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Nov 2, 2022

Twitter is reportedly working on an OnlyFans-style feature that would allow creators to charge for video content — but some employees say it’s high risk

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Twitter is working on a feature that would charge users for some video content, The Washington Post reported.

Referred to as “Paywalled Video,” the new feature would allow content creators to charge users a fee to view videos on the platform, according to an internal email obtained by the publication.

The Post reported that a Twitter employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said it seemed like a feature that would probably be used at least partly for adult content.

Nov 1, 2022

How close are we to a Nuclear Holocaust?

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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has a way of measuring the probabilities the human race will destroy itself through a nuclear holocaust. Due to recent geopolitical events, we are nearer to the brink of oblivion than at any other time in human history. Learn more about this serious subject with this video.

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Nov 1, 2022

Grey Goo: The Disturbing Way Our Civilization Could End

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Nov 1, 2022

Tracking trust in human-robot work interactions

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The future of work is here.

As industries begin to see humans working closely with robots, there’s a need to ensure that the relationship is effective, smooth and beneficial to humans. Robot trustworthiness and humans’ willingness to trust robot are vital to this working relationship. However, capturing human trust levels can be difficult due to subjectivity, a challenge researchers in the Wm Michael Barnes ‘64 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University aim to solve.

Dr. Ranjana Mehta, associate professor and director of the NeuroErgonomics Lab, said her lab’s human-autonomy trust research stemmed from a series of projects on human-robot interactions in safety-critical work domains.

Nov 1, 2022

Giovanni Aldini: This Real-Life Dr. Frankenstein Electrified the Dead

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The idea that electricity could be used to jumpstart life doesn’t just come from fiction. Like Dr. Frankenstein, Aldini’s grisly experiments sought to prove that it’s possible to revive the dead.

Nov 1, 2022

Flowers for Algernon — science fiction by Daniel Keyes (Audiobook)

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Is a science fiction short story and subsequent novel written by Daniel Keyes.

Nov 1, 2022

Ted Chiang Understand Audiobook

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Sci fiction Audiobooks Ted Chiang Understand.

Oct 31, 2022

Tuna use sharks as back scratchers despite risk of being eaten

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Sometimes, its worth the itch. 😄


Large yellowfin tuna fish prefer to scrape against sharks over members of their own species, possibly to pry off parasites.

Oct 31, 2022

Hypermodern Magic

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Oct 31, 2022

Just like humans, more intelligent jays have greater self-control

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A study has found that Eurasian jays can pass a version of the ‘marshmallow test’—and those with the greatest self-control also score the highest on intelligence tests.

This is the first evidence of a link between self-control and intelligence in birds.

Self-control—the ability to resist temptation in favor of a better but delayed reward—is a vital skill that underpins effective decision-making and future planning.