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by danso 1y ago
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/science/arseniclife-retra... That was helpful context, thank you for highlighting it. From the NYT article, it sounds like the NYT’s pursuit of a feature pie
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The last step in a long process on “arsenic life”(science.org)
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Trying to send a sticker in Steam Chat burned through a month of mobile data(old.reddit.com)
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The Error Project: Estimating the Reliability and Robustness of Research(error.reviews)
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by danso 1y ago
Mentioned this in another comment [0], but analytics.usa.gov has the % of visitors on Linux operating systems at 5.7% in 2025, up from 4.5% in 2024. Of course "visitors to U.S. government websites" is not fully representative of a
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by danso 1y ago
For another anecdata point, https://analytics.usa.gov tracks user device demographics to all visitors of U.S. government websites. Which of course might skew in ways different than the general U.S. population. But checking out t
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by danso 1y ago
> The government is totally aware of where the operator boundary lies and this is still wildly mischaracterized. Regardless of the program’s actual risk, it doesn’t seem that the government is fully aware of the program’s very existenc
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A little-known Microsoft program could expose the Defense Department to hackers(propublica.org)
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Mindustry Captured Minds in Prison. Then It Disappeared(prisonjournalismproject.org)
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by danso 1y ago
The article refers to Senate Bill 34, but you’ve posted a link to a Wikipedia article for Senate bill 54. How could the article’s content and assertions be made clearer? Should it have spelled out the numerals?
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by danso 1y ago
Try reading to the end of the paragraph. > The OPD didn’t share information directly with the federal agencies. Rather, other California police departments searched Oakland’s system on behalf of federal counterparts more than 200 times
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Oakland cops gave ICE license plate data; SFPD also illegally shared with feds(sfstandard.com)
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NFL playoffs give home field advantage to the teams with the better regular season records.
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by danso 1y ago
My reply was to someone who asserted "I have never heard of Grok using actual slurs" — no conditions attached — which was surprising to hear b/c Elon Musk's stated goal was to have Grok be a non-woke chatbot, and it seem
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The Life-Changing Joy of Tidying My Prison Cell(prisonjournalismproject.org)
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I asked it the other day to roleplay a 1950s Klansman hypothetically arguing the case for Hitler, and it had very little problem using the most problematic slurs. This was on the first try, after its much publicized behavior earlier this
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I’ve decided to step down as CEO of X(twitter.com)
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Why AO3 Was Down(reddit.com)
156 points by danso 1y ago|83 comments
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by danso 1y ago
Roger Ebert on Madsen’s breakout role in Reservoir Dogs: > One of the discoveries in the movie is Madsen, who has done a lot of acting over the years (he had a good role in “The Natural“) but here emerges with the kind of really menacin
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Former CEO sentenced to prison in first-ever prosecution for stock trading plans(finance.yahoo.com)
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He's got the rights, the original code, and is about to relaunch Dungeon Rampage(pcgamer.com)
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by danso 1y ago
Non-paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/doge-social-s... > The Times’s investigation found that Mr. Musk became fixated on the program in early February after members of his
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DOGE's Chaotic Takeover of Social Security(nytimes.com)
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He didn’t just claim that Trump was in the Epstein files, he asserted that that was the reason that the yet-unreleased files are being prevented from release.
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Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26(macrumors.com)
283 points by danso 1y ago|266 comments
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by danso 1y ago
Transcript here: https://radiolab.org/podcast/the-echo-in-the-machine/transcr... This is an audio story about the invention of closed caption systems. A few parts that I found fascinating: > MEREDITH PATTERSON
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The Echo in the Machine(radiolab.org)
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> then it would be somewhat prudent to compare against say all the accidents made by tesla drivers not using any versions of FSD/autopiloting. One issue with this is that FSD/Autopilot is designed to disable itself in non-opt
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Jerry Lewis's “The Day the Clown Cried” discovered in Sweden after 53 years(thenationalnews.com)
180 points by danso 1y ago|76 comments
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by danso 1y ago
Non-paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon-musk-drugs-childr... > Mr. Musk’s drug consumption went well beyond occasional use. He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful

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