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Riley Gaines? More like Riley Loses

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I did the "pin cooking recipe websites above my stove" thing with my work-provided HoloLens 2 and it was *great* for a device that cost me $0 but definitely not for $3500

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POTS / gut dysbiosis achievement unlocked: straight-up sipping (lactofermented) pickle juice from a glass

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Hilariously they “fixed” this in that the UI still insists this is in German and translatable, they just forcibly made the English translation the same as the raw post text

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I also dream for the day I no longer need to keep Special Interest knowledge in my brain of the form "how long different labs take to process certain blood draws", lmao

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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 29/09/2026

Today is all about the fun waiting game of "labcorp usually turns around this test in 1 day, why haven't I gotten results yet"

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What does it mean for the probability to be five percent? Well, that’s five percent. But six percent? Well, that’s still five percent. Four percent is also kind of five percent. Three percent is two percent. And two percent is basically impossible.

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It is a very good example of why, even though LLMs can be shockingly good at machine translation in the right circumstances (often better than traditional ML in technical subdomains given a glossary), you absolutely shouldn’t use them in a fully-automated real-time pipeline with no manual oversight.

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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So, uh, here’s how things are going on X, The Everything App with using MechaHitler for machine translation

A screenshot of a tweet by @justalexoki. The text reads “which mein kampf translation is your favorite”. There is a “show translation button”

The same tweet as the previous photo. Instead of “show translation”, there is text indicating “translated from German by Grok”. The translation reads “My favorite English translation of *Mein Kampf* is the 1939 Reynal & Hitchcock edition by William Murfin and others-it's got a raw, unfiltered edge that captures Hitler's unhinged style without softening the blow. The newer ones, like the 2021 Manheim revision, are more scholarly but feel a bit sanitized. What's yours?”

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I'm speaking at Roguelike Celebration this year! Come see me talk about the only three games that matter: Blackjack, Skull, and Can't Stop

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 28/09/2026

are you saying you DON'T want to help the hotties

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If you ask me what the hit piece over the lesbian bar and masking really proves is that we're all credulous dupes who keep buying in to the right's purposeful dilution of what woke even means and they'll just keep doing this cuz we keep falling for it

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I’m ready for us to exit the transitory time of year when DST sucks shit because it’s still dark when I wake up

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So, later (post-Buddhist and Confucian influence) Daoism is often fairly sex-negative, but even the older lineages that are big on sexual meditation practices are usually pretty explicit on “this is a thing you *can* do to accelerate spiritual progress but don’t *need to* and can avoid it entirely”

The Instagram algorithm has started serving me content about Daoist gay sex and I’m here for it

A screenshot of an IG reel. A Chinese woman with very colorful full face makeup, a title card “how does Taoism see LGBTQ? The answer may surprise you” and a caption reading “Intimacy is not a gender relationship! but an energy relationship” with Chinese subtitles below it

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A thing I appreciate about qigong is when I don't have the focus or concentration for seated meditation, I can still find some calm and stillness from standing or moving meditation. That doesn't help when I can't stay standing for a minute without getting woozy.

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I intellectually understand that while pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. That we are not our minds and bodies (even as we are our minds and bodies). I've even occasionally experienced deeper understanding of these. But fuck is it hard to tap into when your body is acutely torturing you.

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If you haven't done any gut testing, a Biomesight might be helpful (it's like $100 if you find the long COVID research study discount on their website). Even just their automated recommendations can be super helpful.

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My limited understanding is that's going to be more about things like transit time, bile, etc than poor gut fermentation. I'm sure there *is* a connection there, but it's probably more indirect (along the lines of, like, "bacteria producing neurotransmitters that ultimately affect gut function")

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Bacteria strains used for yogurt-making are very good at killing out competition, while this strain being selected for gut benefits isn't particularly good at that (or even fermenting milk sugars, he has you add extra fermentables just to make it work)

You could maybe get into a 'real' lab setup (agar plates, etc) but be careful of anyone saying anything else. There's a guy Dr. William Davis who encourages making yogurt out of a specific lactobacillus strain, but people have tested yogurt made that way and it's mostly random airborne bacteria.

Which is to say, I'd try to judge a probiotic on whether it seems to do anything for you personally (either via symptom improvement or semi-regular microbiome testing), rather than trying to find a way to do quality control

Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 26/09/2026

The dirty secret is probiotics aren't particularly useful compared to prebiotics (fiber/plant diversity, to feed your gut flora) or postbiotics (fermented foods, for the byproducts). Live probiotics just transiently help as they work their way through you, they don't stick around long term.

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A thing I experienced in June (not due to the taper) is, I think, the worst physical and emotional torture I’ve experienced in my life. This is… coming close to matching that. I would very much like to stop setting this record.

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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 26/09/2026

Man, I’ve known the last six months that steroid tapers are hell, but no one prepared me for “oh yeah, once you get to the halfway mark it gets WAY worse”

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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 26/09/2026

Give me the confidence of the marketer who proudly decided to slap a sticker on this box of 70 items that reads “value pack: 40% more compared to 50 count”

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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 25/09/2026

The main usecase for me is the opposite of ANC, situations where it's important to be able to hear the world around you. e.g. wearing headphones while riding a bike or similar is dangerous, but this is arguably no less safe than a car stereo.

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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 25/09/2026

Okay but this actually rocks, sunglasses that are also bluetooth headphones are actually a delight, and the current Pervert Glasses are honestly better at that than the Bose Frames were (RIP). I still wouldn't trust a Meta-made device with a microphone, but I'm glad these exist.