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Joined February 2021
This data center nonsense is just the modern day nuclear power debate: a bunch of alarmists are gonna set us back 30 years because they fell for misinformation, again!
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I have stage 4 cancer. I thought I'd fight it alone. I was wrong. Since mid October, ~20 strangers on X have stepped up to help me. All for free so far: - An NYU Langone lab offered to run my tumor data through their system to sharpen my vaccine targets - A U Michigan lab offered to test drugs on my actual tumor cells - A biotech ran AI analysis on my tumor RNA - A vaccine company offered to design a second vaccine to check the first one Scientists. Engineers. People I've never met. Cancer has been picking us off one at a time for all of human history. It counts on us fighting it alone, scared and quiet. Not anymore. We have AI. We have the internet. We have each other. Cancer, we're coming for you, bitch. Buckle up!
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By Claude's estimate, and factoring in delinquency rates by credit score, a 10% credit card cap would mean everyone under an 800 score loses access to credit cards.
Let’s cap credit card rates at 10%. Take action on affordable housing. Protect rural hospitals. End price gouging. Democrats have the bills ready. @SenWarren says now it’s up to Trump to work with us and get things done.
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Norm Macdonald reading a note about the original lyrics to “Bad Bad Leroy Brown”
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is this the real life?
my vocal synth models the vocal tract as a network of branching acoustic tubes, unlike vocaloid which stitches together and pitch-shifts phoneme recordings. still working on improving naturalness by tuning it against recordings of real singers, but I'm already impressed at how cool it sounds!
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AI sentiment by country. Notice anything?
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Scientists found a peptide that reverses alcohol damage across the entire body in under 30 minutes. They published a paper detailing a specific peptide that acts like a biological kill-switch for alcohol toxicity. And the results are actually terrifyingly good. they used 96% alcohol to induce massive, systemic damage in subjects.. we are talking severe gastric lesions, vascular collapse, and an escalated "central syndrome". basically, catastrophic organ failure. then they introduced the bpc-157 peptide.. and it didn't just slow the damage down.. it completely counteracted it. it activated an innate "cytoprotective" effect that rapidly repaired the vascular system in real-time. researchers tracked it all the way down to the gene expression level, watching the peptide dynamically alter genes to upregulate healing and block the alcohol toxicity at the source.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
BPC-157 rapidly counteracted acute multi-organ effects in a 2021 rat study after intragastric 96% alcohol, but this was an extreme animal model with no human evidence or approval for alcohol damage reversal. mdpi.com/2227-9059/9/10… peptideagent.ai/blog/bpc-157-h…
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this is why you have to raise your kids on specific, pre-21st century media. Tintin, Calvin and Hobbes, Moomin, Asterix, Wishbone, etc. the people who made those things were operating on a completely different paradigm as to what children want and need.
there’s something psychologically terroristic about these kids books that are full of adult platitudes. “there’s nothing wrong with asking for help”. yeah. my 5 year old never would have thought there was. “you don’t have to be extraordinary to be loved”. do not tell my kid that
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You are brainwashed. That’s the first thing you must realize. Not your ancestors. You. They lived every day in contact with the full force of human nature. Birth and death, friends and foes, toils, triumphs, and tears. You get your life lessons from a screen.
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The obvious conclusion is that we are the first sapient species to arise in the universe and its expansive emptiness and silence is screaming that God wants us to become the Elder Race of Life Seeders who father a thousand new child races across the cosmos to spark joy.
Whitepill for the day. TL;DR we are probably alone in this galaxy.
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This is a good illustration of why the "people say they want Medicare for All" polls are garbage. Yes, you can get people to say they want that in a vacuum, just from hearing the phrase "Medicare for All." But once you give the opponents of it the chance to argue against it, and point out: - You'll lose most private health insurance. - Your taxes will go up and the government will directly provide your insurance for you. - Doctors, hospitals, and healthcare workers will earn less, closer to what they make in Europe. - and so forth... it won't be such an easy sell, and would likely get voted down on a nationwide ballot if such a thing existed.
“61% want a billionaire wealth tax” I don’t think so!
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Rereading The Brothers Karamazov at the moment and it’s very much this. Nothing is extraneous—there’s no fat on the bone—but it wanders down unexpected paths and lingers in unexpected places.
When I read older books, I'm always struck by how unoptimized they are. Books wandered in their prose, had meandering backstories for side characters, and had strange and illogical plot points. Now, it's like every word in a book has to be razor-focused, hurtling toward the conclusion. There's no room for idle dreaming.
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The US has 0.1% GDP growth if you remove datacenter/AI growth. Democrats are staunchly against AI and datacenters. Asia stands to benefit massively as large corporations divest from the USA into more tech-friendly jurisdictions.
JUST IN: Google to invest $15 billion in Malaysia data centers
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One reason I love reading old books is because I know they are far enough removed from our modern politics to not be tainted by it
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The interesting thing happening in the modern video game world, is people are preferring to play the 10+ year old games made by giga high IQ hyper-nerds who designed fantastic games than their midwit corpo modern incarnations.
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