Neolithic turf farmer, biologist. Rogue nerd, naturalist. Sometimes photos. Highly heterodox. Scandithenian 🇸🇪🇬🇷 🔁 🇺🇸 ♂️Terroir: Mediterranean
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28 Nov 2023
whn.global/scientific/covid1…
If I had to link to a “one-stop-shop” of information — with study abstracts and links — this’d be it.
Very handy resource-rundown for those who have tried hard to ignore and forget the emergence of a new, major wrinkle in our reality in 2020. 🦠
“COVID-19 and Immune Dysregulation, a Summary and Resource”
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13 years ago this month, the Guardian broke the Snowden story...the biggest mass surveillance exposé in history.
Today it calls your concern about ID-linked browsing, spyware in your photos and messages, and broken encryption, "fake outrage" while Starmer's government demands backdoors into your iCloud and calls for people to be arrested for tweets.
The watchdog became the lapdog.
You’re going to see a lot in your X timeline about how the social media ban is unworkable and illiberal - and it will be one the most obvious examples of how social media skews debate.
But it will be one of the most popular things the government is doing
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Many such cases. ☘️🌾
The concept of "lawn work" is alien to me. I would never do that. I just wouldnt weed or mow anything in my life. I am a renter of renter blood
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America 🇺🇸 - Innovation Lives Here™️
Been gone for a few days working on something big for the running community.
I'm proud after months of R&D testing we have finally completed our product Carbodupa. (Patent Pending)
Preorder today.
Don't wait cause this will sell out quick!
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5 Jul 2025
All you had to do was start the day with a walk instead of social media, sunlight instead of LED blue light, and thinking your own thoughts instead of reading others
5 Jul 2025
Morning walks at sunrise is the fastest way to bring in good ideas/motivations and remove ruminating thoughts
It’s quite an amazing trade each morning
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Jun 13
A reminder of why SpaceX even exists in the first place:
waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-a…
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Jun 13
Gorgeous Tornado warned storm NE of Westmoreland, KS at 18:26
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Anglos and Germanoids learned about “Affairs” from the mediterranean world, removed the danger, the drama, the adventure, drained the concept completely of Blood and Life, turned them into something soulless…
“Polyamory”, or perhaps more accurately, “A Scheduling Fetish”
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RT @sapinker: It's not just phonics: Schools have failed to teach reading because they ignore 50 years of findings in cognitive psychology…
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Hundreds of scientists who study cancer and aging have made an easily avoidable but significant mistake, deploying the wrong antibody to test for a key protein, according to a researcher who exposes errors in the biomedical literature.
Learn more: scim.ag/4akPaP4 @NewsfromScience
ALT Protein name confusion created antibody mix-up affecting hundreds of papers
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Jun 14
Allopregnanolone (15 mg/kg, IP) reduces spontaneous dopamine transients in rat NAc. Yet it produces conditioned place preference (rewarding, not aversive) & does NOT impair motivation intact. Brexanolone likely doesn't worsen anhedonia or reduce motivation despite ↓ dopamine.
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Augustus at the tomb of Alexander - Lionel Royer, 1878
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Jun 14
I'm sending a million Baptist missionaries to The Bay.
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greek boy summer is upon us frens
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Mediterranean man getting attacked by Scandinavian tourists
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BLADE RUNNER lobby card.
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FWIW, this matches what I’ve seen from Gemini 3.1 Pro (Thinking or better) recently. Pretty darn consistent, more than I can say for most. Clinical nuances and thorny details.
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For medical information, general AI frontier models (Google, OpenAI, Anthropic) outperformed specialized @EvidenceOpen and @UpToDate as assessed by 12 US clinicians, randomized and blinded to which model and extensive testing/benchmarks. This was not anticipated. @NatureMedicine
nature.com/articles/s41591-0…
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Jun 12
For medical information, general AI frontier models (Google, OpenAI, Anthropic) outperformed specialized @EvidenceOpen and @UpToDate as assessed by 12 US clinicians, randomized and blinded to which model and extensive testing/benchmarks. This was not anticipated. @NatureMedicine
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Marriage may not boost women's happiness very much, research suggests, partly because they're pickier than men. But they do bring some key advantages into the mating game. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
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Wish non-cc folks would see this and realize there are no magic pills if you get long covid. We’re 7 years in and all we’ve got is cognitive therapy, crossed fingers, and a healthcare industry that gives zero fucks about you.
Jun 12
Well I just had my appointment at the Post Covid Clinic
CBT and DBT
Parasympathetic activation
Breath work
Stay out of crashes (gosh thanks like my whole life doesn't revolve around this)
Fluovoxamine
And... Wait for it... LDN
(both of which I have reactions to btw)
Fuck.
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