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xkcd #3117: Replication Crisis

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Maybe encouraging the publication of null results isn't enough--maybe we need a journal devoted to publishing results the study authors find personally annoying.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3117/

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Donald Trump has sued Rupert Murdoch and two Wall Street Journal newspaper reporters for libel and slander over claims that he sent sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a bawdy note and sketch of a naked woman.

Trump’s lawsuit on Friday, which also targets Dow Jones and News Corp, was filed in the southern district of Florida federal court in Miami.

It came after the Journal reported on a 50th birthday greeting that Trump allegedly sent to Epstein in 2003 that included a sexually suggestive drawing and reference to secrets they shared. It was reportedly a contribution to a birthday album compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell.

The Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday that it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, after denying for months that it intended to do so.

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Quick Facts:

• The changes to the bylaws follow similar changes recently adopted in Alberta, Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
• Between May and June 2025, B.C. has received nearly 780 job applications spanning all health regions: 181 for Interior Health, 154 for Fraser Health, 121 for Vancouver Coastal Health, 112 for Island Health, 70 for Providence Health Care, 66 for Provincial Health Services Authority and 63 for Northern Health (some applicants may have applied to more than one health authority).
• The Province is taking a Team B.C. approach to recruiting health-care workers from the U.S., and is working in collaboration with health authorities, regulatory colleges and other partners.
• The Province launched a targeted U.S. marketing campaign on June 2, 2025, in Washington, Oregon and select cities in California.

To further improve recruitment, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. (CPSBC) implemented bylaw changes on July 7, 2025, that benefit doctors trained outside of Canada. Since then, CPSBC has received 29 registration applications from U.S. doctors.

It's just rhythms and pitches really, in a sequence. But we don't love patterns, a scale sounds boring. It's the breaking of the patterns that sound good in music, but only in specific ways. Other ways sound discordant. What the duck is going on?

Earlier this week, a prominent venture capitalist named Geoff Lewis — managing partner of the multi-billion dollar investment firm Bedrock, which has backed high-profile tech companies including OpenAI and Vercel — posted a disturbing video on X-formerly-Twitter that's causing significant concern among his peers and colleagues.

"This isn't a redemption arc," Lewis says in the video. "It's a transmission, for the record. Over the past eight years, I've walked through something I didn't create, but became the primary target of: a non-governmental system, not visible, but operational. Not official, but structurally real. It doesn't regulate, it doesn't attack, it doesn't ban. It just inverts signal until the person carrying it looks unstable."

In the video, Lewis seems concerned that people in his life think he is unwell as he continues to discuss the "non-governmental system."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/38796542

A shitty admin works with a shitty propaganda machine to produce shitty bullshit.

George Washington would be super happy to see what we’ve become. Sorta like how Jesus would be stoked by the Prosperity Gospel.

(Jesus was not a historical figure. He was originally a figure in heaven. Now let me really blow your mind: Washington also wasn’t a historical figure. He was originally the devil in hell! I’m joking of course, shut up, I need gallows humor to not be depressed by this shit. The bit about Jesus was not a joke, however.)

USA! USA! USA!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33350092

A little understood aspect of the big, ugly bill could cause devastating problems for seniors and others.

Norman J. Ornstein
July 16, 2025

PAYGO is not a term that crosses many lips in daily discourse. But it may soon be used more widely, as its impact resonates in the aftermath of the passage of the so-called One Big Beautiful Act. While the enormous and damaging cuts in Medicaid have dominated discussion since the bill was enacted—cuts that will take millions of Americans off of health insurance, force the closure of many rural hospitals and nursing homes, and likely put enormous increased pressure on emergency rooms across the country—another shoe is soon to drop. And that is major cuts in its sister program, Medicare.

Whether it be movies, books, oral tradition. What is it we humans love so much about fictional tales?

A federal judge who previously blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship spent more than an hour Friday grappling with whether his nationwide injunction could stand after the Supreme Court curbed the ability of judges to issue such broad rulings.

US District Judge Leo Sorokin of the federal court in Boston made clear during a hearing that he intended to keep intact some of his earlier ruling against the birthright citizenship executive order issued by Trump on his first day back in office.

He grilled Trump administration lawyers and a group of Democratic attorneys general from more than a dozen states, the District of Columbia and several cities, on major questions about whether his nationwide injunction would still hold after the conservative Supreme Court instructed lower courts to take a second look at such rulings to ensure they weren’t overbroad.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/30606137

ST: Nemesis

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Hey folks! I have one of the original batches of LCD Steam Decks, with an upgraded SSD.

My battery is still at around 99% of it's original capacity, I love the device, finally found a protective case I enjoy after trying 4 different models, and I don't like the OLED panels used in the OLED model so I'm fine.

But I always thought the fan sounded horrendously bad, specially at bed, with a whiny sound that starts even before it ramps up and only gets worse. You might think wearing headphones fixes it, but I'm not always playing with headphones and my partner trying to sleep most definitely wouldn't agree with the thought that this is a solution. I heard about replacing the Delta with the Huaying fan, but I didn't think the difference would be that big... it will move the same amount of air, right?

Well... I just replaced mine and it's a gigantic difference, I like this upgrade even more so than the SSD one. At maximum speed it does sound like air moving, which is expected, but that's it: air. Not some terrible whining. And when it's running at around 3500 RPM? Pretty much silent, I have to bring the device close to my ears to hear it.

So if anybody out there is still carrying their original models with Delta fans... Do your ears a favor, it's worth getting the better fan. Though I bought mine on Aliexpress for cheaper than iFixit sells it, original part.

If you have a revised unit with the new shielding and the Delta fan, there's a membrane that supposedly helps muffle the whine, I'm not sure how effective that is though, I suspect it still sounds worse than the Huaying.

Also, quick tip: the iFixit guide tells you to lift the metal shielding, but you can replace the fan just fine without doing so. I replaced the thermal paste a while back (early units were also known for having some dry spots) and would rather not disrupt the thermal pads any further, so if you're not comfortable removing the entire shielding... just don't, there's a cut out specifically so you can access the fan connector.

The president disputes reporting from The Wall Street Journal that he drew a picture for Jeffrey Epstein, but as a real estate mogul, he often sketched for charity.