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My default mental state is "horrified at the world". :/

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Trump's Legislative Blueprint for Permanent Power








https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/communist-china-just-cured-diabetes

Communist #China Just #Cured #Diabetes and America's Insulin Industry is Not Happy About it

..."The patient got a cell transplant back in July 2021 at Shanghai Changzheng Hospital. And get this — within eleven weeks, no more insulin injections. Then over the next year? They slowly stopped taking their oral meds too. Just… stopped needing them.

Dr. Yin Hao, one of the researchers leading this thing, said follow-up exams showed the patient’s pancreatic islet function was “effectively restored.” The patient hasn’t needed insulin for 33 months now. Thirty-three months.

So what did they actually do?

They grew copies of the patient’s own insulin-producing cells in a lab, then transplanted them back into the body. Essentially gave the pancreas its function back. The body just started regulating blood sugar on its own again, the way it’s supposed to.
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Diabetes is brutal. Your body can’t convert food into energy properly, and if you don’t manage it, things get really bad really fast. The usual treatment? Insulin shots and pills. Every day. For life. It’s expensive, it’s exhausting, and it never ends.
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Three companies basically run the global insulin game: Novo Nordisk, Sanofi, and Eli Lilly. That last one? American. And they’ve been making obscene amounts of money off people who literally need their product to survive.

The global insulin market is currently valued at somewhere between $28–34 billion annually, with projections to reach over $40 billion by the 2030s. These three companies control over 90% of that market.
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The profit motive has created an actual moral atrocity. These companies didn’t invent insulin — that was discovered in 1921 by researchers who sold the patent for $1 because they believed everyone should have access to it. But these companies own the patents on the modern formulations and the manufacturing, and they’ve decided that maximizing shareholder value is more important than human lives."...






"Generative AI"? More like "degenerate AI"! :P #AI #LLMs

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Sunrise this morning. 👀 #Seattle

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One upside of the whole mess in the United States right now is that it's undoing the decades of preached toxic individualism and disempowering of unions.

After all, together we are strong. :3



This reeks of Microsoft trying to kill personal websites. :/

Neocities in Blocked by Bing

Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.neocities.org), from its search index.

This is not a partial demotion, a ranking issue, or a temporary crawl problem. The entire domain is completely excluded.

In addition to excluding neocities.org from search results, when we discovered the block, Bing was also placing what appeared to be a phishing attack against Neocities on the first page of search results. This is not only bad for search results, it’s very possible that it is actively dangerous. After complaints (it required several) they deranked the suspected phishing site, but neocities.org results remain blocked, and it is possibly only a matter of time before another concerning site appears on Bing searches for Neocities (it’s easy to get higher pagerank than a blocked site).

In addition to the safety concerns, this also unfairly affects over 1.5 million independent websites hosted on Neocities, the vast majority of which are personal, artistic, educational, or experimental projects with no commercial or malicious intent. These are brilliant and wonderful sites with billions of human visitors per month and they don’t deserve to be blocked from an entire search engine for no reason.

We have repeatedly attempted to resolve this through Bing’s official webmaster and support channels, and a few internal channels. Despite these efforts, Bing has declined to reverse the block or provide a clear, actionable explanation for it. At this point, we have exhausted all reasonable avenues for remediation except public disclosure.

Because of this, we are recommending that Neocities users, and the broader internet in general, not use Bing or search engines that source their results from Bing until this issue is resolved.

In addition to Bing, there are other search engines that currently rely on Bing’s search results, including but not limited to DuckDuckGo.

If you use Bing or Bing-powered search engines, Neocities sites will not appear in your search results, regardless of content quality, originality, or compliance with webmaster guidelines. If any Neocities-like sites appear on these results, they may be active phishing attacks against Neocities and should be treated with caution.

#neocities #bing #microsoft

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The best time to stop something is before it happens.
The second best time is after it has already started.

:3

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Not only that, people are also avoiding going on outings and vacations in order to save money. I know I'm in all of these boats. :(


People are fucking afraid to leave the house for fear of being nabbed or shot by Führer's goons. If we still had real economic data, I bet the chilling effect of government overreach would likely be reflected in consumer spending.

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3-D printing is a form of seizing the means of production. :3c

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This whole mess shows that the world should've never relied on the United States to begin with. :/





https://substack.com/@senatorwarren/note/c-210011873?



Zoning out for a few minutes is an effective way of getting into the zone. :3



The little nod cats do when they want your attention. ❤



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Around here it seems to be 2m, but I never actively used it.
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Europe : 144.800 MHz ; USA : 144.390 MHz ; Asia : 145.525 MHz.