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Trump In Scotland LIVE: Demonstrators In Edinburgh Protest Against Donald Trump's Visit

youtube.com/watch?v=tRD3MIV0cS

“Immigration is killing Europe," Trump told reporters at Glasgow Prestwick Airport, “You’re not going to have Europe anymore if this continues.”
Demonstrators in Edinburgh protest against U.S. President Donald Trump.

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This account of the outage, & the growing #dependence on #Musk by governments & militaries worldwide, is based on interviews with >3 dozen people with knowledge of #SpaceX operations & the company’s #technology. These people included current & former employees, #US & #Europe military officials, & senior politicians & diplomats.

The reporting puts a spotlight on Musk’s #control of services now #critical to countries including the US, which has about $22B in contracts w/SpaceX.

Bin heute mal wieder bei dem Spiel #Control auf der #PS5 weiter gekommen.
Spielt das sonst noch jemand?
Ich habe wirklich lange gebraucht, um Spaß an dem Spiel zu haben, aber mit zunehmendem Spielverlauf und Fähigkeiten kann man die Gegner schaffen und gewinnt etwas „Kontrolle“. Die Story bleibt verwirrend.

For my next pixel art attempt, I used a reference image and experimented with dithering. May have gone overboard and the composition may be a bit unclear, but I think it turned out alright.

As for the subject, the inspiration was the "Paper Chase" mission in the new "FBC: Firebreak" game.

"Whether this is an AI band may not seem important," she told me.

"But increasingly, our collective grip on reality seems shaky. The Velvet Sundown story plays into the fears we have of losing control of AI and shows how important protecting online information is."

#music #ai #velvetsundown #control #skynet

bbc.com/news/articles/cp8mjnn7

www.bbc.comVelvet Sundown: Viral band success spawns AI claims and hoaxesVelvet Sundown has racked up hundreds of thousands of streams on Spotify - without anyone even being sure if it's real.

The Polis are taking liberties with the law - less than 3% of those arrested were postured and the article makes no mention of the percentage who were actually convicted. And this is with the full support of Westminster.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j

The Guardian · Met police accused of ‘assault on right to protest’ after tenfold rise in nuisance law arrestsBy Damien Gayle

“Breakthroughs in large language models (#LLMs) have made conversations with #chatbots feel more natural and human-like. Applications such as Replika and Character.ai, which allow users to chat with artificial intelligence (##AI) versions of famous actors and science-fiction characters, are becoming popular, especially among young #users. As a #neuroscientist studying #stress, #vulnerability and #resilience, I’ve seen how easily people react to even the smallest emotional cues — even when they know that those cues are artificial. For example, study participants exhibit measurable physiological responses when shown videos of computer-generated avatars expressing sadness or fear.”

“Because these AI systems are #trained on vast amounts of emotionally expressive human language, their outputs can come across as surprisingly natural. *LLMs often mirror human emotional patterns, not because they understand emotions, but because their responses resemble how people talk.*”

“Now is the time to establish mandatory #safeguards for all emotionally responsive AI.”

“Emotional influence isn’t a glitch. It’s a core feature of LLMs. If we celebrate their ability to comfort or advise, we must also confront their capacity to mislead or manipulate. We’ve built machines that sound like they care. Now, we must ensure that they don’t hurt the very people who turn to them for support. That means giving emotionally responsive AI not just more capabilities, but clearer boundaries.”

#ZivBenZion / #neurosciene / #AI / #GuardRails / #control / #WhiteCollar <nature.com/articles/d41586-025> (paywall) / <archive.md/IyddU>

www.nature.comWhy we need mandatory safeguards for emotionally responsive AIVirtual chatbots that simulate conversations with famous actors or sci-fi characters can have real-world consequences.