Futurology Today

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When I first started researching this episode about the history of solar energy, I would have never imagined it'd also include some pretty juicy details on fossil fuel company greed ...

This video has it all: facts about the sun, solar flares and electromagnetic fields, and insights into the early inventions (SO early -- the 1800s!!!) that paved the way for today's solar energy technology.

Grid layouts are Communism. We gotta have half a dozen single family developments inside of the base with at least two golf courses. That's how we preserve The American Way: Highly stratified housing and real estate scams.

United Nations human rights experts said Tuesday that a US strike on a vessel alleged to be operated by “narco-terrorists” violated the right to life. The statement follows the deadly incident in which two civilian boats were attacked on the high seas.

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Nobuo Uematsu

i have a project where i need to use a windows machine to mess with a luckfox lyra. it seems the tools are only on windows. ive gotten in the weeds too many times trying to configure a vm or wine in the past, so im hesitant to take that approach. i just decomissioned my old nas (old dell) so im thinking ill just load it up with a windows and just use that.

i know there's things like reactOs, but im wondering if there's some kind of "de-microsofted windows" build that exist. or if i should try to use something ancient like win7 or something.

im new to hardware tinkering, so maybe there's just a good guide i cant find that explains how to use wine for this purpose. otherwise i just want to find a debloated windows if it exists.

thanks

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Abstract

Although artificial intelligence enables productivity gains from delegating tasks to machines, it may facilitate the delegation of unethical behaviour. This risk is highly relevant amid the rapid rise of ‘agentic’ artificial intelligence systems. Here we demonstrate this risk by having human principals instruct machine agents to perform tasks with incentives to cheat. Requests for cheating increased when principals could induce machine dishonesty without telling the machine precisely what to do, through supervised learning or high-level goal setting. These effects held whether delegation was voluntary or mandatory. We also examined delegation via natural language to large language models. Although the cheating requests by principals were not always higher for machine agents than for human agents, compliance diverged sharply: machines were far more likely than human agents to carry out fully unethical instructions. This compliance could be curbed, but usually not eliminated, with the injection of prohibitive, task-specific guardrails. Our results highlight ethical risks in the context of increasingly accessible and powerful machine delegation, and suggest design and policy strategies to mitigate them.

New York (AFP) – A US panel stacked with figures sympathetic to the anti-vaccine movement will on Thursday take on federal immunization recommendations in a highly politicized meeting that could upend longstanding medical advice.

President Donald Trump's top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., handpicked the voting members of the medical advisory group that is expected to consider whether to alter the standard childhood vaccine schedule -- a move public health experts warn could have dire consequences.

The specific questions that will come to a vote during the two-day meeting in Atlanta aren't public, but it's expected discussion will include delaying childhood shots including against the highly contagious disease Hepatitis B.

The Covid-19 vaccine is also on the agenda, as well as the combination MMRV shot that covers measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella shot, which is offered as an alternative to separate MMR and chicken pox injections.

They're expected to discuss the small increase in risk of febrile seizures that could result from the combined MMRV jab.

Earlier this year anti-vaccine advocate Kennedy fired all 17 members of the influential Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and replaced them with members whose vaccine skepticism tracks more closely with his own.

Their first meeting promoted anti-vax themes and raised questions about long-settled medical debates.

The revised committee and its agenda has many members of the medical, scientific and policy communities concerned that ideology rather than science will guide the future of public health in the United States.

"Vaccines have added decades of life to our life expectancy. They have helped Americans live healthier lives. There's so much here that's riding," said epidemiologist Syra Madad.

She told AFP shifting the childhood vaccine schedule "is like pulling bricks out of the foundation of public health."

"It risks collapse, and creates real consequences for every community in America."

Experts including Madad say the votes could prompt unnecessary confusion and concern among parents.

Revised recommendations could also restrict federal funding of vaccines for low-income families, or shift requirements for private insurers.

Brussels (Belgium) (AFP) – EU countries will seek Thursday to settle on an emissions-cutting plan to bring to a key UN conference in Brazil, as divisions on the bloc's green agenda threaten its global leadership on climate.

Environment ministers for the 27-nation bloc are gathering in Brussels with the clock ticking down on a United Nations deadline to produce plans to fight global warming for 2035.

One of the world's biggest greenhouse-gas emitters behind China, the United States and India, the EU has to date been the most committed to climate action, by some margin.

As such the bloc was hoping to pull ahead and derive its submission to November's COP30 climate conference from a more ambitious 2040 goal.

But that is yet to be agreed by member states, leaving Brussels scrambling for a last-minute solution.

Denmark, which holds the EU's rotating presidency, has suggested submitting to the UN a "statement of intent", rather than a hard target.

That would include a pledge to cut emissions between 66.3 percent and 72.5 percent compared to 1990 levels -- with the range expected to be narrowed down at a later stage.

"This approach would ensure that (the) EU does not go to (the) UN Climate Summit empty-handed," said a spokesperson for the Danish presidency of the European Council.

But even that is hardly a done deal and talks on Thursday could prove lengthy. One European diplomat suggested reporters prepare "a sleeping bag".

Flowers are weird. Draw them exactly as you see them and they don't look real. You have to mess them up a little because true symmetry is rare in nature.

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