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The branding of alpha gal as just a "red meat allergy" is one of the most despicable turns by the medical system in history. What if you could never live in an apartment building or safely walk around a city again? What if you couldn't fly, pet a dog, or use basic medications?

A peer-reviewed paper published last year in the journal Bioethics by two professors at Western Michigan University School of Medicine argues that it is "morally obligatory" to genetically engineer ticks to spread alpha-gal syndrome, a permanent condition that makes you violently allergic to red meat. The paper is called "Beneficial Bloodsucking." Their argument: if eating meat is morally wrong, then preventing the spread of a disease that forces people to stop eating meat is also morally wrong. Scientists should gene-edit lone star ticks to enhance their ability to carry alpha-gal syndrome and expand their range into urban environments to infect more people. They call this a "moral bioenhancer." They frame releasing genetically modified disease-carrying ticks as a "vaccination" that only "infringes" on your bodily autonomy rather than "violating" it. The distinction, apparently, is that a tick bit you instead of a government official holding you down. Alpha-gal syndrome is not mild. The CDC estimates up to 450,000 Americans are already affected. Cases have surged 100-fold in the last decade. Symptoms include anaphylaxis. There is no cure. Alpha-gal cases are exploding across the United States. The lone star tick's range is expanding far beyond its historical territory. And two academics at a medical school published a paper arguing this is a good thing that should be accelerated. At what point do we stop treating papers like this as fringe academic exercises and start asking whether anyone is already acting on them?

It's crazy the anti-ai data center people keep talking about water usage. Talk about noise pollution, electricity issues, security, anything but water issues. All the data centers is equivalent to ~10 acres of corn.

The promotion of Rust is more about politics and fetishes than engineering.

DONT WORRY ABOUT "BLUE LIGHT" AND SLEEP! The "blue light is wrecking your sleep" narrative is one of the stickiest health myths of the decade. As a psychiatrist who treats insomnia, I'd like it to die. The mechanism is real. The screen-sized version of the story is not. /1

new mistral model: 128B dense with an arch from 3 years ago (llama 2), very low context (128k), priced higher than deepseek v4 pro (1.6T total params, 1M context) and every other oss model that outperforms it this is very sad

Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M+ research papers and made them freely available And now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot. It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles. But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer. I'm putting the link below so you know how to avoid it.

unhinged figures Basically, DSV4-Flash is doing about as well on 950DT as it would on Hoppers (well, within some small factor), up to 4722 t/s per card in batch-maxxing regime. V4-Pro is over an OOM worse. barely profitable with 100% load after all the optimizations. why??

what's the best genetic testing service that exports in a claude code/codex-parseable format?