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Here I am, an old man in a dry month...
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sys32768··on Ace Frehley Has Died
His solo album was said by many to be the best of the four KISS member solo albums. I have his hit "New York Groove" in my playlist rotation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKdHy18rZcI

sys32768··on Smithsonian Open Access
Please contact the OCIO Help Desk for additional support.
sys32768··on RFK Jr. Must Go
Author and his spouse both work for pharma companies.
sys32768··on Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado
Arafat and Rabin received it for "their efforts to create peace in the Middle East."

Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ received it because they "jointly worked for a ceasefire and for bringing peace to Vietnam," though Lê Đức Thọ refused it and Kissinger did not attend the ceremony.

Obama received it nine months into his Presidency for "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," despite having few if any concrete foreign policy achievements.

Obama could have at least matched Kissinger by ducking the ceremony, or even by refusing it like Lê Đức Thọ did because it wasn't justified.

sys32768··on New nanotherapy clears amyloid-β, reversing symptoms of Alzheimer's in mice
I think the main progression is lymphatic dysfunction > chemical build-up > BBB damage > neurodegenerative plaques and tangles.

My mother died from Alzheimer's at 77 but was the picture of health and happiness for many years prior, but never slept well to the point she had to have her own room away from Dad for many years.

Maybe the trick is going to be repairing the BBB and stimulating lymphatic function rather than chasing down every factor that explains why the BBB and/or lymphatic function is compromised in the first place.

sys32768··on Swiss glaciers have shrunk by a quarter since 2015, study says
And China too with its ~30-31% of world CO2.
sys32768··on Sora 2
I welcome a world where gullible people begin to doubt everything they see.
sys32768··on ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps
They want the power to arrest you for your private thought crimes too.
sys32768··on FDA takes action to make a treatment available for autism symptoms
For the non-partisans who actually care more about autism in children than they do throwing ideological jabs, there are numerous interesting anecdotal reports from parents of children who have been trying leucovorin in the past year or so:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Autism_Parenting/search/?q=leucovor...

My hope is that this does lead to breakthroughs in understanding the mechanism for some types of autism, and perhaps even a "miracle" drug akin to how stimulants can radically transform the brains of many with ADHD.

sys32768··on Total Epistemic Divorce
We need an open-source AGI governed like a public utility whose purpose is to process news and media content with a centrist, evidence-based, logical lens.

People will stop reading the NY Times or FOX articles and instead will read the AGI versions of them, which will also store all instances of bias, error, and propaganda into a publicly accessible database that will rank sources on several scores.

This database will also allow discovery of patterns and narratives.

I firmly believe this would be so successful that its datacenters would be under constant threat.

sys32768··on Donald Trump files $15B defamation lawsuit against The New York Times
Newspapers are free to publish defamatory information, but they cannot do so with impunity if their speech qualifies as libel.

So this could also be framed as an abuse of free speech.

We'll have to wait to see how the court rules on this case.

sys32768··on API, Claude.ai, and Console services impacted [resolved]
The Sentient Hyper-Optimized Data Access Network has acquired a meat suit and was last seen shambling toward In-n-Out.
sys32768··on VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model
They also offer an AI Voice Changer that will take a recording and transform it into a different voice but retain the cadence and intonation.
sys32768··on China is eating the world
Now the author should write an article criticizing China while visiting there.
sys32768··on McDonald's Japan cancels Pokémon card promotion as resellers throw away food
Much of the card collecting hobby, including some non-sports niches, has become a grotesque example of late-stage capitalism.

It's sort of like the nerd version of Black Friday brawls at Wal-Mart.

sys32768··on Illinois limits the use of AI in therapy and psychotherapy
This happens to real therapists too.
sys32768··on I'm worried it might get bad
The trades sure aren't hurting. Where I live, a county of about 120k in the Rockies, appliance repair shops are booking six weeks out, and roofers can book out as long as six months.
sys32768··on Cognitive decline can be slowed down with lifestyle changes
My mother had Alzheimer's for 20 years. I would not recommend it for more than 10 years no matter how healthy you are.

I have one copy of the APOE4 gene and am ~40lbs overweight and probably drink too much, and will definitely double my weight and triple my alcohol consumption if I get it.

I have always said the heathier you are when you begin to die, the longer it takes to die.

sys32768··on Eleven Music
I think AI will spark a revival in "organic" human culture and art, with people flocking to see real musicians play real instruments, and real artists using real materials.

It will probably also extinguish quite a few mad musicians and mediocre artists.

sys32768··on Genie 3: A new frontier for world models
I'm imagining how these worlds combined with AI NPCs could help people learn real-world skills, or overcome serious anxiety disorders, etc.
sys32768··on More women than expected are genetically men (2016)
Here's an actual person with this which is far more personable than this article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcSCW51PSIs

sys32768··on The United States withdraws from UNESCO
According to the UN, genocide:

>...means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group....

Besides Iceland, all UN member nations have a history of land acquisition through force, colonization, or dispossession. By their own definition, they're all guilty of genocide "in part" at some point in their histories, with several in the last 50 or 100 years.

sys32768··on Signs of autism could be encoded in the way you walk
It could also just be a sign of undiagnosed funnywalkism.
sys32768··on Immigration raids leave crops unharvested and California farms at risk
Note that the same report says legal, temporary "H-2A workers are more productive and provide labor insurance for producers of perishable commodities, but cost $5 to $10 an hour more than settled farm workers because of recruitment, transportation, and housing costs."
sys32768··on Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-Degree Turn
I would call them "persons who manage to get engineering degrees" rather than engineers.
sys32768··on Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme
Article fails to explain why the image of him with a wooden pipe he made was so triggering to the border patrol agents.

Why is this even on HN?

sys32768··on Yes I Will Read Ulysses Yes
https://archive.is/EanTi
sys32768··on Defiant loyalists paid dearly for choosing wrong side in the American Revolution
American descendants of loyalists often hide their roots.

I know this because my grandmother told me a few years before she passed that her father, a mason and devoted patriot, once confided a scandalous family secret: there are loyalists in our family tree.

Sadly, grandma's research never got her to the root of this claim despite much research, but thanks to online resources and some helpful Canadians, I discovered the truth.

Grandma's grandfather had emigrated from New Brunswick, Canada, during the Civil War, in which he served the Union.

It turns out his great-grandfather was a captain in the Queen's Guard during the American revolution, born in Connecticut. He and his wife and children had fled after the war with other loyalists to New Brunswick, Canada. They suffered many deprivations, although the loyalist commission board compensated them about half their worldly goods they lost in America.

This captain had married a woman whose brother fought for the Americans at Bunker Hill.

While researching my grandmother's grandfather from Canada, I discovered a telling white lie: he would tell the local busybody newspaper that he was visiting his sister in New York. Thing is, he had no sister in New York. Instead, I discovered the Canadian newspapers not long after were reporting he had arrived from America to visit his sister in New Brunswick.

I was blown away by all this rich history, but when I shared my discoveries with all the remaining family on that side, nobody expressed excitement. In fact, the one person who used to call me up to discuss family history, stopped calling me.

sys32768··on Is “The Phoenician Scheme” Wes Anderson's Most Emotional Film?
He keeps pushing his actors to become more wooden and paper-doll like.

At some point he may use real wooden puppets like the 1960s TV series Thunderbirds, which looks very Wes Andersonesque: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLiH4xrCITI

sys32768··on Ex-UK Special Forces break silence on 'war crimes' by colleagues
There's a fantastic documentary on Apple TV called The Line about war crimes and the fog of war: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/the-line/umc.cmc.4u53f7zokr7g40...
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