Police officer's gun sucked away by powerful magnets in lab raid
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    IIRC the emergency stop vents the liquid helium, that's a lot of the cost I imagine.

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  • Brighton: Surgeon operated with penknife he uses to cut up lunch
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    I live in the same NHS trust area, this doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

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  • College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time
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    The sad thing is, facial recognition glasses would be really useful to people like me with prosopagnosia (face blindness), but I would only want them if the processing is done locally on device.

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  • College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time
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    I feel like google glass was more bad timing, people weren't as used to everyone and their dog carrying a camera all the time back then.

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    Famous AI "Artist" Says He's Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work
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    One of the reasons I like AI art is that it's pretty settled law that something produced by purely "mechanical" means can't itself have copyright, since copyright requires both originality and a human author.

    It seems like a reasonably compromise, the AI was created by hoovering up the commons, so anything it creates should belong to the commons. I expect a lot of lobbying in the future to try and change it though.

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  • We need more Native American restaurants | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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    I've never thought about it, but why aren't there Native American restaurants the same way there are Mexican/Italian/Chinese/etc?

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  • Starmer says UK 'stands with Israel' and he is 'deeply concerned' Middle East is 'on the brink'
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    Weeks of silence from him about Israel's terrorism in Lebanon, but only minutes to condemn Iran's retaliation. They really do have him by the balls.

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  • Remember That DNA You Gave 23andMe?
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    I really didn't expect this when I used them 15 years ago.

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  • How come the US does not put a bounty on Putin like they did Bin Laden?
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    If you somehow killed him he would be replaced by someone who would be in a position of having to prove they were strong enough for the position.

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  • Man falsely accused of murder by Tommy Robinson calls for tighter rules on X
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    Why isn't he suing Robinson for slander? The law should take care of things like this, not arbitrary rules made by billionaires.

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  • Did a top NIH official manipulate Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s studies for decades? | science.org
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    It's worrying, I know some people in the nootropics community are using cerebrolysin. At least it looks like he wasn't involved in the clinical trials for it (that showed some benefit).

    Is there potentially some innocent, or at least less fraudulent explanation for this?

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  • Why does the number of people interested in Creative Commons is way less than people interested in Open Source?
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    Creative commons is pretty big in 3d printing (arguably it shouldn't be, there's open hardware licenses that are better suited for it).

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  • Keir Starmer brands donor flat claims 'farcical'
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    No one else receives winter payment coverage.

    Not true, many disabled people do.

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  • Keir Starmer brands donor flat claims 'farcical'
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    He thinks pensioners living on 12k a year should lose their winter fuel payments, but a donation valued at double that is no big deal?

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  • what is the worst idea you ever had?
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    I was trying to clean something in a bucket of bleach, but didn't have quite enough to cover it. I grabbed a bottle of toilet cleaner, assuming it was just expensive thick bleach, and poured a bunch in. After I started coughing I looked at the back of the bottle, it's active ingredient was hydrochloric acid.

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  • Why are Americans particularly concerned about Chinese espionage?
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    China has been demonised by the west for 100's of years, it's nothing new https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Peril

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