #AnimalRights

Urge FIFA to Stop the Slaughter of Cats and Dogs in Morocco!
Homeless animals are being shot, poisoned, or set on fire in Morocco as the country prepares to co-host the 2030 FIFA World Cup – urge FIFA to intervene.

For example:
- Telling apart photos of cats and dogs is “AI.”
- Making up fake but plausible facts on an arbitrary topic is “AI.”
- Walking is “AI.”
- Doing long multiplication is something we might call “intelligence” in humans, but it is not “AI” because computers have •always• been good at it.
- Winning at checkers •used• to be “AI” because computers didn’t used to be able to do that, but now it’s not “AI” because computers have been good at it for too long.
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This is another horrifying statistic to shelve alongside the composition of global mammalian biomass:
• humans 34%
• livestock and pets 62%
• wild animals 4%
#science #biology #ecology

Jonathan Schofield (@urlyman@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image …Here are some highlights (lowlights): “If you drop all that old life into the container that we call Earth, and burn them, it turns out that what we burn in *1 year* weighs 100x more than everything alive today. Everything. All the whales, elephants, forests, insects, grass, crops, birds, fish, people, dogs and cats. Add up all the carbon in everything alive now, and still, in one year we burn a hundred times more.” #climateDiary

Well crap, was going to go on a coffee run for @… but it's raining cats and dogs. I do like being able to work in the same flat as James.

For example:
- Telling apart photos of cats and dogs is “AI.”
- Making up fake but plausible facts on an arbitrary topic is “AI.”
- Walking is “AI.”
- Doing long multiplication is something we might call “intelligence” in humans, but it is not “AI” because computers have •always• been good at it.
- Winning at checkers •used• to be “AI” because computers didn’t used to be able to do that, but now it’s not “AI” because computers have been good at it for too long.
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