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  • AI Is Deciphering Animal Speech. Should We Try to Talk Back?

  • ‘Garage Mahals’ Are Driving Neighbors Nuts - WSJ

    Now, Bailey is part of a man-cave-meets-Storage Wars revolution spreading across the country. e keeps his two Porsches, Ferrari, custom Harley, dune buggy and racing trailer in a nearly 2,700-square-foot space outfitted like a sleek European car dealership. It sports a tequila bar, heated floors, bathroom with a shower, giant TV, leather sofa, stack of racing tires and a car lift. He’s among 100 owners in a complex of garage condos called Chanhassen AutoPlex whose car shows attract thousands of people on summer weekends. hen a regular garage just isn’t big enough to stash all their cars, boats, snowmobiles, RVs or even quilting gear and golf simulators, some people turn to luxury storage spaces where they can be close to their toys with all the comforts of home. Call them car barns, barndominiums, toy sheds, garage mahals or shouses (for shop houses), they are a big hit in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.

  • Dead Stars Don’t Radiate | Azimuth

    Now they’re getting more publicity by claiming this means that the universe will fizzle out sooner than we expected. They’re claiming, for example, that a dead, cold star will emit Hawking radiation, and thus slowly lose mass and eventually disappear! They admit that this would violate baryon conservation: after all, the protons and neutrons in the star would have to go away somehow! They admit they don’t know how this would work. They just say that the gravitational field of the star will create particle-antiparticle pairs that will slowly radiate away, forcing the dead star to lose mass somehow to conserve energy.

  • InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel

  • Kids take time, and are higher priority than your buddies silly schemes: Why some friendships end after kids come into the picture

    It can be tough to maintain adult friendships after kids come into the picture. If you're a parent, you might assume your child-free buds aren't interested in your new life. If you're not, you might assume your parent friends are too tired or busy to hang out. If you want to keep your relationships intact, regardless of where you fall on the kid divide, lean into communication and compassion, says culture writer Anne Helen Petersen. While she is not a parent, she maintains close friendships with many who are.

  • The wild idea that we all get nutrients from the air that we breathe

  • Europe Built Trains. America Built Highways and Regret.

  • The Neglected Abundance of Your Backyard

Musk

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

  • Is the University of Austin Betraying Its Founding Principles?

    My sin, it seems, was that I’d written, “We can have criticisms of DEI without wanting to tear down the whole concept of diversity and inclusion”; and that I’d appreciatively quoted Strambler in a manner that implicitly criticised Trump’s aggressive approach to dismantling DEI programs. In promoting a more open-spirited view, I was refusing to condemn DEI without reservations or qualifications. I knew, of course, that members of the UATX leadership team were highly critical of the impact of DEI on higher education—a critique that I largely shared. The university’s founding constitution, for example, explicitly instructs administrators that “admission and graduation decisions shall be made strictly without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, political affiliation, or religious faith.”

  • MIT Backs Away from Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI

  • New book reveals bad science, corrupt leadership behind pandemic school closures

    The deeper Zweig dug, the more his sense of astonishment—and then of outrage—grew. As early as March 2020, it was clear that Covid, unlike influenza, posed little threat to children. Nor were schools major centers of virus transmission, studies showed. In other words, the scientific evidence supporting long-term school shutdowns was weak, the author discovered, while the policy’s negative impacts were potentially devastating. Zweig pitched his editors at the New York Times: How about an article detailing the scientific case for reopening schools? They weren’t interested. Nor were several other outlets he had worked with. Eventually, the article ran in the tech magazine Wired. The piece had little impact on the national debate over school closures, not because it wasn’t persuasive but because there was no national debate over school closures.

    Five years on, Zweig’s meticulous account is finally igniting the debate that should have taken place in 2020 and 2021. His book has two main aims. The first is to document the science behind Covid transmission and school closures. He does this with dogged reporting and lucid writing. The evidence for masking, the epidemiological support for the “six-feet-apart” rule, the argument that children put teachers at undue risk—all those claims were founded mostly on unquestioned assumptions or sloppy studies, Zweig shows. The virus transmission models used to justify shutting down American society often turn out to have been based on little more than hunches. For example, a federal pandemic-preparedness guide included a recommendation to close schools (briefly) on the premise that children and teens interact more closely—and thus spread viruses more readily—than adults. That pivotal assumption came partly from a school project produced by the 14-year-old daughter of a pandemic modeler, Zweig discovers.

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

TechSuck / Geek Bait

  • GPS Needs to Toughen Up, or Get Trampled Down

    The weaponry needed to attack GPS position, navigation and timing (PNT) is surprisingly cheap. Ten-watt GPS spoofers, costing less than $50, can cause gross navigation and timing errors for miles around. Worse, U.S. federal laws prohibiting the operation, marketing or sale of jammers are minimally enforced. And there is no coordination between federal, state and local law enforcement agencies to identify, arrest and prosecute offenders. The FCC is in charge of taking complaints, but offenders face little risk of being prosecuted, convicted and locked up.

  • (2007) How the Sun Enterprise 10000 was born

    • The Sparc 2000e was a hell of a beast; I had an E6000 after that and it was even better. I never got hold of the full speed, full cache CPUs for that one, alas.

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

Crypto con games

Economicon / Business / Finance

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

Trump

Democrats

  • Why we need to humiliate Joe Biden.

    Hur’s report made clear that Biden’s cognitive impairment was severe and the White House was covering it up. That scheme should have been the story of the 2024 campaign from the moment the report became public. Joe Biden and the people around him lied about his basic ability to function as he tried to convince American voters to give him the world’s most important job for four more years. He shouldn’t be forgiven. His misdeeds belong in the first line in his obituary. We need to remember what he did. Even if he can’t.

  • Biden Diagnosed with Metastatic Prostate Cancer ([Archive}(https://archive.ph/lHvII))

    Biden received the diagnosis of prostate cancer with metastasis to the bone after he was experiencing increasing urinary symptoms. “While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management. The President and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians,” according to a statement from Biden’s personal office.

Left Angst

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

  • Mexican Navy ship crashes into Brooklyn Bridge leaving two people dead

    A massive Mexican navy tall ship making a festive visit to New York slammed into the Brooklyn Bridge late Saturday — toppling its huge masts into the deck in a horrifying scene that left 35 injured including four critically, according to fire officials and sources. A search and rescue operation was underway to pull people out of the water after one of the towering 147-foot masts on the Cuauhtémoc — which has a crew of 277, mostly cadets — collided with the bridge’s road deck just before 9 p.m., sources told The Post. Sources said 35 people were injured, including four critically — including crew who were seen plummeting into the water, sources and witnesses said.

    Sydney Neidell and Lily Katz told The Associated Press they were sitting outside to watch the sunset when they saw the vessel strike the bridge. “We saw someone dangling, and I couldn’t tell if it was just blurry or my eyes, and we were able to zoom in on our phone and there was someone dangling from the harness from the top for like at least like 15 minutes before they were able to rescue them,” Katz said.

    t was unclear what caused the ship to veer off course. New York Police Department Special Operations Chief Wilson Aramboles said the ship had just left a Manhattan pier and was supposed to have been headed out to sea, not toward the bridge. He said an initial report was that the pilot of the ship had lost power due to a mechanical problem, though officials cautioned that information was preliminary. Videos show a tugboat was close to the Cuauhtemoc at the time of the crash.

World

China

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

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