At least it’s not about digestive health.
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Football Brain (American)https://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100418
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/us/nfl-cte-brain-disease.html
... nearly a quarter of all former NFL players who died during 2016-21 had CTE neuropathology at death ...
1 in 4 NFL players had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
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Beyond the antivaxx stuff, MAHA is either banal or fakehttps://www.inquirer.com/health/measles-deaths-lancaster-county-pennsylvania-20260825.html
Pennsylvania reported two measles-related deaths on Tuesday, the first fatalities from the highly contagious disease in the state in 35 years and the only deaths involving the highly contagious disease confirmed nationally so far this year.
The deaths occurred in Lancaster County, the center of a major measles outbreak that has sickened nearly 400 people this year, state officials said. Both people were unvaccinated.
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The principalWhat’s the school board’s rationale?
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The tariff clown car rolls on - Canada editionCrucial trade talks between the United States and Canada to stave off punishing new tariffs by the Trump administration on Canadian goods collapsed late Friday, with Canada saying it would retaliate “dollar for dollar.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said he had decided to suspend the talks because the American side had introduced last-minute terms that were “unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal.”
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The Girls Are Not AlrightAlternate title: How to Understand Girls These Days
What the author, a psychiatrist, is seeing:
Patients used to dread being told that there was something, as they saw it, wrong with them. Now these young women were announcing their diagnoses —[ADHD, OCD, anxiety, depression] — almost before telling me their names.
… The patients of this new wave were talking in therapy-speak, and their therapy hadn’t even started.What the author thinks is going on and what to do about it:
It starts with accepting that diagnosis words may function differently for these young women from the way they do for others. They are not necessarily claims to cold, scientific truths, yoked to specific evidence-based treatments. Instead, research increasingly reveals, these words are often a coping mechanism, an effort to find some accepted narrative in which to situate one’s very personal pain. …
One girl told me she had assigned herself a diagnosis of depression, which she later acknowledged she thought would make me care about her. Another girl was stuck on an A.D.H.D. diagnosis, mostly because it made her feel less alone by connecting her to a vocal and vibrant online community.
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In some cases, my patients’ self-diagnoses were spot on. In many others, however, the psychiatric label seemed more like a compromise between uncomfortable feelings and the desire for social acceptance. …If you’re sick of hearing every classmate, roommate or ex described as “toxic,” look past the cliché and consider the harm it’s meant to describe. Whatever works, gently offer that less literal meaning back to her — not to challenge her words but to understand them. Not to see if she really has a particular diagnosis but to see what’s going on beneath it.
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Is our children learning?Hands-on skills training?
Penn State fraternity pledges were made to cut and package cocaine for a drug ring that was run out of two off-campus frat houses, authorities said.
The illicit initiation was revealed Monday as Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday charged 14 people — including 13 current or former Penn State students — in connection with the alleged drug ring. -
ShieldFontIt will also break regular (non-AI) search engines.
Even the usual Ctrl-F/⌘-F (local search functions) would break.
And there is no guarantee that future AI models cannot decode it.
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In praise of bike helmetsGlad you survived.
Gotta take good care of yourself, man, none of us is getting any younger.
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It should be possible for them to embrace elements of socialism without saying anything nice about Castro.
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Is it really any worse than praising Putin or praising Kim Jung Un? Discuss.
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Dick Cheney’s cardiogist has an op-ed in the NYTIt's the constituents who keep reelecting the Congressional representatives whom you say are not doing their jobs. Who's fault is it now?
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Use AI to hide AIhttps://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content
Anthropic has signed the EU AI Act's Article 50(2) Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, as a provider of both generative AI models and generative AI systems. This article describes how we’re planning to put those commitments into practice, how marking works, and what its limitations are.
The Ars Technica article discuss how the watermarking can be misinterpreted and how removed by others later.
