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Peter Garrett, April 16, 1953, Sydney, Australia

Peter Robert Garrett, April 16, 1953, 12:00 PM (Unknown), Sydney, Australia, 151e13'00, 33s52'00, Geocentric, Tropical, Equal Sun on 1st, True Node

Sun conjunct Okyrhoe ((affirming, supporting, common sense based, acute logic skills (”It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing”)) in Aries square Pelion (sacred space, professional status, gratitude and sense of destiny) in Cancer.

"I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country".

Midnight Oil and frontman Peter Garrett created powerful rock anthems blending social justice, Aboriginal land rights, and environmental protection.

In 1973, Garrett became the lead singer for the rock band Midnight Oil, after responding to an advertisement placed by one of the band's founding members, Rob Hirst.

The group garnered worldwide attention with 1987 album Diesel and Dust. Its singles "The Dead Heart" and "Beds Are Burning" illuminated the plight of Indigenous Australians, with the latter charting at number one in multiple countries. Midnight Oil had continued global success with Blue Sky Mining (1990) and Earth and Sun and Moon (1993) – each buoyed by an international hit single in "Blue Sky Mine" and "Truganini",

The power and passion of Midnight Oil: the inside story of the band that changed Australia https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/jun/05/the-power-and-passion-of-midnight-oil-the-inside-story-of-the-band-that-changed-australia

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Watch a Problem-Solving Raven Outsmart a Trash Can

Ravens are among the world's most intelligent birds and have been known to use logical thinking to successfully forage for food.

Moon (food, habits) conjunct Okyrhoe (acute logic skills, promotes principles of discernment and conscious life skills) sextile Great Attractor (14 sa 12'8").

Video taken in Haines, Alaska, shows one clever raven unlocking a weighted trash bin. The bird can be seen fastening its beak under clasps to unlock the lid, knocking it to the ground. It then rummages through the trash, picking out bits and pieces of cardboard and plastic, likely searching for scraps of food.

The trash-pillaging raven was caught on camera by Randa Szymanski and her husband, who initially assumed their garbage bin was getting knocked over by bears. Despite the garbage lid clasps and a heavy rock on the lid, ravens are regularly able to dig through their trash.

According to Szymanski, the ravens in her home of Southeast Alaska are notoriously “smart and fearless” and known by the Tlingit natives as tricksters.

In addition to their dumpster-diving antics, she has observed them pestering bald eagles and stealing food from the back of open pick-up trucks. One especially clever incident involved them stealing a dozen eggs from the back of a car, one-by-one.

“They flipped open the carton and took one egg at a time to their nest nearby. They had them all by the time the owner of the truck came back out,” said Szymanski.

Ravens are notoriously intelligent. They, along with crows and magpies, belong to a family of birds called corvids. Some studies have shown that corvids, despite having significantly smaller brains, are intellectually comparable to chimpanzees.

“These aren’t animals that have adapted to living with people, these are animals that have figured out how to exploit people,” says Kaeli Swift, a PhD candidate at the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences at the University of Washington.

Swift notes that where the raven in the video stands on the trashcan is a natural perch, thus making it difficult to discern whether its ability to release the locks and knock the lid of the bin was intentional or an accident.

Swift also noted that the aggression toward bald eagles described by Szymanski is what’s known as a mobbing behavior intended to evict predators, such as eagles, from the area. (This behavior is often responsible for the “animals riding animals” Internet phenom.)

“When an individual sees a predator, it produces an alarm call that attracts other birds in the area,” says Swift. The birds then “mob” predators, effectively warding them off.

Logical Thinkers

One cognitive test, designed by ornithologist Bernd Heinrich, suggests ravens are highly capable of logical thinking.

Tying a piece of meat to a string and dangling it from a tree branch, Heinrich observed how ravens pulled the meat up. Using their beaks, the ravens inched the string closer to their claws, which they used to create loops around their talons, shortening the string and successfully obtaining their reward.

In video footage of the experiment, Heinrich notes that the birds weren’t trained and could not have been acting on evolutionary instinct because the test created a situation that would not have naturally occurred in the wild. He believes this suggests the birds were acting intentionally and logically.

The biological reason for corvid intelligence was first discovered in the 1960s by a neurologist named Stanley Cobb. Birds lack an elaborate cerebral cortex, the part of the brain in mammals responsible for many cognitive functions such as thought, language, memory, and consciousness.

Instead, their biological key to success lies in a section of their forebrain called the hyperstriatum, which allows them to perform similar tasks.

A 2016 study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offered further insight into how corvids perform functions similar to apes and chimps using only their little walnut-sized brains. Researchers at Charles University in Prague discovered these specific types of birds have an exceptionally dense amount of neurons in their forebrains, possessing equal and sometimes greater amounts of neurons than monkeys.

One Hitchcock-like line from the study’s authors revealed that because of this neuron density, “Avian brains thus have the potential to provide much higher ‘cognitive power’ per unit mass than do mammalian brains.”

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See a clever raven outsmart a trash can. Filmed in Haines, Alaska, the bird uses its problem-solving abilities to unlatch the top of the can and fling it to the ground.

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ChatGPT banned in Italy over privacy concerns

The country's data-protection regulator has serious privacy concerns over the technology.

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ChatGPT banned in Italy over privacy concerns

Italy has become the first Western country to block advanced chatbot ChatGPT.

Okyrhoe (prophecies of doom) conjunct Borasisi (distortion of data, cherry-picking facts, propaganda (there have been concerns over the potential risks of artificial intelligence (AI), including its threat to jobs and the spreading of misinformation and bias)) square Chaos (chaos theory).

The Italian data-protection authority said there were privacy concerns relating to the model, which was created by US start-up OpenAI and is backed by Microsoft.

The regulator said it would ban and investigate OpenAI "with immediate effect".

OpenAI told the BBC it complied with privacy laws.

Millions of people have used ChatGPT since it launched in November 2022.

It can answer questions using natural, human-like language and it can also mimic other writing styles, using the internet as it was in 2021 as its database.

Microsoft has spent billions of dollars on it and it was added to Bing last month.

It has also said that it will embed a version of the technology in its Office apps, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

There have been concerns over the potential risks of artificial intelligence (AI), including its threat to jobs and the spreading of misinformation and bias.

Earlier this week key figures in tech, including Elon Musk, called for these types of AI systems to be suspended amid fears the race to develop them was out of control.

The Italian watchdog said that not only would it block OpenAI's chatbot but it would also investigate whether it complied with General Data Protection Regulation.

GDPR governs the way in which we can use, process and store personal data.

The watchdog said on 20 March that the app had experienced a data breach involving user conversations and payment information.

It said there was no legal basis to justify "the mass collection and storage of personal data for the purpose of 'training' the algorithms underlying the operation of the platform".

It also said that since there was no way to verify the age of users, the app "exposes minors to absolutely unsuitable answers compared to their degree of development and awareness".

Bard, Google's rival artificial-intelligence chatbot, is now available, but only to specific users over the age of 18 - because of those same concerns.

The Italian data-protection authority said OpenAI had 20 days to say how it would address the watchdog's concerns, under penalty of a fine of €20 million ($21.7m) or up to 4% of annual revenues.

Elsewhere, the Irish data protection commission told the BBC it is following up with the Italian regulator to understand the basis for their action and "will coordinate with all EU data protection authorities" in connection to the ban.

The Information Commissioner's Office, the UK's independent data regulator, told the BBC it would "support" developments in AI but that it was also ready to "challenge non-compliance" with data protection laws.

Dan Morgan, from cybersecurity ratings provider SecurityScorecard said the ban shows the importance of regulatory compliance for companies operating in Europe.

"Businesses must prioritise the protection of personal data and comply with the stringent data protection regulations set by the EU - compliance with regulations is not an optional extra."

'Not sufficiently regulated'

Consumer advocacy group BEUC also called on EU and national authorities - including data-protection watchdogs - to investigate ChatGPT and similar chatbots, following the filing of a complaint in the US.

Although the EU is currently working on the world's first legislation on AI, BEUC's concern is that it would take years before the AI Act could take effect, leaving consumers at risk of harm from a technology that is not sufficiently regulated.

Ursula Pachl, deputy director general of BEUC, warned that society was "currently not protected enough from the harm" that AI can cause.

"There are serious concerns growing about how ChatGPT and similar chatbots might deceive and manipulate people. These AI systems need greater public scrutiny, and public authorities must reassert control over them," she said.

ChatGPT is already blocked in a number of countries, including China, Iran, North Korea and Russia.

OpenAI told the BBC that it had disabled ChatGPT for users in Italy at the request of the Italian data protection regulator, called the Garante:

"We are committed to protecting people's privacy and we believe we comply with GDPR and other privacy laws", it wrote.

The organisation said it worked to reduce personal data in training AI systems like ChatGPT because it wanted its AI systems to "learn about the world, not about private individuals".

"We also believe that AI regulation is necessary — so we look forward to working closely with the Garante and educating them on how our systems are built and used", it added

OpenAI said it looked forward to making ChatGPT available in Italy again "soon".

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US state to legalize ‘magic mushrooms’

Colorado has become the second state to clear the way for legal use of several hallucinogenic drugs, known as “magic mushrooms.”

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US state to legalize ‘magic mushrooms’

Ten years on from becoming one of the first two US states to legalize recreational use of marijuana, Colorado has cleared the way for legal use of several hallucinogenic drugs, known as “magic mushrooms.”

06:42:51 UT - Sun (19 sc 51'7") trine Okyrhoe (19 pi 51'7" Rx) 10:22:07 UT - Waning Gibbous Moon - Sun (20 sc 0'18") sesquiquadrate Moon (5 cn 0'18") 13:15:32 UT - Sun (20 sc 7'34") sextile Hylonome (20 cp 7'34") 18:35:43 UT - Mercury (22 sc 46'17") trine Neptune (22 pi 46'17" Rx) 07:11:55 UT - Haumea enters Scorpio (direct)

A ballot measure legalizing use of psychedelics by people 21 and older was approved by Colorado voters in Tuesday’s congressional midterm election. With 95% of votes counted and 52.7% cast in favor of legalization, the Associated Press projected on Friday that the ballot proposition was victorious.

The initiatiave called for legalizing two psychedelic compounds, psilocybin and psilocin, that are used in magic mushrooms. It allows use of psilocybin at state-licensed facilities, as well as private personal use of psilocybin, psilocin and three other psychedelics.

Colorado residents will be allowed to grow and share the compounds, but retail sales are prohibited. The drug will also be banned for use in public places or while operating a vehicle.

A similar measure was passed in Oregon in 2020. Legalization bills have been introduced in two other states, Washington and New York. Dozens of other states are considering bills to study the therapeutic benefits of psychedelics or to decriminalize possession of the compounds.

Proponents have claimed that psychedelics can be used to treat such maladies as depression, anxiety, addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder. In 2019, the US Food and Drug Administration designated psilocybin as a “breakthrough therapy” to treat major depressive disorder, a status that could speed development and approval of new drugs that contain the compound.

Critics, however, argued that creating licensed “healing centers” would send the wrong message, particularly to kids, that the non-FDA approved substances are healthy, and would eventually pave the way for recreational dispensaries of the drug.

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