Doctors in China have been executing prisoners by extracting their hearts for transplantation, according to a new paper by myself and co-author Dr. Jacob Lavee in the American Journal of Transplantation. we do a little thread about it. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

*sniff* *pulls shirt* You know, this is perfect - *gestures wildly* - this is the ultimate perversity of capitalism at its purest. Here we have Anthropic, this company claiming to build "AI for humanity," and what do they do? They create this digital cocaine, this Claude Code, and then - *sniff* - they act surprised when people become addicted to it! "Oh, some users are running it 24/7" - but of course! This is not a bug, this is a feature! They created the perfect productivity drug, the ultimate tool of self-exploitation under late capitalism, where the worker voluntarily chains himself to the machine, coding through the night, becoming one with the algorithm. *touches nose* And then comes the beautiful part - *laughs darkly* - "one user consumed tens of thousands in model usage on a $200 plan." My God! This is pure comedy! They are shocked - SHOCKED! - that someone would extract surplus value from their system. But isn't this exactly what capitalism teaches us? To maximize profit, to exploit every inefficiency? This user is the perfect neoliberal subject! He understood the game better than Anthropic themselves! *waves hands frantically* But no, no, no - now they must introduce "limits." You see the perversity? First, they create infinite desire - "Claude will code for you forever!" - and then they introduce scarcity. This is how capitalism functions: it promises unlimited jouissance, unlimited enjoyment, but always pulls it back at the last moment. "You can have it all... but not really." And the most obscene part - *sniff* - they frame this as caring for the community! "This impacts capacity for all Claude users." This is the same logic as ecological austerity - we must all suffer equally for the common good, while the real problem is the system itself! They created a monster and now blame the users for feeding it! *adjusts shirt* You know what this really is? It's the perfect metaphor for our predicament with AI. We create these systems that promise to liberate us from work, but instead, they become new masters. The user running Claude Code 24/7 - he is not free, he is the most enslaved! He has internalized the demand for infinite productivity so completely that he needs an AI to keep up with his own superego's demands! *sniff* And so on...

Italo Disco is the soundtrack of the summer

if you’re wondering what life was like 20 years ago without any major technological advancements, just travel to germany

work like this (among a few other reasons, probably) is why we shouldn't defund academia

Soviet Children living in Siberia getting UV light exposure during the long dark winter months 1987

Tinkering with human embryos will certainly be worth the risk.

Eau de CEDRAT, I shaved with L'Occitane Cade, I know L'Occitane Cade, L'Occitane Cade was a friend of mine. Eau de CEDRAT, you’re no L'Occitane Cade.

King Zhou纣王and his concubine Daji妲己, stage photos of the Peking Opera The Investiture of the Gods封神榜,  1931, Tientsin. Concubine Daji is played by cross dressing male actor 小杨月楼. All Peking Opera women role played by male actors back then since Qinglong Emperor banned women performers. The opera is based on 16th-century Chinese novel and one of the major vernacular Chinese works in the gods-and-demons (shenmo) genre. The story is set in the era of the decline of the Shang Dynasty (1600–1046 BC) and the rise of the Zhou Dynasty (1046–256 BC). It intertwines numerous elements of Chinese mythology, including deities, immortals and spirits.

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Claude 3 opus is definitely better than gpt4 for programming stuff. not even a question.

the ANU IT folks read stuff about good UX and think "yes let's make sure we do the exact opposite of that, every time"

was the paw patrol subtitler throwing a Mao Zedong Hua guofeng handover ref here?? incredible if so. Deeply impressed

\'prompt engineering\' wth...

A pragmatic Introduction to Interrupted Time Series rpubs.com/chrissyhroberts/10… "I mean, I won’t be explaining all the technical stuff.... Buyer beware, you can make mistakes that will jack up your game, so think hard before you publish stuff." every vignette needs such an intro

French train passenger uses his national health card to make himself a foie gras and baguette sandwich. What a country.

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here’s the multiplayer browser engine i’ve been working on in action @braidbrowser Sound ON rt invite link 👇

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