Tootfinder

UN commission says Russian drone attacks against Kherson amount to crimes against humanity: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/un-commission-says-russian-drone.html

❝Think! Think! What do people love? The warmth of sunshine on their skin? Fresh fruit? The smell of the top of a baby’s head? Doritos? Laughter? Joy? The feeling of being seen? No, no! These answers are all wrong. It needs to be something that you can access after the Event!❞ https://

Hey you, hold onto your humanity. You’ll thank me later.
Columnist and alum Alexandra Petri offers a little advice for the graduates — or, at least, for one of them (you know who you are).

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

"""
Writing has been an instrument for some of the highest expressions of the human spirit: poetry, philosophy, science. But to understand it — why it came into being, how it changed the human experience — we have to first appreciate its crass practicality. It evolved mainly as an instrument of the mundane: the economic, the administrative, the political.
Confusion over this point is understandable. Some scholars have equated the origin of “civilization” with the origin of writing. Laypeople sometimes take this equation to mean that with writing humanity put aside its barbarous past and started behaving in gentlemanly fashion, sipping tea and remembering to say “please.” And indeed, this may be only a mild caricature of what some nineteenth-century scholars actually meant by the equation: writing equals Greece equals Plato; illiteracy equals barbarism equals Attila the Hun.
But, in truth, if you add literacy to Attila the Hun, you don’t get Plato. You get Genghis Khan. During the thirteenth century, he administered what even today is the largest continuous land empire in the history of the world. And he could do so only because he had the requisite means of control: a script that, when carried by his pony express, amounted to the fastest large-scale information-processing technology of his era. One consequence was to give pillaging a scope beyond Attila’s wildest dreams. Information technology, like energy technology or any other technology, can be a tool for good or bad. By itself, it is no guarantor of moral progress or civility.
"""
(Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny)

"And quite an adventure the life of Margittai Neumann Janos Lajos was. A child prodigy, he published his first paper in mathematics before age 20. He was the indisputable champion of applied mathematics in the 20th century. His work yielded groundbreaking advances in theoretical mathematics, quantum mechanics, game theory, economics, fluid dynamics, artificial intelligence, electrodynamics, meteorology, and computing."

William Aspray
There was a moment in which Kurt Gödel, Albert Einstein, and John von Neumann were all roaming the halls of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton at the same time. Let that information sink in. Humanity experiences such gatherings of brilliant minds in a remote location of the space-time continuum only every so often; maybe the ancient Greeks and the men of the Renaissance witnessed such periods in time, as did the IAS staff at the end of World War II. How much will we have to wait f…

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
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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…

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…

Data-Driven and Participatory Approaches toward Neuro-Inclusive AI
Naba Rizvi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21077 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21077

Data-Driven and Participatory Approaches toward Neuro-Inclusive AI
Biased data representation in AI marginalizes up to 75 million autistic people worldwide through medical applications viewing autism as a deficit of neurotypical social skills rather than an aspect of human diversity, and this perspective is grounded in research questioning the humanity of autistic people. Turing defined artificial intelligence as the ability to mimic human communication, and as AI development increasingly focuses on human-like agents, this benchmark remains popular. In contras…

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

"Sea level rise expected to accelerate even if warming is limited to 1.5C: Study"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://

Sea level rise expected to accelerate even if warming is limited to 1.5C: Study
Rising seas will severely test humanity's resilience in the second half of the 21st century and beyond, even if nations defy the odds and cap global warming at the ambitious 1.5 degrees Celsius target, researchers said Tuesday.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02208 has been replaced.
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Grassroots Federation: Fair Governance of Large-Scale, Decentralized, Sovereign Digital Communities
Grassroots Federation aims to address the egalitarian formation and the fair democratic governance of large-scale, decentralized, sovereign digital communities, the size of the EU, the US, existing social networks, and even humanity at large. A grassroots federation evolves via the grassroots formation of digital communities and their consensual federation. Such digital communities may form according to geography, jurisdiction, affiliations, relations, interests, causes, and more. Small communi…

Also, if you haven't yet, do yourself a favor and play "Astro Prospector": It's cheap, only takes a few hours to complete, but most importantly, it's really fun and well-made!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3503440/Astro_Prospector/

Save 10% on Astro Prospector on Steam
Astro Prospector is an incremental bullet hell about mining cofferoids and fighting SpaceCorp. Collect resources, upgrade your ship and become unstoppable. Return AstroCoffee to humanity!

#SMBC on the final victory of the #humanities over #mathematics #engineering and

Swiss Humanity - Offener Brief an den #Bundesrat #Schweiz - Humanitäre Katastrophe in #Gaza

Swiss Humanity – Engagement für humanitäre Traditionen
Swiss Humanity fördert humanitäre Werte, verteidigt internationale Verpflichtungen und engagiert sich für Respekt und Recht in der Schweizer Gesellschaft.

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.

"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

Both Harvard and Columbia are failing to articulate the need and meaning of education, besides economic value. There is no sense of humanity or the humanities or the search for a truths. Both schools are for-profit companies in the minds of their boards, and their presidents reflect that understanding.
From: @…

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

#Podcast recommendation!
I'm listening to a month-old interview with Nate Soares (MIRI) about #AISafety by the London Futurists podcast.
I'm not familiar with their work, but this conversation is very interesting. Definitely worth the 50min listen.
Good insights into

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction — but it's not too late to change course, as two of the field's earliest researchers explain in this clarion call for humanity.

Humanity's Last Code Exam: Can Advanced LLMs Conquer Human's Hardest Code Competition?
Xiangyang Li, Xiaopeng Li, Kuicai Dong, Quanhu Zhang, Rongju Ruan, Xinyi Dai, Xiaoshuang Liu, Shengchun Xu, Yasheng Wang, Ruiming Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12713

Humanity's Last Code Exam: Can Advanced LLMs Conquer Human's Hardest Code Competition?
Code generation is a core capability of large language models (LLMs), yet mainstream benchmarks (e.g., APPs and LiveCodeBench) contain questions with medium-level difficulty and pose no challenge to advanced LLMs. To better reflected the advanced reasoning and code generation ability, We introduce Humanity's Last Code Exam (HLCE), comprising 235 most challenging problems from the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC World Finals) and the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI)…

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.

The idea is to provide a safe haven and a fertile ground for the next generation of scientists to work in peace and freedom to solve the most significant challenges of our time; but the geopolitical argument will prevail. As Jorge Luis Borges said in his short story “Nathaniel Hawthorne” from his book “Other Inquisitions” (1952):
“The past is indestructible; sooner or later all things return, and one of the things that return is the project to abolish the past.”

William Aspray
There was a moment in which Kurt Gödel, Albert Einstein, and John von Neumann were all roaming the halls of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton at the same time. Let that information sink in. Humanity experiences such gatherings of brilliant minds in a remote location of the space-time continuum only every so often; maybe the ancient Greeks and the men of the Renaissance witnessed such periods in time, as did the IAS staff at the end of World War II. How much will we have to wait f…

"This isn’t to say that AI is uniformly bad—it’s clearly not—but that we must not fall into the trap of mistaking the outputs of writing (…) from the value of the cognitive process of writing (…).
It would be a catastrophically unwise decision for humanity to abandon a key step in training young brains simply because they can now clack a few keys and produce something that sounds intelligent even as they never become intelligent."

The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.

Belgium's King Filip speaks up for Gaza where "innocent citizens, jailed in their enclave, die from starvation and succumb to the bombs. This is a shame for humanity."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/officia

Officials say 73 Palestinians killed in Gaza while seeking aid as Israel widens evacuation orders
At least 73 Palestinians were killed while trying to reach aid at locations across Gaza on Sunday, the territory's Health Ministry said, in one of the deadliest days yet for aid-seekers in over 21 months of war.

✊ Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “We Need a New Civic Morality”
#politics…

Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “We Need a New Civic Morality”
As he visits the US for the first time, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France Insoumise, writes about the collapse of triumphal capitalist narratives and sets out an alternative vision for humanity that can save us from a dystopian future.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel strongly condemned the US bombing, saying it constituted a “dangerous escalation” and a serious violation of the UN Charter.
He added that it “plunges humanity into a crisis with irreversible consequences”.
World reacts to US attacks on Iran | Israel-Iran conflict News | Al Jazeera

World reacts to US attacks on Iran
A roundup of reactions as US joins Israel’s war and attacks three Iranian nuclear sites.

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

Israeli attacks on educational,
religious and cultural sites in the
Occupied Palestinian Territory amount to war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination, UN Commission says.
10 June 2025.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-release…

Oh, to be an animal that humanity has found no use for

For the love of God subtitle folks, if you're making subs you don't actually have to add every font known to humanity. You can just add the ones that you're using in the ASS/SSA file. More specifically, you don't have to add 150 fonts totaling 141MB when you're only using 10-20 across the entire subtitle file.
If removing the unneeded fonts reduces the overall size of the videos by 1.1GB across 12 episodes then you're doing it wrong.

AI isn’t an existential threat to humanity, capitalism and corporations are.
You see, we created capitalism, a religion modeled on cancer, and the corporation, a new, artificial species; a parasite that co-opts human beings to do its bidding; an organism that’s psychopathic by design and grows by extracting from and exploiting us and our habitat.
And we now find ourselves ruled by this religion and driven to ruin by these parasites as they drain our humanity, destroy our habitat,…

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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Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
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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…

"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)
https://

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...

The California Report on Frontier AI Policy
Rishi Bommasani, Scott R. Singer, Ruth E. Appel, Sarah Cen, A. Feder Cooper, Elena Cryst, Lindsey A. Gailmard, Ian Klaus, Meredith M. Lee, Inioluwa Deborah Raji, Anka Reuel, Drew Spence, Alexander Wan, Angelina Wang, Daniel Zhang, Daniel E. Ho, Percy Liang, Dawn Song, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Jonathan Zittrain, Jennifer Tour Chayes, Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, Li Fei-Fei

The California Report on Frontier AI Policy
The innovations emerging at the frontier of artificial intelligence (AI) are poised to create historic opportunities for humanity but also raise complex policy challenges. Continued progress in frontier AI carries the potential for profound advances in scientific discovery, economic productivity, and broader social well-being. As the epicenter of global AI innovation, California has a unique opportunity to continue supporting developments in frontier AI while addressing substantial risks that c…

"He has identified three levels of human signals that we’ve lost in adopting AI into our communication. The first level is that of basic humanity signals, cues that speak to our authenticity as a human being like moments of vulnerability or personal rituals, which say to others, “This is me, I’m human.” The second level consists of attention and effort signals that prove “I cared enough to write this myself.” And the third level is ability signals which show our sense of humor, our comp…

You sound like ChatGPT
AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.

The #USA and #Israel are no different from #Iran in terms of crimes against international law, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Even China and North Korea are not accused of war crimes.
The

OH (not mine):
One thing a lot of people fail to understand is that a if a social group are oppressors in one place and oppressed in another, the score isn't oppressors:1, humanity:1.
It's oppression:2, humanity:0.

Cars Stopped… for an elderly Man
#humanity #helpingothers
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5-WD3L4SHHI

Imagine if we collectively spent just 10% of the resources that go into the AI bullshit hype machine on solving, you know, the myriad of existential problems humanity faces.

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.

"The videos coming out of LA and other cities reveal something Trump's politics can’t touch: the fierce humanity of people willing to risk everything for one another. They don’t just document resistance: they ignite it."
Protests Could Break Trump’s Deportation Machine | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-06-13/protests-could-break-trumps-deportation-machine

To The Edge
Humanity seems to be on a precipice, so I'm going there with my improvisations...
#PianoImprov #NowPlaying
htt…

To The Edge #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

They charge the shepherd with bestiality, but what of the sheep? Shouldn't she be charged with humanity?
#SluttyLittleEwe

We as humanity... spent how much money and how much energy? Just for this?
The Real Future of AI Is Ordering Mid Chicken at Bojangles
https://www.404media.co/the-real-future-of-ai-is-ordering-mid-chicken-at-bojangles/

Questions about the meaning of #artificialintelligence and its implications for human dignity and well-being highlighted a major conference at YDS last month, titled, “A.I. and the Ends of Humanity: Thinking Theologically After ChatGPT.” Full story by Timothy Cahill '16 M.A.R.

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

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

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

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16890 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbi…

Fascism is not some distant nightmare locked away in history books. It is a dark, living force that haunts the present, casting its shadow over the United States with terrifying clarity.
The brutal dehumanization, the cruelty inflicted on vulnerable people, the aggressive nationalism and racism, these are not echoes from the past but the harsh reality of today. Concentration camps for children, hateful rhetoric that strips away humanity, and the rise of authoritarian power show that fa…

Seriously, we should have mandatory national service consisting of farm and construction labor. Make rich white kids spend a year under the Central Valley sun learning how to pick radishes from an expert who barely speaks English. Send kids into the Great Plains to detassel corn between HS and college. Put teams of young folks into Habitat For Humanity and similar projects.
It would reduce the disdain so many adults have for migrant & marginalized workers.

Why the future belongs to "stellar" societies.
https://bigthink.com/the-long-game/the-tony-seba-and-james-arbib-interview-why-the-future-belongs-to-stellar-societies/

The Tony Seba and James Arbib interview: Why the future belongs to "stellar societies”
The cofounders of think tank RethinkX are convinced that humanity is undergoing civilizational phase change.

Time for another "review". This one's hard. While the book was quite interesting, it required me to be quite open-minded. Still, I think it's worth mentioning:
Robert Wright — Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
The book basically focused on a thesis that both biological evolution and cultural evolution are a thing, they are directional and this directionality can be explained together using game theory — as eventually leading to more non-zero sum games.
It consists of three chapters. The first one is is focused on the history of civilization. It features many examples from different parts of the world, which makes it quite interesting. The author argues that the culture inevitably is evolving as information processing techniques improve — from writing to the Internet.
The second chapter is focused on biological evolution. Now, the argument is that it's not quite random, but actually directed towards greater complexity — eventually leading to the development of highly intelligent species, and a civilization.
The third chapter is quite speculative and metaphysical, and I'm just going to skip it.
The book is full of optimism. Capitalism creates freedom — because people are more productive when they're working for their own gain, so the free market eliminates slavery. Globalisation creates networks of interdependence that make wars uneconomic. Increased contacts between different cultures makes people more tolerant. And eventually, the humanity may be able to unite facing a common "external" enemy — the climate change.
What can I say? The examples are quite interesting, the whole theory seems self-consistent. Still, I repeatedly looked at the publication date (it's 1999), and wondered if author would write the same thing today (yes, I know I can search for his current opinions).
#books #bookstodon @…

Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gaza's population 'a blueprint for crimes against humanity' (Emma Graham-Harrison/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/07/israeli-minister-reveals-plan-to-force-population-of-gaza-into-camp-on-ruins-of-rafah
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p32#a250708p32

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.

The present FFOTUS administration has passed into the realm of "crimes against humanity", not just on an individual basis, but also on its overall policy basis.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/06/03/mohamed-…

Family of Boulder suspect taken into ICE custody for expedited removal, U.S. says
The White House said Mohamed Sabry Soliman’s family had been detained following Sunday’s attack against a Jewish group in Boulder and would be swiftly deported.

And still our craven European governments support genocidal, murderous, threat to humanity, Israel.
Israeli forces kill 51 Palestinians waiting for flour at Gaza aid site, witnesses and rescuers say - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74zj9kv2xjo

Israeli forces kill 51 Palestinians waiting for flour at Gaza aid site, witnesses and rescuers say
It is potentially the deadliest of the almost daily shootings that have been taking place recently near aid distribution sites.

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
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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…

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

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-ch…

How the Biosphere 2 experiment changed our understanding of the Earth
In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, oceans and savannah.

"Climate futures: What’s ahead for our world beyond 1.5°C of warming?"
#Climate #ClimateChange #ParisAgreement

Climate futures: What’s ahead for our world beyond 1.5°C of warming?
This story is the first article of a two-part Mongabay mini-series exploring possible climate futures. Read Part One. Humanity stands at a critical juncture in the climate emergency: As countries worldwide prepare to submit their climate commitments for the next decade, scientists report mounting evidence that we are very close to breaching the 1.5° Celsius […]

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.

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

"The humanitarian cause is humanity share mission." fordert der chinesische Sprecher vor dem ICJ.
Die Staaten, voran das #Terrorregime #Netanjahu und Darth #Trump benehmen sich wie Leute beim Somm…

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…

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

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

We've been pacing ourselves watching #blackmirror because there is only so much bleak dystopian sci-fi we can absorb in one go. Last night's episode was "Hotel Reverie" which was actually semi-uplifting in the end. Combined with the happy-ish ending of "Bête Noir" we might even get to the end of the season not totally depressed about the future of humanity.

Quite rich for someone that just sold his business for 6 billion to OpenAI
« When I first moved here I came because it was characterized by people who genuinely saw that their purpose was in service to humanity, to inspire people and help people create. I don't feel that way about this place right now. »
https://

Rosie O'Donnell is a threat to humanity! Rosie O'Donnell is America's Godzilla.

🌌 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.

Sam Altman says "intelligence and energy", the "limiters on human progress", will be abundant in the 2030s, and superintelligence should be widely distributed (Sam Altman)
https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity

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!

Some people think the Bible is hard to understand. (They probably haven't read and studied it.) What's hard to understand is politics and human society in general. God knows the mind of man; a person looking at humanity in general can only come away confused and frustrated.
#thoughts

The Societal Impact of Foundation Models: Advancing Evidence-based AI Policy
Rishi Bommasani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23123 https://

The Societal Impact of Foundation Models: Advancing Evidence-based AI Policy
Artificial intelligence is humanity's most promising technology because of the remarkable capabilities offered by foundation models. Yet, the same technology brings confusion and consternation: foundation models are poorly understood and they may precipitate a wide array of harms. This dissertation explains how technology and society coevolve in the age of AI, organized around three themes. First, the conceptual framing: the capabilities, risks, and the supply chain that grounds foundation mode…

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

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…

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…

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 ^_^

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.

Well-deserved recognition for YDS alum and Dean's Advisory Council member Jerry W Henry '80 M.Div. in this recent article. Grateful for his leadership and service! #WeAreCalled https://forhumanity…

"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 […]

Inkspot: A stress-resilient, anthocyanin rich, dwarf tomato variant for off-world cultivation
Sarah Lang, A'nya Buckner, Solomon Jones, Gabriel Erwin, Sally Lee, Rafael Loureiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16890

This gives me hope in humanity.
Also gives me hope that if we got this much signatures (like 60% I think?) in just two days maybe we can still get the Stop Killing Games thing to pass too.
(Stop Killing Games: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home
Make sure to also sign the conversion therapy ban if you haven’t yet, the more signatures the merrier: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home )

I love that Whonix got an official account on Gab...which bans anyone using Whonix and kindly asks users to disable their Whonix before connecting.
I don't think I'll be using Whonix for the foreseeable future.
It's not about your technical brilliance because if you've thrown humanity under the bus we will simply replace you.
More proof that programmers might get superiority complex and think they are god.

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
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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…

🤾 Building a giant catcher's mitt on the moon
#moon

Building a giant catcher's mitt on the moon
Members of the space exploration community are always coming up with novel ideas to solve problems that they view as holding back humanity's expansion into the cosmos. One such problem that has become more noticeable of late, due to the failure of several powered lunar landers, is the difficulty of landing on the moon.

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.

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
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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…

I'm going to the Orb Store to verify my humanity. This is probably going to replace Bar Mitzvahs.

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…

Risks of AI-driven product development and strategies for their mitigation
Jan G\"opfert, Jann M. Weinand, Patrick Kuckertz, Noah Pflugradt, Jochen Lin{\ss}en
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00047

Risks of AI-driven product development and strategies for their mitigation
Humanity is progressing towards automated product development, a trend that promises faster creation of better products and thus the acceleration of technological progress. However, increasing reliance on non-human agents for this process introduces many risks. This perspective aims to initiate a discussion on these risks and appropriate mitigation strategies. To this end, we outline a set of principles for safer AI-driven product development which emphasize human oversight, accountability, and…

"The destruction of the climate by industrial processes is a real-world problem. If programming language selection has no impact on it, then maybe we’re all just wasting our time, creating shiny consumer distractions to make the last few years of humanity that little more palatable for the richest 1% of the world’s human population."

This is who he has ALWAYS been. From 1989!
R. Crumb: HUP comix #3 1989
#MadKingDonald #MafiaDon #TrumpCrimeFamily

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Lava La Rue:
🎵 Humanity
#NowPlaying #LavaLaRue
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

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

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure https://popularcultureandtheology.com/2025/06/20/blue-lights-insurmountable-debt-and-the-affordances-of-its-erasure/

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…