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AbouBenAdhem

@ AbouBenAdhem @lemmy.world

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  • Morals and aesthetics are the same thing, just differing contexts. Both are a sense of rightness.

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  • The same is true of physics, inasmuch as it lets us divide hypothetical scenarios into possible and impossible.

    All of them are systems for separating scenarios into those that conform and those that do not.

  • Is being an antirealist just being a troll?

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  • Realism gives rise to more epistemological issues—anti-realism is more logically rigorous insofar as you’re making fewer assumptions beyond what you’re explicitly given (i.e., a stream of sensory impressions).

    Even if you’re a realist at heart, it can be instructive to see how far you can get before taking the leap of faith that the source of your senses is what you think it is.

  • RFK Jr's Nutrition Chatbot Recommends Best Foods to Insert Into Your Rectum

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  • They assumed it was a chatbot, but it was actually RFK Jr. replying in person.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    If Civ I had been a real-time strategy game, people who started playing a game the year it came out would currently be up to 3965 BC.

  • ACLU's lawsuit over ICE raid at an Idaho racetrack could be a game changer

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  • Section 1983 and Section 1985 of the Civil Rights Act stipulate that a person may be liable for violating constitutional rights, even if they’re not a state or local government employee, if they conspired with state or local employees.

    So local law enforcement agencies assisting ICE may actually be setting them up for lawsuits?

  • ‘Stiff’ cells provide new explanation for differing symptoms in sickle cell patients

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  • Judge Strikes Down California’s Ban on Masks for Federal Agents

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  • Judge Christina A. Snyder of the Federal District Court in Los Angeles issued a preliminary injunction against the mask ban, ruling that California’s new law was unconstitutional because it did not impose the same requirements on all federal, state and local law enforcement officers.

    Well, there’s an easy fix for that.

  • ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses

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  • They’ve got a case of manfluenza.

  • MOBJECTS

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  • I figured it was just bad OCR.

  • Are gender-exclusive groups ever ok?

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  • Any group can be empowering for its members. If it’s a group that already has an unequal amount of power in society, exclusive meetings will tend to exacerbate the inequality. But if it’s a relatively powerless group, it can counter the imbalance.

  • Noam Chomsky’s wife apologizes for their ‘grave mistake’ in Epstein ties

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  • I studied linguistics in the 90s, and that was the general attitude about Chomsky then (specifically universal grammar and to some extent X-bar theory—his work on generative syntax and formal grammar from the 50s was still considered foundational).

    But I’ve lately discovered the research of the Minimalist program that he was working on for the last few decades, and that seems pretty solid and groundbreaking even now.

  • Noam Chomsky’s wife apologizes for their ‘grave mistake’ in Epstein ties

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  • Chomsky’s attitude seems representative of a lot of men and women (most of whom were younger than him) who had always described themselves as feminists, but who had similar feelings that #metoo was unfounded hysteria.

    Epstein was capitalizing on that and promoting it, not just with Chomsky but with a lot of other academics outside of his usual circle.

  • Noam Chomsky’s wife apologizes for their ‘grave mistake’ in Epstein ties

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  • What I find most damning in the correspondence isn’t Chomsky’s defense of Epstein—he seems to have genuinely believed in his innocence—so much as Chomsky’s subscribing to the framework that the #metoo movement/“cancel culture” and associated wave of sexual assault allegations was a baseless collective “hysteria”. Valeria’s statement implies that this was a stance Chomsky arrived at independently of Epstein.

  • Bonobos can play make-believe much like children, study suggests

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  • Kanzi selected the correct, “full” cup in 34 of 50 trials – better than would be expected from chance – suggesting he was able to understand the concept of pretend liquids.

    While that’s slightly better than chance, it’s not as good as I’d expect if he were imagining it the way children do.

    Maybe he was interpreting the fake pouring motion as a signal of intent or a general disposition of the pitcher to tilt into that cup, and was then indicating where he expects the liquid to be poured next?

  • What technologies are constant failures but we can't stop trying to make work?

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  • Encryption with safe, unexploitable backdoors.

  • Is Home Assistant the recommended default for smart homes?

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  • In terms of software, yes. But HA can be run on nearly anything—there’s no need to buy their hardware to use it.

  • What's the most globally impactful book ever written? EXCLUDING RELIGIOUS BOOKS.

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  • Plato and Aristotle were also major influences on Arabic philosophy.

  • What's the most globally impactful book ever written? EXCLUDING RELIGIOUS BOOKS.

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  • Assuming you’re counting their impact throughout history, and not just the contemporary world:

    Xenophon’s CyropaediaPtolemy’s AlmagestAl-Khwarizmi’s Al-JabrNewton’s Principia

  • This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts

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  • the tool, called EpsteIn—as in, a mash up of Epstein and LinkedIn

    A better mashup might have been “SteptIn”.

  • Any way to make nextcloud more like Google Photos? (Solved!)

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  • Having a world map that has pins on it based on location EXIF data in photos

    Don’t you get that in NC already, if you go to Maps > My Photos ?

  • Ask Science @lemmy.world
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    Is it likely that we’re underestimating the extent of metamorphosis in the fossil record because we’re mistaking different stages of the same organism for different species?

  • 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.