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AbouBenAdhem

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  • "No Trespassing" signs don't make any sense because they imply "Trespassing is A-OK" if not for the sign.

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  • It varies by jurisdiction, but in many places trespass isn’t actionable if it was accidental or if the person was deceived into trespassing by a third party. Posted signs could prevent those cases.

  • Have you ever seen a man with a face like that?

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  • The transparent head with visible skull is a pretty unusual feature.

  • A cosmic odometer site where you can calculate how far you've traveled cosmically.

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  • How close are we to infinite power? Being able to cheaply in our everyday lives? Or are we trying anymore?

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  • MS NOW shared AI-manipulated Alex Pretti photo on TV, website and YouTube. Here's what we know

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  • The “AI upscaled” in the file name is probably a clue—a lot of people think upscalers just enlarge images, without realizing how much they can get distorted in the process. So somebody found a thumbnail and thought they were just recreating the original with an upscaler.

  • Cows Can Use Tools. Are We Underestimating How Smart They Are?

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  • IMO the important thing isn’t just the use of objects, but the planning involved. Picking up a broomstick with your mouth doesn’t feel good, so there’s no reason the cow would do it for more than a moment unless she were already thinking ahead to its possible future use.

  • “This Was Not Accidental”: Scientists Unravel Video Supposedly Showing a Pet Cow Using Tools

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  • That quote by itself is fine, but when they combine it with “unravel” and “supposed” it puts a different interpretation on it.

    I usually equate “unravel” with “tear apart”, but maybe they meant something more like “unpack”.

  • “This Was Not Accidental”: Scientists Unravel Video Supposedly Showing a Pet Cow Using Tools

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  • I dunno—in this case, confirmed tool use seems more noteworthy than debunked tool use.

    Maybe the implication of a dispute just sounds more dramatic.

  • “This Was Not Accidental”: Scientists Unravel Video Supposedly Showing a Pet Cow Using Tools

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  • A cow using a scratcher is doing something that provides an immediate reward. The cow that selects and manipulates an appropriate stick is planning ahead for a future reward.

  • “This Was Not Accidental”: Scientists Unravel Video Supposedly Showing a Pet Cow Using Tools

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  • The title seems to suggest the scientists are disputing the claim that the cow is using tools, but the article itself says the opposite.

  • What if the Epstein files are the distraction?

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  • I don’t think Trump himself is doing it—but I think the people around him see it as a plus that it will likely be the Epstein scandal that eventually brings him down, because it will release the political pressure while leaving the rest his administration and policies unscathed.

  • Man allegedly tried to break Luigi Mangione out of jail by impersonating FBI agent: Sources

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  • Minnesota Man is the new, improved Florida Man.

  • The First Mass Arrest on Zohran Mamdani's Watch Targeted Anti-ICE Protesters - Left Voice

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  • Yeah... I’d say there are four increasing categories of executive discretion that can apply to policing protests:

    1. Stopping or not stopping police from preemptively breaking up lawful protests
    2. Stopping or not stopping police from normal enforcement against protests in public spaces (i.e., laws against blocking traffic or causing disturbances)
    3. Stopping or not stopping police from proactively breaking up protests in private spaces (i.e., lending police to corporations to use as private security)
    4. Stopping or not stopping police from normal law enforcement against protests in private spaces (i.e., actively withholding protection from the target of the protest).

    It seems like this is a case of 4 or possibly 3.

  • Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion?

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  • It depends on what you would have bought otherwise—you presumably buy a limited amount of clothing, so what purchase is it replacing?

    It’s also possible that a subsequent shopper who was set on buying Shein but was checking thrift stores first will now buy new items instead—but I can’t say how likely that might be.

  • Vavilovian mimicry

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  • Vavilov deserves to be much better known!

    In my opinion his more important and underrated discovery was Vavilov’s law of homologous series in variation—it’s known among crop geneticists, but its broader implications aren’t widely recognized. It holds that closely-related species will evolve in similar ways to new environmental changes—implying that species aren’t just blindly driven by natural selection, but that they have stored, lineage-specific strategies for evolving in response to potential future changes.

  • Before social media/internet/cell phones/landlines/payphones; how would 2 friends living across the same city arrange in person meetings and stay in touch?

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  • Sending letters via post to friends in the same city wasn’t uncommon—but beyond that, you could leave messages at common locations. Like if you both go to the same shop once a week, you could leave messages for each other with the shopkeeper.

  • [US General Strike January 30th, 2026] How to call or report strike day to employer?

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  • You can have a phenomenon that looks like noise at small sample sizes, but becomes obvious when the size increases.

    For one small business, a 5% change in productivity for one day might be business as usual, while for a nation it would be alarming.

  • Why there is no clock that displays time 4:20:69 ?

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  • It never made it into production because the workers keep taking smoke breaks.

  • Rep. Ilhan Omar Assaulted by Protester at Town Hall Meeting

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  • Because that’s an explicit threat. Spraying water is—at least on the face of it—a step below throwing rotten fruit or creme pies or fake blood: you can always claim it was meant to be symbolic.

    Edit for clarification: The point is, you can deliberately make it as non-threatening as possible, and it may be obvious to everyone that it’s not a threat—but if there’s a protocol to always check anyway, you’re shutting the speaker down by exploiting the protocol rather than the threat.

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Investment theory of party competition

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Investment_theory_of_party_competition
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    The Lord of the Rings spinoff the world needs right now isn’t Rings of Power or Hunt for Gollum—it’s a feature-length version of the Scouring of the Shire.

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    Turing speculated that the ability to act human would be the best indication of humanlike thought, but a better indication would be the inability to act otherwise.

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    The first evidence of human activity every archaeological expedition encounters is evidence of an archeological expedition.

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Dionysian imitatio

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dionysian_imitatio
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    I wonder what humans do when they’re not taking showers. And where does all this water come from? And how did I become sentient?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    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.

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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")

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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.

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    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
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    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.