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I still don’t see how it’s ’taking away’ their livelihood. True they could pay them for the novel use they put their works to, but the way the authors got paid before AI existed seems unchanged to me.

In the scheme of global harms committed by the tech bros – the undermining of democracies, the decimation of privacy, the open gauntlet to scams and abuse – stealing one Australian author’s life’s work and ruining their livelihood is a peccadillo.

How does it ruin an author’s livelihood? It’s not like AI will read to the book to me if I ask it. If I want to buy a book, I’ll buy a book. That AI read it already doesn’t, and can’t, figure into that decision.

What am I missing?

Thank you! I didn’t do much. I had been out of town to DC area and flew home yesterday morning. I made dinner last night and am already on a plane again, on my way to Raleigh-Durham through Saturday.

Car came at 4am. I think I’ll nap on this flight.

List the common blood thinners by efficacy but I actually wrote ‘lost’ instead of ‘list’.

Something like rate blood thinners by efficacy.

I thought the idea of baby aspirin was to have a less powerful blood thinner. That it’s lower efficacy was a feature not a bug for certain applications.

I also thought this was well known in the medical community.

ChatGPT quickly spit this out:

Ticagrelor ≈ Prasugrel > Clopidogrel > Aspirin

Yeah but it was worth it for the memes.

From Ilya Somin at Reason, one of the lawyers who brought the case.

https://reason.com/volokh/2025/08/29/federal-circuit-rules-against-trumps-massive-ieepa-tariffs-in-our-case-challenging-them/

Canada is a four hour drive

Wow. That’s cool.

But color me skeptical about running your congressional campaign on ending it.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/valentina-gomez-causes-outrage-extreme-135745141.html

Today’s the last day in the 80s for a while but still nice most of the day.

We solve cardiovascular disease and cancer that means everyone who doesn’t get hit by a bus dies of dementia.

And it’s mRNA so the magtards and Marin county granola chicks won’t take it. Sweet.

RFK to ban them outright?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-and-robert-f-kennedy-junior-to-ban-covid-19-vaccine-within-months/

@Nina said in Will you be able to get a COVID vaccine?:

But the idea that some worm -eaten science denier is making these decisions makes me want to scream.

I didn’t take one last year because I got Covid again in September so I skipped it when they came out. My intention was to get it a few months later but I forgot. This year I’ll be sure to get one if only as a FU to Kennedy. My immunosupressed status will get me on the list.

You’re not hallucinating. I actually freaked out about the news you were excited about. (And if anyone thinks they take a lot of medications, hold my beer…)

I agree of course that the imbalance whereby we subsidize drug development and the rest of the world pays something related to marginal cost is unfair and unsustainable. But like any large international imbalance it needs to be fixed very deliberately over time and would involve negotiations with other first world countries (most of us wouldn’t have an issue with very poor countries continuing to pay marginal cost I assume).

Anyway, ‘deliberate’, ‘negotiations with allies’, and ‘over time’ are not in Trump’s vocabulary so it would have been a shit show and therapeutic development would have been the immediate casualty.

If you want to make sense out of the two policies they are consistent from Trump’s viewpoint that the US gets ‘ripped off’ in international trade. He sees imports as us getting taken, and (far more rationally) sees us paying 5x what Europe pays for pharmaceuticals as us getting taken. It’s not really about lowering prices per se.

@Daniel. said in Adding to my bag collection:

I'd buy it in black but there is no black. So I'll buy it in brown.

There’s black.