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In Topic: Algorithms and automation
Today, 02:08 AM
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Figure taught two F.03 robots to clean a room and make a bed in under 2 minutes - fully autonomous.
Robo-maid... might double as the ultimate threesome partner (with vibrator and orifice attachments...).
And perhaps less practical, but something I'm pretty sure some of you have fantasized about:
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China's Unitree, famous for making low-cost dancing robots, will now sell you a giant, wall-smashing mecha.
The company has unveiled the GD01, a massive transforming mecha shown spider-walking, bending backwards, and tearing through cinder blocks in a dramatic promo video. While its humanoids are limited to performing relatively simple actions autonomously, the GD01 seems to be built more for destruction, publicity, and aura farming than practical use.
Wired - Facebook
The new knights?... or the new cybertrucks and Tesla flameflowers for rich assholes?...
I'm imagining Trump rampaging around in one... and getting taken down. Maybe plummeting off a bridge... flailing his giant mecha arms and legs. -
In Topic: Pandemics
12 May 2026 - 12:39 PM
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According to a paper in The New England Journal of Medicine, in 2018, a hantavirus outbreak with this strain [...] started after one infected person attended a birthday party with about 100 guests. [...] he left after about an hour and a half. Five people who were in the room — but not necessarily all even sitting right next to him — later sickened. [...]
Yet in recent days, the World Health Organization has reassured the public that hantavirus can be transmitted only through "close and prolonged contact" and that, as a result, it is unlikely to spread widely among the population at large [...]
I reached out to Gustavo Palacios, the senior author of the study about the Epuyén outbreak. He seemed as baffled by these pronouncements as I was. He told me that the paper he and his fellow researchers wrote used the phrase prolonged or close contact but he explained that, as they had written in their article, they didn't mean solely physical or bodily contact. [...] Looking at the same study, an airborne transmission expert, Linsey Marr, told CBC/Radio Canada that "it's strongly suggestive that airborne transmission is happening."
Dr. Palacios also said that he and his co-authors had calculated the median reproduction number of the Andes virus to be 2.1 — meaning that one sick person infected about two other people. That's more than enough for sustained human transmission. That reproduction number is not much lower than the initial strain of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19 [...]
[...] Encouragingly, over the weekend, the W.H.O. published new technical documents to clarify its definition of the type of contact that could cause the spread of hantavirus. It now includes "close proximity exposure" as well as "exposure in enclosed or shared spaces." [...] But these guideline changes were done too quietly.
We Should Be Taking Hantavirus More Seriously - The New York Times
At least in its public statements, the W.H.O. has seemed more concerned with the health of the world economy. Or at least far too quick to jump to unjustified conclusions... just as they were during the early stages of the covid pandemic. It seems like they haven't learned. Or it's more lucrative for them to act as though they haven't. -
In Topic: Whats making you happy right now
11 May 2026 - 03:33 PM
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scientists have demonstrated how ultrasound blasts can break down influenza A (H1N1) and SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19.
[...] "It's kind of like fighting the virus with a shout," [...] "In this study, we proved that the energy of sound waves causes morphological changes in viral particles until they explode, a phenomenon comparable to what happens with popcorn."'
[...] The lab experiments were performed with ultrasound machines used in hospitals [...] the frequency of the sound wave matches the natural vibrational frequency of the viral envelope, leading to amplified vibrations that destroy it. Essentially, only the virus responds to the energy of the sound waves, not the host cells.
Scientists Destroy COVID And Flu Viruses in The Lab With Sound Waves : ScienceAlert
Seems like it might work against the Andes strain of hantavirus, which is also an enveloped virus. One caveat being that it's expected to work best against spherical viruses ("The phenomenon is entirely geometric [...] Spherical particles, such as many enveloped viruses, absorb ultrasound wave energy more effectively") and hantavirus is described as "mostly spherical or pleomorphic".
https://en.wikipedia...iki/Andes_virus
Not clear to me to what if any extent shape is strain-dependent and how far its pleomorphicity deviates from sphericality.
Ordinarily it would take a long time to get to human testing, but I wonder if hantavirus could accelerate the timeline, given the lack of effective treatments and its high mortality rate. (Hopefully the patients wouldn't explode...) -
In Topic: Music
10 May 2026 - 12:53 AM
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Step inside the underground of modern club culture with Bloom Mura Masa, a raw, inventive instrument made in collaboration with the boundary-pushing producer Mura Masa. Built from the same sonic DNA as his 2024 album 'Curve 1', this instrument captures the immediacy of a surging dance floor and the emotional resonance that lasts long after the night ends.
[...] With Mura Masa's creativity guiding every sample and phrase, this is a tool for crafting forward-thinking, DIY-spirited tracks that are designed for the dark.
https://www.pluginbo...-Mura-Masa-Lite
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In Topic: Music
07 May 2026 - 05:57 PM
QuickTidal, on 07 May 2026 - 05:00 PM, said:I do NOT know how I missed this late last year, but The Streets had a new single? And it's dope as hell? Mike Skinner is a genius.
Don't recall ever having heard of them before.
Given their name and style, I'd assumed the video was documenting the local architecture of whichever working class UK urban region they're from. (Though it seems a bit odd---at least from the US perspective---to see someone stressing his presumably working class background and "street"-ness sat down at a grand piano.)
Then I started thinking "that really is a lot of fancy architecture"... and noticed the tiny captions at the bottom left.
The video (I'd guess from their touring?) is a nice complement to the lyrics. In tension and resonance.
Skinner's rap flow is meh, though his lyrics are better.
The highlight of this song for me is Kevin Mark Trail's singing.
It reminds me of a quote from Henry James:
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We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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