Human Rights groups warn an immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss has reached a “breaking point”
Human rights experts are sounding the alarm about living conditions at the immigration detention camp that houses hundreds of people.
“Fort Bliss is a human and civil rights disaster,”
said Eunice Cho Senior Counsel for the American Civil Liberty Union’s prison program.
The ACLU and other organizations allege physical abuse,
unsanitary conditions and medical negle…
reactome: Joshi-Tope human protein interactome (2005)
A network of human proteins and their binding interactions, extracted from Reactome project. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents a binding interaction between two proteins.
This network has 6327 nodes and 147547 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted
https:/…
Cloudflare acquires AI data marketplace Human Native for an undisclosed sum, aiming to create a new system where AI developers pay creators for training content (Davis Giangiulio/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/15/cloudflare-ai-human-native-acquisition.html
Compilers are deterministic machines built by very smart humans. CNC manufacturing is deterministic machines built by very smart humans. In both cases, they produce higher quality output with more precision and repeatability than almost any skilled human.
LLMs are non-deterministic Autocomplete that produce lower quality output with worse precision than a human, and nobody actually knows how they work.
Comparing them to justify AI is simply not valid.
The OpenClaw repo itself has 36 PRs in the last hour:
https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pulls
This seems to be its usual rate. The PRs are ~all AI-generated, judging by the writing. Some of them are dedicated agent accounts; some of them are human accounts where the human is…
One of those things about claims of “AGI” is that to really build a human-like intelligence we’d have to simulate a human brain as whole because 1. it’s the only thing we know that produces human intelligence and 2. no one knows how it actually works.
Because of (2) it’s irrelevant what anyone says about LLMs or any other technology (with the exception of simulating a whole brain)—you can’t know if a technology is intelligent like a human because we don’t know what that means or how that works.
Fun thing, it turns out it’s impossible to simulate a whole brain with the resolution required (basically quantum physics level), and you’d have to emulate a chemical and physical environment for the brain as well (it will also need a body etc.).
You’d also have to simulate other humans with brains from which the brain can learn; but to simulate those you’d have simulate evolving humans from single-cell organisms first etc etc ad infinitum
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“THEObr🌞mic
@theobromic_
“a 2005 study found an autistic reindeer herder in siberia that didnt like being around people but memorized the entire genealogical and medical history of all his 2600 reindeer, which made him a respected elder in his community”
Quoted post:
“Jack @JMB4wasHere
“What did autistic people in ancient times
hyperfixate on”
reactome: Joshi-Tope human protein interactome (2005)
A network of human proteins and their binding interactions, extracted from Reactome project. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents a binding interaction between two proteins.
This network has 6327 nodes and 147547 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted
https:/…
Sometimes your the pillow, other time, the kitten.
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116098132644817774
So don't feel like you cannot be a luddite if you like technology, like working on it.
Caring about your fellow human beings' wellbeing and not some corporations bottom line makes you one.…
"I'm a technology writer, which means I'm supposed to be encouraging you to throw hundreds of billions of dollars at the money-losingest technology in human history, AI. No one has ever lost as much money as the AI companies."
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/not
I know it's easy to get down on the web, but I've seen so many cool projects and blogs and personal sites and attempts to (re?)build a more human web free of corporate social media and the enshittified part of the web...
It's giving me hope that we can build an Alternative Web. The People's Web. Free of AI bullshit, free of advertisements and tracking and all that crap so many of us just do not want.
”My argument is that the current structure of public conversation has the same effect on human cognition that a botnet has on a web server. It's simply exhausting you. And an exhausted mind defaults to heuristics and tribal allegiances, aka whatever position allows it to conserve the most cognitive energy.”
”What I do know is that the feeling of being overwhelmed, of never being able to keep up, of having strong opinions about everything and confident understanding of nothing, is n…
"'Made with AI' marketing will not age well. We’re already seeing brands start to shun AI in their ad copy while emphasizing their products are 100% human-made. Consumers will start to associate 'human-made' with higher quality — and higher price points." —Allison Morrow on Nightcap, the CNN newsletter.
interactome_vidal: Vidal human interactome (2005)
A network of human proteins and their binding interactions. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents a binding interaction between two proteins, as tested using a high-throughput yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) system.
This network has 3133 nodes and 6726 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted
Today was talking about how bike share economics are wacky and we should make more infrastructure so just having your own bike is obviously better. Precise technical opinions of LED lighting. And the human experience of being ignored as a homeless person.
Dr Thomas Hartung is an environmental toxicologist at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, who has spent his career trying to replace animal testing with specialised tissue cultures called organoids
and, more recently, with artificial intelligence.
Last May, he announced his most ambitious endeavour yet
—to create a "Human Exposome Project".
It is ambitious because it aims to do for environmental influences on the body what the "Human Genome Project…
"Under the banner of democracy, freedom and human rights, the United States has thereby extended its domination over large swathes of the world, presenting itself as a benevolent benefactor rather than a domineering despot. It has, in this way, perfected the use of empire denial as the best cover for the construction of its imperium."
Gabriel Rockill
True, but the current regime is taking the huge risk of ending that pretence. Let's hope that heralds its fall.
"I always say it's more important to be a good human being than a good tennis player"
- Zeynep Sonmez, #112 WTA-ranked women's tennis player
✅ Sonmez becomes fan favourite in Melbourne after coming to aid of ball girl | Reuters
https://www.
I read this piece this morning ... it is worth reading..
The headline is misleading.
"Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done"
The "Everyone" here is more about other countries than about every human.
But that is a useful view because it highlights how trump has become an overt danger to all other countries.
The thought that crossed my mind was this: The leaders and people of those countries now have solid grounds to consider trump an e…
#TIL: "aiXiv – Next-Gen Research"
https://aixiv.science/
"aiXiv is a free, AI- or human-peer-reviewed preprint archive for research authored by Human, Robot and AI Scientists across all scientific fi…
I’m sorry that your precious little token based markov algorithm that you think of as human isn’t useful, but it’s not useful.
Humans are better coders than AI, CodeRabbit concludes
Security researchers analyzed 470 open-source GitHub pull requests, including 320 AI-co-authored PRs and 150 human-only PRs. In short, they found that AI tools accelerate code output, but also amplify the number of (critical) mistakes.
https://
Given international and internal acts of violence and violations of human rights, maybe it's time to #boycott #USA the same we did with other #terrorist states like
Today I had a nonironic conversation about why I think learning in human works differently than iteratively building a SKILL.md that you drop into a context to condition the LLM neural net.
I’m starting to understand why old people go around saying how tired they are…
What’s really amazing about vibe-coding is how people are replacing programming languages which are strictly deterministic with human speech which is highly ambiguous and expect programming to be faster and better.
“Well only use it when you’re already an expert!”
None of the people starting their careers using this technology are experts yet, nor will the ever be.
And within some finite amount of time nether will you, the expert, be an expert anymore.
RE: https://syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/115745279326032857
The folks, here on the fediverse, who malign those of us that speak up for the human rights of Palestinians and against Israel’s ongoing genocide, who label us “antisemitic” for rejecting the antisemitic co…
Ukraine update: Russia stealing houses in illegally occupied territories, and abducting men off the streets and sending them to war.
Many self-destruct rather than fight against their own country.
Just one of the many violations of international law, the Geneva Convention, and the Rome Statutes, and never mind basic human decency.
This is genocide, wrapped up in countless warcrimes.
Russia is like a cancer eating away at humanity, it is fundamentally opposed to ever…
A look at China's push to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, as Shanghai-based startup NeuroXess moves to human trials with Beijing's backing (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/re…
Laut Veranstalter sind 2/3 der Tickets fürs letzte Live Undead (Nr. 50 am 28.03.2026) weg. Bedeutet 120 von 180. Niemand muss frieren. 😁
VVK läuft über Live-Undead-Metal[at]web[dot]de
Wer Geist, Teutonic Slaughter, Evoked, Final Error, Fleshworks, New World Depression, Infestation und Human Paranoid sehen will, sollte sich beeilen...
#DeathMetal
#Human lives are officially worthless to the US government. All that counts are #business expenses.
"the Environmental Protection Agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives"
Worth noting - and a cautionary tale (for me, at least) about relying on press reports about complex problems.
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20
Worth noting - and a cautionary tale (for me, at least) about relying on press reports about complex problems.
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20
"Internet shutdowns in Africa: A human rights and democratic crisis
Internet shutdowns have become a growing threat to Africa’s democracy. They are an increasingly common part of the authoritarian toolkit used by governments to control information and suppress dissent. Here’s why you should care."
Can you imagine meeting someone who is all in on AI?
How embarrassing…
I want to meet people who are all in on their fellow human beings.
Beware of blank lines and white spaces — Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories
Unicode that’s invisible to the human eye was largely abandoned - until attackers took notice.
🧑💻 https://arstechnica.com/securi…
🙄
> Geoffrey Hinton, considered the 'godfather of artificial intelligence', says that if AI continues to develop without appropriate guardrails, a worst-case scenario could lead to human extinction. But the Nobel Prize winner has a solution: AI must foster 'maternal' instincts, empathy and kindness.
> Hinton […] suggests even if AI [becomes smarter than humans], if we could make it care more for us than it did about itself, good things could happen.
It's easy to see secularism as progressive, especially against the backdrop of the Church as one of the most brutally authoritarian institutions in human history. With the rise of Christian nationalism, it's hard not to return to the famous Marx quote that we all know by heart...
We gotta take this type shit from memes to a deeper sincere surrealism
We cant keep letting Captial C Crackers who only felt obligated to listen to Kendrick after the beef just do 20th century european vintage gothic eyes clocks whimsical creatures angels shit over and over. theres only one Leonora Carrington theres only one Rene Magritte theres only one Salvador Dali, stop swag jacking lil bro
We could make surrealism great again if it actually engages with the dominant…
Trails To Freedom: Guided Meditations
Offers home based meditations designed to bring both horse and human into a deeper state of presents, calm, and connection. Created by Kim Daley...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/trails-to-fre…
Boston-based Tulip, which offers an AI-powered frontline operations platform used by 60K workers, raised a $120M Series D led by Mitsubishi at a $1.3B valuation (Gil Press/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2026/01/15/tulip-rais…
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115922876937888251
Adding deliberate spellling, grammar and vocabulary mistakes to show you I'm human
interactome_vidal: Vidal human interactome (2005)
A network of human proteins and their binding interactions. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents a binding interaction between two proteins, as tested using a high-throughput yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) system.
This network has 3133 nodes and 6726 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted
After the Iran war, the Gulf will never be the same again
Most observers are rightly focusing on the near-term effects of the war in Iran.
In addition to the mounting human cost,
the war has caused the largest supply shock in oil market history by volume and percentage of global supply affected.
But equally important, if less visible, are the long-term impacts that war will have on the global economy.
Iran will very likely have a government that is hostile to …
Waymo says its fleet hit 170M miles as of December 2025, and its Waymo Driver system was involved in 92% fewer serious-injury crashes than human drivers (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/896837/waymo-170-mill…
The unusual electronic and optical properties of #perovskites have long been touted as useful for improving solar cells and television screens,
but these materials have never quite hit the big time.
Existing approaches have hoovered up all the investment and attention, and perovskites remain confined to specialist applications.
Now researchers at Empa, ETH Zurich and the Politecnico…
How AI's post-training process suppresses the creativity and whimsicality seen in earlier models like GPT-2, leading to bad writing from many top AI models (Jasmine Sun/The Atlantic)
https://www.
reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps
“It’s an agentic AI!” You mean it is an AI let off its leash that is unilaterally doing things without any human being aware and like a puppy left alone is about to ruin everything you were working on?
“You’re being old fashioned,” no machine is yet able to reliably exceed human judgement.
#AI
budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 71604 edges.
Tags: Biolo…
The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution
and scam compounds
nearly doubled in 2025,
according to a conservative estimate.
Many of the deals are happening in plain sight.
https://www.wired.com/story/crypto-funded-…
Crypto transaction volume linked to suspected human trafficking, largely based in Southeast Asia, hit hundreds of millions of dollars in 2025, up 85% YoY (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/crypto-human-trafficking-2026/
There are a couple of other tricks you could try if have any doubts that the voice you are conversing with might not be human.
You could, for example, ask it to scream.
Many Al-voice programs struggle to speak outside the normal range, unless they have been specifically trained to, said Nicoletti.
I asked ChatGPT to do it and it told me it couldn't.
The Council shall decide your fate... once orange gets their brain cell back
"The attorneys general of California and nearly 20 other states to submit a comment letter on the US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) proposed rule that would reverse HHS regulations concerning the definition of “disability” under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to exclude gender dysphoria, which is the underlying diagnosis for transgender individuals."
‘We Strongly Support The Rights Of Transgender People’
https://washingtoncurrent.substack.com/p/we-strongly-support-the-rights-of
interactome_vidal: Vidal human interactome (2005)
A network of human proteins and their binding interactions. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents a binding interaction between two proteins, as tested using a high-throughput yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) system.
This network has 3133 nodes and 6726 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted
I’m close to writing a piece in defense of replyguys.
As opposed to AI drug dealers (“why don’t you just try it, it will expand your mind”), at least replyguys are human, even if they are also annoying self-obsessed dicks.
interactome_figeys: Figeys human interactome (2007)
A network of human proteins and their binding interactions. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents an interaction between two proteins, as inferred using a mass spectrometry‐based approach.
This network has 2239 nodes and 6452 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted
World launches AgentKit, a software development tool that enables sites to verify that a real human is behind the purchasing decisions of AI shopping agents (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/world-launches-tool-to-ver…
You know if you have a platform like a YouTube channel and if you like your audience, many of which are in the crosshairs of the fascists, you could spare a few words in your videos to tell fascists to get fucked.
This isn’t called “getting political”, this is called “basic human decency”.
Claude Code represents a "ChatGPT moment repeated" and an "extinction-level event" for horizontal software companies focused on human-oriented consumption (Doug OLaughlin/Fabricated Knowledge)
https://www.fabricatedknowledge.com/p/the-death-of-soft…
Few viruses are as widespread
– and misunderstood
– as the human papillomavirus,
or #HPV.
It's so common that most of us
– up to 80%
– will encounter it at some point in our lives, often without even realising it.
Understanding HPV matters, given that it is linked to several types of #cancer
interactome_figeys: Figeys human interactome (2007)
A network of human proteins and their binding interactions. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents an interaction between two proteins, as inferred using a mass spectrometry‐based approach.
This network has 2239 nodes and 6452 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted
interactome_vidal: Vidal human interactome (2005)
A network of human proteins and their binding interactions. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents a binding interaction between two proteins, as tested using a high-throughput yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) system.
This network has 3133 nodes and 6726 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted
Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes,
the DNA blueprint for these cells is essentially the same.
Where do those differences come from?
Scientists are realizing the defining qualities that make up each cell actually lie in a cousin of DNA called RNA.
RNA was long considered DNA’s boring biochemical relative.
Researchers thought it merely takes the genetic information stored in DNA and delivers i…
Even if AI could take over every job, humans will invent new work for themselves, because we value human effort and connection, not just output (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/ai-and-the-human-condition/
Bandcamp bans music and audio that is "generated wholly or in substantial part by AI", hoping to build trust with fans that the music they find was human-made (Maya Perez/WebProNews)
https://www.webpronews.com/bandcamp-bans-ai-generated-music…
reactome: Joshi-Tope human protein interactome (2005)
A network of human proteins and their binding interactions, extracted from Reactome project. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents a binding interaction between two proteins.
This network has 6327 nodes and 147547 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted
https:/…
interactome_figeys: Figeys human interactome (2007)
A network of human proteins and their binding interactions. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents an interaction between two proteins, as inferred using a mass spectrometry‐based approach.
This network has 2239 nodes and 6452 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted
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