There's been a lot of discussion of microplastics recently. One thing I read argued you can reduce dangers from microplastics by boiling water, although I'm not sure I believe that study.
Really amazing to see the white NIMBYs who expected that Native Americans wouldn't believe in building tall buildings complain about this project. Amusingly, Connecticut banned direct sales of vehicles to protect dealerships, so now there are dealerships on nearby tribal lands, good stuff. This general concept of reperations as a trick to get around development restrictions seems pretty great, think of the applications.
I highly recommend Factorio, definitely one of my top 3 games of the last decade.
I've embedded this whole video because you really have to see it to understand how impressive it is. It's also worth noting that they specifically note that they haven't cut or sped up any part of the video. They also state aren't remote controlling it. I also have never seen a text-to-speech system that adds 'um' to cover processing.
Longer Reads
– Leaked TikTok documents show it "instructed moderators to censor videos that Chinese government wanted suppressed". Also censored the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests. If you want even more on the subject, someone shared a stanford law review article discussing the history of forced divestiture across numerous different industries. (src)(cached)
– 'healthcare ate defense", government spending on military,health went from 43%/7% in 1963 to 12%/28% in 2023 (src)(cached)
– Oh wow, I didn't realize what Ryan Gosling's Pink Suit for singing I'm Just Ken at the Oscars was based on. (src)(cached)
– Off street parking requirements for bars seem bad. (src)(cached)
– You probably already knew this, but the main barrier to mRNA vaccines before COVID was resources for running the trials, because the trial size needed these days is just so large. (src)
– Visual comparison of the resolution of the various VR headset screens (src)
– Really helpful reminder on how it's not really possible to get 'safety' from an AI model on almost any dimension. (src)(cached)
– A lot more people used to get struck by lightning, probably correlated with farm employment falling (src)(cached)
– It would not be that unreasonable if Europe asked Facebook to spin off their EU unit as a separate company, although they probably don't have much to gain by doing so. (src)(cached)
– Biden trying to overthrow Netanyahu? (probably not literally, but Netanyahu is doing some very bad stuff) (src)(cached)
– Mamba AI model named after a snake because it's full name is Selective Scan Structured State Space for Sequence Modeling (SSSSSS) (src)(cached)