Some niggling part of my brain keeps wondering if ivermectin is actually a crazy cure for cancer, could anyone break down the science for me? I have a decent understanding of molecular biology, but no idea about what ivermectin is chemically or how it would play in

It sounds like they won the case, did they not?

Honestly, you’re probably better off without tiktok. Short form video is bad for humans, and it’s much worse if it’s not educational

I’m genuinely sorry for the potential friends you’ve lost, but tiktok was not a good thing… An American controlled version wouldn’t be better, I hope you double down on the fediverse

Poss-i-ble. That’s how you say it in French

Because you can’t just use up the easy to remember names like that. We’ve had bird flu, SARS, MERS, swine flu, COVID… We might need cow flu to name a different coronavirus in a few years

Yes…a truly astounding number of people are on the fence about if it happened

I like poker chips, I learned the trick where you pull one out from a stack, spin it, and put it back in. I forget I’m doing it, I’ll just reach in my pocket and will start doing the trick over and over

And instead of getting annoyed, people started giving me random poker chips one or two at a time. Which I find weird, because it’s not a particularly quiet figet. But now I just have sets of three mismatched poker chips everywhere

Because you’re one of their leads, and you too could cold call people from a list if you pay now!

It’s a legit problem… You have tops and bottoms in straight relationships too, it’s not about parts or gender, it’s about relationship dynamics

But we’ve partially tied it up with gender, which really fucks with all these people who don’t understand why their sex lives suck, no matter how hard they try

Always was

Sure it does, tool use is huge for actually using this tech to be useful for humans. Which openai and Google seem to have little interest in

Most of the core latest generation models have been focused on this, you can tell them what they have access to and how to use it, the one I have running at home (running on my too old for windows 11 mid-range gaming computer) can search the Web, ingest data into a vector database, and I’m working on a multi-turn system so they can handle more complex tasks with a mix of code and layers of llm evaluation. There’s projects out there that give them control of a system or build entire apps on the spot

You can give them direct access to the terminal if you want to… It’s very easy, but they’re probably just going to trash the system without detailed external guidance

You should check out bazzite

I’ll never forget what it was like to share an officie with 2 other people with adhd. I’d start talking about one topic, jump three topics over because they’re obviously related, and they’d just follow along without needing me to hold their hand. It was amazing

I’ve thought about it, but ultimately I asked myself… What would change?

I need to move, and I’m planning to. For the meantime, the water makes me feel sick, even the bottled stuff is only slightly better. The people I care about ignore my warnings…I don’t think any more detailed tests would change that

And I have tested the water myself, I’m sure I could get a more detailed result, but would it change anything that matters? Even if it is in my head, my body knows the water to be bad…I didn’t have this issue before, and I can drink tap water elsewhere.

I am curious, but getting the water tested is energy better spent elsewhere

It’s kind of near, because why do they have the same pattern? It’s all code running on cells. Every cell knows how to grow based on the protein structure connecting it to it’s neighbors

Look at the mammal body plan. Look at lizards, birds, and fish - that body plan is coded, the same design tweaked and adapted. Now look at insects and crustatians - totally different body plan

There’s things that are coded, and there’s things that naturally emerge because the universe likes them. The universe likes symmetry, but certain asymmetry is just too practical to pass up

The universe likes the pattern that makes the artichoke and the plates of the pangolin. It’s not body design, it’s something simple to code in our reality

Tencent is an investor there too

I have one to add… The water supply

So I’m getting headaches, I’ve never had headaches except for caffeine headaches, which are (conveniently) only at night. I’m getting headaches after drinking caffeine, during the day, even after detoxing from caffeine. I’ve got filters, the area isn’t known for having bad water, but this started after I moved.

It took me a while to see the connection, but eventually I decided fuck it, let’s try distilled water. No more headaches, less nausea. What the fuck is in the water…

Well that’s one layer, but when you decode a url, you’re probably going to get a url, and then it’s going to go to that url

So now you just made them to to a website. What’s there? Whatever you want. Maybe you ask them for Facebook/Google/GitHub or whatever authorization to see their name and email, which a lot of people would do. Then redirect them to a page saying “now I know who you are, delete the photo, <user>”

Or you could send them a payload based on fingerprinting their request, you could give them a fake page to steal their password, etc

Jesus was so fucking based. Literally my only hero. Read the gospels… You can go it in a few hours, and it hits very different without any commentary

It seems unlikely… The vessel wasn’t up to the challenge of anywhere near that depth, and they intended to go that deep from the get go.

I mean, it could be, but Bluetooth shouldn’t work like that - it’s a digital signal with a bunch of failure modes in the spec. You’d have to code it particularly stupidly to have that kind of problem - it’s a very time-synched protocol, even a sudden disconnect with no disconnect signal is something a coder would have to confront explicitly if they were using off the shelf components

I’m not one to bet against bad code, but the decompression seemed to be pretty much instant and within the planned trip, it just seems like it doesn’t survive oscams razor