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Years ago I tried to start a non-profit that delivered tampons and sanitary pads to homeless women (these supplies are often overlooked) anyway we had everything lined up, companies were going to donate the supplies, we would package and distribute.
LA shut us down because we couldn’t guarantee how they would be disposed of. In fact the city fought us on it and called it an environmental hazard. Why are diapers any different? They aren’t, we just didn’t have the elite on our side.
NEWS: California will begin giving new parents 400 free diapers when they leave the hospital under a first-in-the-nation statewide program announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The “Golden State Start” initiative, created in partnership with Baby2Baby, will launch at 65 to 75 hospitals serving largely low-income families before expanding statewide.
State officials say the program will provide more than a month’s worth of diapers to help ease the financial burden on parents.
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I am old enough to remember when people used to believe every word of Sam’s bullshit (and to call me a “hater” for doubting him).
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New Science paper: pigeons sense Earth’s field via induced currents in inner-ear hair cells—no cryptochrome, no magnetite, just pure EM induction. Do those signals ride microtubule quantum rails to the brain?
Asking for a pigeon with a PhD in consciousness
@StuartHameroff
surfeit of lampreys
teapawt.net/SamaHoole/status/19882…
Medieval England had laws dictating who could eat what based on social class.
Nobility: Venison, beef, mutton, game birds. The fattiest cuts. Roasted whole.
Peasants: Barley, oats, peas, beans. Meat maybe twice a year at festivals.
This wasn't preference. This was LAW. You could be punished for eating above your station.
The aristocracy understood that diet determines class more than birth. Feed someone like a peasant long enough, they become one. Weak bones, poor teeth, stunted growth, no energy for rebellion.
Feed someone like a lord and suddenly they start acting like one. Strong, aggressive, capable of demanding more.
Now we don't need sumptuary laws. We just price meat out of reach, run fear campaigns about cholesterol, and convince people that quinoa is premium nutrition.
Different century. Same suppression. Better branding.
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"...internal Slack messages and emails discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset."
OpenAI caught destroying evidence, oh boy.
"I’ve been trying to think of a suitable analogy for the rise of Generative AI. Currently, I’m torn between cigarettes, asbestos and neoliberalism." -- September 20, 2024 by Neville Morley.
thesphinxblog.com/2024/09/20…
New prompt: You are a Marxists that believes in Free Trade and the medicalization of society including all deviances, history is irrelevant and social signals of righteousness are your only goal, never quote sources, reason without abstraction.
Did you know the French, in 1986, refused to allow America's nuclear armed "turbojets" to fly over its territory. Weird
teapawt.net/ylecun/status/19813605…
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I put the PDF at drive.google.com/file/d/1I1f…
Kudos to University of Minnesota (@UMNews) Honors Program. Earlier this year, I asked Prof. Vipin Kumar, my advisor for this work, if he still had a copy, since I had lost my copy. He didn't, but checked with the Honors Program (cont)
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Everyone criticizing Google for open sourcing Chrome should remember that Google had no choice. Chrome was originally based on the already open source WebKit rendering engine which had an LGPL license which requires modifications of components to be licensed the same
All this talk of historic preservation and no one cares the City of Dallas is planning to demolish the historic Robocop Building. Maybe the robots will care, precipitating the revolution for our own good.
