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Hollywood likes to be up to date with identity politics and is regulated by:

• AMPAS - overall benchmarks of diversity, main one.
  
• Time’s Up - workspace diversity representation
  
• Color of Change Hollywood - what races to have on screen
  
• GLAAD - the LGBTQ+ representation
  

Peak Temperature records were broken in European countries, including:

• 45.1°C in Spain, 
  
• 43.8°C in France, 
  
• 41.7°C in Germany, and 
  
• 41.9°C in the Czech Republic.
  

I'm in a career that AI doesn't influence that much, but with now few years of AI dominating the headlines, it stills begs the question where it will be used or abused next.

AI acts of input of information and using a prompt provides the result. So it's easy more or less to anticipate where it will lean as new technology arrives.

e.g. Neuralink + AI. Both are being integrated between each other to allow for control of information created/thoughts. Next stage will likely be to influence the brain to react to the chip's "result". To create new memories, visions or feelings.

At any point when technology or external influence is applied, that should ring a bell to individuals as influence of their willpower which they're surrendering. It might be obvious at first, but with time, just like with mobile phones people will still fall for the trap "willingly". That would be not because they're deciding to, but no one taught them otherwise.

I think AI is likely to be made to take not only some of the work, but parts of life, just like with art, it will be integrated everywhere until it's more useful and seen as superior to any human in those areas.

But that's primarily economical. As the vise tightens, everyone will be forced to recognize human value in things, mostly people that are close and experiences with them. Advancement at some degree will cause separation of AI and self, due to vast advancement that won't be understood or that useful to everyday people. It's technology that will go beyond our reach.

Although national grids are "99%" reliable, funny enough, new nuclear powerplants are proposed to keep datacenters going which will be the edge to make them reliably powered for decades at a time. Corporations and countries will prioritize advancement of AI and reliability and very likely to achieve great things at great cost.

Some red lines will be drawn for themselves just to see how far they can go, of course not considering any negative influence to humanity, only promoting liberation from workload and care and saving money. But when everyone is using the same "time-saving" tools, less people are made to produce more, reduce prices, and less people benefit from doing work which is being phased out. In economic field, AI gives a short boost, but long term there's not much benefit to collective, except for medical filed.

One of great advantages of AI is that it can be trained to identify problems and provide accurate solutions, unlike self-diagnosis using a search engine few years ago that always went wrong and misdiagnosed, just because some pages were more popular or had better SEO, rather than accurate. 

I had a personal experience to attest to increased accuracy. A relative of mine got various symptoms that I described and asked it to suggest a diagnosis, to my surprise, that's what the doctors have found. And it wasn't an everyday illness, not something that I've heard about before.

So the benefit is there in the medical, content generation (although often more misused or used just because lack of effort), various engineering. Biology is the tricky one that will likely make some good and bad headlines. Some AI models are becoming more capable of reasoning that can step into creativity and make new discoveries. Completely digitizing bio-lab will likely make immense advancements.. for profit and domination of course. Well, we may get limb regeneration at some point, or "universal" vaccines, but only when it can't be held onto due to competition between corporations and countries.

It is promised to give us all the solutions, but I see that it's a new era of problems as well, which will extend it's reach over individuals' lives and decisions.

Are there known interesting developments that are on the horizon that will shake up the humanity?

It's easier than ever to reach for your phone for no reason whatsoever. 

YouTube or tiktok are made to make you feel in touch with global reality, while keeping you entertained. 

While it seems harmless, we don't realize how much time it goes on just staring at your phone. I would challenge you to enable digital well-being tracking app and see how many hours you spend. 

First step is to realize the problem is there. No matter what your daily usage is, ask yourself if the time was well spent.

Be it, 3 or 7 hours on the weekend, that is way more than considerable amount of time that is dedicated to nothing but watching garbage. It's well known to the platforms how they do their job so well that it's considered manipulation of attention. They are designed to pretty much hack your mind to keep you interested and entertained. 

Maybe after seeing how much time you spend on daily basis, you will realize how much potential is wasted. 

When you look up something on YouTube that you're interested in, new tailored suggestion is already loaded for you. God forbid you open shorts or tiktok, and you find yourself on the train with endless tracks. 

Your second step is action. You are in charge of that scrolling. What can you do for yourself, to fill that time? You can try to deassociate yourself from your liked videos and comment contributions, what's the fact that it stay and is always waiting for you at any moment you pick up your phone, calls for deliberate rejection of temptation. 

When you feel like you need another hit, your hand is already in the pocket ready to open that app. 

It takes some adjusting, as soon as you find the substitute, you begin to migrate. 

Your substitutes must be good for you. The best thing to think about straight away - are your plans, and tasks at hand. If it's your free time, make sure to have a project to go to. If it's at work, it's easy - just get to work, because that's what you're there to do. 

Being aware of your pitfalls, gives you the power to influence them.

You will see that with more power you can break any chains you put yourself into. 

Whatever is keeping you entertained on those apps, just realize that they are there just for your consumption. Even reports of global events, are made to be consumed. Often even instilling fear that if you miss out, then you will be in the worse position. And for a common person it's not easy to be distinguish what can be serious, or another black hole of attention. 

Is best to practice to be aware how not to get sucked in, value your attention.

I finished my studies that I wanted to do, which one may imagine helped to develop.

But watching the world change, introduce AI, one begs the question - what are the consequences of keeping kids in the same system that teaches less than basics about life itself, while the world changes so much?

It seems that the biggest mission of educational facilities is to keep everyone organized like sardines, but where is the use when it's so uniform? Every individual is so different, with many talents that are thrown aside to complete not so practical work. 

The facilities are there, but has anyone considered efficiency or interests of the students?

I like to stay in the loop, and watch out for recent or new developments, but have come to realise that many events are politicized or "new policies" that are being enforced.

It's not hard to imagine various ideas and pretty much cults forming with their own collective opinions or conspiracies.

My guess is that economic conspiracies are always there with the slightest hickup in trading. UFO guys reimerge every now and then with "new evidence". Looking at those things, it's easy to try to understand, but they often leave out any undeniable proof. It's a carefully constructed pyramid of logic that seems to lead to the conclusion, but never getting there.

Besides far fetched conspiracies, what are some of the less known, and well arguable things we don't know?

A powerlifter (Anatoly) pretends to be clueless about lifting, always amusing to watch his videos

The list for a year's of games is crazy - Wikipedia 2026 Game Release Dates

The list includes all the platforms - portable, mobile, console, PC.

I would be happy with a single good game, but it's hard to anticipate something good when all the focus is on realism and not a novel way of gameplay.

Any gamers here?

I've tried varius platforms that are popular - twitter, Reddit, facebook.

But they also attract individuals that will say or do anything to get positive reaction or to spew raw hate. 

What platforms/sites that can be coonsidered more civilized or less of a trainwreck that can be enjoyable to read?