2026-01-30 02:35:48
Darren Aronofsky's Primordial Soup debuts its short-form Revolutionary War series, made via Google DeepMind with human voices and distributed by Time Studios (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/da…
Darren Aronofsky's Primordial Soup debuts its short-form Revolutionary War series, made via Google DeepMind with human voices and distributed by Time Studios (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/da…
Neanderthal DNA is largely missing from the human X chromosome.
“We found a pattern indicating a sex bias: gene flow occurred predominantly between Neanderthal males and anatomically modern human females,”
said Dr Alexander Platt, a senior research scientist at the University of Pennsylvania and first author of the research.
The ancestors of modern humans and the closest related species, the Neanderthals, diverged, forming two distinct groups, about 600,000 years ago.
Darren Aronofsky's Primordial Soup debuts its short-form Revolutionary War series, made via Google DeepMind with human voices and distributed by Time Studios (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/da…
The Human Mind Revealed: A Biological Perspective - Michael Sharwood-Smith
https://www.routledge.com/The-Human-Mind-Revealed-A-Biological-Perspective/SharwoodSmith/p/book/9781032971292
⭐ Starred a repository
ruvnet/wifi-densepose
Production-ready implementation of InvisPose - a revolutionary WiFi-based dense human pose estimation system that enables real-time full-body tracking through walls using commodity mesh routers
github.com/ruvnet/wifi-densepose
from my link log —
GNU Recutils: a database management system using human-readable text files.
https://labs.tomasino.org/gnu-recutils/
saved 2020-01-26 https://
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:/…
@axbom@axbom.meHuman brains hear best in a 'Goldilocks' zone of echoes https://lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/august-2025/human-brains-hear-best-in-a-goldilocks-zone-of-echoes-new-study "a little bit of background echo might a…
🛀 Japan Unveils Human Washing Machine, Now You Can Get Washed Like Laundry
https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/japan-launches-human-washing-machine-for-public-use-after-expo-success-9721446
Beyond human loss, floods from Cyclone Ditwah devastate Sri Lanka’s wildlife https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/beyond-human-loss-floods-from-cyclone-ditwah-devastate-sri-lankas-wildlife/
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Naomi Wachira:
🎵 Beautifully Human
#NaomiWachira
https://imanafricangirl.bandcamp.com/track/beautifully-human
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Prku4brFmmNfuiql5rIjJ
Gutting of key US watchdog could pave way for grave immigration abuses, experts warn (José Olivares/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/30/us-watchdog-human-rights-department-homeland-security
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p52#a251130p52
Just had my second interview with an AI interviewer.
I fully expect every single co-worker to be a clanker at these companies. Just me and like 250 bots and one other human (who put up the money).
Like there's a medieval lord in a keep, and I'm riding around the digital countryside boppin' all the machine field mice (who in their spare time try to hack the world's nuclear arsenals) on the head like a dystopian little bunny foo foo.
Favorite comment I read today:
"I don’t know why anyone trusts “the cloud”. It’s named after clouds for fucks sake, those things that are impermanent and shift and change and blow about in the breeze or break and cover you in rain and even with the best of human science are only reliably predictable a few days into the future."
If LLM are here to stay and are trained on the collettive knowledge of all human kind, I propose propose that they belong to the entireity of human kind and therefore cannot be commercialized. I would allow the commercializzation of running them, but training and weights done like this cannot be privatized.
"In his aping of Farage, Starmer is now contemplating a ‘review’ in the new year of how the European Convention of Human Rights — drafted by British lawyers to enshrine in law fundamental basic rights after the Second World War — is implemented in the uk. That is, watering it down."
As I Please: Starmer and/or Kafka
htt…
Chibi Godzilla Raids Again // S3E20: Famous Tales From the Human World
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mMLhI2bxWcQ&si=kQsLG5S2gFYuN9hz
Get Harder
Features interviews with elite founders and longevity experts who reveal their blueprint for dominating markets and unleashing human potential...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/get-harder/
Trans people are incredible, strong, beautiful, and absolutely bring so much love and strength to our world.
:bisexual_pride: 🏳️⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️🌈
I wholeheartedly, unapologetically, and forever believe that #TransRightsAreHumanRights.
Always, forever, endlessly, trans people are real, valuable, and human in every way…
I've been worried AI will crowd out human voices, and now an AI copy has replaced my 2006 Connected Knowledge site, warping context and displacing the original work online. Can we stop this creeping ensloppification?
https://www.linkedin.…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115986351825212286
Voluntary botnet.
Without a human controller. Yet.
In conclusion, I think the GOTY of 2025 is The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy.
It was extremely ambitious, made by a very small team of very dedicated people that sacrificed their health and well being to show that humans can make long narrative games without needing to use AI, and make a distinctly human piece of art without ever forgetting about their message about war, peace, tolerance, and individual decisions
As a chemist, I've been impressed by the improvements in environmental quality and related health benefits, thanks in large part to the EPA's diligence.
That is changing for the much worse:
The Environmental Protection Agency’s core mission is to protect human health and the environment. But in just one year, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has done the complete opposite. He has carried out the wishes of polluters and unleashed a destructive and dangerous agenda that guts pro…
As a chemist, I've been impressed by the improvements in environmental quality and related health benefits, thanks in large part to the EPA's diligence.
That is changing for the much worse:
The Environmental Protection Agency’s core mission is to protect human health and the environment. But in just one year, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has done the complete opposite. He has carried out the wishes of polluters and unleashed a destructive and dangerous agenda that guts pro…
It’s super interesting how human-like llm models are «this seems hard, I’ll postpone it and pick a easier task» is such a common output
I hate to state the obvious, but your biggest advantage in the current job market is showing up and being human, imperfections and all.
Your goal is to connect with the human(s) on the other side.
If you're trying to game the system by regurgitating ChatGPT responses as your own, you've already surrendered your edge.
It was only a matter of time: transnational repression to support #China overseas business interests, this time in #Australia.
Excel didn’t kill accountants; it gave them better tools. Yet, with AI, we’ve abandoned this logic in favor of a collective fantasy. We’re treating a sophisticated calculator as a human replacement rather than a human multiplier.
https://www.…
Q&A with Terence Tao on AI-generated Erdős solutions, "cheap wins", hybrid human AI contributions, push-of-a-button workflows, new ways of doing math, and more (Matteo Wong/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/ai-math-terrance…
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The Human League:
🎵 The Things That Dreams Are Made Of
#TheHumanLeague
https://soulseduction.bandcamp.com/track/the-human-league-the-things-that-dreams-are-made-of-soulseduction-dub
https://open.spotify.com/track/5GLYtND9tYHCEdIQ1i1JH3
This is a human-curated small selection of interesting accounts to help you get started on Mastodon and the Fediverse.
Once you follow a few people on a particular topic, you will discover even more people through all the posts they share etc.
For more info on how to follow the accounts listed, see the Help section
https://fedi.directory/
I want to sell scented candles that are topical to the times 🕯️
Like “AI infused nightmare” and “autocratic breakthrough” and let’s not forget “soupçon of human rights lost.”
I’ll call them Zeitgeist Scented Candles.
And in future years, their scents can really take you back to the halcyon days of 2025 😳
#HappyNewYear
The Great Audio Laundering: How AI Scammers are Highjacking the ACX Premium Market and Defrauding the Human Soul
The digital landscape of 2026 was supposed to be a golden age for the independent author, a time when the friction between a creative vision and a global audience finally dissolved into a seamless stream of data. We were promised a world where high-quality production was accessible to anyone with a story to tell and the capital to invest in professional…
I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.
-- David Bowie
Draft Chinese AI Rules Outline ‘Core Socialist Values’ for AI Human Personality Simulators
https://gizmodo.com/draft-chinese-ai-rules-outline-core-socialist-values-for-ai-human-personality-simulators-2000703772
"A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make a management decision. " - IBM 1979 #ai
https://www.theverge.com/ai-…
It’s great to see a publication say “Naw, Fuck AI.” Support them if you can.
#noAI
Good to see employees from Google and OpenAI speaking out.
"The Pentagon is negotiating with Google and OpenAI to try to get them to agree to what Anthropic has refused."
#AI
Hommeles in het slachthuis | Argos - onderzoeksjournalistiek - HUMAN/VPRO
https://argos.vpro.nl/artikelen/hommeles-in-het-slachthuis (17min)
Een paar jaar geleden klaagden NVWA dierenartsen al bij EenVandaag over overtredingen die geen gevolgen hadden.
Nu blijkt dat zelfs onderzoeken met tal van ernstige gevallen van dierenleed worden afgebroken.
... Naar aanleiding van het WOO verzoek worden vervolgens een paar alsnog opgepakt.
"We're just going to run a physical simulation of a human brain to achieve AGI"
"Won't the brain die instantly if it's without a body and oxygen supply etc?"
"Well, we'll just also simulate a body."
"Won't the body die instantly if it's in a vacuum?
"Fine, we'll just simulate an atmosphere too."
"Won't the body die if it's without food and light and gravity and stimulation?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate all the physical processes on the Earth."
"Won't the Earth just freeze instantly without the Sun being there?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate the sun, too."
"Will the solar system work properly if there's only the sun? What about gravitational influences of other mass in the galaxy, what about cosmic rays?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate the whole universe, too."
Brooker Ngesa Omole, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Kenya, has just been detained in Nairobi. He is held in a prison known for extrajudicial killings and other human rights abuses. All progressive forces should unite and pressure Kenya's government for his immediate release! #FreeBrooker
SEO agency Clickout bought The Escapist and two other UK-based gaming sites, fired and replaced staff with AI, and filled the sites with content about casinos (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/staff-journalists-sacke…
In Germany, genocide denial is a crime.
Unless it’s genocide against Palestinians.
How can that be? Easy. Because they don’t see Palestinians as human beings.
Why? Because they are racist fucks.
(And because they profit from the genocide as the world’s #2 arms dealer to Israel after the US.)
Makes me sick to my stomach. Gotta love those “European values” eh?
#germany
I don't know how you can claim Trump wants to crack down on fraud when a jury found him guilty of 34 felony counts of fraud.
Magats truly exhibit the depths of human capacity for self-delusion.
Several US states celebrate armed defenders of #slavery with official holidays every year, including #Mississippi.
The #Republican majority there even prevents a
A Japanese creator has been restoring black-and-white images [of the Battle of Okinawa] using AI and human work, focusing on women and children to help viewers feel closer to their stories.
Toxic waste from screens ends up in endangered dolphins, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/25/toxic-waste-from-screens-ends-up-in-endangered-dolphins-study-finds
Your semi-regular reminder that the British Library's Research Repository has stacks of open datasets from collections, and research by Library staff e.g. https://bl.iro.bl.uk/catalog?f[human_r
The ‘pleasant fiction’ of a rules-based order has been blown apart. It’s time for Australia to codify a bill of rights | Julianne Schultz | The Guardian
#Australia #BillOfRights #AusPol
"The state of Mozilla" should be downstream of the state of the open, human web. First analyze that, see where the challenges lie and then propose solutions for those through your organization.
The open, human web. The thing Mozilla is working to drown in more slop.
🦝 Raccoons break into liquor stores, scale skyscrapers and pick locks – studying their clever brains can clarify human intelligence, too
https://theconversation.com/raccoons-b
In my experience interacting with them, CEOs are all over the map as human beings — some incredible jerks, some surprisingly decent, a few truly marvelous people — but on the whole, and increasingly so as the company gets larger, they are some of the most fear-driven people I’ve ever met in my life.
Creating triage #chatbots to address failures in critical #MentalHealth infrastructure isn’t a solution to the problem: it simply adds another hoop to jump through en route to adequate, human-mediated care and treatment. #health
AI Death Machines. No Human Oversight. What Could Go Wrong? (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ai-death-machines-no-human-oversight-hegseth-anthropic-claude-military
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p34#a260226p34
Renewed work toward a visual prosthesis (brain implant) in the #LGN instead of visual cortex https://nin.nl/news/first-ever-recording-of-a-crucial-visual-structure-in-the…
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
AIs are newly landed alien intelligences.
What we are seeing now are emergent properties that very few people predicted and fewer still understand.
The emerging superintelligence isn’t a machine, as widely predicted,
but a network.
Human intelligence exploded over the last several hundred years not because humans got much smarter as individuals
but because we got smarter as a network.
The same thing is happening with machine intelligence only much fast…
I want a city on Mars
I want a city on the Moon
I want artificial life with the same rights as biological life
That should not prelude providing basic necessities to all human being:
Water
Food
Shelter
Knowledge
A dream of tomorrow at the expense of today and the actual tomorrow is stupid.
Even more stupid if the dream is simply "more money"
Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity is partnering with brands like Gap, Visa, and Tinder to market its World ID human verification product (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/sam-altmans-human-verification-startup-le…
"The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming" by David Wallace-Wells
is a stark, scientifically grounded "travelogue of the near future"
detailing the catastrophic, cascading effects of climate change beyond just rising seas and temperatures,
including widespread famine, refugee crises, disease, and extreme weather,
while also exploring how these changes will transform politics, culture, and technology,
serving as an urgent call for immediate…
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
How hard can it be to create a profile that looks like you’re a real human?
EVEN I MANAGED IT!
If you’ve been here 3 years and show no signs of ever interacting with anyone, follow someone else.
A 5-year old boy should not be in a detention centre but at school (where he was), regardless the facts/circumstances. These are violations of basic human rights of children.
https://www.startribune.com/lawmakers-visit-…
Border Patrol shoots human trafficking suspect in Arizona (Sophie Brams/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5710236-human-trafficking-suspect-shot/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p51#a260128p51
Citadel rebuts Citrini's viral article, arguing that AI deployment is constrained by the marginal cost of compute vs. human labor, and needs far more compute (Citadel Securities)
https://www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-insights/2026-global-intellig…
US forests store record carbon as natural and human factors combine #UnitedStates …
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The Ex:
🎵 Human Car
#TheEx
https://theex.bandcamp.com/track/human-car
Hearing is believing: the unsuspected key to smart glasses innovation https://www.eetimes.com/hearing-is-believing-the-unsuspected-key-to-smart-glasses-innovation/ "Voice is the natural human-device-interface for smart glasses and other…
Sources: Amazon plans to invest up to $50B in OpenAI, $35B of which could hinge on an IPO or AGI milestone; OpenAI is discussing custom models for Amazon (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazons-50-billion-investment-openai-…
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
US pledges $2B for UN humanitarian aid as Trump slashes funding and warns agencies to 'adapt or die' (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-humanitarian-ocha-fletcher-united-nations-f32b1238acfdf6f44f61e991f8a5b8bc
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p34#a251229p34
In what may be close to an impossible job,
the “head of preparedness” at OpenAI
will be directly responsible for defending against risks from ever more powerful AIs to human mental health, cybersecurity and biological weapons.
That is before the successful candidate has to start worrying about the possibility that AIs may soon begin training themselves amid fears from some experts they could “turn against us”.
“This will be a stressful job,
and you’ll jump into …
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Parquet Courts:
🎵 Human Performance
#ParquetCourts
https://parquetcourts.bandcamp.com/album/human-performance
China's draft rules on the use of human-like AI would require companies to inform users they are dealing with AI when they log on and at two-hour intervals (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-27/ch…
Doctors are being arrested in Iran
for helping save the lives of some of the tens of thousands injured
during Iran’s brutal crackdown on anti-regime protests,
with at least one surgeon now at risk of being sentenced to death.
The arrests and death sentence are part of a campaign of “revenge”,
say human rights groups,
after healthcare workers and doctors refused to ignore the plight of badly injured protesters shot or stabbed at close range,
and in so…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Bug Club:
🎵 Muck (Very Human Features)
#TheBugClub
https://thebugclub.bandcamp.com/track/muck-very-human-features
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 63448 edges.
Tags: Biolo…
Google DeepMind researchers unveil AlphaGenome, an AI model trained on molecular data to predict 11 different genomic processes, such as gene splicing (Carl Zimmer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/science/alphagenome-ai-deepmind-genetics.htm…
Sebastiaan de With, co-founder of the iPhone camera app Halide who previously freelanced for Apple, says he has joined Apple's Human Interface Design team (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/28/halide-cofounder-sebastiaan-de-wi…
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Pond:
🎵 Human Touch
#Pond
https://townportal.bandcamp.com/track/human-touch
https://open.spotify.com/track/4YlOq4SkgNgI3gbSsUTDRl
As Russia's war against Ukraine enters its fifth year,
the economy that sustains it has been transformed in ways that will be difficult
—perhaps impossible
—to reverse without another crisis.
Westerners keep waiting for the Russian economy to collapse.
It won’t. -- But nor will it recover.
It has entered what mountaineers call the death zone:
the altitude above 8,000 metres at which the human body consumes itself faster than it can be repaired…
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Star Pimp:
🎵 Human Dolphin
#StarPimp
https://tomflynn1000.bandcamp.com/track/human-dolphin
https://open.spotify.com/track/6cSDPJe9Qqgpbh5YqfYRLg
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Magdalena Bay:
🎵 Human Happens
#MagdalenaBay
https://magdalenabay.bandcamp.com/track/human-happens
https://open.spotify.com/track/40ATtBjYoYuJxKGfrqJwJl
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The Mekons:
🎵 Hard to Be Human Again
#TheMekons
https://bggb.bandcamp.com/track/hard-to-be-human-again-the-mekons
https://open.spotify.com/track/2fda9AdHBcjUaC6zXWKif0
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sparks:
🎵 Tryouts for the Human Race
#Sparks
https://lemah.bandcamp.com/track/sparks-tryouts-for-the-human-race-lemah-edit-126-8a
https://open.spotify.com/track/1fKyh8DDiKrOrL4I0vnvnS
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Billy Bragg:
🎵 The Milkman of Human Kindness
#BillyBragg
https://billybragg.bandcamp.com/track/the-milkman-of-human-kindness
https://open.spotify.com/track/5tA9HpE9kxDsvU2kXy0tlf
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The Gits:
🎵 Cut My Skin, It Makes Me Human
#TheGits
https://thegits.bandcamp.com/track/cut-my-skin-it-makes-me-human-1988-2024-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/4rynrQ0yXV7veibDFIQdlY
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Eddy Current Suppression Ring:
🎵 Human Race
#EddyCurrentSuppressionRing
https://eddycurrentsuppressionring.bandcamp.com/track/human-race
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Z4qCVf4y8Mbl1zjDsdeTm