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AbouBenAdhem

@ AbouBenAdhem @lemmy.world

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  • Trump says he plans to cancel most of Biden’s executive orders

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  • Even regular laws should have a trial period, and only get confirmed after demonstrating that they have the intended effect.

  • Assuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years?

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  • Once we get good, universal real-time translation, we might start to see a new proliferation of local languages. And of small groups inventing their own cryptolects for privacy, trying to evolve them faster than AI can keep up.

  • Forward Party - Not Left. Not Right. FORWARD.

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  • Their “Values” reads just like the Bush-era Republican platform—so I guess it’s the kind of FORWARD that goes all the way around and points exactly backward again.

  • Is there a word for when someone is not capable of, or doesn't try to understand verbal communication in a language they are fluent in, similar to functionally illiterate, but for speech?

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  • Agnosia or asemia?

  • What's a good job thats easy to get?

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  • Secretary of Health.

  • Of all modern Sci-Fi Dystopia depicted in movies, which do you think our world will most resemble or already does resemble?

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  • Not a movie yet (AFAIK), but Octavia Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower is downright uncanny.

  • Iain M Banks out of context

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  • Is that a reference to Use of Weapons or Excession?

  • How do you catch up being out of the loop in politics and wars?

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  • Wikipedia’s current events portal covers current events and conflicts with links to plenty of background info.

  • Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s in mice with groundbreaking nanotech

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  • That article reports that a drug targeted at clearing amyloid proteins didn’t suffice to restore the brain’s waste-clearing functionality; this article reports that a drug targeted at repairing the blood-brain barrier does restore waste-clearing functionality (including amyloid proteins). So they’re not completely contradictory.

  • Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s in mice with groundbreaking nanotech

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  • It looks like the research was done by academic and government-sponsored institutions in Spain and China, so hopefully it won’t just become a profit-making tool for the biotech industry.

  • Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: "Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications"

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  • Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.

    They should put that disclaimer on their entire operating system.

  • Brazil says it’s a climate leader. Not everyone buys it.

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  • Unfortunately “climate leader” is a pretty low bar these days.

  • Emerging niche clustering results from both competition and predation. (My takeaway: more species can coexist in an ecological niche if they have distinct predators.)

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  • Hmm... while I don’t necessarily see biodiversity as an end in itself, I do see it (or more specifically, the ability of ecosystems to produce new diversity going forward) as a critical part of maintaining the long-term viability of the biosphere in the face of mass extinctions and local ecosystem collapses. (And I don’t think that viability is a given—life has been lucky in the past, but that doesn’t mean our actions now have no effect on the odds going forward.)

    Now, maybe (hopefully) there are other ways of maintaining the resiliency of the biosphere that are less cruel than predation (or disease, or resource exhaustion, etc.). But we need to understand the existing mechanisms before we can discover any potential better alternatives.

    And maybe we humans can’t or won’t do that. But if nothing else, increasing future biodiversity increases the chance that some other species or ecosystem will eventually hit on a better dynamic than what the world has had to work with so far.

  • Why did Montreal need to prove that it's a real place? What happened to the people who called it Montimaginary

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  • Montreal is just a subspace of Montcomplex.

  • City Raccoons Are Evolving to Look More Like Pets

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  • For the new study, she and 16 graduate and undergraduate students gathered nearly 20,000 photographs of raccoons across the contiguous U.S. from the community science platform iNaturalist. The team found that raccoons in urban environments had a snout that was 3.5 percent shorter than that of their rural cousins.

    Or maybe people in cities take more photos of “cuter” animals?

  • Noam Chomsky showed up in the Epstein files

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  • Any idea of the date on this? He says he’d met Epstein “half a dozen” years prior, and mentions an incident in 2001 (which would put this letter somewhere between 2002 and 2007). AFAIK the first allegations about Epstein started to come out in 2005, so this letter could have been a few years before or after.

    Edit: on re-reading, I guess Chomsky is saying that Epstein arranged a meeting with Ehud Barak to discuss an incident from 2001, not that the meeting itself occurred then.

  • What is the best way to eat spinach?

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  • Saag paneer.

  • Is there distance metric for languages that takes more than sounds into account?

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  • Here’s a paper that tries to develop a method for measuring the difficulty of learning other languages for English-speakers (and potentially speakers of other languages).

    This paper is concerned with the issue of “linguistic distance,” that is, the extent to which languages differ from each other. Although the concept is well known among linguists, the prevailing view is that it cannot be measured. That is, no scalar measure can be developed for linguistic distance.

  • I wonder how the Habsburgs would have felt about pugs

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  • Probably the same way Putin feels about Dobby.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    AbouBenAdhem @lemmy.world

    Maybe "CAESAR STABBED IN BACK BY BRUTUS AND CASSIUS" was just an ancient clickbait headline, and the actual event was a minor policy dispute instead of a literal assassination.

  • California @lemmy.world
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    California opened college savings accounts for millions of kids. Why do so few know about it?

    oaklandnorth.net /2025/11/03/california-opened-college-savings-accounts-for-millions-of-kids-why-do-so-few-know-about-it/
  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Shift-and-persist model

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shift-and-persist_model
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    The first century BCE and the last century BCE are the same century.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    People with six fingers can get away with anything, because everyone will assume that any videos of them were AI-generated.

  • Ask Science @lemmy.world
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    What would be the drawbacks of a genetic code with 6 nucleotides instead of 4, but each amino acid could be coded with 2 base pairs instead of 3 (so the genome could be 33% shorter)?

  • California @lemmy.world
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    Governor Newsom to deliver major address to Californians ("Democracy at a Crossroads")

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    If the Romans had put Jesus in a box with Schrödinger's cat, Christians’ souls would be in a quantum superposition of saved and damned.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    AbouBenAdhem @lemmy.world

    Trying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be.

  • Biodiversity @mander.xyz
    AbouBenAdhem @lemmy.world

    Emerging niche clustering results from both competition and predation. (My takeaway: more species can coexist in an ecological niche if they have distinct predators.)

    onlinelibrary.wiley.com /doi/full/10.1111/ele.14230
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    If whales are ignorant of conditions on land, they probably think humans are an endangered species.