tl;dr:

The three red flags are, for any given journal in a single year: a doubling of publication output; having more than 70% of published articles originating from a single country; and having at least 15% of articles flagged by the Problematic Paper Screener, a free online tool.

I’m not siding with them, just pointing out that their position isn’t logically inconsistent.

Keep fighting the good fight, my friend.

I host my own email on my own domain, and I’m not sure it’s worth the trouble.

DARPA is not ICE. They have different focuses geographically, politically, technically, and culturally.

This is a good read.

tl;dr: Undersea cables are a conjunction of political, geographic, and economic factors. International politics began a seismic shift when Trump was elected the second time, and that shift is continuing. In contrast to the sensationalist title, work is being done to address the problems, but it’s slow and fitful.

That sci-fi story has been done a few times. My favorite was The Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

It’s a Chinese company. I don’t know how explicit they’re being about that reasoning, though.

To be clear, this is not restricted to content posted on Facebook. It’s any content posted on any website owned by the customer.

You authorize us […] to […] create test credentials to […] crawl the domains […] associated with your products or services.

Meta may use any content […] to […] train […] Meta Company Products.

Basically, in exchange for being allowed to continue posting content on Facebook, you’re giving them permission from now on to aggressively scrape your own sites for content to train their models.

To quote a famous Sith Lord: “I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.”

Thanks for the link. The case study is interesting.

I disagree for two reasons. First, there’s lots of ammo that’s non jacketed lead. Start with .22LR, which is probably the most common ammo.

Second, I didn’t think the jacketing helps that much in either hunting or indoor range contexts. In hunting, the bullet mushrooms or fragments or disintegrates, dispersing it’s kinetic energy through lots of tissue; that’s how it kills. Disintegration means there are lots of tiny lead bits scattered in the meat. And at the range, if the bullet hits a hard backstop, it again disintegrates into even finer pieces, making lead dust.

Is anybody aware of studies quantifying direct (shooter) and indirect (household member) lead exposure? The gold standard (so to speak) is bloodstream lead levels, but I think that’s hard to measure as it relates to specific events like going to the gun range.