He would've turned 99 yesterday
Biden is splitting Democrats. The center-left is split, and now even the centrists are starting to split among themselves.
Is it? I thought he was just continuing the same policies from the Obama Admin. Limiting exports doesn't sound like a way to limit fossil fuels being extracted, it sounds like a way to keep the domestic market cheaper. But idk
And the pause was only started in January. So I don't see how you could blame courts for the previous 3 years. He's an Obama Democrat. He loves drilling.
The main thing you're missing is that the words of the court are meaningless. They'll always be able to use the next ruling to bend the outcome to the conservatives' whims.
This is a government of men, not laws. Always has been.
The article has lots of reasons why maybe not. Not using Martian material is one of them.
But moss typically doesn't need soil. The first mosses evolved on earth before soil was a thing. Mosses don't have roots that extract nutrients/water from soil. Instead, they have rhizoids that just kinda anchor them in place, but don't transport nutrients/water
I think the genocide in Gaza broke a lot liberals' brains. Something snapped. The mask is off. Leftists are the enemy. Dissent must be crushed. Everyone they disagree with is a troll/bot/Russian/Chinese
The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters
❤️ To you, though. Not everyone is like this. Not even all libs are this callous. But it is a growing trend 😞
I'm surprised they didn't also mention the climate of fear and distrust around Chinese academics in the US. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/wrongfully-accused-spying-china-professor-wins-appeal-sue-government-rcna86109
Every warmonger to ever exist:
Naturally war is bad, but
Look at the article, though. IMO it looks like HHS was trying to keep quiet, navigating political pressure and recent research. It's the NYT that decided to box the administration into this very public position. It's effective Advocacy journalism for terfs
Yeah, this is a rare application of LLMs that kinda makes sense. It's essentially just rephrasing text based on statistics. That's what LLMs are good at, and it's pretty low stakes if it gets something wrong.
There's definitely an ick factor, considering all the problems with "AI", like exploiting labor and wasting energy. But this is exactly the sort of things LLMs can do well. Rephrasing things.
Would it be better to just get a human to do this? Yes. They already do with abridged versions and cliff notes. Best case scenario, this service is using LLMs to just make these people's jobs easier (doubtful, I know)
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Music podcasts?
Looking for recommendations of music podcasts. The only one I listen to is Afropop worldwide, which is one of my favorite podcasts/radio shows . I realize there aren't a ton of straight-up music podcasts because of copyright issues, but what have you got?
Only a fraction of funds needed to provide aid to millions in the war-torn country is secured, the groups say.
The nature podcast went from having one of the best intros to one of the worst
Their original intro was a banger. It's something like a ringtone trying to do pop punk. 5 seconds into the intro, the hosts start telling you the upcoming stories as the music fades in and out. A host tells the date and her name, then the other hosts introduce themselves. 40 seconds in, the show starts. The whole time that song was fun. A+ intro. I would have no problem listening to the intro anywhere.
Compare that to their current intro. It's a slow dollar store Brian eno jingle that swells as you hear the most cliche'd clips about what science is. You have an old professorial European talking about "data". You have an annoying kid asking a question about light. 40 seconds into the intro, and you're just getting the headlines. That just takes a few seconds, then you're forced to suffer through 10 more seconds of the Brian eNot.
An example of the old intro: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02159-6 after just 5 seconds you're hearing about mollusk fossils
Example of the new intro: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01230-1 It's cringe. I would die if someone heard that intro coming from my car (still a good podcast though).
Open source e reader
I recently got a Sony prs 600 e reader from 2009. The battery is at the end of its life (It lasts about 3 days with heavy reading, and a couple weeks without reading). No backlight, no Wi-Fi, just an SD card that I can load epub files and small PDFs. The screen is slow and the contrast isn't the best. The "touch screen" is the old resistive type where you really need to press with your nail or a stylus. Despite all those flaws, it's fantastic. It's just good enough for reading books.
I read with large text so I don't even need to put on glasses, and it's easier to read than an actual book. Combined with Anna's archive, I'm reading more than I ever have before. No Wi-Fi nd slow screen make the experience feel closer to an actual book than a smartphone. It's great to just have a device do one thing without distractions popping up every minute.
It's all old technology, but it's so rare to see anyone with an e-reader. Probably because they're still expensive and designed to microtransact the fuck out of you.
So do you think there could be a simple open source e reader? I see pine64 is making the "pinenote", but it's still just the developer version, it's expensive, doesn't have an sd card, and looks like it's trying to be a lot more than an reader. Maybe it'll come down in cost, or they'll release a simpler version? The biggest obstacle for making an e-reader seems to be the screen, so maybe the pinenote's screen could become something of a standard.
Or maybe I'm overthinking it, because there's already so many old Kindles and nooks out there that could be improved with a new battery and maybe new firmware too.
Thoughts?
Bangladesh opens mosque for transgender hijra community
The South Asian nation has, since 2013, officially allowed members of the hijra community to identify as a third gender.
Democracy rule
I need y'all to understand: Biden isnt losing votes from the far left. He never had those votes, and could never get them.
He's losing the votes of Muslims and Arabs in Michigan and Philly. He's losing the votes of moderates who are watching Israel's final solution in horror. He's losing the votes of Latinos and Haitians who see the southern border is getting more militarized and more violent every year
[Edit] to be 100% clear: If you oppose Israel's war on Palestine, but plan on voting for Biden this November,this post isn't about you.