all the right things
Florida man arrested for having 3 wives in 3 different counties “I met him on a dating app. The first time I ever got on a dating app. He said all the right things”
Men Tend to Fall in Love Faster Than Women, New Study
Our model demonstrates that this tension creates social dilemmas where strategies that are optimal for individuals systematically undermine the collective pursuit of truth. Paradoxically, our analysis reveals that increasing debaters’ motivation to seek truth can sometimes produce equilibria with worse outcomes for collective truth discovery. These findings illuminate why rational debate can fail to achieve optimal epistemic outcomes, even when participants genuinely value truth.
A new type of rock (made of our trash) is forming
For 18 years, Wisconsin man Tim Friede has injected increasing amounts of venom into his body from the world’s most deadly snakes. After hundreds of injections and snake bites, Mr Friede’s blood contained broad-spectrum immune proteins called antibodies, which were analysed and used to create an antibody “cocktail” that could potentially protect against 19 different species of snake.
Vaping doubles risk of serious lung disease, even without smoking history - study
A new gene therapy reversed heart failure in pigs by repairing heart function […] Heart failure is currently irreversible. Without a heart transplant, most treatments aim only to reduce the heart’s workload and slow the progression of the disease.
Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week as China tariffs start to bite “a number of major American retailers stopping all shipments from China based on the tariffs”
These judges ruled against Trump. Then their families came under attack.
Over an hour, [Musk] revealed that he had eaten a tub full of caramel Häagen-Dazs ice cream. He also compared himself to the Buddha. He was a rare man, in rare form. […] “It is funny that we’ve got DOGE. Doesn’t the absurdity of that seem like a weird simulation? It was a memecoin at one point,” he said. […] “DOGE is a way of life. Like Buddhism” […] “The president is — I guess we’re good friends,” Musk said. “And we’ll be on Air Force One or Marine One. And then he’s like, ‘Hey, do you want to stay over?’ I’m like, ‘Sure.’” [Washington Post]
Millions of AirPlay devices can be hacked over Wi-Fi; CarPlay too
Home washing machines fail to remove important pathogens from textiles
Sycophancy in GPT-4o: What happened and what we’re doing about it
