We May Be Misreading Our Dogs' Emotions in Surprising Ways

Dogs have been 'man's best friend' for thousands of years, which is a long time to get to know each other.

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Ancient southern Africans took genetic #evolution in a new direction
Their #DNA is more varied than modern #humans, including gene tweaks enhancing sun protection
Unrecognized #genetic changes common to all ancient and modern #HomoSapiens spread in #Africa more than 300,000ya. After that human evolution experienced regional twist. Ancient southern Africans evolved an array of genetic tweaks largely independently of humans in other parts of Africa
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-southern-africa-gene-evolution
https://archive.ph/qWNuR
Ancient southern Africans took genetic evolution in a new direction

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

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If we wanted to, we cud WALK AWAY from it ALL 🎩👒🪖👛🤑

#humans #living
(so many have already n “unhoUsed”)

The people who want to replace humans with AI or relish making life for humans miserable have feels:

AI firm Anthropic said 'it needed to protect the AI’s “welfare”'.

Elmo wrote '“torturing AI is not OK”.'

Oh, and someone programmed LLMs to refer to the collection of bytes in the human first person singular "I".

My pet rock wishes all of you a Happy New Year!

#LLM #AI #HappyNewYear #humans #reason

We're creating a new #species that will be smarter than us and what could possibly go wrong.

To be fair, looking at the way #humans act, being smarter than us maybe isn't such a tall order.

#ai #agi #superintelligence #YoshuaBengio

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/30/ai-pull-plug-pioneer-technology-rights

AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer

Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio warns against granting legal rights to cutting-edge technology

The Guardian

The #Mathematical #Language of #Consciousness : Medium

What are #Passkeys really? The simple explanation - for anyone tired of #Passwords : Misc

Great #Apes are #Humans’ closest #Relatives, but many are #Endangered by #Illegal trading. : Misc

Latest #KnowledgeLinks

https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks

Most People Give Up New Year's Resolutions. Here's How to Turn Failure Positive.
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https://www.sciencealert.com/most-people-give-up-new-years-resolutions-heres-how-to-turn-failure-positive
#Humans
Most People Give Up New Year's Resolutions. Here's How to Turn Failure Positive.

Every year, many of us bravely announce our resolutions for the new year.

ScienceAlert
Why Do Songs Get Stuck in Your Head? A Psychologist Explains Earworms
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https://www.sciencealert.com/why-do-songs-get-stuck-in-your-head-a-psychologist-explains-earworms
#Humans
Why Do Songs Get Stuck in Your Head? A Psychologist Explains Earworms

You're reading a report and trying to concentrate.

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If drinking water in the wild is so dangerous, how the first humans survived at all?

And if is so important to be hydrated how they weren't in a state of constant dehydration?

#FediQuestion #Anthropology #Humans

coming up shortly #warandpeas #humans #years