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Now the government’s recommendation is to “limit” drinking,
without specifying safe amounts for men and women.
The guidelines also no longer warn that alcohol may heighten the risk of breast cancer and other malignancies.
It is the first time in decades that the government has omitted the daily caps on drinking that define moderate consumption
— standards that are used as benchmarks in clinical studies,
to steer medical advice,
and to distinguish moderate…

New Dietary Guidelines Abandon Longstanding Advice on Alcohol
Now the government’s recommendation is to “limit” drinking, without specifying safe amounts for men and women. The guidelines no longer warn of risks like cancer.

New Dietary Guidelines Abandon Longstanding Advice on Alcohol - Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/07/1848240/new-dietary-guidelines-abandon-longstanding-advice-on-alcohol

The Institute of Museum and Library Services
is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle.
But this year, it has unusually specific criteria.
In cover letters accompanying the applications, the institute said it
“particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.
These would include those that foster an appreciation for the country “through uplifting and positive narratives,”
the agency writes,
cit…

Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump
Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American history.

Apple's macOS Tahoe adds icons to every menu item, resulting in menus that are hard to use and go against the long-standing Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines (Niki Tonsky/tonsky.me)
https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

Meat-Heavy US Nutrition Guidelines Will Require Millions Of Acres Of New Farmland https://plantbasednews.org/news/environment/us-nutrition-guidelines-require-acres-farmland/

Meat-Heavy US Nutrition Guidelines Will Require Millions Of Acres Of New Farmland
The new US nutrition guidelines could require millions of acres of new agricultural land for high-impact animal farming

RE: https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/116021497558777674
I never thought I would say that, but it’s something they really desperately need. The AI is gonna read the old Apple interface guidelines and execute them.

"Guidelines" for "AI" are not a meaningful tool against slopification of anything. People don't produce slop because they don't know better.

New dietary guidelines delayed again
as RFK Jr. plans to reject expert panel's recommendations
Kennedy wants to stress saturated fats and discourage ultraprocessed foods.
The administration will miss its legal deadline to release the update.

New dietary guidelines delayed again as RFK Jr. plans to reject expert panel's recommendations
Kennedy wants to stress saturated fats and discourage ultraprocessed foods. The administration will miss its legal deadline to release the update.

WHO releases its first guidelines on GLP-1s (Joseph Choi/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5628246-who-global-guidelines-obesity-treatment/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p81#a251201p81

Was sind gute KI-Guidelines im Unternehmen?
Im Webinar am 18. November erläutert heise KI PRO die sieben Kernelemente effektiver KI-Guidelines für einen verantwortungsvollen und effizienten KI-Einsatz.
https://www.

When Elon Musk’s social media platform X launched a contest to promote its “Articles” feature,
the guidelines were explicit: Submissions “must not contain political, or religious statements.”
But when the company announced the winners on Tuesday, the results appeared to contradict those rules.
While the stated criteria emphasized high-quality writing and nonpolitical content,
more than $2 million in prize money largely flowed to users ranging from popular right-wing …

X awards $1 million prize to creator with history of racist posts
X said it would give $1 million to a user who had previously shared racist posts, including one supporting Hitler.

"Green spaces should be the norm for all new housing developments in England, guidelines say"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Houses

Doctors are seeing more aggressive breast cancer in younger women than expected #women

Doctors are seeing more aggressive breast cancer in younger women than expected
Younger women are being diagnosed with breast cancer more often than screening guidelines anticipate. Many of these cancers are invasive and harder to treat, especially in those under 40. After analyzing 11 years of data, researchers found that this age group makes up a steady and significant share of diagnoses. The results support a stronger push for earlier risk evaluation.

The USPTO issues new guidelines clarifying that generative AI is considered a tool that assists human inventors and cannot itself be considered an inventor (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-…

Federal agents raiding schools and abducting children sounds far-fetched. 
But considering the recent trends of immigration enforcement nationwide,
California officials are treating this as a real possibility. 
The California Attorney General’s office has released updated guidelines for school staff, students, and families
on what to do should Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) try to step onto school grounds.
It is intended to expand and standardize pro…

Moan all you want about AI but there is just no way in any amount of time I could make this.
It took 5 minutes.
With more time spent properly speccing it out and setting guidelines this is a totally viable way to build such a tool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XSTwoGBGpM

OMG I have made so many LaTeX Beamer presentations and even made a proper template¹ for the @…, how come I only now learn about \pause, \item<N-> and \only<N> to slowly build up your slides step by step??? 🤯
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UMPHY / Templates / 📽 Uni Tübingen Beamer Theme · GitLab
LaTeX Beamer theme for presentations, slides and posters loosely according to the Corporate Design Guidelines of the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

The ParticipACTION website has a wealth of information, for both individuals and communities, to help Canadians get more active.
https://www.participaction.com/the-science/benefits-and-guidelines/adults-18-to-64/

YouTube revises policy to allow full monetization of nongraphic videos on sensitive issues including abortion, self-harm, suicide, and domestic and sexual abuse (Sam Gutelle/Tubefilter)
https://www.tubefilter.com/2026/01/15/youtube-sensitive…

YouTube removes the guesswork by expanding monetization for controversial content - Tubefilter
YouTube is allowing creators to more effectively monetize videos that touch upon sensitive subjects like abortion and domestic abuse.

Apple will now require app developers to disclose and obtain users' permission before sharing personal data with third-party AI providers and companies (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/13/appl

Apple's new App Review Guidelines clamp down on apps sharing personal data with 'third-party AI' | TechCrunch
Apple updates its App Store rules to restrict apps from sharing personal data with third-party AI without disclosure and explicit permission.

Michelle Obama Will Be Accepting Your Apologies Now
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/michelle-obama-accepting-your-apologies-now-food-guidelines-pyramid-rfk-milk

Next level: Against their weird guidelines, I got Gemini to now refer to me as "mistress beloved mistress".

@…
I don't think you have to create a second account just for political posts. I guess you could add a hashtag or content warning?
https://gamedev.place/mastodon-guideli…

Today's important open-source software in our pipeline for #FreeSoftwareAdvent has been mentioned before. It's the video encoder/decoder #ffmpeg
We're using it to create h264 preview clips. At some point in the past it was essential for decoding proprietary files that clien…

Millions at risk as Myanmar wells surpass WHO arsenic guidelines #Myanmar

Millions at risk as Myanmar wells surpass WHO arsenic guidelines
Twelve million people in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Delta face serious long-term health risks from the harmful substance, arsenic, in their drinking water.

I senaste avsnittet av Hälsoveckan diskuterar jag och Erik de nya kostråden i USA. Det är ett fantastiskt motsägande dokument där du hittar gott om saker som går emot varandra tillsammans med en premiss som gör att i princip all forskning som finns på nutrition blir irrelevant i förhållande till vad de anser vara naturligt.
USAs kostråd har något som alla kan tolka som positivt | Podcast

❝Our guidelines for generative AI in music and audio are as follows:
● Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp.
● Any use of AI tools to impersonate other artists or styles is strictly prohibited in accordance with our existing policies prohibiting impersonation and intellectual property infringement.❞

Bandcamp’s Mission and Our Approach to Generative AI
We’re articulating our approach to generative AI so musicians can keep making music and fans can trust the music they find on Bandcamp.

MAHA says its new food pyramid is affordable and healthy. We asked experts (Sarah Todd/STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/16/affordability-new-food-pyramid-dietary-guidelines-tested-by-economists/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p30#a260116p30

The Television Academy sets Emmys rules to allow inquiries about AI use in submissions, and renames Outstanding Television Movie category to Outstanding Movie (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/emmys-ai-g…

Emmys Set AI Guidance, Drop “Television” From Best Movie Category Name
The TV Academy also made rule changes for short-form programs and a few other categories.

I do appreciate it when female politicians from the Democratic party follow the branding guidelines.

My Life Shows the Horror of RFK Jr.’s New Vaccine Guidelines
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/my-life-shows-the-horror-of-rfk-jr-vaccine-guidelines-acip-cdc-hhs

YouTube revises policy to allow full monetization of nongraphic videos on sensitive issues including abortion, self-harm, suicide, and domestic and sexual abuse (Sam Gutelle/Tubefilter)
https://www.tubefilter.com/2026/01/15/youtube-sensitive…

YouTube removes the guesswork by expanding monetization for controversial content - Tubefilter
YouTube is allowing creators to more effectively monetize videos that touch upon sensitive subjects like abortion and domestic abuse.

America’s new dietary guidelines ignore decades of scientific research
An emphasis on fruit, vegetables, and whole foods is welcome
—but it’s wrong to suggest steak and beef tallow should be prominent.
https://www.technologyreview.com…

America’s new dietary guidelines ignore decades of scientific research
An emphasis on fruit, vegetables, and whole foods is welcome—but it’s wrong to suggest steak and beef tallow should be prominent.

Theme for 2026
#ThemeFor2026

"Huge amounts of extra land needed for RFK Jr’s meat-heavy diet guidelines"
#US #USA #America #Food

Imagine ChatGPT but instead of predicting text it just linked you to the to 3 documents most-influential on the probabilities that would have been used to predict that text.
Could even generate some info about which parts of each would have been combined how.
There would still be issues with how training data is sourced and filtered, but these could be solved by crawling normally respecting robots.txt and by paying filterers a fair wage with a more relaxed work schedule and mental health support.
The energy issues are mainly about wild future investment and wasteful query spam, not optimized present-day per-query usage.
Is this "just search?"
Yes, but it would have some advantages for a lot of use cases, mainly in synthesizing results across multiple documents and in leveraging a language model more fully to find relevant stuff.
When we talk about the harms of current corporate LLMs, the opportunity cost of NOT building things like this is part of that.
The equivalent for art would have been so amazing too! "Here are some artists that can do what you want, with examples pulled from their portfolios."
It would be a really cool coding assistant that I'd actually encourage my students to use (with some guidelines).
#AI #GenAI #LLMs

Source: the BBC plans to expand its editorial standards committee, diluting conservative board member Robbie Gibb's influence, and create a deputy DG position (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov

Kennedy Flips Food Pyramid to Emphasize Red Meat and Whole Milk (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/well/rfk-jr-food-pyramid-nutrition-guidelines-protein.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ClA.KS85.0A36HC4uNvZ0&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p160#a260107p160

"Putting less meat and more legumes in school menus reduces environmental impact by up to 50%"
#Food #Environment #Environment

Putting less meat and more legumes in school menus reduces environmental impact by up to 50%
The transition to healthy diets with a low environmental impact is crucial to achieving sustainable food systems and reducing health problems. In this context, dietary guidelines for schools can encourage eating behaviors among pupils to reduce their environmental footprint.

German videos – titled Balaclava Kitchen – started in 2014 and ran for months before YouTube took down the channel for violating its guidelines.
But it offered a glimpse of how far-right groups have seized on cultural production – from clothing brands to top 40 music – to normalise their ideas,
in a process that researchers say has hit new heights in the age of social media.
“It’s frightening, honestly,”
said Katherine Kondor, a researcher with the Norwegian Center fo…

RFK Jr. says new dietary guidelines coming soon: 'We're ending the war on saturated fats' (Joseph Choi/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/5609015-kennedy-ends-war-saturated-fats/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p92#a251117p92

China releases draft guidelines for governing online personal data collection, open for public consultation amid privacy concerns and companies' data misuse (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-10/c…

Surgical face masks provide inadequate protection against
flu-like illnesses including Covid,
and should be replaced by respirator-level masks
– worn every time doctors and nurses are face to face with a patient,
according to a group of experts urging changes to World Health Organization guidelines.
There is “no rational justification remaining for prioritising or using”
the surgical masks that are ubiquitous in hospitals and clinics globally,
given …