What if you could build an epidemic outbreak prediction model in minutes rather than weeks? Title: Planetary prediction engine: Automating global models via Earth AI URL: Google's Planetary Prediction Engine (PPE) automatically builds geospatial prediction models from natural language queries. For problems like public health, food security, and infectious disease outbreaks, it compresses weeks of manual data curation and feature engineering into minutes — no specialized engineering team required. Key Points 🌍 A three-stage automated pipeline — from query to model Stage 1 translates natural language into geographic constraints and retrieves covariates from Data Commons and Google Earth Engine. Stage 2 fuses structured covariates with embeddings from Population Dynamics Foundation Models and AlphaEarth. Stage 3 searches across regularized linear models, gradient-boosted trees, and MLPs. Each stage embeds a "Feature Gate" (leakage prevention) and an "Overfitting Guard Protocol" (self-correcting risk assessment). 🔬 Multimodal fusion outperforms either modality alone — across every experiment Combining structured statistical covariates with latent foundation model embeddings captures information neither source provides individually. This synergy was confirmed across all experiments, establishing a new architectural pattern for geospatial prediction. 📊 Validated across three high-stakes domains ・US CDC health indicators (21 types): R² 76.8% vs 60.0% baseline ・Nigeria food security downscaling: R² 66.1% vs 31.5% baseline (2× improvement) ・DRC Ebola outbreak prediction: Recall@10 83.3% (+10.3 percentage points vs Bayesian baseline) The real impact is democratization: humanitarian organizations and researchers without dedicated engineering teams can now get evidence-based predictions within minutes when it matters most. #EarthAI# #PublicHealth#

"We have socialism already...the fire stations we call upon" Sure, if we ignore the fire engines, PPE, hoses, gated wyes, tankers, retardant, copters, chainsaws, and everything they use to save lives are created by private industry and only made possible through capitalist private sector supply chains. Let's not forget, while the rest of the Palisades burned to the ground because our socialist government leaders slashed the LAFD budget by $17M, Rick Caruso hired private firefighters to successfully save all of his assets in the Village. Fire departments aren't socialist...they operate in a MIXED ECONOMY. This is basic economics, folks. I can't tell if these socialists are filthy liars, or they're really just this stupid. Maybe it's both?

Every country has its national security concerns. This is legitimate. At the same time the Chinese Embassy also has legitimate rights and obligations to protect the safety and lawful rights and interests of Chinese nationals. We received report from Chinese workers of Sanjia Steel Corporation of what happened to them. Working photos show that factory employees, both Chinese and Filipino, wore only regular occupational workwear on duty. No one wore personal protective equipment (PPE). However, on the day of the raid, a group of law enforcement personnel made three Chinese workers put on PPE and pose for photographs on site, and subsequently made a great deal of publicity out of that. Secretary Teodoro told reporters in an interview that “this was identified especially in Sanja, where the Chinese workers have PPE. They know that it’s dangerous, but the Filipino workers have no protection. That’s why the Filipinos are victims.” We have to ask: is this national security concern or fabricated narrative through staged photos and framing? ——Spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy Ji Lingpeng

🚨#BREAKING#: An Ohio construction crew heard tiny SCREAMS coming from INSIDE a massive excavator… They crawled underneath, started taking the machine apart, and found a tiny KITTEN trapped inside. They saved her life, then they ADOPTED HER AND GAVE HER A JOB. 😂❤️ Her name is Sue, she even has her own custom-made hard hat and safety vest. On July 14, a crew from River Reach Construction was working at a job site in Leavittsburg, Ohio, when operating supervisor Chase Guello heard something strange coming from one of their excavators. At first it sounded almost like a faint beep or screech. So Chase started looking. He climbed onto the machine and looked down into the engine bay… …and there was a TINY ORANGE KITTEN walking around inside the excavator. There was no easy way to reach her, so Chase crawled UNDERNEATH the machine and started removing the skid plate. Finally, out popped this absolutely tiny kitten. Their “rescue mission of the day” had gone from fixing construction equipment to saving a little life. 😂 The guys brought her straight into their air-conditioned office trailer and started taking care of her. They spent DAYS searching the area for her mother or any siblings because they didn’t want to separate her from a family that might still be nearby. They couldn’t find another cat. So the construction crew decided this little girl was their problem now, s they found an experienced foster family who could properly care for her while she was still tiny, and for the next two weeks she was nursed back to health. And obviously a kitten discovered inside an excavator needed an appropriate name. The machine was a Komatsu. So they named her… KOMATSU. Sue for short. 😂😂😂 It gets even better. Videos of Sue’s rescue started spreading online and eventually reached the people at KOMATSU THEMSELVES. So the company sent their smallest new employee some proper PPE: A TINY SAFETY VEST. AND A TINY HARD HAT. 😭😂❤️ After two weeks in foster care, Sue was healthy enough to return to the people who found her. River Reach’s shop mechanic, Jared, and his family are giving her a permanent home. And once Sue is old enough, Jared plans to bring her back and forth to work with him. Her official position??? SHOP CAT. Chase said something about the whole thing that I absolutely love. "We sometimes get stereotyped as rough around the edges and not having feelings, but we still care for such a little kitten.” Millions of people have now watched Sue’s story. All because a construction worker heard a tiny noise inside a gigantic machine… …and cared enough to stop what he was doing and find out what it was. Good work, boys. 🇺🇸