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#On 18 May, 2026, in the Earth Conference, the United Nations have made the decision to create an organisation, Earth Council, to administer the entire Earth instead of dividing places and forming countries. All the countries in the world will be dissolved for this to take place.

Earth Conference, a meeting with all countries for the administration of the entire Earth, was called by the United Nations where all the countries showed up. There, the UN President Alex Morgan, announced a plan for unifying all the nations and forming a single government to rule/govern the entire world, without dividing and forming smaller governmental bodies and creating unnecessary and inequal power imbalances.

"Compare the area of Vatican City to Russia's, the strength of money of Venezuela to a Kuwaiti Dinar, and the population difference of Vatican City and India. We've got too much power imbalances with all these different countries, some governments fail miserably while some make immense progress, and we want everyone to only progress, nothing else. I believe that no country should be left behind. My solution for this is Unified Earth Council, a plan to dissolve every country that exists and form a singular government that governs every single thing, I've been thinking about this for two days now. And I will be the head of the Earth Council, the Earth Administrator. "

Many countries voted against this decision however their votes were overruled by Morgan and hence, the Earth Council Plan will come into act. Every nation has been given a deadline of seven months (last date: 17 November, 2026) to dissolve all the government equipment, infrastructure, workforce, etc. for the Earth Council to rebuild and use. For nations that resist this plan and do not dissolve everything until the deadline, the UN, along with other countries that have cooperated and reallocated their resources to the Earth Council, will together take the infrastructure and resources of that nation by force with the use of military, since this change is necessary for peace and equality in all parts of the world.

Sources: https://www.earthcouncil.org/, https://www.un.org/earth-council, https://www.bbc.con/un-forms-earth-council-and-threatens-countries-with-military-if-they-do-not-cooperate.

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The issue is fixed. Solution was provided by u/haabenkidanu. Comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/artixlinux/comments/1swa7xd/comment/oieu8kq/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button. Thank you for your the help!

I am running Artix on a HP Laptop. This is a fresh OpenRC base install with KDE on it. The audio does not work for my headphones properly. On the KDE's audio applet, it says "Connection to the Sound Service Lost", even though I have "pipewire-openrc", "wireplumber-openrc", "pipewire-pulse-openrc" as well as "pipewire", "wireplumber" and "pipewire-pulse". At first, I thought that it wasn't working because it did not start however, running 'rc-status' reveals that those three services are crashing.

[north@artix-hp-spectre ~]$ rc-status Runlevel: default dbus [ started 00:15:38 (0) ] elogind [ started 00:15:35 (0) ] NetworkManager [ started ] netmount [ started ] pipewire [ crashed ] pipewire-pulse [ crashed ] sddm [ started 00:15:34 (0) ] wireplumber [ crashed ] local [ started ] agetty.tty1 [ started 00:15:34 (0) ] agetty.tty2 [ started 00:15:34 (0) ] agetty.tty3 [ started 00:15:34 (0) ] agetty.tty4 [ started 00:15:34 (0) ] agetty.tty5 [ started 00:15:34 (0) ] agetty.tty6 [ started 00:15:34 (0) ] Dynamic Runlevel: hotplugged user.north [ started 00:15:10 (0) ] Dynamic Runlevel: needed/wanted Dynamic Runlevel: manual

However, running 'pipewire', 'wireplumber' then 'pipewire-pulse' seems to get the audio working properly but they would obviously stop working as soon as the terminal is closed.

Any kind of help is appreciated!

Recently, a meeting was held between the top officials of the US government, the Department of War and US army itself. This meeting was planned to discuss the increasing use of AI in war, how they can turn the tables, save lives and strengthen militaries. During the discussion, several members recommended using AI for the US military and, not only in recon and light combat though, they suggested to integrate AIs in military vehicles, from tiny drones and rollers, to heavily armored tanks, and frigates and cruisers. This suggestion was followed by a list of vehicles that were suggested to make this goal possible and all of them were accepted by the committee. The following are some of the vehicles that would be commissioned for use soon.

• iAIM-2000: (Attachment 1)

iAIM-2000, a tracked vehicle that would be autonomously operated by Siri, armed with 12.5mm DShK HMG. This vehicle is contracted to Apple as it will use Siri for all its functionality. This would mainly be used for fighting infantry in open and urban areas. It has been trained using Battlefield 5 and Fortnite for its aim, this would result in improved accuracy as those simulators have near-realistic mechanics.

• ReconGPT-69: (Attachment 2 & 3)

ReconGPT-911 is an amphibious, tracked vehicle that is made solely for reconnaissance purposes. It uses its high range camera for recognising enemy targets with the help of ChatGPT. It is capable of detecting enemies from 10km away.

In the second image, we can see it in effect, recognising enemy targets, a couple of tanks and a person along with their health points. This would be a crucial information for the military.

• xDrone-96: (Attachment 4 & 5)

DroneGPT-96 is very similar to ReconGPT-69 except the fact that it's a drone. It uses the same technology as ReconGPT-69 and can also show health points of vehicles and people when on recon missions (as we can see in image 5). It can also be converted into a Kamikaze drone that would be guided by Grok. This was contracted to Elon Musk.

• Google Terminator-5000 (Attachment 6)

Terminator-5000 is a heavily-armoured yet mobile tank, fitted with Gemini for its operations. Its firepower consists of a 122mm Smoothbore cannon and a 20mm Autocannon. It would use a Turbine engine for mobility, just like the Abrams tank. This would be operated by Google's Gemini.

• USS Anthropic Mythos: (Attachment 7)

USS Anthropic Mythos is an multi-purposes frigate that has the most firepower of all the AI-operated vehicles. It has a 25mm Bofors Autocannon, a helipad, 6 Tomahawk missiles, machine guns, and 2 UGM-113 Trident II Intercontinental Ballastic Missiles. It is powered by a Nuclear Reactor and has the max speed of 50 knots with Advanced Sonar Systems and heavy armour.

About all the vehicles in general:

One drawback is that the AIs used in these vehicles are free tier, so they can only be operated for a limited number of time. When the free subscription runs out, they'll turn off automatically until the limit is over. However, the AIs used in these are trained precisely for their role and can be extremely lethal to humans as they've been trained to shoot any human they see (since there would only be enemies on a battlefield). They do not take commands from anyone except the Cheif of Staff of Military and the President of US. Except these cases, they'll take decisions themselves by going on the web and searching for which targets are harmful and which are to be destroyed.

Sources: https://www.us.gov.com/ai-military, https://www.department-of-war.com/our-plan-for-ai-military.

On 16 April, the UN held a World Children's Safety Conference due to the rising threat to children in the current day. The conference was held to discuss and combat any kinds of such threats together. This conference was held between alliances such as NATO, EU, BRICS, SAARC, etc. and participation of 102 countries was observed.

In the conference, the EU and the US government suggested the idea of installing a Telescreen in every house. However, this is no simple telescreen, it is specifically designed to counter criminals and increase the safety of children. It is implemented with sophisticated software that can help police keep an surveillance on everyone and identify any illegal activities.

About the Telescreen:

This telescreen would be implemented with a high resolution camera that can capture a wide range of images which would remain active at all times. This camera not only has night vision but also thermal imaging and X-ray. It is also equipped with a microphone which would record everything all the time. This microphone can detect sounds upto 60m away. Additionally, it would have a heartbeat sensor, which is a very advanced kind of technological device to detect heartbeats of anyone present in the room and it is so precise that it can even tell the BPM of a person. The Telescreen cannot be turned off and tampering/damaging it would trip an alarm, alerting the Police and the person who did this would be arrested (because only a criminal would do such a thing or only if someone is trying to hide something.) The Telescreen would display important news about the country non-stop so as to keep everyone updated at all times. They would also be implemented with AI so as to help the police detect the criminals, as police cannot watch every single house at the same time, but AI can. For the Telescreens, they'll use the brand new Anthropic Mythos. (Read news articles on Mythos: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/nsa-spies-are-reportedly-using-anthropics-mythos-despite-pentagon-feud/ https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/what-do-we-know-about-anthropics-mythos-amid-rising-concerns-2026-04-20/)

This suggestion recieved positive opinions from most countries and alliances. The EU made the decision to implement this kind of system, the act being named "Criminal Activity Elemination Act", before December of 2026 while the US government would implement this before November 2026, naming the law "Telescreen Child Safety Act", with countries such as Russia, China, India and North Korea to follow next. Both the Acts are about the same, any individual that tempers/damages the Telescreen intentionally would recieve 3 years in prison in the EU and 5 years in the prison in US, along with a house arrest of 1 year after being released by both the governing bodies. They would also be more closely monitored with the concerned authorities since only a criminal or someone who's trying to hide something wrong he did would do something like this. Note that trying to block the camera, microphone, etc. or and kind of sabotaging would recieve the same punishment in both, EU and US.

My opinion:

I think that this is a huge win for us as it would reduce criminal activity and increase child safety. This makes me feel a lot more safe and I'm eager for this to be implemented everywhere as soon as possible. This would only make the relations between the citizens and the government better and increase their trust, especially when a powerful AI like Mythos and the police are surveilling every house.

Attachment: Image shows a prototype model of the Telescreen.

Sources: https://www.reuters.com/Telescreen-implementation-in-EU-ans-US/, https://techcrunch.com/telescreen-child-safety-act-and-criminal-activity-elimination-act, https://eu.gov.com/criminal-activity-elimination-act, https://us.gov.com/Telescreen-child-safety-act.

On 12 April, the archaeologists at Cairo, Egypt, discovered strange fossils at an excavation site that did not seem to match any other fossils discovered before. These fossils were sent for further testing and they turned out to be right, these fossils were not discovered before and they had just discovered a new kind of species.

Upon inspection, the bones seemed to be harder than most mammals have, stronger than a turtle's shell. The cranium, which, at first, was misrecognised to be a Wolf's skull, rather showed more similarly to a Lizard's skull. This creature also had plates on its back, front, and head which seemed to be made of the same material as the bones, extremely dense fibre tissues, with a reptilian skin similar to a Lizard's.

At first, this was thought to be some undiscovered reptilian species however as the research on the fossils progressed, they were able to completely study the fossil and extract as much information as was possible. Ultimately, they were able to create a replica of this creature. The image of this replica is attached to the post.

The creature seems to have very similar morphology of a Neanderthal and a Lizard with plates covering the vital parts of its body and Lizard-like reptilian skin on the remaining parts of the body. Being a mammal, it walked on its hind legs. Carbondating was used for identifying the age of the fossils and they seemed to be about 40 million years old. This creature was never seen before and the Lead Archaeologist at the site, Frank Hoffman, named it "Zuckerbine". The replica of this Zuckerbine also looks strikingly alike to some ancient painting found in Egypt that were drawn around the same time.

Evidence also reveals that they had also been using advanced techniques like agriculture, tools, fishing, mathematics, and even had made advancements in electronics to an extent. They seemed to be more intelligent than even Homo Sapiens. They had characteristics of Neanderthal such as an Appendix, walking on 2 legs, being mammals, etx. and also had properties of a Lizard such as a Tail that could regenerate if cut, reptilian skin, etc.

This news was made public by the Egyptian Government on 19 April, realising its significance. The Egyptian Government has appointed more archaeologists to find more such fossils and research on them as this is an insane thing to discover.

Attachement: Image shows the replica of a Zuckerbine.

Source: https://www.cairo-egypt-excavation-site.egpyt-gov.com/ (official government website), https://www.discovery-of-zuckerbines.bbc.com/ (BBC News).