Favorites September 24th 2023
To be clear this is from a pitch for a company trying to get this treatment to market, but here's the original study that it's based on. This startup plans to go direct to consumer for $20k per dose. The obvious next question is whether this will make you drunk all the time, here's the very detailed explanation of why it won't.
PEPFAR saved like a million people, look at this graph. It's one of the few good things George W Bush did in office. While we're discussing AIDS relief to Africa, I just learned that The Foo Fighters supported an AIDS denial group in the late 1990s, resulting in thousands of deaths.
I'm glad to see XKCD joining the war on cars
Flotsam and Jetsam
– The Onion is publishing some pro-Russian propaganda. Also I learned the term "Red-Brown" (src)
– Vaccine polarization so extreme that people have stopped vaccinating their pets. (src)
– Practical consequences of China claiming parts of India: they're barring Indian athletes from the regions they claim. (src)
– Amazon employs more economists than any US organization outside the Federal Reserve. (src)
– SFPD still on unofficial strike. (src)
– Human brain cells connected to a virtual environment and trained to play Pong, kinda scary no? (src)
– List of 10 largest cities in the world, NYC is #11. I knew Tokyo was #1 but I'm not sure I could have told you what country #2, Jakarta, was in. (src)
– Continued cool tricks combining pictures with control_net (src)
– Old billboard advertising Georgism asks you to go read some theory. (src)
– Inventor of the modern data center, Luiz André Barroso, has passed away. He was the one who realized that data centers should be based on commodity hardware. (src)
– Cruise / Waymo may be slower in SF than an Uber, but they're now have higher availability. (src)
– Conservatives haven't yet realized that due to education polarization, restricting voting access by education would actually help democrats. (src)
– It seems absolutely insane to me, but people oppose inheritance tax even when it's explained to them clearly. They think it's unfair, despite how absolutely ridiculous that is. (src)