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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 Tragedy of Avian Flu: Charting the Panzootic That is Redrawing the World’s Flyways

News Update As of late October 2025, the H5N1 avian flu crisis has entered a tense new phase as the autumn bird migration puts Northern...

Epitaph for the Marl: The South-Western Barred Bandicoot

News in brief — October 2025 IUCN has listed the Marl / south-western barred bandicoot (Perameles myosuros) as Extinct (EX) in its latest global Red...

Epitaph for the Slender-billed Curlew

News in brief — 11 October 2025 IUCN has officially listed the Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) as Extinct (EX) in its Red List update released...

The New Titans: An Analysis of the 2025 Large Language Model Competitive Landscape

Section 1: The State of the Sentient Machine The year 2025 marks a pivotal inflection point in the history of artificial intelligence. What began as...

The Large Language Model Landscape of October 2025: A New Era of Intelligence

The race for AI supremacy has entered its most dynamic phase yet. As we stand in October 2025, the large language model ecosystem has...

Epitaph for the Christmas Island Shrew

News in brief — 10 October 2025 The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has officially declared the Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura) extinct,...

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