It's that time of year again. The site remains stable with all of its archival material! I'm in a cert program for industrial maintenance, hoping to secure apprentice hours for an eventual journeyperson credential. But I've been unemployed for a year, and my 2025 income was about $3,000 gross.
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
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through years of LLM research, we have finally managed to invent a human-usable interface for ffmpeg
Donating to online scammers posing as legitimate people in need is not morally neutral:
You potentially are giving money to brutal slavery and human trafficking networks:
www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2...
Next edition of On War is gonna look like this
It's pretty crazy that this book was published in 2006, and the characters suspect that the alien they are talking to in the opening is an LLM in a sense more or less recognizable to anyone reading it today.
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FYI, this gallery has all the photos NASA is sharing from Artemis II in one place, with descriptions.
"It's unlikely that he would've been able to, given Waffle House's sealing jutsu," said Hiruzen Sarutobi, who holds the Sandaime Chair of Ninjutsu Studies at Leaf University. "But some Sharingan users have been able to use unconventional space-time techniques, so we can't rule it out."
Imagine absolutely trashing a female lead author, who leads up a women's research institute, who is undoubtedly going to face unreal threats for doing this work, for correctly describing the fact that previous theories predicted a different predictor here
one of the finest posts of all time
forgot the most important of the genre
I MADE THIS IN DECEMBER. I'M YELLING. I FUCKING CALLED IT LMAOOOOO
"Notes From a Regicide" by Isaac Fellman, an incredibly intimate look at a family whose parents were at ground zero of a rebellion and the marks that living through (sometimes causing) those events left on them, through their son's eyes. Gorgeous in texture, not afraid to ask unanswerable questions.
Okay, so caveating this by saying I'm not @conspirator0.bsky.social and nowhere near as expert. The operation has two main arms: the Abdelfattah cell (~877 accounts) and the Mahmouds Family cell (~124 accounts). Similar templates, but different infrastructure and different coordination methods.
unnerving lofi beats to tremble and cower to
*first day on arrakis, haven't got the hang of walking without rhythm*
*hear a low rumbling*
worm (muffled but becoming less so): THEY CALL ME DR. WORM
GOOD MORNING HOW ARE YOU I'M DOCTOR WORM
I LIKE TO PLAY THE DRUMS
*as i am swallowed by worm* I THINK I'M GETTING GOOD BUT I CAN HANDLE CRITICISM
Billions of people, possibly including you reading this, are alive today because you can run natural gas into a reactor and spit out ammonia (Haber Bosch).
A large % of the installed base for that process is shut in or exploded. It’s northern hemisphere spring.
ariel hart did some of the best local reporting on the hostile takeover of the CDC and the protests surrounding it. not really sure what's left of the AJC at this point.
Brendan Carr tweet: Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions - also known as the fake news - have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up. The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not. And frankly, changing course is in their own business interests since trust in legacy media has now fallen to an all time low of just 9% and are ratings disasters. The American people have subsidized broadcasters to the tune of billions of dollars by providing free access to the nation’s airwaves. It is very important to bring trust back into media, which has earned itself the label of fake news. When a political candidate is able to win a landslide election victory after in the face of hoaxes and distortions, there is something very wrong. It means the public has lost faith and confidence in the media. And we can’t allow that to happen. Time for change! Trump "Truth": Yet again, an intentionally misleading headline by the Fake News Media about the five tanker planes that were supposedly struck down at an Airport in Saudi Arabia, and of no further use. In actuality, the Base was hit a few days ago, but the planes were not “struck” or “destroyed.” Four of the five had virtually no damage, and are already back in service. One had slightly more damage, but will be in the air shortly. None were destroyed, or close to that, as the Fake News said in headlines. The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal (in particular), and other Lowlife “Papers” and Media actually want us to lose the War. Their terrible reporting is the exact opposite of the actual facts! They are truly sick and demented people that have no idea the damage they cause the United States of America. Fortunately, as proven by our Great and Conclusive Election Win in 2024, the People of our Country understand what is happening far better than the Fake News Media! President DONALD J. TRUMP
FCC to journalists: cover the Iran war the way the president prefers or lose your broadcast license.
Troubling development--Core PCE inflation was hot in Jan at 0.36% m/m & 3.1% y/y BUT it would have been even hotter had BEA not shifted its source data in an ad hoc fashion to avoid showing an 11.9% m/m rise in legal fees shown in the CPI. The BEA acknowledged they made this choice...not a good look
Fitzcarraldo
Can this be a solution?
After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative. The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools
I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.
This is learned today:
Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...
Star Trek Deep Space Nine scene. A PADD is shown up close held by a pair of hands. (Kind of looks like an old palm pilot and if you're not old this will mean nothing to you) The beautiful LCARS user interface is displaying the text, "GO AWAY."
"depressed fans of star trek deep space nine" made me go "okay hey now" out loud to absolutely no one
Excuse the interruption to Candy Week, but I've just been made aware that not only is it International Women's Day, it's also Cynthia Rothrock's birthday! So to celebrate, and in lieu of the originally scheduled post, here's pre-movie stardom Cynthia in an ad for KFC!
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
noooooooooo :(
