To get the maximum benefit per vaccination, it’s best to vaccinate the individuals at greatest risk of spreading the disease first. And in most cases, diseases that affect both humans and domestic animals spread far more quickly among humans, thanks to their larger and more heterogeneous social networks. So even if your aim is just to protect the dogs in a given community, you’re probably better off vaccinating x number of humans in the community than the same number of dogs.

There’s nothing special about that phrase in particular (you just said it yourself).

The difference is between opinions (which are protected) and perceived threats (which are not).

Welsh?

Schismogenesis: two groups that perceive themselves as rivals will tend to amplify and identify with whatever initial differences they have.

I’m not sure from skimming the page—did they explicitly give different groups different diets, or did they just measure their ergothioneine levels and conclude that they must have eaten more mushrooms?

Could it just be that dementia-prone people have differences in their metabolisms that cause them to process ergothioneine differently?

If you set up one port forward to any SSH server on your local network (e.g., a spare Raspberry Pi), you can then use SSH tunneling to mirror any port on any machine in your local network to ports on your remote SSH client. And it leaves no trace on either side outside of the terminal session.

If AI-assisted coding becomes the long-term norm, it will probably be accompanied by significantly different programming languages, workflows, and tools (as well as more-capable LLMs). The current batch of AI-generated slop will be regarded as a transitional mess unmaintainable by humans or AIs, and any practices picked up in this phase will have to be un-learned later on.

Scientists deploy a 24-armed secret weapon

Is this how environmental initiatives have to be framed now to survive Trump’s war on science?

That’s not eugenics, it’s gene therapy. Eugenics is when the policy is compelled by the state, for its supposed benefit to society instead of the affected individuals.

A sail absorbs the wind’s energy, transferring it to the boat (which is the same place the fan borrowed it from). There’s no net airflow backward, as there is with reverse thrusters.

If you replaced the thrust reverser on the aircraft with a cloth sail, much the same thing would happen.

Your thinking is that an AI wouldn’t have second thoughts and decide to change its first response?

It makes sense, but at soon as it becomes a recognizable thing, they’ll make AIs edit their posts deliberately.

My method is to put four fingers over the four digits, and keep them in place while moving all of them for each press.

Assuming a four-digit code, your method generates 2⁴=16 possibilities; mine generates 4⁴=256.

Calculating is exactly what AIs don’t do.

Any part of your brain that makes a decision is modeling the world. Anything that causes you to feel surprise is modeling the world. A plant that turns its leaves toward the sun is modeling the world. A bacterium that follows a nutrient gradient is modeling the world.

Nothing can live without modeling its world.

Science uses models, but so does everything else. Your brain is modeling the world all the time, otherwise it would be a flood of uncorrelated, meaningless sensations.

Because the motion of the things we can see leads us to suspect that something else is there, even if we can’t see it directly.

To use the blindness analogy, it’s like if you’re talking to someone and their voice suddenly becomes muffled, you might suspect that some kind of “silent matter” is affecting the sound.

Dark matter particles would still interact with gravity, but not the other forces. Gravity by itself is too weak to detect individual particles, but the effects of large numbers of them could still be seen.

Something the title omits: The ICE agent wasn’t on duty at the time.

Huh? The title says “off-duty” right before “ICE”.

There are some particles that don’t interact via the electromagnetic force. There are some particles that don’t interact via the strong force. And there are some particles that don’t interact via the weak force. All the particles we know, we’ve detected because they interact via at least one of those forces—but there’s no rule that says a particle must interact with any of them.

Why should we assume that every particle in existence must be conveniently detectable? It’s like a blind person assuming nothing can exist unless it makes a noise.

Legal support, sure. But in addition to being prosecuted, she was also fired:

Trinity Health fired Freeman and has refused to make any public statement on the events of May 28. […] This non-profit is the sixth largest U.S. hospital system, with 125,000 employees, and one of several Catholic Church affiliated systems that operate dozens of hospitals across broad swathes of the country.

So this aspect isn’t just legal, or local.