“𝙳𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚞𝚗𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚊 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚊𝚜𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊 𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚜 𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚎. 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕 𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚙 𝚋𝚎𝚢𝚘𝚗𝚍 𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚒𝚌.”
― 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵, 𝘋𝘶𝘯𝘦
#human
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Most people think that #evolution is about dying, but it's not really the full story. It's also about not being born at all. What if people are actually evolving under the extreme pressure of the modern capitalism? The question remains - is humanity under active eugenics and they are selecting us to be their submissive cattle or are we evolving some immunity to the parasites?
Are the few people who do have children under those terrible conditions the ones who treasure their wholesome relationships over career or those who thrive as the slaves? I don't think it's actually being studied in this context. It feels creepy to even put those questions on the table.
Nevertheless, I think that humanity after the full societal collapse will be different from Homo Sapiens. We have reached the limit of that evolutionary plateau. 300k years was a good run. Good Game people! Cheers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufmu1WD2TSk
#biology #human #eugenics #capitalism #anticapitalism #solarpunk
With the release of my novel HUMAN, I’d like to thank my multi-talented son, @ryanhodnett It is in large part his commitment to the #fediverse that has inspired me to make #HUMAN free for #FediHumans during the first week of it’s launch (use the code ‘fedihuman’ at https://bretthodnett.com/FreeHUMAN.html).
First of all, I'd like to thank Ryan for his direct assistance with the creation of HUMAN, without which, the process would have been much more painful and fraught, and the resulting story would have suffered greatly. Specifically, I would like to thank him for the creation of my website, the majority of the design and creation of the book cover, and the formatting of #HUMAN into an EPUB.
Ryan’s edits of a later draft were indispensable, and his input on the broad conceptual components of the book, as well as his identification of inconsistencies, made a huge difference to the quality of the tale.
Quite apart from Ryan’s specific contributions to this book, our long discussions on disparate topics unrelated to this book fertilized my imagination and led to many of the ideas within these pages. For that, as well as for the inspiration I derive from how Ryan approaches the world, and simply for his existence in it, I am also grateful.
bretthodnett.comHUMANA remarkable exploration of family, society, and what makes us human, HUMAN will take you from the post-apocalyptic world of the near future, to the two very different societies that emerge 15 million years later, where those few surviving individuals have evolved to become something that we might not fully recognize as human.
"#OpenAI updated #ChatGPT with new #AI image generation capabilities that make it especially good at recreating specific #visualstyles. People trying the new feature immediately flooded social media with images in the style of #StudioGhibli and Hayao #Miyazaki, who famously called #AI “an insult to life itself.”
Miyazaki’s quote comes from a 2016 documentary in which he’s shown a demo of a 3D model whose movements are animated with AI as opposed to manually, by a #human…"
https://pca.st/episode/c5fba6e6-8ff4-4bb5-b956-98395d27e287
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I just released my novel HUMAN today and for the first week I’d like to make it free to all you #FediHumans out there. Visit https://bretthodnett.com/FreeHUMAN.html and use the code ‘fedihuman’ to get your free EPUB!
bretthodnett.comHUMANA remarkable exploration of family, society, and what makes us human, HUMAN will take you from the post-apocalyptic world of the near future, to the two very different societies that emerge 15 million years later, where those few surviving individuals have evolved to become something that we might not fully recognize as human.
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... should offend every American who believes in human rights, the rule of law, and common decency. The #Constitution guarantees everyone DUE PROCESS, a right to challenge and dispute the legality of their detention or deportation IN COURT!
The latest despicable example of cruelty is the deportation of a Maryland man named Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was deported due to an 'administrative error.'
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#ruleoflaw #ElSalvador #dueprocess #human rights #fascism #immigration
The Atlantic · An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
I am appalled, alarmed, angry, and disgusted by the news about people being "disappeared" by #ICE and being taken to an El Salvador prison without their due process rights. We must stop the illegal deportations of #immigrants & #refugees with protected, green card, or other approved statuses in the US. The outrageous actions by #ICE to put these people in an El Salvador #GULAG - aka a #CONCENTRATIONCAMP -
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#ElSalvador #TheCrueltyisthepoint #dueprocess #human rights #fascism #immigration
Lyrics for the song “Human” by The Killers
#TheKillers #Human
https://daletra.com/the-killers/lyrics/human.html
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An initial response from #ChrisStringer on the problems posed by long-term separation and subsequent admixing of #human #ancestral #populations
#HotTake: Every #human should be entitled by international #law to free, unseizeable #ID documents in the form of a travel #passport to evidence their #identity and have #FreedomOfMovement as well as a chance to #flee.
- It should also be illegal to demand #biometrics like #Fingerprints which are trivial to forge anyway!
Why?
- Because in past and in present day denying the issue and/or confiscation of #passports has been used and abused solely to commit #democide, #genocide and #hatecrime both #opposition groups and #minorities.
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Millet wrote that the text of the #Copyright Act of 1976, “taken as a whole, is best read as making humanity a necessary condition for authorship.” That #law treats copyright as a heritable #property right, suggesting an entity that can’t own property or have heirs can’t be an #author. It also couches copyright terms to a #human lifespan, she noted.
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The panel declined to rule more broadly on whether or when creating an #AI or prompting it could give rise to #copyright protection, instead simply rejecting the concept of entirely autonomous authorship. It also said it didn’t need to reach the Copyright Office’s argument that the constitution itself requires #human authorship.
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The opinion by Circuit Judge Patricia A. Millett lays down the first precedential marker regarding how #copyright #law treats works created by #AI. While it sided w/the US Copyright Office’s operating position by finding #human authorship is required for registration, it could create or reinforce perceptions in creative industries that AI’s contributions to a work represent unprotectable creative choices that can be freely copied.
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#Human authorship is required for #copyright protection, a DC Circuit panel ruled in a landmark opinion that represents a setback for a push to award #IntellectualProperty protections to #AI creations.
Computer scientist Stephen Thaler argued a copyright should be registered to his AI program for 2D art titled “A Recent Entrance to Paradise.”But copyright protects human creation, & Thaler waived his alt argument that he created the work through creating the…program…
#law
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/human-authorship-required-to-register-copyright-d-c-cir-rules
news.bloomberglaw.com · Denial of Copyright to AI 'Author' Affirmed by D.C. Circuit (1)
The DC Circuit's decision in #ThalerVPerlmutter is out, ruling that #copyright #law requires that #authors be #human, not #AI, reasoning to this conclusion from the structure of the copyright statute (e.g., duration is based on the lifetime of the author)
https://media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/docs/2025/03/23-5233.pdf
via NYU Law’s Jeanne Fromer
→ Join seabirds as they #migrate, encountering #human communities along the way
https://aeon.co/videos/join-seabirds-as-they-migrate-encountering-human-communities-along-the-way
https://youtu.be/3_CqIJbZx4I
“In the town of San Quintín, #Mexico, the #seabirds’ late-fall arrival is greeted by a joyful festival. In the early spring, researchers working on the coast of the #US state of Washington engage in a tagging initiative to track their movements. And in Hooper Bay, #Alaska, […] a Yup’ik community gathers #eggs in an annual harvest that’s endured for centuries […]”
AeonJoin seabirds as they migrate, encountering human communities along the way | Aeon VideosHow three communities on North America’s west coast find meaning by interacting with the flight paths of migratory seabirds
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@terra I’m a post-menopausal cis woman and I receive gender-affirming hormone treatment. It’s considered normal and appropriate. #Female #human #genderAffirmingCare #anySex #TransRights
just like a full moon
the heart is a hallowed place
for those who believe
#MastoPrompt #hallowed
#dailyhaikuprompt - full moon
ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/falling-heart-painting-sharon-cummings.html
1.4-million-year-old skull fragments linked to mystery human ancestor.
@Gizmodo reports: "The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago."
Gizmodo · 1.4-Million-Year-Old Skull Fragments Linked to Mystery Human AncestorThe fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago.