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Health authorities in France reported the first-ever recorded human infection and death associated with the Shamonda virus.
The patient passed away in a hospice in Lyon and was reportedly already suffering from a serious underlying illness.

France's agricultural and health departments have stated that they do not see a health risk to the general population at this stage, as the virus is not considered highly transmissible to or between humans.

Question: Any ideas for what I use instead of a shoe to represent my human character?
For my tabletop game prototype (which is an adaptation of my digital game in dev), I have a shoe to represent the human figure. Its a game about bugs working together to stop the human destroying the backyard. I want to give the sense of size disparity and the clomping nature of the human stepping on them.
I've just found out there is a superstition around shoes on tables: it's bad luck.…

I was at an apolitical event honoring people finishing their academic degrees in the health sector recently, and the last speech, sort of as if it was added as an after thought, tried to give a political message, which received immense applause, but just wasn't a message to me.
The speaker said “we need to be loud against all organizations that are against humanitarian principles”. My first thought was: Wow, we can't even name the dangerous ideology anymore, yet alone the organization…

Canva launches Craft, its first image generation model, trained on human-designed templates, available to all users, with plans to support third-party chatbots (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/canva-releases-its-first-image-generati…

Canva releases its first image generation model | TechCrunch
Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.

Nothing in the humanities academe is simultaneously so awe-inspiring and dispiriting as going through applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position. What a profoundly broken world in which none of these people have permanent jobs.

The Democrats’ focus on affordability seems to be a winning strategy
(we’ll know for sure in a little over two weeks).
But we mustn’t lose sight of the
moral squalor at the core of the Trump regime and the necessity of ending it.
It’s that moral squalor
– the utter disregard for the opinions, norms and ideals of the nation and, for that matter, of humanity
– that uniquely marks Trump and the reprobates he has attracted to Washington.
It has also po…

America must reverse Trump’s moral squalor
The president shows a unique disregard for the opinions, norms and ideals of the nation – and, for that matter, humanity

"Bullshit universities: the future of automated education"
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02340-8
"[…] The dream that AI could teach students effectively neglects the importance of ‘learning how’ in order to ‘learn that’, that teachers are also role models, and t…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@wiredenespanol/117479652625574491
Esto a mi me parece una excelente medida como parte de las regulaciones a la IA. Evitar que simule ser humano y quienes usan chatbots como servicio deberían dejar muy claro sin dejar lug…

@… @… looking forward to that, we'll see if it's clanker, human, or cyborg made 🤪

Microsoft says its GPT-5-powered Diagnostic Orchestrator uses agents that mimic panels of experts to diagnose conditions up to 4x more accurately than doctors (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

Microsoft says its AI tool is better than doctors at diagnosing conditions
In new research, Microsoft’s AI tool diagnosed medical cases up to four times more accurately than human physicians.