Hiroshi Bowman

Shared Conversation - DeepSeek Of course! Your understanding is an excellent and largely accurate summary of a pivotal shift in human history. Let's add some historical detail and nuance to that story. ### Part 1: The "Abacus Cultu...

Odd behaviour from DeepSeek. First it makes a typo, and then it blames autocorrect. Must be programmed to be "human" in its small talk.

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Plaid Cymru wins Caerphilly by-election as Labour loses seat for first time ever Reform UK comes second in the race to represent Caerphilly in the Welsh Parliament - with Labour a distant third.

Caerffili said 'dim diolch' to Reform

These stinkbugs coat their eggs in fungi to protect them from parasitic wasps An unusual relationship could shed light on how insects choose their partners

Fungi coat the eggs of stinkbugs, creating a shield that protects the embryos from parasitic wasps, researchers report. https://scim.ag/43kl3np

Wow! (Don't neglect to click to see the detail.)

🎶 (To Pete Seeger's "Where have all the flowers gone?")

Where have all the mall cops gone?
ICE is hiring.
Where'd they get their badges from?
Standards are low.
Why won't they show their face?
Young and angry every one.
Oh, when will we ever learn?
Oh, when we will ever learn?

"The problem is that people cannot live as if [their lives] have only an [economic] utility -- that we matter only to the extent that we can play a constructive role in the economy. ... Many people can no longer find meaning in economic questions but [turn instead to] identity and belonging.

Entrevista a Rob Riemen: “La inteligencia artificial no te dará buenos consejos” | Letras Libres A partir de las biografías de Thomas Mann o Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, el libro más reciente del filósofo holandés reflexiona sobre un humanismo en quiebra.

"El problema es que las personas no pueden vivir como si tuvieran una 'utilidad'. Uno solo importa en la medida en que puede desempeñar un papel constructivo en la economía. ... Para mucha gente, ya no se trata de cuestiones económicas, sino de cuestiones de identidad, de pertenencia."

"If there is no state, and the state is very weak, then what happens is that some powerful individuals, let's say private elites, emerge and take it upon themselves to run things in their own interest, and that is not necessarily a better outcome..."

Simon Johnson: “Si no hay Estado, emergen individuos poderosos y se encargan de manejar las cosas en su propio interés” El especialista alertó sobre el riesgo de elites privadas manejando el poder; en diálogo con LA NACION, trazó paralelismos entre Javier Milei, Donald Trump y Elon Musk

Si no hay Estado, y el Estado es muy débil, entonces lo que sucede es que algunos individuos poderosos, digamos élites privadas, emergen y se encargan de manejar las cosas en su propio interés, y eso no necesariamente es un mejor resultado...

Not US only: PepsiCo's (owners of Lay's) UK chip company Walker's summer ad campaign is about "how a sandwich should sound", with said chips providing the crunch

(Yum! BTW)

No one remembers the second part of Trump's "deal" tactics. He will claim that Europe is not fulfilling its part of the agreement and use that to justify breaking the deal whenever he wants. He did this as a real estate developer, and he's doing it now with Canada and Mexico.

Article title: The Remarkable Phenomenon of Diminishing Quality

Quotation: "Things aren't worse; in large measure, they are as we want them to be or have been made to want them. Put another way: what has diminished in quality is us."

El asombroso fenómeno de la calidad menguante Asientos de avión cada vez más pequeños, prendas irreconocibles al segundo lavado, máquinas que te atienden por teléfono para cualquier trámite. El cuidado por las cosas bien hechas parece haber dejad...

"Las cosas no son peores; en gran medida, son tal como las queremos o como nos las han hecho querer. Dicho de otro modo: quienes somos de peor calidad somos nosotros."

Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.

Original paper:

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

(Link in the El País article is incorrect.)

“The main ways females gain power appear to be related to their ability to choose which males to associate with and which to mate with.”

El mito del dominio de los ‘machos alfa’: un estudio desmonta la idea de que ellos siempre se imponen en las sociedades de primates En el 70% de las poblaciones analizadas en un estudio las relaciones de poder entre machos y hembras son poco claras y ninguno de los sexos domina sobre el otro

“Los principales mecanismos mediante los cuales las hembras ganan poder parecen estar relacionados con su capacidad para elegir con qué machos asociarse y con cuáles aparearse”

A crocheted seagull eating a crocheted fry atop a metal canister

A crocheted seagull eating a crocheted fry atop a metal canister with a view of the fry packet

A crocheted seagull from behind with a crocheted sand bucket and shovel

Llandudno, Wales is known for its aggressive seagulls and some fiber artists have commemorated them

I just watched the 2011 film "Captain America: The First Avenger", and it struck me that only 14 years ago it was still part of American mythology to cheer the underdog and revile the bully.

It's pedantic, but most (by tonnage) cargo ships are registered under flags of convenience (Liberia, Panama...). They will either need detailed information about the ships' cargo and destinations or they will have to attack them indiscriminately. The basic point still holds, though: consequences.

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

Preliminary -- and perhaps not surprising -- results, but they are important to everyone in education today.

If Federal Agents throw Democratic representatives to the ground, beat them, roughhouse them, handcuff them, and detain them, all in broad daylight with the cameras rolling... What restraint will they feel when no one is watching?

"Si los agentes federales son capaces de lanzar al suelo, golpear, zarandear, esposar y detener a representantes públicos demócratas a plena luz del día y con las cámaras grabando... ¿Qué no serán capaces de hacer cuando nadie les mira?"
www.eldiario.es/autores/andr...

There's a pea shooter joke in here, somewhere...

Thank you. I was hoping that someone who could cite specific examples would speak up.

Link contains pictures of the original machine.

The IEEE have recognised Shigeichi Negishi's invention of the karaoke machine in 1967 as a technological "milestone" that has driven subsequent innovation and development. The ceremony (installation of a plaque in his home city) was June 12, 2025.

The authors suggest that there is something about the way we school children that is responsible. They point to the fact that the gap widens the longer that students are in school and that during Covid (when children were taught remotely) the rate of differentiation slowed.