I hope they have proper risk assessments, de-orbiting protocols, and especially important build in a way/with materials that don‘t ruin the night sky.

Not holding my breath.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io/_(moon)?wprov=sfti1

Broken clock yadda yadda.

This is kind of unfair because in properly done trials patients are told to report all symptoms they experienced in the period whether or not they think it was caused by the drug. Then you compare possible side effect incidence between the placebo and treatment group. And any statistically significant difference is very likely the side effect of the drug. (Humans are pretty bad with causality, so it works a lot more accurately this way, especially in well powered studies).

Nepal, Madagascar

The worst thing is the majority of these aren’t like the AI your little brother uses when he logs into the chatgpt app. Like that contributes a little. But the real issue is that Tech companies have implimented LLMs literally everywhere in their workflows and data and services and this is taking up a ridiculous amount of computational power. These enterprise level implementations and speculative integrations (ie. adding AI somewhere that a corpo things will help but literally no one asked for it), is whats driving the biggest rise.

I’m new to this instance, but it being named after quokkas is like my favourite thing ever.

Join the quokk.au instance 😂

Why does the Pepper Dispenser, the larger of the pieces, not simply eat the other pieces? -Lrrrrr

Ukraine has handed over to Russia as part of an exchange a 21-year-old student who had plans to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), investigative media outlet Verstka reported on Friday, citing his friends and Ukrainian military sources.

According to Verstka, Alexey Gerasimov was a former student of journalism at the Chuvash State University, who, friends said, openly supported Chuvashia’s secession from Russia. Chuvashia is a republic in Russia’s Volga region where local Chuvash, a Turkic ethnic group, form a two-thirds majority of the population.

“He would debate teachers, saying it was time for Chuvashia to secede from Russia. The teachers reported him and he was mobilised into the army,” Mishshi Oreshnikov, a Chuvash activist who fights for the AFU, told Verstka, though Verstka was unable to confirm this.

Fucking hell. Both Russia and China’s erasure of indigenous Turkic peoples is really bleak.

In fact, it appears we live in a giant cosmic void with roughly 20% lower than the average density of matter.

Okay that’s a little less dramatic than I envisioned given the use of the word “void”

“on the brink of passing” (the article text) is a bit of an exaggeration. The latest swiss news I can find is that the government is currently doing a consultation.

https://www.news.admin.ch/fr/nsb?id=103968

Anycase, hope this doesn’t pass seems pretty awful. But even if it does I think we’re likely to see a referendum and all that, so could take a while.

Happy cake day!

I hereby propose during the Next Cycle, we switch to: Really Really Free Markets

“Praying Barbie” 😭 ROFL

Also People:

Let me install bee boxes with hundreds of thousands of invasive bees to harvest honey.

(which will obviously end up outcompeting the native ones)

and then suprised pickachu face when the natives do indeed decline after you add hundreds of thousands of invasives.

Nice. If the harvest is large I’m sure you’re gonna make some neighbours and friends happy!

Use the Windscribe 10gb per month free. It works well. And if you need more use RiseUpVPN. But note it is slow. And that its completely free and volunteer run. It’s the kind of thing that if you get an income you should probably donate to if you used a lot. It’s mainly used by activists in authoritarian countries.