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The platform exposing exactly how much copyrighted art is used by AI tools From 007 to Elsa, Vermillio claims it can trace percentage of AI-generated image drawn from pre-existing material

The platform exposing exactly how much copyrighted art is used by AI tools

Deepest condolences Tony. Rest in peace, Ozzy. The music you four made changed the world and will live on forever.

I just can’t believe it! My dear dear friend Ozzy has passed away only weeks after our show at Villa Park.

How little we’ve seen: A visual coverage estimate of the deep seafloor In decades of deep-sea exploration, humans have observed only 0.001% of the deep seafloor, leaving 66% of planet Earth unseen.

Fast-forward 4 years and a ton of research later, and my initial estimate remains the same--we've seen ~0.001% of the deep seafloor, an area approx the same as the size of Rhode Island.

@oceandiscleague.bsky.social published this work in @science.org Advances today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

CO₂ concentrations are already higher than during the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period, 3-3.3 million years ago, when global sea levels were 5 to 25 meters higher than today!

We are in uncharted territory and most people are (kept) completely oblivious.

Bizarre that they lack data for Canada, S. Korea, Norway, Iceland, and much of the EU, yet somehow have it for most of the world.

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B.C. says U.S. has paused Columbia River Treaty talks amid Trump tensions | Globalnews.ca British Columbia's Energy Ministry says in a news release that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration 'is conducting a broad review of its international engagement.'

The Columbia River feels the ripple of growing US Canada tensions

#USCanada #WaterManagement

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My smartwatch just congratulated me on my workout. I had a shower.

Kicking Horse is no longer Canadian, owned by the global Lavazza Group since 2017.

Meanwhile, the Russian National Anthem replaces the Star Spangled Banner

If Zelenskyy really were a dictator, Trump would be cozying up to him

nature climate change Explore content About the journal ~ Publish with us v nature › nature climate change › brief communications › article Brief Communication Open access Published: 10 February 2025 Twelve months at 1.5 °C signals earlier than expected breach of Paris Agreement threshold Alex J. Cannon Nature Climate Change (2025) | Cite this article 396 Altmetric Metrics

nature climate change Explore content v About the journal Publish with us v nature › nature climate change › brief communications › article Brief Communication | Open access | Published: 10 February 2025 A year above 1.5 °C signals that Earth is most probably within the 20-year period that will reach the Paris Agreement limit Emanuele Bevacqua , Carl-Friedrich Schleussner & Jakob Zscheischler Nature Climate Change (2025) Cite this article 319 Altmetric Metrics

Two studies published yesterday in Nature Climate Change find that Earth has effectively already warmed 1.5°C.

Yes, this seems to be happening silently, but to be clear: over 1.5C of heating some places become uninhabitable and the risk of tipping points rises enormously.

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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

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Me as well

EP 282 Tyson Yunkaporta on Indigenous Law, Lore, and Learning - The Jim Rutt Show Jim talks with Tyson Yunkaporta about the ideas in his new book Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking.

🎙️ w/ Tyson Yunkaporta on *Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking.*

Sand Talk‘s impact, wrong canoes, lore vs law, Aboriginal knowledge systems & peer review, art as store of capital vs communal knowledge, how to be a deeply spiritual skeptical atheist, and much more.

Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security Number The billionaire and his DOGE agents were reportedly granted full access to the Treasury’s federal payments system, and nobody knows to what end.

"Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."
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Can a "theory of everything" explain complexity from atoms and molecules to societies? The answer is negative, and even within physics, emergent, irreducible phenomena exist. Check this @pnas.org paper by @sfiscience.bsky.social co-founder David Pines and RB Laughlin pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Bone Iver

The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...

Today, Donald Trump doubled down on his vows to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine.

Here are some steps you can take to evade it.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Looks like the 'No Trousers Tube Ride' had a strong 'Trousers Optional' vibe this year.

2024 breaks a global warming threshold while the world's biggest players step back from climate action.

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From:
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Hottest year on record sent planet past 1.5C of heating for first time in 2024 Highest recorded temperatures supercharged extreme weather – with worse to come, EU data shows

In 2016, world leaders met in Paris and pledged to limit global warming to 1.5°C. In 2024, that line was crossed.
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Tesla's Annual Sales Dropped for the First Time—but the EV Industry Keeps Growing Electric vehicle sales are growing globally overall, despite Tesla's recent slump.

Electric vehicle sales are growing globally overall, despite Tesla's recent slump.

Knowing only the building blocks of our own biosphere, can we predict how life may exist on other planets? A paper in Interface Focus takes questions like this out of science fiction and into scientific laws.
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Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the… The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Vall…

This one puts the crazy state of the world in some historical perspective:

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