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Wanted to find out how many calories are in poop to make a nice fat-positive post on here, but after wading through 5 separate results from the top to the bottom of the first page of results, every single one of them showed signs of AI authorship, so none of the info was trustworthy (several contradicted each other or themselves). The one article that cited legit sources didn't include a straightforward answer to the question. Of course, I could dig past the first page, or look through the cited sources do some math myself, and that's not even that hard to do. But 10 years ago, a trustworthy answer would have been among the first 5 search results. When we say #AI is destroying the digital commons, this is what we mean.
Gonna go find some academic papers to answer this and report back.

Russland meldet Eroberung in Region Charkiw
Im ostukrainischen Gebiet Charkiw hat die russische Armee eigenen Angaben nach den Grenzort Milowe erobert. Der Vorstoß sei Teil einer Operation zur Schaffung einer Pufferzone entlang der russisch-ukrainischen Grenze, teilte das Verteidigungsministerium in Moskau mit.
Ein veröffentlichtes Video zeigte Soldaten mit russischer Flagge auf einem Gebäude, das in dem Dorf stehen soll. Di…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Russland meldet Eroberung in Region Charkiw ++
Im ostukrainischen Gebiet Charkiw hat die russische Armee eigenen Angaben nach den Grenzort Milowe erobert. Die Ukraine meldet acht Tote nach Angriffen in mehreren Regionen.

Extracting Information from Scientific Literature via Visual Table Question Answering Models
Dongyoun Kim, Hyung-do Choi, Youngsun Jang, John Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18661

Extracting Information from Scientific Literature via Visual Table Question Answering Models
This study explores three approaches to processing table data in scientific papers to enhance extractive question answering and develop a software tool for the systematic review process. The methods evaluated include: (1) Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for extracting information from documents, (2) Pre-trained models for document visual question answering, and (3) Table detection and structure recognition to extract and merge key information from tables with textual content to answer extra…

Papers with U.S. State Department markings, found Friday morning in the business center of an Alaskan hotel, revealed previously undisclosed and potentially sensitive details about the Aug. 15 meetings between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir V. Putin in Anchorage.
Eight pages, that appear to have been produced by U.S. staff and left behind accidentally, shared precise locations and meeting times of the summit and phone numbers of U.S. government employees

Citizen science illuminates the nature of city lights: #LightPollution

Splitting Families, Reaping Families, and Families of Permutations Associated with Asymptotic Density
David Valderrama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21059 htt…

Splitting Families, Reaping Families, and Families of Permutations Associated with Asymptotic Density
We investigate several relations between cardinal characteristics of the continuum related with the asymptotic density of the natural numbers and some known cardinal invariants. Specifically, we study the cardinals of the form $\mathfrak{s}_X$, $\mathfrak{r}_X$ and $\mathfrak{dd}_{X,Y}$ introduced in arXiv:2304.09698 and arXiv:2410.21102, answering some questions raised in these papers. In particular, we prove that $\mathfrak{s}_0=$ cov$(\mathcal{M})$ and $\mathfrak{r}_0=$ non$(\mathcal{M})$. W…

Fine-structure Line Atlas for Multi-wavelength Extragalactic Study (FLAMES) III: [C II] as Tracer, Crisis of SFR, [O III]/[C II] at High-z, New Answers and New Questions
Bo Peng, Gordon Stacey, Amit Vishwas, Catie Ball, Cody Lamarche, Christopher Rooney, Thomas Nikola, Carl Ferkinhoff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12896

Fine-structure Line Atlas for Multi-wavelength Extragalactic Study (FLAMES) III: [C II] as Tracer, Crisis of SFR, [O III]/[C II] at High-z, New Answers and New Questions
In the final paper of this series, we discuss new perspectives and challenges in the study of interstellar medium (ISM), leveraging comprehensive catalogs and physical insights presented in our previous papers. We focus on key questions of far-infrared (FIR) fine-structure lines (FSLs): their origins, diagnostic value, and implications of correlations. Our analysis reveals a strong dependence on elemental abundance, so that FSL/H$α$ traces metallicity, [N II]/[C II] traces N/O, and $\sim$80% o…

#NPR reports of #Drumpf admin operatives leaving 8 pages of sensitive internal eyes only 👀 #Putin feting itinerary notes behind in #Alaska hotel sparks ridi…