Futurology Today

Filmmaker Suzannah Herbert takes a sharp look at the American South’s unreconciled history through a Mississippi town that mixes antebellum tourism with a community deeply divided over its past. With an unflinching lens, the film captures the debates, memories, and tensions that are building toward a reckoning.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1465655-natchez

From Kr Navneet

Indian Scops owl

Nagpur | Maharashtra | India | 18 May 2025

Basically part 2 to this thread.

Graduating nursing school soon (woo!!) and have been tasked with putting a slide-show type video together showcasing the program from start to finish. We have mostly free reign on what songs are played, with the caveat that they can't have profanity.

Not sure yet what the run time is going to turn into, but I'm struggling more than expected to find a good variety of songs with some kind of medical significance (seems the vast majority songs with medical elements are just metaphors for some dude who wants to do drugs or fuck a nurse/doctor).

So, medicine aside (or included if you know a good one) what are some good songs that are otherwise relatable to what healthcare often boils down to: somehow thriving within a chaotic shitshow.

Accepting suggestions in all genres - once I get a good number of possibilities lined up, I'll let my classmates vote on which ones they want included.

Thank you all!

‘whatshell’ script comes from ~mascheck: the rest shown are mine. Wallpaper (although not really visible) comes from the OS-Tan Collections' gallery, and is Inu-T.

The editor on the left is Vim with an execlineb(1) plugin added. I actually use it to start my X session.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/gamedeals by /u/Gamers_Gate on 2025-10-15 17:17:25+00:00.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/50900195

https://archive.md/kzbKS

Robotics has catapulted Beijing into a dominant position in many industries

“It’s the most humbling thing I’ve ever seen,” said Ford’s chief executive about his recent trip to China.

“Their cost and the quality of their vehicles is far superior to what I see in the West,” Farley warned in July.

Andrew Forrest, the Australian billionaire behind mining giant Fortescue – which is investing massively in green energy – says his trips to China convinced him to abandon his company’s attempts to manufacture electric vehicle powertrains in-house.

Other executives describe vast, “dark factories” where robots do so much of the work alone that there is no need to even leave the lights on for humans.

“We visited a dark factory producing some astronomical number of mobile phones,” recalls Greg Jackson, the boss of British energy supplier Octopus.

In Britain, Shenzhen-based BYD multiplied its September sales by a factor of 10 this year – overtaking far more established brands such as Mini, Renault and Land Rover.

So my boomer mom, who has a very limited concept of technology, tells me she has a friend in a rehab clinic where she is in bed 24 hours a day, basically in a closet. She can't really move her hands and she's been intubated most of the time so she can't reliably talk. So she's just laying there doing absolutely nothing for the entire day like Johnny Get your Gun but with eyes and ears which probably makes it worse.

So my mom's friend has the intubation tube removed and my mother visits and my mom is fucking horrified by this situation. She asks if her friend would like some music or something, anything, and of course she would,, but because she can't use her hand or reliably speak the most obvious options won't work, to say nothing of the fact that I have no idea how to even set that kinda thing up on a device (I use my windows PC for everything, I don't use any streaming services or download audiobooks or whatever and I hate Alexa).

So the question is what is a system that barely responsive person can use to interface with music or audiobooks? Something simple enough that they can direct a nurse or something to push a button every couple hours. A standalone MP3 player with a screen? A tablet loaded with files? I just don't know.

I'm certain my mother is imagining herself in a similar situation someday, and it's freaking her out, and honestly it sounds pretty miserable to me also

Abstract

Tropical forests act as important global carbon sinks1, and Earth System Models predict increasing near-term carbon sink capacity for these forests, with elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration thought to stimulate tree growth2,3. However, current forest inventory data analyses suggest that the carbon sink capacity of intact tropical forests may be in decline, portending a possible future switch from carbon sinks to carbon sources3,4,5,6,7. Here we use long-term forest inventory data (1971–2019) from Australian moist tropical forests and a causal inference framework8,9,10 to assess the carbon balance of woody aboveground standing biomass over time, the demographic processes accounting for it, and its climatic drivers, including cyclones. We find that a transition from sink (0.62 ± 0.04 Mg C ha−1 yr−1: 1971–2000) to source (−0.93 ± 0.11 Mg C ha−1 yr−1: 2010–2019) has occurred for the aboveground woody biomass of these forests, with sink capacity declining at a rate of 0.041 ± 0.032 Mg C ha−1 yr−1. The transition was driven by increasingly extreme temperature and other climate anomalies, which have increased tree mortality and associated biomass losses4, with no evidence of the carbon fertilization (stimulation) of woody tree growth. Forest dynamics underlying carbon sink capacity were also punctuated by cyclones, with impacts of a similar magnitude to long-term climate-induced changes. Our findings suggest the potential for a similar response to climate change by woody aboveground biomass in moist tropical forests globally, which could culminate in a long-term switch from carbon sinks to carbon sources.

LMArena lets users pick between different model's outputs to show user preferences, and it's clear the users prefer China 🇨🇳

Whenever I subscribe to a small but very active community, for example lefty_news@ibbit.at, my Scaled sort feed gets flooded almost entirely by posts from that one community. I thought Scaled sort was supposed to highlight outliers across all communities to prevent a single instance from dominating the feed. Is this a bug or just how it's supposed to work?

The strongest predictor of whether someone believed in COVID-19-related misinformation and risks related to the vaccine was whether they viewed COVID-19 prevention efforts in terms of symbolic strength and weakness. In other words, this group focused on whether an action would make them appear to fend off or “give in” to untoward influence.

[…]

Our findings highlight the limits of countering misinformation directly, because for some people, literal truth is not the point.

Israel’s logic here is clear. It has long relied on an old colonial strategy: Divide and rule. A society consumed by internal violence cannot stand united against its occupier. By cynically fostering the rise of militias, Israel achieves two aims: Weakening Palestinian unity and reducing the burden on its own army. It avoids direct costs and international scrutiny, while Gaza continues to bleed from within.

The armed gangs now spreading fear in Gaza are not defenders of the homeland but Israel’s collaborators, serving its occupation under a different name. They were empowered during the war to act where Israel could not always act openly. Yet Israel’s history with Palestinians who serve its interests is clear: It uses them, then discards them. Once their purpose is fulfilled, collaborators are cast aside, disarmed or destroyed, left with neither honour nor protection. He who turns his gun on his own people may think himself powerful, but his fate is always the same: Rejection by his people, by history and even by the occupier who once used him.

For Palestinians, the consequences are nothing short of catastrophic...