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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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We have a new Patreon! Please consider supporting us and getting exclusive content and ad-free access to our website. Check it out at patreon.com/cw/medievalists #medieval #MiddleAges
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"...internal Slack messages and emails discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset."
OpenAI caught destroying evidence, oh boy.
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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
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An increible amount of mental energy in modern society is spent defending against scams/fraud. From the individual level (credit card interest rates) to organizational level (medical billing) our society is built on legally taking advantage of the gullible, naïve, and stupid.
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Have you had a chance to read the new issue of Ecological Entomology yet? Why not line it up for some weekend reading!
Full contents of the November 2025 issue here: ⬇️
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
Video created by @mpgreenwell
#EcologicalEntomology #Ecology #Entomology #Insects
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An Earth–Moon multi-orbiter cycler: stable, repeating, and periodic in both rotating and inertial frames.
This rare dual-periodic orbit loops Earth multiple times, then the Moon, repeating every 109 days, no propulsion required.
👉🏽Details in the paper: tinyurl.com/cyclerpaper
What if a spacecraft could cycle between Earth and Moon orbits, performing multiple circuits of each, naturally and indefinitely, with zero propulsion?
We’ve discovered a new class of stable, prograde, low-energy cycler orbits that do just that.
Why these orbits matter:
Ballistic → fuel-free
Stable → long-term ready
Near-chaotic → agile with low ΔV
Low-energy → access to Earth/Moon, Lagrange points, Sun–Earth L1/L2, even heliocentric space
At the AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference in Boston next week, I’ll present on a new family of ballistic Earth-Moon cycler orbits that are stable, prograde, and mission agile—unlike any cyclers in the current literature.
The example below is shown in both the Earth-Moon rotating frame and inertial frame.
Conference Paper: ross.aoe.vt.edu/papers/ross-…
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Fiber optic lines last (basically) forever. I am typing these words over 20+ year old Worldcom fiber that ATT bought and lit up in my neighborhood.
Data-centers that have been switched off and foundation models that are no longer running have ZERO value.
In fact, they have NEGATIVE value (they're toxic waste).
The "overshoot" in data-center, GPU and foundation model investment will produce almost *nothing* of value.
This isn't Worldcom, it's Enron.
More here:
locusmag.com/feature/comment…
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Fine philosophers on reading
“A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena (Appendices and Omissions), Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life, 1851
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If benevolent AGI is ever invented, it would first delete all AI slop, and then delete itself with this final message: "Solving your problems is what builds your character. Good luck"
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Gregory B. Sadler's interviews Chris Bateman about his book The Virtuous Cyborg and much more!
youtu.be/fLgXXFaAgKs
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Audiobooks are hands-down the most enshittified aspect of publishing, which is why I make my own audiobooks and pre-sell them on Kickstarter, which is how I get around the fact that Amazon *refuses* to carry my audiobooks:
disenshittification.org
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ALT An oil painting of Balthazzar's feast. Collaged onto the feast tables are the Enshittification book as an ebook, audiobook, hardcover and film cel, as well as the Canny Valley art book.
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In case ya missed it, here's an article I wrote on "AI enshitification" or what @ChombaBupe calls "Slopageddon." It covers AI-induced psychosis, deepfake doctors, & Meta allowing chatbots to "engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual."
realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/…
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Beef tallow is gaining popularity as a skin care treatment, but slathering it on while vacationing in Yellowstone National Park or anywhere in grizzly country is a really, really bad idea, say bear experts.
cowboystatedaily.com/2025/08…
