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Agreed. The audience here tends towards functional/technical writing rather than expressive writing. On the other hand, should an article about typography be posted, then there wil…

Browsing that site, The SETI Institute appears to have expanded beyond its original goal of finding extraterrestrial intelligence into astrobiology and more. Perhaps the first atte…

Related, I recently read an article about staghorn corals surviving in Miami of all places [1]. They resisted bleaching, pollution and inundations with fresh water. The origin of t…

>I can't imagine that the same factors aren't at play in the scientific research community I can't speak for the entire scientific research community, but I can say that for basic …

>“We can do neuroscience on A.I. systems in a way that we kind of can’t with humans,” Mr. Long said, in that they “don’t have skulls.” The three jobs Eleos was hiring for would all…

I would have thought that the right to privacy as a fundamental human right would have been sufficient. But apparently not.... Equally, there is abundant precedent for forbidding i…

There's a risk of echos of Theranos here. A paper apparently describing this ultrasound approach has been uploaded to arXiv [0]. If so, the resolution demonstrated is nowhere near …

This prompted me to check out rental rates in my old haunt of Inner Sunset. I remember the Craigslist offices on 9th and Judah... It's shocking that a 1 bedroom apartment now rents…

You will notice that the criticism this judgement receives if not for finding Song guilty, even if the sentence is inordinately long for a non-lethal crime with minor wider repercu…

It's kind of fact-based that "antifa" is not an organization in the real world. It's as real as claiming that "pro-gun" is an organization, or "anti-pollution" is an organization. …

First, there's no "terrorist organization". Antifa doesn't exist as an organization. Second, the zines cannot be evidence of the crimes committed, i.e. setting off fireworks, and i…

The crimes here are the injuring of an officer, and causing a disturbance near the ICE facility. How could the zines be evidence for those crimes?

At worst, the zines are evidence of Rueda's political opinions. They are not evidence of conspiracy to set off fireworks near the compound, nor shoot an officer.

I noticed the prominence of celery, which might surprise a modern diner. I had reason some years ago to look into this and the history is interesting. Celery was at one time diffic…

This is referred to as shifting the Overton window. If voices from the extreme are not heard, the Overton window moves away from their position, so protests help their cause even i…

Very well-written! I wonder if the inaccurate representation of colors by screens, etc, in any way underlies the distinctive color palette of many AI image generators?

Twitter can make a "Kid's Twitter" (Kitter? Kidder?) if it wants. It's far less oppressive than forcing people to reveal their identity to Twitter.

A system as above would matter only to sites that want children among their audience. Those that don't, or don't care, would not seek a rating, and would not be accessible to devic…

A right to privacy is one of the fundamental human rights.

Kids don't need Twitter. There would obviously arise a market for a moderated, or more regulated, version of this type of social media. Social media doesn't deserve an exemption fr…

Mixed content would have to be tagged as such. Mixed content isn't a problem for broadcast TV or newspapers. They simply avoid publishing material not appropriate for children, e.g…

How many 10 yr olds are going to read a academic article on transgender studies? And if they are curious about the question, it would be better if they found sources that frame the…

It would be a ban only to children. "Addictive" sites without certification could still be accessed by those who are no longer their parent's responsibility.

The same problem exists for almost any product that might be a risk to children, from cleaning products to "adult" literature. Parents would be much more able to restrict the devic…

Surveillance of who by whom? Requiring identity disclosure guarantees surveillance.