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In the 22nd May 22 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
- An Israeli therapy saves the lives of both Covid-19 and cancer patients.
- Israelis are building smart classrooms for displaced Ukrainian children.
- Huge interest in Israeli hi-tech transportation innovations at Ecomotion 2022.
- For the first time, more than half of Israel’s exports are hi-tech.
- Israel’s latest groundbreaking billion-dollar companies.
- Israeli Arab World kickboxing champion waves Israeli flag.
- Four US-born sisters are currently IDF Lone Soldiers.
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As regular newsletter readers know, Israel has a huge positive impact on the world. This week’s news includes an Israeli Covid-19 treatment that also helps cancer patients; super-fast blood tests and DNA sequencing; plus good news for ALS patients, back pain sufferers and sick elderly Ukrainians. Israeli tech is providing better education opportunities for religious women, refugee Ukrainian children, language students, business managers, and those wishing to re-train in the hi-tech industry. The environment is benefiting from smart Israeli agriculture devices and new low-pollution manufacturing and construction processes. Israel’s economy gets better and better, with an unprecedented level of hi-tech exports, European and Asian partnerships, and continued investment in Israeli startups. Finally, as travel restrictions are removed, there is no better opportunity for overseas visitors to get a better view of this remarkable country.
The photo is of Israel’s Dead Sea resort. For many medical conditions, this is one of the best places in the world to get better.
Neutrique: An autonomous, neutral gender. A gender that is simultaneously autonomous and neutral-in-nature (NIN).
Etymology
From Latin, “Neutralis” modified to “Neutr”, meaning “of neuter gender” + “-ique”, an English neologistic suffix indicating autonomous gender.
Coined as a result of an anonymous question to user forgotten-mogai posted on their blog. This post happened to reference a gender I had coined, “Kunneusik”. This anon was looking for a similar term to Kunneusik that excluded the UIN elements, which did not exist when they posted their question. After seeing this, I suggested the term “Neutrique” to describe neutral, autonomous gender. Concept by forgotten-mogai and an anonymous user, 2020. Term by Gent (Gender-Resource), 2020.
- Neutrique is similar to Neutrois and Epicene, but it differs in that it possess an autonomous element.
- It is also similar to Maverique, but differs in that it is a neutral gender and there being a lack of internal conviction that one’s gender is Anonbinary, whereas Maverique is non-neutral and posses internal conviction regarding one’s gender being Anonbinary.
- Neutrique is very similar to Kunnesik, both of which are Ningender and Autonomous, but Kunneusik is also a Uingender, whereas Neutrique is not.
Flag
The Neutrique flag is primarily based upon the Maverique flag and Neutrois flag. This flag uses four, horizontal solid-colored stripes. From top to bottom, they are dark green, white, yellow and leaf green. The dark green represents abinary neutral genders, such as Neutrois. The white stripe, as is exists in the Maverique flag, represents autonomy. The yellow stripe represents being entirely divorced from the concept of the gender binary. The leaf green stripe represents midbinary neutral genders, such as Epicene. Flag by Gent (Gender-Resource), 2020.
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Large banner seen in Hamburg, Germany by Antifaschistische Aktion (Antifa)
Asahi Kasei AKXY2 Concept, 2022. The Japanese chemical company is celebrating its centenary (although, according to Wikipedia it was founded in 1931) with futuristic autonomous electric “pod” made from sustainable materials. Designed to reimagine “how values for sustainability, satisfaction and society will influence the needs of future mobility on the road to automation and electrification,” the interior features an ottoman and 2 passenger seats.
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We have machines around us and we’ve been having them for decades. Some brighter than others, while some brutal than most. Destruction has always been an option in human evolution and the yield of this tool is exponential.
Fearing a sentient machine is not as bad ad fearing a sentient machine with a gun. That’s what has surface in recent times in Russia when in 2017 a video of a fully-developed robot wielding two pistols made the news. Now the company behind this project is struggling to get parts amidst a boycott.
We can’t deny technology is close to deliver a human-like robot that will provide judgment upon people some day.
With major AI breakthrough in recent years we can guess where we are heading, following this deep white rabbit’s hole where soon enough powerful algorithms will be melded with powerful hardware. Yesterday bomb-delivering drones, today robots with guns, and for tomorrow the writing is on the wall. It’s no-secret there will be a major switch into the military defense programs of the future where human beings will cooperate with machines on the battlefront.
Although AI at the moment is in it’s infancy state, machines are learning our behavior and understanding how humanity works. We won’t have one entity made of a single AI, but rather different levels of sophistication that will includes distinguished thoughts and outcomes. Some levels of this intelligence will fulfill certain tasks while others will be bound onto resolving much bigger problems.
The law will be extended upon those subjects who are not biological, yet hold responsibilities upon their actions.
But what about accountability? Who do we blame for AI’s mistake and the aftermath? A few days agoUber was not found liable in the 2018 death of a pedestrian while testing one of their autonomous vehicle. We will likely risk of having a set of semi-sentient machines in the next 5-10 years representing a new facade of society, some sort of B-series citizen which will replace us into dangerous tasks while coexisting in our streets and eventually our lives.
In due course law-makers will have to take AI into account, but that means extending certain rights and duties over non-biological subjects. Perhaps it will create a separate class of individuals in our society much like Spielberg’s 2001 movie Artificial Intelligence, where organic Vs mechanic people will develop whichever dystopian society they can do best without wiping each others out in order to see the next dawn.
Figured I should make one in case anyone is looking for a specific chapter, since there are a lot of ‘em to navigate through
and because everyone else has one and got pressured that I should too.Be warned: long-ass post ahead (links to side drabbles at the end)
Complete Masterlist for Star Wars: Autonomous Parts I and II
Autonomous II: Chapter 28 Posted
Chapter: 28/28
Word Count: 11.6k
Rating: M
Warnings: Violence, Angst
Genre: Action/Romance/Sci-Fi – Canon Compliant AU where Maul still has the Shadow Collective with him after the events of Order 66.
Pairing: Móni x Maul
Summary: The final, awaited battle occurs and Maul makes the hardest choice in his life at the behest of the Force’s will.
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Móni’s muscles ached from the voltage that stunned her into unconsciousness. One moment she was bringing the enemies to their knees, many of which who begged to be spared of the bone-crunching torments she did not deprive them of; forcing them to feel what her spirit had become: twisted and shattered beyond repair. Then it turned silent until nightmares of their screams ailed her—their souls not completely laid to rest while they passed on into the Force.
The Dark Side clung to her like the soaked clothes which tightened her skin, but the cold was not enough to douse the flames in her eyes. Nothing was enough to feed the rage and give it power. There was a constant hunger for more to reach a limit she had yet to discover. She could feel its expanse at the back of her throat and crawling its way down the limbs, enveloping her with its darkness and submerging what was once her.
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How many times have I been presented this option? More than Maul could count, there was always a path meant to lead him away from her. One he wasn’t sure was paved by the Force, by Móni, or the Whills.And every time, he chose the same one because it was the only one that existed. The only one that mattered.
Sparks sputtered at the severed end of the saberstaff, but after a few clicks of the switch, the other end ignited along with the Darksaber in his other hand.
He could almost taste the subtle aroma of spices mixed with sunlight at Móni’s emotions swirling inside him, along with the hopes of her returning to his side. She pleaded for him to run, and although her heart had hardened for any affections toward him, Maul felt the tendrils of fear coil around him for his safety.
Don’t you understand? I can’t lose you too, she splintered his mind with distraught.
“I know,” Maul soothed despite the tumultuous wreck his nerves were doing to his body. “You won’t.”
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The final chapter for Part II
