🧬🐟 The #Amazon #molly, an all-female #fish from #Texas and #Mexico rivers, has cloned itself for over 100,000 years – long past the predicted extinction deadline.

A 2026 #Nature #study by researchers at University of #Missouri and LMU #Munich shows the fish uses “gene conversion,” a #DNA repair trick, to erase bad #mutations and spread good ones without #sex.

👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-finally-know-how-an-all-female-fish-keeps-cloning-itself

#genetics #evolution #cloning #parthenogenesis #genome #geneconversion #reproduction #biology #science

Scientists Finally Know How an All-Female Fish Keeps Cloning Itself

It may sound too bizarre to be true, but the Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa), a fish that inhabits rivers, lakes, and swamps in Mexico and Texas, exists over much of its range in populations that are 100% female.

ScienceAlert

Is it possible to copyright our personal identities? I.E. our names, our looks, our unique turns of phrase, our walks and other physicality? Can we copyright our genome?

The answer is 'no', but with #AI it is already possible to create slop videos of us. With #cloning it will someday be possible to create physical copies of us, albeit not actually being us because genetics isn't everything.

And I, for one, want some recourse if that happens. I want to sue the bastards.

#futurism

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Human cloning - Wikipedia

AI Speech Technologies

This page is a collection of notes and links related to AI speech technologies, including Text-to-Speech (TTS), Speech-to-Text (STT), voice synthesis, voice cloning, and other rela(...)

#ai #cloning #speech #stt #synthesis #tts #voice #whisper

https://taoofmac.com/space/ai/speech?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Alternativ zum MATE Desktop gibt es jetzt auch ein freies Image zum Klonen von Labdoo mit dem XFCE Desktop. Basis bleibt bei beiden Versionen Linux Mint.
Mehr zu den Hintergründen, warum wir eine weitere Benutzeroberfläche hinzunehmen und wo ihr es herunterladen könnt lest Ihr hier
https://platform.labdoo.org/content/new-image-based-linux-mint-xfce-now-available-neues-image-auf-basis-von-linux-mint-xfce
#Labdoo #MATE #XFCE #LinuxMint #Linux #desktop #alternative #image #cloning
The emergence of nonconsensual #cloning of coworkers, bosses and ex-partners is a new challenge to our sense of right and wrong, and yet another way #AI is challenging us to step up and figure out how to respond.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4168535/ai-clones-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly.html
AI clones: the good, the bad, and the ugly

It’s not that difficult nowadays to create an AI chatbot that can talk and respond like a real, actual person. But if the person being ‘cloned’ doesn’t consent, is it wrong?

Computerworld

AI Speech Technologies

This page is a collection of notes and links related to AI speech technologies, including Text-to-Speech (TTS), Speech-to-Text (STT), voice synthesis, voice cloning, and other rela(...)

#ai #cloning #speech #stt #synthesis #tts #voice #whisper

https://taoofmac.com/space/ai/speech?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

The Amazon molly — a sex-skipping fish — hacks #evolution
Amazon molly is an evolutionary enigma: an all-female fish reproduces by #cloning itself. Because it doesn’t mix its #DNA with a mate’s, Darwinian logic holds that harmful mutations should pile up over time, eventually driving species extinct.
Yet the molly (Poecilia formosa) has stubbornly refused to follow that script. That seems to be because the #fish’s #genome repeatedly rewrites itself
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sex-skipping-fish-hacks-evolution-gene
https://archive.ph/DONzF
The Amazon molly — a sex-skipping fish — hacks evolution

The Amazon molly reproduces without sex. A genomic copy-and-paste trick called gene conversion may explain how it avoids evolutionary meltdown.

Science News

Mamdani’s Luxury Property Tax Forcing More Billionaires To Choose Between Clone Organ Harvesting or Private Gladitorial Arenas

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thehardtimes.net/breaking/mamdanis-luxury-property-tax-forcing-more-billionaires-to-choose-between-clone-organ-harvesting-or-private-gladitorial-arenas/