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Mustafa Suleyman says "Seemingly Conscious AI" is coming but is something to avoid, and that developers must build AI for people, not to be a digital person (Mustafa Suleyman)
https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/seemingly-conscious-ai-is-coming

We must build AI for people; not to be a person

Some days editing means researching the fine points of further vs farther or everyday vs every day. Some days you read up on why mental health professional recommend saying "death by suicide" instead of "committed suicide"
https://www.iasp.info/languageguidelines/

Language Guidelines - IASP
The Language of Suicide  An important objective of suicide prevention is to remove the stigma associated with suicide and mental health issues so that people will be more likely to seek the help they need. One of the ways we can do this is to be conscious of our use […]

Exclusive: Harvard Law Review Axes 85 Percent of Submissions Using Race-Conscious Rubric, Documents Show (Aaron Sibarium/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/campus/exclusive-harvard-law-review-axes-85-percent-of-submissions-using-race-conscious-rubric-documents-show/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p58#a250619p58

Toward Needs-Conscious Design: Co-Designing a Human-Centered Framework for AI-Mediated Communication
Robert Wolfe, Aayushi Dangol, JaeWon Kim, Alexis Hiniker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11149

Toward Needs-Conscious Design: Co-Designing a Human-Centered Framework for AI-Mediated Communication
We introduce Needs-Conscious Design, a human-centered framework for AI-mediated communication that builds on the principles of Nonviolent Communication (NVC). We conducted an interview study with N=14 certified NVC trainers and a diary study and co-design with N=13 lay users of online communication technologies to understand how NVC might inform design that centers human relationships. We define three pillars of Needs-Conscious Design: Intentionality, Presence, and Receptiveness to Needs. Drawi…

Spotify’s Royalty Threshold Is Conscious Parallelism Reshaping the Music Business—But Not in a Good Way
https://thetrichordist.com/2025/08/07/

Spotify’s Royalty Threshold Is Conscious Parallelism Reshaping the Music Business—But Not in a Good Way
Spotify’s 1,000-stream royalty threshold isn’t just a cost-saving measure—it’s a redistribution scheme that cuts out millions of tracks while still using them to drive engagement, ads, and algorith…

Transcranial focused ultrasound for identifying the neural substrate of conscious perception https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08517 Indeed I see long-term potential for phased-array tFUS as a visual prosthesis for the late-blind. The company Nudge is developing a phased-array tFUS helmet.

Transcranial Focused Ultrasound for Identifying the Neural Substrate of Conscious Perception
Identifying what aspects of brain activity are responsible for conscious perception remains one of the most challenging problems in science. While progress has been made through psychophysical studies employing EEG and fMRI, research would greatly benefit from improved methods for stimulating the brain in healthy human subjects. Traditional techniques for neural stimulation through the skull, including electrical or magnetic stimulation, suffer from coarse spatial resolution and have limited ab…

Environmentally-Conscious Cloud Orchestration Considering Geo-Distributed Data Centers
Giulio Attenni, Novella Bartolini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11563 h…

Environmentally-Conscious Cloud Orchestration Considering Geo-Distributed Data Centers
This paper presents a theoretical discussion for environmentally-conscious job deployment and migration in cloud environments, aiming to minimize the environmental impact of resource provisioning while incorporating sustainability requirements. As the demand for sustainable cloud services grows, it is crucial for cloud customers to select data center operators based on sustainability metrics and to accurately report the ecological footprint of their services. To this end, we analyze sustainabil…

Calls for criminal probe into New Jersey slaughterhouse after repeated welfare violations https://www.speciesunite.com/news-stories/calls-for-criminal-probe-into-new-jersey-slaughterhouse-after-…

Calls for criminal probe into New Jersey slaughterhouse after repeated welfare violations — Species Unite
Animal activists are calling on the Salem County Prosecutor to investigate a meat facility where a bull was left conscious for over six minutes during a botched slaughter.

Transcranial Focused Ultrasound for Identifying the Neural Substrate of Conscious Perception
Daniel K. Freeman, Brian Odegaard, Seung-Schik Yoo, Matthias Michel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08517

Transcranial Focused Ultrasound for Identifying the Neural Substrate of Conscious Perception
Identifying what aspects of brain activity are responsible for conscious perception remains one of the most challenging problems in science. While progress has been made through psychophysical studies employing EEG and fMRI, research would greatly benefit from improved methods for stimulating the brain in healthy human subjects. Traditional techniques for neural stimulation through the skull, including electrical or magnetic stimulation, suffer from coarse spatial resolution and have limited ab…

49ers DE Jackson taken off field via ambulance https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45837871/49ers-tarron-jackson-conscious-sustaining-injury

ReGen Homes offers eco-conscious townhomes in BC with sustainable features and urban amenities. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Couple shares unique home offering incredibly high standard of living: 'An urban lifestyle without the urban density'
ReGen Homes is building eco-conscious townhomes in British Columbia that promote sustainable living while meeting future homeowners' needs, reported the Vancouver Sun.

I have been 'resting' when in town by doing Asian/Deep Squats and feel very self conscious as it's not something people regularly do here.
#Mobility #Flexibility #Squats

Who Benefits from AI Explanations? Towards Accessible and Interpretable Systems
Maria J. P. Peixoto, Akriti Pandey, Ahsan Zaman, Peter R. Lewis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10806 …

Who Benefits from AI Explanations? Towards Accessible and Interpretable Systems
As AI systems are increasingly deployed to support decision-making in critical domains, explainability has become a means to enhance the understandability of these outputs and enable users to make more informed and conscious choices. However, despite growing interest in the usability of eXplainable AI (XAI), the accessibility of these methods, particularly for users with vision impairments, remains underexplored. This paper investigates accessibility gaps in XAI through a two-pronged approach. …

“I don’t think there’s anything in principle, that stops machines from being conscious. […] I don’t see why they shouldn’t have emotions. […]
I think they really are thinking. And I think as soon as you make AI agents, they will have concerns.”
A wild interview with Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize winner and “the Godfather of AI”, especially towards the end…

#NowPlaying PremRock's sophomore LP from earlier this year, has billy woods on it and more, this thing is ridiculous. Check the Captain Beefheart, Tears for Fears and Smashing Pumpkins mentions and SO much more 🔥 This is some conscious, heady, extremely flowy shit

more n more zoomers falling to npc theory, how do we better teach ppl that other ppl are also conscious

Conscious agent networks: Formal analysis and application to cognition (2018) - ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1389041717300827
Full paper: https://escholarship.org/content/qt2d34n6zf/qt2d34n6zf.pdf?t=p2ng2g

Just out! My new article, 'Reimagining Our Futures: Education and the Promise of Possibility' in Comparative Education Studies is an exercise in hope to collectively, consciously, and critically re-examine education and education systems.
We can harness education's potential of promise by questioning assumptions - which/whose knowledges are legitimised and valued; what has been counted, discounted or marginalised as evidence.

Reimagining Our Futures: Education and the Promise of Possibility    - Comparative Education Studies (CES)
Commentary Reimagining Our Futures: Education and the Promise of Possibility Prachi Srivastava | pp. 86-91 Abstract:The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the largest global disruption of schooling in recent history, resulting in immediate and cumulative ruptures. This commentary proposes a collective, conscious, and critical re-examination of education and education systems with a view to harnessing the […]

Morabo Morojele’s creative career was remarkable.
What wove his three identities together – musician, development worker and writer – was his conscious, committed pan-Africanism
and his master craftsman’s skill with sound:
the sound of his drums and the sound of his words as they rose off the page.
Through his books, and his (far too few) recordings, that beauty lives with us still.
Robala ka khotso (Sleep in peace)

Morabo Morojele: The social and political drum beats of the Lesotho jazz musician
The jazz drummer, novelist and development scholar died on May 20.

It’s truly remarkable that we exist at all. Each of us breaks free from the chains of history and authority to experience life anew. Today, countless souls will awaken to their first love, their first union, or the birth of new life. Others will face heartbreak or part ways.
This moment, this very act of being alive and conscious, is a quiet act of rebellion against the forces that seek to suppress our humanity. To exist freely for the first time is the most radical and beautiful thing…

ECORE: Energy-Conscious Optimized Routing for Deep Learning Models at the Edge
Daghash K. Alqahtani, Maria A. Rodriguez, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Hamid Rezatofighi, Adel N. Toosi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06011

ECORE: Energy-Conscious Optimized Routing for Deep Learning Models at the Edge
Edge computing enables data processing closer to the source, significantly reducing latency an essential requirement for real-time vision-based analytics such as object detection in surveillance and smart city environments. However, these tasks place substantial demands on resource constrained edge devices, making the joint optimization of energy consumption and detection accuracy critical. To address this challenge, we propose ECORE, a framework that integrates multiple dynamic routing strateg…

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https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/09/entertainment/sly-stone-death

Sly Stone, pioneering funk musician, dead at 82
Sly Stone, the influential but enigmatic funk-rock star whose soulful, socially conscious recordings altered the course of popular music before he abruptly retreated from the spotlight and became the J.D. Salinger of rock, has died, his family announced Monday.

#ListeningClub I’m thankful for this pick because it’s my favorite band but I’ve become self-conscious about coming across as the type who always makes everybody else listen to them.

1996 onion article old enough to look at porn on the internet.
https://theonion.com/earth-to-be-made-child-safe-1819564004/

Earth To Be Made Child-Safe
NEW YORK—Under heavy pressure from safety-conscious parents groups around the world, the U.N. General Assembly approved a plan yesterday to make the earth child-safe by the year 2000.

Why AI Will Never Be Conscious-- Recursive Identity Requires Collapse https://osf.io/fn6cv

Geo-Somatic Resonance Theory A Vibrational Framework for Sleep as Planetary Entrainment
Brathikan Vijayamohan Mankayarkarasi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14760

Geo-Somatic Resonance Theory A Vibrational Framework for Sleep as Planetary Entrainment
Sleep is commonly studied through neurochemical, evolutionary, and behavioral frameworks, typically emphasizing circadian rhythms and energy conservation. However, these approaches do not fully explain a deeper biophysical question: why does sleep universally involve physical stillness, a lying posture, and disconnection from conscious control? This paper introduces a new hypothesis that sleep is not merely a biological function, but a state of vibrational synchronization between the human body…

How popular media gets love wrong
Okay, my attempt at (hopefully widely-applicable) advice about relationships based on my mental "engineering" model and how it differs from the popular "fire" and "appeal" models:
1. If you're looking for a partner, don't focus too much on external qualities, but instead ask: "Do they respect me?" "Are they interested in active consent in all aspects of our relationship?" "Are they willing to commit a little now, and open to respectfully negotiating deeper commitment?" "Are they trustworthy, and willing to trust me?" Finding your partner attractive can come *from* trusting/appreciating/respecting them, rather than vice versa.
2. If you're looking for a partner, don't wait for infatuation to start before you try building a relationship. Don't wait to "fall in love;" if you "fall" into love you could just as easily "fall" out, but if you build up love, it won't be so easy to destroy. If you're feeling lonely and want a relationship, pick someone who seems interesting and receptive in your social circles and ask if they'd like to do something with you (doesn't have to be a date at first). *Pursue active consent* at each stage (if they're not interested; ask someone else, this will be easier if you're not already infatuated). If they're judging you by the standards in point 1, this is doubly important.
3. When building a relationship, try to synchronize your levels of commitment & trust even as you're trying to deepen them, or at least try to be honest and accepting when they need to be out-of-step. Say things and do things that show your partner the things (like trust, commitment, affection, etc.) that are important in your relationship, and ask them to do the same (or ideally you don't have to ask if they're conscious of this too). Do these things not as a chore or a transaction when your partner does them, but because they're the work of building the relationship that you value for its own sake (and because you value your partner for themselves too).
4. When facing big external challenges to your commitment to a relationship, like a move, ensure that your partner has an appropriate level of commitment too, but then don't undervalue the relationship relative to other things in life. Everyone is different, but *to me*, my committed relationship has been far more rewarding than e.g., a more "successful" career would have been. Of course worth noting here that non-men are taught by our society to undervalue their careers & other aspects of their life and sacrifice everything for their partners, which is toxic. I'm not saying "don't value other things" but especially for men, *do* value romantic relationships and be prepared to make decisions that prioritize them over other things, assuming a partner who is comfortable with that commitment and willing to reciprocate.
Okay, this thread is complete for now, until I think of something else that I've missed. I hope this advice is helpful in some way (or at least not harmful). Feel free to chime in if you've got different ideas...
#relationships #love

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Embedding Sustainability in Undergraduate Mathematics with Actionable Case Studies
Maria Kleshnina, Matthew Holden, Ryan Heneghan, Kate Helmstedt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07594

Embedding Sustainability in Undergraduate Mathematics with Actionable Case Studies
There is a growing need to integrate sustainability into tertiary mathematics education given the urgency of addressing global environmental challenges. This paper presents four case studies from Australian university courses that incorporate ecological and environmentally-conscious concepts into the mathematics curriculum. These case studies cover topics such as population dynamics, sustainable fisheries management, statistical inference for endangered species assessment, and mathematical mode…

Quantum panprotopsychism and a consciousness-centered universe
Rodolfo Gambini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04718 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.04718

Quantum panprotopsychism and a consciousness-centered universe
In previous publications, we have argued that a form of panprotopsychism based on quantum states and events offers a solution to the combination problem. This framework explains the emergence of complex phenomenal qualities and conscious subjects. Furthermore, the inherent openness of quantum mechanics allows consciousness and, more generally, phenomenal properties to exert a causal influence. If the view proposed by quantum panprotopsychism is valid, it suggests that we inhabit a consciousness…

A Dopamine-Serotonin Theory of Consciousness
Diogo Sousa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02614 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.02614

A Dopamine-Serotonin Theory of Consciousness
This work presents a comprehensive theory of consciousness grounded in mathematical formalism and supported by clinical data analysis. The framework developed herein demonstrates that consciousness exists as a continuous, non-monotonic function across a high-dimensional neurochemical space, with dopamine serving as the primary intensity regulator and serotonin (5-HT2A) as the complexity modulator. This work offers mechanistic explanations for the full spectrum of conscious states, from deep sle…

Resonance Complexity Theory and the Architecture of Consciousness: A Field-Theoretic Model of Resonant Interference and Emergent Awareness
Michael Arnold Bruna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20580

Resonance Complexity Theory and the Architecture of Consciousness: A Field-Theoretic Model of Resonant Interference and Emergent Awareness
This paper introduces Resonance Complexity Theory (RCT), which proposes that consciousness emerges from stable interference patterns of oscillatory neural activity. These patterns, shaped by recursive feedback and constructive interference, must exceed critical thresholds in complexity, coherence, gain, and fractal dimensionality to give rise to conscious experience. The resulting spatiotemporal attractors encode subjective awareness as dynamic resonance structures distributed across the neural…

Do psychic cells generate consciousness?
Mototaka Suzuki, Jaan Aru
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20164 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.20164

Do psychic cells generate consciousness?
Technological advances in the past decades have begun to enable neuroscientists to address fundamental questions about consciousness in an unprecedented way. Here we review remarkable recent progress in our understanding of cellular-level mechanisms of conscious processing in the brain. Of particular interest are the cortical pyramidal neurons -- or "psychic cells" called by Ramón y Cajal more than 100 years ago -- which have an intriguing cellular mechanism that accounts for selective disrupt…