By 1923, insulin was widely available, saving those near death due to diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). Today, 1 in 4 people ration insulin or skip doses because it's prohibitively expensive. Despite costing less than $6 per vial to manufacture, the list price is $250+.

Feels auspicious to learn about this cursed app the same day such a beautifully mournful album drops, long-form doom remedies.

". . . contact between two objects creates an inseparable thread between them. A gift from a dead friend forever holds this magic like a scar reflecting a wound."

Always Ursula K. Le Guin: "How you play is what you win."

Life is long, until it's not. Perhaps it is not too late now, but it may be later than you think.

"In our human minds, according to the Law of Contagious Magic ... contact between two objects creates an inseparable thread between them. A gift from a dead friend forever holds this magic like a scar reflecting a wound."

everything is connected: nothing lasts: you are not alone

I have never been good at finding a social media audience so sure yeah sour grapes whatever but lifetime subscriptions to newsletter services and infinite SaaS charges and the inevitable rot of all tech companies makes me grateful that my newsletter audience is small enough to be a large email list.

Perhaps this isn't universal and is only a requirement for people living in areas with accelerationist right wing regional governments, so a fourth thing would be an appreciation for Bsky's eager compliance with right wing authorities.

This applies retroactively: no existing DMs, no future DMs.

Bell Witch & Aerial Ruin's music – in collaboration and on their own – is a visceral immersion in the "you are not alone" concept at the foundation of Zen practice. Deny suffering and you avoid the camaraderie of acknowledging the inevitability of suffering, and the compassion that eases suffering.

"That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?"

– Ursula K. Le Guin
The Farthest Shore

Not everybody has Jason Statham as The Beekeeper living in their barn, so the party that establishes a boring reliable government bureaucracy to prosecute scammers could wield power for generations.

I can help: Safeguarding Phones of Americans from Marketing Risk aka the S.P.A.M. Risk Act.

My friend is intermittently coherent but it's wild to witness the vulnerability inherent to having unmonitored access to a phone. If I hadn't been there – and been willing to physically remove the phone from his hand as he hollered "no no it's real!" – I have no idea where he would've ended up.

I recognized the AI scam operator voice from a similar situation earlier this week, the trap where you dial a common medical customer service number but get one digit off and suddenly there's a demon on the other end of the line and if you do the wrong thing the demon will ruin your life