Even though I have access to some streaming services other people are paying for, I still usually end up on lookmovie due to how disruptive the ads are. It’s also nice skipping the step where you have to figure out where something is streaming at the moment.

The director and the entire board quit too

After the board’s statement canceling Abdel-Fattah’s appearance, other speakers on the program — including British novelist Zadie Smith and former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern — withdrew from their events too. The Festival’s director quit Tuesday, citing her objections to the board’s decision to disinvite Abdel-Fattah.

Louise Adler, a Jewish Australian, wrote in the Guardian that she could not “be party to silencing writers.” She said 70% of the event’s speakers had withdrawn.

Hours later, a statement on the Festival’s Facebook page said that the event would not proceed and that all remaining board members would resign. The statement, which was not attributed to a named individual, offered an apology to Abdel-Fattah for “how the decision was represented.”

Love to see humans standing up for humanity

My ground ginger and garlic powder containers look really similar and I know I’ll eventually fall for it

Tech companies forgot what liability is, and given the lawyers they employ I assume they did the cost benefit analysis first.

My guy Mark selling everyone out for 50k in 2016. Cheap bastard.

The UCSF researchers analyzed more than 340 documents, totaling 1,582 pages of text, between the sugar industry and two individuals: Roger Adams, then a professor of organic chemistry who served on scientific advisory boards for the sugar industry; and D. Mark Hegsted, one of the Harvard researchers who produced the literature review.

To conduct the literature review, the sugar industry paid the Harvard scientists the equivalent of $50,000 in 2016 dollars, then set the review’s objective, contributed articles to be included, and received drafts. Yet the industry’s funding and role were not disclosed in the final NEJM publication.

The literature review heavily criticized studies linking sucrose to heart disease, while ignoring limitations of studies investigating dietary fats. The review argued that blood cholesterol levels were the only significant risk factor for coronary heart disease, which made the high sucrose content of the American diet seem less hazardous than if blood triglycerides were also considered to be a risk factor.

Most kids are an angsty mess at that time but I still can’t really fathom thinking my hs crush or one of the other guys owed me a relationship it seems like a deep character flaw.

Very nice of Mama to raise 5 at a time! Inspiring for conservationists for sure.

I was bored so I looked up these apps for receipt scanning and it looks like it’s a combination of couponing and consumer data broker. Most of them require you to activate promos on the app first, go shopping, then get “cash back” for certain promo items when you take a picture of the receipt.

I’m guessing this is on top of the discounts you can get directly from grocery store apps (which are surely already brokering purchase data).

One or two of the apps don’t require activating offers at all so I guess those ones are JUST data brokering.

Agreed. I tried looking for a big monitor instead of a TV last time we were in the market for one and there were shockingly few options.

Kind of all over the place with unrelated anecdotes but I guess the article is kind of a survey of all the teen related THC issues they could find.

My favorite bit was this girl describing how 40% of her college dorm smoked weed. Such clean habits!

Each morning, she found students washing their bongs in the communal bathroom at 8 a.m. to prepare for their “morning smoke.”

Not privacy focused but read on if you want my thoughts on Duo vs Busuu. I used Duolingo back in the day but they chased me away with their complete 180 on ads (they used to advertise as no ads ever!). Duolingo was great for learning vocab but terrible for grammar in my opinion (at least eng-> german and eng-> spanish).

After bailing I didn’t use anything for awhile but I picked up Busuu a few years ago shortly after it was purchased by Chegg. They have a premium and an ad supported tier and the ad tier is terrible, it makes you have to close out at the end of each lesson to proceed past an annoying screen trying to get you to upgrade. The premium is advertised at about $70 a year but it comes down to around $50 for good sales. The monthly is a bit pricey ($10 or $12 or something).

Anyways, I really like Busuu for learning grammar. They have a flash card section for vocab that’s excellent as well but the grammar is where I saw huge improvements. The grammar is introduced in the lessons then given a strength that degrades over time until you practice it again. It tells you where your skills are weak so you can focus on a particular grammar element.

I also really like that they include regional differences in word use and regional expressions.

They recently introduced an AI speaking feature but I haven’t opted into it because I’m not comfortable with them processing my voice data. I haven’t read the privacy policy. This means skipping 1-2 lessons each unit which isn’t a big deal to me.

Hope this info is helpful to someone!

Was there a protest involved?

You could build an app for the Pebble watch! A little game to take advantage of the new touchscreen feature or a habit tracker or something.

https://developer.repebble.com/sdk/

https://apps.repebble.com/en_US/watchapps

WOOF that is an impactful finding

I always picture myself heroically charging the gunman with a few people I made eye contact with right before, but this guy actually went and did it. Solo to boot.

Hopefully it’s more like they’re saying it out loud now because the bullying has reached fever pitch and it’s being aimed at a broader set of countries not just the typical punching bags

Scientists can’t rule out that a soft pp might be the main causal variable

My brother’s orthodontist had a dreamcast with crazy taxi. Always a good visit

LLMs are such an unstable technology right now, literally changing every few weeks. I don’t understand why companies are willing to fold it into their workflows in the current state.