There once was an elderly rake
who boned a boy in the lobby of the Drake
The manager cried, "do you buttfucking outside
or, next time, try the Pierre."
It's all over now Bobby Blue
DeNiro pays off abused tranny employee.
https://www.today.com/news/robert-de-niro-assistant-graham-chase-robinson-trial-rcna123997
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"Why are we not gas lighting the public any more? What? We still are? Oh good. I was worried, and worried and stupid is a tough place to come from."
Drug Importation, Murder, Kidnapping, Firearms, And Money Laundering Are considered crimes in some pparts of some states.
Depending on your USG branch, cult ranks and affiliation and current membership account status you may be arrested, taxed or deprecated for sacrifice if your dues are delinquent.
– Cult master Anon
When it comes to dements in the presidency, mostly it goes unmentioned. Woodrow Wilson was a gomer after his stroke and 100 years later, well, yes. And that nice guy Ronald Reagen, he altzed out and thought he really was president.
When a secret president ran the country
NPR Cult Radio
Woodrow Wilson may have been one of our hardest-working chief executives and by the fall of 1919, he looked it.
For most of the six months between late Dec. 1918 and June 1919, our 28th president was in Europe negotiating the Treaty of Versailles and planning for the nascent League of Nations, efforts for which he was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize (an award he did not officially receive until 1920). Back home, however, the ratification of the treaty met with mixed public support and strong opposition from Republican senators, led by Henry Cabot Lodge (R-Mass.), as well as Irish Catholic Democrats. As the summer progressed, President Wilson worried that defeat was in the air.
Bone-tired but determined to wage peace, on Sept. 3, 1919, Woodrow Wilson embarked on a national speaking tour across the United States so that he could make his case directly to the American people. For the next three and a half weeks, the president, his wife Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, assorted aides, servants, cooks, Secret Service men and members of the press rode the rails. The presidential train car, quaintly named the Mayflower, served as a rolling White House. Also joining the party was the president’s personal physician, Cary T. Grayson, who had grave concerns over his patient’s health.
Not that Woodrow Wilson was the picture of health before beginning this grueling crusade.
When Wilson took office, the famed physician and part-time novelist Silas Weir Mitchell ominously predicted that the president would never complete his first term. Dr. Weir was wrong on that prognosis even though Dr. Grayson did fret aloud and often about the Wilson’s tendency to overwork.
For example, while negotiating with European leaders on arriving at an equitable peace to end “the Great War,” Wilson worked incessantly, eliminating all the exercise, entertainment and relaxation sessions from his schedule. And like tens of millions of other people during the worst pandemic in human history, the American president succumbed to a terrible case of influenza in early April of 1919.
All during September of 1919, as the presidential train traveled across the Midwest, into the Great Plains states, over the Rockies into the Pacific Northwest and then down the West Coast before turning back East, the president became thinner, paler and ever more frail. He lost his appetite, his asthma grew worse and he complained of unrelenting headaches.
Unfortunately, Woodrow Wilson refused to listen to his body.
oh, LOL there's [MORE]
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/woodrow-wilson-stroke
'''YOU MUST SHILL HARDER. YOU SHILLS
ARE LOSING OUR WAR"
– Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
Former acting POTUS
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How MIT's new biological 'computer' works, and what it could do in the future
All life is information processing.
"For years now, scientists have been working to make cells into computers. It's a logical goal; cells store information in something roughly approximating memory, they behave due to the strict, rules-based expression of programming in response to stimuli, and they can carry out operations with astonishing speed. Each cell contains enough physical complexity to theoretically be quite a powerful computing unit all on its own, but each is also small enough to pack by the millions into tiny physical spaces. With a fully realized ability to program cell behavior as reliably as we do computer behavior, there's no telling what biological computing could accomplish.
Now, researchers from MIT have taken a step(Opens in a new window) toward this possible future, with cellular machines that can perform simple computational operations and store, then recall, memory. In principle, they provide the sort of control we'd need to design and build real cellular computers, but they could just revolutionize cell biology long before that future comes about.
Magnetic bacteria storage, up close and personalBacteria are bigger than modern transistors, but they're also much better at packing into small spaces.
MIT has been one of the most prolific sources of research on this topic. In 2013, this same team designed the computing strain that preceded this one: a biological "state machine." A state machine is a straightforward (though not necessarily simple) form of computer or computer model in which the machine is only ever in one of a finite list of possible states, and can transition between these states according to input variables.
The classical example of a state machine is a vending machine. The counter doesn't actually do math, but rather simply knows that if it already has five cents, and receives another five cents, it's supposed to switch into "I have 10 cents" mode. This mode overwrites the "I have five cents" mode, and has its own set of associated behaviors accounting for all the possibilities for the next coin. This is distinct from having any sort of robust mathematical brain, any concept for five or 10, or the relationship between them.
Taken to an almost absurd level of sophistication, this basic system of combining input with a single changing internal state, over and over (and over), is behind modern speech recognition algorithms. To a great extent, machine learning is the automated process of building such chains of reactive states, which finally delivered the sci-fi ability for a computer to quickly and accurately narrow in on the identity of a spoken word. This is all to say: State machines may be old and straightforward, but they're by no means useless if you can build them well enough, and elaborately enough."
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https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/232190-how-mits-new-biological-computer-works-and-what-it-could-do-in-the-future
Wake up NPCs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_computing
DIG MEME PRAY
Neuralink rival sets brain-chip record with 4,096 electrodes on human brain
Precision expects its minimally invasive brain implant to hit the market next year.
The high density of electrodes allows neuroscientists to map the activity of neurons at unprecedented resolution, which will ultimately help them to better decode thoughts into intended actions.
Precision, like many of its rivals, has the preliminary goal of using its brain-computer interface (BCI) to restore speech and movement in patients, particularly those who have suffered a stroke or spinal cord injury. But Precision stands out from its competitors due to a notable split from one of the most high-profile BCI companies, Neuralink, owned by controversial billionaire Elon Musk.
Precision was co-founded by neurosurgeon and engineer Ben Rapoport, who was also a co-founder of Neuralink back in 2016. Rapoport later left the company and, in 2021, started rival Precision with three colleagues, two of whom had also been involved with Neuralink.
In a May 3 episode of The Wall Street Journal podcast The Future of Everything, Rapoport suggested he left Neuralink over safety concerns for the company's more invasive BCI implants.
To move neural interfaces from the world of science to the world of medicine, "safety is paramount," Rapoport said. "For a medical device, safety often implies minimal invasiveness," he added. Rapoport noted that in the early days of BCI development—including the use of the Utah Array—"there was this notion that in order to extract information-rich data from the brain, one needed to penetrate the brain with tiny little needlelike electrodes," he said. "And those have the drawback of doing some amount of brain damage when they're inserted into the brain. I felt that it was possible to extract information-rich data from the brain without damaging the brain." Precision was formed with that philosophy in mind—minimal invasiveness, scalability, and safety, he said.
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https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/neuralink-rival-sets-brain-chip-record-with-4096-electrodes-on-human-brain/
'After you die, your Steam games will be stuck in legal limbo
"With Valve's Steam gaming platform approaching the US drinking age this year, more and more aging PC gamers may be considering what will happen to their vast digital game libraries after they die. Unfortunately, legally, your collection of hundreds of backlogged games will likely pass into the ether along with you someday.
The issue of digital game inheritability gained renewed attention this week as a ResetEra poster quoted a Steam support response asking about transferring Steam account ownership via a last will and testament. "Unfortunately, Steam accounts and games are non-transferable" the response reads. "Steam Support can't provide someone else with access to the account or merge its contents with another account. I regret to inform you that your Steam account cannot be transferred via a will."
This isn't the first time someone has asked this basic estate planning question, of course. Last year, a Steam forum user quoted a similar response from Steam support as saying, "Your account is yours and yours alone. Now you can share it with family members, but you cannot give it away."
Potential loopholes
As a practical matter, Steam would have little way of knowing if you wrote down your Steam username and password and left instructions for your estate to give that information to your descendants. When it comes to legal ownership of that account, though, the Steam Subscriber Agreement seems relatively clear.
"You may not reveal, share, or otherwise allow others to use your password or Account except as otherwise specifically authorized by Valve," the agreement reads, in part. "You may… not sell or charge others for the right to use your Account, or otherwise transfer your Account, nor may you sell, charge others for the right to use, or transfer any Subscriptions other than if and as expressly permitted by this Agreement… or as otherwise specifically permitted by Valve."
So much for your descendants posthumously clearing out that massive backlog…
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https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/05/after-you-die-your-steam-games-will-be-stuck-in-legal-limbo/
Matthew 13:10-16
New King James Version
10 And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”
11 He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the [a]mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
12 For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
14 And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says:
‘Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, And seeing you will see and not perceive;
15 For the hearts of this people have grown dull.
Their ears are hard of hearing,
And their eyes they have closed,
Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears,
Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,
So that I [b]should heal them.’
16 But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear;