Beijing is actively cooperating with the international community. The Chinese authorities have confirmed their readiness to engage with all relevant parties to maintain the credibility of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).

I assume this is a response to Trump’s decision to re-institute testing?

Reflective inner surface that can double as a solar cooker.

Even if your claim were correct… with every infection the pathogen potentially gets better at infecting humans, and you’re giving it another opportunity to improve and spread to others.

Entire species have been wiped out because natural immunity doesn’t always outpace pathogens’ ability to adapt—letting nature take its course has no predictable winner.

Those who benefit from the way the police currently operate are incentivized to preserve the status quo—mental illness and all.

Syncthing uses a centralized discovery server to connect device IDs to IP addresses (although you can change this to point to your own discovery server, too).

I don’t know if Funkwhale has a similar option.

The paper and the phys.org article are a year old (which is maybe why it doesn’t seem so unexpected)—any guess why Popular Mechanics is only reporting on it now?

I think another source reported he was shot in the stomach. And I saw a video of the truck after it was found—there were many bullet holes through the cab.

Edit: A later report clarifies that it was the bystander who was shot in the stomach, while the driver had a more minor injury.

It’s possible they thought the truck was full of explosives, and was trying to blow up the bridge to the Coast Guard island.

Cucumbers or radishes?

The logo is for SE Asia Stats, so their purpose is probably to compare SE Asia to the rest of the world.

Reminds me of the Berkeley balcony collapse during a student party ten years ago.

Entire story content:

Sen. Mitch McConnell, 83, fell to the ground in a Capitol hallway Thursday afternoon as he made his way to Senate votes. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

New update:

McConnell, who announced in February that he would not seek reelection, fell to the floor while two volunteers from the environmental advocacy group Sunrise Movement approached the senator and asked him a question about Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions. He did not respond to the question. The senator seemed unsteady, but got up and kept walking with the help of his detail. He then waved to the two individuals who were questioning him.

Attack by environmental terrorists confirmed.

The way Linux treats many things as part of the file system (devices, sockets, etc.) that Windows doesn’t.

Jenkins in the article: “there has to be an arrest that takes place of an agent, which requires an intermediary set by another law enforcement agency.” Seems she’s passing the buck to law enforcement.

Edit: I’m not trying to defend her, I’m just quoting her actual excuse for reference.

Bureaucracy.

First they came for the woodwinds, and I said nothing because I play in strings.

Edit: It’s a silly joke, but I do think instruments in an orchestra is a good metaphor for the importance of diversity to society.

I think humans are natural storytellers who rely on the construction of narratives for most of our basic thought processes. But the natural world is inimical to narrative, so we employ narrative worlds whose functioning is adapted to the requirements of storytelling. (Even “naturalistic” storytelling relies on subtle tweaks to the laws of causality and probability, if nothing else.)

So I believe that we can’t make sense of the world without relying at least implicitly on the supernatural, but I don’t believe that it corresponds to anything external to our own cognition.

But the “laws of nature” are just provisional rules we’ve deduced through observation. When we see things that violate the rules as we’ve deduced them (and we often have), we figure out new rules—we don’t just assume there are things to which the rules don’t apply.

“Yes, Precious—we meant ‘us’!”

Bill them a consulting fee for doing their HR work for them.