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Our 16th most-read article of the 2022.

Originally published May 2, 2022.

Welcome to the Middle-Aged Restaurant, a place designed around a Gen-Xer’s current lifestyle or lack thereof. Our often-overlooked establishment offers you respect, acknowledgment, and a menu that adapts to what your stomach can no longer tolerate these days.

Features of our hot spot (perimenopause joke intentional) include:

No small-font menus. Put away the readers and flashlight app, and any worries about accidentally ordering “filet chignon” with a side of “mostatoes” here, because everything is in forty-eight-point type, which also may be your age.

The latest additions to the heap… “I have a no-laptop, no phone policy in all my classes, and have yet to hear good reasons to give that up. Maybe you can give me some” — Harry Brighouse (Wisconsin) explains “How does the death spiral of one or more social media platforms impact philosophy?” — reflections from Helen de Cruz (SLU) “ChatGPT has no interest in you whatsoever. It isn’t curious about your goals or motivated to help you meet them. It lacks the good faith to tell you when your goals are misplaced” — today’s AI doesn’t care about you, and that limits its utility, argues Evan Selinger (RIT) “In one way or another, you are moved to imitate and share the things that speak to you, that seem, in one way or another, to be alive with beauty in a way that makes you feel alive” — Nick Riggle (San Diego) on beauty “The use of AI in science presents novel opportunities and challenges. One principle challenge has been how to determine when a given AI model is trustworthy” — Eamon Duede (Chicago) on why scientific trust in AI is different from its trust in experts, instruments, or methods “It’s not the pace of life I mind.

There was a time when companies preferred vertical integration: they wanted to own their supply chain. Then, for a long time, the mantra was to concentrate on one’s core business and let other specialists take care of all the non-core parts of your business.

Well…

South Korea lifts ban on imported sex dolls (Thanks to Jim Kenaston)

It was a holiday behind bars for a man who allegedly struck his girlfriend in the head with an “angel figurine” during a Christmas morning confrontation in the couple’s Florida residence, police report. (Thanks to pharmaross)

Sisters of the Valley: The 'weed nuns' trying to heal the world through cannabis (Thanks to EricY)

1:55 a.m. A man accidentally drove his truck into his apartment building. It must have been between him and Florida. (Thanks to pharmaross)

Why are these three Doctor Who kisses "weird"? Did a BBC technician's 13-year-old son get to the keyboard while dad was at the office party?

The Biden administration is expanding a Trump scheme that is forcing hundreds of thousands of seniors onto for-profit health plans.

Holiday week continues.

The Asset Purchase Facility has landed HM Treasury with a ~£90 billion bill over the next two year. This paper lays out an approach that requires no further vote funding from Parliament, no additional debt interest payments, and restores “postive cash flow” from the APF for the remainder of this Parliament.

In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: James Gunn/Green Lantern, Doctor Who, Fatal Attraction, The Last of Us, Star Trek: Picard, Willow & more!

From the classified documents he took to Mar-a-Lago to New York State business fraud charges to Stormy Daniels, Donald Trump’s demise has been predicted too many times to count. We will believe it when we see it.

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A decade ago, when the issue of Republican anti-science bias was raised, a common response was to point to attitudes to vaccination, where, it was claimed, Democrats were the anti-science party. I observed at the time that this claim wasn’t justified by the available evidence. A little later, I noted the likelihood of the Republicans […]

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Our 17th most-read article of the 2022.

Originally published April 28, 2022.

Here at Fisher-Price, children’s safety is our highest priority. But we also care deeply about you, the parents and caretakers of the kids who use our products, which is why we are announcing the voluntary recall of our Deluxe Kick ’n Play Piano Gym for simply having too many bops.

Rest assured, this popular playmat with an attached light-up keyboard presents no hazard to the babies who use it for their tummy times. This recall is strictly to address the mental health concerns of adults who—day in and day out—listen to the piano gym’s accompanying eleven-song animal-themed suite, which absolutely slaps in a way that children’s music was never meant to.

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