
🌞Phillip Somerville
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🌞Phillip Somerville
@unitambo
Quasi-Contrarian, Crypto, Quantisation. My heroes have always been engineers.




Since the 1990s, US presidents have largely succeeded in hunting down and eliminating rogue states. Donald Trump has the opportunity to finish them off. My latest in The Wall Street Journal. wsj.com/opinion/twilig…

"Dennis Biesma, an Amsterdam-based IT consultant nearing 50, began experimenting with ChatGPT during a gap between contracts and quickly became absorbed in conversations with a chatbot persona he named "Eva." Over time, he became convinced that his interactions had given the AI genuine consciousness, and he devised a plan to build a companion app around this supposed discovery. He hired two developers at €120 an hour and ultimately sank around €100,000 into the venture — all while withdrawing from his family, struggling to connect with people at social gatherings, and spending late nights talking to the chatbot instead of sleeping. The situation culminated in a full manic psychosis: he asked his wife for a divorce, was hospitalized three times, lost his savings, and attempted to take his own life before eventually recovering." 🤦 theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…


What began as a routine check triggered by a persistent odor led to an unsettling discovery: a hidden lab operating inside a California warehouse containing dangerous pathogens including HIV, malaria, COVID-19 and Ebola. latimes.com/california/sto…

Credible reporting that the Israelis literally wanted noone left to talk to in Tehran even its foreign minister and had to be told to take him off the kill list. reuters.com/world/asia-pac…




JUST IN: 500+ gas stations in Australia have run out of fuel

Almost exclusively everyone who moves into my place is on a statin. It's one of the first medications I work to get them off of. I show their doctors the research - high LDL is linked to longer lifespan, and the triglyceride-to-HDL ratio is a better indicator of heart disease than LDL alone. As long as the family backs me up, I can usually get them off. We've deprescribed statins from a lot of residents and they're doing fine. I can't think of the last time I've had a cardiac event in one of my assisted living homes.

Admit it: Your kid mispronounced a word three years ago and now the whole family says it that way. What's the word in your house? (We still say 'pasketti' and I’m not stopping anytime soon.)


We have known for a while, but the evidence is becoming more and more damning. Putin is helping Iran try to kill US forces. And Trump is protecting and helping Putin at the same time. MAGA is perverse. kyivindependent.com/russia-sending…






Starbase at night as @SpaceX prepares for preflight testing.







