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✅ Can you tell a bot from a human online? New experiment says nearly half of us cannot
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Can you tell a bot from a human online? Surfshark's new experiment says nearly half of us cannot
Surfshark's "Bot or Not" challenge proves our biggest weakness against AI is our own emotions

Reading https://www.ideou.com/en-gb/blogs/inspiration/how-to-not-know-simone-stolzoff and wondering if people's low tolerance for uncertainty is why people would rather a confident but possibly wrong answer from a chatbot than trust their own judgement …

How to Stop Fighting Uncertainty & Start Working With It
Learn how to build uncertainty tolerance, avoid the three certainty traps, and lead more effectively when you don't have all the answers, with insights from author Simone Stolzoff.

An inside look at the Raiders' 2026 Scouting Combine player interviews https://www.raiders.com/news/an-inside-look-at-the-raiders-2026-scouting-combine-player-interviews-behind-the-shield

Jasmin Riter hat ein Buch geschrieben, und ihr könnt es vorbestellen. Darüber wann Autorinnen als Feindbild dienen, wer eigentlich eine Stimme bekommt, über wen wie gesprochen wird, warum Lesen eine widerständige Praxis ist und warum feministische Literatur allen etwas bringt. Und auch darüber, warum „widerspenstig" ein Wort ist, das meist für Frauen oder Kinder verwendet wird, selten aber für Männer.

Rarefaction-induced inflation and similarity breakdown of hypersonic bow shocks over a circular cylinder
Ehsan Roohi, Ahmad Shoja-Sani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17099 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.17099 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.17099
arXiv:2605.17099v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Rarefied hypersonic bow shocks over blunt bodies inflate as the Knudsen number increases, but it remains unclear whether this inflation is a simple shift and broadening of one common shock layer or a multi-scale change of the macroscopic and internal-energy fields. We address this question using direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) data for Mach-10 flow over a circular cylinder in argon and nitrogen over \(Kn_\infty \approx 0.01\)--\(1\), together with a Mach-number sweep at \(Kn_\infty=0.01\). At low rarefaction, a ray-based density-gradient ridge gives a reproducible bow-shock location and agrees with an independent schlieren-based shock-wave-detection method. As \(Kn_\infty\) increases, this ridge is replaced by a broad kinetic compression layer, so the high-Knudsen cases are analysed using profile-based standoff and thickness metrics rather than by imposing a visual shock line. The Knudsen- and Mach-number sweeps separate two mechanisms. At fixed \(M_\infty\), the continuum normal-shock density ratio provides a useful low-rarefaction reference compression scale, whereas the measured standoff growth is governed primarily by the kinetic mean free path; the effective density thickness shows an intermediate minimum before increasing in the diffuse regime. At fixed low \(Kn_\infty\), changing \(M_\infty\) mainly changes compression strength and curvature, preserving a coherent attached-layer structure. Density-registered profiles and shock-attached proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) show that, within the present maximum-density-gradient registration, density becomes nearly rank one, whereas Mach number and thermal variables retain independent modal content. Rarefied bow-shock inflation is therefore a coupled compression--relaxation process, not a single-scale rescaling of a continuum-like shock.
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Listen out for the Babylonian gig economy...
In Our Time: The Code of Hammurabi
Episode webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002r4v1
Media file: http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss/proto/http/vpid/p0n062zj.mp3

Who are you comparing yourself to?
In the latest episode of the podcast, I explore why we compare ourselves to others at work, and what to do when those comparisons leave us feeling worse rather than better.
You can find Ep 219 of 'My Pocket Psych' wherever you get your podcasts or stream it direct from https://www.workl…

An inside look at the Raiders' 2026 Scouting Combine player interviews https://www.raiders.com/news/an-inside-look-at-the-raiders-2026-scouting-combine-player-interviews-behind-the-shield

Excerpt from an essay I may or may not write:
Ontologies evolve to fulfill functions. They serve a purpose, and will be adapted until they fulfill this purpose. There are, occasionally, things that exist within those ontologies which do not actually exist.
Programming bugs are an example. There is no such thing. Code is code. It can't be right or wrong, it just is or isn't. The mismatch between the intent and the execution creates a side effect. We may confidently assert such a thing exists. We may name such things. But they don't exist. This becomes apparent when you try to figure out how to suppress one specific instance of a bug in one specific place through multiple revisions.
At some level, a lot of things don't actually exist. We only need to follow through the logic of The Ship of Theseus to see how our ontologies break down.
One thing that doesn't exist, that is a side effect rather than an object, is the personal self. You do not exist. Your perception of your existence is an illusion, a necessary side effect.
Every day you wake up a different person. Every second you are not who you were. That person is as dead as you will be the next instant, as all versions of you will be every second until there are no more. These selves are bound together by imperfect memories. The person you remember as yourself, all those people, never existed. You created them based on your current experience, your current iteration.
You could, just as easily, wake up an unrecognizable person, in some Dark City, and never know the difference. Continuity is absurd. And yet, some people believe they'll still experience the same self after being frozen or "uploaded." It's a silly illusion.
Once you can get over that illusion, you can let go of the need to thrash against the void. You can let go of the various furious dreams of immortality.
At a high enough level, all ontologies are illusions. Useful illusions, but illusions none-the-less. There is only the undifferentiated universe, and you are experiencing it. You are the universe. You will always persist, long past the time this specific iteration or any iteration experiences it.
This implies a certain obligation then to all the others experiencing the same self, the future iterations that may remember being someone like you, and any other person you, the universe, could wake up as tomorrow.

Nur um das noch mal klarzustellen: Wer bei #Wolt, #Lieferando & Co. bestellt, unterstützt kriminelle, ausbeuterische Systeme!
Die Reportage: "Rider" in Berlin - Das Geschäft mit dem Fahrradkurier
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Berlin: So beuten zwielichtige Subunternehmer und Privatunis indische Fahrradkuriere aus
In Berlin fahren über tausend junge Inder Essen für Lieferdienste aus. Eigentlich sollten sie studieren, doch sie werden ausgebeutet.