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The Backbone of Kindness: Rekindling Our Oldest Virtue in Troubled Times

Kindness is not niceness. Kevin J. Parker argues it is civilisation's load-bearing structure—the backbone on which coexistence depends

The Digital Deva: The Future Relationship of Humans with Artificial Intelligence

As regular readers of this blog know I have an abiding interest in Artificial Intelligence, and, in particular, it's potential to develop proto-consciousness, or,...

Why the World Is Burning: The 2026 Wildfire Crisis Explained

Inside the 2026 wildfire crisis across Europe and Canada — the climate and land-use causes, the human and ecological cost, and what actually works.

Large Language Model Update August 2026- The Defenders Dilemma as Hugging Face Gets Cracked

An AI sandbox breach exposed a new risk: powerful agents can turn tools and permissions into action, leaving guardrail-bound defenders at a disadvantage.

The Large Language Model Landscape in December 2025

How 2025 ends with an open-source surge, sovereign models, and a hard look at AI’s physical footprint. In the first days of December 2025, the...

Labor–Greens Deal: A New Era for Australia’s Environment Laws

CANBERRA — For a quarter of a century, the silence of the Australian bush—broken only by the crash of falling timber and the quiet...

Nature Positive November 2025: Inside Australia’s Historic Environmental Law Overhaul

Executive Summary In November 2025, the Australian Parliament enacted a transformative suite of environmental legislation, fundamentally reshaping the Commonwealth’s approach to biodiversity conservation, project assessment,...

Doomscrolling, Inc.: Inside the Attention Industry’s Global Expansion—and How to Fight Back

As of November 2025, the world is at a critical inflection point in the attention economy: billions of users remain tethered to designed-to-be addictive...

Where We Stand in the Climate Crisis: November 2025

The article explores climate risks, global emissions, and AI’s role in resilience—urging urgent action to avoid tipping points and secure a livable future.

The Large Language Model Landscape of November 2025

A Cambrian Month in AI It only took a month for the AI world to feel reborn. October 2025 came and went in a flash...

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