Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one” I've believed this for a long time. The SARS-CoV2 can really inflame vascular endothelium. The literature is rife with case reports of uncommon vasculitides appearing either after a COVID-19 infection of after vaccination. I've had a friend develop arterial dissection after getting COVID-19. This is not surprising as the SARS-CoV2 binding site, the ACE2 receptor, is located in the respiratory, cardiovascular, renal, gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary and nervous system endothelium. Basically everywhere. And remember the mRNA turns your cells into spike protein factories. When your immune system recognizes spike protein on the surface of those cells, they get attacked. It's crazy that people knew that this is how the mRNA vax worked and still though it was OK to market it.
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A fluid can store solar energy and then release it as heat months later. That seemed too magical, and I had to find out what kind of material this would be. Wow, what a surprise. I recall from my biology class that UV in sunlight causes DNA damage in the form of thymidine dimers (called Dewar isomers in the article). Turns out that these are stable, and that there's an enzyme called photolyase that can revert things back. This reversion process releases heat, so this is like a molecular battery. So the scientists created 2-pyrimidone which can form the Dewar isomers. Very cool.
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Anthropic hired a Scottish woman to teach its AI morals and ethics. Does anyone see anything really strange about this? First of all, we know it's going to be RLHF stuff, but I have some qualms about relegating the teaching of morals and ethics to any one person, especially people of a certain demographic, given what I've been seeing in the news lately. AWFL things. I don't know this person and what her belief system is. Who would have thought we'd have to worry about this sort of thing? Well, maybe Robert Heinlein.
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"The rumor mill is now predicting 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips." Maybe it will be true.
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