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Sunday, February 9th, 2025
| Time |
Event |
| 5:46a |
Iran non-nuclear agreement restarting?
Amazingly, the wrecker wants to
negotiate
a new non-nuclear agreement
with Iran, which would replace the one he canceled in 2019.
It remains to be seen whether these two parties could actually make a deal.
Both tend to be very hard to negotiate with.
If they do, I will say that is good. However, let's keep a sense of
proportion. This success, if it happens, would not come near to
compensating for the harm he has done to the US in the past 3 weeks,
or the wrong of
the
rigged election of 2024. | | 10:38a |
Air pollution
*Air
pollution reduces
people’s ability to focus on everyday tasks, study finds. Even
brief exposure to particulate matter found to impede selective
attention and emotional recognition.*
| | 10:38a |
Ukraine robotic military vehicles
Ukraine's military intends
to make
armed robotic vehicles to deploy at the front.
*"Our goal is to create a military where innovative technologies help
perform the most dangerous tasks, saving the lives of our defenders,"
he said.*
That goal is fine, but is this an autonomous killer robot? I can't
tell from the brief notice in that article, but It sounds like one.
No one should be the first to introduce autonomous killer robots into
the world. The west should not allow Ukraine to do it.
Israel did something like it, by using a machine learning system
to choose
targets for human-controlled weapons. The expectation that human
control over weapons will avoid some atrocities presumes that human
soldiers are fighting a war to defeat another army, not a campaign of
hatred.
| | 10:38a |
Australia rain
Parts of Australia had
over 2
feet of rain in 24 hours,
and over
7 feet in the past week.
People
are cut
off, without potable water and electricity and out of food.
Where and when such things happen is largely random, but the fact that
they get much worse nowadays is part of global heating. So we can
expect it to get much worse over coming decades.
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Large TB outbreak hamstrung, KS
In a small part of Kansas, tuberculosis has increased to a level that
US
public health would never have allowed. Republican attacks on
public health organizations, both state and federal, are interfering
with the normal response when tuberculosis starts to increase.
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