DocMcStuffin @ DocMcStuffin @lemmy.world

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There's a handful of them. They're all still pretty small, but !fountainpens@lemmy.world was active recently.

Yikes, you know things are bad when the Washington Examiner which leans pretty hard to the right is criticizing CPAC. Seriously, this is the same publication that views Turning Point USA favorably.

The corruption and cronyism runs all the way to the top in Florida. DeSantis hired this quack as surgeon general because he was anitvax during covid. DeSantis was also connected to his hiring at UF. A process that was rushed giving Ladapo a 2nd fat cushy job he hardly shows up to.

By socialist he means anything he doesn't like. A lot of the rightwing politicians aren't interested in good honest debate. Instead they engage in dog whistle politics, and their base eats that up.

Ladapo is a quack that should be thrown in jail for child endangerment.

There's one good news. Reddit didn't want to pay to move all the old DMs to the new chat infrastructure. So they deleted them.

At this point I wouldn't trust Reddit to actually delete posts. Just hide them then sell them as training data if the upvotes are decent.

Or a shape shifting alien from a 1980's horror film.

Tom's Guide has shit reporting. This was the same site that repeated the bogus DDoS smart toothbrushes story. And they're at it again with more sensationalism.

From something more reputable:

The use of the victims' faces for bank fraud is an assumption by Group-IB, also corroborated by the Thai police, based on the fact that many financial institutes added biometric checks last year for transactions above a certain amount.

It is essential to clarify that while GoldPickaxe can steal images from iOS and Android phones showing the victim's face and trick the users into disclosing their face on video through social engineering, the malware does not hijack Face ID data or exploit any vulnerability on the two mobile OSes.

More from bleeping computer:

A new iOS and Android trojan named 'GoldPickaxe' employs a social engineering scheme to trick victims into scanning their faces and ID documents, which are believed to be used to generate deepfakes for unauthorized banking access.

Now, don't get me wrong, you should take malware and social engineering attacks seriously. But get your information from sites that do real security journalism.

One of the first things the Nazis did when they gained power was destroy the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft and burn their library of books. Some of the early research done there included gay, transgender, and intersex topics. The Nazis then started passing laws to ban homosexuality, rounding up gay men then place them in death camps.

Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

They're using AI to generate summaries of chat logs.

I don't believe they've had an IPO yet, but it wouldn't surprise me if they start selling that data to hit profitability.

Forums do it better, can be indexed by a search engine, can be bookmarked, and can be archived using the wayback machine or a similar service. Important information shouldn't be buried in chat logs. And discord's forum feature was an idea they tacked on and is a poor substitute for the real thing.

Found an npr interview with the researchers that provides more insight: Why wolves are thriving in this radioactive zone

CAMPBELL-STATON: So in general, we found that the fastest-evolving regions within Chernobyl are in and around genes that we know have some role in cancer immune response or the anti-tumor immune response in mammals.

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CAMPBELL-STATON: The major question that we had was, is there selection happening? Our data clearly show that there is a genetic component - you know? - and a significant and strong genetic component. That does not mean that the entire story is based around genetics.

BARBER: This might be why the wolf population is thriving. After generations of developing a resilience or resistance to cancer, they're now successful apex predators in an area once devoid of much other life. But Shane says, even if natural selection is at play here, there's another big factor at play.

CAMPBELL-STATON: The other thing is humans aren't there, right? A wolf within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone - it may have to deal with pressures from cancer, but it doesn't have to deal with pressures from, say, hunting. And it may be that the release from that hunting pressure - that separation from humans - turns out to be a much better thing than having to deal with cancer, which is kind of messed up.

BARBER: So when you think about that initial conundrum - why is the wolf population in Chernobyl estimated to be seven times denser than in other areas? - it's hard to know exactly why. Maybe wolves with cancer-resistant or -resilient genes are naturally selected. Maybe they just don't need to worry about humans. Cara and Shane say it's probably a bit of both, but they hope to take more trips to the CEZ to figure this out. And they also think that if they're able to identify the genes responsible for this cancer resilience or resistance in wolves, it could inform human cancer treatments.

I can never get mine to stay still for that long. He'd being attacking the pen if I didn't keep supplying the scritches.

You got me curious enough to look and what a shitshow of a person working against their own self-interests. She's a good candidate for !leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world.

Aaaannnnd she's already there, lol.

His checks never clear. I guess we get to find out if you can get blood from a stone. Cause her lawyers are going to hound him until the day he dies, or until he sells MaraLago

A complete and utter mental break down which culminated with me bursting into tears in my supervisor's office. He's a cool guy though, so that was just very awkward for him.

Overall, not an approach I would recommend, but it did put things into perspective for me. I did seek professional help after that, but I had already broken through a lot of the tough stuff. Also, it took 2-1/2 months to see a psychiatrist.

As for anxiety overall, it never really goes away. You can learn to recognize it and develop habits to break that feedback loop. Sometimes I have to say to myself, "It's time to stop this," then mean it and actually deal with what's put me in a higher state of anxiety.

Brand new sentence

Sorry, had to. That's Southern gold.

A few months back Ruud stood up a copy: https://searxng.world/

I've been using it, and it tends to be as good as or better than google's search. There's only been a handful of instances where I've explicitly used google's.

They released two games. The first was just a game jam thing they threw together that established the core mechanics. The second was much more fleshed out and polished.