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PLEASE boycott ChatGPT if you aren't already. Just the 2 most recent reasons among a long list. Links for these follow. ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman, Boss of OpenAI

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Schools banned a record 12,000 books in a year, according to annual report

Public schools banned nearly 12,000 books in the past year, says PEN America. That's the most since tracking began 5 years ago. "Many of the bans were in Florida and Texas.... School district administrators rely increasingly on AI to determine which books should be pulled." tinyurl.com/35edktjk

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Themes of race, sexuality and gender remain common reasons to ban books, as some school administrators use AI to determine what gets pulled, a new report finds.

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www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/s...

Darwin was hardly an outlier in this belief. Doctors of the time also assumed babies were not conscious, and that assumption shaped their care of babies for generations. During surgery on newborns, for example, it was common not to use anesthesia; the drugs might damage a young brain — if babies weren’t conscious, what was the value of making them unconscious? As recently as the 1980s, doctors routinely withheld anesthesia from newborns, seeing no benefits that might offset the risks.

Doctors have since reversed this practice, as the study of babies has matured. More recent research has found, for instance, that newborns process pain signals in many regions of the brain, suggesting that their experience is similar to that of older children and adults.

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What Are the Biggest Questions in Science Today? 100 Scientists Weigh In. (Gift Article)

What fun! Kudos to The New York Times. Be sure to read the 2nd part of this post. There's a quote from one of the articles, "Are Babies Conscious?" that you will never forget, I'll bet. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/s...

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We asked 100 scientists about unsolved problems in their fields. They sent back provocations — on the origins of life, the possibilities for human progress and much more.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 05/10/2026

These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of Oct. 5, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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Judith Taylor @earther.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

From today's "On the Record" news quiz via Washington Post. See 2 of 2 for answer. Seattle just did this, too, but not all of #WA. We need to get it extended statewide.

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John Fellowes @jrf66.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"The UK has avoided the need for gas imports worth £5.9bn since the start of the Hormuz crisis as a result of record generation from wind and solar" www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-win...

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Analysis: Wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis - Carbon Brief

The UK has avoided gas imports worth £5.9bn since the start of the Hormuz crisis as a result of record electricity generation from wind and solar.

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That I'll vote because I want a change but I don't see the change their offering, so far, worth supporting. It all seems so far gone that it feels hopeless.

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washingtonstatestandard.com

The ranchers pay very low fees for their cattle herds to graze on public land. They're raising those animals only to sell them too be slaughtered -- all for profits. They are on or too close to wolves' habitat. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/10/01/w...

Wolves in SE Washington pack to be killed ‘incrementally’ by state officials after livestock attacks • Washington State Standard

Agency officials could not say how many wolves would be killed, but said other nonlethal measures would not be appropriate for the situation.

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The Dems say that the first things they'll do is start another Trump impeachment process + an investigation into his sons' profits from involvement. And James Talarico took over my phone before I was fully awake today, shouting to send him $ right away. I live about 2000 miles from Texas. 2+2=

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Wellbeing Economy Alliance

"A Wellbeing Economy is an economy designed to serve people and planet, not the other way around. In a Wellbeing Economy, the rules, norms and incentives are set up to deliver quality of life and flourishing for all people, in harmony with our environment, by default." weall.org

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Can the Threat of AI Awaken Humanity? By David Korten davidkorten.org/special-news...

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Meant to include this: Jennifer Ackerman pictured with a Great Gray Owl. © Sofia Runarsdotter

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Jennifer Ackerman: www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/593...

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"Being human, even under the best circumstances, is difficult work, if for no other reason than our foreknowledge of our own deaths and all the complications this fact rains upon our hopes and beliefs, and even every moment of being." - Erik Lindberg

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Down here, we all still stand with Canada, too. Except for ....

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It reminds me of how vehemently women reacted to the transition to the Internet. They were afraid of getting stalked. Tim Berners-Lee's graphical user interface, aka GUI, for the web. Rather than reading a description of the red dress on sale at X, they could see it. And buy it. That changed all.

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