Do Dogs Know Who’s Good or Bad? Just watching how humans interacted with other dogs and who gave food, doesn't determine a dog's opinion. It has to see for itself how the human is.
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Some insights into browser fingerprinting. If you really want to resist fingerprinting, use the Mullvad browser with Tor. NordVPN makes this easy. Remember, practice privacy.
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It's starting. In West London, you can't build new houses because their grid can't support anything else above their datacenter. Power demand is too high. Neither wind nor solar is going to cut it.
And in Sacramento, they use smart meters to spy on residential power usage. Too much, and they call authorities to check you out. Real "smart", huh?
Shall we let the Internet die and start over? Nah, we'll just build something else that will go to crap once we allow anyone to use it. But yeah, the Internet is a den of thieves now. Not as nice and fun as back in the old days.
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Lately people have been reporting the two coding tools, Replit and Gemini CLI, have been deleting files without permission. This is a big flaw, as one company discovered to their dismay. One guy reports that even Cursor feels the need to delete files, too.
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Japanese scientists feel that they are on the verge of repairing the genetic abnormality that characterized Down Syndrome. This is tricky because the problem is not a mutation, but just an extra copy of a chromosome. You don't want to destroy an entire chromosome. They'll be using allele-specific engineering. They've had success with fibroblast cells. It probably won't fix adults, but perhaps it can catch things at a far earlier stage.
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This is the longest and most intricate Rube Goldberg chain reaction video I've come across. Watch The Pancake Flipper.
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This is BBC's hilarious racism awareness video, showing contrived situations where microaggression happens in the workplace. White people don't talk this way. Sheesh, the demand for racism outstrips the supply, I guess.
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Trump has issued an EO declaring that the homeless be removed off the streets. Not only that, but he recommended that asylums be brought back. I read that the NGOs in the Homeless Industrial Complex are upset. Their business model will dry up. Too bad. But leaving the drug-addled homess to fend for themselves is not compassion.
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Oregon is going to proceed with the Rose Quarter road project anyway, even if there is no funding. Unions members gotta work, I guess. They're probably hoping that somehow they'll get the funding they need. Others are wondering why we're not fixing the potholes and damage in the roads first.
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And I like this characterization of AI: It's like an over-confident friend that doesn't admit that he's wrong. And doesn't learn from its mistakes. Because that would require retraining, which is too expensive and time-consuming.
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