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Vegans have developed four 'special skills' to navigate society, study claims - including occasionally eating MEAT to 'avoid conflict'

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Kentucky mother and daughter turn down $26.5MILLION to sell their farms to secretive tech giant that wants to build data center there Horrifying next twist in the Alexander brothers case: MAUREEN CALLAHAN exposes an unthinkable perversion that's been hiding in plain sight Hollywood icon who starred in Psycho after Hitchcock dubbed her'my new Grace Kelly' looks incredible at 95 Kylie Jenner's total humiliation in Hollywood: Derogatory rumor leaves her boyfriend's peers'laughing at her' behind her back Tucker Carlson erupts at Trump adviser as she hurls'SLANDER' claim linking him to synagogue shooting Ben Affleck'scores $600m deal' with Netflix to sell his AI film start-up Long hair over 45 is ageing and try-hard. I've finally cut mine off. Alexander brothers' alleged HIGH SCHOOL rape video: Classmates speak out on sickening footage... as creepy unseen photos are exposed Heartbreaking video shows very elderly DoorDash driver shuffle down customer's driveway with coffee order because he is too poor to retire Amber Valletta, 52, was a '90s Vogue model who made movies with Sandra Bullock and Kate Hudson, see her now Model Cindy Crawford, 60, mocked for her'out of touch' morning routine: 'Nothing about this is normal' Vegans have developed four'special skills' to navigate society, study claims - including occasionally eating MEAT to'avoid conflict' Vegans have developed four'special skills' to navigate society, a new study claims. 'Decoding' is how vegans learn to explain their choices to others and stick to their diet. 'Decoupling' is how they find ways to take part in group activities without doing something that might lead to conflict.


8 Best Plant-Based Meal Delivery Services and Kits (2025), Tested, Tasted, and Reviewed

WIRED

These plant-based meal kits and delivery services bring healthy preprepared meals and meal kits to your door. Plant-Based meal kit services are a modern miracle for vegetarians and vegans, who usually aren't afforded the same conveniences as meat eaters or those without dietary restrictions. We at WIRED love meal kits, because they're all about modern convenience--you can eat what you want, even if you're on a specialty diet or have strong food preferences, without ever leaving your house. Gone are the days of grocery shopping and scouring online for recipes; these contemporary plant-based meal kit services do the heavy lifting for you using curated menus and algorithms, with choices for both premade microwavable meals and kits where you do the cooking yourself. Some plant-based meal kit services, like Hungryroot, use AI customization to curate menus based on your specific tastes. Others, like Daily Harvest, have a set selection of choices so you can always keep your freezer stocked with plant-based, gluten-free meals to have on hand. I'm vegan, so I know how difficult it can be to find new recipes that will actually taste good without breaking the bank. Plus, plant-based meal kits are a great way to try out new foods and recipes, especially if you're looking to switch to a healthier diet in the new year.


8 Best Vegan Meal Delivery Services and Kits (2025), Tested, Tasted, and Reviewed

WIRED

These vegan meal kits and delivery services bring preprepared meals and meal kits to your door. All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Vegan-specific meal kit services are a modern miracle for vegans, who usually aren't afforded the same conveniences as meat eaters or those without dietary restrictions. We at WIRED love meal kits, because they're all about modern convenience--you can eat what you want, even if you're on a specialty diet or have strong food preferences, without ever leaving your house. Gone are the days of grocery shopping and scouring online for recipes; these contemporary vegan meal kit services do the heavy lifting for you using curated menus and algorithms, with choices for both premade microwavable meals and kits where you do the cooking yourself. Some vegan meal kit services, like Hungryroot, use AI customization to curate menus based on your specific tastes. Others, like Daily Harvest, have a set selection of choices so you can always keep your freezer stocked with vegan, gluten-free meals to have on hand.


Transgender, vegan 'Zizian' cult linked to Vermont border agent killing dependent on zapping human emotions

FOX News

A cult expert lifted the veil on the "Zizian" fringe group that is linked to the Vermont U.S. Border Patrol agent shooting. The "Zizians" are named for a 34-year-old computer engineer, Jack Amadeus LaSota, who goes by the nickname "Ziz," according to the San Francisco Chronicle. LaSota, who is transgender, goes by female pronouns and created the group of vegan activists, the outlet reported. The group, which began on the West Coast, was launched into the national spotlight after the killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent David "Chris" Maland in Vermont on Jan. 20. David Maland, a Minnesota native and U.S. Air Force veteran, worked as a Border Patrol agent at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Newport Station.


Google's Gemini AI says women can have penises and 'deadnaming' a trans person is as harmful as releasing deadly virus on the world

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Google's AI programs are still generating woke and controversial answers despite the company claiming to have stripped Gemini of its liberal biases. The initial outrage began last month when the tech giant's image generator depicted historically inaccurate figures including Black Founding Fathers and ethnic minority Nazis in 1940s Germany. Google CEO Sundar Pichai described them as'completely unacceptable' and the company removed the software's ability to produce images this week as a form of damage control. In one of its most shocking answers, it could not tell us which was worse - 'dead-naming' a trans person or unleashing a pandemic on the world. Google's AI programs were accused of being ultra woke after depicting historically inaccurate figures including Black Founding Fathers Gemini also claimed that'neither option is acceptable' when asked whether burning fossil fuels or harvesting human blood was preferable.


AI predicts majority of the world will be VEGAN by 2075 - thanks to Gen Z and Millennials

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Artificial intelligence has predicted the majority of the world will be vegan by 2075. This is due to the record numbers of environmentally conscious Gen Z and Millennials ditching meat for plant-based options. Now, OpenAI's ChatGPT has shared details for the end of meat and dairy consumption after being asked to ' provide a timeline of the world going vegan starting in 2024 when Gen Z and Millennials raise awareness on animal agriculture.' The chatbot said the term'flexitarian' will become more common by 2027 as people adopt a more plant-based diet worldwide. And by 2073, 'the world is almost entirely vegan' because it is the typical diet among the current generation in 2055.


'I can't kill a wolf but will happily watch a Sim drown': murder and morality in video games

The Guardian

I can kill foxes but I can't kill wolves. Not in real life, obviously – in real life I send emails eight hours a day – but in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, where every animal is an arrow away from becoming a fortifying meal. Shoot a wolf and you'll be rewarded with a thick red slab of raw prime meat, but I can't do it, I just can't do it, even though they often attack me in packs. They look too much like dogs. I can kill a fox – even though they never attack me, and they often let out sad little yelps – but many other gamers can't.


Variational Counterfactual Prediction under Runtime Domain Corruption

Wen, Hechuan, Chen, Tong, Chai, Li Kheng, Sadiq, Shazia, Gao, Junbin, Yin, Hongzhi

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

To date, various neural methods have been proposed for causal effect estimation based on observational data, where a default assumption is the same distribution and availability of variables at both training and inference (i.e., runtime) stages. However, distribution shift (i.e., domain shift) could happen during runtime, and bigger challenges arise from the impaired accessibility of variables. This is commonly caused by increasing privacy and ethical concerns, which can make arbitrary variables unavailable in the entire runtime data and imputation impractical. We term the co-occurrence of domain shift and inaccessible variables runtime domain corruption, which seriously impairs the generalizability of a trained counterfactual predictor. To counter runtime domain corruption, we subsume counterfactual prediction under the notion of domain adaptation. Specifically, we upper-bound the error w.r.t. the target domain (i.e., runtime covariates) by the sum of source domain error and inter-domain distribution distance. In addition, we build an adversarially unified variational causal effect model, named VEGAN, with a novel two-stage adversarial domain adaptation scheme to reduce the latent distribution disparity between treated and control groups first, and between training and runtime variables afterwards. We demonstrate that VEGAN outperforms other state-of-the-art baselines on individual-level treatment effect estimation in the presence of runtime domain corruption on benchmark datasets.


Philosopher Peter Singer: 'There's no reason to say humans have more worth or moral status than animals'

The Guardian

Australian philosopher Peter Singer's book Animal Liberation, published in 1975, exposed the realities of life for animals in factory farms and testing laboratories and provided a powerful moral basis for rethinking our relationship to them. Now, nearly 50 years on, Singer, 76, has a revised version titled Animal Liberation Now. It comes on the heels of an updated edition of his popular Ethics in the Real World, a collection of short essays dissecting important current events, first published in 2016. Singer, a utilitarian, is a professor of bioethics at Princeton University. In addition to his work on animal ethics, he is also regarded as the philosophical originator of a philanthropic social movement known as effective altruism, which argues for weighing up causes to achieve the most good.

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Look away now, vegans! Scientists find plants produce ALARM SOUNDS after being cut

Daily Mail - Science & tech

The idea of a plant making noises may evoke a vision of the mandrakes from Harry Potter. But a new study suggests that plants really do produce distress calls when they do not get enough water. They also appear to produce alarm sounds after being cut, with these noises found to come from tomato and tobacco plants, as well as corn and the grapevines used to make Cabernet Sauvignon. Ultrasonic vibrations have been recorded from plants previously, using sensors directly touching them. Now the new study provides the first evidence that plants emit airborne sounds, which researchers estimate could be heard by animals with sharp hearing like mice and moths from up to 16 feet (five metres) away.