Yeah this will be a disaster if it happens, spent all day trying to figure it out and talk to people. A large part of it comes down to what is considered a “session”.
Elon Musk confirms xAI is buying an overseas power plant and shipping the whole thing to the U.S. to power its new data center — 1 million AI GPUs and up to 2 Gigawatts of power under one roof, equivalent to powering 1.9 million homes
BOSTON — Public health officials are warning residents after mosquito samples from two Boston neighborhoods have tested positive for West Nile Virus.
The two samples taken from Hyde Park and West Roxbury are the first to test positive for the virus in Boston this summer, Boston Public Health Commission officials said Friday.
NEW & NOTEWORTHY Erythritol, a common non-nutritive sweetener, is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events. This study provides novel data, demonstrating that erythritol (at a concentration typically contained in a standard-size commercially available artificially sweetened beverage) adversely affects brain microvascular endothelial cell oxidative stress, eNOS activation and NO production, ET-1 expression, and t-PA release in vitro.
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Recently, Witkowski et al. (6) reported an association between circulating levels of erythritol and enhanced thrombotic potential and increased risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events such as myocardial infarction and stroke. Utilizing targeted metabolomics analyses, elevated erythritol levels were positively associated with a 3-year incidence of non-fatal and fatal heart disease and stroke.
Newly uncovered metadata reveals that nearly three minutes of footage were cut from what the US Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation described as “full raw” surveillance video from the only functioning camera near Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell the night before he was found dead. The video was released last week as part of the Trump administration’s commitment to fully investigate Epstein’s 2019 death but instead has raised new questions about how the footage was edited and assembled.
WIRED previously reported that the video had been stitched together in Adobe Premiere Pro from two video files, contradicting the Justice Department’s claim that it was “raw” footage. Now, further analysis shows that one of the source clips was approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds longer than the segment included in the final video, indicating that footage appears to have been trimmed before release. It’s unclear what, if anything, the minutes cut from the first clip showed.
I've always considered Epstein as a nothingburger. If there was a way to compensate his victims then yea. I'm all in. But this dude was in the CIA 's pocket since Iran-Contra in the 80's. It's not just about exploiting kids, this dude has been a govt asset for 40+ years, and exploiting kids.
Edit: just for the record, I have no suicidal thoughts, just focused on this German pancake for breakfast.
He was always a prime candidate for "Arkancide". Bill flew with him way too often and was much more powerful after he left office than he ever was as prez.
"So far, preliminary analyses of the project have shown that the upper part of the anterior temporal lobe (ATL) is strongly activated when individuals interpret social hierarchies or make decisions based on emotional facial expressions.
It has also been observed that this brain region shows greater activation in people with high levels of anxiety, possibly because anxiety is associated with negative affect durng the interpretation of social concepts — such as feelings of inferiority when seeing a winner or intense guilt when making mistakes.
In such cases, the collaboration between the semantic system (located in the ATL) and the emotional system is disrupted. These findings have already been published and are currently under review by specialized scientific journals."
Reading an article about TWA 800 that went down 29 years ago this week. I remember when it happened, people reported what appeared to be a missile headed toward the plane, but it wasn't my neighbors and life goes on. Apparently things are coming out in the trial that were suppressed during the original investigation. Cant imagine hiding stuff like that for 29 years.
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Sci fi multiple award winning author. Likes to use flowery verbiage. First third of the book was a slog but enough to keep me going. Has finally picked up. Dune it's not.
Colugo: The 'flying lemur' that doesn't fly and isn't a lemur
By Mindy Weisberger published yesterday
This big-eyed rainforest mammal looks like a cross between a bat and a squirrel. It glides between treetops using a furry membrane that connects its limbs.
When fully extended, colugo "wings" stretch around 28 inches and make them resemble a living kite. (Image credit: Tanto Yensen/Getty Images)
After a day of window shopping in Half Moon Bay, we stopped at the library to use the bathroom before heading back to camp. I picked up Invisible for a few dollars from their books for sale rack and just finished it off.
I also saved some of my old books from the storage unit sale, I'm going to reread this one which I haven't read in a few decades.
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AI bubble will inevitably burst, with huge risks for world economy, says writer of OpenAI book
In her new book, journalist Karen Hao describes ChatGPT developer OpenAI as an «empire.» She portrays its CEO, Sam Altman, as someone who cannot be trusted. The AI sector's thoughtless race to be first is creating avoidable economic and social dangers, she says.
And somehow, they were both right. Two things can be true simultaneously.
WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
The «luxury beliefs» of the progressive upper class
In a memoir published last year, psychologist Rob Henderson dissects the hypocrisies of cultural and academic elites particularly within the United States. His book has all the makings of a future classic.
He managed to escape his troubled circumstances when he joined the U.S. Air Force at the age of 18. In the military, he found mentors who rewarded his willingness to perform with trust. Above all, his service in the Air Force taught him the discipline that enabled him to realize his full potential. «The military taught me that people don't need motivation; they need self-discipline,» he writes. «Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: ‹I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.›»
Here, a staggering announcement has pulled the curtain back on the country’s wartime manpower crisis. Moscow plans to import one million Indian workers, a move that reveals the scale of Russia’s internal collapse and its growing dependence on foreign labor to sustain even basic functions. The announcement came from the Ural Chambers of Commerce and Industry, which revealed plans to bring in one million Indian laborers to fill vacancies left by Russians sent to the front.
These workers are not being hired for skilled industry or reconstruction, but keep everyday systems running, a signal that Russia’s domestic labor pool has been gutted by conscription. Framing this as a commercial initiative barely conceals its real function: covering for the massive depletion of able-bodied workers across the country.
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In Defense of Pint and Pipe
Smoking and drinking carry known risks. Here’s why I haven’t given them up.
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/health/in-defense-of-pint-and-pipe
My blood pressure has improved since a I started smoking cigars.
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.
https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/senates-version-of-big-beautiful-bill-may-have-ugly-side-for-gamblers
@CalvinAndHobo
Yeah this will be a disaster if it happens, spent all day trying to figure it out and talk to people. A large part of it comes down to what is considered a “session”.
Elon Musk confirms xAI is buying an overseas power plant and shipping the whole thing to the U.S. to power its new data center — 1 million AI GPUs and up to 2 Gigawatts of power under one roof, equivalent to powering 1.9 million homes
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-xai-power-plant-overseas-to-power-1-million-gpus
Photocatalytic microrobots for treating bacterial infections deep within sinuses
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adt0720
No thanks.
Nanobots put in your body? What could go wrong?
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
BOSTON — Public health officials are warning residents after mosquito samples from two Boston neighborhoods have tested positive for West Nile Virus.
The two samples taken from Hyde Park and West Roxbury are the first to test positive for the virus in Boston this summer, Boston Public Health Commission officials said Friday.
NEW & NOTEWORTHY Erythritol, a common non-nutritive sweetener, is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events. This study provides novel data, demonstrating that erythritol (at a concentration typically contained in a standard-size commercially available artificially sweetened beverage) adversely affects brain microvascular endothelial cell oxidative stress, eNOS activation and NO production, ET-1 expression, and t-PA release in vitro.
.......
Recently, Witkowski et al. (6) reported an association between circulating levels of erythritol and enhanced thrombotic potential and increased risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events such as myocardial infarction and stroke. Utilizing targeted metabolomics analyses, elevated erythritol levels were positively associated with a 3-year incidence of non-fatal and fatal heart disease and stroke.
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.00276.2025
Newly uncovered metadata reveals that nearly three minutes of footage were cut from what the US Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation described as “full raw” surveillance video from the only functioning camera near Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell the night before he was found dead. The video was released last week as part of the Trump administration’s commitment to fully investigate Epstein’s 2019 death but instead has raised new questions about how the footage was edited and assembled.
WIRED previously reported that the video had been stitched together in Adobe Premiere Pro from two video files, contradicting the Justice Department’s claim that it was “raw” footage. Now, further analysis shows that one of the source clips was approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds longer than the segment included in the final video, indicating that footage appears to have been trimmed before release. It’s unclear what, if anything, the minutes cut from the first clip showed.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-fbis-jeffrey-epstein-prison-video-had-nearly-3-minutes-cut-out/
I've always considered Epstein as a nothingburger. If there was a way to compensate his victims then yea. I'm all in. But this dude was in the CIA 's pocket since Iran-Contra in the 80's. It's not just about exploiting kids, this dude has been a govt asset for 40+ years, and exploiting kids.
Edit: just for the record, I have no suicidal thoughts, just focused on this German pancake for breakfast.
Neither side wants it released. Everyone is implicated. My bet is Hillary paid him a visit in those missing minutes.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
He was always a prime candidate for "Arkancide". Bill flew with him way too often and was much more powerful after he left office than he ever was as prez.
I should be a damn genius https://www.sciencealert.com/copper-linked-to-better-brain-function-in-old-age-diet-study-suggests
Who says you're not? You might be.
"So far, preliminary analyses of the project have shown that the upper part of the anterior temporal lobe (ATL) is strongly activated when individuals interpret social hierarchies or make decisions based on emotional facial expressions.
It has also been observed that this brain region shows greater activation in people with high levels of anxiety, possibly because anxiety is associated with negative affect durng the interpretation of social concepts — such as feelings of inferiority when seeing a winner or intense guilt when making mistakes.
In such cases, the collaboration between the semantic system (located in the ATL) and the emotional system is disrupted. These findings have already been published and are currently under review by specialized scientific journals."
https://neurosciencenews.com/atl-social-anxiety-emotion-29377/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14696391/Conspiracy-theorists-say-Mount-Dew-flavors-predicted-deadly-US-disasters.html
They just released Summer Freeze.
I don't have problems, just more work to do.
Reading an article about TWA 800 that went down 29 years ago this week. I remember when it happened, people reported what appeared to be a missile headed toward the plane, but it wasn't my neighbors and life goes on. Apparently things are coming out in the trial that were suppressed during the original investigation. Cant imagine hiding stuff like that for 29 years.
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Sci fi multiple award winning author. Likes to use flowery verbiage. First third of the book was a slog but enough to keep me going. Has finally picked up. Dune it's not.
One of our close relatives. Seems right.
The Cute-but-Deadly Slow Loris Reserves Its Flesh-Rotting Venom for Its Peers
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/adorable-little-furballs-death-slow-lorises-use-their-venomous-bites-against-each-other-180976111/
Colugo: The 'flying lemur' that doesn't fly and isn't a lemur
By Mindy Weisberger published yesterday
This big-eyed rainforest mammal looks like a cross between a bat and a squirrel. It glides between treetops using a furry membrane that connects its limbs.
When fully extended, colugo "wings" stretch around 28 inches and make them resemble a living kite. (Image credit: Tanto Yensen/Getty Images)
https://www.livescience.com/animals/land-mammals/colugo-the-flying-lemur-that-doesnt-fly-and-isnt-a-lemur
And binturongs
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/binturong#:~:text=Size,the length of its body.
After a day of window shopping in Half Moon Bay, we stopped at the library to use the bathroom before heading back to camp. I picked up Invisible for a few dollars from their books for sale rack and just finished it off.
I also saved some of my old books from the storage unit sale, I'm going to reread this one which I haven't read in a few decades.
AI bubble will inevitably burst, with huge risks for world economy, says writer of OpenAI book
In her new book, journalist Karen Hao describes ChatGPT developer OpenAI as an «empire.» She portrays its CEO, Sam Altman, as someone who cannot be trusted. The AI sector's thoughtless race to be first is creating avoidable economic and social dangers, she says.
https://www.nzz.ch/english/ai-bubble-will-inevitably-burst-with-huge-risks-for-world-economy-says-writer-of-openai-book-ld.1894493
And somehow, they were both right. Two things can be true simultaneously.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Next it will be e-books and books on tape.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
The «luxury beliefs» of the progressive upper class
In a memoir published last year, psychologist Rob Henderson dissects the hypocrisies of cultural and academic elites particularly within the United States. His book has all the makings of a future classic.
He managed to escape his troubled circumstances when he joined the U.S. Air Force at the age of 18. In the military, he found mentors who rewarded his willingness to perform with trust. Above all, his service in the Air Force taught him the discipline that enabled him to realize his full potential. «The military taught me that people don't need motivation; they need self-discipline,» he writes. «Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: ‹I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.›»
Here, a staggering announcement has pulled the curtain back on the country’s wartime manpower crisis. Moscow plans to import one million Indian workers, a move that reveals the scale of Russia’s internal collapse and its growing dependence on foreign labor to sustain even basic functions. The announcement came from the Ural Chambers of Commerce and Industry, which revealed plans to bring in one million Indian laborers to fill vacancies left by Russians sent to the front.
These workers are not being hired for skilled industry or reconstruction, but keep everyday systems running, a signal that Russia’s domestic labor pool has been gutted by conscription. Framing this as a commercial initiative barely conceals its real function: covering for the massive depletion of able-bodied workers across the country.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/23/frontline-report-russia-plans-to-import-one-million-indian-workers-as-war-drains-domestic-labor-pool/