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DOJ Has Lost So Many Lawyers It Might Not Have Enough Left To Help Trump Destroy America - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/08/doj-has-lost-so-many-lawyers-it-might-not-have-enough-left-to-help-trump-destroy-america/

🪡 Military doctors say they’re not getting enough hands-on experience for combat care
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Military doctors say they're not getting enough hands-on experience for combat care
A federal watchdog found that Army and Navy doctors are not maintaining their wartime medical skills, causing some to leave the service.

This animation from the 2000s randomly or (shall I say magically) found it's way from the abyss of my memory... and so I sang it to my daughter and she loved it.
https://youtu.be/au3-hk-pXsM?si=1S5kAU47mVdGuHeY

remembering how, when i was 8, i broke down sobbing in my grandparent's basement over a sheet of "142 - 55" type math problems my mom made me complete. it was taking hours cuz i could barely focus enough to pencil a number before being stressed and distracted for a while. not much has changed, both my relationship to math and my ability to lock in

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. IG Farben initially wasn’t keen on working with the Nazis, but it just made business sense to adapt to the new political environment ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://daringfireball.net/2025/08/gold_frankincense_and_silicon

Geologist position #NorthDakota Geological Survey, for subsurface #geology, Williston Basin. "Research on oil & gas related topics with opportunities to engage in geothermal, carbon sequestration, and critical minerals projects."
Closing date: July 23, 2025.

PBE Meets LLM: When Few Examples Aren't Few-Shot Enough
Shuning Zhang, Yongjoo Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05403 https://arxi…

PBE Meets LLM: When Few Examples Aren't Few-Shot Enough
Large language models (LLMs) can generate code from natural language descriptions. Their performance is typically evaluated using programming benchmarks that simulate real-world tasks. These benchmarks provide specifications in the form of docstrings, function signatures, or bug reports. The model then generates a program, which is tested against predefined test cases. In contrast, Programming by Example (PBE) uses input-output examples as the specification. Traditional PBE systems rely on sear…

Estrogen? Hot drinks will suffice!
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Naturally, cold water cooled. For that reason it was used in mania and frenzy, sicknesses of heat where the spirits were in ebullition, solids tightened and liquids were heated to the point of evaporation, leaving the brain of the patient ‘dry and brittle’, as anatomists regularly demonstrated. Reasonably enough Boissieu includes cold water among his list of refreshing cures: baths were the foremost ‘antiphlogistic’, purifying the body of any excessive igneous particles to be found there. Taken as a drink, it was a ‘dilutive procastinant’ that diminished the resistance of fluids to the action of solids, thereby indirectly lowering the general heat of the body.
But it was also said that cold water brought heat and that hot water cooled. Such at least was the thesis defended by Darut. Cold baths chased the blood from the periphery of the body and pushed it ‘with increased vigour towards the heart’. As the heart was the seat of natural heat, the blood was warmed there, all the more so as “the heart, which struggles alone against all the other parts, makes renewed efforts to expel the blood and overcome capillary resistance. What results is a greater intensity of circulation, the division of the blood, the fluidity of the humours, the destruction of congestions, an increase in the strength of the natural heat, of the appetite of the digestive forces, and the activity of the body and the mind.” A symmetrical paradox operated regarding hot baths: blood was attracted to the extremities of the body, as were the humours, sweat, and all forms of liquid, both beneficial and harmful. The vital centres were therefore deserted, the heart slowed and the organism thus began to cool down. This fact was confirmed by the ‘fainting, lipothymia… weakness, nonchalance, lassitude, and lack of vigour’ that generally accompanied excessive bathing with hot water.
But there was more. So great was the polyvalence of water, so great was its aptitude to submit itself to the qualities that it carried, that it sometimes lost its efficacy as a liquid and acted as a desiccant instead. Water could Prevent dampness. In part, this was the old principle of similia similibus, but in another sense, and by the intermediary of a visible mechanism. For some, it was cold water that brought dryness, as heat kept water humid. Heat dilated the pores of the organism, distended its membranes, and allowed humidity to impregnate them as a secondary effect. Liquids made their way through heat. For that reason, the hot drinks so widely used in the seventeenth century risked becoming a danger, and those who took too many risked relaxation, general dampness and a weakness of the whole organism. As these were traits commonly associated with the feminine body, as opposed to the dry, virile solidity of the male, the abuse of hot drinks could lead to a general feminisation of the human race: “Not without reason, the reproach is made to the majority of men that they have softened and degenerated, taking on the habits and inclinations of women – the only thing lacking is a physical resemblance. The abuse of humectants could accelerate the metamorphosis, and render the two sexes almost identical both physically and morally. Woe betide the human race if this prejudice ever spreads to the masses: there will be no more labourers, artisans or soldiers, as they will have lost the strength and vigour necessary for their profession.” [Pressavin]
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

Bounding destruction timescales of minor planets orbiting white dwarfs with the sesquinary catastrophe
Dimitri Veras, Matija \'Cuk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05090

Bounding destruction timescales of minor planets orbiting white dwarfs with the sesquinary catastrophe
Dynamical activity attributed to the destruction of minor planets orbiting white dwarfs has now been photometrically monitored in individual systems for up to one decade, long enough to measure significant cessation and re-emergence of transit features. Further, periodicities which hint at the presence of debris orbiting exterior to the white dwarf Roche radius, along with widely varying estimates for debris disc lifetimes (up to Myrs), complicate theories for the formation and dynamical evolut…