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The Day of Happiness
the International Day of Happiness, established by the United Nations, is celebrated on March 20.
The top 9 in the latest report are:
Finland
Denmark
Iceland
Sweden
Israel
Netherlands
Norway
Luxembourg
Australia
The USA is # 23
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AI can read anything you can read
Omg, Big Brother is actively using AI. Beware of what you say in all your social media contexts. It can and will be used against you. Again, it’s not the tool that is the problem, instead it is the carpenter.
“We know that these technologies are really commonly used by companies to do tasks like screening job applicants,” said Valentin Hoffman, a researcher at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and co-author of the recent paper, published this week in arXiv, an open-access research archive from Cornell University.
In person get-togethers might return to popularity once Gen Z learns that AI has become an uninvited guest at all their internet gab festivals. Remember, AI can read Instagram and TicToc and all those other apps.
The HR departments have hired AI technicians.
The Truth of the Matter
Solar Eclipse
Yellow Dot Studios
A Tail of Fire and Ice
https://youtu.be/EFBBy8sGIx4
You Expect Me To Believe That?
Car Commercial 419
https://youtu.be/G3ZA76dttys
Market Testing
https://youtu.be/kn6NAGorSHE
Chevron Ad
https://youtu.be/S2XTGteritE
IRA Kitchen
“Cut your emissions in half every decade.”
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“Plant enough trees every year so that at least 2 live beyond a full year.”
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Most Popular Languages as of 2023
Lenovo’s transparent laptop screen is impressive – Wow
3D family trees, Adobe AI images, architectural drawings, imagine….
I voted
“This is a message from the California Secretary of State on behalf of Monterey County Election. Your ballot for the March 5, 2024, Presidential Primary Election was received and counted. Thank you for voting!”
Thank you, California, for having Vote By Mail services.
Curiosity
64K women and girls became pregnant due to rape in states with abortion bans, study estimates
“Ninety-one percent of the estimated rape-related pregnancies took place in states without exceptions for rape, according to the researchers.”. It seems like the men who are “pro-life” need rape to have children.
Eric Schmidt on recursive self-improvement — from LessWrong
AGI => we don’t need to worry until AI systems can recursively improve themselves. Then we gotta call the terminator!
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cLC2HcQbFZ5pFAgqC/eric-schmidt-on-recursive-self-improvement
Eurasian Genetic Migration and Allele Mutations
These articles were first discussed on Anthropology. net by Kambiz Kamrani where the articles in Nature were discussed and referenced. I wish Nova would make a movie showing graphically the migrations and associated SNP mutation growth. I also wish we could figure out how to eliminate the negative health issues caused by these various alleles.
https://www.anthropology.net/p/unraveling-european-genomic-mysteries
Nature
Population genomics of post-glacial western Eurasia
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06865-0
Nature
100 ancient genomes show repeated population turnovers in Neolithic Denmark
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06862-3
Nature
The selection landscape and genetic legacy of ancient Eurasians
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06705-1
Nature
Elevated genetic risk for multiple sclerosis emerged in steppe pastoralist populations
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06618-z
– Bi-sexuality
https://www.anthropology.net/p/unlocking-the-genetic-secrets-of
– Neanderthal @ 408,000 ya
https://www.anthropology.net/p/unveiling-our-neanderthal-connection
The five truths Trump hopes you will forget about 6 January 2021
Don’t come running next year when it is too late.
Revising Human Evolution: How New Methods Are Reshaping Our Ancestral Timeline
Paul Ryan said, “Trump’s not a conservative.”
“Look,” Paul Ryan said, “Trump’s not a conservative. He’s an authoritarian narcissist. So I think they basically called him out for that. He’s a populist, authoritarian narcissist.
“All of his tendencies are basically where narcissism takes him, which is whatever makes him popular, makes him feel good at any given moment.
“He doesn’t think in classical liberal-conservative terms. He thinks in an authoritarian way. And he’s been able to get a big chunk of the Republican base to follow him because he’s the culture warrior.”
Historians searching for the roots of Trumpism have generally looked to the 1990s, when another Republican speaker, Newt Gingrich, turned Congress into a scorched-earth battleground; to the rise of Fox News; or to opposition to Barack Obama, the first Black president, particularly through the Tea Party movement.
Cop28 landmark deal agreed to ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels
Despite the urging of more than 130 countries and scientists and civil society groups, the agreement did not include an explicit commitment to phase out or even phase down fossil fuels.
Instead, it reached a compromise that called on countries to contribute to global efforts to transition “away from fossil fuels in energy systems in a just, orderly and equitable manner, accelerating action in this critical decade, so as to achieve net zero by 2050 in keeping with the science”.
Wake Up Dorothy
The Open Data Institute (ODI) commissioned what may be the first documentary about AI made with AI. This short (19 minute) film by Alan Warburton is cute, hip, and thoughtful all at once. You can google The Wizard of AI or watch it here at Vimeo.
Change is coming. The question is: what kind of change will it be?
But here is the other simple truth. None of that happens if we are not prepared to stand up and fight together against the forces that work so hard to divide and conquer us. This is a moment in history that cannot be ignored. This is a struggle that cannot be sat out. The future of the planet is at stake, democracy is at stake, human decency is at stake.
Bernie Sanders
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