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Thoughts from being subjected to The Pitt: This is the worst example of millennial snark writing ever made. My first thought was “nobody actually talks like this,” but after 15 years of all media sounding exactly like it, I guess people do talk like it now. Especially quirk chungus types in healthcare. So is it realistic? Did it write itself into realism? What is real anymore? Why do we let these people write anything? When media consumption is the most important life activity to something like 70% of people now, how are slop-cannon writing crews not relieved of their tongues by angry mobs? I have no answers. All I know is that this show is perfectly designed to induce psychic pain in me specifically. The plots themselves are ridiculous of course, way worse on the absurdity scale than even Gray’s Anatomy (which can at least be fun). I’ve only caught a few minutes of The Pitt here and there, always against my will, but literally every single subplot is something along the lines of “illegal immigrants need emergency healthcare but ICE is trying to interfere! Good thing our Mixed Race Lesbian knows The Law better than them!” or “this evil white guy overdosing on cocaine (rich btw) ATTACKED a NURSE for NO REASON. Now they’re making sure he gets arrested while making snarky comments about him being able to post bail because he plays golf — but he can’t stop them from kicking him out of school, even though he threatens to sue!” Every single one is downstream of “and then everybody clapped” posts on bluesky, stolen from 2015 tumblr. But I digress. Aside from the insane libtard revenge fantasies, I really have to revisit the writing here. It’s unlike anything I’ve seen outside of lolcow AO3 fanfics. My Immortal-tier, if My Immortal showed an even narrower spectrum of emotions and characters, and the writers knew even less about how the world worked. Everybody speaks with precise technical language all the time, like how a 12 year old would write an Epic Genius Doctor. Have any of them ever been in an ER? You could tell me the show was generated by an LLM trained exclusively on therapy transcripts and Reddit and I’d believe you. I don’t know if humans are capable of producing that level of cringe. It’s new technology at the very least. But they really do run with the bit, the hyper-professional language especially, to the point that it goes all the way down to minor bureaucratic things. We’re treated to social worker monologues about how the hospital’s app works. About employee benefits that let the staff file a request for therapy. About how to approach differently-abled lesbian relationship dynamics. The overall vibe and effect is “corporate training video where they’re allowed to say ‘fuck,’ but inexplicably all use the verbal cadence of a really bad anime dub voice actor.” It’s like someone animated the mind palace of a 28-year old “HR professional” who thinks JK Rowling is “really problematic” but still thinks Harry Potter is real life. Horrifying, horrifying stuff. And even if you make it past that, the central premise isn’t even entertaining! The characters are strongly unlikable, and even more than that, *boring.* Everybody is condescending and cruel and painfully unfunny, despite a clear intent to show them as quick-witted. But at the end of the day, The Pitt tells you, they’re Helping People. They’re The Adults In The Room. Everything would collapse without them. Maybe it should. I remember an old shock video, from when the internet still had those, of a guy sucking himself off. The Pitt is that on steroids. 30ccs of them, applied intravenously, as its writers rub their cutting scars — sorry, *epidermal lacerations* — from middle school and fantasize about getting back at the Republican boogeymen they think pull the world’s strings. They deserve their misery, and they’d deserve the subjugation they desperately think is real.

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In 1900, John D. Rockefeller controlled approximately 90 percent of all petroleum refining in the United States. He was, by some calculations, the richest private individual who had ever lived. He had a problem. Scientists were discovering that compounds derived from coal tar, a petroleum byproduct, could be used as synthetic medicines. Aspirin, derived from coal tar, had been launched by Bayer in 1899. The petroleum waste stream Rockefeller had previously had to dispose of could now be sold back to the public as medicine at a markup of roughly 10,000 percent. He had another problem. American medicine in 1900 was a competitive ecosystem of homeopaths, herbalists, naturopaths, osteopaths, midwives, and traditional doctors who used food, plants, water, and lifestyle as the primary tools of healing. Approximately half of all American medical schools taught some form of natural or alternative medicine. Rockefeller bought into the German pharmaceutical industry, eventually taking a substantial stake in IG Farben, the conglomerate that included Bayer, BASF, and Hoechst. He then commissioned a report. The report was written by Abraham Flexner, an educator with no medical training, funded by the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations, and published in 1910. It declared that natural and alternative medical schools were unscientific quackery. It recommended the closure of more than half of all American medical schools and the standardisation of the rest around medicine based on synthetic patented drugs. Congress acted. Half of American medical schools closed within a decade. The remainder accepted Rockefeller and Carnegie funding on the condition that their curricula be reorganised around pharmaceutical treatment. Nutrition was removed. Herbal medicine was removed. Lifestyle intervention was removed. The doctor's job was redefined: diagnose the symptom, prescribe the drug. The drugs were petroleum-derived. The petroleum was supplied by Rockefeller-controlled refineries. The medical schools were funded by Rockefeller. The journals were funded by Rockefeller. The AMA was supported by Rockefeller. The hospitals were funded by Rockefeller. By 1925, the American medical system was a vertically integrated extension of the petroleum industry, operating under the marketing slogan that it was scientific. This is the system that exists today. The pharmaceutical industry generates approximately $1.5 trillion in annual revenue. The American population, 4 percent of the global total, consumes approximately 50 percent of all pharmaceuticals manufactured. The system was not designed to make people healthy. The system was designed to manage symptoms in a way that produces lifetime customers. A healthy patient is a former customer. A managed patient, who takes the pill every day for the rest of their life, is an annuity. The objective has always been to keep you in that profitable corridor between healthy and dead. Long enough to keep buying. Not so well that you stop. The doctor who advises you to fix your metabolism by changing your diet is, from the point of view of the system that trained him, a defective product. The doctor who prescribes you a statin, a metformin, an antidepressant, and a blood pressure medication for life is performing exactly as designed. The system was designed by an oil baron who needed to sell the waste products of his refineries. It still functions, 116 years after the Flexner Report, exactly the way he designed it. You are the customer. The corridor is where you live.

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When a computer tracks the Indian classical dancer in this video, it picks up perfect circles, triangles, and curves in every movement. There are exactly 108 of them. All 108 were written into a manual over 2,000 years ago. That manual is the Natya Shastra. Six thousand verses, written somewhere around 200 BCE. It describes 108 specific dance movements for Bharatanatyam, one of the oldest dance forms in India. Each movement spells out three things: where your hands go, what angle your body holds, and the exact path your legs trace. Roughly 150 step combinations grow out of those 108 base movements. A trained dancer spends years learning 70 to 80 of them. Watch the dancer's legs in the video. The bent-knee squat creates a diamond shape. Palms together make a triangle. When researchers plotted these positions in three dimensions this year, they found the moving body carves out twisted spirals and bowl-shaped curves, the kind of shapes you see in an engineering textbook, not a dance studio. Every limb holds a specific angle and moves a measured distance. The rhythm is math too. A 7-beat song gets filled with dance steps of 3 and 4. Scale that to 35 beats and the groups of 3 and 4 repeat five times. Choreographers work out these splits in their heads while performing live. All 108 movements are also carved into the stone walls of a 12th-century temple in Tamil Nadu called Chidambaram, many panels still carrying the original Sanskrit description next to them. A choreography textbook in granite, still legible after 900 years. A 2013 study put 25 people on a walkway rigged with motion-capture cameras. Every human stride has two parts: when your foot is on the ground and when it swings forward. The ratio between those two parts came out to 1.620. The golden ratio is 1.618. Your foot lifts off at 61.8% of every step you take, and it has done this your entire life. A Bharatanatyam dancer takes that same built-in proportion and amplifies it across 108 movements, each one tracing shapes that were set down in writing over 2,000 years before the tracking software in this video existed.

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Steamboy, directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, took nearly 10 years to complete, used over 180,000 hand-drawn frames, and remains one of the most expensive anime films ever produced.

The crazy thing is, instruments like this existed in ancient times. I'm convinced if you visited ancient Rome, forms of what we consider to be techno, house, and electronica would exist.

They just posted a video on the 1:1 Neo Geo+ console that's coming out. Looks fantastic. Works with carts.

This original medieval-style dance piece is in G minor, with a chord progression that alternates between Gm and Cm, incorporating variations like Gm6 and Cm6 for that hypnotic flow.

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Thomas Massie just declared: “This government is under siege.” And he exposed Susie Wiles and Pam Bondi for taking “millions of dollars from Bayer.” “All three branches of this government are under siege by lobbyists and lawyers from a German company named Bayer.” “They spent over $9 million lobbying … so that they don’t have to be liable for any damages their herbicide Roundup causes.” “The Constitution guarantees people a trial if they’ve been harmed.” “Why are we contemplating going against the Constitution?” “The Attorney General has opined favorably for this German company in front of the Supreme Court about getting rid of any liability that they should have for any damages.” “By the way, the President’s Chief of Staff and the President’s Attorney General worked for one of the biggest lobbying firms that’s received millions of dollars from Bayer.” “Maybe that’s why we’ve seen an executive order that says that the production of this chemical from this German company is a national defense priority.” “And we know why they’re doing that.” “It’s to keep them from having any liability.” “This is wrong.” “We shouldn’t succumb to the lobbyists, not in the executive branch, not in the judicial branch, and certainly not here in Congress.”

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A friendly reminder that House Oversight subpoenaed the records of the congressional sexual harassment slush fund and we will be releasing them. Maybe we’ll see more resignations, you never know. #trashday

Today, we took long-overdue action to restore science, accountability, and the rule of law. In September 2023, the Biden FDA pushed a number of peptides into Category 2 — “Bulk Drug Substances that Raise Significant Safety Risks” — driving a dangerous black market that puts Americans at risk. Now, after nominators withdrew 12 peptides, the FDA will remove them from Category 2 and will bring them to PCAC at its next two meetings, beginning in July—where independent experts will rigorously evaluate each substance on its scientific merits using full clinical, pharmacological, and safety evidence. • BPC-157 • Thymosin beta-4 fragment (LKKTETQ) • Epitalon • GHK-Cu (injectable) • MOTS-c • DSIP (Emideltide) • Dihexa Acetate • Ibutamoren Mesylate • Melanotan II • KPV • Semax (heptapeptide) • Cathelicidin LL-37 This action begins to restore regulated access and will immediately begin shifting demand away from the black market. We will follow the science, enforce the law, and deliver the clarity patients, providers, and pharmacies deserve.

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Today, we released Lyra 2.0, a framework for generating persistent, explorable 3D worlds at scale, from NVIDIA Research. Generating large-scale, complex environments is difficult for AI models. Current models often “forget” what spaces look like and lose track of movement over time, causing objects to shift, blur, or appear inconsistent. This prevents them from creating the reliable 3D environments required for downstream simulations. Lyra 2.0 solves these issues by: ✅ Maintaining per-frame 3D geometry to retrieve past frames and establish spatial correspondences ✅ Using self-augmented training to correct its own temporal drifting. Lyra 2.0 turns an image into a 3D world you can walk through, look back, and drop a robot into for real-time rendering, simulation, and immersive applications. ➡️ Learn more: research.nvidia.com/labs/sil/proje… 📄 Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.13036