Conrad Lagowski

@tigerskin1 @MakisMedicine @jasonwilliamsmd The Ethical Skeptic has been tracking the signal since lockdowns. x.com/EthicalSkeptic…

@MakisMedicine @jasonwilliamsmd How do we know it is the vaccine and not Covid itself? (Assuming there is an uptick since then). I would guess that many more people get Covid than the vaccine these days.

Built an empire worth billions. None of it mattered when it counted. I treat patients who did everything right. Wealth, access, top physicians. They still end up in my office with advanced disease because the conventional approach detected it too late or treated it too aggressively too slowly. The specific type of cancer was kept private and that should be respected. What I can say is that early-onset cancers across the board are rising. More aggressive. More advanced at diagnosis. Younger patients are presenting with disease that we used to only see in people decades older. At 43, his immune system should have been in its prime. Cancer doesn't take hold in a body where the immune system is doing what it's supposed to do. Something is breaking down in younger people, and we're not moving fast enough to figure out why.

@proudgrandpa00 @DrNeilStone Language is the ultimate invention that unlocks the potential to develop and share abstract knowledge, opening the door to ever greater inventions. Sand → fire → glass → telescope → space travel.

@Conrad_ML @DrNeilStone Kangaroo??

Name a human invention that has saved more lives than vaccines

@proudgrandpa00 @DrNeilStone Language

@DrNeilStone Refrigeration Plow DDT wheel Well drilling Water filtration/purification

@plastolithic I don't see any directionality either. It looks like the kind of surface that I would expect to see on the bottom side of something like plasticine under its own weight.

I have seen this pattern when making french toast with excessive egg. The side that hits the pan first, where the egg had a chance to pool, congeals upon contact and creates the flat surface on the right, while the rest of the bread retains most of its original texture because it doesn't make full contact with the pan because the congealed egg creates a very slight lift.

Megalithic... smears... squishes? What do we call these? #1: Somewhere around Cusco - exact location unknown

@history_rev @FoMaHun according to your theory, nubs are a spout to release the water from the mixture. How do nubs on the inside fit into your picture?

Rare, but they're there: internal #nubs.

We observe a 28% elevation above trend in cancer treatment expenditures (panel 1) and pose the critical-path question: could this simply reflect sector inflation and/or unit price escalation? The analysis is conducted in sector-constant-dollars, and we examined the top 50 cancer drugs for Medicare Part D dosage unit growth (panel 2). (You won't see the trolls doing this type of intelligence work...) The answer is no. This reflects a real increase in cancer incidence, earlier age of onset, and greater case aggressiveness — factors which compound to drive observed dosage unit demand. This dynamic is consistent with the excess mortality observed in panel 3, which, given these underlying drivers, is likely to accelerate further, unfortunately.

Medicare Part D Cancer Treatment Drug Total Dosage Units by Year It's not an increase in pricing... (and remember, this is with 1.2 million depleted from the cancer-risk pool already)

@cognitivecarbon @zachariaspro Video of a ball spinning in space. youtu.be/_OhnmAJywzM?si…

Here's an independent way to visualize what @zachariasPro has said regarding the near cessation of polar wobble. Below is an interesting update I just published for one of my new pole position charts. Each day, the physical north pole's position moves slightly, relative to the day before (the movement is obviously continuous, but is sampled only once per day.) Over the course of a year, the pole "wanders" in more or less a circular path (see the polhody chart type for that), spanning maybe 30-50ft in diameter. Important note: this is NOT the magnetic north pole, but the physical north pole. Magnetic north has wandered more than 600 miles since the year 2000. Each day the pole may move more, or less, relative to previous days. What I wanted to see, using this chart, is how the magnitude of each day's move in March of 2026 compares to its movement on that same day in prior years. Here, I chose 1996 as the start date, so each red bar below for a given day of March is compared to 30 prior years (which are shown in faded out colors.) The new markers above the red bars (which again, are March 2026 data) show the 'percentile rank' of that red bar compared to the same day of march on the previous 30 years. A "0%" would therefore mean that this year's bar is the smallest of the comparison set (whereas a 100% would mean that day's bar is the largest of all of the prior years.) 2026 is certainly and interesting year for polar motion. URL: pole.mjttech.com/?start=1996-01…

@4gottn_History x.com/Conrad_ML/stat…

No connection here. Just Scroll on.

@nikitabier @reddit_lies What's the motivation for adding a dislike button?

Just to be abundantly clear: It only appears on Replies and it will be used purely for ranking & personalization of that section. The Reply Algorithm is currently is the worst product in the company. There is no logic, no signal, just garbage. Replies could be ordered randomly with crypto spam at the top and it would probably be better than the current system.

This is a bad idea. One of the reasons Reddit is so bad was because of the upvote/downvote system. If dislikes suppress posts in the timeline, X will rapidly descend into an echochamber.

@Megalithicmyste Do you know if the top of the tower is open or sealed?

Here's a megalithic site you probably haven't heard of; Mau'kallaqta. With a really big... chullpa Similar to hundreds of other Incan sites, you see the megalithic construct surrounded by crude imitations. They tried to replicate the ice-age builders, but fell far short

@Megalithic12000 Every room has a frequency. I've been playing with this phenomenon for as long as I can remember. How does the frequency phenomenon in these ancient structures differ from all other enclosures?

The resonance of the King's Chamber has been measured and confirmed multiple times. The entire chamber vibrates at a frequency consistent with deliberate acoustic design. Granite was quarried 800km away and cut to tolerances that affect sound propagation. So what was it actually for?

@AJamesMcCarthy @TheExplosiveTMT No. Volunteering in this context means having the discipline to action a very long-term goal, which means to study and train in order to gain all of the knowledge and skills necessary to follow through. There are very few people capable, and with the desire to do so.

@TheExplosiveTMT There’s literally millions of people that would volunteer for this

find a group of astronauts ready to risk mechanical failure, years of isolation, body turning to mush from the zero gravity in the multiple years it would take to even go to Mars' distance and terminal cancer from space radiation and get back to me

@Megalithicmyste Can you share the coordinates of the location? More surrounding context could help.

I still haven't heard a credible explanation for what I found at 10,800 ft in the Andes Mountains. Cuts into bedrock? Puddles of melted stones and quartz? Trees turned to stone? I don't know what caused this. Nobody I've asked does either.

@burrytracker @KobeissiLetter Mine is still going up in downtown Austin.

@KobeissiLetter This seems familiar

BREAKING: US rent prices fell -1.5% YoY in February, to an average of $1,357, the 2nd-lowest since February 2022 and largest annual decline since the 2020 pandemic. Since the August 2022 peak, the national median rent price has fallen -5.9%, or -$85 per month. Despite the pullback, rent prices remain +18% higher than at the start of 2021. This comes as units are now taking an average of 40 days to get leased, +4 days longer than a year ago and more than double the pace seen in mid-2021. Meanwhile, MoM, prices rose +0.2% last month, the first increase since July. Looking ahead, seasonal patterns suggest rents will continue rising into the summer as moving activity picks up. Rents are falling, but affordability is still nowhere near pre-pandemic levels.

A Tesla Cybertruck pulling a Robotaxi on a trailer. SXSW Austin.

Is this the droid you're looking for? SXSW, Austin.

The leaning Tower of Pisa, spotted in Austin for SXSW.

A Netflix ad at SXSW, Austin.