pancreatic cancer vaccine? Dan Lyke / comment 0
Of interest, especially because I've lost a couple of friends to this and another was just diagnosed (early, so fingers crossed, but...): mRNA vaccines show promise in pancreatic cancer in early trial
Fewer than 13% of people live more than five years after diagnosis. In a small trial, half of the participants mounted a lasting immune response against their cancer cells.
Abandoned S3 buckets Dan Lyke / comment 2
watchTowr labs: 8 Million Requests Later, We Made The SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Look Amateur. Leveraging abandoned Amazon S3 buckets for fun, including .exe files from CISA alerts, control systems for "Major Unnamed SSLVPN Appliance Vendors", and VSCode plugins for...
Truth be told - we’ve had some difficulty ascertaining what Anaconda is or does, other than ‘full of buzzwords’. Something about AI.
So I think that's Anaconda.com, not the Python distribution? Although maybe AI is a pivot for them?
Trump & California water Dan Lyke / comment 0
CBS puts the gentlest spin on idiocy wasting California water reserves: Why the water Trump ordered released in California won't help Los Angeles firefighting
Mr. Trump had claimed that California withheld water supplies that could have made a difference in fighting the flames. California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other officials disputed those claims.
Now, the water released from dams at Lake Kaweah and Lake Success is rushing into a dry lakebed in the Central Valley, where experts say it can't flow to Southern California and will likely go to waste.
Choke off the revenue, borrow against the assets Dan Lyke / comment 0
Running the US like private equity runs a business. Load it up with debt, extract the assets, declare bankruptcy and leave the debt holders holding the bag. House Republicans unveil blueprint to extend $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and lift the debt ceiling
Noted World of Warcraft player engages in civil disobedience Dan Lyke / comment 1
Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested during Huntington Beach City Council meeting
Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social
I posted a copy of the 3 minute version of my speech from yesterday (with citations) if anyone is interested. Feel free to steal from it if you want!
(also, this is literally less than half of the Nazi shit they're currently pulling)
Longer Bluesky thread on the event
And an elected official talks about how the arrest seems disproportionate.
Interesting ChatGPT Pro results this Dan Lyke / comment 0
Interesting ChatGPT Pro results this morning, we asked it for a timeline of the recent Israel-Hamas-Palestinian conflict, looks like it plagiarized a Reuters timeline, introduced some weird language, and a few weird date mismatches.
Listening to the Re Dracula podcast Dan Lyke / comment 0
Listening to the Re: Dracula podcast.
"I suppose that nature works on such a hopeful basis that we believe against ourselves that things will be as they ought to be, not as we should know that they will be."
SpaceX dropping debris on poland Dan Lyke / comment 0
SpaceX rocket debris crashes into Poland
"Once ze rockets go up, who knows vere zey come down, that's not my department"...
Anyone else read a recipe Dan Lyke / comment 0
Anyone else read a recipe, run across a phrase, and just wanna table flip? From a David Lebovitz recipe: "Kosher salt is also discussed in the book as some brands are saltier than others", and... okay, yeah, if it makes a difference, this is why we don't specify some ingredients by volume, kids.,
Pandemics good for Social Security? Dan Lyke / comment 0
The pandemic resulted in approximately 1.7 million excess deaths among individuals aged 25 and older between 2020 and 2023. These premature deaths reduced future retirement payments, which increased the Social Security fund by $294 billion. However, this gain was offset by reductions in future payroll tax flows ($58 billion) and increased payments to surviving spouses and children ($32 billion), resulting in a net impact of $205 billion.