30+ countries around the world have nuclear technology # knowledge. Some are muslim nations in middle east. Some developing: world-nuclear.org/informatio… Bangladesh: iaea.org/bulletin/bangladesh… Egypt: cnpp.iaea.org/public/countri… Türkiye: world-nuclear.org/informatio… bsky.app/profile/gilgamesh-e…

There are two types of people

Racism. The answer is always racism.

Native English speakers, I need some help. In Bulgarian, we have an expression "благородно ти завиждам" = I envy you in a noble way / which basically means you admire something (a trait, an experience, etc.) in a person so much, that you wish you had it too. If there a similar expression in English?

october: ‘sora is just so wholesome, that’s why i love it’ - every openai employee november: 404media.co/openais-sora-2-f…

I'd rather have a medical licence than a ratio

Women apologize more then men in every study I've ever seen 😂

Kafka when writing: “I can produce nothing of worth. Existence is meaningless. Life is a cataclysm” Kafka when WWI breaks out:

"I can tell who was read to as a child and who wasn't based on their vocabulary." This describes my experience perfectly

奴才 was used during Qing dynasty as a "first person pronoun of eunuchs and officials" when addressing the emperor, as a term of self-reference "I the servant" (Manchu: aha) Today 奴才 is used as a derogatory term for lackey, minion, bootlicker, as in 狗奴才

That solves the mystery of the Resolute Desk

These are important comments from influential Chinese intellectual Jin Canrong (金灿荣): "The ascent of the West was historically grounded not in abstract ideals but in the industrial power generated by capitalism, which enabled Western states to subjugate agrarian empires across Asia and Africa — only later rationalising their supremacy through claims of universal values. To reverse this historical trajectory, non-Western countries must resist the illusion of Western ideologies and value systems and prioritise the concrete task of industrial development. In an era when global competition increasingly favours those with scalable industrial capacity, regions devoid of such strength remain exposed. China’s industrial parity with the entire G7 thus marks a decisive moment in the ongoing shift of 'the East rising while the West declines' [东升西降]". open.substack.com/pub/sinifi…

Unlike what americans would like to think of themselves, this phenomenon is not anything new. Indian call centers have been living by this rule for past 25 years or more

“China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels. This trend will continue simply because renewables are cheap.” Gift link: China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics economist.com/leaders/2025/1…

My thesis has always been that screens trick you into thinking you're productive while sitting. If you make a rule that you can only scroll while standing, your phone addiction will die immediately, violently even, with no other changes necessary.

Musk really wants governments to be like corporations. Funnily enough, that's been done already. They're called 'Quasi-States'. You've definitely heard of the 2 most famous ones: The Dutch East India Trading Company & British East India Trading Company. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-…

People having jobs is "too hot for comfort" -Gaslighting stenographers for the grotesquely rich

Adenoviruses cause everything from the common cold to pink eye. People have long talked about making a vaccine to prevent colds, but there are no adenovirus vaccines on the market. But I recently learned (from @salonium?) that there *is* one available for the U.S. military. "The vaccine is approved for military personnel 17 through 50 years of age," according to the CDC. It's given to "military recruits entering basic training." And it is designed specifically to prevent infections from adenovirus types 4 and 7, which often cause GI issues and conjunctivitis, or pneumonia and bronchitis, respectively. For context, adenovirus types 1-7 all cause the common cold, too. The most severe cold symptoms, though, are often caused by adenovirus type 14, and there are no vaccines for that one. There are 49 types of adenoviruses that infect humans, each differing in their capsids and proteins used to latch onto host cells and invade them. Anyway, back to this vaccine. It was developed after WWII because a bunch of military trainess were getting sick. A microbiologist, Maurice Hilleman, was involved in developing **more than 40 different vaccines** during his career at E.R. Squibb & Sons (now Bristol-Myers Squibb), and later at the U.S. Army Medical Center, which he joined in 1948. Hilleman once flew to Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri to "investigate a suspected influenza outbreak among Army troops," but instead isolated "multiple strains of a newly discovered type of virus—the group that would eventually be named adenoviruses." By 1956, Hilleman's team had made an adenovirus vaccine against types 4 and 7. A separate vaccine, developed at the NIH, "protected against type 3 in addition to types 4 and 7" according to a website on the History of Vaccines: historyofvaccines.org/vaccin… The vaccine was given to military recruits by 1971. In 1994, the manufacturer stopped making it. All stocks were gone by 1999. "In 2001, the Army provided funds to re-establish an adenovirus vaccine, and the government contracted with a manufacturer to restore a production line for adenovirus type 4 and type 7 vaccine tablets. The vaccine was licensed in March 2011, and the U.S. military deployed it to training facilities beginning in October 2011." I'm not entirely sure why this vaccine isn't available to the general public, and I'd like to learn much more about this story. Let me know if you know anything about it! I'd love to talk with you. A screenshot of the classic Maurice Hilleman paper, published in 1958, is also below and can easily be found online.

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New article on Sam Altman's long history of abusive, toxic, manipulative, duplicitous behavior (those aren't my words, but the words of people who have directly interacted with him). The guy is a complete conman, worthy of the derogatory moniker "Scam Altman." Read more: