Sent my labs to my PCP and her PA immediately responds that everything looks great EXCEPT my a1c. Reader, my a1c is 6.2. READ MY CHART BEFORE YOU INTERPRET MY BLOODWORK and you’d see I’m Type 1 diabetic and my a1c is near-perfect. Please and thanks.

“Oh my god if we let diabetics have insulin without financially destroying them what horrors await thereafter?!” Ask literally every other country on fucking Earth.

“But nothing is free - that’s slavery” while the company that makes the Humalog I die without is worth more than a TRILLION dollars and its CEO earns $700k a fucking week. Get fucked.

IYKYK

Try being Type 1 diabetic in the US, where you KNOW you will need medical care through this fucked up system for the rest of your life. It’s not an “if” or “when” - it’s a daily fucking battle to stay alive and not get bankrupted for profit.

DOGE didn't make a dent in the deficit, but it did bring back screwworm and enable a historically large new Ebola outbreak, so it's not like they didn't achieve *anything*

In this newly released email, Francis Collins explicitly states that he (then Director of NIH), Anthony Fauci (then Director of NIAID), Jeremy Farrar (then head of the Wellcome Trust), and "Larry" helped draft Proximal Origin--and that their involvement was "appropriately" hidden. Failing to disclose their involvement at the time was unethical. More troubling, however, is that for years these individuals have continued to deny or minimize their roles rather than acknowledge them and accept responsibility...all while presenting themselves as champions of scientific integrity, honesty, and victims of unjust public attacks. Nature Medicine, which published Proximal Origin, has been aware of these concerns for years. Yet rather than issuing an editorial expression of concern and initiating a formal investigation into whether this and other alleged ethical violations associated with the paper warrant retraction, the journal has done nothing. But until the broader scientific community rejects rather than protects this type of behavior, and holds those that engage in it accountable, expect this unethical behavior to continue to be the norm.

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You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice. You thought it was you. It is not you. Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse. Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like. The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation. Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first. What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland. Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved. They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data. The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment." The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible. This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis. The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world. Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

Yogi Berra. 3 MVP Awards, 13 World Series rings. Machine gunner at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944.

It wasn’t an authentic 70s swing set if one leg wasn’t popping out of the ground in a concerning fashion once somebody really got going on that motherfucker.

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🧵1/ He analizado el discurso del Papa León XIV en Madrid como si fuera el de un político. El resultado es inquietante. Porque es, técnicamente, uno de los discursos mejor construidos que han sonado en España en mucho tiempo. 👇

"Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that only 8.3 percent of independent workers prefer a traditional employment arrangement, while more than 80 percent prefer their current work arrangement." governing.com/workforce/why-…

On Wednesday, world chess champion Garry Kasparov tied Deep Blue, the IBM supercomputer that can examine two hundred million positions per second, in the fourth game of their six-game series. Earlier in the week, Kasparov admitted he committed a catastrophic blunder in game two, when he failed to force a draw by moving rook to E8. Opting instead for a Caro-Kann Defense, that soon transposed into a Pribyl defense. Which, after Deep Blue moved bishop to E7, gave him the advantage with his Knight position. With all due respect to Mister Kasparov... what the hell were you thinking?!?

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