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Donated milk reaches Cuba amid deepening shortages | Food News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/6/1/donated-milk-reaches-cuba-amid-deepening-shortages?traffic_source=rss

Hoy le he dado como caja a mi juguetito nuevo 😅
Ahora vamos con la querida Cancamusa.
«Dopamina»
#Cancamusa #CD #NowPlaying

Sources: Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Meta have recently hired experts in psychology, ethics, and philosophy as they expand machine consciousness research (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/53e14bcc-788c-4959-b260-7aee363594bc

Multisensory learning recruits visual neurons into an olfactory memory engram
Zeynep Okray, Nils Otto, Anna A. Cook, Clifford Talbot, Ashwin Miriyala, Mart\'in Klappenbach, Ciara Stern, Kieran Desmond, Paola Vargas-Gutierrez, Scott Waddell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.28007 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.28007 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.28007
arXiv:2604.28007v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Associating multiple sensory cues with a single experience or object is a fundamental process that improves object recognition and memory performance. However, neural mechanisms that bind sensory features during learning and augment memory expression are unknown. Here we demonstrate multisensory appetitive and aversive memory in Drosophila. Combining colours and odours improved memory performance, even when each sensory modality was tested alone. Temporal control of neuronal function revealed visually-selective mushroom body Kenyon Cells (KCs) to be required for enhancement of visual and olfactory memory recall after multisensory training. Synapse-level connectomics suggests that valence-relevant dopaminergic reinforcement could permit the KC-spanning serotonergic DPM neurons to bridge between previously modality-selective KC streams. Consistent with this model, DPM transmission is uniquely required during multisensory memory formation and for enhanced expression of olfactory memory afterwards. In addition, signalling via the DopR1 dopamine receptor is required in APL neurons, suggesting that reinforcing dopamine could locally release GABA-ergic inhibition to permit bridging microcircuits to function. Cross-modal binding thereby expands the KCs representing the olfactory memory engram into those representing the colour. We propose that broadening of the engram improves memory performance after multisensory learning and permits a single sensory feature to retrieve the memory of the multimodal experience.
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Orgasms improve mental health, suppressing stress hormones like cortisol and releasing dopamine and oxytocin; women with robust sex lives report less depression and anxiety.

Agatha, a linearly re-typed dialect of JavaScript, is an attempt at defining a programming language that's difficult for LLMs, but still ergonomic and useful for building serious programs. 1100 words - 5.5 minutes
https://felix.dognebula.com/art/linear-agatha.html

Gradually making my way through Dwarkesh Patel's oral history of Generative AI.
Big picture: Many AI designers seem to believe that because their software is smarter than they expected, it will inevitably become smarter than them.

Sightline Institute is seeking two part-time contributors, based in Alaska and British Columbia respectively, to help advance abundant housing options.
https://www.sightline.org/about/careers/

Careers | Sightline Institute
Sightline is Cascadia’s sustainability think tank. We aim to set the region’s long-term agenda by defining the region’s largest sustainability challenges and describing the most effective solutions for meeting them. We believe true sustainability exists at the intersection of environmental health and social justice.

Demis Hassabis says he still broadly expects AGI around 2030, though he now sees 2029 as a possibility, and 2026's "agentic era" is a "bit like a practice run" (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/26/deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis
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DeepMind CEO: AI agents are a "practice run" for AGI
Demis Hassabis warns we're not prepared for how quickly these systems are advancing.