What the incredibly expensive failed effort to save one stranded humpback whale says about people's irrational priorities.

US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to oppose the Earned Wage Access Consumer Protection Act. It is a roundabout way of exempting payday loans from existing regulations that protect the public.

See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.

US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.

To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.

Please spread the word.

Among various kinds of dangerous pollution produced by burning wood in fireplaces, one shocking kind is lead.

I weep for the future.

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This document establishes a policy for how LLMs can be used when contributing to rust-lang/rust. [...]

No comment on this PR may mention the following topics:

• Long-term social or economic impact of LLMs
• The environmental impact of LLMs
• Anything to do with the copyright status of LLM output
• Moral judgements about people who use LLMs

We have asked the moderation team to help us enforce these rules.

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Penile implant specialist with history of far-right comments led hantavirus presser:

Before he joined the Trump administration last year, Dr. Brian Christine was an Alabama-based urologist who specialized in penile implants. He has little public health experience and a history of far-right commentary and promoting conspiracy theories. He's said the Covid pandemic led to a wider government plot to control people, compared the Biden administration to Nazi Germany and suggested the Covid vaccine had little effect in stopping the pandemic.

He once hosted a YouTube show called "Erection Connection," a professional YouTube series on erectile dysfunction for fellow urologists.

A CNN review of archived podcast episodes, social media posts and radio appearances found that Christine repeatedly framed public health institutions, the federal government and pandemic-era policies as tools used to target conservatives and religious Americans.

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*New Report Reveals Coordinated Corporate Campaign Against Life-Saving Federal Heat Standard for Workers.*

California's rule requiring businesses to protect their workers, with rest breaks and access to water and shade, is a big help, and extending it nationwide could avoid thousands of illnesses (some of them fatal) per year.

Israel is about to start building an Israelis-only road through the West Bank, designed as an excuse to exclude Palestinians from all the other roads in a central region of the West Bank — and force them all out.

*The [English/Welsh] Greens need to learn the right lessons from the destruction of Corbynism.*

Republicans in Utah and Oklahoma want to shield fossil fuel companies from liability due to damage done by global heating.

*Three-quarters of UK millionaires would be happy to pay more tax, research finds.*

US citizens: call on Congress to put an end to the FISA law's permission for warrantless spying on Americans.

The FISA court was supposed to prevent abuse of this power, but it has announced that the constraints on its operation made that impossible in practice.

US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.

To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.

Please spread the word.

US citizens: Support H.R. 1137, the "No Kill Switches in Cars Act."

I think that if someone is convicted of driving under the influence, or something close to that, it is legitimate to attach a sensor-driven kill switch to stop per from driving while inebriated.

US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue.

To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121.

Please spread the word.

The post was advertising exactly what it sounds like: A database of poop images, collected from an AI poop analyzing app that he had launched several years ago. Basically, 25,000 people had been taking images of their poop and uploading them to his app. He'd been collecting, analyzing, and annotating these images and now wanted to sell access to them. [...]

The poop database comes from an app called PoopCheck, an app made by a company called Soft All Things that purports to use AI to analyze images of one's stool in order to give you a "daily gut health score." [...]

The app also features a "community," of 151,317 "shared stools" at the time of this writing and a "leaderboard," where people can share images of their poop for commentary from other users and earn points for participating.

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At 1Password, we applied agentic tooling to a multi-million-line Go monolith.

(No I'm not linking to it.) Ok first, how in the everloving fuck did you allow a password manager to reach multiple millions of lines??

(I assume they're not even counting the entire embedded copy of Chrome that lurks inside 1Password.)

And now they sloppified it, so more people are jumping ship.

Welp, I warned you about 1Password's self-immolation in 2023 and posted a migration guide. You're welcome.

Please note: If you have come here to recommend a different password manager, I implore you to not do that, as I just do not care. This is what I did. If something else works for you, good for you. Write it up on your own blog.

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The Sierra Nevada tourist hub -- home to ski resorts, lakeside casinos, and roughly 25 to 28 million annual visitors -- is facing an energy crisis with a familiar culprit: the data centers powering the AI boom.

NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied the bulk of Lake Tahoe's electricity for decades, told Liberty Utilities -- the small California company that services the region -- that it will stop providing power after May 2027. The reason? NV Energy needs the capacity for data centers. As in: the energy supplier for the Lake Tahoe region is telling the utility company that it has less than a year to find another power source.

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It's so weird, like: you sought me out at my place of business and the first thing you do is demonstrate that you haven't read my blog, ever.

This is getting so frequent that I feel like I would save time if I actually memorized a prepared speech. "I have been asked to read the following statement."

A couple of weeks ago one of these kids kept throwing out all of these ridiculous sci-fi what-ifs leading me to say, "I really need you to understand this, Lieutenant Commander Data is a work of fiction."

Then later he says:

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