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wolframhydroxide

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  • Matt Damon, Ben Affleck sued by Miami police for depicting them as ‘dirty’ in The Rip

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  • I mean, yeah, one of the more famous police procedurals is literally "Miami vice".

  • NutriTrace v1.0.0-rc.20 — Google Health migration, Resilience, Split Recipe

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  • This is an AI slop Spam Bot. Every single post it has made in the last two hours stops in the middle of a sentence, with each comment being at best sycophancy, and at worst a total non-sequitur. Everyone should report this spam from an undeclared bot account.

  • Countries rolling out age verification laws (2026)

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  • All the way down all 40 minutes of its posting history

  • Countries rolling out age verification laws (2026)

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  • And it even made another slop top-level-comment on this post as soon as I downvoted it into the negatives.

  • Matt Damon, Ben Affleck sued by Miami police for depicting them as ‘dirty’ in The Rip

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  • But the "Miami police department" does, and these character saren't named as specific individuals. Only the police department. The police department is certainly, itself, a "public figure", which the defendants could easily demonstrate using the public figure's social media posts and press releases. Is there case law saying that a group such as a corporation cannot constitute a "public figure"?

  • Instructions weren't clear

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  • It's missing the diagonal and would be way off-center. The 4 would have to be sideways. You can see what it should look like in the discard pile.

  • Instructions weren't clear

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  • Ah, yes, the ultimate hallmark of trustworthiness.

  • Instructions weren't clear

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  • I think this might be AI. What card is the 4 supposed to be with that symbol in the middle?

  • Blue no matter who, right?

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  • <Narrator, to audience>: "They Hadn't."

  • Why are most people in real life like Cipher?

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  • Where are you living where you believe yourself to be living under a democracy?

  • Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent.

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  • Kindred spirits

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  • Nah, I think we're all clearly misinterpreting this: OC thinks furries are so hot they uncontrollably ejaculate fire at the very thought of them.

  • A 46,000,000-year-old mosquito still had blood inside

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  • I, too, find that perspective compelling, but I think it's worth pointing out that societal intelligence, as defined there, isn't unique to humans. Mycelial networks allow communication, learning and reactivity among entirely different species within a forest. Eusocial insects like the hymenopterans have their own unique languages. Whales communicate among their pods and across oceans to pass on information and teachings. I'm not saying that a tree knows what a beetle is, but there's something deeper than mere genetics at play when unrelated species communicate the presence of parasites through a mycelial network, and each tree begins to produce insecticide toxins, even those which have never been infested by a beetle. We too-often discount the many languages which are already spoken on this planet, simply because they are less intelligible to us, or seem more simplistic than Infinite Jest.

  • A 46,000,000-year-old mosquito still had blood inside

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  • You may not like it, but this is what peak evolution looks like.

    Meme aside, crabs are slightly different, since they are a case of convergent evolution. The reason mosquitoes, crocodiles and sharks basically look entirely unchanged is because there has been little to no selective pressure for those species, since their survival and propagation strategy remains incredibly effective. If there's nothing random mutations could do to make individuals of a species (or a subgroup thereof) more likely to survive long enough to breed, then natural selection won't have anything to sink its teeth into. If no other competitor comes along to outcompete those species, nor some devastating plague or other disaster which makes their strategy unviable, they will remain unchanged, and we get the coelacanth, horseshoe crab or, yes, the mosquito.

  • Achievements in maths

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  • Let's be clear: even if we are ascribing to the "great man" school of thought in history, rather than the "shoulders of giants" school, there were plenty of other epochs in the history of mathematics that already have adjectival versions, derived from the people who developed that new area of mathematics:

    • Pythagorean (Pythagoras)
    • Euclidean (Euclid)
    • Algorithmic (Al-Khwarizmi)
    • Newtonian (Newton)
    • Gaussian (Gauss)
    • Bayesian (Bayes)

    So using Euler as a singular epoch to the exclusion of others' contributions is not particularly useful, since other people have also developed entire branches of mathematics. What Euler did for discrete mathematics/graph theory, Newton and Leibniz did for calculus, Al-Khwarizmi did for algebra, Bayes did for statistics, and Euclid did for geometry.

    I personally think you can't disentangle any of them from their contemporaries and forebears, since they were, all of them, in constant communication, collaboration, and competition with one another. You don't get the brilliance of Newtonian physics or calculus without Robert Hooke and Gottlieb Leibniz, and Bayesian statistics was largely developed by Laplace. Where is Peano in here, who formulated the axioms upon which all mathematics rests? The tusi couple anticipated Copernicus' model of orbital mechanics hundreds of years before he and Kepler picked up pens, and is mathematically equivalent to an ellipse surrounding the sun, if you were to graph them all out on the same paper.

    It's not particularly meaningful to try to say that "so-and-so is the father of ______", because it completely ignores and belittles the contributions of others upon whom each of these people relied, in favour of an easier-to-memorize history of old, dead white men who are the sole progenitors of civilisation.

  • Achievements in maths

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  • Well, the wikipedia page for both Al-Khwarizmi and algebra both disagree with you, as does the wiki page for Geber, and, oh yeah, the journal of the history of mathematics: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2006.02.006

    "It is well known that our word “algebra” derives ultimately from the Arabic al-jabr, which is part of the name al-jabr wa’l-muq¯abala given to the art of algebra in medieval times. Further, the individual words al-jabr and al-muq¯abala are associated with two steps in the simplification of equations. Al-jabr is the word used in conjunction with moving subtracted quantities to the other side of the equation, and al-muq¯abala is used to combine like terms on opposite sides of the equation."

    I have additional notes, if the literal source on the history of math is insufficient to convince you of the history of math.

  • Achievements in maths

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  • To be fair, they kind of already did rename all of mathematics after a guy, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, who wrote the book "al-Kitāb al-Mukhtaṣar fī Ḥisāb al-Jabr wal-Muqābalah" or, in a Latin bastardization: Al Goritmi, author of Al-Jabr.

    You know him because his name is the word "Algorithm", and his book was so revolutionary that we named the entire branch of mathematics it covered after it: "Algebra"

  • Achievements in maths

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  • No, bit the vast majority of all the land in the western hemisphere is called America.

  • Ancient sharks are older than Saturn’s rings

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  • I commented this when the last poster made this claim a month back: Sharks are older than most of the current, eaily-visible rings of Saturn. The E-ring is primary composed of material ejected from Enceladus, and there is no indication I have found which would suggest that the hydrothermal processes which cause the jets are anything new. Additionally, just because most of Saturn's current rings were formed more-recently doesn't mean there weren't rings back then. The gas giants have hundreds of moons, and they certainly used to have more. I think it is an undeniable, generally - accepted fact that the gas giants have all had significant rings at some point in the past (and they all, in fact, do have rings, just not all as spectacular as Saturn's current ones.

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    Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes

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    JMOL

    DNA in Cross-eyed view

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    Any (ideally FOSS) Software Recs?

  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
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    Since we're doing magic eyes now...

  • politics @lemmy.world
    wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works

    Lest We Forget The Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump's Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions & Crimes

    www.mcsweeneys.net /articles/lest-we-forget-the-horrors-an-unending-catalog-of-trumps-cruelties-collusions-corruptions-and-crimes