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Broadening harms considered in research ethics

Alexander R Pruss

In typical lab research ethics, the following types of ethical considerations count against an experiment: risks of harm to the world outside the lab risks of harm to persons in the lab risks of pain to conscious entities in the lab. (The categories overlap: the persons in the lab are conscious...

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Malta/Sicily Day 10: Gozo, Malta

Jim Fenton

Tuesday, June 23, 2026 After an overnight cruise from Sicily, we arrived at the second-largest island of Malta, Gozo. Unlike most of our earlier port calls, we anchored offshore and used tenders (lifeboats) to reach Mgarr, the primary port city. After arriving at the port, we boarded buses to...

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Tomato Problems in July: Cheap Fixes That Actually Work

The Cheap Vegetable Gardener

The post Tomato Problems in July: Cheap Fixes That Actually Work appeared first on The Cheap Vegetable Gardener. Something happens every July. You walk out to check your tomatoes, feeling pretty good about yourself, and suddenly the plants look like they’ve been through something. Weird faces on...

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A machine can make the call. It can't answer for it.

Nicholas Major

UnitedHealth automated the wrong thing, and it is costing them. A class action, a Senate investigation, and a decade of internal files a federal judge has ordered them to hand over. The mistake was not using AI. And it was not even the fancy kind. This is a company pouring three billion dollars...

Best Dog in Italy

Nige

'Imagine if we won the World Cup,' said my seven-year-old grandson yesterday. 'Ah, my child,' I replied, laying a grandfatherly hand on his innocent head, 'we have won before – and I was there.' Actually, of course, I made no such reply, not least because my memories of the great victory are hazy,...

On planting seeds

Manuel Moreale

Matt asked me a question recently about the end of my People and Blogs run. The question was if I always thought I was going to hand it over at some point, and it’s an interesting question worth expanding on, which is why I told him I was going to write a post about it, rather than simply...

The way things stand at this pointless pause

Brad Warthen

Screenshot And we turn to the world of baseball… Which is experiencing an annual pause, the All-Star Break, which I always hate. And especially this year. My boys from Boston have a remarkable streak going — nine wins in a row, by far the longest in baseball at the moment. But now they’re resting,...

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Hats I Made for Little House on the Prairie

Anna Worden

When Little House on the Prairie premiered, I intended to write a post introducing the hats and bonnets I made. Instead, I found myself swept into the conversations surrounding the bonnets. Questions about their shapes, styles, and historical accuracy filled my inbox and social media, and before I...

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Both Prophetic and Not

Sean Kleefeld

The image you see attached to this post is a full-page house ad for First Comics that ran in late 1984/early 1985. Obviously, there's some amount of hyperbole involved, but I suspect that even setting that aside, most comics fans would point to 1986 as the year where everything you know about...

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BLACK & WHITE Thinking- a CD

dmtorbi

PREVIOUS : POST :  Cognitive Distortions – Intro #2  — NOTE to ACoAs   DEF : Black & White thinking is an Either-Or way of looking at everything, & one of the most common ACoA Cognitive Distortions (CDs) . It’s thinking in absolutes, the mind simplifying experiences into two opposing...

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Lindsey.

george tannenbaum

Some years ago when I first opened GeorgeCo., LLC, a Delaware Company, my new business phone was ringing fairly off the hook. Though nobody wants to be fired from a steady job, I came to believe that the timing of my firing was actually pretty good.Not only was I able to beat the Covid...

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Ralph Boumenot

huh?I played with the centering punch trying to get it back together a bazillion times. I got nowhere with it. After the last attept I set it aside and went to bed. When I got up this AM, it was together. I think the separator disc (between the two springs) got stuck somehow. The way this operates...

The Maternal History Behind Lanvin's Arpege Perfume

Perfumeshrine

Women in the past especially were mentally tied with a sort of femininity that deviated at times from the sensible, non-glamorous, the image of the caretaker. You imagine a highly strung classy woman that hides her woes behind an immaculate veneer; perfectly coiffed & manicured, wearing...

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Nibbles: Apple-banana paradox, Genebanks, Indian wheat, Indian wild rice, Kenya community seed banks, Wild coffee, Macadamia history, Taro research, Cacti

Luigi Guarino

Why the modern food system prizes uniformity even though resilience depends on diversity. Spoiler alert: follow the money. Historic crop varieties are finding renewed relevance as farmers contend with more volatile weather, emerging pests and changing markets. Let’s hope there’s money to conserve...

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Overfitting Backtest: Why My +68% Result Was Wrong

Ai Project Log

Overfitting backtest: Two people on Reddit pushed back on my last post about testing 324 parameter combinations. Both were right, and their pushback turned into the most useful test I’ve run on this bot so far. Here’s what they said, what I did about it, and what the corrected numbers actually...

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Happy Bastille Day! Happy Birthday!

Kristin Berkey-Abbott

Today is my birthday. I was born on an Air Force base in France, where July 14 is Bastille Day. My mom always told me that when I was born they had parades and fireworks and people took the day off to have a picnic; it was years before I realized that these celebrations had nothing to do with me....

RCT Bench

Andi

“A curated public collection of randomised controlled trials for evaluating covariate-adjustment methods” – over here. Includes trials of mental health interventions.

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Editing Text Like a Peasant in Neovim

Christian Arzu

I've noticed that I've been editing text like a peasant in Neovim, I jump around ineffectively copy what I need, then jump back where I was, so I want to try to perform remote operations using flash.nvim and making that my primary way of navigating.

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Η υποκρισία τού «ας καταργήσουμε τις Πανελλαδικές»

Florents Tselai

Δημοσιεύθηκε στη Ναυτεμπορική ΌΤΑΝ ΑΚΟΥΩ «να καταργήσουμε τις Πανελλαδικές», ακούω ως πραγματικότητα το να καταργήσουμε το βασικό εργαλείο κοινωνικής κινητικότητας που έχουμε στην Ελλάδα. Πρόκειται για μία βαθιά ταξική, προσβλητικά απλουστευτική και λαϊκιστική εξαγγελία. ΟΤΑΝ, ΑΝΤΙΣΤΟΙΧΑ, ακούμε...

Your prompt needs an SBOM

Akshat Joshi

Ask any team running AI in production a simple question: what exactly did your model see?Not "what was the user's question." What was the full context — the retrieved chunks, the agent memory, the tool outputs, the system prompt, the ticket text that got pasted in. The complete input that produced...

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phrases

Aaron Pham

un recueil qui grandit au fil des leçons : des phrases toutes faites, rangées par situation. la grammaire derrière chaque frame vit dans les notes d’épisode. les présentations des mots pour se présenter : pour dire son nom pour dire sa nationalité Je me présente : Louis Martel. Je viens du...

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Blog 26 – Estimands Part 3A – What Is the Question?

Steve Ruberg

Even with the publication of ICVH E9(R1) and so may efforts globally for explaining and implementing the estimand framework, too often statisticians, and clinical researchers in general, focus their efforts on how to handle incomplete data, which is my term for the missing or confounded data...

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Obsession or Stubbornness?

Ahmed Nadar

Tonight I gave a talk at Civic Tech Toronto. This is the short version of it, and the slides are yours at the bottom if you want to take the whole thing with you. It started with a pothole For about eight months I drove past the same pothole near my house. Every single day. And I became,...

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A Surprising Observation

Aakash

TL;DR: We expected sending the full prompt to win every time. It did not. On our controlled benchmark, Trimwise Hybrid at 512 tokens matched the full-prompt answer-pass baseline on GPT-5.4 Mini and GPT-5.6 Luna, while beating it slightly on Nano. Trimwise Lexical got very close too, but at roughly...

Gas Prices Head Back Up

Chris Weigant

As the M.O.U. crumbles, the price of gas is going back up again. That's where America stands with Donald Trump's on-again/off-again war of choice with Iran. The Memorandum Of Understanding that both sides signed less than a month ago now lies in tatters, Trump just announced that U.S. military...

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Python: find all instances of a class with gc.get_objects()

Adam Johnson

Here’s a lovely hack that I’ve used when machete-mode debugging. Say you have a class, and you want to find its live instances, perhaps to check how many there are or what value a certain attribute has across them. Normally you'd have to alter the class initialization to store its instances in a...

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