Luke F-M
@lukefm.bsky.social
Doctor normally in Glasgow, temporarily in Hong Kong. He/him.
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Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...
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this one i still need to see
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
this one i still need to see
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Music from the Spanish speaking world is wildly excellent this year, much better than the average coming out in English. Just in the past four weeks, these four incredibly forward looking, brilliant albums came out. I have not heard any album in English this year that comes close to any of them
November 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Music from the Spanish speaking world is wildly excellent this year, much better than the average coming out in English. Just in the past four weeks, these four incredibly forward looking, brilliant albums came out. I have not heard any album in English this year that comes close to any of them
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Okay, here are some first reflections on Watson.
Watson's life is a tragedy, really of Shakespearean proportions. He did not, as most bios will tell you, do one great thing when he was young and then collect laurels for it for the next 60 years. His career arc was unlike any in science.
Watson's life is a tragedy, really of Shakespearean proportions. He did not, as most bios will tell you, do one great thing when he was young and then collect laurels for it for the next 60 years. His career arc was unlike any in science.
November 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Okay, here are some first reflections on Watson.
Watson's life is a tragedy, really of Shakespearean proportions. He did not, as most bios will tell you, do one great thing when he was young and then collect laurels for it for the next 60 years. His career arc was unlike any in science.
Watson's life is a tragedy, really of Shakespearean proportions. He did not, as most bios will tell you, do one great thing when he was young and then collect laurels for it for the next 60 years. His career arc was unlike any in science.
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New review: Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff's eagerly anticipated 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑁𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑒, finally in print www.complete-review.com/reviews/popu...
Your Name Here - Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of Your Name Here by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff.
www.complete-review.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
New review: Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff's eagerly anticipated 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑁𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑒, finally in print www.complete-review.com/reviews/popu...
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Among the 89 sitting lawmakers, 17 never opposed a government motion. In contrast, 56 legislators voted “no” only once, while merely 16 rejected more than once.
In full: buff.ly/XYT9S8s
Graphic: Hans Tse/HKFP.
In full: buff.ly/XYT9S8s
Graphic: Hans Tse/HKFP.
November 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Among the 89 sitting lawmakers, 17 never opposed a government motion. In contrast, 56 legislators voted “no” only once, while merely 16 rejected more than once.
In full: buff.ly/XYT9S8s
Graphic: Hans Tse/HKFP.
In full: buff.ly/XYT9S8s
Graphic: Hans Tse/HKFP.
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The Blood Health Information Hub is here! 🩸 This new ASH resource aims to counter misinformation and misconceptions by offering accurate, credible and trustworthy information on blood disorders. Read the first six topics: https://ow.ly/ATKM50Xkos0
#HemeSky #MedSky #HemeOnc
#HemeSky #MedSky #HemeOnc
October 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The Blood Health Information Hub is here! 🩸 This new ASH resource aims to counter misinformation and misconceptions by offering accurate, credible and trustworthy information on blood disorders. Read the first six topics: https://ow.ly/ATKM50Xkos0
#HemeSky #MedSky #HemeOnc
#HemeSky #MedSky #HemeOnc
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It worked. Stem cells (mesenchymal) given to patients with a large heart attack reduced major adverse events in a randomized trial vs standard care www.bmj.com/content/391/...
October 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
It worked. Stem cells (mesenchymal) given to patients with a large heart attack reduced major adverse events in a randomized trial vs standard care www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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In patients with chronic coronary syndrome taking oral anticoagulants, adding aspirin led to higher risks of cardiovascular events, major bleeding, and death from any cause than anticoagulation alone. Full AQUATIC trial results and Research Summary: nej.md/45AU4Wp
#MedSky #CardioSky
#MedSky #CardioSky
October 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
In patients with chronic coronary syndrome taking oral anticoagulants, adding aspirin led to higher risks of cardiovascular events, major bleeding, and death from any cause than anticoagulation alone. Full AQUATIC trial results and Research Summary: nej.md/45AU4Wp
#MedSky #CardioSky
#MedSky #CardioSky
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Unsurprisingly, AI proves good at mimicry, but the cost-advantage ("the median fine-tuning and inference cost of $81 per author represents a dramatic 99.7% reduction compared to typical professional writer compensation") is ... worrying arxiv.org/html/2510.13...
Readers Prefer Outputs of AI Trained on Copyrighted Books over Expert Human Writers
arxiv.org
October 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Unsurprisingly, AI proves good at mimicry, but the cost-advantage ("the median fine-tuning and inference cost of $81 per author represents a dramatic 99.7% reduction compared to typical professional writer compensation") is ... worrying arxiv.org/html/2510.13...
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Just a little reminder that everything you've ever said to a chatbot is, by design, recorded and saved for future reference.
youtube.com/shorts/WP5_X...
youtube.com/shorts/WP5_X...
chatgpt has E-stroke
YouTube video by Michael Reeves
youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Just a little reminder that everything you've ever said to a chatbot is, by design, recorded and saved for future reference.
youtube.com/shorts/WP5_X...
youtube.com/shorts/WP5_X...
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Still awaiting a Pauline conversion. :-)
Some thoughts on my visit to Siena's magnificent cathedral, and agnostics and atheists in religious spaces.
somemelodiousplot.blogspot.com/2025/10/ther...
Some thoughts on my visit to Siena's magnificent cathedral, and agnostics and atheists in religious spaces.
somemelodiousplot.blogspot.com/2025/10/ther...
'There's a certain Slant of light' - Asides (XX)
‘ There ’ s a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons – That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes – ’ (Emily Dickinson) * U...
somemelodiousplot.blogspot.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Still awaiting a Pauline conversion. :-)
Some thoughts on my visit to Siena's magnificent cathedral, and agnostics and atheists in religious spaces.
somemelodiousplot.blogspot.com/2025/10/ther...
Some thoughts on my visit to Siena's magnificent cathedral, and agnostics and atheists in religious spaces.
somemelodiousplot.blogspot.com/2025/10/ther...
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I was intrigued to see which two of the Vatican’s ten Raphael tapestries were chosen for today’s unprecedented service in the Sistine Chapel. The tapestries are very rarely shown - was Pope Leo XIV conveying any message in the choice?
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October 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I was intrigued to see which two of the Vatican’s ten Raphael tapestries were chosen for today’s unprecedented service in the Sistine Chapel. The tapestries are very rarely shown - was Pope Leo XIV conveying any message in the choice?
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Analyses of U.K. Biobank and clinical cohorts show that rare genetic diseases can be misdiagnosed as common diseases, which may have implications for clinical trials as well as for diagnosis and treatment. Full study results: nej.md/3Jk1MvD
#MedSky #Genetics
#MedSky #Genetics
October 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Analyses of U.K. Biobank and clinical cohorts show that rare genetic diseases can be misdiagnosed as common diseases, which may have implications for clinical trials as well as for diagnosis and treatment. Full study results: nej.md/3Jk1MvD
#MedSky #Genetics
#MedSky #Genetics
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Wikipedia is worth $10/month because if it dies so does reliable knowledge. Cough up if you can -- it's cheaper, more interesting and morally superior to Netflix.
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Wikipedia is worth $10/month because if it dies so does reliable knowledge. Cough up if you can -- it's cheaper, more interesting and morally superior to Netflix.
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𝐃𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐓𝐬𝐞, 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝑶𝒘𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉 (chajournal.blog/category/owl... 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 "𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 & 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠" 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐰𝐨𝐥𝐟 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔: 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬. 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐚 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐞. "The city you grew up in is gone, as if sunk to the bottom of the ocean."
⧉ www.graywolfpress.org/books/city-w...
⧉ www.graywolfpress.org/books/city-w...
October 13, 2025 at 6:38 AM
𝐃𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐓𝐬𝐞, 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝑶𝒘𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉 (chajournal.blog/category/owl... 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 "𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 & 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠" 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐰𝐨𝐥𝐟 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔: 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬. 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐚 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐞. "The city you grew up in is gone, as if sunk to the bottom of the ocean."
⧉ www.graywolfpress.org/books/city-w...
⧉ www.graywolfpress.org/books/city-w...
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damn. hoping it at least signifies something
It is a tale
Told by an idiot
Told by an idiot
October 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
damn. hoping it at least signifies something
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Krasznahorkai Nobel-win coverage at the Literary Saloon updated www.complete-review.com/saloon/archi... I think that should do it for today .....
Nobel Prize in Literature 2025
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 was awarded to László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”
www.nobelprize.org
October 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Krasznahorkai Nobel-win coverage at the Literary Saloon updated www.complete-review.com/saloon/archi... I think that should do it for today .....
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3rd voice web comic is now 3rd voice print comic!!!!
October 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
3rd voice web comic is now 3rd voice print comic!!!!
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If you dig Vladimir Sorokin, Ursula Le Guin, Tarkovsky, Aleksei German’s adaptation of HARD TO BE A GOD
It still believes in night | A review of Antoine Volodine's post-exotic novel Mevlido's Dreams biblioklept.org/2025/10/05/i...
It still believes in night | A review of Antoine Volodine’s post-exotic novel Mevlido’s Dreams
Antoine Volodine’s 2007 novel Mevlido’s Dreams is a bleak, dystopian noir novel set several centuries in the future in the ruined city-state of Oulang-Oulane. Here, weary revolutionary Mevlido live…
biblioklept.org
October 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
If you dig Vladimir Sorokin, Ursula Le Guin, Tarkovsky, Aleksei German’s adaptation of HARD TO BE A GOD
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I've been seeing a lot of this even in books that seem like they should be more driven, pulpier, more plot & action-focused. What frustrates me about it—to be clear, I adore a contemplative lost-in-the-landscape literary meander—is when it seems to stem from a televisual concept of *time*.
I'm seeing a lot of this in the romantasy space! there are books with minimal story apart from the romance, so you end up with an iterative structure where the leads go to a series of locations or make a series of small advances on their MacGuffin quest, as set dressing for their escalating intimacy
A new thing we’re noticing is books where way less happens than you’d expect for their length because of worldbuilding info dumps or long scenes of explaining plans. You get through a 100,000 word novel and realize the whole story was spent picking up magic groceries.
October 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I've been seeing a lot of this even in books that seem like they should be more driven, pulpier, more plot & action-focused. What frustrates me about it—to be clear, I adore a contemplative lost-in-the-landscape literary meander—is when it seems to stem from a televisual concept of *time*.
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Has there been another tech boom as... messianic as the current AI buildout? Like I know there were religious movements that interfaced with company towns, and the Internet had a kind of social/prosperity gospel. Space tech has quasi-religious qualities, and REALLY did in the 70s.
October 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Has there been another tech boom as... messianic as the current AI buildout? Like I know there were religious movements that interfaced with company towns, and the Internet had a kind of social/prosperity gospel. Space tech has quasi-religious qualities, and REALLY did in the 70s.
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If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you’ll also miss the stars.
Stray Birds VI
Rabindranath Tagore
#poetrysunday -1
Stray Birds VI
Rabindranath Tagore
#poetrysunday -1
October 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you’ll also miss the stars.
Stray Birds VI
Rabindranath Tagore
#poetrysunday -1
Stray Birds VI
Rabindranath Tagore
#poetrysunday -1
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Ok, been waiting for this one, price rises for going out that affect so many of us... there's a lot of factors here but one of the main ones is... this is what we collectively chose... what do you think happens with more regulations and a higher minimum wage? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What a £5 coffee (or a £100 Pizza Express) tells us about a changing Britain | Gaby Hinsliff
For many Gen Xers, it feels like we’re sliding back towards the land of our childhoods: where eating out was for special occasions, and Thermoses were king, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Ok, been waiting for this one, price rises for going out that affect so many of us... there's a lot of factors here but one of the main ones is... this is what we collectively chose... what do you think happens with more regulations and a higher minimum wage? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...