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AbouBenAdhem

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  • China’s Smart Glasses Are Already Leaving Ray-Bans in the Dust

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  • The killer feature is the lack of connection to Meta.

  • ChatGPT's New Safety Feature Could Alert 'Trusted Contact' to Risk of Self-Harm | A designated contact may be notified if a chat discussion indicates a possible safety concern.

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  • What if the risk of self-harm is a result of using ChatGPT?

  • Scientists discover spice synergy that boosts anti-inflammation 100x

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  • Also, the specific combinations that had the strongest effect were capsaicin (chili peppers) plus either cineole (eucalyptus) or especially menthol (mint). (The latter two have similar pathways, while the capsaicin is distinct; the benefit comes from using both pathways together.)

  • Scientists discover spice synergy that boosts anti-inflammation 100x

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  • Are there any culinary sources of eucalyptus (or cineole)?

  • If emotions/feelings are notifications not instructions/orders, give an example of one emotion and what it notifies about?

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  • Confusion is a notification of prediction failure.

  • Replacing a 3 GB SQLite database with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary

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  • the whole reason it was possible to experiment cheaply and come across this serendipity was because 9 months ago, faced with the choice to either do the bad easy thing or the good nothing, I chose to do the bad easy thing. The SQLite database worked! I understood how it worked, behind the scenes with its B-trees and its Full Text Search extension.

    I always wonder what the tradeoffs are for using SQLite for personal projects... being a stepping-stone to rolling your own non-sql alternatives is one I hadn’t thought of.

  • Is it fashionable to keep something on your clothesline permanently?

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  • Maybe they’re short on closet space.

  • Study shows that people who are blind from birth don't develop schizophrenia.

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  • Brain imaging studies show that in people with congenital cortical blindness, this area is often repurposed for tasks such as language, memory and reasoning. ... Without visual input generating a constant stream of ambiguous or unpredictable signals, the brain may settle into more stable ways of interpreting the world, reducing the risk of the misfiring predictions that characterise schizophrenia.

    If that’s true, do congenitally bind people show improvements in general prediction tasks? Could that be why there are so many legends about blind soothsayers?

  • Why does songs from non-English countries have random English words? Can you imagine if English songs randomly have Chinese words?

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  • Just looking at the words in your title, “country”, “random”, and “imagine” were all borrowed from Old French.

  • Explain Stalking to me. I have ex gf's I run into different times at the same stores. Some I keep running into store after store. Just coincidence. At what point is it stalking or something?

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  • If it seems like multiple unrelated people are doing the same thing, it’s more likely an issue with your own perception or interpretation of them.

  • If the US got to the point of rewriting or coming up with a new constitution, which minds would be the equivalent of the minds today? To rewrite the whole thing?

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  • That was Jefferson—he wrote the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.

  • How would you go about reaching North Sentinel Island undetected and integrating into their community?

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  • Characters on the show (and the audience) are at least familiar with the concept of “stranger”. On NSI, the inhabitants can list every single known human in their universe—convincing them there’s a human they never noticed would be like convincing you there’s a natural number between 6 and 7 you never noticed before.

  • How would you go about reaching North Sentinel Island undetected and integrating into their community?

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  • The population of the whole island is about a hundred people—their basic concept of “humanity” is probably limited to people they’ve seen grow up from birth. (Which would explain why they attack outsiders on sight.)

    In theory you might be able to pass yourself off as some kind of supernatural figure, but not without knowing anything about their belief system first.

  • Male Mar-a-Lago face

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  • Homo abjectus.

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    I liked google news

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  • RSS feeds seem like the obvious replacement—how is your vibe-coded solution better?

  • How does gerrymandering work? How does drawing new maps in a state to say these over here are repubs and the over here are dems? How does it matter when it just goes to the state vote?

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  • It matters when the votes are for representatives who represent the voters indirectly.

    It works because votes in excess of the winning threshold for each representative are effectively lost, and districts can be redrawn to give one party an unequal share of the excess votes.

  • A more private way to distribute votes

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  • So my proposal would be: votes are only sent to the author of a post. The author then sends an Update activity to their followers and the magazine the post belongs to. [...] These properties then contain a Collection with a property called totalItems and not a list of the people who actually voted

    What’s to prevent the author from faking upvotes, if the votes themselves aren’t public?

  • How do you conceive of your "self?"

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  • Your self is the private reservoir of knowledge and experience you draw on to interact with the world in a way that’s distinct from anyone else (and that couldn’t be predicted without access to that internal knowledge).

  • A hacker built a tool to track police officers. Then he tried to warn them

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  • So a chess player that exploits an opponent’s weakness is hacking?A snake that finds an entrance to a gopher burrow is hacking?

    “Finding vulnerabilities” is the kind of dangerously overbroad generalization that gave us the DMCA.

  • AskHistorians @lemmy.world
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    Did the eastern Greeks of the Hellenistic age (Greco-Bactrians, Indo-Greeks, etc.) derive entirely from soldiers who accompanied Alexander, or were there later migrations to the new colonies?

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    The Lydian king Croesus attacked the Iranian king Cyrus after an oracle foretold that “a mighty empire would be destroyed” if he did so. The empire that fell was his own.

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Croesus
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    Cosmology episode

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cosmology_episode
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Horses must think we’re mocking them when we use them to carry us around, then put them in trailers that carry them faster than they can run.

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    If Civ I had been a real-time strategy game, people who started playing a game the year it came out would currently be up to 3965 BC.

  • Ask Science @lemmy.world
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    Is it likely that we’re underestimating the extent of metamorphosis in the fossil record because we’re mistaking different stages of the same organism for different species?

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Investment theory of party competition

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Investment_theory_of_party_competition
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    The Lord of the Rings spinoff the world needs right now isn’t Rings of Power or Hunt for Gollum—it’s a feature-length version of the Scouring of the Shire.

  • Shitty Ask Science @lemmy.zip
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    If two astronauts pass each other at relativistic speed and one of them gives the other a loan, which reference frame determines the interest rate?

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    Turing speculated that the ability to act human would be the best indication of humanlike thought, but a better indication would be the inability to act otherwise.

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    The first evidence of human activity every archaeological expedition encounters is evidence of an archeological expedition.

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Dionysian imitatio

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dionysian_imitatio
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    I wonder what humans do when they’re not taking showers. And where does all this water come from? And how did I become sentient?

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    Maybe "CAESAR STABBED IN BACK BY BRUTUS AND CASSIUS" was just an ancient clickbait headline, and the actual event was a minor policy dispute instead of a literal assassination.

  • California @lemmy.world
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    California opened college savings accounts for millions of kids. Why do so few know about it?

    oaklandnorth.net /2025/11/03/california-opened-college-savings-accounts-for-millions-of-kids-why-do-so-few-know-about-it/
  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Shift-and-persist model

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shift-and-persist_model
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    The first century BCE and the last century BCE are the same century.

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    People with six fingers can get away with anything, because everyone will assume that any videos of them were AI-generated.

  • Ask Science @lemmy.world
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    What would be the drawbacks of a genetic code with 6 nucleotides instead of 4, but each amino acid could be coded with 2 base pairs instead of 3 (so the genome could be 33% shorter)?

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Beatrice Sparks - alleged Mormon youth counselor, author, and serial con artist

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beatrice_Sparks