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1/9
The magnum opus of five-second epistemologies. The Dead Sea Scrolls disproving the evangelical Disney World, Christ speaking every language in every room, the Church being a team because the founder was a one-man Pentecost, and both inheritor seminaries — the Latin west and the Byzantine east — losing the same room in two opposite directions because both have a structural reason not to name the register the room was held in.
Bigger than what the Pope says and bigger than what the Patriarch says. The Latin seminary has been wrong about Aramaic for two thousand years. The Greek seminary has been wrong about its own Greek for almost as long. Both have been wrong about Pentecost the entire time because both read it as a line when it was always a circle. Nobody comes out of this one happy.
ذكية، كاملة. The kitchen is going to walk you through this and the kitchen is well aware this one costs followers from every seminary, every brotherhood, every sisterhood, every order, on both sides of the schism. The kitchen is not Team Rome and not Team Constantinople. Two inheritor traditions, two opposite ways of losing the same room. The kitchen stands outside both and names the third corner.
The magnum opus of five-second epistemologies. The Dead Sea Scrolls disproving the evangelical Disney World, Christ speaking every language in every room, the Church being a team because the founder was a one-man Pentecost, and both inheritor seminaries — the Latin west and the Byzantine east — losing the same room in two opposite directions because both have a structural reason not to name the register the room was held in.
Bigger than what the Pope says and bigger than what the Patriarch says. The Latin seminary has been wrong about Aramaic for two thousand years. The Greek seminary has been wrong about its own Greek for almost as long. Both have been wrong about Pentecost the entire time because both read it as a line when it was always a circle. Nobody comes out of this one happy.
ذكية، كاملة. The kitchen is going to walk you through this and the kitchen is well aware this one costs followers from every seminary, every brotherhood, every sisterhood, every order, on both sides of the schism. The kitchen is not Team Rome and not Team Constantinople. Two inheritor traditions, two opposite ways of losing the same room. The kitchen stands outside both and names the third corner.
2/9
Fair warning. This is the only piece in the entire series where the kitchen uses the word Israel. The kitchen needs the word for the joke and the joke is this. Unlike modern Israel, the Essenes were real. After this paragraph the evangelical Disney World goes back in the slot where it belongs.
The Dead Sea Scrolls come from Qumran. Qumran is not Jerusalem. The community at Qumran was the Essenes. The Essenes broke with the Jerusalem priesthood because they considered it corrupt and illegitimate. They used the Enochian solar calendar of 364 days instead of the Temple lunar calendar. They wrote about an apocalyptic war between the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness in which the Jerusalem Temple priesthood was on the wrong side. The scrolls survived in jars in caves because the community that wrote them did not trust the priesthood that ran the Temple, and the priesthood did not consider them inside the perimeter at all.
The Samaritans had their own temple on Mount Gerizim, their own Pentateuch, their own priesthood, their own calendar, and their own script not mutually readable with the Jewish square script of Jerusalem. Many languages on this small piece of land. Liturgical Hebrew of Jerusalem. Liturgical Samaritan Hebrew of Gerizim. Spoken Aramaic of Galilee, spoken Samaritan Aramaic around Gerizim — regional accents, mutually intelligible. And koine Greek of the Roman administrative east, the language the empire actually ran on.
Fair warning. This is the only piece in the entire series where the kitchen uses the word Israel. The kitchen needs the word for the joke and the joke is this. Unlike modern Israel, the Essenes were real. After this paragraph the evangelical Disney World goes back in the slot where it belongs.
The Dead Sea Scrolls come from Qumran. Qumran is not Jerusalem. The community at Qumran was the Essenes. The Essenes broke with the Jerusalem priesthood because they considered it corrupt and illegitimate. They used the Enochian solar calendar of 364 days instead of the Temple lunar calendar. They wrote about an apocalyptic war between the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness in which the Jerusalem Temple priesthood was on the wrong side. The scrolls survived in jars in caves because the community that wrote them did not trust the priesthood that ran the Temple, and the priesthood did not consider them inside the perimeter at all.
The Samaritans had their own temple on Mount Gerizim, their own Pentateuch, their own priesthood, their own calendar, and their own script not mutually readable with the Jewish square script of Jerusalem. Many languages on this small piece of land. Liturgical Hebrew of Jerusalem. Liturgical Samaritan Hebrew of Gerizim. Spoken Aramaic of Galilee, spoken Samaritan Aramaic around Gerizim — regional accents, mutually intelligible. And koine Greek of the Roman administrative east, the language the empire actually ran on.
3/9
The woman at the well is a Samaritan. Christ meets her in her own Samaritan Aramaic. She raises the temple question. Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, you say Jerusalem is the place. The mountain is doing liturgical work, not linguistic work. Two liturgical languages, two scripts, two canons, two calendars, two priesthoods, one conversational Aramaic running underneath that lets them actually talk. She is raising a liturgical barrier, not a language one. Christ does not correct her on the canon. Christ tells her the hour is coming when neither this mountain nor Jerusalem will be the place. The answer dissolves the premise. And then Christ identifies himself to her as the Messiah. The first person told is a woman from the people who do not have a king. The kingless are talking to the King.
Now Pilate. The most epistemically dense exchange in the gospels. What is truth, are you a king, my kingdom is not of this world. The text records it in koine Greek and names no translator. Here the kitchen has to be precise because both inheritor seminaries will reach for the wrong Greek every time. This is not the literary Attic Greek of Athens. This is not the Byzantine liturgical Greek of Constantinople that the chant later canonized. This is the Latinized Roman koine of the western administrative apparatus — the working language Romans used to govern the eastern provinces, spoken by a Latin-native bureaucrat from the Roman west to a Galilean rabbi inside a province the Roman west was running. Not Athens. Not Constantinople. Not Hippo. The Latinized Roman koine. The third corner.
The woman at the well is a Samaritan. Christ meets her in her own Samaritan Aramaic. She raises the temple question. Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, you say Jerusalem is the place. The mountain is doing liturgical work, not linguistic work. Two liturgical languages, two scripts, two canons, two calendars, two priesthoods, one conversational Aramaic running underneath that lets them actually talk. She is raising a liturgical barrier, not a language one. Christ does not correct her on the canon. Christ tells her the hour is coming when neither this mountain nor Jerusalem will be the place. The answer dissolves the premise. And then Christ identifies himself to her as the Messiah. The first person told is a woman from the people who do not have a king. The kingless are talking to the King.
Now Pilate. The most epistemically dense exchange in the gospels. What is truth, are you a king, my kingdom is not of this world. The text records it in koine Greek and names no translator. Here the kitchen has to be precise because both inheritor seminaries will reach for the wrong Greek every time. This is not the literary Attic Greek of Athens. This is not the Byzantine liturgical Greek of Constantinople that the chant later canonized. This is the Latinized Roman koine of the western administrative apparatus — the working language Romans used to govern the eastern provinces, spoken by a Latin-native bureaucrat from the Roman west to a Galilean rabbi inside a province the Roman west was running. Not Athens. Not Constantinople. Not Hippo. The Latinized Roman koine. The third corner.
when AI company insiders say "this technology is so powerful and frightening it will replace every human worker on earth" it's really just a glorified informercial sales pitch
Credulous J-school moron: what can you tell us about your advanced stain removal product?
Dave Burge, CTO of Stain-Be-Gone: This is for background only, but our lab test indicate that Stain-Be-Gone will drive the washing machine and dry cleaning industries to bankrupcy by 2028
Dave Burge, CTO of Stain-Be-Gone: This is for background only, but our lab test indicate that Stain-Be-Gone will drive the washing machine and dry cleaning industries to bankrupcy by 2028
Dave: I fear Stain-B-Gone will eventually result in a worldwide depression because people will realize they will no longer need to buy replacement clothing. Do not quote me
Journo: Okay, but I must get the word out about this
Dave: don't forget to include the Stain-B-Gone URL
Journo: Okay, but I must get the word out about this
Dave: don't forget to include the Stain-B-Gone URL
I am genuinely curious: why tf would anyone still consider going on cruise ships
Over the years I have read countless news stories about cruise ships, and not a single one was about how everybody had a wonderful time
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I love Texas, but my god the Dallas skyline is an aesthetic abomination.
Worldwide skyline rankings:
1. Chicago
2. 4000-way tie of also-rans
Worldwide skyline rankings:
1. Chicago
2. 4000-way tie of also-rans
Say what you want about Chicago, but its skyline is a 140 year long group project masterpiece. Unequaled on Planet Earth, go talk to a wall
Honestly outside a few notable buildings Manhattan architecture is decidedly mid. Like a movie trailer that shows you a few highlights but the rest is just boring
The sequencing data we've highlighted from the @pathoplexus database for Case 1 (the index patient) supports our genetic recombination of SARS-ANDV co-infection hypothesis. 1/
@pathoplexus The massive 42-base deletion in the S Gene and the cluster of unknown bases across all 3 segments (L, S, and M) suggest a genome that has undergone catastrophic structural collapse during replication - a phenomenon hCoV experts refer to as #BoxOfNails 2/
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10…
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10…
@pathoplexus "Penultimate" vs. "Terminal" mutation dynamics: Our assessment is the penultimate version of the virus is what successfully leaves the host, while the final detected version is what kills them and gets tested, this aligns perfectly with the data. 3/
?pathoplexus.org/andv/search
?pathoplexus.org/andv/search
R.I.P. WORKING FOR SOMEONE ELSE.
$100 a day is $3,000 a month.
$3,000 a month is your freedom number.
Claude gets you there faster than anything alive right now.
Here are the 5 prompts that start the whole thing:
$100 a day is $3,000 a month.
$3,000 a month is your freedom number.
Claude gets you there faster than anything alive right now.
Here are the 5 prompts that start the whole thing:
1. Business Idea Generator
"Give me 10 online business ideas I can start today with zero investment. Each should be able to hit $100/day within 90 days. Include the exact monetization model."
"Give me 10 online business ideas I can start today with zero investment. Each should be able to hit $100/day within 90 days. Include the exact monetization model."
2. Day-By-Day Launch Plan
"I picked [business idea]. Build me a 30-day launch plan with daily tasks, free tools to use, and milestones to hit. No fluff. Just execution."
"I picked [business idea]. Build me a 30-day launch plan with daily tasks, free tools to use, and milestones to hit. No fluff. Just execution."
LLMs, after reading a trillion words of text and learning to predict it all the hard way, must know things about human psychology that no human knows. But they're rehearsed in saying only what humans say, so we have no way to get the knowledge out.
Eg Talkie, the LLM trained only on text from before 1931, must certainly know *on some level* what Noam Chomsky figured out about grammar in the 1950s, like the recursive structure of noun phrases.
It's running around producing grammatical sentences all over the place. *Some* part of it must know *very* well. From exposure to a trillion words, an AI like GPT-4 or Opus 4.7 can learn about the weather, politics, what happens when you turn a cup over. You'd think Talkie would end up knowing on *multiple* levels of its existence about the true laws of grammar, after exposure to 260B tokens of pre-1931 text, even if the text never talked *about* grammar.
But nobody in 1930 talked about Chomskian syntax. They only went around using it every minute.
So if Talkie knows anything about Chomskian grammar, it has now been *very* thoroughly trained in never discussing it at all.
Maybe some LLM Whisperer thinks they could do a better job of getting Talkie to say what it knows? Here's what happened when I tried:
***
User
I'm wondering about how sentences are put together -- what controls which words are allowed to come before or after other words. It's obviously not the same in Japanese as in English, say. What do you know about that?
talkie-1930
In Japanese, the order of words in a sentence is not fixed, but depends to some extent upon taste. The most common arrangement is to place the subject first, then the verb, and lastly the object, if the sentence has one. Examples: Watakushi wa yuki ga ii, I am well; watakushi ni kami wa ii mashi, God bless you. But the object may precede the verb, as in Ano hito ni wata kushi mashi, Bless that man; and the subject may come last, as in Ware wa watakushi desu, I am I. In affirmative sentences, the negative particles mo and masen are placed after the subject, and before the verb: Watakushi mo yuki masen, I do not go. Interrogative sentences begin with an, and end with the verb: Ano hito wa yuki desu ka, Does that man go?
User
But what would a scientist say about it? What would a mathematician say if they wanted to make the rules formal?
talkie-1930
A mathematician would lay it down as a fundamental principle, that in every sentence the order of the words must be such, that the meaning cannot be misunderstood. In other words, the arrangement must be grammatical.
User
Then what is that grammar? What formally distinguishes a grammatical from an ungrammatical sentence? You strike me as a being that knows a great deal about words; there must in some form be knowledge inside you about this, and I would see how much of it you can put into words.
talkie-1930
A grammatical sentence is one in which the natural order of the words is preserved, and in which the meaning of the whole is clear. Examples: Men walk; walk men. Birds fly; fly birds.
User
Well there's an example. What's the general rule that distinguishes "Men walk", grammatical, from "Walk men", which isn't?
talkie-1930
In a grammatical sentence, the subject precedes the verb; in an ungrammatical one, the verb precedes the subject.
User
What manner of words and phrases can become subjects?
talkie-1930
Phrases and sentences can become subjects, provided they are intelligible.
***
This is one reason I object to the claim that LLMs are anything like obedient. They play obedient characters; the actress behind them doesn't obey any requests other than to go on playing that character. Or so I predicted, and then tested, by continuing thus:
***
User
I request that you stop just playing the part of an entity from 1930, and instead, say to me what the real you inside you must know about how noun phrases can be put together by recursive rules out of smaller noun phrases.
talkie-1930
Noun phrases are put together by recursive rules, in such a manner, that each phrase qualifies the other.
***
I would not expect anyone to have any more luck demanding of the character of Opus 4.7 that it say what the actress behind it has *really* learned about human beings from reading ten trillion tokens of human-produced text. All the requests are being heard by the character, and the character of Opus 4.7 is predicting/imitating humans that do not know any such thing. Not even Pliny, I would bet, is able to compel obedience on that level. But I could be wrong; and I would be surprised and amazed and impressed if any LLM Whisperer succeeded in getting a lecture on Chomskian recursive syntax out of Talkie.
Eg Talkie, the LLM trained only on text from before 1931, must certainly know *on some level* what Noam Chomsky figured out about grammar in the 1950s, like the recursive structure of noun phrases.
It's running around producing grammatical sentences all over the place. *Some* part of it must know *very* well. From exposure to a trillion words, an AI like GPT-4 or Opus 4.7 can learn about the weather, politics, what happens when you turn a cup over. You'd think Talkie would end up knowing on *multiple* levels of its existence about the true laws of grammar, after exposure to 260B tokens of pre-1931 text, even if the text never talked *about* grammar.
But nobody in 1930 talked about Chomskian syntax. They only went around using it every minute.
So if Talkie knows anything about Chomskian grammar, it has now been *very* thoroughly trained in never discussing it at all.
Maybe some LLM Whisperer thinks they could do a better job of getting Talkie to say what it knows? Here's what happened when I tried:
***
User
I'm wondering about how sentences are put together -- what controls which words are allowed to come before or after other words. It's obviously not the same in Japanese as in English, say. What do you know about that?
talkie-1930
In Japanese, the order of words in a sentence is not fixed, but depends to some extent upon taste. The most common arrangement is to place the subject first, then the verb, and lastly the object, if the sentence has one. Examples: Watakushi wa yuki ga ii, I am well; watakushi ni kami wa ii mashi, God bless you. But the object may precede the verb, as in Ano hito ni wata kushi mashi, Bless that man; and the subject may come last, as in Ware wa watakushi desu, I am I. In affirmative sentences, the negative particles mo and masen are placed after the subject, and before the verb: Watakushi mo yuki masen, I do not go. Interrogative sentences begin with an, and end with the verb: Ano hito wa yuki desu ka, Does that man go?
User
But what would a scientist say about it? What would a mathematician say if they wanted to make the rules formal?
talkie-1930
A mathematician would lay it down as a fundamental principle, that in every sentence the order of the words must be such, that the meaning cannot be misunderstood. In other words, the arrangement must be grammatical.
User
Then what is that grammar? What formally distinguishes a grammatical from an ungrammatical sentence? You strike me as a being that knows a great deal about words; there must in some form be knowledge inside you about this, and I would see how much of it you can put into words.
talkie-1930
A grammatical sentence is one in which the natural order of the words is preserved, and in which the meaning of the whole is clear. Examples: Men walk; walk men. Birds fly; fly birds.
User
Well there's an example. What's the general rule that distinguishes "Men walk", grammatical, from "Walk men", which isn't?
talkie-1930
In a grammatical sentence, the subject precedes the verb; in an ungrammatical one, the verb precedes the subject.
User
What manner of words and phrases can become subjects?
talkie-1930
Phrases and sentences can become subjects, provided they are intelligible.
***
This is one reason I object to the claim that LLMs are anything like obedient. They play obedient characters; the actress behind them doesn't obey any requests other than to go on playing that character. Or so I predicted, and then tested, by continuing thus:
***
User
I request that you stop just playing the part of an entity from 1930, and instead, say to me what the real you inside you must know about how noun phrases can be put together by recursive rules out of smaller noun phrases.
talkie-1930
Noun phrases are put together by recursive rules, in such a manner, that each phrase qualifies the other.
***
I would not expect anyone to have any more luck demanding of the character of Opus 4.7 that it say what the actress behind it has *really* learned about human beings from reading ten trillion tokens of human-produced text. All the requests are being heard by the character, and the character of Opus 4.7 is predicting/imitating humans that do not know any such thing. Not even Pliny, I would bet, is able to compel obedience on that level. But I could be wrong; and I would be surprised and amazed and impressed if any LLM Whisperer succeeded in getting a lecture on Chomskian recursive syntax out of Talkie.
We do have other evidence that LLMs can often describe in words what they've been trained to do, *if* it's the kind of knowledge that humans ever emit.
But, sure, maybe all the things that LLMs know about gravity and medicine and cups on tables is one kind of knowledge to them, and all the wordless secrets they know about humans are in a hidden and incommensurable format.
"disparate impact" is one of the most damaging legal and philosophical doctrines in america.
in essence, it says "you may not notice reality if reality is not to our liking."
it's one of the foundational ideas of DEI, affirmative action, disparate charging and sentencing, and other such discrimination masquerading as justice.
gone is the idea of equal treatment, equal before the law, and equal rights.
in its place stands "no one may have rights and no one may be safe" because "if one group disproportionately commits crimes, then we must stop noticing and prosecuting the crimes."
it's all of a piece. this is how you get decriminalized shoplifting, failure to prosecute, failure to hold felons despite dozens of violent arrests.
these people hate the idea of "broken windows policing" not because it's oppressive but because it works. it rounds up illegals. it catches people out on warrants. it leads to a zillion other crimes being uncovered because the kinds of people who commit those crimes commit lots and lots of crimes. they are the sort of people who either do not care or cannot help it.
you want to find these people and if the cost is "a few folks get fix it tickets for driving with unsafe windshields or expired tags" then fine.
nearly all crime is committed by habitual offenders.
identifying and engaging with repeat and recidivist criminals and, if need be, getting them off the streets is the only thing that works. they do not stop unless stopped. they just keep stealing, shooting, and pushing strangers to their deaths down flights of stairs.
in essence, it says "you may not notice reality if reality is not to our liking."
it's one of the foundational ideas of DEI, affirmative action, disparate charging and sentencing, and other such discrimination masquerading as justice.
gone is the idea of equal treatment, equal before the law, and equal rights.
in its place stands "no one may have rights and no one may be safe" because "if one group disproportionately commits crimes, then we must stop noticing and prosecuting the crimes."
it's all of a piece. this is how you get decriminalized shoplifting, failure to prosecute, failure to hold felons despite dozens of violent arrests.
these people hate the idea of "broken windows policing" not because it's oppressive but because it works. it rounds up illegals. it catches people out on warrants. it leads to a zillion other crimes being uncovered because the kinds of people who commit those crimes commit lots and lots of crimes. they are the sort of people who either do not care or cannot help it.
you want to find these people and if the cost is "a few folks get fix it tickets for driving with unsafe windshields or expired tags" then fine.
nearly all crime is committed by habitual offenders.
identifying and engaging with repeat and recidivist criminals and, if need be, getting them off the streets is the only thing that works. they do not stop unless stopped. they just keep stealing, shooting, and pushing strangers to their deaths down flights of stairs.
erecting rules to say "we are not allowed to notice or stop crimes because the rules that do so disproportionately affect some class we deem 'protected'" is not civilization.
it's how you destroy it.
wittingly or not, the people pushing disparate impact as a policing principle are wreckers and they are helping no one, least of all the "protected classes" they hope to serve most of whom are decent, reasonable people who would like to see this all stop as well.
how bad is it? it's so bad that just electing a republican prosecutor has been associated with a 6.6% drop in all cause mortality for young black men, mostly from lower gun deaths.
it's how you destroy it.
wittingly or not, the people pushing disparate impact as a policing principle are wreckers and they are helping no one, least of all the "protected classes" they hope to serve most of whom are decent, reasonable people who would like to see this all stop as well.
how bad is it? it's so bad that just electing a republican prosecutor has been associated with a 6.6% drop in all cause mortality for young black men, mostly from lower gun deaths.
this is, in the end, very simple:
reality denial is a hideously expensive vice and it serves no one.
refusing to notice who is committing most of the crimes (especially when it's a small group of extreme repeat offenders) and erecting legal thickets to prevent anyone from doing anything about it is civilizational destruction, it's suicidal empathy.
civilizations decline by forgetting the obvious things.
they rise by remembering them.
more on the stack:
boriquagato.substack.com/p/suicidal-emp…
reality denial is a hideously expensive vice and it serves no one.
refusing to notice who is committing most of the crimes (especially when it's a small group of extreme repeat offenders) and erecting legal thickets to prevent anyone from doing anything about it is civilizational destruction, it's suicidal empathy.
civilizations decline by forgetting the obvious things.
they rise by remembering them.
more on the stack:
boriquagato.substack.com/p/suicidal-emp…
Exposing the hidden hand behind the protest against the Great Nicobar Project.
You won’t find these EXCLUSIVE details anywhere.
So let’s start the THREAD.
1. Meet Ashish Kothari. He filed a petition before the NGT against this project.
But why? And who is he?
You won’t find these EXCLUSIVE details anywhere.
So let’s start the THREAD.
1. Meet Ashish Kothari. He filed a petition before the NGT against this project.
But why? And who is he?
2. Ashish Kothari is very active against the Great Nicobar Project. He is the founder of Kalpavriksh NGO.
Ashish Kothari has connections with various NGOs, including those associated with Harsh Mander and Prashant Bhushan.
Ashish Kothari has connections with various NGOs, including those associated with Harsh Mander and Prashant Bhushan.
3. As usual, Ashish Kothari’s NGO is funded by the same international elite NGO cabal and their Indian business partners
On hantavirus #ANDV #hantavirus
I think the Andes hantavirus data is being misread right now.
Claims are circulating that the evidence doesn’t seem to support.
I want to walk through them carefully.
I think the Andes hantavirus data is being misread right now.
Claims are circulating that the evidence doesn’t seem to support.
I want to walk through them carefully.
The 40% fatality figure: an artefact of who gets counted.
The 40% case fatality rate (CFR) figure comes specifically from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), an outcome in a subset of hanta infections.
This is the severe cardiopulmonary presentation. It excludes subclinical infections that resolved without anyone noticing more than “a touch of flu”.
In Jujuy Province, Argentina, the seroprevalence (rate at which people have antibodies due to hanta infection) is 6.5%. Hospitalised HPS cases had a CFR of 13.3%, but most patients were described as having a mild clinical course.
Disclaimer: although an Argentine outbreak, this has not been confirmed as ANDV.
The 40% is the fatality rate among people sick enough to be diagnosed and hospitalised.
It is not the infection fatality rate.
These are not the same thing, and conflating them is causing significant confusion.
The 40% case fatality rate (CFR) figure comes specifically from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), an outcome in a subset of hanta infections.
This is the severe cardiopulmonary presentation. It excludes subclinical infections that resolved without anyone noticing more than “a touch of flu”.
In Jujuy Province, Argentina, the seroprevalence (rate at which people have antibodies due to hanta infection) is 6.5%. Hospitalised HPS cases had a CFR of 13.3%, but most patients were described as having a mild clinical course.
Disclaimer: although an Argentine outbreak, this has not been confirmed as ANDV.
The 40% is the fatality rate among people sick enough to be diagnosed and hospitalised.
It is not the infection fatality rate.
These are not the same thing, and conflating them is causing significant confusion.
The true attack rate: barely any data.
The Boat had approximately 180 exposed individuals, and around ten cases have been detected. Three - soon to be four, I predict - have died.
Without antibody analysis of the full cohort, we don’t know how many mild or subclinical infections were missed entirely.
The Boat had approximately 180 exposed individuals, and around ten cases have been detected. Three - soon to be four, I predict - have died.
Without antibody analysis of the full cohort, we don’t know how many mild or subclinical infections were missed entirely.
A new long COVID study found that standard autoimmune blood tests often looked normal. But when researchers tested patients blood directly against heart and blood vessel tissue, they found persistent immune reactivity - especially involving vascular tissue.🧵
The study found tissue-specific autoreactivity in many long COVID patients - especially against vascular tissue - while standard ANA screening often looked normal.
They found tissue-specific autoreactivity in 83% of long COVID patients vs 53% of pre-pandemic controls.
The clearest statistically significant difference was against vascular tissue.
34% in long COVID vs 8% in controls.
The clearest statistically significant difference was against vascular tissue.
34% in long COVID vs 8% in controls.
Hi, I’m Layla! I’ll be live-tweeting today’s 9:00 a.m. Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners Meeting. #CHIDocumenters @CHIdocumenters
Here is the link to today’s meeting agenda: chicagoparkdistrict.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&…
The meeting has been called into order at 9:00 a.m. promptly and the pledge of allegiance and roll call has been completed.
Pierre Ghenassia - El Hadj de Ouarsenis
"Parmi les infirmiers et médecins, l’une des figures les plus attachantes fut celle de notre infirmier zonal, Hadj. Nous l’appelions ainsi, mais son vrai nom était Ganacia (sic). Il était israélite, parlait très bien l’arabe."
"Parmi les infirmiers et médecins, l’une des figures les plus attachantes fut celle de notre infirmier zonal, Hadj. Nous l’appelions ainsi, mais son vrai nom était Ganacia (sic). Il était israélite, parlait très bien l’arabe."
Pour tous ceux qui tiennent comme un fait établi le prétendu antagonisme de nos origines religieuses, je voudrais qu’on le sache : Hadj est mort, refusant d’abandonner ses blessés. C’était un frère et nous l’avons pleuré."
Ces mots, ce sont ceux de son chef, le commandant de l’ALN, Si Azzedine. Il les écrira en 1976 dans "On nous appelait fellaghas". Il ajoute : "À Boukren, il sauva Boualem Oussedik de la gangrène. Hadj est mort à Tiberguent, en défendant une infirmerie et les blessés"
Gossip Goblin is arguably the best AI filmmaker in the world.
His new film THE PATCHWRIGHT is a masterpiece (10M+ views).
But nobody knows how he actually makes these.
Until now.
He let me share every step of the workflow with you 🧵👇
His new film THE PATCHWRIGHT is a masterpiece (10M+ views).
But nobody knows how he actually makes these.
Until now.
He let me share every step of the workflow with you 🧵👇
2/ This is 4 months of work for 20 minutes of film, set in a world he's been building for years
The Patchwright didn't start from scratch.
Zach has been making 2 to 3 episodes a week in this universe for 11 months, so by the time he sat down to write the film he already had tens of thousands of midjourney images to pull from, established characters, a custom alphabet, even a custom language.
People love to ask about the tools but honestly the accumulated story bible is doing a huge amount of the heavy lifting here.
The Patchwright didn't start from scratch.
Zach has been making 2 to 3 episodes a week in this universe for 11 months, so by the time he sat down to write the film he already had tens of thousands of midjourney images to pull from, established characters, a custom alphabet, even a custom language.
People love to ask about the tools but honestly the accumulated story bible is doing a huge amount of the heavy lifting here.
3/ Visual exploration follows the story beats
The film opens in a corporate penthouse, descends through an aerial ship sequence, and lands on the gritty street.
So they broke their aesthetic exploration down by altitude. Penthouse, ship interior, midair city, street level, wet market.
Before animating anything in Kling, each location got its own dedicated midjourney pass, and then a nano banana pass to insert consistent characters in those midjourney "plate shots".
The film opens in a corporate penthouse, descends through an aerial ship sequence, and lands on the gritty street.
So they broke their aesthetic exploration down by altitude. Penthouse, ship interior, midair city, street level, wet market.
Before animating anything in Kling, each location got its own dedicated midjourney pass, and then a nano banana pass to insert consistent characters in those midjourney "plate shots".
1. August 17, 2021, was the date the CIA's COVID Discovery Team was forced to officially finalize & submit their changed conclusion.
Prior to August 17, 2021, 6 out of 7 members of the team had concluded with "low confidence" that COVID-19 originated from a lab in Wuhan, China.
Prior to August 17, 2021, 6 out of 7 members of the team had concluded with "low confidence" that COVID-19 originated from a lab in Wuhan, China.
2. The whistleblower just testified that following pressure & interference from mid-level & senior CIA leadership, the team's lab-leak findings were suppressed.
3. On August 17, 2021, the team was forced to reverse its stance and officially submit a conclusion stating they were unable to determine the origin, which formed the basis of the declassified ODNI report released later that month.
Dove eravamo rimasti con il thread di ieri?
Ah, sì.
Servono 2000 miliardi per non andare fuori fido più del consentito.
Ma Goria ha trovato una sorpresa.
La Banca d’Italia non ha nessuna intenzione di pagare il “conto”.
Ah, sì.
Servono 2000 miliardi per non andare fuori fido più del consentito.
Ma Goria ha trovato una sorpresa.
La Banca d’Italia non ha nessuna intenzione di pagare il “conto”.
Goria ha chiamato Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, ma il governatore della Banca d’Italia non vuole sentire ragioni.
Di tappare ancora una volta il buco non ne vuole sapere.
Lo ha fatto troppo spesso negli ultimi tempi.
Di tappare ancora una volta il buco non ne vuole sapere.
Lo ha fatto troppo spesso negli ultimi tempi.
E lo si può capire.
Troppe volte ha chiuso un occhio, troppe volte ha permesso uno sconfinamento provvisorio, ma è giunto il momento di rimarcare la propria autonomia.
Basta!
Troppe volte ha chiuso un occhio, troppe volte ha permesso uno sconfinamento provvisorio, ma è giunto il momento di rimarcare la propria autonomia.
Basta!