I started releasing rather than killing spiders after reading “Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”

In that future, most animals have disappeared and people consider the sight of a spider as an extraordinary thing. Sparing a single spider might be vain, but it feels right knowing insect/spider population is quickly decreasing.

Almost as much caffeine in hot chocolate as in expresso? This chart doesn’t look plausible.

mRNA vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an immune therapy for skin and lung cancer

It appears they found indications that combining immune therapy with some mRNA vaccines may increase survival time. Hopefully a medical trial can confirm this.

The headline only mention the vaccine which is a bit confusing, because the paper doesn’t make conclusions on the effect of the vaccine alone. But on its combinaison with another therapy.

Anyway, there’s hope for more efficient cancer treatments.

If Trump leave office before the end of his term, this guy gets the office.

The USA elected a group of facist into office, and would have to vote the whole group out.

https://www.spacex.com/starshield

SpaceX playing fast and loose with regulations!? Say it ain’t so!

Sure, but it’s still a serious problem even if it’s a side channel attack.

Almost everyone rely on the OS/hardware providing some isolation. People often install shady apps, and browsers automatically execute JS/bytecode from random website they visit. It’s best to have defense in depth, not assume people are perfect at avoiding malicious apps/websites.

Blockchain isn’t good at anything, except maybe ranson payments.

But at least they picked Etheteum, it could have been worse.

An alternative to a ban: require a truck driving license for such big vehicles with limited visibility, ie this kind of SUV. Also, enforce the same kind of speed restrictions and fordidden areas as trucks, ie exclude from neighboorhoods with narrow streets.

Yes. What goes without saying goes even better when you say it.

It’s worth spreading that information. But I can’t help it, this one is quite obvious.

This particular discovery is about materials that may help with carbon capture, which is at best an extremely inefficient way to fight climate change. But in many case, the captured gas is reinjected to help extract more oil, which makes things worse.

• The insanity of the Carbon Capture deception, Just Have a Think, YouTube
• The False Promise of Carbon Capture as a Climate Solution, Scientific American

The solution is to stop extracting and burning fossil fuel.

Takeaways by Bloomberg AI

Please, stop pushing AI slop into people’s face.

If a newspaper I subscribed to did this, I’d definitely cancel my subscription.

🎉 More big beautiful coal to stay in the ground where it belongs

Captain’s hair is nominal.

Big oil prefer us to feel hopeless about climate change, rather than doing something about it and aiming one’s anger at them.

Think about which actions, even small ones, you can take to reduce dependency on fossiel fuel, and oppose big oil, without breaking the law.

It could be individual or collective action.

Thank you Captain Obvious!

Well done noyb!

The latest Amnesty report published this year has details on a country per country basis

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/act50/8976/2025/en/

(Comment edited. Sorry for calling BS on the map. I misread the legend)

Meanwhile, Nvidia has promised to pump $100 billion into OpenAI over the next decade, a move that will conveniently help OpenAI pay for Nvidia’s own chips.

OpenAI and NVIDIA’s future are getting tied together more than they already were

Is there an alternative to grass that covers well, and doesn’t spread fast like an invasive plant?

I’ve read about clover but it does spread fast.