I’ve been obsessed with the existence/ mechanisms of post-finasteride syndrome for the past two years and the inexplicable gap between standard dermatological practice and clinical reality. This is the best non-medical article I’ve read on it economist.com/1843/2024/04/0…

Mankind belongs to a cursed order of King Midas creatures

two days apart

Huh, so equity analysts are just chucking questions into ChatGPT like everyone else

Sometimes things are as bad as the cultural critics say and sometimes they’re not

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used

Our mandate at components is take all this and do the opposite

If I were to guess I’d say there’s a longitudinal study on topical trentinoin waiting to be done whose results would scare a lot of people away from using it

水が浅いところにいるトビハゼが近づいてきたり遠ざかったりする様子

🔴 BREAKING: Namecheap, a major domain registrar and web-hosting company, revoked the domain of Zionism Observer, an archive account which had uploaded more than 16,000 videos of Palestinians killed in Gaza, mostly documenting suspected Israeli war crimes. Namecheap explained

Something beautiful is going to happen. Found in Wrocław

If this is true then on a per mile basis Waymos are at least as lethal as normal cars

The dumbest investor I ever met gave me the same advice

About as sensible as grieving a transition to copper mining with machines or no longer having to hand wash your dishes. It was a machinic process to begin with. Let’s just enjoy this one

Kind of remarkable to consider human violence as the single worst thing in the whole cosmos, my guess is that if you went 100 quadrillion miles in any direction you wouldn’t encounter something as bad

Every W counts no matter how tiny

To anyone thinking of doing this, don’t do this

My thesis on the plight of art is basically to argue that the shift to the creator economy (collapsing everyone into creators) exposed that the premise of autonomous art as invented in the 18th century was always fragile and contingent, and may now be over

Not only did I dodge the Epstein crowd, but I also turned down in 2012 an invitation to join the board of Palantir, in addition to associated sinister groups.