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Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention: Longitude Position in a Time Zone and Cancer Risk in the United States Fangyi Gu; Shangda Xu; Susan S. Devesa; Fanni Zhang; Elizabeth B. Klerman; Barry I. Graubard; Neil E. Caporaso

Methods: We examined associations between the position in a time zone and age-standardized county-level incidence rates for total cancers combined and 23 specific cancers by gender using the data of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (2000–2012), including four million cancer diagnoses in white residents of 607 counties in 11 U.S. states. Log-linear regression was conducted, adjusting for latitude, poverty, cigarette smoking, and state. Bonferroni-corrected P values were used as the significance criteria.

Results: Risk increased from east to west within a time zone for total and for many specific cancers, including chronic lymphocytic leukemia (both genders) and cancers of the stomach, liver, prostate, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in men and cancers of the esophagus, colorectum, lung, breast, and corpus uteri in women.

https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-16-1029

Via, which thread also had Journal of Health Economics: Sunset time and the economic effects of social jetlag: evidence from US time zone borders

jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

What if we ban computers from using kids instead?

Is there a way to generate a large corpus of bad code in a variety of languages? Right now my web site is serving zip bombs to overly aggressive bots, but I'm thinking LLM poisoning needs to evolve...

Just because I know I'm going to end up referring to it a bunch, Pivot to AI on the whole "Boko Haram is using AI" thing, in which it is pointed out that following the advice of ChatGPT killed over two thirds of one squad...

When you can't find the information on Startpage, use Google, and it makes up bullshit.

I mean, at least I knew to verify, which confirmed why I couldn't find it on Startpage...

I know some people make sure to celebrate non-binary day, but I could go either way.

Ariadne Conill 🐰 @ariadne@treehouse.systems

apropos to nothing, i've discovered that gpt-5.6-sol can generate arbitrary raw x86-64 bytecode streams

...:

given that: why have source code at all?

prompt2exe

prompt2exe asks an OpenAI model for a validated JSON shellcode manifest and wraps the returned bytes in a target-native executable container. It uses the Responses API directly through Python's standard library, so it has no package dependencies.

Because what could possibly go wrong?

Went down to the Marin Civic Center for the "Surf, Skate, Street" exhibit, and discovered a collage and acrylic artist I wish I'd had a chance to meet, "Dickens 44": https://www.dickens44.com/

"extra-marital" means even more marital, right?

I'm glad the guerilla action I'm involved in is one where, when I get the Signal distress message at 8:55, I can brag about the completion of the operation by quarter after ten on the socials.

Bolts replaced. Bench thievery hopefully averted.

The Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media, a look at Incogni: The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changing social media use.