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If you don’t like artists having opinions and speaking out on social and political issues, you need to face facts, you don’t like art. You like being entertained.
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❤️ No Animals Left Behind ❤️
Portugal Changes the Law: Animals Will No Longer Be Left Behind in a Fire or a Flood
For years, animals simply did not exist in most emergency protocols. When the fire or the water arrived, their rescue depended on the goodwill of neighbors and crews acting without training or adequate resources.
That has just changed in Portugal.
Law No. 38/2026, published on August 3, 2026, amends Portugal's Civil Protection Framework Law to include animals as victims who must be evacuated and cared for during an emergency. The measure requires rescue operations to be coordinated with specialized veterinary teams and designates the Directorate-General for Food and Veterinary Affairs (DGAV) as the central body in the system.
The law also creates the role of animal health and welfare representative within civil protection plans. This person, appointed by the DGAV, will act as the link between emergency teams and veterinary services. Representatives from municipal health authorities and from organizations specialized in animal search and rescue are also incorporated into the plans.
The law takes effect on August 8, 2026.
After the fires that swept through thousands of hectares in southern Europe this past July, the absence of a unified animal rescue plan became evident once again. Portugal is responding with a concrete decision: plan the rescue before the disaster begins, not during it.
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Crying for whales harmed by sonar, for trees that stand in silence for decades only to be cut down in hours, for animals forced from their habitats into fires, noise, and destruction they never learned to escape, and for rivers and oceans choked by pollution.
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Not everyone is able to rescue animals. But everyone is in a position to stop harming them.
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The fact we are going to have our first trillionaire before everyone has access to clean drinking water is proof our current system is not for the greater good but for the greedy.
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Paper link: arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
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🚨BREAKING: OpenAI published a paper proving that ChatGPT will always make things up.
Not sometimes. Not until the next update. Always. They proved it with math.
Even with perfect training data and unlimited computing power, AI models will still confidently tell you things that are completely false. This isn't a bug they're working on. It's baked into how these systems work at a fundamental level.
And their own numbers are brutal. OpenAI's o1 reasoning model hallucinates 16% of the time. Their newer o3 model? 33%. Their newest o4-mini? 48%. Nearly half of what their most recent model tells you could be fabricated. The "smarter" models are actually getting worse at telling the truth.
Here's why it can't be fixed. Language models work by predicting the next word based on probability. When they hit something uncertain, they don't pause. They don't flag it. They guess. And they guess with complete confidence, because that's exactly what they were trained to do.
The researchers looked at the 10 biggest AI benchmarks used to measure how good these models are. 9 out of 10 give the same score for saying "I don't know" as for giving a completely wrong answer: zero points. The entire testing system literally punishes honesty and rewards guessing.
So the AI learned the optimal strategy: always guess. Never admit uncertainty. Sound confident even when you're making it up.
OpenAI's proposed fix? Have ChatGPT say "I don't know" when it's unsure. Their own math shows this would mean roughly 30% of your questions get no answer. Imagine asking ChatGPT something three times out of ten and getting "I'm not confident enough to respond." Users would leave overnight. So the fix exists, but it would kill the product.
This isn't just OpenAI's problem. DeepMind and Tsinghua University independently reached the same conclusion. Three of the world's top AI labs, working separately, all agree: this is permanent.
Every time ChatGPT gives you an answer, ask yourself: is this real, or is it just a confident guess?
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autistic person: *asks clarifying question*
neurotypical person: why are you arguing with me
