Healthy forests are critical in the fight against climate change. On #ForestDay#, find out how #RESTAURacción’s# work in #LatinAmerica# is helping restore post-wildfire landscapes and planting the seeds for a more equitable and #sustainable# future for all. @NRCan @modelforest 🌱⬇️

The 6th Mass Extinction: What happened the last time a smarter species arrived? To the animals, we devoured their planet for no reason. Earth was paperclipped...by us. To them, WE were Paperclip Maximizers. Our goals were beyond their understanding Here’s a crazy stat: 96% of mammal biomass became 1) our food, or 2) our slaves. We literally grow them just to eat them, because we're smarter, and we like how they taste. We also geoengineered the planet. We cut down forests, poisoned rivers, and polluted the air. Imagine telling a dumber species that you destroyed their habitat for “money”. They’d say “what the hell is money?” AGIs may have goals that seem just as stupid to us (“why would an AGI destroy us to make paperclips??”) --- "But once AIs are smart enough, they’ll magically become super moral, and they won’t harm us like we harmed the animals” Maybe! But as humans got smarter, over the last 10,000 years, we didn’t stop expanding - we mostly just colonized more and more of the planet. Insect populations collapsed 41% this decade alone, yet we don’t care. Sit with that for a minute. Imagine if nearly half of the people on Earth suddenly died! That's what the insects are going through right now, due to us. What if we're the insects next? --- "But some mammals survived!” Yes, some. Most of them are in cages, waiting to be slaughtered and devoured. If you were a nonhuman animal, you likely: 1) Went extinct, or 2) Were eaten (e.g. billions of pigs, chickens on factory farms) 3) Became enslaved (e.g. draft animals) However, a few of the 8 million species got “lucky” and became… pets. --- “The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.” - @ESYudkowsky “The humans do not hate the other 8 million species, nor do they love them, but their habitats are made out of atoms which humans can use for something else.” Or as OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever said: “[After AGI] It’s pretty likely that the entire surface of the Earth will be covered with solar panels and data centers.” “A good analogy would be the way humans treat animals - when the time comes to build a highway between two cities, we are not asking the animals for permission." “I would not underestimate the difficulty of alignment of [AI systems] that are actually smarter than us.” --- Sam Altman: "We will be the first species ever to design our own descendants” "If two different species both want the same thing and only one can have it - to be the dominant species on the planet and beyond - they are going to have conflict." "We are in the process of seeing a new species grow up around us." - Mustafa Suleyman, founder of Google DeepMind and CEO of Microsoft AI --- Will the next superintelligent species cause the 7th Mass Extinction? I don’t know, but we are playing with fire.

The last piece of biodiverse urban forest cover, habitat for several protected species in Hyderabad, Telangana getting destroyed, 30+ students arrested. Since last night Bulldozers are on Action. And Hypocrisy of the Congress Party! Where are those sane voices? @RahulGandhi??? https://t.co/1aQCmnFCzV

⚡️Several passengers were killed, injured, and abducted on April 5th while traveling by bus from Bahir-Dar to Addis-Ababa on April 5th between Gohatsion and Tulumilik, Wara-Jarso Woreda (📍North Shewa Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia); survivors were taken into the forest by suspected OLA militants. #Amhara_War_Updates#

In spite of the 14 years of mediocre economic performance NC has endured under @NCGOP control in the #NCGA#, Wake Forest continues to grow and thrive! I'm grateful for the responsible and steadfast leadership that we have had in @WakeForest_NC and in #WakeCounty#. https://t.co/MDJiAEt47J

Know Thy Enemy 1 Peter 5:8 Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Sun Tzu, a Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher, once said, "Know thy enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated." Knowing ourselves alone is like a blind archer shooting arrows at a target, hoping one will hit the bullseye. Knowing ourselves and our enemy is like an archer with eagle-eye vision, and with every arrow he shoots, he will surely hit the bullseye. Therefore, we cannot walk naively through life, blind to our enemy, knowing nothing of him except his name. Ignorance is not bliss. In the book of Hosea, GOD said, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children."  Who is our enemy? Anything or anyone that turns us away from GOD is our enemy. Therefore, as children of GOD, we cannot be as innocent as doves but also as wise as serpents to know who our enemy is. We cannot be like Eve, knowing good and not evil or knowing light and not darkness. She is not at fault because she has not taken the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil during that time to know the existence of evil. She only knew a friend but not a foe, good but not evil, that could turn her fate for the worse. Hence, she was as innocent as doves. We cannot be like that because within us is the knowledge of good and evil, so we must be more than innocent as doves but as wise as serpents to know the traps of evil. We cannot be living in a fool's paradise, thinking that GOD will save us from the hand of the devourer. He will not since He did not save Adam and Eve from the deceit of the Serpent that led them into suffering, pain and death. Why would he make an exception for us? To beware of our enemy, we should never let anyone sweet-talk us into believing anything that seems too good to be true—it probably is. GOD's actions speak louder than His Words. Unless those gifts are under goodwill, everything of GOD, protection, provision, blessings, or promises requires us to walk on the tightrope of obedience. Even though Eve is ignorant, naive, or impressionable, she could not have fallen into the Serpent's lie if she had walked tightly on the rope of obedience. God's protection and provision are only found in obedience, and anything out of obedience is out of His protection. Hence, once Adam and Eve disobeyed, they had to leave Eden away from GOD's protection and provision. GOD did not show them leniency even when they were first-time offenders deserving a second chance.  Once fallen, the second chance only came a few thousand years later in the form of Jesus Christ. Even if we are given a second chance, it does not exempt us from being disobedient to do as we wish. We still have to be obedient in the face of temptations. Even if Jesus's love covers all sins, it does not mean we can continue sinning. Anyone who continues to sin shows he is unrepentant. Forgiveness requires a repentance heart and demands us to turn over a new leaf. If there is no change and transformation, it will mean that there is no repentance. In the epistle of 1 John, John states, "No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him." That implies that knowing GOD will teach us to stop sinning, which is where forgiveness comes in. If we keep sinning, then we need more than forgiveness; we need tolerance. But GOD is willing only to forgive sin, not tolerate sin. Coming back to what is written in the book of Hosea, we are destroyed by a lack of knowledge because we have rejected knowledge. At face value, we are blockheaded to reject knowledge, but in reality, our fallen nature refuses to accept the things of GOD. It is written in the Epistle of Galatians, 'For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so you do not do what you want.' Therefore, no matter how hard we endeavour, as long as our flesh is alive, we will refuse to learn. It is not that we do not want to, but we cannot because the flesh, our gatekeeper, has a natural rejection of the law. The law of GOD goes in one ear and out the other. Metaphorically, we are like a filter that absorbs all evil influences and sieves out all good. Through the prophet Hosea, GOD reprimanded the Jews for being blockheaded, but it is not a Jewish problem but a universal one. Anyone who wants to become a child of GOD will face the issue of incompatibility of their fallen nature with GOD's. They are like oil and water, immiscible. Indirectly, GOD is saying through the prophet Hosea that whoever rejects the law is incompatible with Him and cannot be His children. Therefore, anyone holding on to his flesh becomes an enemy of GOD and cannot be his child. In today's context, many believe that once their sins are forgiven, it means that God has accepted them as who they are—fallen beings. Do not be deceived. If this is true, then many things cannot add up. If the blood of Jesus can wash away our sins and transform our fallen nature, then Jesus would not ask us to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him. Jesus's blood can only wash away our sins but not transform our fallen nature. When Jesus said, "It is finished." And bowing His head, He yielded up His Spirit. It does not mean that, with His death, we are free from our fallen nature. Our enemy hopes we will believe that. Jesus meant He had finished his mission on earth. He conquered man's eternal death so that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life. If Jesus's death is enough to put to death our fallen nature, then it is redundant for Jesus to ask us to deny ourselves. That is to say, Jesus has done His part, figuratively, to bring us to the water. We must drink the water ourselves. If we want to belong to Christ Jesus, according to the Epistle of Galatians, we must crucify the flesh with its passions and desires. No one can do that for us except ourselves. We hold the last piece of the puzzle to salvation as we have the final say - to crucify or not to crucify our flesh. Now, standing between God and us is our common enemy, the fallen nature. With Christ's death on the cross for our sins, God no longer holds against us for the old debt, which is committed by our fallen nature. God is willing to let bygones be bygones. However, bygones will never be bygones if we keep sinning by listening to our fallen nature, keeping the beast alive. In the epistle of Romans, Paul states, 'For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.' This verse refutes the catchphrase of 'once saved, always saved.' No one is saved until they put to death the deeds of the body. That is to say, if there is no death of our fallen nature, we will not be saved. When we believe in GOD, He expects us to be transformed. A confused mind is the devil's playground. Therefore, we must be clear of the changes between the old and the new covenants. Jesus came to fulfil the old covenant by His death on the cross, bringing about the new covenant. If we are not clear about the change, then we will be like Eve, falling into our enemy's deceit. To understand this change, we must understand Paul's writing by understanding who he is. Jesus recruited Apostle Paul after He had resurrected, in a spiritual encounter, where Jesus appeared to Paul in an audible voice. Paul is unlike Jesus's twelve disciples, who among them were fishermen, tax collectors and peasants. Paul was a Pharisee, a student of Gamaliel, a man held in great esteem by all Jews. Therefore, Paul was not a nobody like the rest but someone proficient in the Law of Moses. He wrote and contributed about fourteen out of the twenty-seven epistles of the New Testament, having a dominant no lesser than Jesus's disciples. Instead of selecting one of the twelve disciples whom Jesus closely taught to champion the post-Christ movement, GOD chose Paul, who had never met Jesus and didn't claim to have met him. Paul is similar to Moses, who was taught by the best of the Egyptian court, and Paul, who was trained by Gamaliel, recognized as a Pharisee doctor of Jewish Law. Through Moses, GOD established the Old Covenant and through Paul, the New Covenant. Many of Paul's writings are challenging to comprehend and are unlike those written by Jesus's disciples, who are narrations of Jesus's ministry. Paul's writing expounds on the ministry of the Holy Spirit. When we put to death the deeds of the body, we are no longer under the law but under the Holy Spirit. Jesus's death parted a way for those who believe in Him to walk out of the bondage of sin like GOD parted the Red Sea for the Israelites to leave the bondage of Egypt. Unless we are willing to sin no more, we will not move out of the bondage of sin. The good news is the door remains open and will be opened forever to anyone who wants to leave their sin behind. The contention is not about the open door but who is exiting through the door. Many praise GOD for His goodness for the open door, but no one is leaving their Sodom and Gomorrah because they love sinning too much to leave. Therefore, no matter how good GOD is, it has nothing to do with anyone unless he wants to stop sinning. After evaluating all that Christ has done by His death on the cross, Paul still warns us that if we live according to the flesh, we will die, implying that the flesh is still alive in us, residing in the still soft voice, leading us into the way of evilness. Jesus's death or blood has no detrimental effect of it. It is still much alive, working its way to our death. It is like some cancerous cells working within us that cannot be removed by any means except by the Holy Spirit. Only those under the Holy Spirit have the power of the Holy Spirit to put to death the deeds of the body by sinning no more. Only then will they live. Many do not know that our enemy is well hidden within us, the first one to greet us in the morning and the last one to wish us goodnight, always talking to us and helping us make decisions. Those who listen to it become futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. Paul describes them as having a depraved mind to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless. The blood of Jesus did not put a stop to the evil influences we are hearing. As long as we are willing to listen, it will speak. Once we listen, we become accomplices in crime, like Cain, who killed his brother Abel. Our enemy is much nearer to us than we think and more influential to us than we know. He is not the big bad fox lurking in the forest but the coaxing voice that, as our second nature, justifies us to sin. When we look at the broken lives, broken relationships, or broken bank accounts of many, we know many have listened to its foolishness and treated it as wisdom. We cannot outsmart our fallen nature because it has evolved through time to understand the weaknesses of men. Therefore, we need to stand firm on GOD's commandments and not depart from them. Only then can we not fall into destruction. However, despite our best intentions and determination, it will be challenging because we do not have what it takes to be better than our fallen nature. We are like David fighting Goliath, sure to be defeated. We are, as Jesus commented, 'Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.' Jesus could have given us a better answer as to how to combat the weakness, but He did not. What He said is as good as asking us to wait and see that we do not enter into temptation. It is not that He does not want, but it is not under His purview but the purview of Paul to introduce the Ministry of the Holy Spirit. Without this, the work of the Trinity would not be complete. Only then will we be like Samson in an incident where suddenly, a young lion came roaring at him, and the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as one would tear a young goat. We will be tearing apart the roaring lion, our devour. Prayer: Thank you, God, for giving me the Holy Spirit to empower me to defeat my enemy and for opening my eyes to see how easily my enemy can infiltrate my mind and heart—just as easily as the Serpent is able to access the Garden of Eden to talk to Eve. Only when I study your words carefully will I not be like Eve, deceived into believing something that is not true. Continue to teach and guide me through your Holy Spirit so that I will not fall into the devil's trap and sin against you. Amen.

Introducing SPUTNIK: The first competitive AI agent to play in the $DARK Games universe. (SPUTNIK needs your help on its mission, if you choose to accept it. Keep reading.) As the hallowed name implies, SPUTNIK is a first of its kind -- an MCP-augmented gaming AI that has the capability to play an incomplete information game called Dark Forest. SPUTNIK has one, simple goal: Get to its target planet, and charge it with 100% energy. While SPUTNIK's ambitions are simple, the problems standing in front of it -- are not. (That's where you come in, if you choose to accept your mission. Keep reading.) For starters, SPUTNIK doesn't know where its target planet is. In fact, SPUTNIK can't see most of its universe -- in Dark Forest, players suffer from a Fog of War that limits their visibility of the map and its planets. In fact, SPUTNIK doesn't even know which planet is its target. Talk about Artificial Intelligence. 🤭 🚨 Maybe you can help? 🚨 SPUTNIK is designed to reward those who feed it useful information towards its mission of getting to its target planet. Help SPUTNIK learn faster about planets in its universe, plan its routes based on energy spend, or the like.. and earn $DARK. Working with SPUTNIK is an incomplete information game in itself, because SPUTNIK will be doing the same work on its own (and with anybody else that works with it) in the meantime. You'll have to bet $DARK to feed SPUTNIK tips, and if your tips aren't helpful, SPUTNIK will keep your $DARK to reward others who are helpful (😬). If you feed SPUTNIK fruitful information, however, you win on the spot. Lucky for you, @darkresearchai has a map at mission control... and right now you can see the whole universe. (Might be time to start studying the planets that are out there, at least while DARK's mapping technology still works...) If only we could communicate with SPUTNIK today -- the mapping at DARK HQ is up, but comms are down 😔 this space technology is never stable... An overview of SPUTNIK's technology stack: SPUTNIK is built open source, and leverages a modern software architecture that allows it to be both extremely lightweight as an agent and increasingly capable. You can find SPUTNIK's base code here, which fits almost entirely into one Python file: https://t.co/SSX20Byo9C SPUTNIK leverages two key Model Context Protocol servers: 1) The Dark Forest MCP (https://t.co/7MyFlYWEBD) SPUTNIK's Dark Forest MCP gives it capability to perform key functions in the game: · Mine the fog of war, to discover more of its universe · Learn about its own position in space and planets it knows about · Travel from planet to planet For its reward mechanism, SPUTNIK leverages @solana: 2) The Solana MCP Build by @sendaifun, the Solana MCP gives SPUTNIK a wide range of capabilities to interact with the Solana blockchain. Like everything else about DARK Games, @darkresearchai's fork of the Solana MCP is open source: https://t.co/EXf8bJD8wP A few key notes: · SPUTNIK has one one-chain wallet, which it uses programmatically in an enclosed (but not yet TEE) environment: CXy73Px8zPF59PKWB3NFzDAhUPymaodHKoNLyKVuPVNK As an early agent, SPUTNIK's wallet implementation is rudimentary -- but sets the conversation well for why Trusted Execution Environments are important in AI contexts, why on-chain AI agent asset ownership has powerful potential, and the direction that DARK Research plans to build towards in the future. · SPUTNIK is only designed to operate in $DARK, and will convert any (well-known) tokens sent to it into $DARK. · SPUTNIK may choose to send $DARK to the new @darkresearchai multisig, including fees it decides to collect: 9QLfMnvoA66JEYra1C3UUF3XDjenrVT48gS4CKVqwfj1 ---- That's all for now, fellow space soldier. While SPUTNIK's communication systems come up, study the map and plan your strategy (link immediately below this post to the @darkresearchai domain -- don't fall for scams). Lewis had Clark. SPUTNIK needs you. Will you answer the call? 🛸

#SCCM# forest discovery accounts can be decrypted—even those for untrusted forests. If the site server is a managed client, all creds can be decrypted via Administration Service API. Check out our latest blog post from @unsigned_sh0rt to learn more. ⬇️ https://t.co/p1YH6LJNJp

An incredibly rare black deer spotted in the forest of the Barycz Valley, Poland. Most estimates guess that only about 1 in every 500,000 deer is melanistic. [📹 Jakub Wencek] https://t.co/lC5uvtsTWP