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The WSJ piece is hilarious.
https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115238754240596307

Wrote some stuff about what's happening. It's a little dark, I'm a little exhausted. I hope you enjoy it and subscribe.
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Kimmel and Killing
censorship and extrajudicial killing make each other more likely Just as the United States was switching broadcast television signals from analog to digital, I made my network television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live! playing Thomas Prusik Parkin, who impersonated his dead mother, Irene Prusik, to collect her Social Security benefits,

Make interactive ggplots with {ggiraph}: #ggplot #dataviz

Lifespan Pancreas Morphology for Control vs Type 2 Diabetes using AI on Largescale Clinical Imaging
Lucas W. Remedios, Chloe Cho, Trent M. Schwartz, Dingjie Su, Gaurav Rudravaram, Chenyu Gao, Aravind R. Krishnan, Adam M. Saunders, Michael E. Kim, Shunxing Bao, Thomas A. Lasko, Alvin C. Powers, Bennett A. Landman, John Virostko
https://arxi…

Lifespan Pancreas Morphology for Control vs Type 2 Diabetes using AI on Largescale Clinical Imaging
Purpose: Understanding how the pancreas changes is critical for detecting deviations in type 2 diabetes and other pancreatic disease. We measure pancreas size and shape using morphological measurements from ages 0 to 90. Our goals are to 1) identify reliable clinical imaging modalities for AI-based pancreas measurement, 2) establish normative morphological aging trends, and 3) detect potential deviations in type 2 diabetes. Approach: We analyzed a clinically acquired dataset of 2533 patients …

A look at the social debates in Chile over AI investments, emblematic of clashes happening globally over balancing economic growth with environmental concerns (Paul Mozur/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/technology/chile-ai-politics.html

How Chile Embodies A.I.’s No-Win Politics
Political debates have flared across Chile over artificial intelligence. Should the nation pour billions into A.I. and risk public backlash, or risk being left behind?

🩸 New blood micro-sampling method may enable early prevention of type 1 diabetes
#medicine

New blood micro-sampling method may enable early prevention of type 1 diabetes
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and SciLifeLab have developed a new method for detecting early signs that the disease type 1 diabetes is going to develop. The study, conducted in an experimental model, shows that analyzing tiny amounts of blood can reveal disease-causing changes in the body, thereby enabling early treatment and disease prevention. The results have been published in the journal Diabetologia.

"If any other group arrived into a neighborhood carrying long guns, deploying chemical weapons, violently engaging and then taking people away with no warrants nor apparent legal reason, we would dispatch SWAT, as SWAT has the training to defuse and deescalate such situations."
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Local Law Enforcement's Challenge: Uphold the Law, Even Against the Feds
in the absence of action, civilians will fill the void I do want to write something not so serious, maybe even funny, here soon. But today, I think the police have to do a very hard and necessary thing: defend Americans against their federal government. If any other group arrived

Pattern, which helps brands optimize their sales on online marketplaces, closes up 11.6% at $15.63 per share in its Nasdaq debut, after raising $300M in its IPO (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/19/amazon-reseller-patt…

Top Amazon reseller Pattern opens at $13.50 in Nasdaq debut after IPO raised $300 million
The Utah-based company ranks No. 2 among the top U.S. sellers on Amazon's third-party marketplace.

I just wrote this:
"The President has begun offering a masterclass in expository writing.
This isn't just about preparation for academic success, this is preparation for life, and simple survival. It is truly inspired leadership for the President to present such an exemplary example of violent political speech to the world."

President Gives Masterclass in Writing… Assaultive, Murderous Writing
he is picking up the slack from our school's curricula The President has begun offering a masterclass in expository writing. What with the Department of Education being dissolved before our eyes, President Trump is doing us a favor, really. Here's a transcript from an elementary school teacher supporting this presidential

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