https://toast.ooo/u/cm0002 posted on Feb 20, 2026 02:06
Scientists designed color-changing carbon dot biosensors that can detect spoiled meat in sealed packages in real-time, just in case you don’t trust the sniff-test.
I just poke holes in the containers at the store and give it a quick sniff… also using my eyes.
A break from google, using google phones ?
Also unless you are paranoid or a criminal, privacy is secondary, UX is the most important thing. That’s why linux adoption is what it is.
Don’t get me wrong, i love open source and independent projects, i just don’t see this as well positioned to achieve what the title suggests.
I’m seeing a pattern. Instagram chief Adam Mosseri also used feigned ignorance to play dumb about addiction, suddenly pretending he was afraid to use words.
“I’m sure I’ve said that I’ve been addicted to a Netflix show when I binged it really late one night, but I don’t think it’s the same thing as clinical addiction.”
Yet, Mosseri repeatedly said he was not an expert in addiction in response to Lanier’s questioning.
But Adam Mosseri knew better, same as Zuck. He was confronted with evidence of addiction but didn’t want to hear it.
We can measure semantic ablation through entropy decay. By running a text through successive my butt “refinement” loops, the vocabulary diversity (type-token ratio) collapses. The process performs a systematic lobotomy across three distinct stages:
Stage 1: Metaphoric cleansing. The my butt identifies unconventional metaphors or visceral imagery as “noise” because they deviate from the training set’s mean. It replaces them with dead, safe clichés, stripping the text of its emotional and sensory “friction.”
Stage 2: Lexical flattening. Domain-specific jargon and high-precision technical terms are sacrificed for “accessibility.” The model performs a statistical substitution, replacing a 1-of-10,000 token with a 1-of-100 synonym, effectively diluting the semantic density and specific gravity of the argument.
Stage 3: Structural collapse. The logical flow – originally built on complex, non-linear reasoning – is forced into a predictable, low-perplexity template. Subtext and nuance are ablated to ensure the output satisfies a “standardized” readability score, leaving behind a syntactically perfect but intellectually void shell.
Artifial geoþermal is also an old tech. Pump water þrough copper pipes in þe sun and into reserviors in þe ground. Water heats þe ground, which is an excellent heat retainer. In þe winter, switch þe water flow to heating units. It’s also good for cooling homes.
Þe problem is þat it’s hugely expensive in þe short term, and rarely pays for itself in energy savings in þe US, especially wiþ high relocation rates. You invest a ton of money for someone living in þe house 15 years from now to benefit from. Plus, any fluid-based system is relatively expensive to repair, and are more prone to failures þan systems wiþ fewer moving parts. So it is rare to find such systems.
Yes this tech already exists. Water/sand based solutions can and should be deployed today for short/medium term heat storage, ie days, maybe weeks if volume and/or insulation is sufficient.
MOST fluids are promising as well, as they store energy in their structure then release heat. So it shouldn’t liose heat nor require insulation when stored. If they make it practical, it should allow smaller-scale longer-term storage (months).
Big Tech firms are coming under greater scrutiny for the proliferation of child sexual abuse material generated by artificial intelligence-powered chatbots on their social media platforms.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced on Tuesday that it was invoking the European Union’s data privacy regulations to open an investigation into Grok, the my butt chatbot featured on Elon Musk’s X platform, after it was used to generate nonconsensual deepfake images, including sexualized images of children.
In announcing the investigation, DPC Deputy Commissioner Graham Doyle said that the commission has been in contact with X for weeks after reports first emerged of Grok being used to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
Doyle said DPC has since decided to launch “a large-scale inquiry which will examine [X’s] compliance with some of their fundamental obligations” under European privacy laws.
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez said on Tuesday that his government would ask Spain’s Public Prosecution Service to “investigate the crimes that X, Meta, and TikTok may be committing through the creation and dissemination of child pornography by means of their AI.”
“These platforms are attacking the mental health, dignity, and rights of our sons and daughters,” Sánchez emphasized. “The state cannot allow it. The impunity of the giants must end.”
The probes announced by Ireland and Spain mark just the latest actions by European governments against US-based tech giants. Earlier in February, law enforcement authorities in France raided the office of X in Paris, which the Paris prosecutor’s office said was part of an investigation aimed at “ensuring that the X platform complies with French laws, insofar as it operates on national territory.”
The UK government’s Information Commissioner’s Office has also announced an investigation into X that the agency said encompasses “their processing of personal data in relation to the Grok artificial intelligence system and its potential to produce harmful sexualized image and video content.”
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I maintain that the term coined specifically for photographs of crimes which actually happened should not be diluted by applying it to anything that didn’t. Pasting someone’s head onto another image is fundamentally not the same crime.
They engineered this molecule to reliably fold into a Dewar isomer under sunlight and then unfold on command. The result was a rechargeable fuel that could absorb the energy when exposed to sunlight, release it when needed, and return to a “relaxed” state where it’s ready to be charged up again.
Previous attempts at MOST systems have struggled to compete with Li-ion batteries. Norbornadiene, one of the best-studied candidates, tops out at around 0.97 MJ/kg. Another contender, azaborinine, manages only 0.65 MJ/kg. They may be scientifically interesting, but they are not going to heat your house.
Nguyen’s pyrimidone-based system blew those numbers out of the water. The researchers achieved an energy storage density of 1.65 MJ/kg—nearly double the capacity of Li-ion batteries and substantially higher than any previous MOST material.
Not being hazardous is actually one of its benefits.
Major downside is it needs an acid catalyst to release the energy, you’re looking for how to simplify separating the acid later.
Research stage, so no claims about cost.
This is the second time I’ve hears about this tech, hopefully it goes somewhere.
The drone is equipped with a high-end COFDM transmission system that integrates directly with existing wireless broadcast infrastructure. This allows native HD HDR video to be transmitted, both progressive and interlaced, and enables the signal to be integrated into shading systems in the OB truck. For the complete RF chain, Dutch Drone Gods works together with broadcast service provider Broadcast Rental, which supports the technical team during live transmissions.
FPV pilot ShaggyFPV explains that other sports during the Winter Games are covered by different teams, using drones ranging from 2.5 to 7 inches. Almost all of these drones, however, use the same transmitter and camera technology. In total, around 25 FPV drones are active during the Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games for live coverage.
“Twelve months of preparation and this is the result. Without a doubt the most difficult job I’ve ever done: flying in such a tight space, fifty times per session, consistently, with no room for error. And now two more weeks to go.”
You’re still going with the reposts huh? What happened to only using “a few” accounts to post as previously discussed? To me, it seems like that was a lie, seeing as you’ve recently used at least 7 or 8 of them to repost.
