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US Supreme Court reverses affirmative action, ending race-conscious college admissions
  • This goes back to not voting in every election. Groups that invest (money, time, votes) on local races (city council, school board) have a greater variety to pick when one of these people goes on to higher office (state-level, county-level) and then goes on to federal office.

    The primaries are already too late - it's all about the local races.

  • Eating the bugs?
  • For me the exciting part about bug farming isn't really their use as food (for humans or animals) but more their potential to eat "real" waste (like things that birds and mammals shouldn't eat) and then be turned into non-food items - like chondroitin or have other derivatives made out of their chitin.

    Right now it's not very efficient but with some selective breeding (or faster, GMO mealworm gut bacteria) they could start working on the landfill issue. Their poop would have to be incinerated since it would concentrate flame retardants and other toxins, but we might be able to get something useful out of them.

    edit: i have a box of mealworms that I wanted to try feeding just styrofoam to to see how many generations it would take to have mealworms that thrive (not just survive and turn to cannibalism) on the stuff, but i felt bad, now they eat kitchen waste and shredded paper.

  • Eating the bugs?
  • I think the "magic" of bugs is that they can eat things that would be inedible or unhealthy for other omnivores (like pigs). If we can convert some of our food and paper waste into protein and chitin, it might be worth the investment.

  • Workers at over 150 US Starbucks stores to strike over Pride decorations
  • if you ask generic customer what they feel about minor holiday X that retail stores make a huge deal about - if there aren't massive sales, most customers will be equally ambivalent.

    there's nothing really to be "on board" about, it's an ignorable decor change. They don't even have music or large amounts of candy like in the winter holidays.

  • www.theverge.com Inside the AI Factory

    How many humans does it take to make tech seem human? Millions.

    Inside the AI Factory

    As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.

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    Let's give kbin's ancestor Postmill some love
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    Free, web-based, social link aggregator with voting and nested comments. https://postmill.xyz/

    Postmill / Postmill · GitLab

    Free, web-based, social link aggregator with voting and nested comments. https://postmill.xyz/

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    vulcan.io Can you trust ChatGPT’s package recommendations?

    ChatGPT can offer coding solutions, but its tendency for hallucination presents attackers with an opportunity. Here's what we learned.

    Can you trust ChatGPT’s package recommendations?

    “\* People ask LLMs to write code

    LLMs recommend imports that don't actually exist Attackers work out what these imports' names are, and create & upload them with malicious payloads People using LLM-written code then auto-add malware themselves”

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    InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)AC
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