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Cake day: June 2nd, 2026

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  • This is an interesting post because it mixes valid arguments with bogus just well enough to give the tankies (yeah, I’m talking to you) a defensible fall-back position. The Ukrainian military has a Neo-Nazi problem: Undeniable. Is that also a cornerstone of Russian anti-Ukrainian propaganda? Youbetcha. In comes the dog-whistle. Ukraine losing the war right now: Yup, unfortunate reality, though they seem to be fighting with every nail and tooth. “Losing the war”, yes, but not “Lost the war already”. And Russia is paying with heavy losses for that. And let’s not forget that this is only the case because Ukrainian allies (Hey, that meme shows a corner of the EU flag, what a coincidink) don’t get their shit together and put boots on the ground themselves; otherwise the power balance would look quite differently. Everyone, including the Russian military, expected the war to be over in a week (by official statements, anyway). Yet here we are, even though Ukraine is fighting one of the largest conventional armies in the world. Oh, and lastly: Enlighten me, how is Ukraine, not Russia, the Imperialist in this war?!





  • I wonder if a strict divide into planner and worker agents really is the best design for swarms. In the spirit of stigmergy, swarm intelligence emerges from every agent performing both of these roles according to their current context. I also wonder how much more performance could be gained by updating model weights as the swarm churns, either of every agent on their own or of every agent class. This would be the truer representation of learned behavior than the field journal described in this article, and it would also implement lessons from context drift and ‘LLM sleep’ from earlier this year. Impressive publication, nonetheless.











  • Glad it helps you get by! I hadn’t heard of the rotating antihistamines trick and was curious about the mechanism, so I asked Dr. DuckDuckGo. Could’ve always been some other tolerance mechanism, like faster breakdown of the drug, which rotating might help with. The paper does mention benadryl and a handful of other substances, but it’s also ancient by research standards, so I don’t know if that applies to all antihistamines or if some circumvent tolerance induction somehow.


  • Does rotating them actually work? I thought they all just blocked your histamine receptors, so your body couldn’t care less just which substance did that for expressing more histamine receptors / making more histamine, thereby developing tolerance.

    Edit: Yeah, so I hate to place a nocebo here, but taking a break, not rotating them, seems to be the only effective remedy to anti-histamine tolerance. That is, if taking a break is tolerable, of course. I don’t know if that has to be said but please take medical advice from your health care professional of choice and not from a lemmy comment.

    Tolerance developed to one antihistamine extended to others, even though the chemical relationship was not close. Return of pharmacologic response to an antihistamine after discontinuance of the drug takes from 3 to 14 days.

    https://www.jacionline.org/article/0021-8707(51)90033-0/fulltext