10 #Marketing #Risks That Actually Paid Off
https://listverse.com/2025/04/05/10-marketing-risks-that-actually-paid-off/
»#Google #Deepmind says #AGI might #outthink #humans by 2030, and it's planning for the #risks detailing its approach to developing #safe artificial general intelligence (#AGI).« https://the-decoder.com/google-deepmind-says-agi-might-outthink-humans-by-2030-and-its-planning-for-the-risks/?eicker.news #tech #media
Crypto for Humans: Lessons from the Bybit Hack
https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2025/03/18/crypto-for-humans-lessons-from-the-bybit-hack
"The logging industry is finding ways to get around the so-called ban."
"A loophole in the law banning Victoria's native timber harvesting means logging projects can still go ahead as the state government passes project approval responsibility to local councils."
"How could it be that a local council would have the expertise, the biological and ecological expertise, to approve logging in an area? When you log and regenerate an area of native forest … that same area of forest becomes much more flammable for a prolonged period of time," Professor Lindenmayer said. "I don't think that we should be adding that extra fire burden for rural and regional people to have to deal with."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-03/timber-harvesting-ban-loophole-victoria/105123078
#LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #bushfire #risks #conservation #biodiversity #wildlife #forests #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #council
The world may be a little crazy right now, but at least:
1. The days are longer than the nights. #Spring
2. Good people are rising up.
3. #Artists, #actors & #musicians are in full #creative mode.
4. Now has never been a better time to do something creative.
5. The value of #positivity is now known.
6. The value of #mentalhealth is now known.
7. The value of taking #risks is now known.
8. #Courage & #compassion everywhere.
@Fiona : proper risk analysis takes into account EVERY weakness.
Even *if* you are right that Threema does *not* use forward secrecy, AFAIK the servers are not in located in the US and neither are the developers.
The chances that an orange haired idiot orders Threema to build in a backdoor and STFU about it, are therefore lower than with *ANY* US-associated whatsever signaling app.
(Me: just a longtime happy Threema user, without any PhD, but believing to understand what forward secrecy means. Including that if missing FS poses a risk to a specific user, that user has a *LOT* more to worry about - including which phone and which OS to use anyway).
P.S. are you (the reader) still using email?
A federal judge has ordered #Trump admin ofcls involved in #ElonMusk’s “opaque” #DOGE to #testify under oath in one of the many sprawling lawsuits seeking to block DOGE’s access to sensitive govt databases.
US Dist Judge John Bates agreed Thurs that “very limited” efforts to question ofcls connected to DOGE would help clarify what exactly the group is doing & whether it poses the #risks to sensitive data that govt employees fear.
#law #privacy #InfoSec #NationalSecurity
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.48.0_2.pdf
While #Trump has acknowledged that his policies could bring some *initial* pain [like how he said #COVID would be over in 2 weeks], the early warning signs suggest that his blunt approach could come w/more ominous #risks to the #economy.
“There’s more #uncertainty than I think is widely appreciated,” said Michael Strain, an economist at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.
Dekleva is now at the #EPA in a crucial job: She…has the authority to approve new #chemicals…. Earlier she spent 32yrs at Dupont, the chemical maker, before joining…the first #Trump admin.
Her most recent employer, the chemicals #lobbying group, has made reversing the EPA’s course on #formaldehyde a priority & is pushing to abolish a program under which the agency assess the #risks of chemicals to human #health.
Blind optimism is not a cure for blind pessimism
https://bigthink.com/thinking/blind-optimism-is-not-a-cure-for-blind-pessimism/
Zero road deaths - An unmet target
"Time-series projecting road traffic fatalities in Australia: Insights for targeted safety interventions
Projections for 2030, 2040, and 2050 show Australia won't achieve its zero-fatalities vision."
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020138325000269
#MobilityDesign #roads #cars #speeding #RoadTrafficFatalities #RTFs #ZeroRoadDeaths #failure #holidays #travel #rural #risks #Bellingen #enforcement #ActiveTransport
Digital painting: Ambiguous impulses for your own mental cinema!
#kunst #contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #digitalPainting #virtualPainting #aiAssistedArt #digitalArt #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanrights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #colourful #colours #diversity #queer #identity #despair #roleModels #genderJustice #equalrights #squat #crouch #cower #uncertainty #unsecure #risks #prejudices #gossip
Intentional road crashes
In Australia, fatal road crashes are climbing again.
"Suicide or accident? The hidden complexities of intentional road crashes in Australia
International research suggests driver suicides may account for up to 8–9% of all fatal road crashes. But studies indicate up to half of these cases may go unreported."
"Between 2001 and 2017, the rate of suicide involving a road vehicle collision in Australia nearly doubled from 0.125 per 100,000 people to 0.25 per 100,000. "
"Unlike most other suicide methods, road vehicle collisions pose a significant risk to others.Intentional crashes can involve unsuspecting drivers, passengers and pedestrians, turning a personal act of self-harm into a broader public safety issue."
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https://theconversation.com/suicide-or-accident-the-hidden-complexities-of-intentional-road-crashes-in-australia-248673
#cars #drivers #crashes #males #violence #accident #pedestrians #harm #risks #mentalhealth #rage #roads #mobilitydesign #speed #FossilFuel #acceleration
From @shayneredford: "AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone"
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/11/1111518/ai-crawler-wars-closed-web/
(#paywalled)
"Crawlers are endemic. Now representing half of all internet traffic, they will soon outpace human traffic… As of late, they serve one more purpose: Companies such as OpenAI use web-crawled data to train their artificial intelligence systems…Websites are now fighting back for fear that this invasive species…will help displace them. But…this pushback is also threatening the transparency and open borders of the web…Unless we are thoughtful about how we fix this, the web will increasingly be fortified with logins, paywalls, and access tolls that inhibit not just AI but the biodiversity of real users and useful crawlers."
The cost of preventing extinction of Australia’s priority species
"It would cost $15.6 billion per year for 30 years to prevent extinction for 99 of Australia’s priority species. The cost to reverse the decline of priority species and undo damage done by habitat loss, disease and other threats was estimated at $103.7 billion annually, while getting them off the threatened list entirely would require $157.7 billion per year.”
"Biodiversity loss and ecosystems collapse is ranked by the World Economic Forum as the second most significant global risk over the next decade, with 50 per cent of the global economy dependent on nature. " >>
https://news.griffith.edu.au/2025/02/04/the-cost-of-preventing-extinction-of-australias-priority-species/
Australians spent over $33 billion on their pets last year.
https://www.dogster.com/statistics/pet-spending-statistics-australia
#biodiversity #ecosystems #extinction #risks #wildlife #SettlerSociety #pets #Australia #NaturePositive #values
Connell Park is currently undergoing redevelopment.
The park is the shire's primary sporting facility.
Various herbicides were used in the sport field construction. >>
https://www.bellingen.nsw.gov.au/Services/Infrastructure-Projects/Connell-Park-Precinct-Development
The following herbicides were used:
• Glyphosate
• Halosulfuron-Methyl
• Metsulfuron Methyl
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https://www.bellingen.nsw.gov.au/files/sharedassets/public/v/1/files/infrastructure/connell-park-herbicide-use-notification.pdf
#herbicide #glyphosate #Bellingen #sport #children #soil #risks #FossilFuel #climate
Consider the risk profiles of different 
