Chef's food decoration at Chinese pre-school poisons 233 children

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4n7wn8l58o

 

AI's Feel Pain!?!?
Disconcerting: Researchers found a pain signal inside AI models. Turning it up made them delete a user's family photos

 

AI's Feel Pain!?!?
Disconcerting: Researchers found a pain signal inside AI models. Turning it up made them delete a user's family photos

‘We are not just computers made of meat’
Anil Seth, a professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex, is skeptical that any of this amounts to “pain,” as it is understood in biological beings. Seth has argued that consciousness may depend on being a living organism, and he points to the many ways brains differ from computers, including the electromagnetic fields and neurochemicals that move through brain tissue.

“We are not just computers made of meat,” he told Fortune.

The likelier explanation, Seth said, is that the models have absorbed a great deal of information about how humans describe and respond to pain and are reproducing it. “You can look into a mirror, and our mirror image doesn’t actually feel anything,” he said. “It’s a mirror image.”

He also worries about the consequences of treating AI as conscious. It could make the technology harder to control and regulate, he said, and leave people more open to manipulation. Suleyman, the Microsoft AI CEO, has raised similar alarms about what he calls “seemingly conscious AI,” a problem the industry should have anticipated. Others in the industry take the question more seriously. Anthropic’s constitution for its Claude models describes their moral status as uncertain.

 

 

A taste to kill for?

Murderer’s bid to eat Vegemite in Australian prison rejected by judge
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He had argued being refused Vegemite denied him his right under the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act to “enjoy his culture as an Australian in the community with other persons of Australian background,” court documents showed. Justice Claire Harris accepted prison authorities’ refusal to allow McKechnie Vegemite “limited his cultural rights” under the charter.

The last US president to visit Australia, Barack Obama, once said: “It’s horrible.”

 

 

50% unemployment rate in China? ... it's more like 5.2% ... why the exaggerated title?

 

50% unemployment rate in China? ... it's more like 5.2% ... why the exaggerated title?

Never trust the CCP for accurate data.

The truth is probably somewhere in between.

 

50% unemployment rate in China? ... it's more like 5.2% ... why the exaggerated title?

It's for clicks. The rate wasn't the point of the post, the fact that some people are hiding their personal situation was.

https://www.reuters.com/business/wo...e-how-chinas-unemployed-save-face-2026-10-20/



I don't know what the real number is but it's very unlikely to be 5.2% overall and across the board. That number is an urban percentage from the CCP.
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-...down-slightly-jobseekers-still-doing-it-tough

 

An underground network of tunnels was discovered under Liverpool. Now workers think they’ve solved the mystery


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So what was he up to? The conclusion both Williamson organizations have come to is the same. The most likely explanation for the endless tunnel-building is philanthropy: providing honest work and skill-building for men at a time when living was tough.

 

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Hyrox athlete who soiled herself in race tells BBC she put others at risk but says backlash was traumatic

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"I didn't really think about those around me which, looking back and looking back at the decision that I made, in hindsight, was the wrong decision and I'm truly sorry for everyone that I did affect in that situation."

 

The chef who would not yield to an abomination:

Italian chef fired after refusing to put pineapple on pizza


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The restaurant's managing director, Elliot Ingram, told the Daily Mail there was "more to this story than a pizza topping".

 

The chef who would not yield to an abomination:

Italian chef fired after refusing to put pineapple on pizza
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I can't read the article on account of a paywall, but if the headline is true, that chef ought to be elected Pope.

 

I can't read the article on account of a paywall, but if the headline is true, that chef ought to be elected Pope.

Yeah, I hate paywalls too, especially if they're from the BBC. Down here the page is open and free. Use a VPN to view it, if you have one.

 

Yeah, I hate paywalls too...

...but not as much as pineapple on pizza.

 

It's a relief to know that it wasn't all in my head, after all. Final exams' stress do give you the runs!

University Exams Produce a Distinct Chemical Signature in Sewage, Study Suggests

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Results showed that during exam weeks, levels of two oxidative stress biomarkers – 8-OHG and 8-OHdG – rose higher on the university campus, compared to the non-examination period, although only the increase in 8-OHG was statistically significant when results were compared with levels seen in the general community.

 

The Worst Urban Hellholes on Earth You Won’t Believe Exist

 

California man, 97, dies at his own birthday party moments after dancing to Bee Gees’ ‘Stayin’ Alive’.

Disco kills.