The regime has been hollowed out by decades of negative selection—the result of rewarding mediocrity and prizing ideological loyalty over competence.
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Karim Sadjadpour,
The Atlantic,
10 Jan. 2026
Rather than prizing animals for their beauty, their virile traits or their straight-up cool characteristics, frogposting is all about vulnerable animals—the dweebs of the animal kingdom.
Its mass is the most important factor in determining both its lifetime and its fate, with other secondary factors, such as metallicity (or the fraction of heavy elements present within it), also playing a role.
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Big Think,
Big Think,
6 Feb. 2026
He was resentenced to 28 years behind bars in 2024, with a federal judge determining his initial sentence was too light.
This is the validation process and is tremendously crucial for ascertaining whether the RFT has made a positive significant difference in the AI model’s domain specificity.
The company's rival Anthropic unveiled its first Super Bowl campaign, taking a not-so-subtle swipe at OpenAI's recent decision to begin testing ads within ChatGPT.
Austria and Canada coming from 2-1 down to beat Japan and Brazil, the latter coming from Liam Draxl seeing out a win over Gustavo Heide despite rolling his ankle in the seventh game of the deciding rubber.
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James Hansen,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
The veteran skier had previously ruptured her ACL in her left knee before deciding to still compete in this year's Olympic Games.
For those analyzing the details in Bad Bunny’s 15-minute halftime performance, there was a real wedding that took place at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara in front of 75,000 fans.
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Andrea Flores,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2026
Bob and Joe liked to talk sports, often analyzing statistics deep into the night.
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