South China Morning Post: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3263878/chinese-scientists-report-world-first-they-cure-patients-diabetes-cell-therapy

Trump cancelled the federal grant for this program, so it might falter in upcoming years.

This is absurd. The contemporaneous accounts don’t support this. We’re making up fake history based on feels.

Meanwhile, real black African history is basically never taught due to the shadow of colonialism.

Instead of reaching for some false valour, can we teach the full pre-colonial history of Africa?

Fork it. Keep it open source. Enshitification is coming.

And if their percentage was unreasonably high, their competitors would sell at lower prices. Strangely, they don’t. Which tells us that Tim’s complaints are nothing but bullshit.

The cookie banners are the result of shitty web companies aggressively violating our privacy. It’s not the regulation’s fault that every company is evil.

The easy solution to eliminate the banners is for companies to stop being evil.

Now they start taking away privileges from citizens for disagreeing with government policy. Next they jail them.

Contrary to fact hypothesizing.

All of the AI tools know how to make CP somehow - probably because their creators fed it to them.

The term prediction markets is a way to brand away from the stigma and the social harms of gambling.

But it’s the same.

Even if the shutdown commences, the Democrats will cave when some small inconvenience occurs for wealthy people. Again.

Tuvix’s death makes the entire series A+. If Janeway had a choice between keeping Tuvix alive and getting home immediately, or killing Tuvix and having to slog through the entire Delta quadrant, then clearly the latter is the superior choice.

By the time they unfreeze it, Trump will give them reason to freeze it again. Make a deal with a bad faith party, expect them to demand more every time.

I struggle to consider it scientific because it bakes in so many fundamental assumptions without questioning them. At least mainstream economics.

Amsterdam is banning fat tire ebikes (that are really just low profile electric motorcycles). If there’s 1 thing that breaks the rules, ban it. I expect the rest of the Netherlands to follow suit because everyone here is complaining about them.

Western political elites are hell bent on legitimizing Saudi Arabia

From King Crimson’s first album:

• 21st Century Schizoid Man
• Epitaph
• The Court of the Crimson King

Why not Amsterdam and Copenhagen, if the goal is peak design? Paris is…not.

The only reason this would ever be necessary is because ebikes (and bikes) have to interact with cars in dangerous spaces. Instead of punishing people who are reducing traffic by cycling, they should be building safer spaces to do so.

Evidence isn’t necessary when the law doesn’t matter