Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

There are living Japanese Americans who were rounded up and imprisoned in concentration camps and I assure you that the president enjoyed total immunity for that fascist crime.

The modern development that is throwing everyone for a loop is not presidential immunity, it’s not the idea of jackbooted thugs rounding people up and putting them in concentration camps.

It’s that it could happen to *anyone* this time and not just designated minority groups.

My latest story in @QuantaMagazine was the most pure unadulterated fun I've had reporting in my time as a journalist to date.

After decades, an open online collaboration has definitively identified an unusually active computer program called the fifth busy beaver.

1/5

Nice summary by Paul Offit. https://open.substack.com/pub/pauloffit/p/lab-leak-mania?r=1kceo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

“If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.”
― Richard P. Feynman

PhD program in psychiatric, translational research and basic Neuroscience

Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry

Fully funded (& no tuition) PhD program in psychiatric, translational research and basic Neuroscience (option for a residency track for med. doctors)

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/max-planck-insti...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/max-planck-institute-of-psychiatry-27778-phd-program-in-psychiatric-translational-research-and-basic-neuroscience/?feed_id=77160

“On AI and the commoditisation of design – Scott Riley”

https://www.scott.is/writing/about/ai-and-design

> That’s because I know the value good design can bring to a project, and it’s not the output. Design is about humans, about sense-making, systems thinking, and craft

Insightful review by Marina Rubini and Vladimir Kubyshkin in Chemical Reviews. They review the chemical structure, natural occurance, synthesis and biological application of a comprehensive selection of proline analogs. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c00007?ref=PDF

"Florida carpenter ants (Camponotus floridanus) amputate limbs as a precautionary measure to save the lives of wounded conspecifics."

https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/amputation-ants/

“Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone | MIT Technology Review”

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/01/1084189/making-an-image-with-generative-ai-uses-as-much-energy-as-charging-your-phone/

> Luccioni says she hopes the research will encourage people to be choosier about when they use generative AI and opt for more specialized, less carbon-intensive models where possible. 

'Use smaller, more specialised models' was literally one of the main recommendations I put in my book a year ago 😎

I'm pretty sure actual barbarians would slaughter their chieftain:

'After outpacing other Europeans in terms of economic growth, the nation once at the heart of the continent’s worst financial crisis has bucked the trend again, introducing a 48-hour working week. The measure, decried as “barbaric” by unions, takes effect from Monday.'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/01/greece-introduces-growth-oriented-six-day-working-week

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But another, more sustained thread has run through many sharp increases in food prices. From oranges in Brazil to cocoa in west Africa; olives in southern Europe to coffee in Vietnam, permanently shifting weather patterns as a result of climate change are reducing crop yields, squeezing supplies and driving up prices.

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https://www.ft.com/content/125e89c0-308a-492f-ae8e-6834847d1186