A century & a half ago, Confederate Gen Joseph Orville Shelby splashed into the wild waters of the Rio Grande off this border city & fled to Mexico, refusing to surrender to Union soldiers.
Now the park named in his honor (?) has become a front line in a feud between the #state & the #federal govt — a power struggle over who ultimately has the right to control the border….
Unprecedented migration has made this #border county’s 74 miles of riverfront the scene of an unfolding #human & #constitutional drama. The huge number of #migrants who have crossed the river & the crackdown designed to stop that flow have attracted the attention of everyone from #ImmigrantRights activists to #racist#militias curious to see whether the #federal supremacy that withstood a civil war will survive once more.
The Senate voted Tuesday night against a measure that would have commissioned a report on U.S. aid to Israel and examined whether the country has violated international human rights standards in its ongoing war in Gaza....
"“Most #Israelis don’t know much about #Palestinians. They think they are terrorists, all of them, or vague images with no names, no faces, no family, no homes, no hopes,”Baruchin said. “What I am trying to do in my posts is present Palestinians as #human beings.”
The role of human curators is not just to select and present content but to imbue the digital landscape with a sense of reliability and authenticity that only human insight can provide. In an age where technology can easily mislead or overwhelm, trusting in human curation becomes not a preference but a necessity for preserving the quality of the information that shapes our understanding of the world.
Again, it's rather passive measure when you drop #NotAI badge on your profile and works (this approach is prone to being abused by the same bots). The real change is in the eye of beholder, i. e. the reader.
In the end of the day, you trust the reader to discern whether your things are generated by #AI or not. If you already put what's so #human in your creations and if it's not something generic, it beams and outshines machine without all these marks and stamps.
In zwölf afrikanischen Ländern werden verstärkt Gesetze als Unterdrückungs-instrumente gegen lesbische, schwule, bisexuelle, trans und intergeschlechtliche Menschen eingesetzt. In einer neuen Analyse dokumentiert Amnesty International die dramatische Verschlechterung ihrer Lage im letzten Jahr.
I will probably do nothing useful — an assertion based on the last 5 years — but I spent some time today laying out plans for Humanlinks.org with modules to help@free some areas of tech that are perverted by rampant capitalism.
Hopefully when it’s done it will have taken down Google, LinkedIn & UpWork & Tinder :-)
More realistically maybe it can one day be useful for a few people.
Once the basic service works I’d hopefully like to promote also use of #human tag which would help find human written content, as opposed to the AI Large Language Trash that is being emptied upon us.
“…a deep truth about AI: that the story of AI being managed by a ‘human in the loop’ is a fantasy, because humans are neurologically incapable of maintaining vigilance in watching for rare occurrences.”
Recent human-induced atmospheric drying across Europe unprecedented in the last 400 years - combined #treering#18O analyses, Earth System model simulations and observations of the water vapour pressure deficit (#VPD) of the air show that this is due to #human influence. If the #atmosphere continues to #dry, impacts on natural ecosystem services, the #forestry and #agricultural sector and human #health are anticipated.
A stupid simple idea for a better human only web search with built in moderation leveraging the fediverse admin power.
Each post / article on the web only needs a link in a public timeline post on fedi (mastodon, write freely or any activity pub compatible system). And a tag like #HumanLinks
Search engines returns and indexes only such links, along with instance which it is posted on. Your client filters only your allowed instances (ideally the ones you trust and haven’t blocked).
In #High School, in the early 1960s, despite having watched all too many movies about World War Two, #Nazis, and “Good Germans,” I still didn’t get it. How could so many typical, normal, caring, DNA-inscribed human beings become active advocates of or at most sedentary critics of the rise of #Facism and its deployment against so many other caring #human beings?
According to the findings that were sent to Haaretz, Mara'i's chest was bruised and his ribs and breastbone were broken. There were also signs of external bruises to his head, neck, back, buttocks, left arm and thigh. According to the autopsy report, he was healthy and had no preexisting conditions before his imprisonment....
“modern AI compares favorably to human reasoning primarily because human reasoning is no great shakes. The vast majority of what passes for human thought is just memorization and sophisticated pattern matching.
“This is why I'm so confident that AI will reach human level in the near future. First, because I don't think ‘human level’ is all that extraordinary. At heart, we are overclocked apes.”
Senate scuttles resolution to secure human rights report on Israel aid (www.courthousenews.com)
The Senate voted Tuesday night against a measure that would have commissioned a report on U.S. aid to Israel and examined whether the country has violated international human rights standards in its ongoing war in Gaza....
Neanderthal DNA may explain why some of us are morning people (www.theguardian.com) Polish
Scientists find genes inherited from our prehistoric cousins increase tendency to rise early – useful in regions with short winter days
Six Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons during the war, two found bruised (www.haaretz.com)
According to the findings that were sent to Haaretz, Mara'i's chest was bruised and his ribs and breastbone were broken. There were also signs of external bruises to his head, neck, back, buttocks, left arm and thigh. According to the autopsy report, he was healthy and had no preexisting conditions before his imprisonment....