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Do prawns feel pain? Why scientists are urging a rethink of Australia’s favoured festive food https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/22/crustaceans-feelings-sentient-christmas-new-year-prawns-australia

The similarity to the climate crisis is amazing - robust scientific research has identified a serious, life threatening problem - as well as what is needed to address that problem. But $€₱₹¥£ are flowing from customers who are unaware of the problem, and are seduced by marketing messages - in movies, TV shows, social media, and explicit advertisements. And there is huge profit from practices that are already resulting in injuries, illnesses and death, as well as economic losses. And

The similarity to the climate crisis is amazing - robust scientific research has identified a serious, life threatening problem - as well as what is needed to address that problem. But $€₱₹¥£ are flowing from customers who are unaware of the problem, and are seduced by marketing messages - in movies, TV shows, social media, and explicit advertisements. And there is huge profit from practices that are already resulting in injuries, illnesses and death, as well as economic losses. And

been faffing around with 3d geometry in build123d recently, and failing to get the cad kernel to produce geometric objects that do what i want
so i sat down to do some algebra
it’s annoying that the usual material about conic sections explains how ellipses and parabolas and hyperbolas work … but not how to derive them given a cone and a plane
so i worked it out for my particular problem, and happily things cancelled out very nicely, making the result nice and simple
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States win quick victory in National Guard deployment case
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/failing-to-carry-their-burden-oregon-and-california-win-quick-victory-after-trump-admin-chose-not-to-appeal-restraining-order-in-national-guard-deployment-case/

Another film, another unattributed use of #OpenStreetMap. This is the fourth movie I’ve seen this year commit this sin and the latest culprit is this Netflix Christmas romcom titled Champagne Problems.
Their travesty is now immortalized on the OSM Wiki: https…

So the US had a huge case using high-level informants.
Bukele wanted back 9 informants who could expose his govt's deals with that same gang to lower the level of violence,
fueling his image as a crime-fighter.
That Rubio made a deal was known.
That he reneged on informants was not.
https://

Elizabeth N. Saunders (@profsaunders.bsky.social)
So the US had a huge case using high-level informants. Bukele wanted back 9 informants who could expose his govt's deals with that same gang to lower the level of violence, fueling his image as a crime-fighter. That Rubio made a deal was known. That he reneged on informants was not.

Multi-Physics: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal LLMs Reasoning on Chinese Multi-Subject Physics Problems
Zhongze Luo, Zhenshuai Yin, Yongxin Guo, Zhichao Wang, Jionghao Zhu, Xiaoying Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15839

Multi-Physics: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal LLMs Reasoning on Chinese Multi-Subject Physics Problems
While multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) demonstrate remarkable reasoning progress, their application in specialized scientific domains like physics reveals significant gaps in current evaluation benchmarks. Specifically, existing benchmarks often lack fine-grained subject coverage, neglect the step-by-step reasoning process, and are predominantly English-centric, failing to systematically evaluate the role of visual information. Therefore, we introduce \textbf {Multi-Physics} for Chinese physics reasonin…

The Stanley Parable: completed!
The Stanley Parable is an odd narrative game, where you are effectively given instructions by the narrator.  As an office worker, you suddenly realise that everyone else has disappeared, and it feels that the point of the game is to understand why.  If it were a traditional game, that would be the case. The game is most fun, or rather funny, when not following instructions.