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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • The intro is as follows, but the article is short and the full details are helpful to know

    Brazil’s Supreme Court is in the throes of an unprecedented crisis. Sessions are being canceled. Justices are overruling one another’s decisions. And suspicions of graft, political bias and police interference loom over several of its members ahead of the country’s presidential election in October.

    The justices at the heart of the crisis are perceived as being at opposing ends of Brazil’s polarized political spectrum. Next month, incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is expected to face off with Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, son of the former President Jair Bolsonaro, in what is likely to be a close election, as it was four years ago.

    The court met Tuesday to discuss whether one of the justices should be investigated for corruption.




  • Otter@lemmy.catoNiceMemes@sopuli.xyzI wonder...
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    6 days ago

    While they might not know what is coming up, they do have the ability to remember what they once were. Which I think is a beautiful analogy to how we experience the world too

    https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/butterflies-caterpillar-memories

    The transition from caterpillar to butterfly via a soupy pupal mashup remains one of the greatest mysteries of the animal kingdom. During metamorphosis, body parts are liquified and then reorganised, but the ability of memories to survive this process was unknown. That is until scientists trained caterpillars to avoid the whiff of ethyl acetate by pairing the chemical, often used in nail polish remover, with a mild electric shock.

    When the larvae turned into adult moths, most continued to avoid the odour, suggesting that moths and butterflies may indeed remember some of their larval experiences. Yet another reason to be kind to caterpillars.













  • Exposed to the air / elements I guess?

    Fueled by climate change, the fires and explosions show that the continent’s “climatic luck” is running out, said Sarah Njeri, a peace and conflict scholar at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. Steady temperatures and predictable rainfall once ensured that most buried weapons stayed dormant.

    “Climate change is now doing the work of unburying and reactivating what was previously stable,” Njeri said. Fires can ignite old munitions but can also burn away the scrub and brush that hides them.



  • It’s actually pretty useful for those who need that use case.

    They have one API for all the models, and when a few companies are offering the same models, they will send it to the one that is cheaper or faster, depending on the user’s settings. That kind of developer simplicity is pretty much why Stripe got popular too.

    They also have a lot of data on which models are popular, which ones are being used by specific tools, etc.

    Now that open weight and international models are getting popular over the american big tech ones, it seems like a lot of companies want something that can redirect their usage to whatever model fits within their preferred parameters.