@Techmeme@techhub.socialA survey of US adults: 49% reported using chatbots in 2026, up from 33% in 2024, 24% said that they use chatbots on a daily basis, and 44% said they use ChatGPT (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/0…
@cdarwin@c.imBetween 2020 and 2024, no cervical cancer deaths were recorded in women aged 20 to 24
- the first time that had happened over a five-year period.
Without vaccination, around 23 deaths would have been expected.
"It's incredible to think that a single jab can almost eliminate a particular type of cancer,"
said Prof Peter Sasieni, the lead researcher at Queen Mary University of London.
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Earth rotation records spur October vote to avert negative leap second.
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/320185/20260711/earth-rotation-records-spur-october-vote-avert-negative-leap-second.h…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzBrian Schottenheimer, Cowboys lose key pass rusher for start of 2026 NFL season https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-lose-charles-snowden-three-game-suspension/76542357b63b576f4cc8f5d2
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDigital i: YouTube overtakes Netflix in average daily viewing globally, rising from 87.2 minutes in 2024 to 99.1 in 2025, while Netflix fell from 100.5 to 93.4 (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
@memeorandum@universeodon.comScoop: Shapiro boosted Republican to retaliate against fellow Dem, ally says in recording (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/03/josh-shapiro-gop-candidate-2024
http://www.memeorandum.com/260503/p36#a260503p36
@cdarwin@c.imThere are some words out there that are brilliantly evocative.
Yiddish has the word shlimazl, which basically means a perpetually unlucky person.
German has the word Backpfeifengesicht, which roughly means a face that is badly in need of a fist.
And then there’s the Japanese word tsundoku, which perfectly describes the state of my apartment.
It means buying books and letting them pile up unread.
The word dates back to the very beginning of modern Japan, the M…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeThis Fediwall seems to have lost everything except an initial post from January 2024:
https://fediwall.social/?servers=newsmast.community&tags=…
@cdarwin@c.imRepresentative David #Valadao, an incumbent Republican who won his seat by seven percentagepoints in 2024,
is facing a competitive contest after California’s new maps created a tossup district that is estimated to have voted for Trump by only two points in 2024.
Valadao advanced to the general election by performing well in the nonpartisan primary, and he is waiting to find out who his opponent…
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@cdarwin@c.imWhen, in 2024, Chinese scientists reported developing an artificial-intelligence tool to design conotoxins, it raised eyebrows in some quarters.
In an e-mail to a private AI and biotechnology discussion group seen by Nature, a senior US government employee flagged the study as a possible biosecurity risk.
The employee, who asked not to be named because of concerns for their job, felt it was especially concerning that the conotoxin AI is based on an open-source protein language …
