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  • Word association thread
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    S'mores

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  • Ahoy bread bakers
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    @steve-miller Looks really good. What's in it? Besides oats....

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  • DOGE isn't dead, it's just morphed
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    DOGE was supposed to be dead. Its remnants are everywhere.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/doge-was-supposed-to-be-dead-its-remnants-are-everywhere-090000103.html

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  • The ultimate BBQ
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    Not a bad day (temps in 80s and reasonable humidity). AQI is 111, so not great but definitely way way way better than last Thursday.

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  • Word association thread
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    Eeyores

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  • Word association thread
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    Coors

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  • Word association thread
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    Cheers

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  • Word association thread
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    Tops

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  • Ahmadinejad and Mossad
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    Inside Israel’s Secret Operation to Cultivate Ahmadinejad

    The yearslong effort to groom the former Iranian president as an intelligence asset culminated in a dramatic effort to take him to a Mossad safe house in Iran in the early days of the war. But the plan fell apart.

    NYT:

    https://archive.is/ekmzI

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  • Old habits die hard
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    Japan's upper house of parliament has voted to pass controversial revisions to a law governing who can inherit the throne in the world's oldest continuous hereditary monarchy, just days after the lower house of parliament voted it through.

    The revision's stated aim is to secure the number of imperial family members, and maintain their public duties and activities, as the family's ranks dwindle and age.

    But to critics, the revision has another "very clear objective: to prevent the future emergence of a female emperor," says Seiichiro Noboru, a former Japanese diplomat with ties to the imperial family.

    https://www.npr.org/2026/07/17/g-s1-133536/japan-law-male-heirs-imperial-throne

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  • Laughter is the best medicine
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  • Meta-thread: Word association thread
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    @Bernard said:

    Question: Are proper names allowed in the Word association thread? I have avoided using them, but sometimes they are the first to pop into my mind.

    I thought the original rule was no proper nouns.

    My personal opinion is that rule is silly and that anything goes!

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  • What a great idea
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    The US defense secretary, ⁠Pete Hegseth, this week ordered an annual testosterone-deficiency screening for active-duty and reserve service members aged 30 and older, which he says will help to maintain military readiness.

    But many medical professionals warn it might do nothing of the sort and instead could increase service members’ risk of infertility or lead to other consequences if testosterone is prescribed inappropriately.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/18/us-military-testosterone-screening-doctors

    On a related note....

    Retired Adm James Stavridis, former supreme Allied commander, on the testosterone testing (on Smerconish this morning):

    But let's back up, Michael, does it make sense? I don't think so. When I look at the needs of the 21st century battlefield, sure, you need some big, burly, UFC like guys, maybe on the very front end of things. But who are the -- who are the killers at scale on these battlefields? They're destroyer captains, often women.

    They're fighter pilots, often women. They're aircraft carrier commanders. Captains of aircraft carriers, recently, a woman. They are cyber warriors. They are drone warriors.

    Believe me, Ukrainian women have probably put more Russians in their graves than you can imagine. So when I look at the 21st century battlefield, I'm not sure all of those women who are by definition Low T individuals are the problem. And I think testing everybody and then offering testosterone supplements doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If you want to do something smart medically for the force, go back to requiring flu shots, which were taken away by Secretary Hegseth.

    https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/smer/date/2026-07-18/segment/01

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  • Roger Bannister gives a thumbs up
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    Josh Kerr makes athletics history by shattering one-mile world record in London

    Time of 3min 42.66sec betters El Guerrouj in 1999 by 0.47

    Kerr becomes seventh British man to hold record

    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jul/18/josh-kerr-makes-athletics-history-by-shattering-one-mile-world-record-in-london

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  • Word association thread
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    colonnade

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  • Word association thread
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    farm aid

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  • Ahoy bread bakers
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    Voisilmapulla | Finnish Butter Eye Buns

    https://breadtopia.com/voisilmapulla-finnish-butter-eye-buns/?utm_content

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  • John Pumphrey
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    DNA from the skull of an unknown Revolutionary War soldier reveals more than his name

    https://apnews.com/article/america-250-revolution-dna-unknown-soldier-a672d84951897c9f2c2615a1e6c49758

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  • Phantom Twist
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    New spinning drone hides in plain sight

    ‘Phantom Twist’ harnesses motion blur to nearly vanish in flight

    Link to video

    https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/07/new-spinning-drone-hides-in-plain-sight

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  • How do LLMs work?
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    Large language models can write essays, solve math problems, and generate computer code, but it’s not fully understood how they do it. Researchers can observe the billions of parameters inside these systems changing during training, yet the internal logic of the models remains largely hidden. In a sense, the engineering is ahead of the science. Can science catch up and make LLMs and other deep neural networks mechanistically interpretable?

    https://cacm.acm.org/news/can-we-understand-how-large-language-models-reason/

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