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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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Repetitive negative thinking associated with cognitive decline in older adults

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Repetitive negative thinking is associated with cognitive function decline in older adults: a cross-sectional study - BMC Psychiatry

Background Psychological problems such as depression and anxiety increase the risk of cognitive impairment in older adults. But mechanisms on the effect of psychological disorder on cognitive function is inconclusive. Repetitive negative thinking (RNT) is a core symptom of a number of common psychological disorders and may be a modifiable process shared by many psychological risk factors that contribute to the development of cognitive impairment. RNT may increase the risk of cognitive impairment. However, there are fewer studies related to RNT and cognitive function, and there is a lack of epidemiological studies to explore the relationship between RNT and cognitive function. Methods A cross-sectional study of 424 older adults aged 60 years or over was performed form May to November 2023 in hospital. To investigate the RNT level by using the Perseverative Thinking Questionnaire (PTQ), and investigate the cognitive function level by using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Scale (MoCA). Multivariable linear regression and subgroup analyses were used to explore the relationship between RNT and cognitive function. Results We categorized the total RNT scores into quartiles. The multivariable linear regression analysis showed that after adjusting for all covariates, the participants in the Q3 and Q4 groups exhibited lower cognition scores (Q3:β = -0.180, 95%CI -2.849~-0.860; Q4:β = -0.164, 95% -2.611~-0.666) compared to the Q1 group. The results of the subgroup analyses showed that individuals aged 60 ~ 79 years, junior high school and above are more prone to suffer from cognitive impairment with a high RNT score. Conclusion The study reveals a negative association between RNT and cognitive function in community-dwelling older adults. However, multi-center and a longer time span cohort studies on the relationship between RNT and cognitive function should be carried out to further explore the mechanisms involved.

bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com · BioMed Central

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crows call me breadlady @garbados@friend.camp
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being told "the world isn't perfect. we have to learn to make compromises" makes me vibrate. comrade, i'm a utopian. i do nothing but compromise. if my insistence on some fraction of better seems unreasonable, then i worry you just aren't brave enough to want the bold things

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It's Going Down @igd_news@kolektiva.social
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Multi-millionaire pundit with a net-worth of over 10 million wants the government to murder you if you can't pay your rent.

rollingstone.com/politics/poli

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 21: Brian Kilmeade is seen on "Fox & Friends" at Fox News Channel Studios on July 21, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images)

Fox Host Says to 'Just Kill 'Em' While Discussing Homeless People Who Decline Help

'Fox and Friends' co-host Brian Kilmeade suggested euthanizing unhoused people with mental health issues who decline help, saying, 'Just kill 'em.'

www.rollingstone.com · Rolling Stone

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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Feral Atlas by Anna L. Tsing, 2020

The More-Than-Human Anthropocene

Every event in human history has been a more-than-human event. When hunter-gatherers burn the land, they cooperate with herbs that seed quickly and grasses that sprout after fires, attracting game. Inside us, intestinal bacteria make it possible for us to digest our food. Other things, living and nonliving, make it possible to be human.

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Yet powerful habits of thought over the last centuries have made this statement less than obvious. With the arrival of the idea of the Anthropocene, we move away from such thinking to reconsider how human and nonhuman histories are inextricably intertwined. Convening over one hundred researchers to trace a whole range of such intertwinements, Feral Atlas offers an original and playful approach to studying the Anthropocene. Focused on the world's feral reactions to human intervention, the editors explore the structures and qualities that lie at the heart of the feral and make the phenomenon possible. This publication features original contributions by high-profile artists, humanists and scientists such as Amitav Ghosh, Elizabeth Fenn, Simon Lewis, Mark Maslin, and many others.
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Lucas @Moshidon 🇺🇦 @moshidon@floss.social
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Shared by Stefano Marinelli

I am gonna make the rewrite branch the default branch in Moshidon's repo as soon as I finish some tidying up, because I feel like it can be mostly usable (though there are some major things still missing, namely emoji reactions, announcements, and themes). There are also a bunch of missing small settings, but the timeline management is working alright, so it should be at least usable.

I will keep y'all updated, and thank you for using Moshidon :moshidon: 😁

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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory, 2ed 2004

"The most up-to-date and wide-ranging encyclopedia work on human evolution available."--American Reference Books Annual "For student, researcher, and teacher...the most complete source of basic information on the subject."--Nature "A comprehensive and authoritative source, filling a unique niche...essential to academic libraries...important for large public libraries."


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Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social
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HR 3860 allows the Secretary of State to revoke the US passport of anyone “whom the Secretary determines has knowingly aided, assisted, abetted, or otherwise provided material support to an organization the Secretary has designated as a foreign terrorist organization.”

There’s no due process, and the only way to overturn it is to “request a hearing to appeal such denial or revocation not later than 60 days after receiving notice of such denial or revocation.”

congress.gov/bill/119th-congre

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Fireside Fedi @firesidefedi@social.firesidefedi.live
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Shared by @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

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stream.firesidefedi.live · Fireside Fedi Livestream

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pistolero @p@fsebugoutzone.org
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Shared by silverpill

It turns out that Postgres has CIDR-arithmetic functions. I was ignoring that stuff because it's a pain in the ass. It turns out that it isn't a pain in the ass because Postgres has builtin support for it.

For example, you can see all of the Lemmy instances hosted behind :glowing:Cloudflare:threeletteragentglowsobright: here: https://fedilist.com/instance?q=&ip=104.16.0.0%2F12&software=lemmy®istrations=&onion=

Or just all the instances behind Cloudflare: https://fedilist.com/instance?ip=104.16.0.0%2F12

Some of the network-based info is available under the "Crawling Info" section. If you check https://fedilist.com/instance/fsebugoutzone.org , you can see "CIDR: 216.126.224.0/20";, and that link is clickable and goes to https://fedilist.com/instance?sort=discovered&ip=216.126.224.0/20 , which shows FSE's neighbors. Apparently, we're on the same /20 as @Cocoa:cocoaspin: Cocoa Hoto (real) :cocoaspin: 's instance, and a few others. Two Jesus-themed Peertube instances, for example.

Also the live view is still entertaining: https://fedilist.com/ttyd/
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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Démons et Merveilles by Laurence Caillet, 2018

Nuits japonaises

Everything speaks to us of night, because we are in Japan. Whether we consult astrologers; whether we fall asleep in the subway; whether the earth opens up to let demons, angry spirits, or delightful ghosts pass through; whether lanterns are lit or fireflies shine, the boundaries between night and day blur...

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... and the world of the dead is separated from that of the living by only a single bridge. Illusions erase a reality that resurfaces in rituals that, thanks to bodily practices, chants, and theaters, solidify the world for a moment. One explanation emerges, immediately jostled by another. Tricks to deceive dangerous beings or approach the gods flourish, legal, ritual, or playful. A striking mixture of religions and concepts springs forth, always beginning anew, from Penance to the three thousand prostrations to humble offerings, boats of paper or straw. This author of dizzying knowledge recounts in an inventive and carnal style the song of toads, the eye of Baku, the palace of dreams or subtle calendars. For millennia, emperors, poets, and an entire people have together invented shadows and light in the night.
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It's Going Down @igd_news@kolektiva.social
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Multi-millionaire pundit with a net-worth of over 10 million wants the government to murder you if you can't pay your rent.

rollingstone.com/politics/poli

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 21: Brian Kilmeade is seen on "Fox & Friends" at Fox News Channel Studios on July 21, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images)

Fox Host Says to 'Just Kill 'Em' While Discussing Homeless People Who Decline Help

'Fox and Friends' co-host Brian Kilmeade suggested euthanizing unhoused people with mental health issues who decline help, saying, 'Just kill 'em.'

www.rollingstone.com · Rolling Stone

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abadidea @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
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Shared by Glyph

y'all, my husband (not a tech guy) just managed to stumble innocently into Windows' biggest, deepest, darkest black hole of legacy hacks:

"I was making textfiles with explanations of different D&D stats, str, dex, etc, but it wouldn't let me name a file con..."

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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Cultura y genocidio by Joan Frigolé, 2003

El siglo XX ha sido llamado el " siglo del genocidio" por el número de genocidios y de víctimas, que un especialista ha evaluado en sesenta millones, pero también por la acuñación del término genocidio por Lemkin, la celebración de la Convención de la ONU sobre el Genocidio (1948), que lo definió como un crimen universal e imprescriptible, y la creación de diversos Tribunales internacionales.

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La antropología en general ha prestado poca atención a este tema complejo y de dimensiones trágicas y se ha centrado más bien en el estudio de etnocidio, es decir, la destrucción de la cultura de un grupo humano. En este texto, por el contrario, se plantea el papel de la cultura, de un matriz cultural compuesta por concepciones de procreación, monoteísmo y nación o pueblo, representadas mediante relatos de inicio, personificaciones y símbolos, en el exterminio de grupos humanos específicos. Probablemente la contribución más importante del texto estribe en la perspectiva adoptada, es decir, en el planteamiento comparativo de la relación entre cultura, estado y genocidio. El estudio de este tema se trata de un objeto de estudio no sólo de importancia científica, sino también ética.
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Giraffe Beer @giraffe_beer@mstdn.maud.io
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回転式イカ一夜干し機、イカの群れが振り回されている絵ヅラは抜群に面白いが、よく考えると対気速度を与えて乾燥させるのは巨大ファンより理に適っているし、大量に処理ができるし、回転軸のついた台なのでどこにでも置けて設置コストもかからないしで非常に合理的である。イカの群れが振り回されている絵ヅラは抜群に面白いが。

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ここあにゃん shared the below article:

How to Build a Simple ActivityPub Reminder Bot in Python

AmaseCocoa @cocoa@hackers.pub

This post guides you through building a simple ActivityPub bot in Python using the `apkit` library. The bot listens for mentions and schedules reminders for users. It covers setting up the project, generating cryptographic keys for secure communication, defining the bot's identity as an ActivityPub Actor, and initializing the `apkit` server. The tutorial walks through the core logic for parsing reminder commands, sending notifications, and defining necessary web endpoints like `/actor` and `/inbox`. It also details how to handle incoming activities, such as `Follow` and `Create` events, and how to run the application using `uvicorn`. While the example uses in-memory storage for simplicity, the post suggests improvements like persistent storage and robust task queuing for production environments. This tutorial provides a solid foundation for building more complex ActivityPub applications.

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