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Dan Ostermayer

if we anchor on ebola being a viral cause we potentially limit our understanding of this deadly disease. imho this is a hypothesis worth testing
https://blossom.primal.net/352cf385ea2639230cb6dd108e88954c03009e89376809959cb3d91b03a7eb8b.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/748d2032579ad4351c2bc2429c3204d582f56e12cc797e883a11a59c8cd9c1bb.jpg

2026-05-29 15:03:06 UTC

if you bookmark my posts, consider organizing your bookmarks in my app @nprofile…kd2n
all your social media nostr bookmarks plus any websites you bookmark are pulled in from your private key and if you buy a lifetime membership we archive everything for posterity on a blossom server

2026-05-29 15:01:03 UTC

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the common rebuttals to this type of logic is "body fluids from ebola patients is obviously contagious so it must be a virus"
i agree it is a deadly disease... but we also know that a malnourished human secretes millions of malformed fragments of dna and rna in their secretions and these fragments when ingested cause disease.
this is why astronauts with no virus around get sick
this is why illness emerges when people in groups are quarantined
this is why cities have outbreaks but we don't see events in the country side
large groups of people shed malformed fragments of genetic material onto each other and that can cause disease.
but what caused the disease host in the first place.... my bet is on toxic environmental exposure
#nevent1q…vlms

2026-05-29 14:53:28 UTC

the ebola reservoir is often described as a consequence of latent virus in fruit bats crossing over to human infectivity
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biaf050/8116758
Fruit bats live across Africa, Asia, and Oceania, meaning:
"The presence of these animals alone does not explain Ebola outbreaks"
the one thing that ebola outbreaks all have in common: heavy industry and mineral mining
DRC: Major global producer of cobalt, copper, diamonds, gold; outbreaks have occurred in/near mining areas (e.g., gold mining villages).
Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone: Significant iron ore, gold, diamonds, bauxite; mining was impacted but continued during the 2014–2016 outbreak.
Gabon, Republic of the Congo: Oil, manganese, gold, timber-related extraction; historical gold-mining camp outbreaks.
Uganda: Gold, copper mining.
South Sudan: Gold, copper, iron ore, limestone
Ivory Coast: Gold (major producer), diamonds, manganese, bauxite, nickel
Every single place that has experienced an “Ebola” outbreak is also an area of heavy mining and exploitation of raw earth materials
All of these metal extractive processes share arsenic use and release in common. The symptoms of arsenic poisoning include every sign and symptom present in "ebola"
I think it is very likely that if arsenic levels were routinely tested in ebola patients, a strong correlation would begin to emerge.
https://blossom.primal.net/748d2032579ad4351c2bc2429c3204d582f56e12cc797e883a11a59c8cd9c1bb.jpg

2026-05-29 14:40:09 UTC

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belief is the issue. i just want evidence that is unbiased and of high quality

2026-05-29 13:23:26 UTC

imagine if you could create particles that serve as the foundational visual evidence of ebola in a sterile starved culture medium that certainly doesn't contain Ebola.
without control samples, virologists can be easily trick themselves into thinking a virus is causing a disease rather than a diseased host producing malformed cytoplasmic vesicles that we think are viruses.
https://blossom.primal.net/34022bb3a5ad702af9986999c091d7416d0dd9d40cb0c75a9299a957717e71fe.jpg

2026-05-27 12:33:28 UTC

the elusive ebola virus probably originates within us and when in a severe malnutritional state the body excretes these very malformed genetic particles in bodily fluid and those particles can harm others
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biaf050/8116758
https://blossom.primal.net/d35afed94814941cf955ac441e60668d724fe18f78195ed53a427c0a8a0e6fd4.png

2026-05-27 12:14:13 UTC

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ebola is listed as one of the most deadly viruses known to mankind, but in order to culture it must be grown in Vero monkey, kidney cells, which are a malnourished dying cell line of African green monkeys' kidneys

2026-05-27 03:26:01 UTC

i think it is good during these outbreaks of scary "viral" diseases to ask the uncomfortable question, where does this ebola virus hide in between events?
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biaf050/8116758
if it is always present in the environment as a viral particle, why are there not continuous ebola events?

2026-05-26 20:52:40 UTC

with @nprofile…tp46 i was able to strip all the noise from my nostr feed similar to how @nprofile…e7zj strips all the noise out of news.
without social commentary, the opinions of others can't color your interpretation and you can read for facts

2026-05-26 16:43:42 UTC

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this is true. liver is the best source of methylfolate
#nevent1q…9hjw

2026-05-26 07:20:55 UTC

skills manage more than degrees

2026-05-26 03:51:47 UTC

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drama free social media. just links
#nevent1q…fvju

2026-05-24 16:16:10 UTC

a primary motivation for me to build @nprofile…mkjl was having a searchable collection of links to pdfs when away from my desktop .
now the @nprofile…mkjl archiver will create an copy of all my pdf links and store them on our blossom server so i can easily search from my phone

2026-05-24 15:42:55 UTC

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8838971/
great summary of the benefits of creatine supplementation for the metabolic dysfunction of the modern human

2026-05-23 16:52:47 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/a8a4bcd6d5b29612ad369e98f46d8a7d79a6f140ac8d52df067d8f757c8a0cd6.jpg

2026-05-23 00:45:57 UTC

share your bookmarks with your #nostr web of trust directly from the app
https://blossom.primal.net/9bb1355cc4e2a28a22296ae4a6d650a6d255d1032b90c6f49df3224c5ed283b7.jpg

2026-05-22 23:40:49 UTC

the browser extension at @nprofile…47uc are actually useful for more than just signing into nostr apps. they have nwc for zaps, and bookmarking for pages

2026-05-22 22:48:48 UTC

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i've been building this on nights and weekends and need some android testers for the app's closed beta
#nevent1q…y2hk

2026-05-19 17:35:10 UTC

Halt and Catch Fire
test post from a nostr project i will release soon https://unstack.io/halt-and-catch-fire

2026-05-19 15:56:04 UTC

testing post from @deepmarks https://unstack.io/halt-and-catch-fire

2026-05-17 01:35:14 UTC

legalzoom is on ☠️ watch. i used to pay for business compliance package that helped me know when various state and federal requirements were due.
with a few scrapes of federal and state websites your bot becomes an always on compliance department

2026-05-13 13:06:02 UTC

so much of the web is being blocked off from bots because it is based on attention and advertising and lock in platform metrics. bots don't click on ads and they have no platform loyalty. a bot's measure of success is task completion.
any company selling attention is now on death watch.
💀💀💀💀
ps: firecrawl allows for bypass of most bot gates

2026-05-12 14:35:00 UTC

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people are getting sick... and when sick they produce fragments that overlap from their sick cells
how they got sick is the real question and was it exposure to poor sanitation or a self replicating viral genome? (that's what i am asking)

2026-05-11 17:33:53 UTC

for anyone concerned about hantavirus (andes variant) here is what is actually happening:
people are getting sick with similar symptoms and when we sequence a mixture of their their genes plus tissue that supposedly has the virus, we see similar genetic sequences.
we extrapolate that there is a full viral genome in that sample but it is all just guess work inference.
1. starting material is a mixture of viral fragments and host material
2. there is no well person sampled as a control just sick people
3. they are not reading one full virus molecule from start to finish they take fragments, without directly knowing their full molecular origin, broke those reads into even smaller overlapping substrings called k-mers, and used those k-mers to reconstruct a longer sequence.
4. none of it proves the existence of a full sample in the mixture taken from a patient.
5. reconstructed genome is not the same thing as a directly observed complete viral molecule.

2026-05-09 22:22:16 UTC

if you drink diet soda put all your effort into stopping
Mossavar-Rahmani Y, Kamensky V, Manson JE, et al. “Artificially Sweetened Beverages and Stroke, Coronary Heart Disease, and All-Cause Mortality in the Women’s Health Initiative.” Stroke, February 14, 2019. DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.118.023100
The cohort was 81,714 postmenopausal women aged 50–79 from the Women’s Health Initiative Observational Study, with a mean follow-up of 11.9 years
Compared with women drinking fewer than 1 such beverage per week, those consuming 2+ artificially sweetened drinks per day had a 23% higher risk of any stroke and a 31% higher risk of ischemic stroke from clotting in small brain blood vessels
They were also 29% more likely to develop coronary heart disease and had 16% all cause mortality
this is an observational study so it is very possible that people drinking diet soda have some other confounder in common causing these issue or it is the ingredients in the soda....

2026-05-08 22:05:00 UTC

it's very easy to have open claw act as your real estate agent.
all housing listings are public and can be crawled from listing sites.
You give the bot your criteria for a house -- you give it a price range and you even give it some other information you want such as geography, close to parks, trails brick vs stone materials, school district etc etc.
I find the real utility of claw happens when you give your bot an email account (don't use Gmail. they are very aggressive at blocking bots)
Instruct your bot to also dig up historic pricing and comparable sales in the same zip so you get real market pricing. The bot should get the listing agent contact for each house and then send you an email weekly with its research.
Call the listing agent to schedule a walkthrough, then as you navigate the buying process use your bot so you can learn when you need to do each part of the buying process and make offers with market research backing your offer.
bye bye real estate agent fee of 3-6%

2026-05-03 17:36:16 UTC

unfortunately all the good educational-entertainment content for kids is on youtube these days.
using youtube means using their algorithm and perpetual recommendation engines where kids never have to stop watching which is obviously bad.
to solve this problem our kids wrote down the list of shows they want to watch and get new episodes.
open claw using a naming script, yt-dlp, and scheduled tasks to download all episodes from their channels in nice folders that plex can read. openclaw checks weekly for new episodes and gets them.
kids now have advertising free plex to watch their favorite channels.

2026-04-29 01:09:46 UTC

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i'm simply saying that truth = empiric reality irrespective of the source.

2026-04-28 21:54:06 UTC

over and over again, I keep hearing many "elites" complaining that they don't know what is and is not authentically human (because of AI).
This is really almost irrelevant to humanity. Never do we care what is authentic or inauthentic
if a computer program tells you something that is true and a human tells you something that is false which one is more important? the authentically human falsehood or the truth?
truth is the pursuit and the medium which it's conveyed is irrelevant
judge everything whether AI generated or human generated under the same standard

2026-04-25 11:44:14 UTC

your colon cancer risk (and probabaly other cancer risks) are a product of your microbiome diversity https://aacrjournals.org/cancerres/article/86/7_Supplement/3993/779640/Abstract-3993-Artificial-intelligence-integrated. sticking with my thesis that we create cancer not through our genetic risk but from the environmental impact on our genetics.
Colorectal cancer rates in adults under 50 have been rising about 3% per year
High-fructose corn syrup and pesticides disrupt the gut microbiome
When fructose (especially high high-fructose corn syrup intake) exceeds what the small intestine can absorb (roughly a daily soda’s worth), fructose spills into the colon
Glyphosate and related agricultural chemicals act like low-dose antibiotics on gut bacteria. They preferentially knock out protective species (Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium) while sparing pro-inflammatory ones, reducing production of butyrate and other short-chain fatty acids that normally protect the colon lining.
Human genetics haven’t changed in 30 years, but the microbiome of someone born in 1990 has been marinating in fructose and pesticide residue since infancy in a way someone born in 1950 never was. If the microbiome is the mediator between modern exposures and tumor biology (as this study suggests) it helps explain why a cancer that used to belong to grandparents is now showing up in their grandchildren.
https://blossom.primal.net/da816e3242eace0e0772d684ae6f722e620f6efd0550f2813d96c2430ce80adc.jpg

2026-04-22 01:40:55 UTC

had openclaw with opus 4.7 create a book recommendation engine based on my prior likes and dislikes across 100 books. its first recommendation "red mars" by kim stanley robinson.
so far excellent.

2026-04-21 00:31:59 UTC

conversation with a friend today:
Friend: Dude, have you heard of STRC!?
Me: Yea
Friend: It's incredible, as long as MSTR can sell their shares I can earn 11%
Me: Why can they keep selling shares?
Friend: Because they are backed by bitcoin.
Me: So as long as bitcoin goes up long term you get 11% forever.
Friend: Yeah!
Me: So why not just buy bitcoin like Saylor?
Friend: 🤔

2026-04-18 17:29:39 UTC

most people afraid of raw milk are not afraid to eat parmigiano reggiano cheese

2026-04-18 16:36:31 UTC

"Insulin resistance" is one of the most used terms in medicine and also one of the least precise
When we say "insulin resistance," we're treating it like a single thing.
Insulin does dozens of things in your body. In any given tissue, some insulin-signaling pathways can be impaired while others remain intact.
In the liver: hyperinsulinemia drives lipogenesis (making fat) while simultaneously failing to suppress gluconeogenesis (making glucose).
The same hormone in the same organ creates two dysfunctional outcomes.
In skeletal muscle when fat builds up inside the muscle cells this then blocks the signal insulin uses to tell your muscles ", take in this sugar from the blood." This happens before liver dysfunction
In your fat tissue, the problem is basically chronic, low-grade inflammation. When fat cells get overloaded, your immune system treats them almost like an injury and prevents insulin from appropriately releasing fat. Fat cells keep storing sugars as fat but slowly leak the fatty acids back out into the blood even when insulin is high.
In the brain, when insulin reaches neurons, it helps tell your brain:
"You've eaten you can stop feeling hungry now". The hypothalamus controls this and still gets the signal but can't pass it along properly due to PI3K signaling impairment.
In all cases, insulin is the messenger molecule and still gets to its destination properly but all other mechanisms that originate from the insulin signal become dysfunctional.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10903330/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24281010/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22385956/
Modern medicine only treats insulin resistance as a way to control blood sugar and ignore all the other organs which are affected due to their chronically inflamed and dysfunctional state.

2026-04-12 12:53:20 UTC

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ha! call me old-fashioned. I still prefer a human written text.

2026-04-12 12:46:42 UTC

not sure the audiobook industry has much future. now i just have a llm powered voice system read me epubs.

2026-04-10 02:37:36 UTC

https://www.weizmann.ac.il/immunology/elinav/sites/immunology.elinav/files/2022-06/Artificial%20sweeteners%20induce%20glucose%20intolerance%20by%20altering%20the%20gut%20microbiota.pdf
Artificial sweeteners induce glucose intolerance by altering the gut microbiota. Nature, 514(7521), 181–186
saccharin, sucralose, aspartame, and acesulfame-K disrupt the gut microbiome by reducing beneficial bacteria such as Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11501561/
gut dysbiosis messes with production of short-chain fatty acids, which are critical for healthy lipid and glucose metabolism

2026-04-07 12:51:24 UTC

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point me to where i can read the papers on this

2026-04-07 12:31:09 UTC

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but they can calculate the degree of interaction from the moon on the craft right? otherwise how would they do this maneuver?

2026-04-07 12:23:32 UTC

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how do we know it is bending spacetime and now attracting ? isn't this pulling of smaller objects towards a larger object what we call gravity?

2026-04-07 12:22:22 UTC

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i'm still confused because the moon is exerting or causing a force on smaller bodies since people are pulled towards the surface and bodies are pulled around it.
isn't this force what we call gravity?

2026-04-07 12:11:29 UTC

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explain this to me like i am 5.
isn't the gravitational pull from the moon as the artemis gets close to the moon what alters the path as the craft changes trajectory around the moon?

2026-04-07 12:03:36 UTC

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perhaps all the "we can't pass through the van allen belts without dying " conspiracies will now admit they were incorrect.
#nevent1q…s628

2026-04-07 11:55:33 UTC

our genetics are very stable. we don't produce mutants and evolve into new species rapidly.
if you see a disease like cancer incidence increasing it isn't because of genetics. people frequently say they just got unlucky when they get cancer.
we give ourselves cancer.
cancer grows in metabolic dysfunction. we eat ourselves into cancer. we sit ourselves into cancer. we hide inside the caves of our house into cancer.
for most cancers, unfortunately we only have ourselves to blame and that is incredibly uncomfortable to think about and why we spend so much time and money finding molecular markers for malignancy that get turned on during our times of metabolic dysfunction.

2026-04-06 22:23:46 UTC

you've probably had your HDL cholesterol measured. your doctor told you higher is better. 60, 70, 80 — good numbers.
here's the problem: HDL cholesterol concentration is a poor proxy for HDL function.
HDL's job is reverse cholesterol transport — pulling cholesterol out of peripheral tissues and delivering it to the liver for excretion. That's the cardioprotective mechanism. But a high HDL-C number doesn't tell you whether your HDL is actually functioning.
Oxidation to apolipoprotein A-I (apo A-I), HDL's main protein, impairs its ability to interact with cholesterol transporters (ABCA1, ABCG1).
Dysfunctional HDL can actually promote atherosclerosis.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11432852/
the studies bear this out: raising HDL-C with drugs doesn't reduce cardiovascular events. torcetrapib raised HDL-C significantly and increased mortality. niacin raises HDL-C but adds no cardiovascular benefit. because the number went up but the function didn't.
the emerging measurement is cholesterol efflux capacity (CEC) — how well does your HDL actually pull cholesterol out of cells? that predicts cardiovascular risk better than the raw number.
The same thing destroying the body: oxidative stress, chronic inflammation, insulin resistance are the same things impairing HDL function
if your HDL is 70 but you're metabolically inflamed, your HDL number is meaningless. more useful is you pCEC score (predicted cholesterol efflux capacity)

2026-04-06 12:02:25 UTC

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yes https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17928824/ 240,000 people, 48 years of follow-up--found that fructose intake was independently associated with increased kidney stone risk
non-fructose carbohydrates were not

2026-04-06 11:53:51 UTC

Your cells have an energy sensor called AMPK. When it's active, you burn fuel efficiently. When it's suppressed, you store fat and your liver pumps out glucose.
Uric acid suppresses AMPK. That means elevated uric acid isn't just a byproduct of metabolic disease — it may be driving it.
This is why high fructose corn syrup and fructose added into foods are uniquely damaging. Unlike glucose, which is metabolized in a tightly regulated way, fructose is processed by the liver roughly 10x faster, with no feedback controls slowing it down.
That rapid metabolism burns through ATP so quickly that the leftover byproducts get converted into uric acid. Worse, the uric acid then amplifies fructokinase — the very enzyme that processes fructose — creating a vicious cycle where each dose sensitizes your liver to the next one.
So the chain is: high fructose corn syrup → ATP depletion → uric acid → AMPK suppressed → insulin resistance, fat storage, and excess glucose production.
The problem was never the sugar per se. It's the uric acid it leaves behind.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4101654/

2026-04-02 10:47:34 UTC

the hardest thing to do is shatter your own ego

2026-03-30 15:33:49 UTC

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nothing is happening on any app. It's all happening in the real world.

2026-03-29 22:54:34 UTC

there are countless reports of people not burning at all or very little when cutting seed oils out of their diet. how could this be?
my hypothesis:
Linoleic acid (the main fatty acid in seed oils) is bacteriostatic and bactericidal (deadly) to small intestinal lactobacillus
https://elifesciences.org/articles/32581
Lactobacillus johnsonii helps stabilize the skin’s resilience to UV damage
https://jddonline.com/articles/exploring-gut-microbiomes-role-in-drug-induced-photosensitivity-need-deeper-investigation-S1545961625P8844X/
so if disruption of gut flora by excessive pufa and linoleic acid causes a loss of the gut's protective effects on the skin, then seed oils could very well contribute to ease of sunburning

2026-03-28 12:45:13 UTC

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19887582/
https://blossom.primal.net/57788cac82b869bfc27ec748d33289268881a25c8b757b0bba104e8259042542.jpg
#nevent1q…4y0g

2026-03-28 12:43:59 UTC

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1934492/
your body needs cholesterol for cellular health and there is an inverse relationship with cancer and low ldl.
more cancer incidence with low ldl
https://blossom.primal.net/3186b071766b62975ae680be72e8bd65d20cb833d137e11a7fd40794328d0d52.jpg

2026-03-27 07:59:13 UTC

https://www.loom.com/share/5c815e0d1d7a416eb2ae7fa2c05e4bec
The Case for Bitcoin in Healthcare April 8 in Nashville

2026-03-25 11:50:04 UTC

imagine there was an environmental thing where
intermittent exposure increased cancer risk but continuous exposure was not associated (and maybe inversely associated) with cancer risk.
what would you conclude? that you should avoid it or spend as much time around it as possible?
that thing is sun
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3960350/

2026-03-22 07:52:51 UTC

if you have a ton of data, personal or business there is no reason you don't build your own RAG system. it is very very cheap and gives you universal personal search.

2026-03-22 06:10:40 UTC

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if you want to have the motivation to find truth there is no greater impetus than being frustrated with no knowing a video is true or false...sounds like great motivation for a creative solution

2026-03-22 04:07:07 UTC

feynman on new ideas:
you may feel overwhelmed and just want some peace to sit and come up with something wonderful...but there's a better chance that the stress and chaos is what you need for your good idea to take shape
best way to get that chaos and questioning everyday is to just have some kids. soon you will have more ideas than you have time.
https://blossom.primal.net/5e806fe11c6fe4e2c1c1feffd7ea89cb252b1f776c233a385afd32f4a462e1db.jpg

2026-03-22 03:50:53 UTC

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k2 with your vitamin d otherwise things will get worse.
eat some liver

2026-03-22 03:44:31 UTC

ketosis is a survival mechanism, it is not a physiologically normal way to live for weeks on end.

2026-03-18 17:18:02 UTC

The only problem with peer review is the fact almost all studies keep their raw data private --the peer reviewers rarely see the data and when the study is published, the data remains private.
there's no need for peer review if every study just publishes raw data -- then anyone can evaluate whenever they want

2026-03-18 00:13:08 UTC

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compared to a zerohedge feed
https://blossom.primal.net/20b3be39565e8e23932352a10af30ba1c3599c698cfcf478c2f1c33d4a72dbe8.jpg

2026-03-18 00:06:09 UTC

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looks like this. if each item within the block was the item headline would be nicer in an rss reader so i could just click on the news item directly as a feed entry
https://blossom.primal.net/2477603bb0aa41a64e23d4be60dde90af191943fbd380c79a05dce3241b67d01.jpg

2026-03-17 23:29:22 UTC

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news articles need individual rss headlines for ease of scrolling through headlines in an rss reader so you can click on only those of interest. right now everything in a block headline.

2026-03-17 21:28:33 UTC

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yeah i have a tough time with the earth, since we can obviously photograph different "sides" of the earth and spherical navigation (flying in a curve from chicago to shanghai) works...

2026-03-17 21:13:22 UTC

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definitely viruses-- but help me understand why earth from space? aren't we seeing and photographing the earth? but for small unseen things we are inferring what is happening...

2026-03-17 21:01:36 UTC

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this is true.
so much of what we think we "know" is based on inference. it may be true or it may be a interpretation of results that we apply our imagination to in order to attempt to understand the results and explain those results to others.
we infer the existence of the double helix of DNA but is just a model that we create to understand the movement of electrical charges within a cellular structure.
#nevent1q…fxux

2026-03-17 09:34:12 UTC

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a common theory is sanitation improves the health of the population leading to the decline, but sanitation doesn't remove "viruses" (they are too small be filters by historic sanitation methods)
but if sanitation improves the health of the population so people don't produce the viral particles then it would make sense that cleanliness and toxins being removed from human consumption would decrease the "viral diseases"
#nevent1q…xcdc

2026-03-17 07:35:38 UTC

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https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-medical-licensing-serves-big-pharma-expense-public-health

2026-03-17 06:47:04 UTC

mortality trends for classic vaccines
https://blossom.primal.net/263e96385d51b2390cf78471ad296b2b88e3298ca0b90e434722ed5fe417ac57.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/7f2ff2c09ac0955164e28f15e8bfb1a8b41ae1c966e146a42b343075eb5ac56f.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/491d22658c60d609aba7e4c0353f9123b1d4eb1bc7350495e622c40dbcb15826.jpg

2026-03-16 18:00:54 UTC

https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing
tools should be predictable and only draw our attention when they are needed.

2026-03-16 13:00:28 UTC

definitely a classic influencer post but for some people worth a try. removing the social media apps is probabaly the biggest win for most people. no social media, no need for a phone.
https://blossom.primal.net/2d57c914fdaab895abde293f836c2f3c4cc8b546f79b706b81f1d11aea793483.jpg

2026-03-13 20:15:27 UTC

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thorne creatine is tested and i recommend but i believe lineage is as well

2026-03-13 19:25:39 UTC

creatine use for nicotine cessation:
Only have anecdotal evidence to support this in a handful of people who were all hooked on zyn pouches
Smokers had lower concentrations creatine in the medial prefrontal cortex compared to nonsmokers
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33274546/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-023-02247-0
creatine supplementation increases brain levels https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-023-01870-9
nicotine lowers brain creatine → low brain creatine may impair prefrontal function and self-regulation → creatine supplementation might restore those levels and support cognitive function during withdrawal

2026-03-13 11:13:22 UTC

two good review articles on the harms of food dyes
1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23026007/
2. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0924224425002213
Children are considered especially vulnerable due to their lower body weight (they get a greater weight based dose in a day)
Production of Red 40, Yellow 5, and Yellow 6 leaves behind contamination with benzidine and other carcinogens.
Dyes have been associated with a colitis, renal insufficiency, hepatotoxicity, pathological changes in the gut, and oxidative stress.

2026-03-10 02:24:01 UTC

the joy you get from seeing your children try something new and want to keep at it to get better supersedes all possible happiness your might get from work or material accolades

2026-03-09 17:23:26 UTC

https://reason.com/2026/03/05/the-tax-loophole-that-made-u-s-health-care-unaffordable/
the exclusion of employer-sponsored health insurance from taxable income has had unintended consequences (as most gov programs do)
https://blossom.primal.net/582a752898c49a542dc7ddefb81fc82bd1fc727f6e5da674df0f492f22a9139f.jpg

2026-03-07 17:06:50 UTC

absence of evidence ≠ evidence of absence

2026-03-07 16:13:01 UTC

just started reading this. very good so far
https://blossom.primal.net/f976ad273295730bd359f067afd5a1d2e9c6e4ba4e2e3457fea9518ddcbdfffb.jpg

2026-03-06 10:27:18 UTC

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at first i couldn't t believe this
#nevent1q…0l2f

2026-03-04 20:47:31 UTC

research institutions and professional schools are forced to use high priced research software with terrible UIs because the market is a niche without any competition
now with the cost of software approaching zero the people can make useful tools that respect privacy and costs.
introducing papertrace.org
https://papertrace.org/

2026-03-01 18:49:57 UTC

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29067814/
https://blossom.primal.net/5577a2099aac6a2e58de98de9657b644ab7efb7876d6493b67b782e9517d25e6.jpg

2026-02-28 22:41:20 UTC

imho consuming exogenous ketones is a bad idea
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/18/4/675

2026-02-27 13:44:55 UTC

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co-sleeping ≠ randomly sleeping with your infant. co-sleeping is a deliberate process of preparing the environment to be infant and mother first

2026-02-27 12:42:50 UTC

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yes! i'll set it up soon

2026-02-27 12:36:48 UTC

co sleeping is not associated with sids
https://blossom.primal.net/816afdd65c3c2cfa9177be4d5df77faa1ca71a603d774201be10a20ca1d9874f.jpg

2026-02-25 21:24:14 UTC

i'm pretty sure self sovereignty is going to win with these LLM coding tools.
i run one of the large healthcare wikis for emergency medicine (wikem.org) and many AI providers just scrape our data and providers are starting to ask chat boxes what to do on shift rather than reading a wiki page.
there is no use fighting them to take down queries with our data especially since it is creative commons.
so instead, by using their LLMs i built an LLM powered search for emergency docs
https://wikem.ai/

2026-02-24 12:41:01 UTC

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probably the glut-4 transporter causes this phenomenon https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8260367/

2026-02-24 11:17:17 UTC

walking after a meal helps with glucose spikes as your muscles contract and use the glucose that is spiking post consumption

2026-02-24 01:51:06 UTC

During sleep—particularly slow-wave (deep) sleep—your body upregulates mitochondrial biogenesis, creating new, healthy mitochondria to replace aging ones.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29478834/

2026-02-23 00:06:46 UTC

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this is "the mandibles" except at least there was a push for multigenerational households out of necessity
#nevent1q…6wwh

2026-02-18 22:58:41 UTC

many nutritionists cite the Shanghai Women's Health Study when defending soy as part of a healthy vegetable based diet
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2683002/
It was a prospective cohort studies on diet and chronic disease in Asian women. Launched in 1996-2000, it enrolled approximately 75,000 Chinese women aged 40-70 and has tracked them for decades through follow-up surveys and health record linkage.
It cites lower breast cancer risk with soy consumption and attempts to explain that Isoflavones (genistein and daidzein), which are phytoestrogens may modulate estrogen metabolism and have anti-proliferative effects on breast tissue....
but the study really demonstrates that fermented soy products (Miso, Fermented Tofu, Tempeh)
not soy supplements like soy protein may be good in a traditional eastern diet
Unfermented Soy (Tofu, Soy Milk, Soy Powders) are highly processed soy protein isolates or that lack the fermentation byproducts found in whole or fermented soy foods and deliver doses of isoflavones 2-3 times what you'd get from equivalent protein in tofu or tempeh

2026-02-17 20:18:53 UTC

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yeah... unfortunately

2026-02-17 17:57:05 UTC

i use a glass/steel aeropress to get plastic free coffee but here is a drip machine alternative
https://puresteelco.com/

2026-02-17 16:48:46 UTC

mental health tip: silence as many notifications as possible.
this will help make every interaction with communication tech purposeful and minimize anxiety from non urgent interruptions

2026-02-15 18:25:10 UTC

creatine in older adults
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35984306/

2026-02-15 00:30:19 UTC

I think far too little attention is being given to the effects of abnormal and stressful growth conditions on the plants' natural defense systems. Plants normally synthesize some toxins and inhibitors of digestive enzymes to discourage attacks by bacteria, fungi, insects, and other predators. When a plant is injured or otherwise stressed, it produces more of the defensive substances, and very often they communicate their stress to other plants, and the resulting physiological changes can cause changes in seeds that affect the resistance of the progeny. (Agrawal, 2001)
One of many substances produced by plants in response to injury is chitinase, an enzyme that breaks down chitin, a polysaccharide that is a structural component of fungi and insects. Chitinase, which is produced by bacteria and humans, as well as by plants and other organisms, is involved in developmental processes as well as in the innate immune system. In plants, the enzyme is induced by ethylene and salicylate, in animals by estrogen, light damage, and infections, and can be demonstrated in polyps and cancers.
-https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/milk.shtml

2026-02-14 01:34:02 UTC

ignore noise
focus on first principles