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Public Domain Review: First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming, by Eunice Foote (1856)

Jaimie's Erotica @Jaimieserotica@kinkycats.org

Now that Apple have announced a new CEO is due to arrive soon, I wonder if they'll be deliberately slowing Tim Cook down with a view to completely bricking him when the new one arrives?

Pondering Rust's fascination with f32 types. I remember being concerned about memory usage and floats vs doubles in the late '90s, but in the intervening decades I thought we'd kinda agreed that unless there's lots of them, doubles were faster. Am I just the wrong level of old?

The Conversation: It’s a myth that baby boys are less social than girls – a new look at decades of research shows all babies are born to connect is a look at Social Development: Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses Reveal no Gender Difference in Neonatal Social Perception

Existing evidence supports a possible maturational difference but not a specific social advantage for girls at birth. While more research and better reporting are needed, the present findings challenge the claim that girls are innately more socially perceptive than boys.

‪Elf M. Sternberg‬ ‪@elfsternberg.bsky.social‬ summarized this as:

The evidence is pretty clear: boys will be boys is a myth. Kids are sociable creatures. We TEACH boys to be monsters and to hate girls. We TEACH boys to interpret puberty as an alienation from girls.

But it's also further confusion in my own search for identity, thinking about how much of who I was that I regret being in my 20s is a function of neuro-divergence vs my Waldorf school experiences.

Financial Times (subscriber only) Elite law firm Sullivan & Cromwell admits to AI ‘hallucinations’.

Bloomberg Law: Sullivan & Cromwell Apologizes to Judge for AI Hallucinations.

Dietderich said he also apologized to lawyers at Boies Schiller Flexner who alerted him to the errors. Matthew Schwartz, Boies Schiller’s chair, is counsel to Chen, according to a court document.

Some "what goes around here", Boies Schiller Flexner's John Kucera was in the hotseat last year for AI slop in a case against the Church of Scientology.

Above the Law: Sullivan & Cromwell Files Emergency ‘Please Don’t Sanction Us For All These AI Hallucinations’ Letter

Alerted to this by ‪Indefinitely Extended Hat‬ ‪@kenwhite.bsky.social‬

TFW Sullivan & Cromwell charges you $1200 an hour for a Yale graduate to ask grok “is this argument sus”

Vaccine. Volume 40, Issue 51, 5 December 2022, Pages 7500-7504 A historical analysis of vaccine mandates in the United States military and its application to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate Capt Brian P Elliott, Col Steven Chambers

doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.08.017 PMCID: PMC9376337 PMID: 35989135

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I'm learning Rust, and wow am I feeling the "docs are not written for humans" thing right now. And nor are forum responses. A lot of "I'm so smart, mark that particular example up this way", not a lot of "here's how to structure your code out of this mess".

Walking to work a little early this morning. Tons of kids biking on the sidewalk. Paint bike lanes really don't protect anyone, do they?

Beyond Code Snippets: Benchmarking LLMs on Repository-Level Question Answering March 2026

Using this dataset, we systematically evaluate two widely used LLMs (Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o) under both direct prompting and agentic configurations. We compare baseline performance with retrieval-augmented generation methods that leverage file-level retrieval and graph-based representations of structural dependencies. Our results show that LLMs achieve moderate accuracy at baseline, with performance improving when structural signals are incorporated. Nonetheless, overall accuracy remains limited for repository- scale comprehension. The analysis reveals that high scores often result from verbatim reproduction of Stack Overflow answers rather than genuine reasoning.

DOI:10.48550/arXiv.2603.26567

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Update from "nobody thinks they're the villain in their own story" to "anybody who thinks they're the hero in their own story is probably the villain."

I've eventually, after looking at situations like Spade Cooley, come around to the fact that it's not bad to support the estate of people who've done horrific things, if the estate is paying into funds which help the victims. I can "separate the art from the artist" when the art is helping mitigate some of the damage.

I've also come around (and there's history on Flutterby, eg, of me being dismissive) to understanding that Michael Jackson was one hell of a singer, and, the product of a very fucked up childhood, and product of a very fucked up society in how we, collectively, handled his celebrity.

So I've been kinda looking forward to the upcoming Michael Jackson movie.

But I'm also well aware that... there's some problematic shit here. And somehow I missed this headline from January of last year, that Michael Jackson Biopic Needs Major Reshoots After Discovery of Past Legal Agreement with Molestation Accuser: Report.

More recently, Inside the ‘Michael’ Overhaul: $15 Million Reshoots, Removing Child Abuse Allegations and What’s in Store for Sequels which names the accuser whose lawyer made sure that there was to be no mention of said accuser in future films. Decades ago.

(Still) An(gr)i Bundel ‪@anibundel.bsky.social observed:

I feel like not enough reviewers know they had to remake the entire final third of the Michael Jackson movie because it falsely exonerated him, and it turned out the kid’s lawyer foresaw that shit in the 1990s and made sure to include a clause that the estate could never ever do that on film.

‪(Still) An(gr)i Bundel‬ ‪@anibundel.bsky.social‬

Note I said “remake.” As in, the Jackson estate apparently had *no idea* they had signed something 25 years ago that prevented them from ever defaming the kid until the movie was basically finished.

I can't imagine that the estate's legal team somehow dropped this. I would think that the screenwriters would have been working with these settlement agreements all the way through.

The Onion (video): Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

Were Abby‬ ‪@kellylink.bsky.social‬

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off

the AI features

that were in

the update

and which

you were probably

hoping

to monetize

Fuck you

they were stupid

so unnecessary

and so annoying

UCLA Center for Parking Policy: Minimum Parking Requirments - A Research Synthesis

Eliminating minimum parking requirements does not eliminate the environmental, social, and economic harms of parking, but it can reduce their severity. Research indicates that the early effects of repeal are modest rather than dramatic. After requirements are lifted, drivers make more efficient use of existing parking infrastructure, and developers also continue to supply new parking. As a result, the total number of spaces and vehicles citywide may continue to grow while the number of parking spaces per capita declines over time. Minimum parking requirements exert a long shadow, having been entrenched in U.S. cities for more than 75 years. Even after repeal, cities will be dealing with the legacy of an oversupply of parking for many years to come.

I've only gotten as far as the executive summary, but my takeaway is that we should be probably aggressively pursuing parking maximums, not merely repealing parking minimums.

Is anybody else having kerning problems reading "Ternus" as "Temus", and thinking about the future of Apple?

(Not a dig at the guy, the MacBook Pro has definitely been rescued from the Ives era. Even if it's hobbled by Liquid Glass )