Sometimes we still need really obvious and simple advice, which can be the hardest to follow.

Sun Tzu wrote lots of seemingly simple and obvious things like "know the enemy and know yourself" in The Art of War. But if you look at conflicts from wars to politics now it is quite clear that most people still have little interest in understanding their enemy or themselves.

It turned out that it was easier for machines to create text and image than to put dishes away or unload washing machines.

AI camouflage is an interesting concept.

"To curtail fare evasion, SEPTA is testing taller gates at 69th Street Transportation Center". A permanent technical fix could pay off in the long-term.

Perhaps they could try installing gates like these that you can't just push through or jump over?

You can be completely incapacitated and if you don't say things in the right way you'll get no help.

These assessments now aren't really about how disabled you are. They are about using the correct words and describing problems in the correct way to accumulate the right number of points.

You shouldn't gamify the system and then complain about people learning to play the game.

This makes no sense though. The previous conservative government created a benefits system that requires help to navigate. You can't then ban disabled people from getting the help they need.

It seems notable that the BBC News doesn't seem to have reported this at all yet.

All these sorts of systems are so complicated now that it doesn't seem like anyone in government really understands them or how to change them. At least not without hurting the people who really need the support the most.

I think quite a few government systems have previously relied on general public ignorance in order to function. But that can no longer be relied upon in the social media age.

The government gamified the system using metrics that have to be correctly ticked to make it harder to claim and not require genuine assessments. But gradually people learnt to navigate the system and are sharing that knowledge everywhere in a way that wasn't previously possible.

I think this sort of thing is a potential threat to the benefits system as a whole. The harsh and arbitrary system made it necessary for disabled people to get this kind of help just to get even basic support. But now through social media all the help is very publicly accessible.

Making that sort of threat in public over minor reprimand and in front of your wife and children is not an indication of good character. A man making threats of bombing, gang rape, and burning women to death over a minor reprimand must be a permanent danger to society.

I'm not surprised by this. But the sex differences in risk are so interesting because we mostly have the same genes. Males and females can be quite biologically different when it comes to how our immune systems work.

This definitely needs rapid funding now. Get those samples fully sequenced.

The window is not the burglar though. If there were no burglars around then faulty windows would not increase the risk of burglaries at all. This is an attempt to explain how illnesses can have a genetic predisposition without being caused by those genes.

If you have the house with the faulty windows you'd have a higher risk of being burgled. But most homes with faulty windows would still not be burgled. Some homes with locked windows would still be burgled. But that increased risk can be a clue as to how burglaries happen.