Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.
R. Coxeter
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Life science news & startups. Producer. Editor. New Yorker.
I can safely say that I’ll never reference “standing in the foothills of the singularity” at the dinner table. In a blog. Or anywhere.
Here's a shattering Jeff Dean fact: Google's top scientist, along with Sanjay Ghemawat and 2 other top AI researcher are leaving Google to form Discovery Loop, a startup that hopes to automate the scientific method so AI can create breakthroughs in multiple fields. www.wired.com/story/jeff-d...
4 of Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving—and Launching Their Own AI Startup
Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in everything from drug discovery to chip design.
wired.com
“People in Washington are worried that biotech is the next E.V.s,” an American exec told me. “We’ve scared all of this ******* talent back to China. If you look at the guys who are doing this, they used to work for Western pharma giants, or they were running a top university department somewhere.”
The Future, Made in China
Beijing is competing with the U.S. for tech supremacy. Who wins will have huge political implications.
newyorker.com
“We’re losing familiarity with the scripts for describing life as more complex, more ironic, more inconsistent and mysterious than what the rules of personal branding allow.” Good read on the “the pressure to communicate as a corporate self.”
Social Media’s Last Taboo
It’s okay to be every kind of person online — except struggling.
thecut.com
1/5 I went back to China to parse what is real tech from what is hype. The clearest fact: the depth of an alternative technological universe: ubiquitous E.V.s, more clinical trials than the U.S.; A.I. systems reaching into workplaces, schools, and even neighborhood trash bins.
“There would also be a pre-wedding colloquium to discuss ideas in panels and breakout sessions. The couple’s only request: no gifts.” This may eclipse manels or 5-person panels as a crime.
His Wedding Guests Were Arriving—Just as His $45 Billion Fund Was Falling Apart
Leopold Aschenbrenner was hailed as the ‘Nostradamus of AI.’ But his Situational Awareness hedge fund took on too much leverage, leading to a crash he never saw coming.
wsj.com
Revisiting the tallying of ties on Madison Avenue, before the businessmen return to the island of Manhattan.
“.. health insurance costs are growing at their fastest rate in almost two decades ..” $XLV
Guy Berger@econberger.bsky.social · 5d ago3/ I didn't include it in the prior chart, but health insurance costs are growing at their fastest rate in almost two decades - that's probably at least a partial explanation for acceleration non-wage benefit costs.
“Cities are where all kinds of humans learn to dwell in close proximity to one another, and it’s where unexpected connections are made, like two owlers who became a couple while following Flaco night after night. Living in a city is a group effort; nobody is really going it alone.”
Flaco on Film (Along With the Community the Owl Inspired) (Gift Article)
“Wild Inside” starts off with the director Penny Lane’s characteristic curiosity and winds up being a collective tribute to a bird and his city.
nytimes.com
“We have lately realized how interconnected the body’s systems really are. More and more,researchers are starting to see things the way that Peter Libby, a professor at Harvard Med School & a cardiologist at MGB, put it to me:’We all study the same disease’—inflammation is involved with everything.”
Inflammation Keeps Us Alive. It's Also Making Us Sick.
The discovery that chronic inflammation is a cause of myriad illnesses could be this century's biggest medical breakthrough.
nytimes.com
When you pop into X and the science discourse is like a good Bravo show.
Great read: "It's important to find people who will be good neighbors. It sounds old-fashioned. It's a way of life.” True for all sectors and cities.
A New York Hair Salon, Happily Stuck in 1986
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On the privilege of agency: “The distinction there…is whether we’re talking about this lifestyle-wellness idea, which I do still think of as basically being in the purview of people who have enough stability in their lives & enough opportunity & resources, to do this optimization stuff.”
Opinion | The Silicon Valley Health Trend Making Doctors Nervous
Is more data about your body actually good for you?
nytimes.com
“I think we’re going to be moving away from the big, big kitchens. The kitchen may transition to a secondary space rather than the social hub or heart of the home…As more people take these medications, the focus could shift from the kitchens to lounge areas & wellness spaces where people can gather”
This Is Your Home on Ozempic
As GLP-1s reshape American life, they’re also sparking a surprising behind-the-scenes transformation of our homes, from med-station bathrooms to ghost-town kitchens
architecturaldigest.com
But working on her new album gave shape to her days, she explained: “It gave me somewhere to go without having to leave the room. It reminded me that illness can change your life without becoming the whole of your life.” Music, Simon said, “has rescued me more times that I can count.”
Carly Simon Reveals She Has Parkinson’s Disease
The singer-songwriter, 83, has also had surgery to treat basal cell carcinoma on her face, making her “self-conscious about being seen in public,” she said.
nytimes.com
@carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social changed chemistry. She also has a bass guitar in her office. During our photo session at Stanford, she picked it up and played for a minute. It wasn't for the camera. Just another side of one of the world's most creative scientists. explorers.com/carolyn-bert...
“You may be fretting over your health insurance premiums going up. They are optimizing their faces with $300,000 worth of microscopic tweaks and buying their way out of the indignities of flying commercial.”
Opinion | Why ‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ Should Win the Best Drama Emmy
Do only creeps or chumps still believe in the American dream?
nytimes.com
Current status: reviewing the parental library. Love this bright colored gem from Cornell’s Experiment Station.“The printing of this book is the first step in the realization of a fond dream,” reads the forward. Brought it home for my coffee table.
“the notice also specifies that OPM retains the right to reidentify the records” 😶
Trump’s Personnel Agency Says It Will Remove Some Identifying Info as It Sweeps Up Medical Records - KFF Health News
The Office of Personnel Management said it will “pseudonymize” medical records it collects on more than 8 million people —federal workers and retirees, and their family members. Democrats and employee...
kffhealthnews.org
pre-war steel
Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 2w agocompanies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...
“My patients don’t have time to wait. We will lose a generation.” -Dr. Wendy Chung at Boston Children’s on the mission of new nonprofit, the Center for Therapeutic Genetics, “to develop gene therapy treatments that can be used and reused in disease after disease.”
‘Too Rare to Care’? A New Center for Rare Diseases Hopes to Change That
A new nonprofit wants to streamline gene therapy for diseases often avoided by pharmaceutical companies — making treatment more like a routine procedure than a bespoke drug.
nytimes.com
A marvelous read: “How much men would a menswear wear if a menswear could wear men?”
I Thought ‘Menswear’ Was for Other Men. Then I Touched the Perfect Hat.
Lots of men are geeking out over very expensive clothes — and I became one of them.
nytimes.com
If you visit American city, You will find it very pretty. Just two things of which you must beware: Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air! Pollution, pollution! Wear a gas mask and a veil. Then you can breathe, Long as you don't inhale! youtu.be/JPrAuF2f_oI?...
Tom Lehrer - Pollution
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
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Watching New Yorkers navigate the smoky landscape with style.
