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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

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

Everyone with a digital existence needs to watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wE8G-d7SnY Cory Doctorow is on fire. His fluency is astounding - a 'gattling gun of jaw-dropping moments'.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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…