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Julie Suk is a professor of law at Fordham University. Her new book “After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do About It” is about why the law has not succeeded at eliminating patriarchy despite advances in formal gender equality. Suk acknowledges that legal feminists like Ruth Bader Ginsburg helped bring about…
The team show how a silicon nitride photonics crystal with a thin silicon membrane can achieve the high levels of reflectivity in the 1300nm to 1500nm wavelengths required for light sails. The potential in the sails is significant with the manufacturing techniques able to scale up to several metres which may well set the scene…
A really good list of the factors that made a difference between Apple and Google. Apple rules the iPhone’s App Store with an iron fist — sideloading outside it is not allowed. Google lets anyone install any app on an Android phone. But guess which one of these two companies has an illegal monopoly, according to…
The award for the most comically dissonant image goes to: …visual juxtaposition aside. This is really promising. Sisal is an invasive plant in rural Kenya, where it is often planted as livestock fencing and feedstock. It doesn’t require fertilizer, and its leaves can be harvested all year long over a five- to seven-year span. Odundo…
Native forests cover about 29% of New Zealand’s landmass, but once extended across as much as 85% of the country. A new proposal to “recloak” Papatūānuku by restoring 2.1 million hectares to healthy indigenous forest over 10 years seeks to create an “enduring carbon sink” that boosts biodiversity and enhances landscape resilience at the same…
I love everything about this… The purity of thought is :cheffy_kiss: Interestingly the design works with the hub, and it works if I plug it into my phone, but it doesn’t enumerate if I plug it straight into my laptop. But it does enumerate on the end of that noncompliant USB-C extension cable I’ve concocted.…
The playback of the videos happens in what seems like a hazy, light, borderless frame, giving the videos a dreamlike quality. It is a very strange feeling — as if you have been transported back in time — and the videos have a dimensionality to them. The spatial videos I experienced felt more like memories…
I wonder if someone is bringing all the FRB signals together and throwing and AI at the fused data stream… As detailed in a new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society this week, researchers spotted a “never-before-seen” burst dubbed FRB 20220912A using the SETI Institute’s Allen Telescope Array, a collection of 42 antennae…
I finally sat down and read Exiting The Vampire Castle by Mark Fisher. As with all Fishers work, I feel sad that I’m only coming to it 10+ years after it was written. It is a deeply clarifying piece of writing. In my mind it paints the fecklessness of Western Leftist “activism” is a way…
Here’s me shorting Musk’s reputation to increase my own in a community… notice the drop in submission activity, but the big jump in cumulative karma. Yes, it’s as dumb as it sounds. Only posted because it’s a weird early 21st C Sci Fi trope come to life.
From the shit-n-shit-out file… these are not generalized tools, eventually we’ll lean that (probably the very hard way) With less than a year to go before one of the most consequential elections in US history, Microsoft’s AI chatbot is responding to political queries with conspiracies, misinformation, and out-of-date or incorrect information.With less than a year…
The Cassini spacecraft observed that Saturn’s moon Enceladus has a series of jets erupting from its South Polar Terrain. Previous studies of in situ data collected by Cassini’s Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) have identified H2O, CO2, CH4, NH3 and H2 within the plume of ejected material. Identification of minor species in the plume…
The tiny design decisions in Teslas drive me up the wall. From opening hatchbacks that allow water into the rear to weird steering wheel designs that no one asked for, let’s have a look at other design decisions that have caused frustration for Tesla customers. … “God, I wish my steering wheel looked light something…
One of the problems the Voyager team faces, in addition to working across incredible distances to communicate with an Earthly spacecraft drifting at a solid 38,210 miles per hour on its way through interstellar space, has to do with technology that is now several decades old.
Old approaches to new problems generally fail… the world is failing the requisite variety test on this one. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/12/15/ertd-d15.html
Study authors Philip Johnson-Laird, a retired psychology professor from Princeton University, and Marco Ragni, a researcher at the Germany-based Chemnitz University of Technology, recognized these limitations and designed a three-step framework that has the potential to replace the Turing Test. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2023/12/do-ai-improvements-call-for-something-better-than-the-turing-test/
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