The human body acts as an open thermodynamic engine that absorbs low-entropy fuel to maintain stability. It fights cosmic decay by venting entropic waste and heat outward to survive.🧵
David Lingenfelter, PhD
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The UOS framework replaces the illusion of human isolation with a unified cosmic codebase. By aligning our biological containers with fundamental laws of thermodynamics, we achieve low-entropy harmony.🧵
Involuntary reflexes like sneezing, purging, or orgasm disrupt our brain’s filtered simulation of reality. These somatic interrupts instantly crash our conscious ego, grounding us in raw biology.🧵
Camus’s paper "Create Dangerously" frames art as a vital processing protocol to resist systemic propaganda. By embedding in raw reality, creators execute counter-protocols that restore collective network free will.🧵
Weaponized political deception acts like a DDOS attack, exhausting our cognitive operating systems with high-entropy noise. Reclaiming agency requires grounding ourselves in objective physical reality.🧵
The Trump crime family is robbing us blind.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 5mo agoAs Trump ramps up his warmongering with Iran, his own son-in-law Jared Kushner — who is leading negotiations with Iran — stands to profit from lucrative contracts with its regional rivals. The Trump family's insatiable greed endangers us all.
That "we" in the song is aspirational. That "we" will always be aspirational. To grow a flower, you must first cultivate the plant.
Subtle cues of psychopathy: intense stare, flat voice, 'um' factor, and detached body language. REMEMBER: These signs can also be symptoms of Autism or anxiety. Intent is the key difference. #Psychopathy #Psychology
This essay contrasts Erich Fromm's necrophilous character, who prefers rigid order and "dead things" over life, with the impulsive, manipulative psychopath defined by emotional shallowness.
Why is 'hypocrite' the wrong word for Peter Thiel? Because a hypocrite forgets to vote. A strategic actor says 'I love democracy' to leave the door unlocked while they dismantle your house. This is the Dantean Architect of Ice.
Vascular injury and endothelial dysfunction drive Long COVID via microclots and capillary loss. Early intervention with treatments like Sulodexide and anticoagulants is key to prevent organ damage.🧵
The analysis compares Jeffrey Epstein’s systemic exploitation to the Marquis de Sade’s "philosopher-criminals." Both use elite power to create an isolated moral vacuum and an architecture of impunity where their will is the only law.🧵
Speaking from the pulpit of a historic Black church, Ossoff leaned into the Black prophetic tradition—where scripture is used to hold secular power to account. By calling his opponents "false prophets," he suggested that their betrayal is not just political, but a spiritual and ethical failure.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoOssoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
SARS-CoV-2 damages key brain regions involved in empathy, impulse control, and executive function, leading to impaired social cognition and democratic erosion. Reinfections compound neuroinflammation, fueling tribalism, misinformation, and fear-driven behavior.🧵
SARS-CoV-2 triggers rapid smell loss by infecting support cells in the nose, with inflammation persisting even after the virus clears. Neuron loss peaks around day 11, and delayed, incomplete regeneration may explain long-term smell dysfunction in some COVID-19 patients. (1/2)🧵
The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk. American citizens are being detained & brutalized. This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.
Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...
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“If you view this as a hyper-partisan court engaged in hyper-partisan activity for a hyper-partisan president, that’s what’s happening,” @thelisagraves.bsky.social says https://contrarian.substack.com/p/can-our-courts-be-reformed-with-lisa Watch Lisa's interview on the Supreme Court’s legitimacy.
Can our courts be reformed? With Lisa Graves
"This court is inventing facts!"
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"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system." This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.
1/ I expect to see this study soon shredded by #LongCOVID researchers & #COVIDAware advocates - nltimes.nl/2025/10/07/d...
Dutch study finds long COVID risk has sharply fallen since pandemic’s early years
The risk of developing long-term symptoms after a COVID-19 infection has dropped sharply in the Netherlands, according to new research by the RIVM. The study shows that people infected with SARS-CoV-2...
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This means the risk of long COVID after 2023 infections was very small, and it’s expected to stay that way. Still, RIVM notes it’s not zero — some may develop lingering symptoms, but the chance is much lower than people think.
The FAA is delaying flights at Newark and Denver airports because they haven’t got enough air traffic control. Burbank has zero ATC from 4.30-10pm. Lots of controllers who aren’t being paid during the government shutdown are calling in sick.
“Living with his own depression, Lincoln understood intimately that what is true of the spirit of a person is true of the spirit of a people — our undoing always serves an invitation to learn new modes of making: making beauty, making meaning, making the life we want to live…”
Maria Popova@mariapopova.bsky.social · 10mo agoUndoing as remaking – how Lincoln drew poetry and power from his suicidal depression www.themarginalian.org/2020/12/03/l...
News: A majority of Calif. voters, 54%, back Prop 50, the mid-decade redistricting initiative backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom and former President Obama, per a new co/efficient poll shared first with Punchbowl News. punchbowl.news/article/camp...
Majority of Calif. voters back Prop 50 in new poll
News: We’ve got some fresh polling on California’s redistricting ballot initiative ahead of the Nov. 4 election.
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It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...
The fact that a vast majority of Americans agree on a wide array of issues and yet our political leaders advance none of them illustrates just how broken our system is. Power has shifted from the majority to a monied-few. How do we win it back? I have some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
A Word About the Most Important Voting Bloc in America
Meet the self-interested majority (who know "a man is not a piece of fruit")
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Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”
Capital doesn’t need labor much anymore to make a profit.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 10mo agoStill waiting for it to trickle down...
You have already seen some of those infographics. Getting them all organized into a single book should prove to be a useful reference for front line physicians and medical educators.
David Lingenfelter, PhD@dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 10mo agoIf you have been following me for my Covid related content, please note that I will be back at that public education project in a week or two. My goal there is to create a book of 91 infographics that tell the story of how Covid impacts the 10 organ systems of the human body.