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Whole new World. Deploying GenAI agents require proper security assessments. TLDR: “most vulnerabilities and attack vectors are largely framework-agnostic, arising from insecure design patterns, misconfigurations and unsafe tool integrations.” unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/agentic-ai-t...

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Single experiment by a small business on their customers regarding reshoring manufacturing. TLDR: "Add-to-carts for the U.S. version were only 24! Conversion? 0.0% (zero). Not a single customer purchased the Made-in-USA version." afina.com/blogs/news/m...

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Of course vaccines don’t cause autism. This suggests gestational diabetes influences the chances. TLDR: “connection between diabetes during pregnancy, and an increased risk not only of autism, but other brain and nervous system problems.” fortune.com/well/2025/04...

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An increasingly smaller demographic is holding the economy up. There is just so much they can spend TLDR: “A recent Wall Street Journal article revealed that the top 10% of Americans account for about half of all consumer spending.“ www.morningstar.com/news/marketw...

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Another practice I learned from MBSR TLDR: ““distanced self-talk,” and Kross says it works because people are simply better at giving advice to other people than they are at taking their own advice.” www.inc.com/bill-murphy-...

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Given ancient technology, you can also fax your rep. faxzero.com/fax_congress...

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The best way to initiate change is to model the behavior we wish to see in others. TLDR: "Toddlers Notice How We Treat Others ... a warning sign about just how much our children learn from us— not everything they learn is something we should be proud of. " www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc...

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TLDR: “When the oceans heat up, it not only kills off food sources, but it also makes it harder for wildlife to bounce back. potentially irreversible shifts in ocean health — affecting everything from fish stocks to the coastal communities that depend on them.” www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/com...

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Grievance works the brain similar to cocaine. TLDR: "our findings suggest that feelings of disadvantage in those three areas can provoke a common psychological – spiteful – response, one that makes individuals more receptive to believing conspiracy theories.”" www.iflscience.com/spite-may-dr...

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Another SpaceX explosion. May be similar to the one 18 November 2023 blowing a hole in the ionosphere that grounded them in the first place. apnews.com/article/spac...

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😂🤦‍♂️. Yes, I’m sure US farmers will have lots of fun. Chicken feet is almost $1T export (85% export to China). TLDR: “Trump issued an ominous message to American farmers as he announced his planned kneecapping of their most profitable market: foreign exports.” newrepublic.com/maz/post/192...

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TLDR: “Why are American taxpayers spending thousands of dollars detaining tourists who are perfectly willing to leave,” she said.” www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

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TLDR: “it's almost certainly not a good idea to rely solely on an AI model to do any important analysis, the study implies that great care should be taken in selecting data fed into a model during the pre-training process.” arstechnica.com/information-...

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How are emotions contagious? Only if you bias yourself toward being manipulated. This have implications with social media misinformation as well. TLDR: "“It seems that the best way to regulate your emotions is to start with the selection of your environment,”" getpocket.com/explore/item...

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🤦‍♂️ TLDR: “the firings affected several hundred workers responsible for maintaining FAA radar, landing systems, and navigational aids, which are critical infrastructure for aviation safety.” www.newsweek.com/trump-admini...

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Leopards not yet full. (Fallout from "climate bad words") TLDR: "The freeze paused some funding which helps farmers address natural resource concerns, and which provides financial assistance for farmers to improve their infrastructure." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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Starlink Gen1 are falling back to Earth at an unprecedented “sustained rate of daily reentries” TLDR: “a giant uncontrolled experiment in atmospheric chemistry. One Gen1 Starlink satellite produces ~30 kilograms of aluminum oxide that eats away at the ozone layer” spaceweather.com

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Remember, USAID also fights trafficking (human as well as animals) through foreign contractor organizations. TLDR: "funding cuts and pauses have immediately made it harder for people to escape ..., according to .. sources working to combat scams and trafficking" www.wired.com/story/usaid-...

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Beware, ICE are corrupting search results. TLDR: “[With ICE] these are old articles that are now appearing at the top of the Google and Bing search results as recent headlines” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Remember Cambridge Analytica? A gun registry exists. TLDR: “NSSF with the consultancy Cambridge Analytica … assembled data on this collection of gun owners and others without their knowledge or consent to persuade them to vote in the industry’s interests” www.propublica.org/article/guns...

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You cant deal with what you cant see. TLDR: "The communications freeze has been met with outrage in some medical and science circles. "This idea that science cannot continue until there's a political lens over it is unprecedented,"" www.axios.com/2025/02/03/b...

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A new FUD has arrived. www.forbes.com/sites/daveyw...

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😮😳😧. A wholly new way to destroy the USPS. Make them lose paying customers. TLDR: “Cross-border e-commerce companies rely on USPS for about 31% of last-mile deliveries” www.cnbc.com/2025/02/05/u...

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They're so close to getting it.

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More leopards eating faces. Central valley farmers are LOSING water intended to be saved for the dry summer. TLDR: "This is the time of year when we're trying to store water in our reservoirs for the very hot, dry summer that looks like it's coming," abc30.com/post/central...

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TLDR: "tiny fragments of plastic are passing the blood-brain barrier and into human brains, and the amount of microplastics in the brain appears to be increasing over time. There were 50 percent more fragments in brains analyzed in 2024 than in 2016." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Acid rain of the 1970s has been replaced with plastic rain of the 2020s. TLDR: "a stunning 98 percent of samples collected over a year contained microplastic particles. ... researchers to speculate that the microbeads are coming from industrial paints and coatings." getpocket.com/explore/item...

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Foundational health data are being scrubbed from Federal health agencies "in compliance with President Trump's "Defending Women" executive order". Unknown if all these decision making data are gone for good. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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this makes me absolutely livid. i know several PRFB recipients and i know firsthand how even a single paycheck interruption as a postdoc can be devastating. most of these folks have no financial cushion!

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😮🫣 a LLM nuclear bomb. Hurts both AI scraper and hosting service alike. Can also be used to poison LLM data unless a human is involved to stop it. www.pcworld.com/article/2592...

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🙀😮 more indiscriminate lethality as military policy. (Including efforts to reduce killer AI hallucinations.) TLDR: “required by a 2023 congressional statute, expressly charged with protecting noncombatants to the extent possible. …, that office was suffocated.” thehill.com/opinion/nati...

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Robot dog vs robot drone. TLDR: “The drone is likely from DJI, while the robotic dog is from Unitree. Both manufacturers are based in China and strongly maintain that their technology is for civilian use only.” interestingengineering.com/military/rob...

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What is good for the goose is good for the gander. DeepSeek may go the same way as TickTok www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

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JUST IN: A new H5N9 bird flu variant has been found in U.S. poultry for the first time at a California duck farm. This variant, linked to the dangerous H5N1 strain, has led to the culling of nearly 119,000 birds to stop the outbreak.

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A common manipulation tool and ways to protect yourself. TLDR: “One troubling tactic some leaders employ is the manufacturing of a boogeyman, some sort of enemy, to motivate followers” www.forbes.com/sites/scotth...

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Fusion + outgroup threat, demonization of the enemy, and the belief that peaceful alternatives are lacking = violent extremism. www.wired.com/story/global...

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A quarter of the Nations’ crops are now rotting in Kern County. ⬆️$ TLDR: “Kern County, where Bakersfield is located, has ranked within the top three agricultural counties in the nation for the last several years, largely off the backs of undocumented laborers” newrepublic.com/maz/post/190...

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10 years of shooting data analysis have been released. Myths broken, lies exposed, optimism as an opportunity. www.thetrace.org/2025/01/data...

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This one fills out more of the history books. TLDR: “1921 Tulsa race massacre, describing the two-day raid that killed 300 Black residents and destroyed their businesses as a "coordinated, military-style attack" conducted by a white mob of over 10,000 people” abcnews.go.com/Politics/tul...

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This follows humans where deception is most efficient path absent accountability. TLDR: "(Alignment faking) observed across fields like finance, healthcare, and autonomous vehicles, risks undermining trust, amplifying biases, and causing safety failures." www.anthropic.com/research/ali...

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