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Alarmed by this global political shift. Danger alert for #canpoli so trying to raise my voice. Climate.
Small business owner. Pluviophile. #BC #bcpoli #canadasky
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6/6 Dennis Sandgathe of Simon Fraser University suggests the tech might have been discovered and forgotten many times over millennia.

"We’d all love to find a piece of pyrite... We’d pounce on it if it showed up."

Meghan Bartels for Scientific American
www.scientificamerican.com/article/anci...
Ancient Humans Were Making Fire 350,000 Years Earlier Than Scientists Realized
Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose has been difficult for scientists to pin down
www.scientificamerican.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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It's the new link-farming. These sitea are being used to 'organically' influence new LLM's and impacr search results. They're not actually meant to be used, just to be seen by search engines and AI
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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7/7 Leadership won't be secured by weakening guardrails. It requires rules built to withstand real adversaries.

"The United States should not be lobbied out of protecting its own future."

Chuck Hagel for The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Banning AI Regulation Would Be a Disaster
The United States should not be lobbied out of protecting its own future.
www.theatlantic.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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3/7 Adversaries know unregulated algorithms are attractive targets.

A single manipulated output can shut down power or destabilize markets.

The Pentagon warns of "data poisoning," while intelligence shows China, Russia, and Iran investing heavily in model theft and insider recruitment.
December 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM