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smarm52
·3 дня назад·discuss
Also, aging populations.

There's a larger proportion of older males in the population now than there has been in most of history. Testosterone decreases as we age. The average is across _all_ males, even those outside of reproductive years. I assume if we controlled for outliers, that the results would be fairly comparable across time.
smarm52
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
No shit? A fascist using a public form to demagogue? What will they think of next.
smarm52
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
> These artificial condensates provide a versatile platform for studying and manipulating molecular functions inside living cells.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomolecular_condensate#As_bio...

> ... thus allowing the condensate to serve as a scaffold for protein release or recruitment.

Neat, programmable cells. Why worry about drug delivery methods, when the cells can be programmed to synthesize novel molecules directly.
smarm52
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
Not sure why they waited so long. Seems like a simple thing to do to help erode Putin's power base.

> Saint Petersburg is a major trade gateway, serving as the financial and industrial centre of Russia ...

> The Great Port of Saint Petersburg has three large cargo terminals, in Petrodvorerts, Kronstadt, and Lomonosov.

> The federal subject's Gross Regional Product as of 2016 was 3.7 trillion Russian rubles (or around US$70 billion), ranked 2nd in Russia, after Moscow ...

> In 2015, St. Petersburg was ranked in 4th place economically amongst all federal subjects of the Russian Federation, surpassed only by Moscow, the Tyumen and Moscow Region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg#Economy

Maybe they took a lesson from Iran and are trying more aggressively to hit Russia in the economy.

Heck, if there's military administration in the region, they could carry out targeted assassinations given facial recognition.
smarm52
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
> But demographers have long shown that what really counts is girls’ education.

Interesting, they mention JUST education as the deciding factor. Would it not be education AND birth control?
smarm52
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
> Bad experiences with supervisors are common among early-career researchers and one of the leading reasons they leave academia, a survey of more than 2,600 researchers has found1.

Huh, I thought my experience was kind of rare.

I found out my supervisor had about a ~10th grade reading level in English. Needless to say, I wasted a few years on my program before I switched advisors. Finished in less than a month with someone with an appropriate level of reading skill. So disgusted, I left the industry.
smarm52
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
> the fact that the inmates cannot know when they are being watched motivates them to act as though they are all being watched at all times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
smarm52
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
The paper:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6787638

Unclear if it's been peer reviewed. The abstract looks fairly convincing. But it is argued against by the majority of research on this topic.
smarm52
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
https://archive.ph/ERyCp

Interesting strategies to consolidate power.
smarm52
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
Familiar viruses can be contained more easily, and tend not to outbreak.

Thus, non-familiar ones would be the ones to outbreak.

Evolution in action.
smarm52
·2 месяца назад·discuss
I think they already did that on the 23rd.

https://fortune.com/2026/04/23/anthropic-mythos-leak-dario-a...
smarm52
·2 месяца назад·discuss
They can't be that smart if they're heading into the US now. Concerns about ICE hunting down "furiners" should be enough to give them pause; Especially those that are part of a visible minority.
smarm52
·2 месяца назад·discuss
This article could have been a meeting.
smarm52
·2 месяца назад·discuss
To be fair it does pretty good posts on civitai{dot}red; Just pretend I linked to it (NSFW).
smarm52
·2 месяца назад·discuss
So, C-suites are so easy to replace a marketing gimmick can do their work?
smarm52
·2 месяца назад·discuss
Which happens to occur when Mythos appears on the scene ...

https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/

So, an uptick in issues like this isn't terribly surprising. Once they get fixed, the "burst" of issues should subside.
smarm52
·2 месяца назад·discuss
This is my shocked face. :|

Predicted for years, perhaps approach 50 since initial climate change predictors were first observed and codified.

Also, the most vulnerable with access to the fewest resources always suffer the worst. Which is why the global South with reap most of the problems due to climate change caused by the North.
smarm52
·2 месяца назад·discuss
...is the name of his autobiography.
smarm52
·2 месяца назад·discuss
What would you call this? Not doom scrolling, doom streaming? A little research gives us:

The Proleptic Wake:

> You void-stream your own obsolescence porn in a proleptic wake — automation anomie dressed as content, bricks going up with a smile.

Where "proleptic" is a real rhetorical/literary term meaning to anticipate something future as if already present. A wake that is happening before the death; Paraphrasing. And "anomie", Durkheim's term for the breakdown of social norms leaving people unmoored.

I also kind of like Doommaxxing, but I don't think that captures all of it.
smarm52
·2 месяца назад·discuss
If you need to heat things, this seems to be the way to go. And heating accounts for nearly half of global energy demand and is still mostly fossil-fueled (paraphrasing). This means that this puts a big dent in the need for fossil fuel to generate energy. And all without depending on Chinese materials. Note that this is in the very early stages of development; In software development terms, this appears to be in the "alpha" stage.

https://sci-net.xyz/10.1126/science.aec6413