That article reports that a drug targeted at clearing amyloid proteins didn’t suffice to restore the brain’s waste-clearing functionality; this article reports that a drug targeted at repairing the blood-brain barrier does restore waste-clearing functionality (including amyloid proteins). So they’re not completely contradictory.

It looks like the research was done by academic and government-sponsored institutions in Spain and China, so hopefully it won’t just become a profit-making tool for the biotech industry.

Because any putative simulation of the universe would itself be algorithmic, this framework also implies that the universe cannot be a simulation.

How do they conclude that any simulation would have to be (purely) algorithmic? (For a fictional counterexample, take Douglas Adams’ Total Perspective Vortex, which simulates a universe by extrapolating from a physical piece of cake.)

Beijing is actively cooperating with the international community. The Chinese authorities have confirmed their readiness to engage with all relevant parties to maintain the credibility of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).

I assume this is a response to Trump’s decision to re-institute testing?

Syncthing uses a centralized discovery server to connect device IDs to IP addresses (although you can change this to point to your own discovery server, too).

I don’t know if Funkwhale has a similar option.

The study says they sourced their proteins from “Not Company LTDA”, which seems to be Chilean.

Don’t animals accumulate the heavy metals they consume from plants?

The way Linux treats many things as part of the file system (devices, sockets, etc.) that Windows doesn’t.

Have we mapped the Kuiper belt well enough to say whether or not there are any planet-sized clear paths inside it?

Edit: Actually, the method they’re using to detect its possible existence it is by looking at how it’s perturbing other Kuiper belt objects—so if they do detect something, it’s because it’s actively clearing its orbit.

The structures are kind of like Hermione’s charmed handbag in the Harry Potter series, said Nobel Committee for Chemistry member Olof Ramström … “Small on the outside, but very, very large on the inside.”

I feel like there’s a more-recognizable pop-culture reference he could have made there.

To be fair, the phrase apparently came from the Nobel committee rather than the journalist.

I can see the point: if I’d done potentially Nobel-worthy work, I’d rather be honored while I’m alive—after I’m dead, they might as well award it to someone who can still appreciate it.

To distract us from the other bots.

Solution: convince Trump to unilaterally rename the Jordan the “Charlie Kirk Memorial River”, and then the West Bank will no longer be west of the Jordan.

We’ve already inadvertently created antibiotic-resistant bacteria—what happens when bacteria evolve resistance to AI?

If I’m reading the paper correctly, this conclusion is just based on the author testing himself?

Ah yes—the only known force weaker than gravity.

First I’ve heard of StopNCII… what’s to stop it from being abused to remove (say) images of police brutality or anything else states or “participating companies” don’t want to be seen?

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But would the energy recovered from using it as fuel be more than the energy required to ship it to China?