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by Araucaria. A torture center under Pinochet, a former German enclave in Chile is to become a memorial to the dictatorship. But its residents, scarred by the abuse of the guru who led their community, oppose the expropriation.
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Living with an autoimmune disorder presents unique challenges. Your own immune system, designed to protect you from harm, mistakenly attacks your body’s healthy tissues. This can be a bewildering and frustrating experience. While medical treatments are crucial, we’re increasingly recognising the powerful link between our minds, our bodies, and the progression of these conditions. This is what we call the mind-body connection, and it plays a significant role in how you experience autoimmune disorders like Myasthenia Gravis.
What is the Mind-Body Connection?
The mind-body connection isn't just a concept; it’s a tangible network of communication between your thoughts, emotions, and physical health. Your brain, immune system, endocrine system (which produces hormones), and nervous system are constantly interacting. What affects one, affects the others. For example, when you feel stressed, your brain sends signals that trigger a cascade of hormonal and chemical changes throughout your body, directly influencing your immune system.
Stress: A Trigger for Inflammation
We all experience stress, but for someone with an autoimmune disorder, chronic stress can be particularly problematic. When you’re under stress, your body releases hormones like cortisol. While cortisol is essential for many bodily functions, sustained high levels can disrupt your immune system’s balance. This disruption can lead to increased inflammation. Inflammation is your body's natural response to injury or infection. It’s a vital part of the healing process.1 However, in autoimmune disorders, inflammation becomes a persistent problem. Your immune system mistakenly attacks healthy cells, causing ongoing inflammation that contributes to symptoms like pain, fatigue, and organ damage. Chronic stress can fuel this inflammatory cycle, potentially worsening your symptoms and even influencing the disease's activity. Imagine your immune system as a finely tuned orchestra. Stress can throw the conductor off, causing the instruments (your immune cells) to play out of tune and create disharmony in your body.
How Stress Impacts Autoimmune Conditions
Consider Myasthenia Gravis (MG), a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease that causes weakness in the skeletal muscles, responsible for breathing and movement.2 In MG, your immune system produces antibodies that attack healthy communication points between your nerves and muscles, leading to muscle weakness. When you experience significant stress, whether it’s from work, relationships, or even illness, you might notice your MG symptoms worsening. Your eyelids might droop more, your speech might become slurred, or your breathing might feel more strained. This isn’t a coincidence; it's a direct reflection of how stress can impact your immune system and, consequently, your MG. Stress doesn't cause autoimmune disorders, but it can act as a significant trigger for flare-ups or an exacerbation of symptoms. It can alter the delicate balance of your immune system, making it more prone to attacking your own tissues. Think of it like this: your autoimmune condition is a simmering fire. Stress is like pouring fuel onto that fire, making it burn hotter and brighter.
The Role of Holistic Health
Holistic health approaches focus on treating the whole person – mind, body, and spirit – rather than just addressing isolated symptoms. This perspective is incredibly valuable when managing autoimmune disorders. It acknowledges that your physical health is intricately linked to your emotional and mental well-being. By adopting holistic practices, you can create a supportive environment for your body to heal and manage the impact of stress and inflammation.
Strategies for Nurturing Your Mind-Body Connection
You have the power to influence your mind-body connection. Here are some practical strategies you can incorporate into your daily life to help manage stress, reduce inflammation, and promote overall well-being: • Stress Reduction Techniques: These are vital for calming your nervous system and reducing the release of stress hormones. o Mindfulness and Meditation: Practising mindfulness involves focusing on the present moment without judgment. Meditation, a formal practice of mindfulness, can significantly reduce stress and improve emotional regulation. Even just 10-15 minutes a day can make a difference. You can find guided meditations online or through apps. o Deep Breathing Exercises: Simple deep breathing can activate your parasympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for "rest and digest" functions. Try breathing in slowly through your nose, feeling your abdomen rise, holding for a few seconds, and then exhaling slowly through your mouth. o Yoga and Tai Chi: These practices combine physical postures, breathing techniques, and meditation. They are gentle yet powerful ways to reduce stress, improve flexibility, and enhance your sense of calm. o Spending Time in Nature: Research shows that exposure to natural environments can lower stress hormones, reduce blood pressure, and improve mood. Even a short walk in a park can be beneficial. o Creative Expression: Engaging in hobbies like painting, writing, playing music, or gardening can be incredibly therapeutic. They provide an outlet for your emotions and a sense of purpose, helping to reduce stress. • Dietary Considerations: What you eat profoundly impacts your body’s inflammatory response. o Anti-Inflammatory Diet: Focus on whole, unprocessed foods. Include plenty of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, and healthy fats. Fruits and Vegetables: Aim for a wide variety of colourful fruits and vegetables. They are packed with antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds. Omega-3 Fatty Acids: Found in fatty fish (salmon, mackerel, sardines), flaxseeds, and chia seeds, omega-3s are known for their anti-inflammatory properties. Limit Processed Foods, Sugar, and Unhealthy Fats: These can all promote inflammation in your body. Read food labels carefully and reduce your intake of highly processed items, sugary drinks, and foods high in saturated and trans fats. o Hydration: Drink plenty of water throughout the day. Dehydration can exacerbate fatigue and other symptoms. • Regular Physical Activity: While it might seem counterintuitive when you're fatigued, regular, gentle exercise can significantly improve your energy levels and reduce inflammation. o Listen to Your Body: This is crucial, especially with conditions like Myasthenia Gravis. Don't push yourself too hard. Start with short walks, gentle stretching, or water exercises. o Consistency is Key: Aim for regular, moderate activity rather than sporadic intense workouts. Even 20-30 minutes of walking most days of the week can make a difference. o Consult Your Doctor: Always discuss your exercise plans with your doctor or physiotherapist, especially if you have an autoimmune condition, to ensure they are safe and appropriate for your current health status. • Quality Sleep: Sleep is a restorative process for your body. Lack of sleep can increase inflammation and stress. o Create a Sleep Routine: Go to bed and wake up at roughly the same time each day, even on weekends. o Optimise Your Sleep Environment: Make sure your bedroom is dark, quiet, and cool. o Avoid Screens Before Bed: The blue light emitted from phones, tablets, and computers can interfere with melatonin production, a hormone that regulates sleep.3 o Limit Caffeine and Alcohol: Especially in the hours leading up to bedtime. • Building a Strong Support System: You don't have to face your autoimmune disorder alone. o Connect with Others: Join support groups, either online or in person, where you can share experiences and gain insights from others living with similar conditions. Knowing you're not alone can significantly reduce feelings of isolation and stress. o Communicate with Loved Ones: Talk openly with your family and friends about what you're going through. Educate them about your condition so they can better understand and support you. o Seek Professional Help: If you're struggling with stress, anxiety, or depression, consider speaking to a therapist or counsellor. They can provide coping strategies and emotional support.
Myasthenia Gravis and Holistic Support
For individuals with Myasthenia Gravis, integrating holistic health practices can be particularly empowering. While medication remains the cornerstone of MG treatment, these complementary approaches can significantly improve your quality of life. For instance, managing stress can lead to fewer muscle weakness exacerbations. Gentle exercise can help maintain muscle strength and flexibility without overtaxing your system. A nutritious diet can support your overall energy levels and reduce inflammation. If you are interested in exploring other complementary approaches, you can read more about Natural Remedies For Myasthenia Gravis in our other content. Remember, these holistic strategies are not a replacement for your prescribed medical treatments. Always continue to follow your doctor’s advice and take your medications as directed. However, by embracing a holistic approach, you actively participate in your own well-being. You become an active partner in managing your condition, rather than simply a passive recipient of treatment.
The Path Forward
Recognising and actively addressing the mind-body connection in autoimmune disorders can be a transformative step in your health journey. It’s about empowering yourself with knowledge and practical tools to live a fuller, more balanced life, even with an autoimmune condition. You have a profound capacity to influence your health and well-being. By focusing on stress reduction, nourishing your body through diet and movement, prioritising sleep, and building a strong support system, you actively contribute to calming inflammation and supporting your immune system. Take small, consistent steps, celebrate your progress, and remember that every positive choice you make contributes to your overall health and resilience.
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Why Bell Labs worked so well, and could innovate so much, while today’s innovation, in spite of the huge private funding, goes in hype-and-fizzle cycles that leave relatively little behind, is a question I’ve been asking myself a lot in the past years.
And I think that the author of this article has hit the nail on its head on most of the reasons - but he didn’t take the last step in identifying the root cause.
What Bell Labs achieved within a few decades is probably unprecedented in human history:
They employed folks like Nyquist and Shannon, who laid the foundations of modern information theory and electronic engineering while they were employees at Bell.
They discovered the first evidence of the black hole at the center of our galaxy in the 1930s while analyzing static noise on shortwave transmissions.
They developed in 1937 the first speech codec and the first speech synthesizer.
They developed the photovoltaic cell in the 1940, and the first solar cell in the 1950s.
They built the first transistor in 1947.
They built the first large-scale electronic computers (from Model I in 1939 to Model VI in 1949).
They employed Karnaugh in the 1950s, who worked on the Karnaugh maps that we still study in engineering while he was an employee at Bell.
They contributed in 1956 (together with AT&T and the British and Canadian telephone companies) to the first transatlantic communications cable.
They developed the first electronic musics program in 1957.
They employed Kernighan, Thompson and Ritchie, who created UNIX and the C programming language while they were Bell employees.
And then their rate of innovation suddenly fizzled out after the 1980s.
I often hear that Bell could do what they did because they had plenty of funding. But I don’t think that’s the main reason. The author rightly points out that Google, Microsoft and Apple have already made much more profit than Bell has ever seen in its entire history. Yet, despite being awash with money, none of them has been as impactful as Bell. Nowadays those companies don’t even innovate much besides providing you with a new version of Android, of Windows or the iPhone every now and then. And they jump on the next hype wagon (social media, AR/VR, Blockchain, AI…) just to deliver half-baked products that (especially in Google’s case) are abandoned as soon as the hype bubble bursts.
Let alone singlehandedly spear innovation that can revolutionize an entire industry, let alone make groundbreaking discoveries that engineers will still study a century later.
So what was Bell’s recipe that Google and Apple, despite having much more money and talented people, can’t replicate? And what killed that magic?
Well, first of all Bell and Kelly had an innate talent in spotting the “geekiest” among us. They would often recruit from pools of enthusiasts that had built their own home-made radio transmitters for fun, rather than recruiting from the top business schools, or among those who can solve some very abstract and very standardized HackerRank problems.
And they knew how to manage those people. According to Kelly’s golden rule:
How do you manage genius? You don’t
Bell specifically recruited people that had that strange urge of tinkering and solving big problems, they were given their lab and all the funding that they needed, and they could work in peace. Often it took years before Kelly asked them how their work was progressing.
Compare it to a Ph.D today who needs to struggle for funding, needs to produce papers that get accepted in conferences, regardless of their level of quality, and must spend much more time on paperwork than on actual research.
Or to an engineer in a big tech company that has to provide daily updates about their progress, has to survive the next round of layoffs, has to go through endless loops of compliance, permissions and corporate bureaucracy in order to get anything done, has his/her performance evaluated every 3 months, and doesn’t even have control on what gets shipped - that control has been taken away from engineers and given to PMs and MBA folks.
Compare that way of working with today’s backlogs, metrics, micromanaging and struggle for a dignified salary or a stable job.
We can’t have the new Nyquist, Shannon or Ritchie today simply because, in science and engineering, we’ve moved all the controls away from the passionate technical folks that care about the long-term impact of their work, and handed them to greedy business folks who only care about short-term returns for their investors.
So we ended up with a culture that feels like talent must be managed, even micromanaged, otherwise talented people will start slacking off and spending their days on TikTok.
But, as Kelly eloquently put it:
“What stops a gifted mind from just slacking off?” is the wrong question to ask. The right question is, “Why would you expect information theory from someone who needs a babysitter?”
Or, as Peter Higgs (the Higgs boson guy) put it:
It’s difficult to imagine how I would ever have enough peace and quiet in the present sort of climate to do what I did in 1964… Today I wouldn’t get an academic job. It’s as simple as that. I don’t think I would be regarded as productive enough.
Or, as Shannon himself put it:
I’ve always pursued my interests without much regard for final value or value to the world. I’ve spent lots of time on totally useless things.
So basically the most brilliant minds of the 20th century would be considered lazy slackers today and be put on a PIP because they don’t deliver enough code or write enough papers.
So the article is spot on in identifying why Bell could invent, within a few years, all it did, while Apple, despite having much more money, hasn’t really done anything new in the past decade. MBAs, deadlines, pseudo-objective metrics and short-termism killed scientific inquiry and engineering ingenuity.
But the author doesn’t go one step further and identify the root cause.
It correctly spots the business and organizational issues that exist in managing talent today, but it doesn’t go deeper into their economic roots.
You see, MBA graduates and CEOs didn’t destroy the spirit of scientific and engineering ingenuity spurred by the Industrial Revolution just because they’re evil. I mean, there’s a higher chance for someone who has climbed the whole corporate ladder to be a sociopath than there is for someone you randomly picked from the street, but not to the point where they would willingly tame and screw the most talented minds of their generation, and squeeze them into a Jira board or a metric that looks at the number of commits, out of pure sadism.
They did so because the financial incentives have drastically changed from the times of Bells Labs.
The Bells Labs were basically publicly funded. AT&T operated the telephone lines in the US, paid by everyone who used telephones, and they reinvested a 1% tax into R&D (the Bells Labs). And nobody expected a single dime of profits to come out from the Bells Labs.
And btw, R&D was real R&D with no strings attached at the time. In theory also my employer does R&D today - but we just ended up treating whatever narrow iterative feature requested by whatever random PM as “research and development”. It’s not like scientists have much freedom in what to research or engineers have much freedom in what to develop. R&D programs have mostly just become a way for large businesses to squeeze more money out of taxpayers, put it in their pockets, and not feel any moral obligation of contributing to anything other than their shareholders’ accounts.
And at the time the idea of people paying taxes, so talented people in their country could focus on inventing the computer, the Internet or putting someone on the moon, without the pressure of VCs asking for their dividends, or PMs asking them to migrate everything to another cloud infrastructure by next week, or to a new shiny framework that they’ve just heard in a conference, wasn’t seen as a socialist dystopia. It was before the neoliberal sociopaths of the Chicago school screwed up everything.
The America that invested into the Bell Labs and into the Apollo project was very different from today’s America. It knew that it was the government’s job to foster innovation and to create an environment where genuinely smart people could do great things without external pressure. That America hadn’t yet been infected by the perverse idea that the government should always be small, that it’s not the government’s job to make people’s lives better, and that it was the job of privately funded ventures seeking short-term returns to fund moonshots.
And, since nobody was expecting a dime back from Bell, nobody would put deadlines on talented people, nobody hired unqualified and arrogant business specialists to micromanage them, nobody would put them on a performance improvement plan if they were often late at their daily standups or didn’t commit enough lines of code in the previous quarter. So they had time to focus on how to solve some of the most complex problems that humans ever faced.
So they could invent the transistor, the programming infrastructure still used to this day, and lay the foundations of what engineers study today.
The most brilliant minds of our age don’t have this luxury. So they can’t revolutionarize our world like those in the 20th century did.
Somebody else sets their priorities and their deadlines.
They can’t think of moonshots because they’re forced to work on the next mobile app riding the next wave of hype that their investors want to release to market so they can get even richer.
They have to worry about companies trying to replace them with AI bots and business managers wanting to release products themselves by “vibe coding”, just to ask those smart people to clean up the mess they’ve done, just like babies who are incapable of cleaning up the food they’ve spilled on the floor.
They are seen as a cost, not as a resource. Kelly used to call himself a “patron” rather than a “manager”, and he trusted his employees, while today’s managers and investors mostly see their engineering resources as squishy blobs of flesh standing between their ambitious ideas and their money, and they can’t wait to replace them with robots that just fullfill all of their wishes.
Tech has become all about monetization nowadays and nothing about ingenuity.
As a result, there are way more brilliant minds (and way more money) in our age going towards solving the “convince people to click on this link” problem rather than solving the climate problem, for example.
Then of course they can’t invent the next transistor, or bring the next breakthrough in information theory.
Then of course all you get, after one year of the most brilliant minds of our generation working at the richest company that has ever existed, is just a new iPhone.
Hallowed is the name of Bell Labs. It falls from many an ambitious lip, seeking to conjure forth lost magic for their pet jar. Some zealots go further. They attempt the most venerated of summons — to materialize an Apollo.
As people become managers, it’s quite common for their team members to want to commiserate with them. This is especially true for friendly, competent, reasonable-seeming managers – people want to commiserate with winners.
Dmitry Peskov, Russian President Putin’s press representative, said after Russian and Ukrainian delegations held negotiations June 2 in Istanbul, Türkiye, “Of course, it would be wrong to expect immediate solutions and breakthroughs.
All those dead kids on your social media feed are the fruit of a tree whose seed was planted after the second world war. That tree has been bearing more and more fruit, and it will continue to for as long as it remains standing. Because that's just the kind of tree it is. The only kind of tree it ever could have been.
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When seen as the spicy autocorrect that it is, this LLM behaviour makes so much sense on every level: it has doubtless been trained on zillions examples of people getting called out on BS and rationalising or trying to present the most PR-friendly damage control answer they could. We're basically seeing a somewhat-weighted average of every single fibber confession on the internet… 😐
It's believed that no doctor in US history was ever convicted of crimes based on false fabricated evidence using 40,000 stolen patient records from an entirely different office until Dr. Vilasini Ganesh MD.
As I said elsewhere, Cambridge (home of Harvard) and the rest of Massachusetts, where I live, is part of the front lines of the ICE Wars. They are targeting us, Somerville, Boston, Lowell, Worcester, Medford etc because we have been the most Euro-Friendly State in the country. We have more foreign exchange students than the rest of the country, more visitors and frankly a history of 250+ years of opposing Tyranny. Trump fears us. He has ICE raiding here to try to frighten and suppress potential revolts to his reign of cruelty. Like every dictator he wants to eliminate or control Academia to control the narrative and prevent revolts against his suppression as smart people can see thru his lies, schemes anc crimes. Harvard being the Preeminent Law school in the country is his greatest threat as they are the people who will force justice upon him if lives out this term.
I attended College in Philly, Beaver College was a school that had a good number of Foreign students. In Grad School at Duquesne Univ my first year grad school room-mate was a 50yrs old Indian student, from India. She was getting an extra degree in Childhood Psych. We had fun at first, with her helping me wear one of her Sari's...(however as I was 20yrs old I kept typical College student hours which were not conducive to her studies, so I got a single after that) But I feel for these Foreign students and the BS they are going thru.
If you're using linux and also use brew package manager on your machine, what is your use case? I'm curious why people would use brew in addition to their distribution's native package manager.
I still don't get Docker. Can we see it as a universal package format that works across all systems, kind of? Well in that regard, we also have JavaScript based applications for the web browser and Web Assembly to run locally too.
You can think of Docker and Podman as an almost zero overhead (CPU and RAM) way of running one distribution on another. So, you can run an application in Docker that expects to be running on a different distro from what you use (say Ubuntu Jenkins but actually running on Debian). The environment that the applications run in are called “containers”. Mostly they contain the filesystem layout and application libraries that the app expects.
Docker itself is designed to sandbox the application away from your host system. A related technology, Distrobox, uses the same containers but in a way that the applications know they are running on your system with full access to your display manager and home directory.
I run an Arch Distrobox on every distro that I use. This allows me full access to all the Arch repos and the AUR even on other distros ( eg. Alpine, Chinese Linux, or Debian).
Flatpak also uses containers and so you can consider Distrobox as a Flatpak alternative. Flatpak containers are not the same as those that Docker uses but they rely on the same underlying Linux kernel features to do what they do. In Flatpak, you are essentially running the Freedesktop distro on top of your host distro (so much like Distrobox with the guest distro chosen for you).
whoever says pacman is enough either have all the time in the Universe to configure the miniscule knobs or have never done serious development with multi-platform/compiler deployments. controlling which compilers are used for which packages in pacman (or any other default package manager for that matter) is a headache. having multiple versions of non-conflicting gcc, llvm, cuda etc is priceless and very easy with brew.
elitism aside, brew is genuinely a good package manager when it comes to imperative ones. I still use it on my desktop arch extensively. ofc, if you have nix, there is really no good reason for it (and I'm not even sure it's possible).
PS. "but you can use docker" -- not if you want to have the same performance especially on GPUs. also have you ever tried containerizing HIP? it's a frigging nightmare.
The world continues to look more and more like the beginning of a dystopian sci-fi/horror and the freakiest thing is that so many are still oblivious youtube.com/watch?v=CqNwYbnuk3…
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>> The new resolution, seen by AFP, "demands an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza respected by all parties."
>> It also calls for the "immediate, dignified and unconditional release of all hostages held by Hamas and other groups."
>> … the resolution additionally demands the lifting of all restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
>> It will be put to vote at 4:00 pm Wednesday (2000 GMT), but several diplomats indicated to AFP that they expected the United States to wield its veto power.
>> They added that the representatives from the 10 elected members of the Council, who will introduce the text, tried in vain to negotiate with the American side…
UNITED STATES: The UN Security Council will vote Wednesday on a resolution calling for a ceasefire and unrestricted humanitarian access in Gaza, a measure expec
There is absolutely nothing to stop the UN from disbanding the current UNSC and forming a new one without the United States, or at the very least stripping Russia and the US of their veto powers. Even if it was formed as part of the UN charter then hell, fucking change the charter! Rip the fucking charter up and start something new that reflects today's reality and not the reality of 80 years ago. 2025 is a vastly different world than 1945.
>> The new resolution, seen by AFP, "demands an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza respected by all parties."
>> It also calls for the "immediate, dignified and unconditional release of all hostages held by Hamas and other groups."
>> … the resolution additionally demands the lifting of all restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
>> It will be put to vote at 4:00 pm Wednesday (2000 GMT), but several diplomats indicated to AFP that they expected the United States to wield its veto power.
>> They added that the representatives from the 10 elected members of the Council, who will introduce the text, tried in vain to negotiate with the American side…
UNITED STATES: The UN Security Council will vote Wednesday on a resolution calling for a ceasefire and unrestricted humanitarian access in Gaza, a measure expec
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Exciting night here in So. Cal. We are having a storm full of lightning, thunder and hail. An unusual occurrence here. Lightning hit two different Palm trees and was very low. Power out in places and flash floods. My son lives in Wichita and they are having the same.
"As someone who has spent their entire career and most of their life participating and creating online, this sucks. It feels like someone just harvested lumber from a forest I helped grow, and now wants to sell me the furniture they made with it."
"It’s worth saying it out loud as an affirmation: making things is not about the destination, but about the journey. The journey is what you put into creation: the thought, the mistakes, the sweat, the time, the lived experiences, the refinement in technique. What you get back is knowledge. The output is an artifact of that knowledge. When you get that artifact without the journey, you make nothing, you learn nothing."
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@Pacific NW Viking I wouldn't count it as a Good movie but it certainly was widely watched, "Grease". That said, only movie I really enjoyed that he was in was Pulp Fiction.
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