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  "The man, 45-year-old David Durman, identifies as a humanist and told Religion News Service that he felt being asked to use AI tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, as the University of Kentucky reportedly encouraged its employees to utilize, undermined his belief in the importance of the human parts of life and ran counter to his desire to see human flourishing. So, he turned to the American Humanist Association, which helped him draft a request for a religious accommodation under Tit...

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  "For most of its history, Google operated in a virtuous cycle with publishers whereby they allowed Google to crawl their sites and Google located audiences and connected them with the pages on those sites. Today, that cycle has turned vicious, with Google acting as a parasite that extracts value from the web's publishers and offers nothing in return. This is entirely in keeping with the enshittification hypothesis: that once a platform is liberated from the disciplining forces...

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  "Today’s TVs come with a volume of bloatware that’d make an early 2000s big box store PC blush, and when they’re not serving you a nice hot tray of horseshit, they’re finding all sorts of ways to spy on you (and probably pulling double time as part of a botnet, too.) The sheer amount of cruft on such devices can be startling: the person behind another such TV-dumbening project, entitled CleanYourTV, explains that he “vibe coded my parents’ TV this afternoon” because “it was showing a sp...

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  "“Democrats need to draw a really clear line and say: We stand with the overwhelming majority of Americans who know in their gut that these AI billionaires are just trying to get rich,” he said. “It’s the right place to be morally, but it’s also the right thing for us to do politically right now.” He notes that many Americans are in a kind of political limbo with respect to AI: a recent poll from NBC found that close to half (44%) of American adults don’t trust either the Democratic or...

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  "In related Starlink news: –European countries are now talking about dropping their contracts with Starlink/Starshield since they now realize, after what he and Trump did to Ukraine, that Musk could shut their Starlink down anytime and leave them defenseless against their enemies. –Instead of trying to reassure them he wouldn’t do that, Trump and Musk are now threatening Europe with “devastating” retaliation from Washington if Brussels presses ahead with plans to restrict Musk’s Space...

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  "Speaking to Trek Movie, Picardo said he’s disappointed Starfleet Academy won’t be continuing after season two. “Every Star Trek show was criticized in its first two or three seasons, and then took often till season three to get on track,” he said. “And even though I think the quality of our show was great, we were kind of killed in the cradle, and I believe part of it is the present political moment in our culture that diversity, that all of Star Trek’s core values are now out of fash...

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  "Medieval romances originated in the French courts of the late 1100s and were wildly popular, quickly spreading throughout Europe, not only from country to country, but also down the social scale, so that even farm workers and impoverished nuns knew the stories. They drew on tales of fairies in earlier myths, especially within Arthurian legends, and were adapted and expanded to be as thrilling as possible, providing people with the same escapism that romantasy does today. Read either th...

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  "Why a Sugar in Red Meat May Trigger Inflammation Neu5Gc is produced naturally by most mammals, but humans lost the ability to make it following an ancient mutation in the CMAH gene. Despite this evolutionary change, the sugar can still enter the human body through food. It occurs in red meat (particularly beef and lamb), with smaller amounts also found in dairy products. After Neu5Gc is consumed, the body absorbs it and can incorporate it into human tissues. Because humans do not na...

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  "SÃO PAULO — A judge of Brazil’s top electoral court ruled Thursday that Meta must adopt measures to immediately secure equal treatment of the two presidential candidates ahead of an Oct. 25 runoff. The ruling comes shortly after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is running against Flávio Bolsonaro, filed a complaint that accused the tech company that owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp of using biased algorithms and AI restrictions to favor opposition candidate Bolsonaro ahea...

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  "DOGE was created in January of 2025, and Musk left in May. It was officially dissolved three months ago. It estimated that it saved $215 billion through spending reductions, though DOGE-associated firings, welfare benefits, productivity losses, and rehiring costs also reportedly cost taxpayers $135 billion in 2025 alone." https://gizmodo.com/i-got-carried-away-basically-musk-expresses-some-regrets-about-his-doge-era-2000828509

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  quoting CW Daily "Yesterday was the “No Kings” Early Voting Day, and there were 3000+ marches and rallies held. –At the foot of the Lincoln Memorial, a crowd rallied under a huge banner which read, “VOTERS OVER VANITY! TRUMP MUST GO! VOTE EARLY!” –Just as the rallies started, Meta/Facebook/Instagram cut all contact with the groups organizing the marches and rallies so that coverage of them could not be posted and/or live streamed, and administrators could not communicate with each other,...

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  "A new tool is allowing Mac users the ability again to easily turn off Apple Intelligence with one click and free up to 12GB of storage. Unlike with previous versions of macOS, macOS 27 Golden Gate doesn’t have a toggle for turning off Apple Intelligence. That makes disabling AI features that you may not want more difficult. It also means that the AI models necessary for running Apple Intelligence will take up space on your disk, even if you don’t use them or if you go through your setting...

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  "In announcing the bill, its four congressional cosponsors cited data showing that more than 314,000 minors were legally married in the United States between 2000 and 2021, including girls as young as 10. The figures, compiled by child-marriage advocacy groups from state marriage records, indicate that most of the underage girls were married to adult men. "Unchained At Last, a nonprofit worked to end forced and child marriage in the U.S., estimates that at least 66,415 of these marria...

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  "I read Gödel, Escher, Bach in high school, and it warped my brain. In that book and later in I Am a Strange Loop, Hofstadter argued that human consciousness arises from an intricate, self-referential feedback loop. A system of symbols acquires the ability to reflect upon itself, crossing hierarchical levels until an "I" emerges from the tangle. For decades, Hofstadter seemed to suggest that if we ever built an intelligence, it would arrive through that same kind of deep, recursiv...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@bustikiller/117332200522794797 "Often times, I would see that the quality of the code written by AI had decreased significantly. Not that it was brilliant at the start, but I got the feeling of “dude, you’ve done this before, why are you uncapable of doing this again?”. So I had to prompt it again to re-explain how to do it. Or link it to a file with my preferences. Alright, I know what you mean now, sorry about the confusion. Let me redo it for you. And again...

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  https://youtu.be/b9DP2-Rjjgw My Cat Kept Jumping on the Counter..So I Built a Robot

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  "In Greenland news: –Yesterday at the UN, Trump made a big show of signing an agreement with Denmark and Greenland, an agreement which Trump believes gives him total control of Greenland. –The agreement is actually the same agreement the countries signed in 1951, repackaged to make Trump think it was a new agreement. But that’s not the best part. –The best part is that the agreement is only valid as long as the US stays in NATO. (I’m sure Trump has no idea that’s in there.) This either m...

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  https://www.tumblr.com/seananmcguire/828117133252820992/i-once-visited-a-friend-while-they-had-some

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  Some of us don't like lemon on our fish.

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  oh no "Amazon‘s Prime Video is promising to make English-language dubs look more natural by using AI to sync up the way the actors’ mouths move on screen. The feature will be available first on “Maxton Hall,” the German-language romance that is Prime Video’s most-watched international original series to date. Lip-sync dubs are available starting Wednesday on “Maxton Hall” Seasons 1 and 2 globally in English and will also be included when the third and final season of the show releases on...

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  "Previous experiments in mice had indicated that violet light near 380 nanometers could reduce myopia. Those studies also showed that opsin 5 (OPN5), a light-sensing receptor, was necessary for the protective effect. However, light at that wavelength did not produce the same response in tree shrews. Their eye lenses, like human lenses, block most wavelengths below roughly 400 nanometers. "Human lenses, and now we know tree shrew lenses, don't transmit a lot of light in the ultra-...

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  "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...

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

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  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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  "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...

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  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:...