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• Post #4429927

  "NFH made headlines when reports surfaced about a 2021 incident in which a Kentucky man in his 30s began visibly crying, pulled his knees to his chest, and shook his head as he was wheeled into surgery to have his organs harvested. The man, Anthony Thomas Hoover II, had overdosed and had been unresponsive for two days before his family agreed to donate his organs, believing he would not recover. But as the organ retrieval neared, he began showing signs of improvement, which allegedly went...

• Post #4334946

  https://youtube.com/shorts/8JuoD4iRoFw?is=Ug5OWrvKuDAF_Fe6 This is the Largest Object that acts as a #Quantum Wave #physics

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• Post #4154164

  More about me. I've always wanted to be a #writer of #scienceFiction and #fantasy but working as a #computerProgrammer, #softwareDeveloper, #agileTrainer, and #coursewareDeveloper is how I made my money. I've written one #romcom #novel so far, not yet published, and a few articles on #extremeProgramming which were published. I might be a better editor than a writer. my literary heroes include Terry Pratchett #discworld and Theodore Sturgeon

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• Post #4088346

  "Perhaps most interesting, though, is a letter that New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez sent to Blanche last month, reported by MS-Now here, demanding that DOJ finally turn over files relevant to his investigation of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes in the state. It laid out a timeline showing how DOJ has given him the runaround, promising cooperation but ultimately giving him none. I. February 13, 2026 — Written correspondence to then-Deputy Attorney General Blanche requesting access to a spe...

• Post #3965189

  The secretive company that gets job-hunters black-listed without their knowledge. "I was on a call with a prospective client — a mid-size financial services firm — when the news about the Eightfold AI lawsuit broke in January 2026. The head of HR was mid-sentence, explaining how they’d been using an AI vendor’s “Talent Intelligence” platform to screen thousands of applicants per quarter. She paused. Her legal counsel, who’d been silently observing from the corner of the Zoom grid, unmuted:...

• Post #3939153

  "DuckDuckGo announced that it can now block most video ads, particularly those on YouTube, when a video is playing in its browser.  In a blog post about the new feature, the company explained that its YouTube ad detection and blocking is based on the open-source community filter lists from uBlockOrigin. DuckDuckGo noted that it may also apply its own rules for better compatibility, but viewers may see longer buffering times when using the blocker and there may still be some unexpected hicc...

• Post #3848820

  "–The Reflecting Pool has now been drained, and guess what? The American flag blue paint is all gone, stripped away by all that hydrogen peroxide they poured in the pool. (Hydrogen peroxide is often used for paint stripping. Did no one tell them that?) The pool is now the same gray it was when they started. –The drained Reflecting Pool did not reveal any slices. Instead, tire marks were visible, obvious damage from Trump’s vanity drive in a fleet of 10-ton vehicles for no reason at all. –...

• Post #3727576

  "Trump is facing some real danger regarding the suit he filed against the BBC: –He filed suit over a story they did on the January 6 insurrection, which included parts of the speech he gave on January 6th. Trump claimed that they had spliced two parts of his speech together to make it sound like he had incited the riot. The BBC apologized, but he sued them anyway, for $10 billion dollars. –Unlike most of the media organizations he sued, the BBC didn’t settle. (It’s not clear whether Trump...

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• Post #3613338

  "Uellenberg's program goes further than we had ever imagined. As with many other IOCCC entries, it contains a message in its own source listing. If you squint a bit, you can see a Pong screen in the whitespace – two paddles and a ball. Compile it and run it, and it takes a keystroke to move one of the paddles… then it reformats its own source code and outputs a new, slightly different version, showing the updated game screen. You play the game by repeatedly compiling the output from th...

• Post #3529197

  really tired of books, shows, or movies which only have jerks and assholes as characters also really tired of sitcoms where all the characters are stupid all the time. I prefer shows where the smart people are stupid SOME of the time. time to rewatch Star Trek, Stargate SG1, and The Good Place, I guess. and reread Dresden Files. and I'm dealing with migraines and/or sinus headaches.

• Post #3529196

  "Arison has admitted that the AI adoption process hasn’t been perfect. “We learned that A.I. agents learn off the code base that you have. Because that code had so many bugs in it, it put similar types of bugs in as it was writing code,” he said—which feels like a thing his tutor should have covered." https://gizmodo.com/grindr-is-the-latest-dating-app-to-hook-up-with-ai-2000779592

• Post #3529195

  "A simple 7-question test helps us realize how diverse a population is. On this quiz, the highest possible score is less than 7%. No matter how common you think your answers are, no matter how normal you feel, you’re actually in sync with just 7% (at the most) of all citizens of the US. My answers put me under 4. “People like us do things like this,” is a useful definition of culture. But which things? Billions of people believe things you don’t, are unaware of things that are easily d...

• Post #3503685

  https://poweredbywho.com/map

• Post #3481279

  "The first experiment exposed patients to a series of repeating tones with occasional unexpected sounds mixed in. The researchers found that neurons in the hippocampus consistently detected these unusual tones. Even more interesting, the brain became better at recognizing them over time, suggesting that learning or neural plasticity was still taking place during anesthesia. The researchers then increased the complexity of the experiment by playing short stories while continuing to record b...

• Post #3371972

  "The image shows about 150 Amazon book covers that appear if you search the site for “100000 whys” (link). Some of these books are category bestsellers in children literature. You can view a zoomable, full-resolution version here. There’s nothing inhuman about any of these titles or covers. At the same time, I probably don’t need to convince you that you’re staring at the purest form of AI slop that now fills up many nonfiction book categories on Amazon. More specifically, what we’re seein...

• Post #3344102

  "The sociologist E.L. Quarantelli spent decades studying disasters and came to a conclusion that surprised many people: panic and antisocial behavior are the exception, not the rule. Communities typically show increases in prosocial behavior: strangers help each other, crime rates generally fall, and people who were barely acquaintances briefly become something like a community. Rebecca Solnit documented this pattern across a century of catastrophes. Her case studies, including the 1906 Sa...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/116569414436057553 "… Paul Babiak and Robert Hare spent years studying how psychopathic individuals navigate organizational environments. Their estimate is that roughly one percent of the general population meets the clinical threshold for psychopathy, while corporate managers cluster around three to four times that rate. The mechanism is not mysterious. Psychopaths tend to perform exceptionally well in job interviews. They are confident, articulat...

• Post #2465837

  "The Guardian: Flaws in Kenya’s AI-driven health reforms driving up costs for the poorest. “Through months of investigation, reporters at Africa Uncensored, in collaboration with Lighthouse Reports and the Guardian, were able to obtain key details of this system and audit how it worked. The findings reveal how, from the start, it was systematically overcharging the poorest Kenyans, overestimating their incomes, while undercharging the wealthiest by underestimating their incomes.”&qu...

• Post #2406562

  "The Cold War was the reason. American planners in Tokyo feared that rural poverty and landlord domination were exactly the conditions in which communist movements flourished. They had watched what happened in China and did not want a repeat, so they did what they would never have considered at home: they redistributed productive assets from the wealthy to the poor on a massive scale and called it democratization. "Between 1947 and 1950, roughly thirty percent of Japan’s farml...

• Post #2393340

  "By comparing MRI scans with psychopathy assessment results, the researchers found that a larger striatum was linked to a stronger need for stimulation, including thrill-seeking, excitement, and impulsive behavior. In the published study, stimulation-seeking and impulsivity partly explained the relationship between striatal volume and psychopathy, accounting for 49.4 percent of the association. Professor Adrian Raine from the Departments of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology at Un...

• Post #2376850

  "When the Miami Herald’s Julie K. Brown won a Pulitzer Prize this week for exposing how the top federal prosecutor in South Florida gave Jeffrey Epstein a secret, illegal deal to avoid prison, the nation was reminded that powerful men rarely face justice. But here in New Mexico, all major news outlets have ignored a much worse story completely: that the top federal prosecutor in New Mexico — the state where Epstein owned and operated Zorro Ranch — not only never prosecuted Epstein at al...

• Post #2324332

  "Supply chains that took forty years to weave were unwound and rerouted in eighteen months. If you set out to break American soft power on purpose, the policy you would design is approximately the one we ran. If you set out to enrich a small number of importers with refund checks while the consumers who paid the underlying tax got nothing, the policy you would design is the one we ran. If you set out to give the farmer a bailout funded by the tax that broke the farmer, the policy you wo...

• Post #2265798

  https://www.tumblr.com/reasonablywittyatbest/815975302282051584 "I think about British Airways Flight 5390 a lot" "OKAY STRAP IN because this is one of the WILDEST stories in aviation history." "In 1990, a British Airways BAC One-Eleven, captained by Tim Lancaster and co-piloted by Alastair Atchison, was cruising at 17,000 feet. …" [description of pilot's front window falling off the plane, and the pilot sucked out through the win...

• Post #2163572

  Montana Supreme Court Rules Its Constitution Entirely Protects #Trans Citizens In Landmark Ruling The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state. https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/montana-supreme-court-rules-its-constitution

• Post #2163554

  "MIT neuroscientists have uncovered a surprising feature of the adult brain. It contains millions of "silent synapses," which are immature connections between neurons that remain inactive until they are needed to help form new memories. For many years, scientists believed these silent synapses existed only during early development, when the brain is rapidly learning about the world. But the MIT team found that in adult mice, roughly 30 percent of synapses in the brain...