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"Human activity helped make 2025 third-hottest year on record, experts say"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Create Like A Human
What if your content could work as hard as you do...without you creating more...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/create-like-a-human/

Kissing didn't originate with humans? Surely only news to people who have spent no time around animals.
https://www.404media.co/scientists-discover-the-origin-of-kissing-and-its-not-human/

Textbooks Were Wrong: Human Hair Doesn’t Grow the Way Scientists Thought
https://scitechdaily.com/textbooks-were-wrong-human-hair-doesnt-grow-the-way-scientists-thought/

It’s obvious that this tool was made by people who care about data and care about humans. It’s not even that it’s •perfect•; it’s just that it’s •thoughtful•.
That kind of human-to-human feeling of “we did our best because we care about the strangers who use this tool” just seems almost like an act of radical defiance in this Era of Enshittification. I appreciate it so much.

Human-centered identity systems were never designed for the coming wave of autonomous AI agents. With identity failures the leading cause of most major cyber incidents, CISOs must quickly rethink how to account for the identities of new AI agents.
Check out my latest CSO piece.
Many thanks to Jim Alkove of Oleria, Ric Smith of Okta, Steve Stone of SentinelOne, Pete Clay of Aireon, Vijay Gajjala of Oleria, Carey Frey of TELUS, and Ely Kahn of SentinelOne.
Rethinking identit…

Human fracking… is that anything like people farming?
https://ar.al/notes/we-didnt-lose-control-it-was-stolen/
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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

Fruit-eating animals are less diverse in body size, and thereby less well matched to the diversity of fruits they eat and seeds they disperse, in habitats with more human disruption
#science

2025 was huge for the #Caturday
Mad respect to all the cats, pretty kitties, and human servants making this movement unstoppable

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.

Counsel Health, which uses a medical AI chatbot and human physicians to provide virtual care, raised a $25M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and GV (Emma Beavins/Fierce Healthcare)
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/ai-and-ma

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Mavis Staples:
🎵 Human Mind
#MavisStaples
https://mavisstaples.bandcamp.com/track/human-mind
https://open.spotify.com/track/21IqVuizTTmIHEt8gU8Z1m

Me and my Cat:
Me: mew why do you always sleep?
Cat: meow ?
Me: awake already?
Cat: mewo! *stresses her entire body* meooowww!..
Me: .....
Cat: oi human, open the door, I want to go outside 😾
Me: *opens the door*
* 47 seconds later *
Cat: oi human! , open the window 😾
#cats

To err is human,
To purr feline.
-- Robert Byrne

Scientists Discover the Origin of Kissing — And It’s Not Human https://www.404media.co/scientists-discover-the-origin-of-kissing-and-its-not-human/

Mice can be trained to drink water
as a way to ‘tell’ researchers they see something
https://theconversation.com/gazing-into-the-minds-eye-with-mice-how-neuroscientists-are-seeing-human-vision-more-clearly-…

I have MANY issues with the #YouTube algorithm, but every now and then it just recommends me a #video of some random person with 6 views and 92 subscribers looking absolutely delighted as they review the #books they’re reading.
And I can’t stop smiling watching these videos every now and then because they are so human, earnest, and wonderfully awkward.

"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.

Why are these people so obsessed with eating bugs? "Oh but millions of people around the world eat bugs" yeah millions of people around the world do all kinds of fucked up shit and I'm not planning to do any of that shit either. Gross. Fuck outta here. I'll have the vegan option. https://www.…

People should have a damn place to live, food to eat, and clothes to wear without having to bleed for it.
But no, capitalism makes you pay just to exist, turning human needs into profit and calling it freedom.
#Socialism #Capitalism

"Spiritual humility and ecological wisdom alike teach us that it’s time to let go of anthropocentrism—the idea that human beings are the center of the universe. Instead, we can rejoice that all creatures belong to Jesus … "
—Professor and alum Carolyn Sharp ’94 M.A.R., ’00 Ph.D. writing in the new issue of Reflections, in her piece "Let There Be Life! A Sermonic Call to Ecological Witness"

To ChatGPT: List the implant dates of human recipients of a Neuralink brain implant https://chatgpt.com/share/68f4b806-b23c-8004-a18c-30f31a4ba71f "For a company like Neuralink, whose entire value proposition hinges on rapid iteration and scale, a pause of six-plus w…

Every post you write is first read by a machine. Should the nature of writing change to accommodate that? I look at the pros and cons of adopting an AI-friendly grammar https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito_writing-journali…

Most see civilization, hence inequality, as a tragic necessity. Some dream of returning to a past utopia, of finding an industrial equivalent to ‘primitive communism’, or even, in extreme cases, of destroying everything, and going back to being foragers again. But no one challenges the basic structure of the story.
There is a fundamental problem with this narrative.
It isn’t true.
https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/

Cloudflare acquires AI data marketplace Human Native for an undisclosed sum to help it develop a 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…

Finished "Exiles" by Mason Coile, the nom de plume for Andrew Pyper who, sadly, passed away earlier this year.
A crew of three humans is enroute to Mars to help build a future human colony when the robots sent ahead of them to assemble their base and help them land go dark. Figuring out what has happened slowly transitions this story from sci-fi to horror and it's a great blend.
4.5 stars, rounded up to 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Updated my profile:
― no longer a fringe contributor, I'm now a greybeard codger.
«A "greybeard" is someone whose beard has turned grey from years of pretending to know what they’re doing, only to realise they’ve been winging it the whole time. They’re the human equivalent of a vintage computer: full of outdated knowledge, occasionally useful, and prone to unexpected crashes mid-sentence.» ―

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 tired of random follows from not accounts. Every new follower will need to be approved.
The bar is low, just be a human being interested in conversation.
Bot, spammers and "I follow you so you check my profile" all gets an automatic rejection block.
If you also follow a thousand or more accounts I will get suspicious you are not really interested in what I write or the stuff I repost.
I don't care about inflating my numbers. I actually care much m…

Moody Urbanity - Odes III 🎵
情绪化城市 - 颂 III 🎵
📷 Zeiss Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

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…

This was written 50 years ago.
I wonder if in 25 years there will be situations like this in science about the Trump and AI years.
(Weizenbaum, Computer power and human reason, 1976)

Microsoft launches Agent 365, a new framework to let businesses deploy and manage AI agents like human employees, with dashboards showing telemetry and alerts (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/822035/microsoft-agent-365-businesses-contr…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Human League:
🎵 The Things That Dreams Are Made Of
#TheHumanLeague
https://djcapri.bandcamp.com/track/the-human-league-the-things-that-dreams-are-made-of-ext-intro-outro-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5GLYtND9tYHCEdIQ1i1JH3

"Although Ecosia is a not-for-profit, they seem to be re-enacting the for-profit erosion of human knowledge and the active murder of the open web currently being orchestrated by Google and the other tech giants."
(Original title: Ecosia’s “Green AI”: false hope for corrosive tech)
https://

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

human code review: an elegant weapon for a more civilized age

One of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

#Sehlat #Spock

The Talos Principle 2 (Multi, XPd on a Linux OS PC) As 1k, the newest (and perhaps last) member of the reborn humanity, you set off on an expedition to explore a Mega Structure on a remote island. What you find could alter humanity's course forever.
So, (spoilers) as a direct sequel to the now 11yr old 1st game, you play as a new "human" that has left the Simulation and been incorporated into a body in the Real World. As human number 1000, you are the culmination of "…

Trump has declared #fentanyl to be a "Weapon of mass destruction" because it kills ten thousands of people in the US every year. Guess what else kills so many people? #cars

Möchte ich wissen, auf welchem Niveau sich da die vorherigen Partnerschaften bewegten, dass die »Beziehung« zu einer AI befriedigend zu sein scheint?
https://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3m5pxpwtdu22f
Klar, LLMs sind für bestimmte Aufgabe…

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:/…

"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

Is #AI really just dumb statistics? "Olympiad-level physics problem-solving presents a significant challenge for both humans and artificial intelligence (AI), as it requires a sophisticated integration of precise calculation, abstract reasoning, and a fundamental grasp of physical principles," says the (abstract of the) paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10515: "The Chinese Physics Olympiad (CPhO), renowned for its complexity and depth, serves as an ideal and rigorous testbed for these advanced capabilities. In this paper, we introduce LOCA-R (LOgical Chain Augmentation for Reasoning), an improved version of the LOCA framework adapted for complex reasoning, and apply it to the CPhO 2025 theory examination. LOCA-R achieves a near-perfect score of 313 out of 320 points, solidly surpassing the highest-scoring human competitor and significantly outperforming all baseline methods." Oops ...?

World’s most used insecticides damage male fertility in rodents, researchers say https://usrtk.org/healthwire/neonicotinoids-damage-male-fertility/
The Silent Collapse: How Pesticide Politics Are Driving Bee Extinction

You can only hope this is a point in time that causes team "I have nothing to hide, why should I be afraid of surveillance tech" might wake the fuck up a bit.
https://hachyderm.io/@BenjaminHCCarr/115900243141960993

Finite element model predicts micromotion-induced strain profiles that correlate with the functional performance of Utah arrays in humans and non-human primates https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2552/ae1bda

Gemini 3 demonstrates strong planning, coding, and judgment skills, and shows how AI models moved past hallucinations to subtle, and often human-like, errors (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing)
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/three-years-from-gpt-3-to-gemini
<…

HTTP API behaviour that makes me think you know what you're doing:
- 👍 respond with `201` (not `200`) on a successful resource creation request
HTTP API behaviour that makes me think you really *don’t* know what you're doing:
- 👎 respond with `201` if an object with a key that conflicts with this resource creation request already exists
(Spoiler: respond with `409`; or at least a non-successful status so I don't have to parse it out of the human-readable `…

AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge https://www.404media.co/ai-is-supercharging-the-war-on-libraries-education-and-human-knowledge/

Human safari in KHERSON: it's still hard to realize! – Zabrisky #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/12/human-safari-in-kherson-its.html

Earwigs are among those animals that suffer from a kind of reputational inertia: once an idea lodges itself in cultural memory, it is hard to dislodge, even when it is wrong. The name carries a superstition - the medieval belief that these insects crawl into human ears. There is no evidence for this, and never has been. Earwigs are no more interested in ears than they are in theology or municipal planning.
Biologically, earwigs belong to the order Dermaptera, a name derived from Greek …

A US Federal Judge ordered the release of the people DHS now plans to hold anyway, illegally under both US and International Law.
15 of the people arrested at Broadview yesterday were clergy, peacefully protesting; bringing assistance to and advocating for the downtrodden quite literally _is_ their job.
But DHS/ICE/CBP brings only lawlessness and violence.
DHS and all its components and collaborators are a clear and present danger to the American People and the US Consti…

interactome_stelzl: Stelzl human interactome (2005)
A network of human proteins and their binding interactions. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents an interaction between two proteins, as inferred via high-throughput Y2H experiments using bait and prey methodology.
This network has 1706 nodes and 6207 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

In one of my first talks about human rights and AI (2022) I used the widespread printing press reference to emphasise that in many cases it supported colonialism.

https://axbom.com/aihr/

This text by Sonja Drimmer really breaks down common printing press misrepresentation. Love it!

htt…

Maybe this whole AI era is a mash-up of Terminator meets Brewster’s Millions.
Sam Altman (Brewster) is sent back in time to start such a laughably bad AI hype cycle that it effectively changes the course of human history, steering us away from our doom.
Through his efforts, what could have been a human-eradicating AI leaves us with hallucinations, weird sex bots, AI avatars of our dead loved ones, and AI-powered toys telling children to hurt themselves.

Tried to speak with a human at Webflow... and ended up in an argument with their f***ing useless AI chatbot.
WASTE OF SPACE!
#Webflow

Could we become co-owner of #AI models, that used training data, which I published under a viral license?
We have briefly discussed this question in the Austrian #CreativeCommons chapter and came to the conclusion, that copyright can by only claimed by human beings. So the model itself and wha…

JTN Networks, parent company of Just the News, acquires The Post Millennial and Human Events, which has been featuring columns and podcasts from Jack Posobiec (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/right-wing-media-brands-merge-j…

@… dog rapture is 7 years slower than human rapture …wait

#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"

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:/…

This is a really good question from @…. The first thing I keep telling everyone in other cities who wonders how they can help, what they can do:
Get organized NOW. Meet your neighbors NOW. Get your neighbors set up with secure messaging NOW. Form multiple hyper-local neighborhood social groups NOW. Organize a block picnic or community craft night or repair workshop or whatever NOW. Get contact info for the human beings who physically show up for neighborhood events NOW.
Form all those local connections ASAP, so that they’re there when you need them. The hardest lines of communication to establish will be the ones with the people closest to you. If you get local lines open in advance, you’ll be in a far, far better place.
https://infosec.exchange/@mathaetaes/115731104851949153

101 Dalmatians: a multimodal naturalistic fMRI dataset in typical development and congenital sensory loss #neuroscience

Testing confirmed the patient has H5N5, a strain of bird flu that has previously been reported in animals but never before in humans
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/suspected-human-bird-flu-case-1st-us-9/story?id=127519769

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Lalo Schifrin:
🎵 The Human Fly
#LaloSchifrin
https://open.spotify.com/track/6CITmFXDJyagU5sLbVeYhE

She's suing.
'Never Were the Guns Lowered': Texas Cops Terrorized Black Air Force Vet In Uniform Over False Claim Her Truck Was Stolen — Blame Human Error, Not Racism
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/11/16/texas-cops-terrorized-black-air-force-vet-in-uniform-over-false-claim-her-truck-was-stolen-blame-human-error-not-racism/

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

"Billions live in environments that violate human rights, global analysis finds"
#Environment
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-billions-environments-v…

sup

User interface pretending to be human: fraud.
Statistical sentence generation described as “intelligence”: fraud.
Telling people, often children, to commit dangerous or criminal acts: all sorts of crimes.
Scientific papers generated, non-existing cases quoted at court, homework faked, artists ripped-off: fraud and copyright infringement.
Training based on unlicensed works: copyright infringement.
Data centers with tax incentives and special energy pricing: theft.
Promises to investors of AGI: fraud.
Government bailouts with taxpayer money: theft and fraud.
—
Media and politicians: This is innovation, don’t get left behind.

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…

Global warming amplifies extreme day-to-day temperature swings, study shows #environment

Kherson Human Safari: Journalist ZARINA ZABARSKI documents the HORRORS of WAR: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/12/kherson-human-safari-journalist-zarina.html

“Talking about lethality and killing and blowing people up
— you know, it’s usually true that people who talk like that and pound their chest are the ones that did the least. …
You can’t be asked to do things like that,
which are not normal parts of the human experience,
and not have that weigh on you pretty heavily.” https://

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…

"Tire rubber decays into a potentially dangerous chemical cocktail, research shows"
#Cars #Vehicles #Pollution

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”.

…OK, that plus human training on basic usage opsec, but that’s mostly not a stuff app vendors can fix. Although usability defaults would help with some of it.

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…

So no fun...

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 80270 edges.
Tags: Biolo…

The U.S. Southwest's disappearing precipitation is also due to human-driven climate change, according to report https://phys.org/news/2025-12-southwest-precipitation-due-human-driven.html

Human-in-the-loop optimisation for efficient intracortical microstimulation temporal patterns in visual cortex #blind

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…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
The Human League:
🎵 Seconds
#TheHumanLeague
https://thebarbaryghost.bandcamp.com/track/seconds-the-human-league-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ZkWMpB7PsswU8cAnkETRL

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_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

Failed escape attempt

"EPA Removes Information on Human Drivers of Warming from Its Website"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Brandi Carlile:
🎵 Human
#BrandiCarlile
https://open.spotify.com/track/63oBWU1UnEwk5z441Xjngq

Gripped by a terrible #drought now entering its 💥sixth year,
#Iran’s cities are on the brink of what its meteorological organisation calls
♦️“water day zero”:
the boundary beyond which supply systems no longer function.
🔥This was crossed by

A cat's killing by a Waymo robotaxi sparked outrage in San Francisco, as some questioned why deaths caused by human drivers don't get the same level of concern (Heather Knight/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/us/waymo-san-francisco-kit-kat.htm…

Over the past two months the U.S. has blown up at least 20 boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.
“80 people have been killed in what are extrajudicial executions under international law,” says Juan Pappier, Americas deputy director at Human Rights Watch.
The Pentagon claims the boats were carrying drugs but officials have acknowledged they don’t know who has been killed.
The U.S.now has 15,000 military personnel in the region.

Shares of Tesla closed at a 2025 high on Monday after the company confirmed it is testing driverless vehicles in Austin without a human safety operator (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/15/tesla-tests-driverless-cars-in-austin…

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…