jassyr

Feels like you read my mind. I'm disconnected from career and generally feel disappointed with direction of technology. It's quite difficult finding meaning in life surrounded by careerist.

I enjoyed the blog. Where do you find the time to post though, once you're done with work or do you schedule specific time to post?

This trick has helped me a lot. I think to myself "I'm the type of person that . . . " And it helps overcome the mental anguish of should I or shouldn't I. "I'm the type of person that works out everyday," and the decision has already been made.

The source report: https://car-recalls.eu/tuv-report-2024/

I also have a chronic condition and am experienced with what you're talking about. Personally I favor the approved treatment option, while also maintaining a healthy diet and exercise. I know what you mean though, there is a group of people that will reach for the low probability "cure." I think it's a personality trait of people who think they're in on a secret that no one else knows. Some combination of ignorance and arrogance.

Keto operates in both worlds. There are real world, approved applications. Even with multiple sclerosis keto has been shown to help with fatigue and depression, but it's not yet an approved treatment. It probably will never be. On the other hand some people with MS tout keto as a cure, for which there is scant evidence.

There's a great scene in the movie Wall Street. Bud is an ambitious wall street trader asking his dad for money, and his dad is a working class union representative.

>Bud: It's Queens, Dad and a 5% mortgage and you rent the top room--I gotta live in Manhattan to be a player, Dad. There's no nobility in poverty anymore, y'know. One day you're going to be proud of me, you'll see...

Much of that raw, punk, diy, screw the rules mindset came from the working class. In the 90s it started to shift I think along with the offshoring of many blue collar jobs, and rise of FIRE [0] (finance, insurance, real estate) which are historically conservative industries.

Nowadays musicians are celebrated for their gross ticket sales more than their music, look at Taylor Swift's recent tour. People in my office obsessively discussed all week how much money she was making at each show. Back to your point, profit is the driver today, for better or worse. You won't get a filthy, crusty punk show anymore, but at least the venue is compliant with all current fire codes.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GOFI

>And when we do get invited it’s like “Ugh Wednesday is no good for me, how does Thursday 3 weeks from now work?”

I feel personally attacked! All kidding aside, life's gotten more complicated since I was a teenage suburban punker. work, daycare, exercise, family outings, and the occasional museum visit take up all my time.

I wonder if in 1,000 years these power struggles and land disputes will feel as antiquated as witch hunts. Sadly I fear not, human greed has no limit.

I think you missed the part about a student no longer attending Harvard nor being part of the organization.

Truck doxxer maybe won't be arrested, but a defamation/libel civil case is likely. Especially with now CEOs calling for blacklisting. Ones reputation can be totally destroyed being falsely accused.

Emotions are high right now, but destroying more innocent lives isn't the answer.

>"Harvard Economics professor Jason Furman ’92 shared a similar statement on X, writing that he had been contacted by a student who had been doxxed despite no longer attending Harvard or affiliating with the co-signing group."

Undeniable tragedy what happened, innocent lives lost and countless more will die in this war, but accusing and doxxing innocent people whose lives will be overturned seems like the wrong approach here.

The pixel "a" series match your requirements for the most part. An inexperience phone stripped of unnecessary features. Unfortunately I don't know any phones that are also repairable, replaceable, and hackable.

Are people still making money on Amazon affiliate programs? I thought that ship sailed like 10 years ago.

Would you mind sharing some prompts you've found particularly interesting?

Curious, are these easily found and purchased online? Or does one have to go through some "darkweb" channels?

Probably spamming their media contacts and trying to spend down their Q3/Q4 PR budgets

There is very convincing research that Epstein Barr Virus causes Multiple Sclerosis, and the current treatment I am on for MS destroys the B-Cells the latent virus lives in. I think you're spot on, infections are probably the cause of most of these auto-immune diseases.

In MS we're getting closer to finding the cause and ultimately the cure. It does take a while for research to get funneled to the right person with the right specialty and right funding -- sometimes years, decades.

I'm not sure tying the diseases together would be a winning strategy...? My MS could be caused by the EBV living in B-Cells and a genetic or environmental (or both) trigger. Your UC may be caused by a certain bacteria living in your gut triggering a T-Cell response by a different genetic or environmental element.

And yeah, the doctors don't want to hear my pet theories. hah. I have done my own labs, brought them in, and the doctor just gives me a condescending look like - why are you even trying? I guess they don't know how desperate most of us are for answers.

After 3 years of Ocrevus I'm switching to Kesimpta this week. I've had too many infections with Ocrevus and I'm hoping the lower dose with Kesimpta will help. I had laryngitis for a few weeks, Covid for a few weeks, other little things too, and have had to miss work as a result. Otherwise Ocrevus has been amazing for my MS!

I was diagnosed almost 15 years ago and doing fairly well. I skipped the 'CRAB' drugs specifically because of the depression/suicide risk. Being already at risk for those things I thought the negatives far outweighed the positives -- personal choice.

So glad Gilenya is working for you! Some of the new drugs are quite amazing.

>I sometimes wonder why we're all not more annoyed that we get sent to specialists for the parts of our body . . . . at no point, is there a department of immunology that takes over or even contributes.

As a person with Multiple Sclerosis seeing a neurologist I have been wondering this very thing since my diagnosis. I am on a B-cell depleting drug. It feels silly talking to my neurologist about my B cells. Lots of tests to determine neurological function, but very little tests done on immune function.

I'm always surprised to read how many great minds served in WWII. Granted most of them didn't see combat, but their lives took a drastic change. Here is a guy living a quiet life teaching philosophy at Oxford and all of a sudden in charge of planning the D-Day invasion...? That sounds wild to me.

For Nagel it appears to have been a positive factor:

"Rowe contends that his war experience had a profound effect on his personality and his approach to the subject. Before the war, he had been a guarded and solitary scholar. Now he was ‘much more openly ambitious: he had enjoyed having power and influence in the army, and he now wanted power and influence in his civilian career.’"

Maybe it was common in those days to sacrifice for the common good. Not to be that guy, but these days it feels like most people are far too self-absorbed to set aside their own ambitions for an ideology, perhaps myself included. I can't envision today's intelligentsia (influencer-istas) laboring over military documents and making government salary. "How do I monetize this" would probably be most people's first thought.

Maybe I'm just salty today.

I second escitalopram. 10mg changed my life.

Just seeing LLMs create beautiful prose seemingly out of thin air totally changed my view on human talents.

Is the question whether AI will evolve to develop emotions as a way to communicate with humans and other AI? Or whether humans can bake it in?

>"This isn't the same as experiencing the emotion and then finding a way to express it."

How is it different?

Aren't people just expressing sadness in a way that they've been conditioned to do? If sad, do sad things. Drink alcohol, put on a sad song list, reach for comfort of nostalgia, etc? I can't think of many novel ways to express sadness.

Look no further than the American book-industrial complex.

>Virginia Sole-Smith, author of a brave and radical new book...

It's just click bait in literary form. Make "radical" claim to get attention --> sell books.

What is the use case today for 224 GB/s wifi? 8k+ video? Genuinely curious.

There is something comforting about machines whirring, knocking, click clacking. The physical card printed, cut, and handled by hands. There should be a name for that feeling, like being in an old book store, being able to touch everything, read the books, flip them back and forth.

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I haven't been to SF in 20 years and reading the news I can't decide whether it's the 10th Circle of Hell or just another misunderstood American city. The comments eventually will support both sides equally no doubt.

In my experience, people only rally around a problem when faced with an immediate problem. It's probably irrelevant how you frame the issue because nothing will be done until it's juuuust about too late. The good news is humans are highly adaptable, the bad news is other species will suffer.