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A modest proposal about popes...

So, another pope has died and his ashes will soon be emitted from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel. It is time to select a new pope.

But the pope has presided over a seemingly endless series of scandals for generations. They keep electing new popes, but the problems never go away. Why can't they solve these problems?

Looking for commonalities among all the popes of the last century or so, one stood out to me: they're all Catholic!

Maybe they should try choosing a nice Unitarian, or perhaps a Wiccan? They'd have at least as good a chance of solving the problems as the last umpteen Catholic popes. Maybe even better.

It's worth a shot.

#pope #selection #conclave #Swift #JonathanSwift #AModestProposal #catholic #wiccan #unitarian #cardinal

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tyx

@bruces
FFS, Wired, cut that clickbait BS.
We are, as are many other animals. After you produce enough progeny #selection doesn't give a shit about your #longevity anymore and entropy takes over. Every biologist with even a rudimentary #ecology training knows that.

The problem that we're not programmed in a way "there is something which get switched on and you die", that would be easy, it's "many things go out of control, you die unless you fix _all of them_".

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Charrvein

Evolution of cellular and developmental regulatory networks

16. jan 2025 #evolution #selection #drift #regnetworks

Developmental regulatory systems have evolved via natural selection that builds adaptations, but also via developmental system drift. We explore evolution of these networks with focus on the role of cryptic genetic variation, stabilizing and compensatory selection, developmental specificity of mutations and transcriptional responses to decanalization.

hi.is/vidburdir/malstofa_lifvi

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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈

#VicePresdent #KamalaHarris’ whirlwind #search for #RunningMate enters final hours as she prepares to take new #Democratic #ticket #ontheroad

The #selection will kick off a new phase of the #campaign, as Harris seeks to maintain the #momentum that has propelled her bid and former President Donald #Trump #struggles to #adapt to running against an entirely new #candidate.

edition.cnn.com/2024/08/05/pol

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Chuck Darwin

Senate Democrats demand end to rightwing ‘judge shopping’ --- move draws immediate attack from Republicans

Senate Democrats including majority leader Chuck Schumer have today called for the federal courts’ policymaking body to
👉 stand firm against conservative attacks on its new rule intended to curb the practice of “#judge #shopping”.

The term is a reference to 💥the practice of litigants suing over government policies in certain jurisdictions where federal judges may be sympathetic to their cause. 💥

An example of this may be seen in the lawsuit by a conservative group attempting to remove the abortion medication #mifepristone from pharmacies, which was first filed before a Donald Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas who previously worked for a rightwing Christian law firm.

Earlier this month, the Judicial Conference of the United States announced a new policy that “addresses all civil actions that seek to bar or mandate state or federal actions, ‘whether by declaratory judgment and/or any form of injunctive relief.’

In such cases, judges would be assigned through a district-wide #random #selection process.”

👺The policy drew attacks from Republicans including Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, who described it as “half-baked”.

In a letter sent today to the Judicial Conference’s secretary, Schumer and eight other Democratic senators specifically singled out the mifepristone case, and wrote:

⭐️This judge-shopping tactic is more pernicious than it might appear. Even though there are only a few courts subject to this issue, single district judges can issue rulings that thwart congressional statutes and stymie agency actions on a nationwide basis.
That means certain plaintiffs are motivated to file their cases in divisions where they know the judge hearing the case is aligned with their goals.

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👉The anti-democratic practice of judge shopping erodes the rule of law and the public’s trust in the judiciary. Your new policy rebalances our court system and will help to restore Americans’ confidence in judicial rulings. We encourage you to defend it as courts across the country implement it.
theguardian.com/us-news/live/2

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Sally Strange

Further update on "Dudesy" and George Carlin: The Carlin estate has brought a federal lawsuit against misogynist hack writers Chad Kultgen and Will Sasso, who have since revealed that the fake "Carlin special," which was alleged to have been written by an AI, was in fact entirely written by Kultgen.

'Josh Schiller, a lawyer for the Carlin estate, said the lawsuit that was filed in Federal District Court in California would move forward despite the podcast’s backtracking of the A.I. claims.
“We don’t know what they’re saying to be true,” he said. “What we will know is that they will be deposed. They will produce documents, and there will be evidence that shows one way or another how the show was created.”'

#AI #LLM #comedy #Culture #writing #AIhoax

wired.com/story/george-carlin-

archive.is/4xnjk#selection-547

WIRED · The George Carlin ‘AI’ Standup Creators Now Say a Human Wrote the JokesBy Kyle Orland, Ars Technica
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Denny

"Britain’s flagship Hinkley Point C nuclear plant has been delayed until 2029 at the earliest and could end up costing up to £35bn, or nearly twice the initial budget, in the latest blow to a project meant to kick-start the country’s nuclear revival."

archive.ph/v2hy6#selection-217

At what point do we stop throwing money into this hole and start spending it on renewables instead? They're cheaper and faster to build, and cheaper to maintain and decommission too.

And give you less concentrated points of potential failure to defend your infrastructure from attack too, in this time of peace on earth etc.

And there's that whole nuclear waste thing too. Assuming the species lasts long enough for that to be a concern.

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Auschwitz Memorial

5 January 1943 | An SS doctor made a selection in Block 28 at Auschwitz I (part of the camp infirmary). As a result 56 prisoners were killed with phenol heart injections.

Listen to our podcast about medicine & medical crimes in Auschwitz: anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/e

Anchor"On Auschwitz" (2): Medicine in Auschwitz by On AuschwitzThe Auschwitz camp complex had an extensive organizational structure, which also included a separate department responsible for protecting the health of both the SS garrison and - at least in theory - the prisoners of the camp. Paweł Sawicki talks about medicine in Auschwitz with Teresa Wontor-Cichy, a historian at the Research Center of the Auschwitz Memorial.
#Auschwitz#otd#medicine
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Auschwitz Memorial

2 January 1944 | SS doctor made a selection at the men’s quarantine sector BIIa at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. 141 selected prisoners were murdered in a gas chamber.

➡️ BIIa sector in our virtual visitr: panorama.auschwitz.org/tour2,3

🔊 Podcast about criminal medicine in Auschwitz: anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/e

Auschwitz II-Birkenau site. A line of wooden barracks standing along a road. The fence of the camp with watch towers visible on the opposite side.
#Auschwitz#history#Birkenau
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