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Complex Humanity is what Neurodiversity is really about.
It's about the entirety of humanity.
#Neurodiversity #humanity

Eh ben voilŠ, on découvre les réseaux de neurones artificiels mais on néglige de regarder "Alien" . 🙄
« Hinton believes “the only hope” for humanity is engineering AI to become mothers to us, “because the mother is very concerned about the baby, preserving the life of the baby”, and its development. “That’s the kind of relationship we should be aiming for.”» (Source : Financial Times,

Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI will make a few people much richer and most people poorer’
The ‘godfather of artificial intelligence’ on ‘the only hope’ for humanity, why China has an advantage — and when machines will outstrip us

Every death in Palestine is a precious life lost forever and also a nail in the coffin of the humanity of the West.

A look at the Catholic Church's decade-long dialogue with Silicon Valley on AI, as Pope Leo prepares to make AI's potential threat to humanity a signature issue (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/pope-leo-ai-te

Maria Montessori:
❝Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.❞
❝We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.❞
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Perhaps the foremost tragic threat to humanity is gullibility – so named after seagulls, which swallow everything that's thrown at them. People's ability to believe pretty much anything is astounding. You see it with advertising, news, politics, religions, conspiracies, scams, et cetera.
There doesn't seem to be an effective remedy, believe me. Let me know if there is one.

💩 A more climate-friendly way to produce nitrogen fertilizer
#chemistry

A more climate-friendly way to produce nitrogen fertilizer
Humanity has an insatiable appetite for ammonia: This substance is used to make fertilizer, which in turn is used in most modern agriculture. Until now, the Haber-Bosch process has been the method of choice for extracting nitrogen from the seemingly inexhaustible atmosphere and binding it in the form of ammonia. However, this method requires an extremely large amount of methane gas and energy.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Oxygen Destroyer:
🎵 Cleansing the Earth of Humanity's Existence
#OxygenDestroyer
https://brutalthrashingkaijumetal.bandcamp.com/track/cleansing-the-earth-of-humanitys-existence
https://open.spotify.com/track/6d4xWf8SdxJGB9oT6cATzY

Just finished "The Melancholy of Summer" by Louisa Onomé. It's an excellent book about parental abandonment, rejecting and accepting help, and friendship, set in Toronto. There were a few threads that didn't quite get wrapped up by the end, but the ending wasn't dissatisfying, and the writing is excellent, particularly TV gee dialogue and the narration of Summer's thoughts. I felt like the strategic use of stutters both gave the main character extra vulnerability, but also helped subtly clue the reader into moments where Summer's perception of her interlocutors doesn't match their real feelings. Between this and "Like Home", I feel like Onomé's novels are a bit rough around the edges, yet they're still some of the most enjoyable books I've been reading, probably because she's pours so much humanity into her characters and lets their honest desire for something better rub off on the audience.
#AmReading

Read this thread. It might make you cry a bit, out of joy. It will at least move you. And if it doesn't move you, go think about what might be wrong with you. 🙏
👉 #learning #humanity

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
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By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David…
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Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David Wengrow set out to offer a new way of thinking about the human orig…

AI and Art – Stepping Back Into Humanity #technology https://muz4now.com/2023/ai-and-art-stepping-back-into-humanity

AI and Art - Stepping Back Into Humanity
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Riek Machar, South Sudan’s first vice president, has been charged with murder, treason, and crimes against humanity.
https://www.ictj.org/latest-news/south-sudan-charges-vp-machar-treason-murder-over-military-attack

I don’t know about you 
but my feelings oscillate between intense grief and boiling anger. 
I do not hide my pro-Palestinian sentiments. 
But this goes beyond one side or another. 
This is about our shared humanity. 
Does it still exist? Did it ever exist?
As citizens, our tools are limited. 
As meager as they sometimes appear, we still haveto utilize them. 
So, tell your congressperson to co-sponsor HR 3565
— The Block the Bombs Act
— atte…

La \'Ultima Frontera de La Filosof\'ia: Hacia una S\'intesis de La \'Etica del Futuro a Largo Plazo, el Riesgo Existencial y la Ontolog\'ia Posthumana
Santos E. Moreta Reyes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11568

La Última Frontera de La Filosofía: Hacia una Síntesis de La Ética del Futuro a Largo Plazo, el Riesgo Existencial y la Ontología Posthumana
Humanity's unprecedented technological capacity and concurrent existential risks reveal a critical lacuna in the philosophical tradition: the absence of a systematic framework for the long-term future. This article argues that formulating such a framework is the central ethical imperative of our era. To defend this thesis, it synthesizes the normative ethics of Hans Jonas and Derek Parfit with the analytical framework of Nick Bostrom's work on existential risk and longtermism. The analysis furt…

March is finally starting...
#Canberra #Humanity #March

Causality analysis of electricity market liberalization on electricity price using novel Machine Learning methods
Orr Shahar, Stefan Lessmann, Daniel Traian Pele
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12331

Causality analysis of electricity market liberalization on electricity price using novel Machine Learning methods
Relationships between the energy and the finance markets are increasingly important. Understanding these relationships is vital for policymakers and other stakeholders as the world faces challenges such as satisfying humanity's increasing need for energy and the effects of climate change. In this paper, we investigate the causal effect of electricity market liberalization on the electricity price in the US. By performing this analysis, we aim to provide new insights into the ongoing debate abou…

Some baby squids can go from hatchling to near-adult in a few hours to a few days, and I'm like, the FUCK, humanity, we gotta raise these things for like, 18 YEARS? 😂 https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/some-baby-squids-ca…

Some Baby Squids Can Go From Hatchling to Adult in Mere Hours
Learn more about baby squids, what they look like, how fast they grow, and their favorite snacks.

To save humanity and nature we must tackle wealth inequality, says Cambridge researcher
https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2025/09/to-save-humanity-and-nature-we-must-tackle-wealth-inequality-says-cambridge-researcher/

Ukrainian doctors transplant organs of deceased girl amid Russian strikes, saving 3 children: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/12/ukrainian-doctors-transplant-organs-of.html

We're at this very telling stage in the history of humanity where the highest honors are reserved for
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📣 Fascist podcasters
#haseverybodylosttheirmind

wild how knowing literally anything abt online privacy 101 puts u in some ascended upper echelon of humanity like literally just dont talk about killing charlie kirk on discord

“The #robots are here. Our future is no longer science fiction,” said the first lady. Uncharacteristically pensive, she then added, “I have seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.”

Melania Trump Has a Warning for Humanity: ‘The Robots Are Here’
The first lady has shown herself to be captivated by the wonders and dangers and opportunities of modern technologies.

We keep talking about boiling the oceans, but we're also boiling humanity. And by "we", I mean capitalism/colonialism and its support systems.
https://mastodon.social/@Climatehistories/114835508971659679

Athena (@Climatehistories@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image If you want to understand the true danger of extreme heat, 'The Heat Will Kill You First' is a must-read. We've normalized heat as a manageable nuisance, but Jeff Goodell reveals how it’s a deadly force we underestimate, with heat stroke killing many simply because we don’t take the risk seriously enough. #climatechange #heat #books

Humanity would suffer no loss if either of these people were to be abducted by alien molluscs - it would be easy for the mollusc scientists to insert anal probes because these people are all anus and no heart.
"Larry Ellison tops Elon Musk as world's richest person"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2…

Oracle's Larry Ellison surpasses Elon Musk as world's richest man
The Oracle cofounder's wealth has overtaken Musk's fortune, propelled by an AI boom.

Watching the Once Upon a Time... intro hits me with how tiny and temporary my life is compared to the giant sweep of history.
The scenes of people through different ages make me wonder what any of us really mean in the big picture.
The vast flow of time shown reminds me that anarchism is the way forward to break free from repeating cycles of power.
#Anarchism

"Mercury Emissions Fall 70% Over the Last Four Decades Thanks to UN Treaty, Coal Phase-Out"
#UN #UnitedNations #Emissions

Mercury Emissions Fall 70% Over the Last Four Decades Thanks to UN Treaty, Coal Phase-Out
A study examining mercury concentrations in the leaves of alpine plants has revealed that humanity has reduced worldwide exposure to this most toxic of heavy metals substantially. Controlled via a UN treaty called the Minamata Convention on Mercury Emissions, mercury (Hg) enters the atmosphere through a variety of natural and anthropogenic avenues. Artisanal and small-scale […]

I just saw somebody say they used grok to calculate how many minutes there are in a year.
Humanity* is doomed.
*at least that person

“Humanitarian zone” my ass.
Israel has forfeited the right to claim any moral position related to humanity given they lack it entirely. Oops, it”s kinda what happens when you commit genocide. (You know Israel is committing genocide, right? Do you live under a rock? Are you a genocide apologist and thus complicit in genocide? No. OK, so you know that Israel is committing genocide.)

A planned protest across the Sydney Harbour Bridge has gone ahead after it was authorised by the Supreme Court just one day prior, in what organisers called a "historic" decision.
Tens of thousands turned out for the March for Humanity on Sunday despite torrential rain - with many carrying placards with messages to politicians to stop the war.
Tens of thousands turn out for Syndey Pro-Palestine march - BBC News

Tens of thousands turn out for Syndey Pro-Palestine march
The March for Humanity closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge after it was authorised by the Supreme Court hours earlier.

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
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By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David…
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Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David Wengrow set out to offer a new way of thinking about the human orig…

Earth’s safe zones are vanishing fast #earth

Earth’s safe zones are vanishing fast
A sweeping new study reveals that humanity has already pushed 60% of Earth’s land outside its safe biosphere zone, with 38% in a high-risk state. By analyzing centuries of data, researchers mapped how human demands on biomass—from farming to energy production—have destabilized ecosystems worldwide. Europe, Asia, and North America show the deepest disruptions, reflecting centuries of land-use change.

And yet people insist LLMs will be a net unmitigated good for humanity.
Seriously, anyone saying that has drunk the kool-aid.
https://retro.pizza/@CactuarJoe/114807099935520042

Cactuar Joe (@CactuarJoe@retro.pizza)
Attached: 1 image Happy horse on Mars day!

Ever since Homo sapiens came out of Africa, migration has been part and parcel of humanity's history and culture. Immigration, however, is just a byproduct of arbitrary borders, which are a much more recent invention than is commonly realised. Passports and visa became mandatory for crossing borders only in the era of modern nationalism, around the time of WW I.

This Year’s Nice Rice Price Marks an 18-year Low Amid a Doubling of Per-Acre Yield https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/this-years-nice-rice-price-marks-an-18-year-low-amid-a-doubling-of-per-acre-yield/

This Year's Nice Rice Price Marks an 18-year Low Amid a Doubling of Per-Acre Yield
Humanity continues to make advancements with even the most primitive technologies, epitomized by this year's incredible Asian rice crop. 

Sometimes I think about how the Spanish Flu had deniers just like COVID had deniers and it gives me a sense of comfort how humanity's general stupidity always remains true throughout the years

🌌 The World’s Largest Camera Captures 10 Million Galaxies, Discovers 2,104 Asteroids in First Photos
https://petapixel.com/2025/06/23/the-worlds-largest-camera-captures-10-million-galaxies-discovers-2104-astero…

The World's Largest Camera's First Photo: 5 Gigapixels Showing 10 Million Galaxies
One of humanity's greatest achievements.

Smartphones Ruining Humanity — We Should All Be Alarmed https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/alarming-new-study-finds-smartphones-ruining-our-brains-at-unprecedented-speed/

I feel like there should be a name for the position "superintelligent AI is going to wipe out humans, and that's awesome, let's help", but I'm failing to find it.
the Terminator universe has "collaborators", but Skynet is in the "evil" bucket. what's the genre of "Skynet, but it's morally good"? where are those stories?
Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis, maybe, but humanity mostly wipes itself out. it's just the remna…

I'm not an anti-intellectualist, but I do believe people can overcomplicate things. I had a debate once with someone who argued “well, aren't we all migrants? All of humanity emerged from the African continent, so...” and I mean, sure, that's true, but now you're just playing with definitions of words rather than accepting the agreed upon definition in order to engage with this debate.
While people like Jordan Peterson are prominent examples of pseudo-intellectuals, who…

Fears of brain drain grow as Trump cuts take a toll on UCLA
Research that was years in the making
— into diabetes, cancer, heart disease, strokes, PTSD and fighting antibiotic-resistant infections
— is on pause at UCLA, nearly a month after UCLA saw around $500 million in federal grants suspended.
While a federal judge ordered the restorationof 114 National Science Foundation grants in early August, grants from the National Institutes of Health remain suspended.
S…

Fears of brain drain grow as Trump cuts take a toll on UCLA
Several UCLA scientists tell LAist that their experiments on cancer, heart disease and other ailments are imperiled, but they’re more worried that young academics will abandon the field and that humanity will be worse off for it.

Most #tech these days promises to help us get things done faster. That premise is sending humanity off a cliff these days.
What does tech that helps us slow down look like instead?

To The Edge
Humanity seems to be on a precipice, so I'm going there with my improvisations...
#PianoImprov #NowPlaying
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To The Edge #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

#MardiPatisserie revives my belief in humanity 💙
There is nothing quite as effective at keeping sadness away, as imbibing a French pastry! 🍰
I consider the art of the patisseur to be one of the noble Fine Arts. The pastry must appeal to the eye, the nose, the mind and not least of all, the tastebuds.
They are made of expensive ingredients and are time-consuming to cre…

This is a public service announcement for all the dollar-store Sherlock Holmes’s out there who clearly have nothing better to do than to concoct conspiracy theories about people from Gaza on the fediverse who are faced with genocide and famine:
Stop.
Have some humanity.
Case in point, do not do what Daniel (@helmet91@mastodon.social) is doing here:

Here's my new Human Meme podcast episode about AI and AGI and the future of us!
#ai

Learn to be horrified and offended by customer support that goes nowhere, by inaccessible remedy for problems. Learn to be horrified by the denial of humanity at scale.

On lesson: "It's incredibly expensive to try to replace the services that the Earth's ecosystems provide for free to humanity."
https://bbc.com/future/article/20250703-how-the-biosphere-2-experiment-changed-our-u…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Lava La Rue:
🎵 Humanity
#NowPlaying #LavaLaRue
https://lavalarue.bandcamp.com/track/humanity
https://open.spotify.com/track/7IjLwKOvFCNxy59yZ5sVRb

The good news from Alabama.
#Humanity #HumanRights #Juneteenth ht…

Another way of reading that story:
Even if you are fighting a doomed asymmetric battle, if you can get your tormentors obsessed with beating you, you can make them harm themselves badly as they "win."
https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill/114972393515946976

These grants were ENTIRELY for medical research that supported humanity & has absolutely nothing to do with Antisemitism.
But it's exactly what you'd expect from a fascist.
✅ #Trump administration freezes $339M in #UCLA grants and accuses the school of rights violations

Trump administration freezes $339M in UCLA grants and accuses the school of rights violations
The Trump administration is freezing $339 million in research grants to the University of California, Los Angeles, accusing the school of civil rights violations related to antisemitism, affirmative action and women’s sports. The federal government has frozen or paused federal funding over similar allegations against private colleges but this is one of the rare cases it has targeted a public university. Several federal agencies notified UCLA this week that they were suspending grants over civ…

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
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By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David…
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Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David Wengrow set out to offer a new way of thinking about the human orig…

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis.
Based on a longer, fully referenced pamphlet, jointly published by @… and is available at link in article.
Right-wing critics largely deny the impact of fossil fuels on emissions, and therefore on the future prospects for humanity, but the net zero lobby is pursuing strategies that are inadequate a…

Wow, how did I sleep on the catalog of neat small pen-and-paper RPGs on Itch? So many interesting concepts there. Particularly stuck on "They should have sent a poet", which self-describes as "a solo journalling game about searching alone for the impossible among the stars, and desperately, hopefully, unfathomably holding on to your mission and humanity." Seems like a really cool concept, definitely got to try this out, as story-writing and worldbuilding is catnip to me w…

They Should Have Sent a Poet by Telling Games
A solo journalling game about searching among the stars, and desperately holding on to your mission and humanity.

Hungary, the USA, Britain - ordinary people round the world are marching IN OUR FUCKING MILLIONS against our governments and for humanity.
If I was in the ruling class, I'd be hurrying up that rocket to Mars, to be honest.
FUCK #KeirStarmer FUCK #Trump Fuck

From CreativeCommons with their "signals" to the OSI with their "open source AI" fiasco it seems that the stewards of the legal structures protecting the digital commons are not on the side of people actually wanting to contribute to the commons for humanity. (Maybe they never were.)
If those organizations don't reorient themselves to align with people's needs maybe we need to fork.

If we truly want net zero, then the only way forward is down
Based on a longer, fully referenced pamphlet, jointly published by us and @… available at link in article.
Right-wing critics largely deny the impact of fossil fuels on emissions, and therefore on the future prospects for humanity, but the net zero lobby is pursuing strategies that are i…

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
Article originally published at North West Bylines, 31 July, 2025 Based on a longer, fully referenced pamphlet, jointly published by Steady State Manchester and DegrowthUK available HERE Renewables…

"by April of 2024 Gaza had already suffered more than 70,000 tonnes of bombing. To put that in perspective, that is more than the combined bomb tonnage dropped on Dresden, Hamburg, and London in World War II. Now more than a year later, that bombing has only increased. It is no surprise, therefore, that UN Humanitarian Chief Martin Griffiths declared Gaza “uninhabitable” due to the bombing, destruction, blockades, and subsequent famines"

NYT Whitewashes Genocide, Again
In an OpEd, Columnist Bret Stephens takes a sledgehammer to truth & humanity to justify a live streamed genocide—we rebuke his propaganda in full

Top AI Experts Concerned That OpenAI Has Betrayed Humankind
https://futurism.com/openai-open-letter-experts-humankind?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/technology

Top AI Experts Concerned That OpenAI Has Betrayed Humankind
In a scathing open letter, luminaries from the AI industry are calling on OpenAI to prove that it has not betrayed humanity.

@… just saw your story seeds site which is very cool. One gentle nudge: the "humanity learns how to sustainably live on Earth," framing erases all the groups of humans who do already know how to live sustainably, and have been doing do for tens of thousands of years. It's not "humans" who have "learning" to do, but specific groups of humans who have decisions to make.
Admittedly there's some learning to do about sustainably at scale, and about integrating good modern inventions with sustainable traditions, but I think that framing the problem as "we need to deploy existing rich knowledges of how to live sustainably" helps newcomers catch on to the decolonial thread of solarpunk more easily.

i thought i was weird autistic and pathetic, then over the last few months, i constantly encounter new people who are more aggressively that than me. this is good, cause they all remind me of an older version of myself in certain ways. and that means the fact ive never given up on tryna get better, and tryna do bigger things that make the world, being alive, and humanity better in general for "others", has been paying off over the years, slowly but surely ^_^

We allow psychopaths and sociopaths to chart the course for humanity and then wonder why we live in a dystopian hellscape.

Why for all of us to take to heart?
Because we all need to remember that there are people in our circles for whom existence is resistance, which makes every single day a fight.
And we need to remember that it •matters• when we forcefully speak up for the humanity of others — or simply treat somebody who is vulnerable with basic decency and steadfast respect, in spite of the whole damned world.
And some days some little instance of one of those things — speaking up, decency, respect — that just feels like almost nothing in the moment might be the most important thing we do all day, and we won’t even know it.

One might forgive the world for asking "Should not the leaders of a nation that can commit this kind of crime be arrested, tried, convicted, and punished for this kind of genocidal crime against humanity?"
"A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky"

Time and again, we have protested peacefully, spoken truthfully, and appealed to our shared humanity. We have been met with indifference, hostility, and violence. A leader who governs through hatred and greed is unfit to govern at all.

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

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
https://ift.tt/QBFGeTE
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David Wengrow set out to offer a new way of thinking about the human orig…

I don't believe in a literal hell but I'm prepared to make an exception for Sam Altman.
No other individual has ever caused so much damage to humanity's long-term prospects.

The vocal right-wing critics are largely denying the impact of fossil fuels on emissions, and therefore on the future prospects for humanity, but the net zero lobby is pursuing strategies that are inadequate and simplistic. If we truly want net zero, then the only way forward is down, with far less overall energy use and less complex technology.
Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
The road towards a viable net-zero world is long and full of obstacles, but all economies need to reduce their carbon footprint

The Arctic island of Svalbard is so reliably frigid that humanity bet its future on the place.
Since 2008, the "Svalbard Global Seed Vault" — set deep in frozen soil known as permafrost — has accepted nearly 1.4 million samples of more than 6,000 species of critical crops.
⭐️ But, the island is warming six to seven times faster than the rest of the planet, making even winters freakishly hot -- at least by Arctic standards.
Indeed, in 2017, an access tunnel to the…

Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis
The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."

🦠 Synthetic biology could support future outposts on the moon and Mars
#space

Synthetic biology could support future outposts on the moon and Mars
As humanity sets its sights on long-duration missions to the moon, Mars, and beyond, keeping astronauts healthy will be as critical as building rockets or habitats. A new paper appearing in npj Microgravity explores the possibilities of synthetic biology in accomplishing this.

"Silicon Valley’s era of innovation is over. This is their villain era. The era of the con. Having bled themselves dry of ideas, and all sense of moral decency, they’re now attempting to bleed us dry of our own humanity."
(Original title: How to keep sea-monkeys alive)
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How to keep sea-monkeys alive
Little painting I did a couple of weeks ago. There’s a stick so it looks like a protest sign, but I cropped it out. Enjoying the newsletter? Gimme $2 for...

Are nominations by those accused of war crimes even considered?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/trump-nominated-nobel-peace-prize-netanyahu?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Lava La Rue:
🎵 Humanity
#NowPlaying #LavaLaRue
https://lavalarue.bandcamp.com/track/humanity
https://open.spotify.com/track/7IjLwKOvFCNxy59yZ5sVRb

Sources: Reddit is exploring Tools for Humanity's World ID identity system to allow users to verify that they are unique individuals while remaining anonymous (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/20/2025

Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users
Reddit, racing to preserve “humanness and authenticity,” has discussed using Sam Altman’s World ID, sources say.

After hearing so much about it and then reading about it yet again just the other day, finally taking in Zardoz. It's a weird one, man 😂
#70s

Zardoz (1974)
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.

“The gates of hell are now opening” – who said it best, Satan or the Israeli defense minister?
To the morally-vacuous West: these are the monsters you call your friends and allies. Hang your heads in shame, you decaying husks of humanity. This is your genocide every bit as much as Israel’s. And it will haunt you forever.
https://www.

"Earth Overshoot Day creeps forward due to human exploitation of natural resources"
#EarthOverShootDay #Environment

With firm reliance on each other and unwavering hope in our collective strength,
We pledge to resist oppression in all its forms,
To uphold the rights of the vulnerable,
And to build a future grounded in compassion, courage, and shared humanity.
 
Let this declaration be both a breaking and a beginning.

gangnam style wasn't enough. every place must have a -style pop song with an absolutely incomprehensible amount of youtube views before humanity can set aside its differences and truly come together

I certainly hope that our country, the US, is offering assistance to Afghanistan to help them deal with the earthquake.
But I suspect that our present government under El Cheeto will refuse even the most basic of humanity.

Bullshit or water, humanity, the choice is yours. Choose wisely. https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/114783392100794507

Having 21 capitalists following you is quite an achievement!
#Capitalism

We got a world dictator and he's a fucking fascist pedophile imbecile.
What an inglorious end for humanity.

#GiftLink
Opinion | We Need a New Language After This War - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/opinion/israel-war-language-humanity.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fk8.8eSf.yG0Q8tjl4y7Y&smid=url-share

Ten years ago, my friend Rik Wanninkhof's son, Patrick, was killed while cycling across the US doing charity work for Habitat for Humanity.
The woman who killed him was using her mobile phone.
She was also a nurse, like the woman in the video.
Rik is still devastated.
Don't text and drive.
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Fabio is the opposite of a Nazi and I am sick and tired of people WHO ARE OPPOSING A LITERAL GENOCIDE being perpetrated by Israel constantly having to defend themselves from accusations of antisemitism.
The dregs of humanity who are supporting, apologising for, and complicit in Israel’s genocide are the people and instances we should be blocking here not antifascists like Fabio who is spending his time trying to get aid to Palestinians on the ground in Gaza.
Ask yourselves what k…

Fabio Manganiello (@fabio@manganiello.social)
A quick heads up to my followers: after threatening to get me fired @8124 has reported me to the staff of mastodon.social demanding the defederation of my instance accusing me of being a Nazi https...

Handing AI the keys
"if we continue on the current path ... we are basically playing Russian roulette with humanity"
-- Grace Huckins, MIT Technology Review
On May 6, 2010, at 2:32 p.m. Eastern time nearly a trillion dollars evaporated from the
US stock market within 20 minutes
-at the time, the fastest decline in history
Then. almost as suddenly, the market rebounded.
After months of investigation, regalators attributed much of the respon…

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
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By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David…
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Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David Wengrow set out to offer a new way of thinking about the human orig…

knowing about historical bigotry against cagots does more damage to my faith in humanity than current bigotry against trans people like me

the Orgy Dome of Babel. we used to fuck as communities, they tried to bring all of humanity into one fuck, then god sent High Winds and now its mostly in the bedroom

I just don’t know what to write anymore. Israel is committing genocide with the full support of our countries in the West.
What do I say to my friends in Palestine who don’t know if they’re going to survive the night? That we are morally vacuous? That we are horrible human beings? That we’ve lost any semblance of humanity we might have had? That we deserve their eternal wrath?
What do you say about societies that, far from failing to prevent genocide, support and profit from it?