memories for Jun 10

2016

2016 Jun 10
Democratic Party on the Precipice

Honestly, if you think Clinton's presumptive victory is a sign that neoliberalism is totally fine and the majority of Democrats are all aboard and we should just keep on keeping on while the real wages fall and the rich get even richer and can get judges to merely slap them on the wrist for committing violent crimes, the aftermath of the next recession/stock market crash is probably going to be horribly shocking to you.

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2016 Jun 10
FDA and Antibiotics in Food-Producing Animals

Realistically, misuse and overuse of antibiotics in food-producing animals is just as much of a contributor to antibiotic resistance as misues and overuse of antibiotics in humans.

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2016 Jun 10
Polyphenol oxidase

I only just learned about Arctic® apples, marketed as non-browning apples. They achieve this by adding extra copies of the polyphenol oxidase gene, thereby inducing gene silencing.

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2016 Jun 10
Vitriol in 2008

While it's probably only a matter of time until the Democratic party manages to unite at least a majority of itself into a force dedicated to ensuring Trump doesn't get elected, Obama's endorsement of Clinton reminds me once again of how much more rancorous the 2008 Democratic primaries were.

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2016 Jun 10
Ochlocracy and Autocracy

Mob rule is just as terrible as autocracy (they don't call it the tyranny of the majority for nothing), but when the system is failing, the people really have no choice but to form mobs.

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2009

2009 Jun 10
apophenia, again

I suppose it's no accident that I ended up in the profession I'm in. From the beginning, my mind has been tuned to look for patterns. The finding of patterns is actually quite easy: everything has a pattern, every bit of data, every tiny stimulus can be fitted to a scheme. The big trick, the thing that they pay you big bucks for, is figuring which of these patterns actually match reality.

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2008

2008 Jun 10
well worn paths

It's déjà vu all over again.

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2008 Jun 10
unlooked for

Just when you think all is lost, sometimes you're pleasantly surprised. After struggling futilely to find some kind of jerry-rigged solution, sometimes all you have to do is turn the power off, and then turn it on again, and miraculously, everything else takes care of itself.

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2008 Jun 10
yet the arrow of time

I randomly went home on Sunday. I woke up around 6 a.m. outside my own volition, without any alarms, and decided it would be a good idea to hop on a train and head up to L.A. I pretty much just ate something like six meals and watched cable TV with my dad. We watched a bunch of westerns.

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2008 Jun 10
turn

found on ayşe's tumblr

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2001

2001 Jun 10
How Can I Stop Pining?

Steroid hormones are powerful, powerful things. Just how desperate can a man get, I wonder.

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