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smarm52

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    Comment #48830699

    Also, aging populations. There's a larger proportion of older males in the population now than there has been in most of history. Testosterone decreases as we age. The average is a…

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    Comment #48441902

    No shit? A fascist using a public form to demagogue? What will they think of next.

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    Comment #48441875

    > These artificial condensates provide a versatile platform for studying and manipulating molecular functions inside living cells. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomolecular_conden…

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    Comment #48431742

    Not sure why they waited so long. Seems like a simple thing to do to help erode Putin's power base. > Saint Petersburg is a major trade gateway, serving as the financial and indust…

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    Comment #48421604

    > But demographers have long shown that what really counts is girls’ education. Interesting, they mention JUST education as the deciding factor. Would it not be education AND birth…

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    Comment #48380286

    > Bad experiences with supervisors are common among early-career researchers and one of the leading reasons they leave academia, a survey of more than 2,600 researchers has found1.…

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    Comment #48377282

    > the fact that the inmates cannot know when they are being watched motivates them to act as though they are all being watched at all times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panoptico…

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    Comment #48333262

    The paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6787638 Unclear if it's been peer reviewed. The abstract looks fairly convincing. But it is argued against by the maj…

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    Comment #48304916

    https://archive.ph/ERyCp Interesting strategies to consolidate power.

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    Comment #48300863

    Familiar viruses can be contained more easily, and tend not to outbreak. Thus, non-familiar ones would be the ones to outbreak. Evolution in action.

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    Comment #48275663

    I think they already did that on the 23rd. https://fortune.com/2026/04/23/anthropic-mythos-leak-dario-a...

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    Comment #48275391

    They can't be that smart if they're heading into the US now. Concerns about ICE hunting down "furiners" should be enough to give them pause; Especially those that are part of a vis…

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    Comment #48265054

    This article could have been a meeting.

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    Comment #48263866

    To be fair it does pretty good posts on civitai{dot}red; Just pretend I linked to it (NSFW).

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    Comment #48263858

    So, C-suites are so easy to replace a marketing gimmick can do their work?

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    Comment #48263842

    Which happens to occur when Mythos appears on the scene ... https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/ So, an uptick in issues like this isn't terribly surprising. Once they ge…

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    Comment #48263793

    This is my shocked face. :| Predicted for years, perhaps approach 50 since initial climate change predictors were first observed and codified. Also, the most vulnerable with access…

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    Comment #48263775

    ...is the name of his autobiography.

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    Comment #48247281

    What would you call this? Not doom scrolling, doom streaming? A little research gives us: The Proleptic Wake: > You void-stream your own obsolescence porn in a proleptic wake — aut…

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    Comment #48247090

    If you need to heat things, this seems to be the way to go. And heating accounts for nearly half of global energy demand and is still mostly fossil-fueled (paraphrasing). This mean…

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    Comment #48245980

    Pressing X to doubt Most of AI advances are built on open source. China loves to undermine the west via open sourcing its content, and reaping the rewards of advances that US compa…

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    Comment #48243248

    Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQwSQsufQnM

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    Comment #48233284

    Strange that the article doesn't mention the possibility of "drone hunter" drones. They don't even need to be very complicated, at least the drones could just grapple the enemy dro…

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