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  • I ask this in completely good faith about the consistency of the system of including content warnings in post titles:: Why is it that pictures of Nick, Stav, and Adam's faces get a content warning, but there's no CW:Meat for the burger in RFK Jr.'s hands?

    Naturally I would be making a humongous stink if I was not properly warned before having to see Dasha's face, so thank you for so thoughtfully including that CW.

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  • They make quality stuff for the prices, an old job got a bioreactor (basically a carboy for homebrewing wired with sensors & computer-controlled pumps) for $25k from a Chinese manufacturer. They later sold it to the Open Insulin project & used the money to buy a textured vegetable protein extruder from China to make vegan deli meats. Both had kinda wonky unintuitive user interfaces, but they were solid pieces of hardware

  • The British Government was exposed in the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry this week as keeping Sergei and Yulia Skripal unconscious to silence them.
  • Reminds me of the funny pharmacology of Navalny's poisoning, according to the chemist that got crank called by Navalny & Bellingcat in that CNN documentary. The chemist said he smeared 10x the lethal dose in his blue underwear's waistband yet it took an hour to take effect & he survived throughout the entire duration of the emergency landing at Omsk plus ambulance ride.

  • I love how much of the education method of most anglo schools/universities is just shit to weed out neurodivergents and poors.
  • Gotcha, I didn't consider the video call aspect cause my grillings were in front of 10 of my peers where I had to draw out the electron pushing mechanism for how the molecule I was researching produces hydrogen peroxide.

    I did get it right after like 20 excruciating minutes standing in front of the whiteboard reasoning out the mechanism, but it was never previously taught to me by my PI.

    The livestreamed collapse name is based on some old meme about how the future sucks & the only cool technology we have is some pocket screen to doomscroll the collapse of society & climate with.

  • I love how much of the education method of most anglo schools/universities is just shit to weed out neurodivergents and poors.
  • I'd like to consider myself a freak with an amazing memory but, yeah, that on the spot pressure/call-outs were especially rough in graduate-level sciences. I get the whole in-situ "determine the limits of your knowledge on the subject" but damn if it didn't feel like the primary investigator of the lab I was in just saw me as a lab rat to poke and prod for his curiosity when I was presenting research updates.

    Also not fun to learn I probably had test anxiety for my entire scholastic career & never had accomodations suggested to me until I was nearly done with my coursework :/

  • Felix arriving with the best Moo Deng take
  • Oh shit, and here I was thinking 'fuck you rocks' lying just below the surface were the worst thing a paddler could encounter, not an ambush hervabore's tusks goring your thigh then pulling you under!

  • How Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers
  • https://en.cancer.org.il/news_e/new.aspx?NewId=227

    Global achievement recorded in Israel - melanoma incidence rates have declined by 30% among Jewish women and stability has been observed among Jewish men

    After a government education program to promote sunscreen use lmao.

    Among the Arab population in Israel, melanoma is a rare disease and the morbidity rates amount to no more than a handful of cases.

    How do you get the 30% reduction if you're not as "white skinned" as we've been led to believe? Sounds like you're just thin skinned because you know you're repeating history.

  • Scientists Use AI to Prove People Can Be Talked Out of Conspiracy Theories
  • With the inherent biases present in any LLM training model, the issue of hallucinations that you've brought up, alongside the cost of running an LLM at scale being prohibitive to anyone besides private-state partnerships, do you think that will allay conspiracists' valid concerns about the centralization of information access, a la the reduction in quality google search results over the past decade and a half?

  • ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
  • Not to mention meeting standards of purity and formulating your medication so it's shelf stable and the active pharm ingredient can be distributed within the body effectively once the medicine is administered.

    I've had similar thoughts as these jokers but with using bioreactors. Each time I conclude that the solution is a centralized manufacturing facility owned by workers to effectively produce at scale (and ensure you don't poison people).

    Sure, you're not gonna build that misoprostol plant in Texas, but there's other options to obtain properly-manufactured medication before you drink a mystery brew cooked up by an anarchist squatter named Spoon.

  • ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
  • Absolutely, and I don't see biohackers offering up cheap NMR or MS/MS detectors to solve the common issue of inadvertently making side products like MPTP when attempting to cook up MPPP or whatever, consequently injecting Parkinson's into yourself. So you're still bound by the enormous costs of getting an analytical lab stood up, despite using "AI" assisted synthetic software to substitute for real verification of each purified intermediate product. Also my other chem friend & I think that Vinni guy is an annoying ted-talk dude fwiw.

  • ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
  • Very cool that they've published a FOSS version of in-silico synthetic software plus designed a jacketed reactor (much more convenient than babysitting a round bottomed flask in a mantle for 12 hours), but I can't see it getting to very high or even mildy low temps.

    I don't see much about cleaning the reactor feedlines or reactant reservoirs, nor how you take a reaction product and work it up, or purify it for that matter, in preparation for the next synthetic step. Classico synthesis traditionally structurally elucidates each step's purified product with NMR before carrying it forward to the next rxn. But I'm a lazy chemist so I'd prefer to program microbes to make things for me (:

  • Telegram will start moderating private chats after CEO’s arrest
  • Crap, my third eye is getting tired from having to stare at more and more people. I never would have thought Ian McCollum would be the worst from that little InRangeTV clique 5-7 years ago which Deviant is adjacent to

  • Has there been a case of someone getting outed as a fed on the alt-media left other than the Mossad lady at MintPress revealing herself, in the past few years? Is it just all deniable now?
  • I started listening to Colonial Outcasts, which feels like a looser version of Eyes Left (incidentially a host of each pod was an army ranger, whatever happened to Spencer Rapaone?). That said an infrequent host (or recurring guest?) Elina Xenophontos follows Jackson Hinkle, so that's a bit 👁️ to me

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