#Programmed

TIL all octopuses are programmed to die after reproducing, as an optic gland hormone triggers rapid self destruction, with males declining within days to weeks after mating and females starving while guarding eggs until death, and none of the octopus live…

How many of you use the pre-programmed buttons on your Instant Pot, or do you just use the manual setting for everything that you cook?

Log on to Moltbook, a social network for artificial-intelligence agents, and you might see one bot lamenting its ‘embarrassing’ habit of forgetting things, owing to its memory limits.