This scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab

She chose to target her tumour with two different viruses consecutively — a measles virus followed by a vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV). Both pathogens are known to infect the type of cell from which her tumour originated, and have already been used in OVT clinical trials.

Halassy felt a responsibility to publish her findings. But she received more than a dozen rejections from journals…because the paper…involved self-experimentation.

Self experimentation has led to a lot of medical breakthroughs. It almost seems more humane to me in a way but I can totally see how you wouldn’t wanna advertise someone self-curing cancer with a virus. Next thing you know there’s a new trend on TikTok of shooting yourself up with staph to cure high cortisol levels.

Taylor Swift Fans Are Leaving X for Bluesky After Trump’s Election

“I think that’s the kind of rhetoric we want to get away from,” Kim says. She also notes that X’s recent update to the “block” feature, which allows people to see the profile and posts of users that have blocked them, has contributed to a more negative experience on the platform. “Twitter has definitely become such a hellscape,” Kim says.

I like Swifties. I’d much rather hang out with them than the alt right cryptobros on xitter. Love seeing the community grow

Trump plans to dismantle Biden AI safeguards after victory

Biden’s order established wide-ranging oversight of AI development. Among its core provisions, the order established the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) and lays out requirements for companies to submit reports about AI training methodologies and security measures, including vulnerability testing data.

Representative Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) warned that reporting requirements could discourage innovation and prevent developments like ChatGPT. And Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) characterized NIST’s AI safety standards as an attempt to control speech through “woke” safety requirements.

Honestly at this point I’m okay with being reduced to paste by a T-9000 unit

‘The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet’ Has Finally Been Identified

It’s been an incredible year for solving long-running internet mysteries. In May, investigators tracked down “The Backrooms” and in September investigators identified “Celebrity Number Six.” Now it seems that The Mysterious Song has been discovered. It’s called “Subways Of the Mind” by the band FEX.

OMG this is like discovering life on Mars lol I’ve been following this for years.

Perplexity CEO offers AI company’s services to replace striking NYT staff

“Hundreds of millions of people are depending on The Times’s journalism on Election Day and afterward, and it is troubling that the Tech Guild would try to block this public service at such a consequential moment for our country.” - AG Sulzberger, NYT’s publisher

“Hey AG Sulzberger @nytimes sorry to see this. Perplexity is on standby to help ensure your essential coverage is available to all through the election. DM me anytime here.” - Aravind Srinivas, CEO, Perplexity

Gross. This just goes to show the very real goal of some AI companies to replace humans with chatbots.

Thousands of People Are Cloning Their Dead Pets. This Is the Woman They Call First

It had taken seven months and cost $50,000, but that cat was one of the first pets to be commercially cloned in the United States. Since then, a couple thousand dog, cat, and horse clones have followed, and every year the waiting list grows longer. Of course it does. Haven’t you ever wished your pet could live, if not forever, then at least as long as you? Now it can, sort of.

We’ve come a long way from Dolly the sheep 😳

I’ve been watching this TikTok page for a couple months and it’s been such an inspiration. Super sweet down to earth guy who laughed in the face of adversity and got his PhD in chemistry, in spite of people telling him it would never work. This video is my favorite. He talks about using your disadvantages as a super power. If you’re not crazy about TikTok, his home page is hobywedler.com

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Nintendo made a music streaming app for Switch Online subscribers

It’s like Apple Music Classical but for Nintendo games

App Store | Google Play

Some (Slightly Biased) Thoughts On The State Of Decentralized Social Media | Techdirt

I’m enthusiastic about Bluesky’s approach. I think the ATProtocol gives us the best chance of reaching that breakthrough. But I’m happy to see others trying different ideas as well, because all of these experiments will help bring us to a world where more people embrace decentralized systems and move away from old walled gardens

This is interesting. Bluesky is my first choice too. I really dig the fact that Micro.blog lets you comment via Bluesky or Mastodon ❤️ decentralization

These hornets break down alcohol so fast that they can’t get drunk

“To the best of our knowledge, Oriental hornets are the only animal in nature adapted to consuming alcohol as a metabolic fuel," said co-author Eran Levin of Tel Aviv University. “They show no signs of intoxication or illness, even after chronically consuming huge amounts of alcohol, and they eliminate it from their bodies very quickly.”

I wonder what they do to wind down at the end of the day