Contemporary paradigms of security and threat-management often prioritize hyper-vigilance and hyper-optimization, demanding continuous, error-free cognitive processing from human actors. This paper interrogates the psychological and existential sustainability of such models. Utilizing the metaphor of continuous surveillance (e.g., the "gold shop" security paradigm) and contrasting it with cinemat…

This work introduces a reinforcement learning framework in which the agent’s state is augmented with an internal viability variable representing structural and computational homeostasis. The resulting viability‑augmented MDP incorporates a logarithmic barrier in the reward, allowing safety to emerge directly from the agent’s internal dynamics rather than from external constraints. We prove that t…

Scientific Reports, Published online: 30 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-55660-0 Effect of polymyxin resistance evolution on the fitness costs of Acinetobacter baumannii and the underlying mechanisms of polymyxin resistance

Scientific Reports, Published online: 30 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-51796-1 Effect of electron irradiation on the optical and electrical properties of Manganese Mercury Thiocyanate and Manganese Mercury Thiocyanate Di Methyl Sulfoxide Crystals

Why is pulling a heavy object with a rope usually easier than carrying it by hand? I have several 25-liter water containers stored in my yard a few meters from the entrance. When I tried moving them ...

https://medium.com/@S01n/the-mirror-breaks-symbolic-recursion-and-the-false-self-ed19ed7a4941 The article mentions how symbolic recursion can destabilize identity, and it’s how the true self emerges ...

Loneliness in later life begins when contact remains, but dignity, purpose, and the feeling of being needed quietly disappear.

The operating problem Your model risk management (MRM) framework was built for a world where models stayed put. You trained them, validated them, deployed them, and monitored a handful of well-understood metrics. If something drifted, you retrained. Auditors understood the lifecycle. Regulators nodded along. Agentic AI breaks that world. These models don't just predict—they plan, execute multi-st…

To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks. I know the technology, I understand what it's doing and I know the impact, so I am vehemently anti-AI. I do not believe any positive outcome is possible with this form of AI that is worth the harms that it has already done and is continuing to do. Nor do I believe that “just one more model bro” will make something that is “intelligen…

Would you trust a "Vibe taxi driver", or a "vibe dentist"? Somehow the industry trusts "vibe coders" or "AI coders" but as expected quality is down the drain. Regardless of if you like it or not, the AI enshittification has begun. Now AI is making even healthcare decisions , an unregulated market. Not just physical health, mental health too. The self-driving car you take, may almost kill you . Is…

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge : Build With Hermes Agent TL;DR — Ask any judgment call and three different AI models argue it out, then Hermes hands down one verdict, a confidence score, and exactly why they split. Every verdict, dissent, and mind-changed-in-debate is written into Hermes' own memory, so the next question re-weights the jurors before they ever vote. The judgin…

A daily diary study found that people with high attachment anxiety experience a spike in depression and a drop in self-esteem on days when their partner pays more attention to their phone than to them.

Aider is the best terminal AI coding tool I've used. But by default it sends every diff through your OpenAI or Anthropic key, which gets expensive fast on real refactors — a single 100-file repo map can torch a few dollars before Aider even reads your prompt. This post shows how to run Aider against any LLM provider — Ollama for free local runs, OpenRouter for mixed-provider routing, AWS Bedrock …

Happy to announce HeliosProxy !! Far beyond a pooling tool, HeliosProxy ** is a next-gen programmable Postgres data-plane. **Works with PostgreSQL-compatible databases , not only HeliosDB. It starts as a PgBouncer-compatible wedge, then adds the operational surface teams usually build from multiple tools: connection pooling failover and transaction replay shadow execution anomaly detection edge c…

Leishmania parasites appear to evolve through widespread genetic exchange, reshaping assumptions about how they adapt and spread. A parasite long thought to spread mostly by cloning itself may be far more genetically dynamic than scientists once believed. A new international study suggests that Leishmania—a group of microscopic parasites responsible for debilitating tropical diseases—regularly sw…

The Problem With "Bitcoin-native" Claims Most things calling themselves Bitcoin-native are not. They settle on Ethereum, they custody coins through a federation, they hand you an IOU and call it Bitcoin. Plenty of projects ship something useful that touches Bitcoin somewhere. Few ship primitives where every byte that matters lives on the chain, or anchors to the chain, or settles on the chain. Th…

_Philosophy of Science_ 30 (2):158-164. 1963The relations between simplicity and economy, and between simplicity and complexity, are briefly discussed, and it is suggested that an appearance of simplicity may arise out of the matching of two complexities, e.g. in the perception of a simple color. Following out this idea, it is shown that scientific activity may be regarded as a matching of theore…

Human experience routinely extends beyond the immediate present. Memories remain active within present awareness, anticipated futures influence present decisions, and relationships, commitments, and purposes continue shaping experience across time. This paper examines the connection between temporal continuity and the felt character of experience. The central claim is that experience unfolds with…

How humans understood their own consciousness and their relationship with the rest of the natural world.

World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is in eastern Congo’s Bunia, where a rare type of Ebola is spreading faster than the response.