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A recent study found that people who adopted the MIND (Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay) diet, even later in life, were significantly less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease and related types of dementia. The MIND diet combines the heart-healthy Mediterranean diet with the blood pressure-lowering DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet, with extra emphasis on foods known to support brain health (listed below).
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Sylvester "Sly" Stone, frontman for Sly And The Family Stone, has passed away.
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On the 50th anniversary of Talking Heads' first live gig, a music video for "Psycho Killer" has finally been released, featuring Saoirse Ronan and directed by Mike Mills. In a statement quoted by Variey, Talking Heads said "This video makes the song better. We LOVE what this video is NOT – it’s not literal, creepy, bloody, physically violent or obvious." [Though CW, if you're not having a great mental health day you might give it a pass for now.]
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Today in one sentence: Trump threatened to cancel Elon Musk’s federal contracts, called him “crazy” and accused him of suffering from “Trump derangement syndrome”; Musk responded by saying Trump is “in the Epstein files,” floated creating a new political party, predicted a recession from Trump’s tariffs and tax and spending bill, endorsed impeaching Trump, ordered SpaceX to decommission its Dragon spacecraft used by NASA, and claimed that “Without me, Trump would have lost the election."
posted by subdee to MetaFilter on Jun 5 at 8:28 PM
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Meta devised an ingenious system (“localhost tracking”) that bypassed Android’s sandbox protections to identify you while browsing on your mobile phone — even if you used a VPN, the browser’s incognito mode, and refused or deleted cookies in every session. Next, we preview what may (and should) become the combined sanctioning smackdown of the century, and then we explain — in simple terms (because it’s complicated) — what Meta was doing. from “Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.
posted by chavenet to MetaFilter on Jun 10 at 1:27 PM
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Toki Pona is the "language of good". It was created to be easy to learn, easy to speak, and to aid in clear thinking. It has only 120-140 words, and very simple grammar (no tenses, no conjugation, no declension).
posted by SaltySalticid to MetaFilter on Jun 7 at 2:37 PM
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Dictyostelids are one of many unrelated groups known as "slime molds". But they are better described as social amoebae. Much of their lives they live like any other amoebae, wandering around and eating stuff. But when food gets scarce, that's when things get interesting.
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Megan Greenwell On Living Under And Outside Of Private Equity, The Invasive Species Eating American Life. An interview of ex-Deadspin editor-in-chief Megan Greenwell, by ex-Deadspin writer David Roth, on the occasion of her new book about private equity, Bad Company.
posted by Kybard to MetaFilter on Jun 11 at 6:51 AM
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What rubber-coated shotgun slugs, commonly called "non-lethal" rubber bullets, do to the human body: "This is—and this is a statement backed by interviews I did with experts—completely fucked.". LAPD shoots multiple journalists during ICE protests, potentially costing LA millions.
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The Big 4 Paper pattern brands: Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue "The brands were owned by IG Design Group, a leading manufacturer and distributor of stationery, crafts, party, and gift products based in the UK. On Friday, the company announced it had sold its US division, IG Design Group Americas (DGA), which owns the sewing pattern brands, to Hilco Capital, a liquidation firm."- craftindustryalliance.org
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In “The 1,000‑Year History of the Strap‑On,” Mikelle Street looks at the last millennium of the beloved strap. It includes ethnographies from Zanzibar, erotic art from Germany and Japan, and recognition of the role of disability rights in the sex toy revolution.
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From John Gruber Bill Atkinson Dies From Cancer at 74.

From Wikipedia -

Atkinson worked at Apple Computer from 1978 to 1990. Some of Atkinson's noteworthy contributions to the field of computing include Macintosh QuickDraw and Lisa LisaGraf (Atkinson independently discovered the midpoint circle algorithm for fast drawing of circles by using the sum of consecutive odd numbers), Marching ants, the Menu bar, the selection lasso, MacPaint (FatBits), HyperCard, Atkinson dithering, and the app PhotoCard.
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"Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years after her groundbreaking work, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris to trace the lingering radioactive fingerprints she left behind."
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"I was the apprentice": Dennis is learning to cook after his wife's death. The Men's Kitchen is changing the lives of men over 60, many of whom are recently widowed or caring for partners who can no longer cook, teaching kitchen skills and offering social connection.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries to MetaFilter on Jun 11 at 3:00 AM
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Edmund White died June 3, after a long and much-loved life as one of America’s great gay writers.

He always saw himself as a gay writer for gay readers, the distinction he drew between his generation of queer writers and those who came earlier, like Gore Vidal and James Baldwin. They might write gay characters, but they never seemed to be writing for gay readers. Ed was.
… Edmund White had no use for shame, and in both life and work, he refused to sand down the edges of queer existence to make it palatable. Acceptance was never the point. Truth was.

posted by Nelson to MetaFilter on Jun 6 at 9:48 AM
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Before the far right threatened democracy, neoliberalism stripped it down. Democracies, according to neoliberal ideologues, had become “burdened with overactive minority group representation, too much emphasis on welfare provisions, too much protection of workers, a top-heavy public bureaucracy, and too many critics in academia and the media.” The result was an “inability to govern,” as addressing the demands of the citizenry would require a radical redistribution of resources beyond the limits of what capital was prepared to concede. To overcome this “crisis of democracy,” popular appetites would have to be curbed and governments would have to be rendered less susceptible to democratic inputs.
posted by clawsoon to MetaFilter on Jun 11 at 8:17 PM
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From Propublica: Local Police Join ICE Deportation Force in Record Numbers Despite Warnings Program Lacks Oversight: "The administration’s resurrection of a previously abandoned task force model empowering local officers to question individuals’ immigration status during traffic stops and other routine policing. At least 315 departments have signed on to the more aggressive approach, which Immigration and Customs Enforcement [had previously] abandoned in 2012 amid racial profiling problems and lawsuits."
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President Trump took extraordinary action on Saturday by calling up 2,000 National Guard troops to quell immigration protests in California, making rare use of federal powers and bypassing the authority of the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom. (NYT; archive)
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when everything around me seems overwhelming, I drive to the water and make a photograph of the water and the horizon and the sky.
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"Willie Brown Middle School is a San Francisco 6-8 in the Bayview District. For the entire '24-'25 school year, I have been driving the 44 O’Shaughnessy bus that stops there right after school gets out. That trip has been the busiest and most challenging part of my working day." writes poet and bus driver That Mack, a.k.a. That Mc Allen, in a Bluesky thread that provides context for the poem "Run One Seven Four". Content note for a school lockdown due to a gun sighting - no one was hurt. And the kids' response to the poet (as recounted in the thread) is lovely.
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I work in a university library, and vendors (databases, for example) are pushing really hard to get AI into their products. It's hard to know whether they're planning on building premium AI-enabled service tiers, or they're just going to include AI in their base products and use that as an excuse for raising prices. But I think it's probably the... [more]
posted by Jeanne to MetaFilter on Jun 7 at 6:27 AM
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why do you keep posting AI stuff when it’s a clear source of conflict that people could use a break from [view]
posted by sickos haha yes dot jpg to MetaFilter on Jun 7 at 6:05 AM
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A COMPANY REMINDER FOR EVERYONE TO TALK NICELY ABOUT THE GIANT PLAGIARISM MACHINE [view]
posted by The River Ivel to MetaFilter on Jun 7 at 6:03 AM
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For example, clearly conveying risks can help: The 1-in-500 death rate from measles far outweighs the extraordinarily rare serious vaccine side effects. This argument is ridiculous because, first of all, they'll say the death rate from measles is massively overblown and also the frequency of serious side effects from vaccines... [more]
posted by tclark to MetaFilter on Jun 10 at 3:22 PM
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Game theory reveals that vaccine hesitancy is not a moral failure Nope. Being a free rider (about something good anyway) is still very much a moral failure. [view]
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace to MetaFilter on Jun 10 at 4:06 PM
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Aw, they're having trouble, are they? Maybe that's because most Docs are made in China and are basically disposable crap trading on a brand legacy that they've destroyed. Solovair are still made in England and pretty decent. My teenager currently rocks a pair. [view]
posted by leotrotsky to MetaFilter on Jun 8 at 7:34 PM
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I understand being excited about something that might decrease the likelihood of dementia (my dad has dementia so this is personal for me) but, as someone fat with a long history of eating disorders and a challenging relationship with food, I very much worry about this turning into a way to scold or blame people who get dementia for not eating in a... [more]
posted by an octopus IRL to MetaFilter on Jun 8 at 3:52 PM
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“I can’t keep depending on X because I don’t like having a system where I don’t know what I’m going to get till I get it,” he said. “And that’s insane. That’s insane for any adult to have to live their life that way.” Oh my god he's so close to getting it. [view]
posted by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese to MetaFilter on Jun 6 at 1:42 PM
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They learned from crypto and NFTs and metaverse that you have a limited time to force people to adopt the garbage tech before the bubble pops and the finding dries up. Again, the pitch: if absolutely everything had to be run through my system and everybody had to pay me, that would be super good. [view]
posted by Pope Guilty to MetaFilter on Jun 7 at 6:23 AM
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A real disconnect for me is the assumption that with sufficient capital, a citizen becomes that capital, and is now on a different team than the citizenry. It’s as though capital cannot belong to citizenry, can only concede a certain amount to the common weal. I feel like, as soon as capital is expropriated from the citizenry to such an extent... [more]
posted by Ice Cream Socialist to MetaFilter on Jun 11 at 8:54 PM
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This is the part that broke my poor head: "This consolidation may appear to have presented a monopoly, with a single company buying up all of its competitors, but the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the government agency that is in charge of breaking up monopolies, didn’t regard it as one. The deals came in under the FTC’s threshold of $80.8... [more]
posted by mittens to MetaFilter on Jun 7 at 3:50 PM
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Can't wait to see his treatment of the "Puttin' on the Ritz" scene. [view]
posted by Schmucko to MetaFilter on Jun 8 at 1:31 PM
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Hey, Lemkin, instead of continuing to turn this into your personal AI blog by posting comments that are about you and your choices, rather than the topic posted, you can do a MetaTalk callout, or - thinking outside the box - FIAMO. [view]
posted by Pater Aletheias to MetaFilter on Jun 7 at 8:33 AM
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Like... The death of his daughter, Peter told me, was God’s will. God created measles. God allowed the disease to take his daughter’s life. “Everybody has to die,” he said. Peter’s eyes closed, and he struggled to continue talking. ...those aren't the words of a self-interested rationally-calculating game-theory actor. [view]
posted by clawsoon to MetaFilter on Jun 10 at 7:28 PM
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This is a textbook case of public good and the free-rider problem. There are benefits and risks to vaccination. If everyone (well, enough people to stop transmission) vaccinates then diseases can't spread and people aren't at risk of those diseases. So you benefit from the actions of others and they benefit from your action - you can't spread... [more]
posted by happyinmotion to MetaFilter on Jun 10 at 4:02 PM
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From Dr. Chuck Tingle: ”just heard that BRIAN WILSON has left this timeline and dang it hits hard. there are so many thoughts trotting through my mind, but id like to take a moment to talk about my personal connection to this and what brian wilsons music meant to me, so bear with me buckaroos. back when i married sweet barbara i was lucky... [more]
posted by Capt. Renault to MetaFilter on Jun 11 at 11:21 AM
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So sad. He had a legendarily difficult life, from his abusive father to his struggles with mental health and those who took advantage of him. It didn’t stop him from creating transcendent music and changing pop music forever. And in the end he found as much peace as was available. He was able to reunite happily with the rest of The Beach Boys... [more]
posted by Bryant to MetaFilter on Jun 11 at 10:28 AM
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Is Leotrotsky arguing in defense of private equity the opposite of eponysterical? [view]
posted by Jon_Evil to MetaFilter on Jun 11 at 8:45 AM
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There's a tiny snippet that was released on a reissue of Pet Sounds, recorded for "Don't Talk", but not used. I encourage you to listen to it before you read on, it's best experienced cold. The first part is Brian solo, singing a little bit of harmony in isolation, and it sounds awkward and ungainly, stripped of its proper context.... [more]
posted by Horace Rumpole to MetaFilter on Jun 11 at 11:22 AM
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OpenAI needs this. You can feel the desperation. If they can't get institutions locked in before the bubble bursts, all that VC funding will have been for naught. [view]
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