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Fossil discovery in Greenland ice stuns and worries scientists: "Don't buy a beach house"

  • Well, that and the companies doing it are also a litigious scourge on traditional farmers, and are responsible for causing cancer in conventional farm workers, and are suspected to be the ones responsible for the increase in food allergies.

    A hammer is just a tool. They can be used to do a lot of good, potentially. But, if in practice the only thing that hammers ever really got used for is assaulting people, then it might be reasonable for people to give hammers & their manufacturers a bit of side eye.

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    A cellular entity retaining only its replicative core: Hidden archaeal lineage with an ultra-reduced genome

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    Breaking the Rules of Magnetism: Unusual Crystal Surprises Physicists With Cooling Effect

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    “Thousands of Giant Eggs Found” in Underwater Volcano

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    Texas food label law could force the food industry to change what it sells.

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    Affordable Drugs Are Within Reach

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    Trump approves Nippon Steel's $14.9 billion purchase of US Steel

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    Sen. Alex Padilla is forcibly removed from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference in Los Angeles

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    New study quantifies fish slaughter pain and cost-effectiveness of welfare solutions

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    Physicists confirm the incredible existence of "time mirrors"

  • There's a lot to unpack here.

    Lets start with the attempt to define "usefulness" as the degree to which connection to humans happens. Human connection on the internet has always been illusory. Yet we still find utility in it.

    "Trusted sources" have always been 100% biased in favor of whoever owns them. We all have equal free speech rights, but some of us are more free than others because the ability to purchase a bigger megaphone scales with access to capital.

    Organized, capitalized propaganda farms existed before LLMs and have been engaged in the same kind of destructive information warfare. LLMs seem to be more persuasive than the wage-slave humans employed by troll farms and other mass media outlets, but that's not necessarily a bad thing if it manufactures a more rational public opinion.

    LLMs lower the capital requirement to begin competing in the propaganda war. The biggest players who could afford to buy enormous media empires and fund human-generated influence operations are going to have to compete against the rest of us.

    This planet has been a soulless hellscape longer than any of us have been alive, and LLMs are more likely to improve the situation than make it worse.

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    Scientists May Have Found a Way to Simplify Gravity

  • When billionaires use those agglomerations of capital to manipulate markets and engage in other types of anti-competitive practices, it turns a free market into a captured market.

    Anti-monopoly regulation & enforcement is required to maintain a market's freedom.

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    Pentagon eyes orbital cargo rockets for global delivery in minutes

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    Shareholder Returns Drive Up Michigan Energy Bills

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    [citation needed]

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    Breaking a century-old physics barrier: Scientists achieve perfect wave trapping with simple cylinders

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    Brennan Lee Mulligan is a treasure

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    DayZ creator reveals a "Kerbal Space Program killer" with kittens and challenges license owners to sue him

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    im renouncing so hard rule now

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