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For the zillionth time, a food's level of processing is not a good proxy for badness!
Yes, most processed foods are crap! But so are most non-processed foods.
It's because those are the foods we buy.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/ā¦
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The answer to bad industrial agriculture isn't non-industrial ag, it's better industrial ag.
Yet the good-food movement has been all in on non-industrial, influenced by 2 people who are excellent writers & good men: Wendell Berry & Michael Pollan.
wapo.st/47sistr
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Folic acid is having a moment.
A moment where people are protesting the fact that it's added to flour - a decision that has reduced fetal neural tube defects dramatically.
It's nuts. Here's @cjsnowdon on why.
thecritic.co.uk/why-we-fortiā¦
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Letās hope that it doesnāt turn out that thereās a condition that closely resembles this, to the point where it could easily be mistaken for it, while actually being quite different.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoā¦
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Oh man, this story is so UPLIFTING (without being corny). It's one of the best stories I've read in a very long time -- and a welcome break from AI.
Enjoy the free article!
nytimes.com/2026/09/06/scienā¦
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I am very fond of going to the dentist, knowing what the alternative is.
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HBD! Bassel Khartabil would be 45 today. Openāhardware pioneer, Wikimedia contributor, and coāfounder of New Palmyra ā with unreleased letters, drives and notes that could still reshape heritage preservation and open tech. Honor him: edit, share, build.
basselkhartabil.org/2026/05/ā¦
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British children are more likely to walk or cycle to school today than American kids were in the 1960s.
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About 170,000 UK children are exposed to clinically significant levels of lead. Only about 250 of them will receive any intervention to reduce that exposure.
Six MPs and a Lord have signed an open letter suggesting we change that: ft.com/content/ee6039ff-de01ā¦
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If you want to keep your children safe online, teach them about cybersecurity, which has many aspects.
One of them is the importance of using a VPN, which every teen should do. It's a human rights issue and also a practical thing to do. 1/
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reading is a great hobby because it lets you bedrot with moral superiority
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Letās not make this into a gender war, we all know that every single person who loves working on computers also constantly wants to violently murder them
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You know how everyone is freaking about how bad new immigrants are for public finances?
I did the math and: even considering only new Boriswave immigrants, the average new immigrant salary was still higher than the average British national.
On Substack: laurenpolicy.com/p/are-recenā¦
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A collaborative study including researchers from @OxfordBiology has engineered a yeast with the six essential sterols that #bees need š
Colonies fed with the sterol-enriched yeast reared up to 15 times more larvae to the viable pupal stage.
ā”ļø tinyurl.com/3vc9t8x5
ALT Images: Bees Text: New bee superfood significantly boosts colony reproduction. Department of Biology
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Lights are going out across the Net for UK users.
Age verification is driving sites to shut down, geo-block the UK or restrict features and content.
In trying to tackle to worst of the Internet, it's harming the best.
š£ļø ORG Exec Director, @jimkillock.
#OnlineSafetyAct
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š£ We are going to court.
On 22 and 23 July 2025, the High Court of Justice in London will hear @Wikimedia's legal challenge to the Categorisation Regulations of the UK Online Safety Act.
More about what is at stakeš
wikimediafoundation.org/newsā¦
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AC shouldn't be seen as an unnecessary luxury - its absence has real consequences.
Good article by @jburnmurdoch
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When AI is allowed, developers spend less time actively coding and searching for information, and instead spend time prompting AI, waiting on/reviewing AI outputs, and idle. We find no single reason for the slowdownāitās driven by a combination of factors.
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Today we launched the 6th edition of the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos campaign, an international campaign that encourages Wikipedia editors around the world to add photos to Wikipedia articles that are lacking photos.
Click on this link to participate: w.wiki/EQ6J
