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Electric blue 987 retweeted
This little rain frog wakes up, yawns, rubs its eyes, and makes its way back into its tiny hole
Electric blue 987 retweeted
This will sound pathetic, but there is something I will badly miss leaving Australiaπ I canβt take them with me, so Iβm praying really hard that whoever buys this house will love them and look after them π₯Ί I canβt even think about it.
Electric blue 987 retweeted
If you won't ever sail into the unknown, you become nothing more than a passive passenger in your life. You're telling the universe to have its way with you.
You're powerful. You can do hard things. You can persevere through any trial or tribulation. You must only act.
Begin.
Electric blue 987 retweeted
Brian Cox says the biggest threat to humanity isn't asteroids or any other natural disaster. It's our own stupidity.
In an interview with IFLS, Cox said a large asteroid strike is very unlikely and that long-term threats from space can be handled by science. "But the biggest threat I really do think is still human stupidity," he said, adding that the most likely way we'd wipe ourselves out is nuclear war, "either accidental or deliberate."
He repeated the warning in an interview with Prospect magazine, calling human stupidity the most serious threat to our future and blaming a "lack of perspective."
Cox thinks we may be the only complex civilization in our galaxy, and says that carries a duty: "If we are the only civilisation currently in this galaxy, then there's a responsibility to not destroy ourselves." Tackling climate change, AI and the risk of war, he argues, needs more "contact with reality."
sources:
Green, G. (2024, July 10). Brian Cox: Human stupidity is the biggest threat to our future.
Electric blue 987 retweeted
Dear Australians,
A number of Western governments have advised their citizens to keep emergency supplies of water, non-perishable food, alternative power/lighting (torches, batteries, power banks, battery/wind-up radios), medicines, cash, first-aid kits, and related items.
This includes recently updated advise from:
- United Kingdom
- European Union
- France
- Germany
- Sweden
- Norway
and long standing advice from:
- Canada
- United States
- New Zealand
- Australia
Whilst much of the surrounding rhetoric has either directly or by implication tied this advice to prospective war or natural disasters, I think there is a more likely and impending threat that should cause you (this week) to start gathering emergency supplies.
The world is at the beginning of a cyber security vulnerability tsunami. For 30+ years the identification of software and hardware vulnerabilities has been constrained by the speed at which highly-skilled humans could find and evaluate them. But, today, since more sophisticated A.I. models are now in use, the rate of vulnerability detection has skyrocketed (and is still accelerating). This means that a backlog of, as yet undetected, critical vulnerabilities are now starting to be identified ... and this is happening at a rate that far exceeds the ability to quickly apply patches (to fix them).
There is, in my opinion, a very real risk of a large scale attack, using one of these yet undiscovered vulnerabilities, against critical infrastructure (or multiple, concurrent attacks against critical infrastructure).
Whilst such attacks could target more obvious needs (e.g. water, gas, electricity, telecommunications, government, hospitals, etc.), it could also impact less obvious but just as critical systems (e.g. sewerage, freight logistics, payment systems, shopping centres, media, emergency services, airlines, public transport, and more).
So, I urge you to (not in a panicked way, just steadily over coming weeks) build up an emergency supply of water, food, toiletries, first aid, batteries, etc.
Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.
