The largest review of medicinal cannabis to date found it doesn’t effectively treat anxiety, depression, or PTSD—despite millions using it for those reasons. Researchers warn it could even make mental health worse, raising risks like psychosis and addiction while delaying proven treatments. Some limited benefits were seen for conditions like insomnia and autism, but the evidence is weak. The findings are fueling calls for stricter oversight as cannabis use continues to rise.
open-slopware - Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives. Fork of the repo by @gen-ai-transparency after its deletion.
I thought I was having a spiritual awakening. I was having a psychiatric emergency. I was at a tech conference in Sweden when it started. I hadn't slept in days. I was one of the most prolific...
By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
The Cult of Done Manifesto The Cult of Done Manifesto is a special document. Written from bed with Kio Stark in our first few months of dating. It was one of those magic writing moments where I had …
A guide on how to avoid AI.
Copy of http://www.icrobotics.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Turning_the_Raspberry_Pi_Into_an_FM_Transmitter - rm-hull/pifm
Searches thousands of Ukiyo-e, Meiji, Shin Hanga, and Sosaku Hanga Japanese prints.
An appreciation post regarding the Dillo Browser and how I use it to browse the web, including YouTube, Wallabag, and others
Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are […]
EDITOR: This is the second post of a new collaboration with the Toronto Dreams project by Adam Bunch (see the first here). The project is a series of postcards hidden around the city for people to randomly find. On the cards are strange, fictional dreams set in the place the postcard was left. We willContinue reading "The Toronto Circus Riot of 1855 — the day the clowns picked the wrong Toronto brothel"
A port of the netbsd utilities for linux(and may be another unix like operating systems) - littlefly365/Netbase
Refdesk is a free and family friendly web site indexing and reviewing quality, credible, and current Internet reference resources.
Magic isn't real -- but the placebo effect is. And the fascinating story behind how it works teaches us a powerful lesson about a good life.
A simple command for columnizing lists.
Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing. Contribute to preservim/vim-pencil development by creating an account on GitHub.
In privacy, we talk a lot about how to protect our own data, but what about our responsibility to protect the data of others? If you care about privacy rights, you must also care for the data of the people around you. Together, we must build a culture where everyone cares for the data of others.
Study shows how a dopamine circuit between two brain regions enables mice to extinguish fear after a peril has passed.
In privacy, we talk a lot about how to protect our own data, but what about our responsibility to protect the data of others? If you care about privacy rights, you must also care for the data of the people around you. Together, we must build a culture where everyone cares for the data of others.
Juan Carlos Pérez Cortés Relationship Anarchy Occupy Intimacy! December 2022 Website of the book. Published in ebook, paperback and hard cover by La Oveja...
Displays a random oblique strategy to help you see a problem in a new way, or find inspiration to help get through a creative block.
Local Area Network discovery tool with an interactive Terminal User Interface (TUI) written in Go. Discover, explore, and understand your LAN in an intuitive way. Knock Knock.. who's there?
GNU Aspell 0.50.5
A vocal technique reference covering 21 techniques across five categories: registers, styles, effects, embellish, and dynamics.
A copyleft software license that restricts AI usage
weather - Answers the most important question about the weather: Do I need an umbrella today?
This repository contains software licenses that restrict software from being used in AI training datasets or AI technologies. - non-ai-licenses/non-ai-licenses
Open source licenses provide near-unlimited flexiblity for the users of the source code. However, the problem with most licenses is the same Paradox of Tolerance as with free speech absolutism - by allowing any use, it does nothing to prohibit inherently harmful use. Our work becomes the tools of our own oppression.
The best way to reach humans instead of spam folders. Deliver transactional and marketing emails at scale.
This is a personal selection of beautiful, classy, punk, professional, incomplete, weird typefaces under Open Source licenses
The meanings and origins of thousands of English phrases, sayings, idioms, expressions and proverbs that we use daily.
An "ancestor" to the gel plate printing process.
Safe and simple one-script git synchronization. Contribute to simonthum/git-sync development by creating an account on GitHub.
Here is a mostly automated way of syncing a directory using git whenever a file changes.
A new and evocative minimalist journal/diary format.
CLI for sending end-to-end encrypted chatmail messages between systems - chatmail/cmsend
The SCP Foundation's 'top-secret' archives, declassified for your enjoyment.
Learn how to build your own DIY handstand canes and blocks! These are simple step by step instructions with a material list to make it easy!
A list of fun destinations for telnet
TUI for managing XDG default applications.
Six years into COVID-19, the world has moved on while the virus continues to disable millions. An examination of the ongoing pandemic, long COVID, and our collective failure to prevent a mass disabling event.
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …
Notes on writing this site's new, mildly cursed, and fun static site generator in (mostly) POSIX shell.
A TTS that fits in your CPU (and pocket).
agetar - wrapper around using (bsd)tar with age
As legions of warriors and prisoners can attest, Stoicism is not grim resolve but a way to wrest happiness from adversity
A search engine of PeerTube videos, channels and playlists, developed by Framasoft
Create music loops right in your browser using your keyboard or grid sequencer. Features drumpad, melodic keyboard, multiple synth types, and WAV/MP3 export.
powRSS is a public RSS feed aggregator for small and independent websites.
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine: Wire Mother by Isabel J. Kim
Award-winning indie fiction podcasts, from fantasy to SCP science fiction. Listen on your favorite podcatcher today!
The Knitting Reference Library (KRL) includes the published works collected by Montse Stanley, Richard Rutt and Jane Waller. These comprise books, exhibition catalogues, knitting patterns, journals and magazines.Since acquiring these collections we have continued to add new acquisitions related...
Arnold Stanley 5 Explore this and other items from our digitised collections on the University of Southampton Digital Library.
Run a free Internet Speed Test in your browser. No app needed. Fast, accurate HTML5 SpeedTest for any device measuring download, upload, ping, and jitter.
Tavola Mediterranea is the ultimate guide to culinary archaeology, ancient recipes, and food history on the net. Archaeologist, Farrell Monaco, offers recipes, cooking classes, cooking gadgets and more. Connect with your food-roots and start cooking it old school today!
Just Say No to using AI for everything.
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Delrita print!
A fun trick for making crontab tasks a little more flexible and dynamic
Every culture produces heroes that reflect its deepest anxieties. The Greeks, terrified of both mortality and immortality, gave us Achilles. The Victorians, haunted by social mobility, gave us the self-made industrialist. And Silicon Valley, drunk on exponential curves and both terrified and entranced by endless funding rounds, has given us