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lostlogin··on Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague
The Russian stock market is already down.
lostlogin··on Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague
Iraq war, Gulf of Tonkin, Spanish American war, and whatever the hell you call the cluster fuck with Iran.

There are a few with dubious origins.

lostlogin··on NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
Pakistan has nuclear weapons.
lostlogin··on The first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients
You can turn it off.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that it seems to be MRI conditional without too much drama. One of the requirements is that it’s turned off, which the user does from their controller.

Edit: getting specific details on its MRI safety is the same as it is for all medical companies. Set language and region (this somehow affect MRI safety?) and then hunt for implant. But not all implants are listed in all regions. Because ‘medical professionals’ want to hunt shitty websites and trawl model numbers.

Just list the documents ordered by implant type, then name. Please.

lostlogin··on Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch
FIA, the FIFA of motorsport.
lostlogin··on Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
I wonder what causes more harm? High fructose corn syrup or data centres?
lostlogin··on Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
> Nobody talks about the local taxes they pay.

We hear about their tax breaks though. Why don’t they get treated the same as other local businesses, and pay the same rates?

lostlogin··on Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
Surely that is the average usage over time? 28.8kWh per day?

Edit: The average household in the U.S. uses 10500kWh of power per year. 28.76kWh per day.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/electricit...

lostlogin··on Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
> But for obvious reasons I could never dispute them.

Why can’t it be discussed?

lostlogin··on Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?
> punching it through our 30km/h street with their modified exhausts and windows rolled down

Bring on the EV revolution.

They’ll find some other way of inserting themselves though.

lostlogin··on Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager
The idea that Putin dies of old age is hilarious.

He is a scared man - I don’t think ‘paranoid’ is the right word, as his fear is legitimate.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-20/putin-russia-ukraine-...

lostlogin··on Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager
> making the kidney effectively 100.

And then some. They start working in utero, roughly at the end of the first trimester I think.

lostlogin··on Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager
They could swap?
lostlogin··on I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken
> there isn't going to be sufficient political will to significantly regulate it… Don't wait for the AI companies or politicians

Trump has reportedly been having chats with AI which have helped form American foreign policy. He isn’t going to curtail it.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jaw-dropping-way-trump-80-got-...

lostlogin··on Russian strategy of war crimes escalation in Ukraine (winter 2026/2027)
It’s not just MAGA Americans.

G7 has agreed to release diesel reserves to drop fuel prices. This benefits Trump and the American right at a key time of vulnerability (midterms), while weakening their own countries. They caved to the bully again.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cqd0801d2y3vt

lostlogin··on Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026
> your NAS is going to spend the whole week rebuilding

I’ve got a Synology that’s mostly full of 20TB drives. As you say, adding a drive takes about a week. Expanding the array is even longer.

lostlogin··on U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels
> I hate counterfeiting

There is a good book about Konrad Kujau who forged heaps of stuff before faking Hitler diaries and the getting caught. It’s worth a read.

A line that’s stuck with me (and is hopefully remembered correctly) ‘there are efficient documents and inefficient documents.’

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Diaries

lostlogin··on NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
Someone is thinking of the children.
lostlogin··on NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
> Pretty sure Trump would switch back to coal if he could find any living boilermakers.

He has been propping up coal.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0209r62k5o

lostlogin··on NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
> If you set partisan politics aside for 90 seconds

You realise that government agencies including the pentagon have been gutted, and filled with conmen and frauds?

It would be funny for the rest of the world if we didn’t also have to pay for the people America elected.

lostlogin··on Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability
I do that with a Leaf. I did have to change a tyre after 4 years, and last week I filled the wiper fluid.
lostlogin··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
> The main difference here is that Russia is not funded by western nations

Incorrect.

The west still buys Russian gas. Half of Russian gas exports go there.

https://energyandcleanair.org/august-2026-monthly-analysis-o...

> No nation in the west will hesitate to condemn Russia's war crimes

The US doesn’t condemn Russian aggression, and try get the current administration to say that Russia invaded or is committing war crimes.

lostlogin··on How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments
That’s the problem though - the article has an example of the AI screwing up the homework and the students don’t notice even when warned.
lostlogin··on LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators
For sure Russia oppressed Ukraine. The Holodomor was genocide.

The building of the subway wasn’t done by an independent Ukraine though, it was done under the rule of the USSR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv_Metro

lostlogin··on LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators
I think I’m missing your point?

The USSR didn’t bomb it’s citizens all that often did it?

lostlogin··on LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators
> or even save transmission of a couple communicable diseases

There is probably an upper bound to the ‘saves infection’ effect of the increases speed and resulting greater commuter spacing. As the speed goes up people will want to hold the hand rail, and collect each other’s diseases.

lostlogin··on How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments
> Most students don't care about learning, they are here for grades

It’s a virtuous circle though, as many universities are there for the money, so it’s a beautiful exchange.

lostlogin··on How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments
The article mentions study content that AI has got confidently wrong. That’s going to be some crap markings.
lostlogin··on How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments
> You can use LLMs to grade.

The article gives examples of LLMs being wrong. An AI grading of an AI submission would presumably give a good mark, to a wrong answer.

lostlogin··on How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments
I’m wondering if this is the way, but more faculty time is needed for assessing. So education costs go up.
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