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Ukraine
20% of the arable land not usable because of war.
Despite recent battlefield successes against Russia, the Ukrainian government is pessimistic about agriculture. These squares of land are either mined, part of the battlefield, or occupied by Russia.
At least 20% of Ukraine's agricultural land will not be usable in the coming year, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Markiyan Dmytrasevych reported online on October 25 to the Agriculture Committee of the European Parliament in Brussels.
Difficult mine clearance
He pointed out that these areas are either mined or part of the battlefield or are located in the Russian-occupied areas. The deputy head of department explained that only around 60% of the arable land could currently be cultivated. Depending on how the situation will develop next spring, the proportion of areas that cannot be harvested in 2023 could even rise to 40%.
Mine clearance in particular is proving difficult. What his country needs now is primarily seeds. Deliveries of this could help to till the areas with summer fruits in the spring – as far as possible. When asked by the EU agricultural politicians about the help they wanted, Dmytrasevych reiterated his government's demand for trucks in order to be able to force the transport of grain along the solidarity corridors. In this regard, the Deputy Minister clarified that Ukraine is still dependent on these solidarity corridors. He appealed to the deputies to design these export routes in the long term.
fertilizer shortage
Although transport by land is much more expensive than by sea, there is concern that Russia will not extend the grain deal to keep the Ukrainian Black Sea ports open, which is due to expire at the end of November. Therefore, Ukraine is urgently dependent on the EU for the export of its own agricultural goods, stressed Dmytrasevych.
Another problem is the shortage of fertilizers. This, too, will in all likelihood reduce the yields and harvest volume. In addition, the recently massively expanded attacks on the Ukrainian energy supply would also hit farmers hard. This applies, among other things, to dairy cow and poultry farming. Dmytrasevych therefore emphatically asked the EU to provide diesel generators. Meanwhile, members of the Agriculture Committee pointed out that there were also bottlenecks in some parts of the EU. The spokesmen for agriculture for the liberal parliamentary group Renew Europe (RE) and the Greens/EFA, Ulrike Müller and Martin Häusling, stated that there is currently a shortage of diesel generators in the European Union as well.
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The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year.
A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease.
Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk."
One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks.
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The "fly brain" controlled release is likely what has the big AI labs spooked.
We are running fly brains in web browsers while creating emergent properties quite easily.
Google Research would not have released their most cutting edge or capable brain for the masses to mess around with and we can assume that they now have internal access to artificial brains which rival human capabilities and beyond.
Now imagine those artificial super brains in hyper scale data centers that run massive arrays of them.
In 2021, I first heard of artificial brains being used to control satellites and brushed it off as science fiction.
God created humans. Humans created LLMs. And LLMs now seem to be creating artificial brains and potentially artificial consciousness.
You should embrace as much of the new technology as you are allowed to access.
Acceleration is inevitable.
https://x.com/CodeMonkeyZ/status/2099170168442077247
There you go... This entire "AI is going to kill us" was an orchestrated psyop.
Dario Amodei was on @FaceNationCBS ...
Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.
You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.
I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.
But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.
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