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IBM has built a prototype chip with around 100 billion transistors on an area the size of a fingernail. https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/25/1139696/ibm-unveils-sub1nm-chip/
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Summary: A monumental study from the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London reveals that popular music lyrics have grown increasingly negative over the past six decades, signaling a profound shift in global cultural values. By deploying advanced artificial intelligence and computational language analysis to scrutinize more than 380,000 songs released between 1960 and 2023, researchers mapped the largest historical dataset of moral content in music to date.
The findings act as a powerful cultural barometer: over the last 60 years, expressions linked to traditional moral virtues like care, decency, and social connection have steadily plummeted. In their place, modern popular music has seen a stark rise in language associated with moral vices, including harm, cheating, subversion, and degradation. This cross-generational evolutionary shift toward darker emotional narratives, anger, and disgust offers unprecedented insight into how contemporary societies communicate identity, collective values, and psychological distress.
https://neurosciencenews.com/music-lyrics-vices-cultural-barometer-30956/
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and in movies too --Film critic Sean Burns writes that the new "Supergirl" movie, starring Milly Alcock, takes a beloved superhero, strips away the inspiration and optimism, and replaces it with a drunk, scowling anti-heroine on a revenge quest.
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Interesting study about cognitive rigidity, flexibility, and vulnerability to extremism
https://psyche.co/ideas/the-thinking-style-that-makes-people-vulnerable-to-extremism
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Sign of the times; we are slowly destroying ourselves.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04448-w
Over the past three decades, early-onset cancers, diagnosed in adults often under age 50 or 55 years, have become a global cancer prevention and public health challenge1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. Between 1990 and 2019, cancers diagnosed under the age of 50 years increased by 24% globally and continue to rise4. In the United States (US), this increasing trend is led by several cancers, including multiple myeloma, colorectal cancer and uterine cancer1,5. Notably, this upward trend is more pronounced in recent generations compared to earlier ones in many countries3,5,6,8. In Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom (UK) and the US, people born in the 1990s face at least a fourfold higher risk of early-onset colorectal cancer compared with those born in the 1960s6. In the US, compared with people born before 1950, those born circa 1985 have approximately twice the risk of uterine cancer1. Moreover, cohorts with elevated incidence before age 50 years seem to carry this excess risk into ages 50–54 years. In the US, the proportion of colorectal cancers diagnosed before age 55 increased from 11% in 1995 to 20% in 20193, and in the UK, incidence among adults aged 50–54 years rose by 0.58% annually between 2008 and 2017 6. Together, these patterns suggest the influence of emerging generational risk factors.
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I don't have problems, just more work to do.
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Pretty similar to Kobe beef
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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bread stored in the fridge stales six times faster than bread stored at room temperature
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