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AbouBenAdhem

@ AbouBenAdhem @lemmy.world

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  • I'm not an artist. If I sketch something, and have an ai upscale it for me, is it still slop, vs just asking it to do everything?

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  • I think it’s more like a police sketch: it might help you clarify an image you have in your head and communicate it to others, but there's generally more to art than that (just like conveying an idea through a pastiche of song lyrics isn’t poetry).

  • Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal?

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  • From the wiki article on Public.Resource.Org:

    Malamud called for increased awareness that Westlaw was a commercial broker of the United States Federal Reporter, Federal Supplement, and Federal Appendix. While Westlaw had been adding value to the content by indexing it with their proprietary West American Digest System and accompanying summaries, the purchase of their products was the only way to access much of the public domain material they hosted.

  • Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones?

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  • New Year’s is celebrated by everyone

    More so than Christmas, perhaps—but you still have people with different calendars (Chinese, Jewish, Muslim, etc.).

  • All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought.

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  • For anyone else trying to follow this research, the article is describing the paper by Moody et al. from a year and a half ago.

  • Trump sues BBC for $5 billion

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  • strung together two comments Trump made more than 54 minutes apart

    Isn’t that about the normal interval it takes for him to progress from one coherent thought to the next?

  • Is there a word or (concise) phrase to describe the paradox of sharing something (like a website) that you don't like, but because you're sharing it you're tacitly helping it?

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  • “Feeding the trolls?”

  • Why does everyone put celery in soup stock?

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  • Water Chestnuts are a fantastic substitute if you like the crunch.

    Your opinion of celery vs water chestnuts is apparently the exact reverse of mine.

  • How come posts on Lemmy often have fewer upvotes than the comments in the thread, even if they merely provide additional information or expand on the idea?

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  • My personal policy is to upvote posts or comments that should get more visibility relative to other posts/comments in the same community/thread. So I might not upvote a post if there are currently other more important posts in the same community, but I might upvote comments on that post if I think they're the most important comments on that post.

  • This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years

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  • Would you rather glow in the dark, or slowly get bigger when in water, and then shrink back to normal when dry?

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  • Do you get bigger by absorbing air (thereby increasing your buoyancy) or by absorbing water (with the opposite effect)?

  • Chinese company Tencent enlisting U.S. cloud hosting provider Vultr to enforce censorship well beyond the borders of China

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  • Who picked the name “Vultr” for a hosting provider?

  • Yes, Some Children May Have Died From COVID Shots

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  • Are all dinosaur fossils 'replicas'?

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  • In the sense that the original organic material has been replaced by minerals? I guess that’s a version of the old Ship of Theseus question.

  • Archaeologists Found 115,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Where They Shouldn’t Be

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  • The linked Popular Mechanics article cites this Smithsonian article.

    The Smithsonian article cites this National Geographic article and this Science Advances article (among others).

    The National Geographic article is paywalled.

    The Science Advances research article seems to be the original source—here’s the abstract:

    The nature of human dispersals out of Africa has remained elusive because of the poor resolution of paleoecological data in direct association with remains of the earliest non-African people. Here, we report hominin and non-hominin mammalian tracks from an ancient lake deposit in the Arabian Peninsula, dated within the last interglacial. The findings, it is argued, likely represent the oldest securely dated evidence for Homo sapiens in Arabia. The paleoecological evidence indicates a well-watered semi-arid grassland setting during human movements into the Nefud Desert of Saudi Arabia. We conclude that visitation to the lake was transient, likely serving as a place to drink and to forage, and that late Pleistocene human and mammalian migrations and landscape use patterns in Arabia were inexorably linked.

  • Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?

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  • We could use one, and assume we’re operating in the field of complex numbers:

    1 N = Northi N = Westi2 N = Southi3 N = East.

    And we could use the complex modulus to indicate distance or speed... or we could map the Riemann sphere onto the surface of the earth and use a single complex number to indicate location.

  • Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job

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  • Yeah, but these are cops we’re talking about—they’re conditioned to escalate at the first sign of noncompliance.

    Can you really picture a cop physically intervening, being pushed aside, and saying “ok, never mind”?

  • Has there ever been a viable alternative to the phsycialist model of the universe?

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  • I think the framing of questions like this assumes that there are certain “physical” things that follow one intrinsic set of laws, and certain other things that follow a fundamentally different, incommensurate set of laws.

    But we don’t actually have direct knowledge of any intrinsic laws, physical or otherwise—the best we have are a set of purely provisional laws we’ve made up and regularly revise on the basis of cumulative evidence. And our method for revising these provisional laws requires that any new evidence that contradicts a law, invalidates it—provisional laws must apply to everything without exception. If we give ourselves the out that contradictory evidence can be attributed to “non-physical” causes, we can never invalidate anything nor update our models. So dualistic models are inherently unscientific—not because they’re wrong, but because starting with such assumptions is incompatible with the scientific method.

  • Volcanic eruption led to the Black Death, new research suggests

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  • The study authors believe an eruption occurred around 1345, about two years before the start of the pandemic, from either a single volcano or a cluster of volcanoes of unknown location, likely in the tropics. The resulting haze from volcanic ash would have partially blocked sunlight across the Mediterranean region over multiple years, causing temperatures to drop and crops to fail.

    Wow, that’s exactly what happened just before the Plague of Justinian (i.e., the volcanic winter of 536). I’m surprised they don’t mention that in the article.

  • Theoretical Physics with Generative AI

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  • It’s like the Sokal affair in reverse.

  • 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.

  • 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
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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.