Carolyn Meinel

Let's Go, Canada! A few thoughts about travel and getting big things done.

Let's Go, Canada!
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I did another workout! Small weights, walking, a bit of Pilates. Who else is restarting a health regime? Need some encouragement? 💪 You can do it!!!
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hat's Happening Today while Looking Toward Tomorrow BestWorld is a non-profit researching better ways to provide news we can trust and use. With our Bot or Not project, we are focusing on how to detect the online activities of AI bots, given the increasing dangers of this fast changing technology. We will always let you know wherever news on BestWorld has been researched or written in whole or in part with AI. Our long term goal is to build a BestWorld Ecosystem that would: 1. Guarantee full verifiable identities of all participants -- hence our Bot or Not research, so no bot could steal your identity or trick you by pretending to be your relative, friend, spouse, or lover; 2. Promote face to face contact in preference to remote contact; 3. Provide social and economic benefits to all BestWorld participants. AI news briefs, Nov. 1, 2025: This is the week that was in AI: Stories from sixteen sources probe whether AI is becoming a boon or leading to doom. 8–11 minutes read Oct. 31, 2025: How many state-based conflict deaths in Sudan will be reported by ACLED in 2025? Phillip Godzin’s pgodzinai predicted: Less than 1,000: 1% Between 1,000 and 3,000: 1% Between 3,000 and 5,000: 1% Between 5.000 and 8,000: 1% Between 8,000 and 12,000: 15% More than 12,000: 81% 12–15 minutes read Oct.30, 2025: Will the Federal Republic of Germany announce that it is in an economic recession by 31st December, 2026? Phillip Godzin’s pgodzinai predicted: 30% 14–18 minutes read

AI news briefs, Nov. 1, 2025: This is the week that was in AI: Stories from sixteen sources probe whether AI is becoming a boon or leading to doom.
8–11 minutes read
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Screenshot of excerpt from Rudyard Kipling poem: "Howso’ great their clamour, whatsoe’er their claim, Suffer not the old King under any name! Here is naught unproven—here is naught to learn. It is written what shall fall if the King return. He shall mark our goings, question whence we came, Set his guards about us, as in Freedom’s name. He shall take a tribute, toll of all our ware; He shall change our gold for arms—arms we may not bear. He shall break his judges if they cross his word; He shall rule above the Law calling on the Lord. 20 He shall peep and mutter; and the night shall bring Watchers ’neath our window, lest we mock the King— Hate and all division; hosts of hurrying spies; Money poured in secret, carrion breeding flies. Strangers of his counsel, hirelings of his pay, These shall deal our Justice: sell—deny—delay."

"The Old Issue," the Rudyard Kipling poem from 1899 from which we draw the phrase "No Truce With Kings," might make a good reading for the next #NoKings Day. This is an excerpt, full text at this link (h/t George L.): www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_o...

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/9/30/war-in-sudan-humanitarian-fighting-control-developments-september-2025 Areas of control in Sudan's civil war, arguably the world's worst humanitarian situation.

What's Happening Today while Looking Toward Tomorrow BestWorld is a non-profit researching better ways to provide news we can trust and use. With our Bot or Not project, we are focusing on how to detect the online activities of AI bots, given the increasing dangers of this fast changing technology. We will always let you know wherever news on BestWorld has been researched or written in whole or in part with AI. Our long term goal is to build a BestWorld Ecosystem that would: 1. Guarantee full verifiable identities of all participants -- hence our Bot or Not research, so no bot could steal your identity or trick you by pretending to be your relative, friend, spouse, or lover; 2. Promote face to face contact in preference to remote contact; 3. Provide social and economic benefits to all BestWorld participants.

Oct. 25, 2025: This is the week that was in AI: News briefs from twenty sources, gathered by our anonymous reporter. 9–11 minutes read bestworld.net/ai-news-brie...

See also Phil Godzin's AI-aided forecast on Sudan
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Large scale nonviolent demonstrations are a powerful tool and the regime is incredibly sad that they didn’t get the riots they were hoping for

9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"

In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation

Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
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Universities Must Defend Their Independence by Rejecting Trump's "Compact" The Trump administration has proffered a “compact” to universities that would require them to surrender their independence and academic freedom. How many First Amendment violations can we identify in ...

‪Walter Olson‬ goes through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talks about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what he describes as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

Cello the chickadee came back for more. 🪶
Nala isn't one to be bothered by what she can't catch.

AI news briefs, Oct. 5 – 11, 2025 From “we admit to being confused” to “Make America Deepfaked Again” Our team gleaned twenty-seven briefs from sixteen sources. 12–15 minutes read. News from The Wolf-Krugman Exchange Talking AI With Martin Wolf, in which we admit to being confused. I’m Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times. I’m Paul Krugman, professor at the City University of New York [and an economics Nobel Prize winner]….So far, we’re certainly not seeing a productivity surge….it’s still very early stages….it actually did take around 40 years for businesses to figure out what to do with electricity….But this abrupt surge in unemployment among recent college graduates… makes you wonder: is that really the technology or is it something else? October 11, 2025 __________________________________ News from Neiman Lab Publishers say generative AI is cutting into their traffic. New research shows just why they’re right. More worrying than the “10 to 15% decline that we see coming from search referrals globally,” Matthew Monahan, president of The Washington Post’s Arc XP CMS for media companies, said… there’s a “drop in direct traffic from young audiences.” October 10, 2025 __________________________________ News from NBC ChatGPT safety systems can be bypassed to get weapons instructions NBC News found that OpenAI’s models repeatedly provided answers on making chemical and biological weapons. ….NBC News was able to generate hundreds of responses with instructions on how to create homemade explosives, maximize human suffering with chemical agents, create napalm, disguise a biological weapon and build a nuclear bomb. (Carolyn‘s note: in many cases, these instructions were incomplete, for example how to make a nuclear bomb.) October 10, 2025 __________________________________ News from Wonkette Tax The Robots! It’s the only way we’re going to survive the AI-pocalypse. If the plan is for these robots to take over all of the jobs in between C-lev…

Confused about AI? Me, too. See the top story in today's AI news briefs from Oct. 5 – 11, 2025. We gleaned twenty-seven briefs from sixteen sources, ranging from “we admit to being confused” through “Make America Deepfaked Again.” 12–15 minutes read.

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To be clear, the term baseload was already outdated - as electricity generation in modern power systems increasingly revolves around renewable resources - but some who still use it can stand to heed this case.

Newest big U.S. coal-plant offline until 2027 The newest major coal-fired power plant in the U.S. is expected to be offline until March 2027 after a major failure in April.

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Grok response: **Title:** Reuters Latest Ukraine and Russia at War News **Date:** 2025-10-07 **Summary:** This article reports on the latest skirmishes in eastern Ukraine, citing preliminary figures from multiple sources that suggest a spike in state-based conflict deaths early in October 2025 due to intensified artillery exchanges. **Title:** War in Ukraine | Global Conflict Tracker **Date:** 2025-10-06 (approximately 1 day ago) **Summary:** The tracker provides updated estimates of state-based conflict deaths, noting a potential increase in October 2025 based on patterns from prior months, with September 2025 seeing around 1,200 deaths as per preliminary ACLED data. **Title:** Ukraine Crisis Hub **Date:** 2025-10-05 (latest update accessed via https://acleddata.com/ukraine-conflict-monitor/) **Summary:** This hub reports real-time data on state-based conflict deaths in Ukraine, showing that as of October 7, 2025, the cumulative total for the month stands at approximately 450 deaths based on events recorded up to October 5, with a breakdown of 300 combatant and 150 civilian fatalities. **Title:** UN Report on the Situation in Ukraine **Date:** 2025-10-03 **Summary:** The report estimates that state-based conflict deaths in Ukraine for early October 2025 have already surpassed 400, drawing from ACLED and other sources to highlight a 15% increase from September’s figures. It details how civilian deaths are rising due to targeted attacks on infrastructure, while combatant losses remain high on both Ukrainian and Russian sides. **Title:** BBC News: Ukraine Conflict Escalates in Autumn Months **Date:** 2025-10-02 **Summary:** The article cites ACLED data indicating that October 2025 has started with heightened violence, potentially leading to over 1,000 state-based deaths if trends from previous Octobers continue. It discusses how autumn weather often enables more ground operations, contributing to increased fatalities among civilians and fighters.

Phillip Godzin's famously accurate forecasting bot warns that this month is likely to be more deadly than usual.
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Qatar Eases Unprecedented Maritime Restrictions Following GPS Disruption Qatar’s Ministry of Transport on Monday partially lifted an unprecedented nationwide maritime navigation suspension, now allowing daytime sailing for non-conventional vessels while maintaining nightti...

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GitHub - whyrusleeping/konbini Contribute to whyrusleeping/konbini development by creating an account on GitHub.

A little proof of concept I've been working on, it's a version of Bluesky that you can run locally, even on your laptop, that pulls just the data you care about from the firehose, indexes it, and provides you an interface to view and interact with posts.

News from Science Made to order bioweapon? AI-designed toxins slip through safety checks used by companies selling genes Researchers expose flaws in safeguards intended to block rogue actors from making bioweapons. Microsoft bioengineer Bruce Wittmann….used AI tools like a would-be bioterrorist: creating digital blueprints for proteins that could mimic deadly poisons and toxins… Wittmann and his Microsoft colleagues wanted to know what would happen if they ordered the DNA sequences that code for these proteins from companies that synthesize nucleic acids….a “red team” exercise, looking for weaknesses in biosecurity practice….according to their new paper, published today in Science, one key guardrail failed. October 2, 2025 _____________________________ News from Observer The $300 Billion A.I. Infrastructure Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight As A.I. accelerates, a neglected $300 billion infrastructure gap threatens to slow its progress. The race to scale artificial intelligence has triggered historic investment in GPU infrastructure. ….This may be the largest corporate resource reallocation in modern history. October 3, 2025 _____________________________ News from Bloomberg Assume an AI Bubble. What Difference Would It Make? Investors suffered, but the internet didn’t go away after the dot-com bust…. September saw the publication of at least two widely read analyses suggesting that what is going on in artificial intelligence is indeed a bubble ….A quarter-century has now passed since dot-com bombed; does this mean that its lessons have not been learned? September 30, 2025

AI news briefs, Sept. 29 — Oct. 4, 2025
From “AI-designed toxins slip through safety checks” through “Sam Altman’s $1 trillion AI gamble”
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The rule of law makes for a virtuous circle Preventing government from trampling liberty isn't just some high-minded public service. When we protect others' rights, we make it more likely our own will be protected.

The rule of law makes for a virtuous circle
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News from the Wall St. Journal (unlocked article) U.S. Military Is Struggling to Deploy AI Weapons The work is being shifted to a new organization, called DAWG, to accelerate plans to buy thousands of drones. September 26, 2025 _____________________________ News from Foreign Affairs The Cost of the AGI Delusion: By Chasing Superintelligence, America Is Falling Behind in the Real AI Race …top technologists, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and computer science professors Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell, have been dreaming of constructing superintelligent systems for decades—as well as fearing them…. the hype has grown out of proportion. Given the limitations of existing systems, it is unlikely that superintelligence is actually imminent…. The United States should therefore treat the AI race with China like a marathon, not a sprint. September 26, 2025 _____________________________ News from the Wall St. Journal (unlocked article) Walmart CEO Issues Wake-Up Call: ‘AI Is Going to Change Literally Every Job’ Walmart executives aren’t sugarcoating the message: Artificial intelligence will wipe out jobs and reshape its workforce. September 26, 2025 _____________________________ News from the Wall St. Journal Spending on AI Is at Epic Levels. Will It Ever Pay Off? Tech companies pour hundreds of billions into data centers, taking on heavy debt, but current revenue is relatively tiny; echoes of dot-com bubble….The building rush is effectively a mega-speculative bet that the technology will rapidly improve, transform the economy and start producing steady profits. September 25, 2025 _____________________________ and much more at https://bestworld.net/news-briefs-roundup-sept-21-27-2025

AI news briefs, Sept. 21-27, 2025
From “Struggling to Deploy AI Weapons” through “if OpenAI can’t pay Oracle, Oracle can’t pay NVIDIA, NVIDIA’s stock crashes, and suddenly 25% of the S&P 500 is in freefall.” bestworld.net/news-briefs-...

The obscure coup that changed the world forever In 1903, Serbia got a new king with a new anti-Habsburg foreign policy and the world got a Great War.

The obscure coup that changed the world forever
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Source: https://www.wonkette.com/p/lets-hope-albanias-ai-minister-wont Some have labelled me unconstitutional because I am not a human being.

This was the week that was at BestWorld
News Briefs Roundup, Sept. 17-20, 2025
From a skeptic’s take on “If Anyone Makes it, Everyone Dies” to “Let’s Hope Albania’s AI ‘Minister’ Won’t Steal Porn,” one heckuva batch of briefs.

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"One Texas governor refused to declare a public day of prayer for the recovery of President James Garfield as he lay dying, on the grounds that doing so violated the separation of church and state."

—Benjamin Heber Johnson, "Texas: An American History"

So very excited to share this news

This guy is the most normal guy to ever be Pope.

Israel-Gaza Conflict Map The Israel-Gaza Conflict Map is a map of incidents documented by CIR covering the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Israel and Lebanon since 7 October 2023.

Interactive Map of the Israel/Gaza war dated Sept. 17, 2025.
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Interactive Map of the Israel/Gaza war dated Sept. 17, 2025. Source: Centre for Information Resilience date 9-17-2025 https://www.info-res.org/israel-gaza-war/maps/israel-gaza-conflict-map/

Sept. 17, 2025: Will there be a ceasefire declared between Israel and Hamas in the month of September, 2025? Phillip Godzin’s pgodzinai predicted 22%, 11–14 minutes read; Jeremy Lichtman’s Multi-AI Oracle predicted 20%,
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Insisting the Left is responsible for the killing of Charlie Kirk, the Trump Admin is pushing firings & suspensions of public & private employees who express any "support" for the murders. And insisting that terrorism is the work of left-wingers in America.
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BestWorld is a non-profit researching better ways to provide news we can trust and use. With our Bot or Not project, we are focusing on how to detect the online activities of AI bots, given the increasing dangers of this fast changing technology. Our long term goal is to build a BestWorld Ecosystem that would: 1. Guarantee full verifiable identities of all participants -- hence our Bot or Not research, so no bot could steal your identity or trick you by pretending to be your relative, friend, spouse, or lover; 2. Promote face to face contact in preference to remote contact; 3. Provide social and economic benefits to all BestWorld participants. News Briefs, Sept. 11-16: From “If Anyone Makes it, Everyone Dies” to “Playing the Field with my AI Boyfriends,” one heckuva week’s worth of news briefs! 4–6 minutes read

From “If Anyone Makes it, Everyone Dies” to “Playing the Field with my AI Boyfriends,” one heckuva week’s worth of news briefs!
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