Link. Trump’s poodle is weird.

Link. Gene studies to define mechanism pending. Bacteria also respond to sound. Environmental signals.

Talking to plants suddenly less woo.

Link. They will try to hack US election, fail, but use disinfo to claim they succeeded. Then Trump etc.

Link. “She was returned to her family in Iraq”

“Many of the enslaved Yazidis were sold in slave markets in Syrian cities…”

Link. This is why Facebook Business site notification scams claiming Page deletion work so well. It’s absolutely plausible.

Link. Something is likely to come of this.

Link. One of my favorite autism papers of the past 20years. The low value historic diagnostic criteria make researching “autism” almost a waste of time.

Link. Regional small businesses (small town?) economies have no alternatives. Mostly Vietnam and Philippines. For now.

Link. “One circuit, researchers found, stops the flies by blocking the walking commands, and a second stops a fly by stiffening its leg joints”

About 6500 types of brain cell. We have only identified 3300 or so in humans.

(In the SF story this is the basis for next gen killer drones)

Link. Apple’s shame capacity is limited.

Link. Just buy an index fund.

Link. Iran fears a war with Israel would end the ruling party — and Russia can’t help.

Link. Poetic journalism, cool science.

Link. Hezbollah is not loved everywhere in Lebanon.

Link. A view from Lebanon. Hezbollah was not loved by all.

Link. They are solar powered computers.

Link. The venerable net rule is dust now. Trump talks like Hitler. That is simply true.

Link. Mondello is a net hero. Interesting to see how things work.

Link. I was born there long ago, lived through FLQ era, did MD at McGill. I did not expect McGill to thrive.

Somehow the NYT fails to mention immigration and (extremely low) birth rates. This is a political cheap shot but the real fear is immigrant families may speak English at home and the kids go to McGill.

Link. Patients are not lining up for bone marrow transplants.

Link. Dedicated people.

Link. Maybe implemented around the time AIs monitors have to vouch for human users.

Link. Sociopaths are good at taking power.

His fraud led to several failed drugs and caused great harm.

Link. Useful reference.

Link. Nausea main problem so far. No weight gain and maybe some anhedonia relief.

The NYT article is solid except where they use word “rare”. I assume that was a fearful editor. The disease is not rare and it is terrible.

I appreciated the summary of how our genomic studies produced nothing.

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Link. Ethically the pager attack was a significant improvement on blowing up Hezbollah fighters who routinely use civilians as shields.

Legally it violates a major arms treaty Israel signed.

Link. The shattered fragments of GOP sanity are hoping Trump loses and preparing for 2028. I hope they win their war.

Link. 100 million is a tap on the little finger for them.

Link. I was a minor cybercrime fighter in 1990s Japan for the early Internet version of carding.

Link. There is a name for what happens when technology cycles get too tight to predict.

Link. I’d love to know what Trump’s white woman base thinks of his protection.

Link. We need the legal right to take their phones and computers for a month and suspend their cell coverage. Detention should be reserved for children who use guns in crimes. (Twin Cities has an infamous 12yo)

Link. We lost this battle preemptively. Back when states started lotteries.

Link. Quantum field theory slides into popular science.

Link. Aaronson was my “go to” skeptic of impending encryption doom. He always said it was far away. And now it’s maybe not.

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Link. “journalists spent the better part of a decade protecting her, coddling her, encouraging her to write gossip and call it “news,”

Link. The children of Twin Cities Hmong immigrants are now well represented in our medical schools.

Link. Brazil shows the way.

“Musk had made confronting Justice Moraes one of his pet issues this year, at times posting repeatedly about the judge, insulting him, calling for his jailing and vowing to defy his orders”

Link. Some suggestion they decrease OA. If you are on the lipid fence might consider.

Link. We have many shared bike trails. I don’t ding and I don’t do “left”. I go off trail to pass at such a distance collision is impossible. Most don’t seem to notice me and I practice my singletrack skills.

Link. Down 10% nationally over a year, biggest drop ever. Naloxone helps. Users seem smarter about managing fentanyl; I wonder if the fentanyl demographic is getting older. Post-COVID effect? Impossible to know why…

Link. Vile and unsurprising.

Link. I did degrees in 78, 82, 86, 91, 94 and I’m doing a UMN class now. Undergrads now are way more keen, intense, and stressed.

I think students know we have too much worldwide talent for too little demand, that modern life is chaotic, technology is moving too fast, rural collapse is giving us Trump, and now AI is coming. Econ numbers miss this.

Link. She lives a few miles from me, so our local celebrity. Probably better known locally for her election guides.

Link. Lowe is not impressed. So dumb.

Link. These are horrible diseases and now there is hope.

Link. Raccoon stool increasingly contains a parasite that destroys human brains. Flamethrower need varies based local incidence.

Link. “My question compulsion is still there, but LLMs are saving everyone. I set up a linguistics “collection” in Perplexity with appropriate prompts; now I type my questions into my phone (allowed in class). I get the answer with Perplexity and spare my classmates.”

Link. Not at all language specific, much more general than that. Presumably including applications not yet public.