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I was gonna start a diet…

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“Is Hotel Shampoo and Conditioner Safe to Use? Experts Explain” [Mental Floss]:

Are you the kind of traveler who carefully packs TSA-approved shampoo and conditioner from home, or do you happily use whatever liquid is bolted to the hotel shower wall?

I loathe soap and shampoo dispensers because they don’t lather up properly. But I didn’t know I had to worry about them:

(1) Zephyr Teachout: “If you want democratic governance of AI, block datacenters.”.

(2) The more young people use AI, the more they hate it..

(3) Diseases can spread between apartments via shared ventilation..

How do you get 100 doctors into a room that only holds 99?

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“The sleep paradox: why do humans sleep so little when we need it so much?” [Nature]. The complete article is payrolled, sadly. But it’s an interesting find:

Enter David Samson, a biological anthropologist at the University of Toronto in Canada, asking a provocative question: why, if sleep has so many benefits, do humans as a species sleep so little?

Previously, I showed how you can find a searchable table listing all your comments at the “My Account” menu link, eliminating one of the frustrations of WordPress.

Now I want to explain some of the cushy and handy functionality of the comment form itself (the “Add new comment” form that appears below every post). Here is a screen shot, helpfully annotated:

(1) The executive assistant who writes Trump’s Truth Social posts.

(2)The tragic vacuity of Springsteen’s concert speech.

(3)Hantavirus is airborne.

(4)Google Gemini buys 3000 rubber gloves, drives coffee shop into the ground.

If USA was so great…

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Where to find all your comments.