Leftovers

• Science and Medical Research

  • Science Alert ☛ Turkana People Are Evolving to Thrive on a Diet That Would Make Others Ill

    Do not try this at home.

  • Science Alert ☛ Fragments of Bacteria in Our Gut May Lull Our Brains to Sleep at Night

    A special lullaby.

  • Science Alert ☛ New Research Challenges Long-Standing Method For Treating Cancer

    It's complicated.

  • Science Alert ☛ A Signal Hidden in The Brain May Reveal Alzheimer's Years in Advance

    Whispers of what's to come.

  • Science Alert ☛ Something in Your Pee Could Predict Your Risk of One Kind of Dementia

    "Could potentially delay or prevent the onset."

  • Science Alert ☛ A Study of 500,000 Medical Records Linked Viruses With Alzheimer's Again And Again

    The evidence is mounting.

• Proprietary

  • OMG Ubuntu ☛ Parallels Desktop Adds ‘Future-Proof GNU/Linux Compatibility’

    Parallels Desktop 26.1 update adds a driverless version of Parallels Tools for Linux, using the in-kernel VirtIO to power guest and host system integrations.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Futurism ☛ 13-Year-Old Arrested for Asking Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot How to Kill His Friend

      He said he was "just trolling."

    • Futurism ☛ Lazy Parents Are Giving Their Toddlers Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot on Voice Mode to Keep Them Entertained for Hours

      "Maybe I should not have my own kids be the guinea pigs."

    • Futurism ☛ New Yale Study Finds Hey Hi (AI) Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs

      Excuse Me?

    • Futurism ☛ Scam Altman Warns That Hey Hi (AI) Industry Is Due for a Spectacular Implosion

      "There will be booms and busts."

• Defence/Aggression

  • New Yorker ☛ The Insurrectionist, Pete Hegseth, and the “War from Within”

    Peace abroad and war at home? It’s an unusual note to strike in an electoral democracy.

  • France24 ☛ 'Hope is all people have', says MSF after it suspended Gaza City activities due to Israeli offensive

    FRANCE 24's Jean-Emile Jammine was joined on Saturday (October 4) by Hunter McGovern, project coordinator for Doctor Without Borders, to speak about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Hunter McGovern was working on the ground overseeing MSF’s medical operations in Gaza city before the organization was forced to suspend its activities amid Israel’s latest offensive. "We are of no value if we're dead so pulling out of Gaza City was barely an option for us, so we could regroup and then continue to provide care in the south". In another city of Gaza, two days ago, "some of our staff were actually wounded and, one killed in a in a drone strike", he also said. "The war needs to stop."

  • France24 ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man boasts US strikes have wiped out drug boats off Venezuela

    President The Insurrectionist said on Sunday that US military strikes on small boats near Venezuela have been so effective that “there are no boats” left in the area, as Washington faces growing criticism over the legality of using lethal force in international waters. The operations, which the White House says are aimed at stopping drug shipments to the United States, have reportedly killed at least 21 people so far.

• Environment

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Futurism ☛ College Student Died Locked Inside a Cybertruck on Fire, Family Now Suing Tesla

      "I never want this to happen to any other family."

    • Futurism ☛ Amazon Drones Kamikaze Into Construction Equipment, Burst Into Flames

      It's not looking good.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Marcy Wheeler ☛ $400,000: The “Free” Medical Care Kristi Noem’s Goons Made Taxpayers Pay

    After ICE badly broke the leg of a guy detained at a Carson car wash back in August, he's been in the hospital with 24/7 private security guard. Which means taxpayers have already paid around $400,000 of "free" healthcare for the damage done by Kristi Noem's goons.

Monopolies/Monopsonies