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Mashup Score: 1Condemnation games - 11 hour(s) ago
From Albert Wenger on his blog Continuations: ⊕ I am quoting almost half of his fairly short blog post here but you should still go see it in context, click on the links and check out the rest of the blog while you’re at it. Second, the world is continuing to descend back into tribalism. And it has been exhausting trying to maintain a high rung approach to topics amid an onslaught of low rung bullshit.
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Mashup Score: 1Why clinical trials aren't Steinway pianos - 9 day(s) ago
Today I learned about ambroxol, a cold medication available over-the-counter, much like Mucinex and Robitussin, but unlike those two ambroxol may actually work. It’s been available in Europe for almost 50 years and costs around $5 per box, but alas: You can’t get ambroxol in the U.S. because of the failure of the Food and Drug Administration to grant reciprocal recognition to generic medications approved by its European counterpart, the European Medicines Agency, when they have long been proven safe and effective.
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Mashup Score: 1
It was a packed coast-to-coast flight a few days ago and I was flying economy. But even then, the social anxiety of being “that guy” ultimately stopped me from putting on the goggles. The series of events before that decision was this: I had opened a book as soon as I got into my seat, then the plan took off, then drinks and snacks were served and before I knew it we were an hour and a half into a five-hour flight.
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Mashup Score: 0About that Apple add - 21 day(s) ago
Of course I mean Crush, which is quickly becoming Apple’s second-most iconic add. Much like 1984, Apple’s most iconic add, it will be remembered and reference for a long time to come and for the same reason: it is an accurate, impartial representation of the effects technology has, or will have, on the world. The only difference, and the reason why 1984 is still better, is timing: it took almost three decades for technology to break “The Man”.
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Mashup Score: 1The new Apple Vision Pro immersive video is fine - 2 month(s) ago
Both Ben Thompson and Jason Snell had reservations about Apple’s only immersive video to come out since Vision Pro came out. It is a 5-minute highlight reel of the Major League Soccer Cup and after seeing it myself I kind of disagree with both of them. The video is fine! There are some limitations of the technology: you can’t have the camera panning around the pitch so you have to be in a fixed position, and a soccer pitch is so vast that there is no way to watch a game from the same spot while being close to the action, while at the same time being close to the action is the whole point of immersion.
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Mashup Score: 1📺 3 Body Problem - 2 month(s) ago
📺 3 Body Problem (The Netflix version) was a great introduction to the topic for my non-science-fiction-reading spouse, but of course couldn’t even begin to approach the depth of the original. Some unordered observations: The first season of the show encompasses the entire first book and a part of the second. I didn’t mind that as much as I thought I would, though huge chunks of the parts I liked were cut out.
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Mashup Score: 0📚 Finished reading: Slow Productivity by Cal Newport - 3 month(s) ago
Slow Productivity is a book that could easily have been a blog post but the three sub-heading of that hypothetical post are sound and worth adopting. They could also fit on a fortune cookie: Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. These are as obvious as they are short. Of course, you don’t need a book to learn and understand them — it’s enough to see what people who do great things are doing themselves, like Nassim Taleb, or Stephen Wolfram, or any good writer who writes their own books.
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Mashup Score: 0Can someone with connections please forward this to HBO? - 3 month(s) ago
Prompt: “Give me an elevator pitch for a TV show called Stakeholders, a corporate dramedy with vampires.” ChatGPT-4: “Stakeholders” is a cutting-edge corporate dramedy that intertwines the cutthroat world of business with the dark, secretive existence of vampires, offering a unique twist on the workplace drama. In the bustling metropolis of New York City, a prestigious investment firm, Bloodline Capital, serves as the battleground for power, ambition, and survival. The catch?
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Mashup Score: 0Miloš Miljković - 3 month(s) ago
This morning I learned that one of the many plot lines in the British TV show Bodies has been lifted from real life: The Tichborne case was a legal cause célèbre that captivated Victorian England in the 1860s and 1870s. It concerned the claims by a man sometimes referred to as Thomas Castro or as Arthur Orton, but usually termed “the Claimant”, to be the missing heir to the Tichborne baronetcy.
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Mashup Score: 1The low-hanging fruit of medicine - 3 month(s) ago
The Medical Journal of Record The New York Times. The link is to a gift article. has an excellent story on Kawasaki disease out today which reminded me of Balkan endemic nephropathy, another rare disease with an unusual and infectious disease-like distribution. ⊕ Note that prevalence and distribution are where the similarities end. Kawasaki disease is a vasculitis (inflammation of the blood vessels) that affects children and young adults.
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