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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

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-…

Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-…

"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://

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/

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…

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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)

…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.

Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-…

🇺🇦 #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

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."

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…

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…

Historic week ahead in Europe.
#eu

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-dangerous-decline-in-human-visitors/

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

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

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

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

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 ...?

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…

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

Wir müssen reden. Public Eye spricht Klartext.: Zucker im Babybrei: Nestlés Doppelstandard in Afrika | Mit Manuel Abebe
Webseite der Episode: http://publiceye.ch
Mediendatei:

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…

🧽 Indoor surfaces can act as massive sponges for harmful chemicals
#airquality

I know very little of Rust internals and linting, but I think @… does: What'd it take for some or all of the very human readable hints that the linter, clippy and rustdoc produce, to become patch files, so that I could one-click apply them?
(The "how to apply" is then platform dependent; around a git PR those could be turned into suggestions; in ba…

The real solution against AI slop is human connections.

I’ve spoken with my boss (he’s a bit of a dickhead but his heart’s in the right place) and confirmed that I won’t be getting fired for opposing Israel’s ongoing genocide and supporting the human rights of the Palestinian people to live with freedom and dignity like the rest of us but not everyone is as lucky.

PayPal kept my account locked, rejecting all the documentation I was sending, not even notifying me after each reject, for like a month. I got pissed when they rejected a document for "not having a logo or a footer" when it very clearly did and I called. After fighting the damn voice menu thing I got a real human and he fixed it in a literal minute. He straight up told me this happened cause their AI misses shit all the time 💀

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.

Failed escape attempt

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.

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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/

I've been giving some thought to what needs to happen in the US once the current political and human rights nightmare comes to an end. It's pretty obvious that all of the guard rails we had in place to keep power from concentrating into one person's hands failed, miserably. It will eventually end, history kind of shows that, but the big question is will it end peacefully or violently?
A symbolic source of contention is the way that Trump has slapped his name and image on ev…

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

Explosive new documentary probes '80-year global coverup' of UFO secrets (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/the-age-disclosure-new-documentary-explores-claims-80-year-cover-up-non-human-life
http://www.memeorandum.com/251114/p137#a251114p137

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

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

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

Women's Rights Are Human Rights 😉 🏳️‍⚧️

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 is another good day to have empathy for other human beings.

People who have to have another creature, human or animal, to hate, to pick on, are all nascent fascists.
The people who hate gulls also hate immigrants. Funny that, isn't it?

#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"

Demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel's violations of human rights https://eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/

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”.

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

So freaking difficult to get through to a human in Amazon customer support. Shitty AI bots sending you in circles 🙃 What a shit show.

Urban Compo 🧶
城市规则化
📷Nikon FE
🎞️ FujiFilm Neopan SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

How the fuck is it SEVENTEEN POUNDS FORTY NINE PENCE per ticket to see a movie in the Odeon cinema Kingston???
For less than double that you can for example go and see a live comedy show with a comedian you've actually heard of. That's a live human coming to where you are and working in front of you for ~90 mins. As opposed to someone on minimum wage pressing a button.
Christ.

How ‘day zero’ water shortages in Iran are fuelling protests
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/15/how-day-zero-water-shortages-in-iran-are-fuelling-protests?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

How ‘day zero’ water shortages in Iran are fuelling protests
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/15/how-day-zero-water-shortages-in-iran-are-fuelling-protests?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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

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

Das ist ein grandioser Bericht in der Washington Post über das Massensterben von Fröschen wegen eines Pilzes, der sich global verbrreitete und welche Initiativen etwas dagegen unternehmen.
#leseempfehlung

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

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…

Muddled.
'Value' has specific meanings in Marxist political economy.
It isn't the appropriate term for what Boillier is discussing.
'Wealth' is closer but still not right.
It's a matter of standpoint: the abundance of nature isn't purely for human use, so those two terms don't apply well, or at all.
Toward a New Theory of Value (and Meaning): Living Systems as Generative - resilience

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

ICE has used the pretext of combating antisemitism to target dissidents.
A branch of the agency previously used to target drug smugglers and human traffickers has reportedly been directed to scan social media for posts sympathetic to Hamas.
Though ICE is ostensibly still bound by constitutional limits,
the way it has been operating bears the hallmarks of a secret police force in the making.
They typically meet five criteria:
they’re a police force targeting pol…

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…

“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

2025 deadliest year for civilians in Ukraine since 2022, UN human rights monitors find (Kris Janowski/admin)
https://ukraine.ohchr.org/en/2025-deadliest-year-for-civilians-in-Ukraine-since-2022-UN-human-rights-monitors-find
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p11#a260113p11

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

💪 Muscle tissue from a 3D printer—produced in zero gravity
#muscle

“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://

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…

So no fun...

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

Today, the culturally set goal (via capitalism) for every human is to maximize their accumulation of capital. This goal is killing us all. If you could, somehow, set a different goal, what would it be?
This is perhaps a bit of a #SolarPunk question.

to err is human, to forgive git history, divine

"Scientists named 190 new plants and fungi species in 2025 – including gruesome spider-killing fungus"
#Plants #Fungi

NowThis acquires Salary Transparent Street, a social-first short-form interview series that reveals salaries, and plans to add a finance video podcast and more (Tess Patton/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/culture-lifestyle/culture/now-this-acq…

🦾 Robots you can wear like clothes: Automatic weaving of 'fabric muscle' brings commercialization closer
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-robots-automatic-fabric-muscle-commercialization.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Human League:
🎵 Don’t You Want Me
#TheHumanLeague
https://einsendremixes.bandcamp.com/album/the-human-league-dont-you-want-me-einsend-remixes
https://open.spotify.com/track/2s2woISapWlJ62gMrT1cdE

We get so easily fooled because the typical answer is often in fact the correct one. That’s a heuristic we use in our interactions with other humans — “That’s what people say!” — and an LLM using human social forms triggers that psychological process. That’s how this magic trick works.
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US intel revealed Israeli officials discussing use of human shields in Gaza, sources say (Erin Banco/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-intel-revealed-israeli-officials-discussing-use-human-shields-gaza-sources-2025-11-12/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251112/p100#a251112p100

“Arguing that ‘no country should be above international law,’ Mayor Brandon Johnson urged the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday to hold President Donald Trump’s administration accountable for what he called a ‘worsening human rights crisis in the United States.’”

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

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…

I would like to go on record to say that I don't hate LLMs. That would be like disowning maths.
I hate how people sell it with promises that are simply lies and urging people to use it for things that it is unsuitable for, with the commercial LLMs how they train models on stolen data, how users talk themselves into believing they're talking to a human or something human-like while deskilling themselves, how institutions and organizations shoehorn it into every fucking thing, the way it is usurping computing resources and increasing prices for personal computing, how the big companies underhandedly continuously threaten everyone with "if we don't invest enough the Terminators will get us" and how it is used for very obvious large-scale financial fraud. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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.

Mmm, human flavored water

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…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Human League:
🎵 Don't You Want Me
#TheHumanLeague
https://einsendremixes.bandcamp.com/album/the-human-league-dont-you-want-me-einsend-remixes
https://open.spotify.com/track/3L7RtEcu1Hw3OXrpnthngx

Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) introduced legislation on Wednesday seeking to
reverse the Trump administration's new childhood vaccine schedule that has alarmed health experts.
The measure, an amendment to an appropriations package currently under consideration by Congress,
would prohibit any funds going to the Health and Human Services Department from being used to implement the changes,
which removed the HPV, RSV, Rotavirus, COVID-19, Flu, Hepatitis A & B and Men…

Jenna Norton, a program director at the National Institutes of Health, says she has been put on paid leave following the end of the government shutdown.
"I was not given a reason for being put on leave, but I strongly suspect it is because I have been speaking up in my personal capacity about the harms that I have been witnessing inside the National Institutes of Health," she said in a video posted to TikTok.
The notice Norton received from human resources stated that the…

Police in Edmonton, Canada partner with Axon to test body cameras with AI facial recognition, and say the results will be verified by human officers (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/ai-facial-recognition-axon-edmonton-21f319ce806a0…

Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform
It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth’s War Crimes
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pentag

Sam Altman's World updates its app to make it a "super app" with encrypted chat integration and a Venmo-like tool for sending and requesting crypto (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/11/world-…

Under Donald Trump, the E.P.A.
plans to stop tallying gains from the health benefits caused by curbing two of the most widespread deadly air pollutants,
fine particulate matter and ozone,
when regulating industry, according to internal agency emails and documents reviewed by The New York Times.
It’s a seismic shift that runs counter to the E.P.A.’s mission statement,
which says the agency’s core responsibility is to protect human health and the environment, env…

Singapore-based ChemLex raised a $45M funding round led by Granite Asia to build an AI-powered, automated chemistry lab to accelerate drug discovery (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/12/2025/singapore-startup-b…