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My mother died in 2015 of hereditary ALS. Her sister died in 2022. Their father died in 1974. In 1969 he sat his children down and told them that he was going to die, and he had passed this illness to them, and when they grew up they couldn't have any children of their own.
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When I see young people at a dark, glamorous bar, I want to tell them, “This feels like a long chapter, but it’s going to be one of the shortest in the book.
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China has gotten ahead of the US in biotechnology, largely by making their clinical trial system more effective. I covered this in a @nytimes article.
Now, American patients are travelling there to have access to drugs they can't access at home. It's high time the US woke up and implemented much needed reforms.
"She had been through chemotherapy and surgery, but the cancer had now spread to her brain. And she didn’t qualify for the relevant clinical trials.
“Too bad she’s not Chinese,” a doctor told her son... “She could go to a pharmacy in China and buy it.”
kffhealthnews.org/health-ind…
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regardless of the sleep deprivation & chemical reasons, postpartum depression is the most reasonable thing in the world. ur fat, in pain, ugly, ur body is broken, u don’t get hobbies 2 work on or accomplishments 2 measure or anything like that really. & all the while every day that passes ur beautiful perfect baby gets a little bit older & a little bit bigger. & after every beautiful transcendent moment of shocking glory big baby beauty, u see a flash of how fragile we all are & how fast life goes. & there’s nothing 2 distract u from the despair!!! ur forced 2 contemplate life & death all day long in ur stupid underpants!!!!!!!!
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also not sleeping thots r not real thots so don’t feel bad about them or anything ur body is feeling rn just push thru and take in as much of the good and beautiful as u can! ❤️❤️❤️
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My concern is that this is just the legible lowest fringe of the situation and that cogsec is effectively dead.
But as @exeuntdoteth and I agree, cogsec was always based on a false premise. The question isn't "are you infected" but "is your 'microbiome' net-coherent for multiscale health" or something like that.
No one is "pure." We can only imagine purity because myelin sheaths on our neurons are from viral DNA. Mitochondria and cilia were once an invasion of the host cell.
Living in a eukaryotic age means accepting a porous and plural emergent selfhood.
In the meantime we absolutely need better epistemic tech.
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The answer is always Art + Science.
Not Art alone. Not Science alone. Both of them co-existing, balancing each other out, and over-indexing when needed.
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For the birds. NYC migration alert tonight. Lights off! Juncos and warblers will be flying south. Tonight is a big migration night for the East coast. Birds fly at night because it's cooler.
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G.K. Chesterton on mysticism
ALT Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. The ordinary man has always been sane because the ordinary man has always been a mystic. He has permitted the twilight. He has always had one foot in earth and the other in fairyland. He has always left himself free to doubt his gods; but (unlike the agnostic of to-day) free also to believe in them. He has always cared more for truth than for consistency. If he saw two truths that seemed to contradict each other, he would take the two truths and contradiction along with them. His spiritual sight is stereoscopic, like his physical sight: he sees two different pictures at once and yet sees all the better for that. Thus, he has always believed that there was such a thing as fate, but such a thing as free will also.
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So @TylerShultz_ as a Theranos whistleblower. And he wrote the piece you need to read about ‘You Can See Everything.’
Elizabeth Holmes is still lying, he says. And the filmmakers, while creating a great piece of art, fall short on looking outside the walls of her apartment to document that.
One key detail: "My wife had to squeeze my arm to prevent me from jumping out of my seat in the theater and screaming, THAT IS NOT THE DEVICE."
Again, that device Holmes showed? It's not the one we're talking about!!!!
Having seen the film, I basically agree with Tyler's take.
statnews.com/2026/10/19/eliz…
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We need a "mothers against drunk drivers" style campaign endorsing self-driving cars, because they WILL save countless children's lives.
There is so much blood on the hands of people blocking the rollout of this tech.
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Systems nerds be updating their facebook relationship status from “It’s complicated” to “It’s a complex adaptive system.”
Funny how often my relationship is the gender flipped version of posts I see here
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Margaret Macdonald ( 1864 – 1933) artist whose design work became one of the defining features of the Glasgow Style during the 1890s to 1900s. ##WomensArt #GlasgowGirls
