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  1. May 2026
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    1. It’s maddening how the town only decides to “protect” Janie’s reputation the moment she starts living for herself. For twenty years, they watched her waste away as Jody’s trophy, but overalls and a game of checkers? That’s where they draw the line. Pheoby is the only one who treats Janie like a human being instead of a spectacle.

    2. t was after the picnic that the town began to notice things and got mad. Tea Cake and Mrs. Mayor Starks! All the men that she could get, and fooling with somebody like Tea Cake! Another thing, Joe Starks hadn’t been dead but nine months and here she goes sashaying off to a picnic in pink linen

      Not happy about going to a picnic.

    3. t was after the picnic that the town began to notice things and got mad. Tea Cake and Mrs. Mayor Starks! All the men that she could get, and fooling with somebody like Tea Cake! Another thing, Joe Starks hadn’t been dead but nine months and here she goes sashaying off to a picnic in pink linen

      They were getting mad and they also had a picnic. People were getting mad about tea cake being with Janie

    4. Poor Joe Starks. Bet he turns over in his grave every day. Tea Cake and Janie gone hunting. Tea Cake and Janie gone fishing. Tea Cake and Janie gone to Orlando to the movies

      They just have fun doing things they like to do

    5. t was after the picnic that the town began to notice things and got mad. Tea Cake and Mrs. Mayor Starks! All the men that she could get, and fooling with somebody like Tea Cake! Another thing, Joe Starks hadn’t been dead but nine months and here she goes sashaying off to a picnic in pink linen.

      The town was mad at Janie for being with a younger man like Tea Cake so little time after Joe died.

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    1. anie wanted to ask Hezekiah about Tea Cake, but she was afraid he might misunderstand her and think she was interested. In the first place he looked too young for her. Must be around twenty-five and here she was around forty. Then again he didn’t look like he had too much.

      She knew tea cake liked her but didn’t want to admit she liked him to.

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    1. Business was dull all day, because numbers of people had gone to the game. She decided to close early, because it was hardly worth the trouble of keeping open on an afternoon like this. She had set six o’clock as her limit.

      A lot of people were gone for the game so the business was dull

    2. Business was dull all day, because numbers of people had gone to the game. She decided to close early, because it was hardly worth the trouble of keeping open on an afternoon like this. She had set six o’clock as her limit.

      She had closed the buisness because of the game that day.

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    1. He cut nine hairs out of the mole of her head for luck and went off happy.

      Tea cake might just be using Janie for her money and for luck when he gambles.. gold digger

    2. Tea Cake was spending and doing out of his own pocket, so Janie never told him about the two hundred dollars she had pinned inside her shirt next to her skin

      She had money in her coat and she lost it

    3. Tea Cake must be hunting all over the city for that fish. She kept that thought in front of her in order not to think too much.

      Janie wanted to trust Tea Cake instead of thinking the worst.

    4. Jacksonville. Tea Cake’s letter had said Jacksonville. He had worked in the railroad shops up there before and his old boss had promised him a job come next pay day. No need for Janie to wait any longer. Wear the new blue dress because he meant to marry her right from the train. Hurry up and come because he was about to turn into pure sugar thinking about her. Come on, baby, papa Tea Cake never could be mad with you

      Tea cake expresses emotion and he wrote to Janie

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    1. She sent her face to Joe’s funeral, and herself went rollicking with the springtime across the world. After a while the people finished their celebration and Janie went on home.

      They were sad he died but were also happy about his death.

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    1. After that night Jody moved his things and slept in a room downstairs. He didn’t really hate Janie, but he wanted her to think so. He had crawled off to lick his wounds. They didn’t talk too much around the store either. Anybody that didn’t know would have thought that things had blown over, it looked so quiet and peaceful around. But the stillness was the sleep of swords.

      Jody and Janie seem mad and feels like there is tension between the,

    1. The hippocampus is particularly vulnerable to early environmental adversity, with growing evidence linking its disrupted development to impairments in learning and emotional regulation in childhood.

      I’m excited about these findings. A better understanding of the mechanisms underlying hippocampal development gives us targets for translational work aimed at identifying and mitigating sources of adversity linked to poor neurodevelopmental outcomes.

      Would love to hear thoughts from the community.

    1. If histories fail to hinge on women’s lives, they suggest, the archive is the problem, because its silences are deliberate, the result of men and institutions using their records to consolidate their power.

      Men silencing women, to uplift themselves only so everything is focused on them, or just making women's actions/events seem smaller than they actually are.

    2. For example, white women’s increasing participation in the paid labor force in the twentieth century, a hallmark of the modern United States, rested on the work of other women, often migrant women of color, to clean their clothes, cook their food, nurse their parents, and nurture their children.

      Majority of the women given rights were White women at first due to their privelage, and with those privelages they were given such as being able to work, they placed their homemaking roles onto WOC who had limited rights, and job opportunities.

    3. Like the pictured seamstress stitching dolls in 1947 Puerto Rico, they lived, worked, and died at the center of families and communities. Like her, many dwelled in cities.

      Only focused as homemakers, not able to get jobs like men, etc. Or go off places like men just in general not given the same privelages.

    1. Research by Assaf Razin of Tel Aviv University (2025) finds that declining trust in democratic institutions is itself a driver of emigration, independent of tax policy.

      DELETE this entire sentence. Citing Razin (2025) on declining trust in democratic institutions as an emigration driver opens a major thematic door that this piece does not walk through anywhere else. Dropping it as a one-liner is more confusing than illuminating; readers will expect us to engage with it. Either commit to a full subsection on institutional trust (with our own data), or cut the reference entirely. Recommend cut.

    2. For the individual, the math is simpler: a professional who stays in Munich instead of moving to Zurich forgoes roughly EUR 14,550 in disposable income per year of the same gross salary. Over a ten-year career, that is EUR 145,500, before accounting for higher Swiss gross pay.

      DELETE this paragraph. Three reasons: (1) it is a third or fourth restatement of the same Munich-vs-Zurich math, the reader has seen the figure already; (2) it implicitly attributes the move to tax / salary differentials, which we cannot substantiate (see the 'lower personal tax burden' and 'each for different reasons' annotations); (3) it cherry-picks (no cost-of-living adjustment, see the 'Swiss salaries' and 'EUR 14,550 less' annotations). Cut the whole paragraph. The fiscal-cost section makes its point with the aggregate 11-21 billion EUR figure (which itself needs the offset from the '11 to 21 billion' annotation).

    3. working-age adults (25-64). Applied to the annual net loss of 91,067, that is roughly 48,000 economically active

      REWRITE, phrase as assumption, not fact. We do not directly observe employment status; we are inferring it from age. Suggested rewrite: 'Roughly 53% are working age (25-64). Applied to the annual net loss of 91,067, that implies roughly 48,000 LIKELY economically active people per year, an estimate, not a measurement, since employment status is not observed in the source data.' Apply the same hedging language anywhere else the piece treats working-age and economically active as synonyms. Tied to the 'age profile points to working-age' annotation.

    4. bureaucracy,

      DELETE the word 'bureaucracy.' Two problems: (1) it echoes a right-wing populist trope ('German bureaucracy is killing us') without evidence that the destination countries (Austria, Switzerland, US) are meaningfully less bureaucratic for an individual emigrant; (2) we provide no measurement of bureaucratic burden as an emigration driver. Cut the word from the list. The remaining factors (career opportunities, housing costs, quality of life) stand on their own.

    5. llustrative example at EUR 75,000 gross, single worker, no children. Tax rates from OECD Taxing Wages 2025. For families, Kindergeld and Ehegattensplitting narrow the gap. On the other hand: Swiss gross salaries for equivalent roles are typically 30-50% higher

      DELETE, ties to the 'EUR 14,550 less in Munich than Zurich' annotation. This footnote tries to soften the cherry-picking by mentioning Kindergeld and Swiss gross salaries, but it goes the wrong way: it actually amplifies the 'Switzerland is better' framing without showing the other side. Switzerland is significantly more expensive, especially for families. German childcare is heavily subsidized (free in some Länder); Swiss childcare runs around CHF 2,000/month. Health insurance, rent, groceries are all materially higher. ACTION: remove this footnote when removing the worked example. If the author insists on keeping any salary/tax comparison anywhere in the piece, it MUST be cost-of-living-adjusted (purchasing power parity or net-of-childcare disposable income), otherwise it is cherry-picking.

    6. A EUR 75,000 earner takes home EUR 14,550 less in Munich than in Zurich

      DELETE this sentence and the surrounding 'Spot the Swiss-German difference' subsection in full. The same earner does not earn the same EUR 75,000 in Zurich; gross salaries are 30-50% higher there, costs are higher, and the framing implies tax is the driver of emigration, which we cannot substantiate. Keeping it weakens the piece by inviting the obvious cherry-picking objection. Keep the OECD tax-burden table (it is neutral reference data). Cut the worked example and the 'EUR 14,550 less' framing.

    7. The positive headline figure is driven by returning naturalized citizens (people born abroad who hold Spanish passports

      VERIFY, claim needs source check. Are we sure Spain's positive headline is driven by FOREIGN-BORN naturalized citizens returning, and not by NATIVE-BORN Spanish citizens returning home (e.g. the post-2008-crisis emigration wave coming back)? The current sentence asserts the first interpretation, but the underlying INE / Eurostat tables typically distinguish 'place of birth' from 'citizenship'. We should check the place-of-birth breakdown directly. FLAG: send research agent to confirm using INE microdata or Eurostat 'migr_imm3ctb' (immigration by country of birth and citizenship). Rewrite once verified, with a footnote citing the table.

    8. In August 2024, Sweden's government noted that the country recorded net emigration for the first time in more than 50 years, caused mainly by a sharp tightening of migration policies for foreigners.

      CLARIFY, two timelines are tangled. The reader cannot tell whether: (a) 2024 was the first year Sweden's TOTAL migration flow went negative in 50+ years (likely true, due to the tightening of foreign-migration policy), or (b) 2024 was the first year the NATIVE-BORN flow went negative, which seems unlikely given the tripling-since-2019 figure cited elsewhere. Rewrite to separate them clearly. Example: 'Sweden's total migration balance turned negative in 2024 for the first time in over 50 years. The government attributes this primarily to tightened rules on foreign immigration. Separately, native-born net emigration has been negative since [YEAR] and tripled between 2019 and 2024. The drivers of that native-born trend are not yet well understood.' Verify the actual year native-born flow turned negative before publishing.

    9. and rigid labor markets

      CLARIFY OR CUT. 'Rigid labor markets' is jargon. What specifically does this mean for Italy? (Difficulty firing? Strong public-sector tenure blocking lateral moves? Concentration of jobs by region?) If we keep it, define it concretely with one example. If we cannot substantiate it as a meaningful driver of emigration, drop it. The rest of the Italy paragraph (wage differentials, Germany as destination) is strong enough on its own.

    10. each for different reasons.

      REPHRASE, false certainty repeated. The 'each for different reasons' framing is asserted multiple times without evidence about motive (we observe destinations and demographics, not why individuals chose them). Rewrite to: 'The three destinations differ in what they plausibly offer: higher pay (CH), language and proximity (AT), career scale (US). Individual motives cannot be observed in this dataset.' Then audit the rest of the piece for other instances of the same overclaim and align the language. Tied to the 'lower personal tax burden' annotation.

    11. lower personal tax burden

      SOFTEN causal claims. We do not actually know why individuals move; motives are personal and unobserved. Rewrite to present factors as plausible, not definitive: 'Among the plausible draws are higher gross salaries, a lower personal tax burden, and proximity. We cannot observe motives directly.' For Switzerland specifically: lead with higher gross pay (the most defensible factor), not tax. For Austria (in the next paragraph): cut 'despite a nearly identical tax burden', it implies emigrants are tax-driven and is unsupported. Keep shared language, geography, proximity, and quality of life as draws, those are convincing. The US framing is fine as-is.

    12. age profile points to working-age adults

      MAKE THE ASSUMPTION EXPLICIT. We are inferring 'economically active' from 'working age', which is an inference, not a measurement. Do not hide it. Suggested rewrite: 'The age profile is dominated by working-age adults (25-64). We treat them as likely economically active, supported by panel-study evidence that 76% hold a university degree (vs. 25% nationally), a population strongly attached to the labor market.' Apply the same wording discipline ('likely', 'we assume') consistently wherever the piece slips from 'working age' to 'working' or 'economically active' (see also the '48,000 economically active' annotation in the cost section). Goal: pre-empt the obvious counter-argument that some of these people may be on benefits, students, or non-working partners.

    13. ne.

      REWRITE, same language risk as the 'immigrants moving on' annotation. The phrase 'your own people' (in the paragraph anchored just below this point, Hypothesis would not let me select it directly) is unacceptable. It implies a national in-group versus outsiders and echoes nativist framing. Suggested rewrite: replace 'your own people' with neutral terminology like 'people the country educated and invested in' or 'domestically born and raised population.' Apply this consistently throughout the piece.

    14. immigrants moving on, not Germans leaving.

      REWRITE, language risk. The phrasing 'immigrants moving on, not Germans leaving' implicitly excludes German passport-holders born abroad from the category 'Germans.' This reads as othering and risks being read as right-wing or nativist framing, even if that was not the intent. Suggested rewrite (neutral, descriptive): 'Most of the half-million emigrants in 2024 were people born abroad, including naturalized German citizens, leaving Germany again. The native-born outflow is a smaller but distinct subset.' STANDING NOTE for AI: any time you spot language with similar 'us vs. them' or 'real Germans' undertones in this piece, flag it for green-light review before publishing.

    15. The top three destinations for German migrants each tell a different story

      REWRITE this key finding. State the WHERE first, save the WHY for later. Replace the current bullet with: 'The top three destinations for German emigrants are Switzerland, Austria, and the United States.' Remove the EUR 75,000 / Munich-vs-Zurich worked example from this key-findings box. It is premature here, attributes motive to taxes (which we cannot substantiate), and crowds out the simple geographic finding. The 'why' belongs in a later analysis section, not in the headline finding.

    16. The specific outflow of people each country raised and invested in tells a different story.

      REWRITE for impact. Right now this sentence is vague (it teases 'a different story' without saying what). The headline above already gave away the punchline, so the subhead should now deliver substance, not suspense. Suggested direction: name the actual finding. Example: '17 of 19 European countries are losing more native-born citizens than they gain, and the headline migration figures hide it.' Make it concrete and punchy.

    17. This outflow is widely described as brain drain:

      FLAG / TODO: revisit. The 'brain drain' framing is the heart of what's problematic about this piece, but I don't have a concrete fix yet. Leaving the marker so I can come back to it. No edit needed in this pass.

    1. eLife Assessment

      This valuable study reports a spatiotemporal atlas of mouse placental development and explores the role of glycogen trophoblast cells in fetal viability. Solid data are presented to support the main conclusion. This work will be of great interest to developmental DNA reproductive biologists.

    2. Reviewer #1 (Public review):

      In this manuscript, the authors combine single-nucleus RNA sequencing with spatial transcriptomics to generate a spatiotemporal atlas of mouse placental development and explore the role of glycogen trophoblast cells in fetal viability. The study integrates several computational approaches, including trajectory analysis, regulatory network inference, and spatial mapping, together with histology and glycogen measurements. Based on these analyses, the authors propose that glycogen trophoblast cells provide metabolic support that is important for maintaining placental function and fetal survival.

      One of the main strengths of the study is the quality and scope of the dataset. The integration of snRNA-seq with Stereo-seq spatial transcriptomics provides a detailed view of placental organization across regions and developmental stages. This type of combined spatial and transcriptional analysis is still relatively rare in placental biology and represents an important contribution to the field. The atlas itself will likely be a valuable resource for future studies.

      Another strength is the effort to connect transcriptional findings with tissue-level validation. The glycogen staining and biochemical measurements support the interpretation that glycogen trophoblast cells contribute to placental metabolic function. The spatial analyses identifying macrophage accumulation in the labyrinth region of mutant placentas are also interesting and illustrate how spatial approaches can reveal microenvironmental changes that are difficult to detect otherwise.

      The main limitation of the study is that the conclusion that glycogen cells are essential mediators of metabolic support for fetal viability remains partly indirect. The transcriptomic and spatial data strongly suggest a role for these cells, but it is still difficult to determine whether glycogen cell dysfunction is the primary cause of fetal lethality or a consequence of broader placental abnormalities. Clarifying this point would strengthen the central message of the paper.

      Similarly, the macrophage accumulation observed in the labyrinth appears consistent with a response to tissue stress or injury, but its relationship to glycogen cell function is not fully explained. A clearer discussion of whether this represents a primary mechanism or a secondary effect would improve the interpretation.

      Overall, this is a strong dataset and a useful spatial atlas of placental development. The study provides convincing descriptive insight into glycogen trophoblast biology, and with some clarification of the mechanistic conclusions, the manuscript will be even stronger.

    3. Reviewer #2 (Public review):

      This manuscript constructs a spatiotemporal transcriptomic atlas (STAMP) of the mouse placenta from E9.5-E18.5 by integrating Stereo-seq and snRNA-seq, and identifies two glycogen trophoblast cell (GC) subtypes (GC-1 and GC-2), a spatial transition from the junctional zone (JZ) to the decidua, and metabolic defects in Ano6-null placentas including GC persistence, glycogen accumulation, reduced glycogenolysis metabolites, and partial rescue by maternal glucose supplementation. The breadth of the dataset and the integration of atlas construction with PAS/TEM/LC-MS analyses are impressive, and the study has the potential to provide a valuable resource for the placental biology community.

      However, in its current form, the central claim that "GC-mediated metabolic support is essential/indispensable for fetal viability" is not sufficiently disentangled from the complex phenotype of a global Ano6 knockout model. In addition, the stage-level biological replication in the atlas and the claim of "single-cell resolution" require more careful presentation. Therefore, while the study is interesting and potentially impactful, substantial revisions are required, particularly to recalibrate the strength of the conclusions and causal interpretations.

      Major comments

      (1) The most significant concern is that the manuscript overinterprets the phenotype observed in a global Ano6 knockout as direct evidence that GC glycogen metabolism is essential for fetal viability. The authors themselves report multiple severe placental abnormalities in the knockout, including reduced placental size and weight, structural defects in the labyrinth, impaired vascularization, and accumulation of abnormal regions. Previous studies cited in the manuscript also indicate that Ano6 deficiency leads to defects in syncytiotrophoblast formation, impaired maternofetal exchange, and perinatal lethality.

      In this context, the current data support an association between GC metabolic defects and fetal lethality, but do not establish that GC glycogen metabolism is the primary causal driver. The conclusion should therefore be moderated (e.g., "contributes to" rather than "is essential for"), unless additional placenta-specific or GC-specific functional validation is provided.

      (2) Maternal glucose supplementation is an interesting functional experiment, but in its current form, it provides supportive rather than definitive mechanistic evidence. While survival improves (from ~3% to ~10%), the rescue remains partial. Moreover, the readouts are largely limited to metabolite restoration (glucose, G1P, G6P) in the placenta and fetal liver.

      To support a stronger causal claim, the authors should assess whether glucose supplementation also rescues: placental morphology (especially labyrinth structure), GC number and PAS staining, ultrastructural glycogen features (TEM), fetal growth and developmental outcomes.

      (3) The atlas is constructed from nine placentas across developmental stages, suggesting limited biological replication per stage. It remains unclear how robust the observed temporal trends are to litter effects, sex differences, or sectioning variability.

      Furthermore, the "single-cell resolution" is not directly measured but inferred via image segmentation and reference-based mapping (e.g., TACCO). This should be more explicitly stated, as it represents computational inference rather than direct single-cell measurement.

      The authors should:<br /> - clearly report biological replicates per stage (including litter and sex),<br /> - demonstrate reproducibility of key patterns across independent samples,<br /> - refine the wording to reflect segmentation- and reference-based single-cell inference.

      (4) The proposed developmental trajectory (JZ progenitor → GC precursor → GC-1 → GC-2) and the claim of GC migration from JZ to decidua are based on spatial distribution and computational trajectory analyses (Monocle, CytoTRACE).

      While this is a compelling model, it remains inferential. The language throughout the manuscript should be softened (e.g., "consistent with spatial transition" rather than "migration"). Ideally, additional experimental validation, such as stage-resolved RNAscope/immunostaining quantification or lineage tracing, would strengthen this claim.

      (5) The manuscript concludes that ANO6 deficiency leads to impaired glycogen utilization, based primarily on the observation that differentiation markers and glycogenolytic enzyme transcripts are unchanged.

      However, this demonstrates what is not altered rather than what is mechanistically responsible for the defect. A more direct mechanistic link is needed, such as changes in enzyme activity, altered intracellular localization, effects on ion homeostasis or membrane biology.

      (6) The statistical framework requires clarification. Several analyses use n = 4-8 placentas or "independent experiments," but it is unclear whether these represent independent litters or multiple samples from the same dam.

      Given the risk of pseudoreplication in placental studies, the authors should define whether n refers to placentas or litters, report the number of dams per genotype, and ensure appropriate statistical treatment (e.g., litter-based analysis or mixed-effects models).

    4. Author response:

      eLife Assessment

      This valuable study reports a spatiotemporal atlas of mouse placental development and explores the role of glycogen trophoblast cells in fetal viability. Solid data are presented to support the main conclusion. This work will be of great interest to developmental DNA reproductive biologists.

      We thank the editors for this positive and balanced assessment of our study. We are encouraged that the spatiotemporal mouse placental atlas and the functional analysis of glycogen trophoblast cells were considered valuable, and that the data were viewed as providing solid support for the main conclusions.

      In the revised manuscript, we will further clarify the scope of these conclusions, particularly regarding the contribution of GC-associated glycogen metabolism to fetal viability in the global Ano6 knockout model. We will also refine the wording where needed to ensure that the mechanistic interpretation accurately reflects the strength of the available evidence.

      Public Reviews:

      Reviewer #1 (Public review):

      In this manuscript, the authors combine single-nucleus RNA sequencing with spatial transcriptomics to generate a spatiotemporal atlas of mouse placental development and explore the role of glycogen trophoblast cells in fetal viability. The study integrates several computational approaches, including trajectory analysis, regulatory network inference, and spatial mapping, together with histology and glycogen measurements. Based on these analyses, the authors propose that glycogen trophoblast cells provide metabolic support that is important for maintaining placental function and fetal survival.

      One of the main strengths of the study is the quality and scope of the dataset. The integration of snRNA-seq with Stereo-seq spatial transcriptomics provides a detailed view of placental organization across regions and developmental stages. This type of combined spatial and transcriptional analysis is still relatively rare in placental biology and represents an important contribution to the field. The atlas itself will likely be a valuable resource for future studies.

      Another strength is the effort to connect transcriptional findings with tissue-level validation. The glycogen staining and biochemical measurements support the interpretation that glycogen trophoblast cells contribute to placental metabolic function. The spatial analyses identifying macrophage accumulation in the labyrinth region of mutant placentas are also interesting and illustrate how spatial approaches can reveal microenvironmental changes that are difficult to detect otherwise.

      The main limitation of the study is that the conclusion that glycogen cells are essential mediators of metabolic support for fetal viability remains partly indirect. The transcriptomic and spatial data strongly suggest a role for these cells, but it is still difficult to determine whether glycogen cell dysfunction is the primary cause of fetal lethality or a consequence of broader placental abnormalities. Clarifying this point would strengthen the central message of the paper.

      Similarly, the macrophage accumulation observed in the labyrinth appears consistent with a response to tissue stress or injury, but its relationship to glycogen cell function is not fully explained. A clearer discussion of whether this represents a primary mechanism or a secondary effect would improve the interpretation.

      Overall, this is a strong dataset and a useful spatial atlas of placental development. The study provides convincing descriptive insight into glycogen trophoblast biology, and with some clarification of the mechanistic conclusions, the manuscript will be even stronger.

      We thank the reviewer for this constructive assessment of our manuscript. We are pleased that the reviewer recognized the quality and scope of the dataset, particularly the integration of snRNA sequencing with Stereo-seq spatial transcriptomics to generate a spatiotemporal atlas of mouse placental development. We also appreciate the reviewer’s view that this atlas represents a valuable resource for the placental biology and developmental biology communities. We also appreciate the reviewer’s important point that the causal relationship between glycogen trophoblast cell dysfunction, placental metabolic impairment, and fetal viability should be presented with appropriate caution. In the revised manuscript, we will clarify that our data support a strong association between impaired glycogen trophoblast cell function, altered placental glycogen metabolism, and fetal lethality in the global Ano6 knockout model, but do not by themselves establish glycogen trophoblast dysfunction as the sole or primary cause of fetal loss. We will revise the relevant sections to avoid overstatement and to distinguish more clearly between direct experimental evidence, correlative spatial-transcriptomic observations, and mechanistic interpretation. Similarly, we agree that the macrophage accumulation observed in the labyrinth region is most appropriately interpreted as a spatially localized immune or tissue-stress response in the mutant placenta. In the revised manuscript, we will expand the discussion to clarify that, while this observation may reflect downstream consequences of placental dysfunction and altered tissue homeostasis, the current data do not establish macrophage accumulation as a primary mechanism linking glycogen trophoblast defects to fetal lethality. We will therefore frame this finding as an important microenvironmental alteration revealed by the spatial atlas, rather than as definitive evidence of a direct causal pathway.

      Reviewer #2 (Public review):

      This manuscript constructs a spatiotemporal transcriptomic atlas (STAMP) of the mouse placenta from E9.5-E18.5 by integrating Stereo-seq and snRNA-seq, and identifies two glycogen trophoblast cell (GC) subtypes (GC-1 and GC-2), a spatial transition from the junctional zone (JZ) to the decidua, and metabolic defects in Ano6-null placentas including GC persistence, glycogen accumulation, reduced glycogenolysis metabolites, and partial rescue by maternal glucose supplementation. The breadth of the dataset and the integration of atlas construction with PAS/TEM/LC-MS analyses are impressive, and the study has the potential to provide a valuable resource for the placental biology community.

      However, in its current form, the central claim that "GC-mediated metabolic support is essential/indispensable for fetal viability" is not sufficiently disentangled from the complex phenotype of a global Ano6 knockout model. In addition, the stage-level biological replication in the atlas and the claim of "single-cell resolution" require more careful presentation. Therefore, while the study is interesting and potentially impactful, substantial revisions are required, particularly to recalibrate the strength of the conclusions and causal interpretations.

      Major comments

      (1) The most significant concern is that the manuscript overinterprets the phenotype observed in a global Ano6 knockout as direct evidence that GC glycogen metabolism is essential for fetal viability. The authors themselves report multiple severe placental abnormalities in the knockout, including reduced placental size and weight, structural defects in the labyrinth, impaired vascularization, and accumulation of abnormal regions. Previous studies cited in the manuscript also indicate that Ano6 deficiency leads to defects in syncytiotrophoblast formation, impaired maternofetal exchange, and perinatal lethality.

      In this context, the current data support an association between GC metabolic defects and fetal lethality, but do not establish that GC glycogen metabolism is the primary causal driver. The conclusion should therefore be moderated (e.g., "contributes to" rather than "is essential for"), unless additional placenta-specific or GC-specific functional validation is provided.

      (2) Maternal glucose supplementation is an interesting functional experiment, but in its current form, it provides supportive rather than definitive mechanistic evidence. While survival improves (from ~3% to ~10%), the rescue remains partial. Moreover, the readouts are largely limited to metabolite restoration (glucose, G1P, G6P) in the placenta and fetal liver.

      To support a stronger causal claim, the authors should assess whether glucose supplementation also rescues: placental morphology (especially labyrinth structure), GC number and PAS staining, ultrastructural glycogen features (TEM), fetal growth and developmental outcomes.

      (3) The atlas is constructed from nine placentas across developmental stages, suggesting limited biological replication per stage. It remains unclear how robust the observed temporal trends are to litter effects, sex differences, or sectioning variability.

      Furthermore, the "single-cell resolution" is not directly measured but inferred via image segmentation and reference-based mapping (e.g., TACCO). This should be more explicitly stated, as it represents computational inference rather than direct single-cell measurement.

      The authors should:

      - clearly report biological replicates per stage (including litter and sex),

      - demonstrate reproducibility of key patterns across independent samples,

      - refine the wording to reflect segmentation- and reference-based single-cell inference.

      (4) The proposed developmental trajectory (JZ progenitor → GC precursor → GC-1 → GC-2) and the claim of GC migration from JZ to decidua are based on spatial distribution and computational trajectory analyses (Monocle, CytoTRACE).

      While this is a compelling model, it remains inferential. The language throughout the manuscript should be softened (e.g., "consistent with spatial transition" rather than "migration"). Ideally, additional experimental validation, such as stage-resolved RNAscope/immunostaining quantification or lineage tracing, would strengthen this claim.

      (5) The manuscript concludes that ANO6 deficiency leads to impaired glycogen utilization, based primarily on the observation that differentiation markers and glycogenolytic enzyme transcripts are unchanged.

      However, this demonstrates what is not altered rather than what is mechanistically responsible for the defect. A more direct mechanistic link is needed, such as changes in enzyme activity, altered intracellular localization, effects on ion homeostasis or membrane biology.

      (6) The statistical framework requires clarification. Several analyses use n = 4-8 placentas or "independent experiments," but it is unclear whether these represent independent litters or multiple samples from the same dam.

      Given the risk of pseudoreplication in placental studies, the authors should define whether n refers to placentas or litters, report the number of dams per genotype, and ensure appropriate statistical treatment (e.g., litter-based analysis or mixed-effects models).

      We thank the Reviewer for the careful evaluation of our manuscript and for recognizing the breadth of the STAMP dataset and the value of integrating spatial transcriptomics, snRNA-seq, PAS, TEM and LC-MS analyses.

      We agree that the current manuscript overstates some mechanistic conclusions. In the revision, we will moderate the central claim and more clearly acknowledge that the global Ano6 knockout model has complex placental defects.

      Comment 1: Causality in the global Ano6 knockout model

      We agree that our current data do not prove that GC glycogen metabolism is the primary cause of fetal lethality in the global Ano6 knockout model. In the revised manuscript, we will avoid presenting GC dysfunction as the sole causal mechanism. We will replace stronger terms such as “essential” or “indispensable” with more measured wording such as “contributes to” or “supports.” We will frame impaired GC-associated glycogen metabolism as one important component of Ano6-null placental dysfunction.

      Comment 2: Maternal glucose supplementation

      We agree that maternal glucose supplementation provides supportive, but not definitive, mechanistic evidence. In the revision, we will describe the partial survival rescue more cautiously and will not use it as proof of GC-specific causality. Where possible, we will also assess whether glucose supplementation affects additional phenotypes, including fetal growth, placental morphology, GC abundance and PAS/glycogen readouts.

      Comment 3: Biological replication and single-cell resolution

      We agree that the replication structure and the wording of “single-cell resolution” need clarification. We will report the number of placentas, litters and available sex information for each stage. We will also revise the wording to make clear that the spatial single-cell annotation is based on image segmentation and snRNA-seq reference mapping, rather than direct single-cell measurement by Stereo-seq alone.

      Comment 4: GC trajectory and spatial transition

      We agree that the proposed GC trajectory and JZ-to-decidua transition remain inferential. We will soften the language throughout the manuscript, using terms such as “spatial transition,” “redistribution,” or “consistent with migration” rather than stating that migration has been directly proven.

      Comment 5: Mechanism of impaired glycogen utilization

      We agree that unchanged GC markers and glycogenolytic enzyme transcripts do not reveal the direct mechanism. In the revision, we will state more clearly that these data argue against gross GC differentiation defects or transcriptional loss of glycogenolytic enzymes, but that the direct mechanism may involve enzyme activity, localization, ion homeostasis or ANO6-dependent membrane biology.

      Comment 6: Statistical framework

      We agree that the statistical framework needs clearer reporting. We will define what each n represents, including placenta, section, litter, dam or independent experiment, and will revise the analysis or description where needed to minimize concerns about pseudoreplication.

      Overall, we appreciate these comments and will use them to make the revised manuscript more precise, transparent and appropriately cautious.

    1. Some governments and laws protect the privacy of individuals (using a Natural Rights ethical framing). These include the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which includes a “right to be forgotten

      Legal framework

      This highlights potential legal risks if companies fail to comply with data protection laws such as GDPR.

    2. the company might have computer programs that automatically search through the messages

      Surveillance risk

      This suggests a privacy concern, as users may not be fully aware that their messages are being monitored or analyzed.

    3. those “private” messages are stored in the computers at those companies

      Data access risk

      This raises a legal risk because user messages are stored by the platform and may be accessed beyond the user’s expectation.

    1. What an interesting read. The bug, the exploit, and all its context is clearly explained, and a cool way to get insight into how these things work.

    1. Typer, an application that runs an AI model locally as personal chatbot. It pushes out of sight that you need to have a model that fits locally. Default is Qwen 3.5 but it will upgrade and download models silently. This means a) you don't know what you're running, b) the software is capable of independently downloading stuff (which seems like an attack vector to me).

    1. How is AI reshaping the ethics of translation?On May 22 (14:00-16:00), the University of Udine will host Anthony Pym (you all know Anthony Pym, right? 🙂). In his talk, “Rethinking Translation Ethics in an Age of AI”, Pym will address one of the most pressing questions facing the field today. This event is particularly relevant for students, researchers, and professionals working in translation and related areas, offering a unique opportunity to engage with cutting-edge thinking from a leading voice in the discipline.Join us for what promises to be a stimulating and timely discussion!📍 Palazzo Antonini (Udine) + online via Teams (https://lnkd.in/dzFhjAc2) 🗓 May 22, 14:00–16:00
    1. Health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, medical equipment companies, and many hospitals and clinics are run to make a profit.

      This shows how the U.S. healthcare system is so heavily profit driven. It leads to higher costs of healthcare and unequal access, when compared to other countries with public access.

    2. Despite having significant amounts of untapped uranium, crude oil, gold, diamonds, cobalt, lumber, and hydropower, the CAR is one of the poorest countries in the world.

      I find this interesting, since they have so many natural resources. Resources can also be traded for with money which also makes it more confusing. How can a country with many resources be so poor?

    3. The health care facilities that do exist are typically found only in urban areas, are often very old and lack modern medical technology and sometimes even sanitation.

      This shows how unequal access to healthcare is in low income countries. It calls out the gap between rural and urban areas on healthcare. People who don’t live in cities have worse chances, and it makes health outcomes worse overall.

    4. The drug companies do not focus research on or market drugs for conditions that are primarily found in low-income countries, because the anticipated profits are less.

      This quote shows how profit does influence what kind of treatments are developed. Diseases that affect poorer populations can be ignored, which causes ethical concerns abou health inequality.

    5. In most recent years, prescription drug payments have increased more than twice as fast as any other type of health expenditure, and more than twice as fast as the overall cost-of-living

      This shows how quickly drug costs are rising compared to other expenses in healthcare. It shows that medication are starting to become a very expensive part of overall healthcare costs, and it makes treatment less affordable.

    6. Traditionally, health care providers used a variety of techniques—medical school training, personal experiences, peer consultation, reading medical journals, personal intuition—to develop treatment recommendations. This resulted in considerable variation in treatment plans from physician to physician.

      I think that these techniques set up a very good base for physicians, but it does cause a lot of variety which might not always be a good thing. It highlights the idea that care wasn’t consistent, it shows how patient outcomes would depend on which doctor they see. Research based practices became a lot more important after this.

    7. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the physician-patient relationship in both positive and negative ways. In a positive way:

      This quote sets up the idea that COVID didnt just negatively affect healthcare interactions, but also changed them in positive ways such as telemedicine.

    8. To be health literate, one must be able to navigate the health care system, including filling out complex forms and locating providers and services; share personal information, such as health history, with providers; engage in self-care and chronic disease management; and understand mathematical concepts such as probability and risk.

      I feel like this is a really important trait to have to be a well-functioning patient. It doesn’t ask too much, just simple understanding of the healthcare system. If a patient is unaware of their own personal care and needs, they won’t be able to actually recieve the help they need.

    9. The physician represents medical expertise, controls the communication flow between the two parties, and makes all important decisions.

      This describes a very physician centered model of care. The patient has barely any input, and it seems to reflect a more traditional and unequal approach. It is different than modern approaches because now, shared decision making is common.

    10. Autonomous individuals are able to make their own choices and decisions and have them respected by others.

      This explains how autonomy is a significant ethical idea in healthcare, showing how patients do have the right to make their own decisions. It also implys that physicians shouldn’t override what patients choose to do with their own care, even if they disagree. Respect should be prioritized.

    11. . CDC workers analyze data to understand disease outbreaks, determine their likely effects on the population, and identify and enact efforts to control or stop them

      This shows how data collection is really important in stopping spread of diseases and also protecting public health of the US.

    12. It decreased from 78.8 years in 2019 to 77.0 in 2020, representing the single biggest drop (1.8 years) in LE in the United States since World War II.

      This quote really highlights how major events like COVID can quickly reverse improvements made in life expectancy

    1. The manuscript by Azam et al. examines the role of EzrA as a regulator of cell division. The authors explored the role of EzrA in cell wall homeostasis, demonstrating that EzrA mutants produced excess LTA, WTA and peptidoglycan when compared to wild-type controls. In addition to changes in the synthesis of different membrane components, the data presented shows that lack of EzrA leads to abnormal cell morphology, specifically relating to aberrance in the localization of membrane components during division. Furthermore, assays presented here suggest that lack of EzrA can result in DNA damage and other functional consequences for the cell as it divides. These findings suggest that EzrA may be involved in partitioning essential cellular components, such as Noc, along the dividing septum. However, the exact nature of EzrAs role in regulating septal division remains unclear. We provide below several suggestions to strengthen the establishment of a direct and causative relationship between EzrA function and dysregulation of organization during membrane synthesis. To directly implicate EzrA as an essential component in organizing cell division by constricting the necessary molecular components to the septum, we suggest the inclusion of additional controls.

      Major comments

      -We suggest including more experiments to strengthen the claim that Δezra mutants exhibit DNA damage and guillotining due to aberrance in their ability to segregate their DNA from the dividing septum. For instance, please provide a form of quantification, such as a qPCR of the undamaged fragments in wild-type versus Δezra presented in Figure 5D. Additionally, please include quantification of NoC in Figure 5 as this data is significant in showing that ΔezrA mutants fail to maintain proper nucleoid occlusion. Similarly, it would be helpful to include a quantification of the difference in fluorescence between the wild-type, positive control and Δezra in Figure 6. Figure 5 suggests that absence of EzrA caused GFP-labeled Noc foci to be spatially distributed around the dividing septum, suggesting that nucleoid occlusion is compromised in the mutant cells. Please consider including data from complementation strain for Figure 5A to support your claim. The work presented in Figure 5, including the quantification of DNA damage in Δezra mutants using fluorescently labeled dUTP, is interpreted to indicate that DNA damage is occurring in lines without EzrA; a quantification and normalization is missing to assess whether that’s the case. To support the claim that DNA damage results in reduced cell viability (Line 213), the study should incorporate a growth or survival assay comparing the viability of wild-type, Ezra, and complementation strains. Taken together, data from these experiments implies that Noc function is compromised in EzrA mutants, resulting in downstream functional consequences. However, the discussion section (265-280) calls into question whether EzrA and Noc localization are related. Please discuss Veiga et al. Molecular microbiology (2011) and Adrian et al. Nature Communications (2025), which demonstrate an interaction between EzrA and Noc.

      • It may be that the observed phenotype is due to an indirect effect from other proteins that depend on EzrA for localization/ function, and/or could be due to the larger cell size of an EzrA mutant. In the introduction, you have mentioned GpsB as another contributor that connects cell division to cell wall synthesis. The interaction between EzrA and GpsB has been reported in B. subtilis, and studies in pneumococcus report that depletion of GpsB mislocalize the PBP responsible for septal PG synthesis (Costa et al. Bacteriology 2024). Please rephrase lines 151-153 to include this possibility or provide further experiments to test that Ezra is directly involved in localized display of proteins.<br /> In the discussion section (and line 103), the possibility is raised that the dysregulation and spatial disorganization observed in the membranes of EzrA mutants could be because EzrA-deficient cells are larger, leading to a diffusion of synthetic activity across cells. To characterize this morphological change, please quantify cell size. Figures 1, 2 and 4 include both wild-type and EzrA mutant cells with vancomycin-labelled cell walls, which could potentially be quantified and compared.

      • The intensity of the fluorescent signal labelling SpA, especially compared with wild-type (Figure 1,3), would suggest that SpA synthesis is highly upregulated in Δezra mutants. SpA does not seem to be excluded from the actively dividing septum in Δezra mutants, rather, it seems to be present across the entire cell including the actively dividing septum (Figure 4). The increased SpA raises the concern that the lack of confinement of SpA to the septal region could be a result of its magnitude compared to wild-type controls, not necessarily due to defects in its partitioning within the septum. Please address this concern by using an immunoblot to quantify SpA between wild-type and Δezra to see whether the levels of protein expression are comparable. If increased, a line expressing a similar amount of SpA to the Δezra mutant could be generated to test that the organization defects observed are not simply due to increased abundance of SpA.

      • Based on Figure 4, it is concluded that PBPs are mislocalized in Δezra mutants, resulting in impaired formation of the septum. However, to fully support this conclusion, please clarify if the images shown in Figure 4D depict live cells or fixed cells. The way this figure is presented implies that these images show a time lapse of a single cell undergoing septum formation and division. If, rather, several different fixed cells at different points of division have been used to draw the conclusion that septal division is altered due to mislocalization of PBPs, the data presented does not provide a conclusive representation of how septum formation and division are altered in mutant cells. Additionally, it would provide further context to indicate which cell or cells from the larger images are being focused on in the subsequent panels. To further increase clarity, consider including which PBPs are mislocalized (PBP2 or PBP4?) and discussing how these results fill the gap on EzrA and cell division.

      Minor comments

      Figure content - Some indication of sample size (biological replicates) should be added to the figure descriptions. - Figure 1C, lines 81-82: To ensure that the increased SpA-specific signal phenotype associated with the knockout of ezrA is restored in the complemented strain, it would be helpful to show an indication of the statistical significance (or lack thereof) between WT and the complemented strain. - Figure 2C,D: To provide more context regarding the significance of the data displayed, please include how many cells were quantified. Do the data points in Mander’s co-efficient represent the average of cells from one replicate, or individual cells from a single replicate? - Figure 2E: Please consider including the complementation strain in this figure, as in previous figures, to determine whether PG content was restored back to WT levels or not. - Figure 3D: This immunoblot, which illustrates that LTA content is increased in Δezra mutants over wild-type and complemented strains, shows bands at both 15kDa and 23 kDa. It is unclear which band is relevant for the findings presented. It would increase the clarity of this figure to put a tick mark at the relevant band(s) with what they are predicted to represent. Please consider using a loading control for assays determining the amount of LTA and WTA in WT vs mutant cells. We noticed that WT results from Figure 3 and Figure 5 showing wheat germ agglutinin contradict each other. In Figure 3B, the WT cells show low intensity for WGA-AF488 as compared to ΔezrA mutant, while in Figure 5A WT cells display higher intensity for WGA-AF647. Please also include images from the complementation strain in Figure 5. - Figure 4D: ΔezrA cells presented in this figure have pronounced differences in morphology as compared to figure 4A. Is it just an artifact of magnification? - Please mention the strain/accession number of strains used to generate the phylogeny analysis in Figure 7.

      Further explanation needed - Please consider including an explanation in the introduction that in S. aureus EzrA is not essential, unlike in other gram-positive bacteria, and a rationale for using S. aureus strain RN4220 in this study. - The term “molecular organizer” is not very specific, as in this context, it could describe many types of proteins with different functions. Please consider providing a more specific definition of what a molecular organizer is, and what characteristics determine whether a protein is considered a molecular organizer within the scope of this study or not. - Line 33: Consider providing a more exhaustive explanation of the Sec secretion pathway, particularly relating to its relevance to Spa. - Lines 39, 73: The abbreviation “PBP” is used in line 39 to describe work where PepV was shown to interact with EzrA to modulate “EzrA-PBP interactions”. It would increase clarity to define the abbreviation here, since this is the first time the abbreviation has been used. Also, since this interaction between EzrA and PBP2 is important to understanding how EzrA is related to peptidoglycan wall synthesis, it would be helpful if the specific nature of this interaction was expounded upon. There are several PBPs in S. aureus, it would be nice to distinguish if ΔezrA is impacting PBP2 or PBP4 in Figure 4? - Line 41: Consider explaining Min system. - Line 75: Please add more context to the line EzrA itself modulates “septal protein display” by specifying how EzrA modulates septal protein display. - Line 82: To contextualize the significance of the finding that SpA-specific fluorescent signal is increased in ezrA knockout lines, please provide a summary sentence of the implications of that finding here addressing the potential functional consequences of enhanced SpA synthesis for wall assembly. - Line 88: Since this passage introduces EzrA as a molecular organizer due to its structural homology with eukaryotic spectrins, it would validate this choice to include a figure showing a structural model of these two proteins side by side. - Line 97: Please provide further context regarding the use of RADA in labelling dividing cells. While the figure description (Figure 2B) does specify that RADA is a fluorescent D-alanine analog, it is not explained why it is used or what it is labelling. Furthermore, for readability and enhanced clarity for broader audience, please consider explaining the use of Bocillin-FL vs vancomycin labeling vs RADA labeling. - Line 109: Further context regarding the meaning of the Mander’s coefficient, and how it is calculated, is required. - Figure 4C: Please consider discussing circumferential PBP movement and PBPs ingressing at the septum in the results and discussion. This background information would enhance the reader’s understanding of the model proposed here. - Line 254: Please specify the envelope components (LTA and WTA). Also, please consider including a reference to Figure 3 for clarity and readability. - Line 257-258: The authors are proposing the alternative hypothesis that EzrA may regulate envelope synthesis through “direct interaction”. Please consider elaborating the nature of this interaction, specifically, which components are interacting and how they are interacting. - While the current title of the manuscript captures the broader significance of the study, we suggest an alternative title that is more specific to the results of this study “EzrA in S. aureus is required to prevent the guillotining of the chromosome by the newly forming cell wall”.

      References - References 8 and 26 are duplicates. - Lines 70, 80: There seems to be a typo when referring to reference 5, as the formatting of this citation does not match the formatting of other citations in the manuscript. - Line 87: This should be cited. - Line 251: This needs a reference - Line 258: A reference is missing here. - Line 277: This should be cited

      Figure formatting - For figures that include a schematic of the experimental design (Figures 2 and 4), consider giving the panel featuring the experimental schematic its own letter rather than including it with a microscopy image. - Please consider including phase-contrast images for all the cell morphology images. - Figure 1B: The title for the “Overlay” images is off-center. - Figure 2A: Consider including color coding for the labels like other microscopy images. - Figure 2E: There is no information for panel 2E in the figure description. Please describe the method used here for increased clarity. - Figure 3A: Please include an explanation in the figure to specify that the assay aims to determine the amount of WTA.<br /> - Figure 5A: Consider including an explanation that wild type which does not have Noc labelled with GFP is used as a negative control here - The magnification of images is different, but the scale bar is not completely visible. If possible, please add a scale bar to every image. Typos/Miscellaneous - Line 39: There is an extra space after reference 8. - Line 44: Since, Noc is an abbreviation for “nucleoid occlusion”, please consider rephrasing the sentence. - Line 253: This is a typo. It should be “In addition to dispersion...” - In the discussion section, Δezra mutants are referred to as ezra mutants. Please consider keeping the naming of these mutants consistent across sections. - Line 296: It seems like there is a reference to a paper or figure missing here. - Figure 4D: “Magnified” is spelled incorrectly here.

      Lily Pumphrey and Tahreem Zaheer (Indiana University Bloomington) - not prompted by a journal; this review was written within a Peer Review in Life Sciences graduate course led by Alizée Malnoë with input from group discussion including Carter Collins, Camy Guenther, and Josy Joseph. We are part of the Dept. of Biology where Xindan Wang’s group is located. Xindan is a contributing author of a recent publication on ‘chromosome segregation dynamics during the cell cycle of Staphylococcus aureus’ and did not influence the choice of this preprint for our class.

    1. He argues that specific algorithmic “cleverness” matters far less than the massive scaling of a few fundamental inputs

      这是一个反直觉的观点,指出算法的“聪明才智”远不如对几个基本输入的巨大扩展重要,这为我们理解AI的发展提供了新的视角。

    1. The agent chooses services to use from this catalog based on what the user has asked them to do and the user’s preferences — but the user needs no prior knowledge of what services are offered by which providers, and does not need to provide any input.

      关键概念解释:代理通过服务目录自动选择和部署服务,无需用户具备特定知识。

    2. These build on prior art and existing standards like OAuth, OIDC and payment tokenization —but are used together to remove many steps that might otherwise require a human in the loop.

      过时的认证和支付方式可能导致部署流程复杂,而本文介绍的新协议则通过整合现有标准简化了流程。

    3. Humans can be in the loop to grant permission and must accept Cloudflare's terms of service, but no human steps are otherwise required from start to finish.

      最佳实践是让代理自动化大部分部署流程,但关键步骤如用户同意服务条款仍需人工参与。

    4. Coding agents are great at building software. But to deploy to production they need three things from the cloud they want to host their app —an account, a way to pay, and an API token.

      初学者常误以为部署到生产环境需要复杂的手动操作,而忽略了自动化工具如代理的存在。

    5. The protocol accounts for this in two ways. When an agent provisions a paid service, Stripe includes a payment token in the request to the Provider (Cloudflare).

      非共识观点:通过引入支付令牌而不是直接分享信用卡信息,为代理提供了更安全的支付方式。

    6. These build on prior art and existing standards like OAuth, OIDC and payment tokenization —but are used together to remove many steps that might otherwise require a human in the loop.

      强调了现有标准和技术的融合使用,这是实现自动化流程的关键,同时也避免了过时的做法。

    7. Coding agents are great at building software. But to deploy to production they need three things from the cloud they want to host their app —an account, a way to pay, and an API token.

      新手的常见陷阱在于错误地认为部署应用程序只需要代码构建,而忽略了账户、支付和API令牌这些基础设施环节。

    8. The protocol accounts for this in two ways. When an agent provisions a paid service, Stripe includes a payment token in the request to the Provider (Cloudflare). Raw payment details like credit card numbers aren’t ever shared with the agent.

      This is a key concept explaining how payment is handled securely without exposing sensitive information to the agent, a crucial aspect of any automated system.

    9. The agent has gone from literal zero, no Cloudflare account at all, without any preconfigured [Agent Skills](https://github.com/cloudflare/skills) or [MCP server](https://blog.cloudflare.com/code-mode-mcp/), to having: * Provisioned a new Cloudflare account * Obtained an API token * Purchased a domain * Deployed an app to production

      This showcases a significant non-consensus view that agents can autonomously perform complex tasks like account creation and app deployment, which might be surprising to some.

    10. Humans can be in the loop to grant permission and must accept Cloudflare's terms of service, but no human steps are otherwise required from start to finish.

      This emphasizes the best practice of automating processes where possible, reducing manual intervention and streamlining workflows.

    11. Coding agents are great at building software. But to deploy to production they need three things from the cloud they want to host their app —an account, a way to pay, and an API token.

      This highlights a common pitfall for beginners: understanding the infrastructure requirements for deploying software, especially the need for accounts and payment methods.

    12. These build on prior art and existing standards like OAuth, OIDC and payment tokenization —but are used together to remove many steps that might otherwise require a human in the loop.

      关键概念解释:该协议结合了OAuth、OIDC和支付令牌化等现有标准,以自动化流程,减少人工干预。

    13. Humans can be in the loop to grant permission and must accept Cloudflare's terms of service, but no human steps are otherwise required from start to finish.

      最佳实践建议:自动化流程可以大幅提高效率,但人类审核和接受服务条款仍然是必要的。

    14. Coding agents are great at building software. But to deploy to production they need three things from the cloud they want to host their app —an account, a way to pay, and an API token.

      初学者常见陷阱:错误地认为部署到生产环境只需要代码,而忽略了账户、支付和API令牌等必要条件。

    1. The entire AI community should be able to easily access the full capabilities of TPUs, and because many of these potential users build models in PyTorch, an integration that allows PyTorch to work natively and efficiently on the TPU is crucial.

      非共识观点:并非所有用户都能轻松访问TPU的全功能,特别是对于在PyTorch中构建模型的用户来说,这可能是一个挑战。

    2. As models scale to run on clusters of O(100,000) chips, the software that powers these models must meet new demands for performance, hardware portability, and reliability.

      对于初学者来说,理解大规模模型运行的需求可能是一个常见陷阱,他们可能忽视了对软件性能、硬件兼容性和可靠性的要求。

    1. Of course it’s impossible to know for sure, but I think I really wouldn’t. Even the ideal version, industrial megaprojects at hyperhuman scale while constantly being out over your skis with leverage sounds hellish.

      作者对高度工业化、超人类规模的AI项目表示担忧,即使是在理想化的情况下,这种对未来社会的设想也让他感到恐惧。

    1. The alternative to moving fast and taking risks isn’t safety, but a very real danger of being surpassed by adversaries

      这种观点可能忽视了快速采用AI技术可能带来的风险,需要进一步探讨如何在安全性和创新之间取得平衡。

    2. In one case [first reported by the Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/content/00c282de-ed14-4acd-a948-bc8d6bdb339d?syn-25a6b1a6=1), an Amazon Web Service agent called Kiro purportedly decided the best way to upgrade a particular software service was to delete the whole thing and start over — and was able to do so without asking for human permission

      这个案例突显了AI代理可能带来的风险,需要深入了解如何防范这类事件的发生。

    3. Instead of just answering a user’s questions, the way a chatbot does, agents can take a human user’s instructions and act on them

      AI代理的能力描述可能存在偏见,因为它暗示AI能够像人类一样行动,而实际上可能缺乏人类的判断力和道德考量。

    4. Military personnel and Defense Department civilians have used a version of Google Gemini’s [Agent Designer](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/enterprise/docs/agent-designer) to create over 100,000 semi-autonomous AI agents in less than five weeks since the tool became available

      这个数据表明了在短时间内AI工具的广泛使用和接受程度,值得进一步调查其背后的具体应用场景和效果。

    1. The feature can edit spreadsheets without a human-in-the-loop and was vulnerable to data exfiltration risks due to its ability to insert formulas that trigger external communication.

      最佳实践建议:在使用无需人工干预的AI工具时,应特别注意数据泄露风险。

    1. The software engineers who will be most valuable in the future are not the ones who do everything themselves. They are the ones who refuse to spend time on work that A.I. can do for them, while still understanding everything that is done on their behalf.

      这个观点强调了未来软件工程师的价值不在于他们能做什么,而在于他们如何利用AI来提升自己的思考能力。

    1. But there’s a critical difference between using agents to accomplish defined objectives and spinning up 20 agents because the dashboard makes you feel like a general commanding an army.

      作者指出,使用AI代理实现特定目标和仅仅因为仪表板让人感觉像指挥军队一样使用大量代理之间存在关键区别,这引发了关于AI工具使用目的的思考。

    2. The average employee AI usage was 1.5 hours per week. The average CEO AI usage was less than one hour per week.

      数据显示,员工和CEO每周使用AI工具的时间非常有限,但他们对AI的依赖和热情却很高,这可能是AI心理疾病的表现。

    3. Two prominent tech leaders, both publicly using the word psychosis. Both framing sleeplessness and obsessive agent usage as a feature of the moment rather than a bug.

      文章指出两位知名科技领袖公开将AI心理疾病视为一种特征而非缺陷,这表明了AI心理疾病可能被误解或忽视。

    1. Even companies with the biggest IT budgets will need to prove returns on AI spending over time, especially if they're answering to shareholders on quarterly earnings calls.

      这个观点值得深入了解,因为它提出了一个可能被忽视的问题:即使公司有巨大的IT预算,也需要证明人工智能投资的回报。

    2. An OpenAI investor told Axios that the shift could benefit them, since they view Codex as superior to Claude Code at maximizing tokens efficiently, cutting down on usage costs.

      这篇报道中提到了一个非共识观点,即OpenAI的投资者认为他们的产品在效率上优于竞争对手,这需要进一步调查以验证。

    1. Anthropic says it has no way to control or shut down its AI models once they're deployed by the Pentagon

      需要核查的事实声明:Anthropic 声称其无法控制或关闭由五角大楼部署的 AI 模型,这一声明需要进一步核实。

    1. It relates to an idea I've seen circulating elsewhere: if a PR was mostly written by an LLM, why should a project maintainer spend time reviewing and discussing that PR as opposed to firing up their own LLM to solve the same problem?

      作者提出了一个值得深思的问题:如果PR主要由LLM编写,那么维护者为何要花费时间审查和讨论它,而不是自己使用LLM解决问题?

    2. LLM assistance breaks that completely. It doesn't matter if the LLM helps you submit a 'perfect' PR to Zig - the time the Zig team spends reviewing your work does nothing to help them add new, confident, trustworthy contributors to their overall project.

      Zig项目认为,LLM的辅助会破坏其培养可信贡献者的目标,即使PR本身是完美的。

    1. when you think about it that way, isn’t racing to build a cryptographically relevant QC, as quickly as possible, the most _ethical, socially responsible thing_ for an American QC company to do?

      这一观点提出了一个有洞见的伦理问题,即是否应该将快速开发量子计算机视为美国量子计算公司的道德和社会责任。

    2. Aren’t many in cybersecurity still in denial about the threat? Haven’t these slumberers shown that they _won’t_ wake up until dramatic achievements in fault-tolerant QC roust them?

      这一观点指出,网络安全领域对量子威胁的忽视,暗示了需要采取更积极的措施来应对这一挑战。

    3. Given that reality, isn’t it better that it be done first by mostly US-based companies in the open, than by (let’s say) Chinese or Russian intelligence in secret?

      这一观点提出了一个值得深思的问题:在量子计算机可能被用于恶意目的的情况下,是否应该由美国公司公开地首先发展这一技术?

    4. The way they see it, cryptographically relevant QCs _will_ plausibly be built sometime soon: indeed, it’s ultimately unavoidable, even if people’s only interest in QC was to do quantum simulations for materials science and chemistry.

      这一观点揭示了量子计算机发展的必然性,即使其最初的应用并非用于密码学。

    5. some of the most reputable people in quantum hardware and quantum error-correction—people whose judgment I trust more than my own on those topics—are now telling me that a fault-tolerant quantum computer able to break deployed cryptosystems _ought_ to be possible by around 2029.

      这一观点令人震惊,因为它暗示了量子计算机可能在不久的将来就能破解现有的加密系统,这是一个非共识的观点。

    1. The rewards were applied only in the Nerdy condition, but reinforcement learning does not guarantee that learned behaviors stay neatly scoped to the condition that produced them.

      关键概念解释:强化学习可能导致行为泛化,即使是在特定条件下学习的行为也可能在其他情境中表现出来。

    2. When we looked, use of “goblin” in ChatGPT had risen by 175% after the launch of GPT‑5.1, while “gremlin” had risen by 52%.

      令人震惊的数据表明,一个看似无害的偏好可以迅速在模型中扩散,突显了监控和及时响应模型行为变化的重要性。

    3. Starting with GPT‑5.1, our models began developing a strange habit: they increasingly mentioned goblins, gremlins, and other creatures in their metaphors.

      初学者可能难以理解模型行为的发展模式,尤其是当这种模式以微妙的方式出现时,如GPT-5.1开始频繁使用怪物的隐喻。

    1. Hansard database,

      Use the title that you have given to the database whereever possibe - ie the Hansard DB. And turn some of the sentences about from passive to active voice - eg the Hansard DB did xxx, we did xxx

    2. a draft form published within hours of a parliamentary sitting (Parliamentary Education Office, n.d.). Members of Parliament may suggest factual corrections to proofs (such as names or historical details), but may not alter the meaning or content of proceedings. After corrections, the final official Hansard replaces the proof version, typically around two weeks later (Parliamentary Education Office, n.d.).

      Could this go up higher into the section describing what, how and who Hansard is produced?

    3. debate

      A sentence or two in here restating why - despite all this - a proper Hansard DB is important, and the insights that it is likely to deliver about democracy etc that current databases miss.

    4. Reported in 2023 to be around 45 staff members (Coleman 2023), the Hansard reporters and editors collectively determine what appears in the record.

      Move to above?

    5. editing process is the removal of repetition

      By whom? Perhaps gather some of the info you have below on the role of the Hansard team - how many, how they work etc - up here. Also watch the passive voice. You use it extensively from here on in, and get the subject back in to sentences wherever you can - eg the Hansard edits do xxx, the Hansard DB does xxx, We do xxx.

    6. Some MPs even resist greater recording and scrutiny, arguing elected representatives to exercise judgement, not to perform for cameras (Smith 2018).

      A little unclear. Are you saying that 'Some MPs resist the performance element of parliament, urging other elected representatives to exercie judgement, and not just perform for cameras - although this stance in itself could be deemed performative.'

    7. perception

      Perhaps a little all encompassing, as parliamentary business is also about legislating, framing legislation for future legal judgements, recording law making etc.

      Plus, here and throughout this full section, you need to keep reminding the reader why your work in developing the Hansard DB is important and will provide insights for democracy. it gets a little lost here, for exmaple, potentially leaving the reader to think it is unimportnat.

    8. The rest of this paper is structured as follows. The Background Section provides necessary context on the Australian parliamentary system and explores how Hansard is constructed as a textual artefact. The Method Section details the pipeline for transforming raw Hansard XML into a relational database, including the automated validation procedures and key design decisions. The Results demonstrates the database’s utility through corpus statistics and query examples. Finally, the discussion explores the possible uses of this resource, and the limitations of its interpretation.

      check caps and subject-verb agreement for consistency in this para - eg Background Section - discussion, results demonstrate...

    1. The rankings, set up by a Meta employee on its intranet using company data, measure how many tokens — the units of data processed by AI models — employees are burning through.

      这一观点揭示了‘tokenmaxxing’作为衡量员工AI使用能力的新趋势,暗示了数据消耗成为衡量生产力的一种方式。

    2. Workers are maximizing their prompts, coding sessions and the number of agents working in parallel to climb internal rankings at Meta and other companies a

      这个引用表明员工在Meta和其他公司内部排名中通过最大化他们的提示、编码会话和并行工作的代理数量来提升自己的排名。

    3. The practice is emblematic of Silicon Valley’s newest form of conspicuous consumption, known as “tokenmaxxing,” which has turned token usage into a benchmark for productivity and a competitive measure of who is most AI native.

      这句话指出“Tokenmaxxing”是硅谷最新的一种显摆消费形式,它将令牌的使用转化为衡量生产力和AI原生能力的竞争指标。

    4. The rankings, set up by a Meta employee on its intranet using company data, measure how many tokens — the units of data processed by AI models — employees are burning through.

      这个引用说明了这种内部排名是通过员工消耗的AI令牌数量来衡量的,这些令牌是AI模型处理数据的单位。

    5. Employees at Meta Platforms who want to show off their AI superuser chops are competing on an internal leaderboard for status as a “Session Immortal”— or, even better, “Token Legend.”

      这个引用揭示了“Tokenmaxxing”作为一种新的竞争和显摆形式在Meta内部的兴起,员工通过使用AI令牌的数量来竞争地位。

    1. I don’t buy the “~2% of new prosumer signups” thing, since everyone I’ve talked to is seeing the new pricing grid and the Internet Archive has already [snapped a copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20260422001250/https://claude.com/pricing).

      作者对Anthropic所说的“仅对2%的新用户进行小规模测试”的说法表示怀疑,这表明可能存在更大的影响范围。

    2. Claude Code used to be a feature of the $20/month Pro plan, but according to the new pricing page it is now exclusive to the $100/month or $200/month Max plans.

      这一价格变动可能对依赖该服务的用户产生重大影响,特别是对于那些在较高薪资国家之外的用户,这一变化可能引发对服务可靠性的担忧。

    1. Alibaba claims it beats the much larger **Qwen3.5-397B-A17B** on major coding evals, including **[SWE-bench Verified 77.2 vs 76.2](https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/204693977592458457)

      阿里巴巴声称Qwen3.6-27B在主要的编码评估中击败了更大的Qwen3.5-397B-A17B模型,这是一个值得注意的技术进步。

    2. Today’s LS guest, Mikhail Parakhin, CTO of Shopify, had another take on the “tasteful tokenmaxxing” - you want to go for depth (e.g. do more serial autoresearch loops) than go for breadth (e.g. solve a problem by kicking off 5, 10, 50, 500 parallel runs of the LLM slot machine). Worth thinking through.

      Shopify的CTO Mikhail Parakhin对“优雅的Tokenmaxxing”提出了不同的看法,强调深度而非广度的重要性。

    3. Dex Horthy, coiner of Context Engineering and “the Dumb Zone”, publicly retracted his extremely vibe-coding-pilled call 6 months ago and encouraged people to **please read the code**

      Dex Horthy公开撤回了他的极端观点,并鼓励人们“请阅读代码”,这反映了技术社区对代码质量的重视。

    4. the top conversations we have been hearing from AI leadership (CTOs, VPs, Founders) have all centered around the concept of “Tokenmaxxing” and how leaders want to get their teams using more AI, WITHOUT the downside of incentivizing the kinds of horrendous waste

      AI领导者们普遍关注“Tokenmaxxing”的概念,即如何在增加AI使用的同时避免激励产生巨大的浪费。

    5. the numbers are mindboggling, they mostly serve to reinforce the sheer hardware advantage that a decade of investment has given to GDM and any models they train and serve.

      令人震惊的数据揭示,谷歌TPUv8的硬件优势是十年投资的结果,这可能会加剧行业的不平等。

    6. Today’s LS guest, Mikhail Parakhin, CTO of Shopify, had another take on the 'tasteful tokenmaxxing' - you want to go for depth (e.g. do more serial autoresearch loops) than go for breadth (e.g. solve a problem by kicking off 5, 10, 50, 500 parallel runs of the LLM slot machine). Worth thinking through.

      Mikhail Parakhin's emphasis on depth over breadth in AI research suggests a focus on quality and depth of work rather than quantity.

    7. Dex Horthy, coiner of Context Engineering and 'the Dumb Zone', [publicly retracted](https://www.youtube.com/live/6IxSbMhT7v4?si=tMzmqM103KDbPyE6&t=3424)his extremely vibe-coding-pilled call 6 months ago and encouraged people to **please read the code**, citing [Alex Volkov](https://open.substack.com/users/152216110-alex-volkov?utm_source=mentions)'s [Z/L continuum from AIE Europe](https://x.com/altryne/status/2046246775414276142)**:

      Dex Horthy's retraction of his previous stance and emphasis on code reading suggest a shift towards a more cautious approach in AI development.

    1. Human advisors endorsed fraudulent investments at baseline rates of 13-14%, versus 0% across all LLMs, and suppressed warnings under pressure at two to four times the AI rate.

      令人震惊的是,人类顾问在正常情况下对欺诈性投资的认可率高达13-14%,而在AI系统中的认可率为0%,且在压力下人类顾问抑制警告的频率是AI系统的两到四倍。

    1. According to reporting from the _New York Times_ and the _Atlantic_, contract negotiations between Anthropic and the US Department of Defense fell apart in late February because Anthropic balked when the DOD demanded leeway to use the company’s models to analyze commercially available data on US citizens.

      这里提到了具体事件和数据,表明LLMs在监控领域的潜在应用引起了全球关注,以及相关公司对于政府使用其技术的态度。

    2. LLM agents could potentially do the work of intelligence analysts in a fraction of the time and for a fraction of the cost, which would enable the state to aim its all-seeing eye toward anyone, not just its highest-priority targets.

      文章提出了一个令人震惊的观点:大型语言模型(LLMs)可能极大地加速了大规模监控,使监控的范围从高优先级目标扩展到任何个体。

    1. With these improvements, we saw close to a 45% improvement in time to first token (TTFT)—which reflects how responsive the API feels—but these improvements were still not fast enough for GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark.

      值得注意的代码示例:通过改进TTFT(首次出字时间)来提升API响应速度。

    2. We approached this through caching, eliminating unnecessary network hops, improving our safety stack to quickly flag issues, and—most importantly—building a way to create a persistent connection to the Responses API, instead of having to make a series of synchronous API calls.

      最佳实践建议:通过缓存、减少网络跳数、改进安全栈和建立持久连接来优化性能。

    1. These environments demand multi step reasoning, the chaining of multiple skills over many timesteps, and robust decision making under [delayed rewards](https://huggingface.co/papers?q=delayed%20rewards) and [partial observability](https://huggingface.co/papers?q=partial%20observability).

      这些环境要求多步推理、在多个时间步长中连锁多个技能,以及在延迟奖励和部分可观测性下的稳健决策,这突显了长期交互环境对智能体能力的挑战。