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“The American Veterinary Medical Association wrote in 2020 euthanasia guidelines that nitrogen hypoxia can be an acceptable method of euthanasia under certain conditions for pigs but not for other mammals because it creates an “anoxic environment that is distressing for some species.”

NOT pigs?! There must be some tortured explanation for that conclusion.

apnews.com/article/c3c813841bc

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"ESA's Mars Express orbiter discovers ice water deposits at the Red Planet's equator"

DOI: I worked on Mars Express spacecraft flight dynamics during the mission planning stage.

euronews.com/next/2024/01/20/e

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A team at the University of Chicago just released a tool called Nightshade that makes invisible changes to digital images. The selling point is that these changes “poison” AI models that try to use the images as training data.

venturebeat.com/ai/nightshade-

#AI

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Ta ta, Tata.

Former Welsh premier Carwyn Jones blames the demise of steelmaking in Port Talbot on Brexit and apathy. And, as usual with Wales, the English government couldn't care less.

bylines.cymru/politics-and-soc

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American astronomer Mary Watson Whitney died #OTD in 1921.

She was the head of the Vassar College Observatory for 22 years. Whitney focused her teaching and research (after Mitchell's retirement in 1888) on subjects related to double stars, variable stars, asteroids, comets, and measurements by photographic plates. Whitney was a fellow of the AAAS and a charter member of the Astronomical and Astrophysical Society. via @wikipedia

#science #astronomy #womeninscience

"‘Inhumane’ Home Office denying visas to children of migrant health workers"

You surely don't have to be a cunt to work for the Home Office, but it certainly seems to help.

Tell me I'm wrong.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/j

"Who was behind poll predicting Tory wipeout – and what do they want?"

Like a latter day King Arthur, Boris Johnson lies waiting in the wings, ready to save Britain in its hour of need.

theguardian.com/politics/2024/

"Back and neck problems driving major UK health crisis, say medical leaders"

The almost buried lede here is indicated in the words "the rise in remote working".

Sedentary lifestyles and obesity will wreck your spine, good and proper, but so too will working for hours at a time on a laptop.

Death to the laptop (before it kills you)!

theguardian.com/society/2024/j

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Chef der Rechten in Thüringen: Höcke vergleicht Anti-AfD-Demos mit Nazi-Aufmärschen tagesspiegel.de/article1107956 Viele Menschen fordern in einer Petition, dem Rechten wegen seiner Hetze die Grundrechte zu entziehen. Bei einem Auftritt in Gera äußert sich Höcke einmal mehr eindeutig.

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