I think it's real. During a colonoscopy under "twilight" medication, the doc used a large overhead screen. I was high as a kite, but in fact the trip through my colon looked like artwork. Brightly colored.
I don't think there's any question AI was used, the videographer admits to such. But he says it was done in post processing, which seems to me an appropriate use of the tech: you know, for recoloring to better visualize the process. I didn't realize it was at all controversial.
Because my mind clings to stuff with the indifference of flypaper, relevant? Irrelevant? Useful? Doesn't matter! I read "all about small" and recalled Steve Martin's comedic effort 𝘓𝘦𝘵'𝘴 𝘎𝘦𝘵 𝘚𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭, which holds the blame for "Well, 𝘌𝘹𝘤𝘶uuuuuse 𝘔𝘌!" becoming what it became, even without intertubes.
I couldn't possibly hold that against Dr. Ning Xu, because his work is brilliant. 𝘐𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, I might add, if I was shameless
Ken Paxton's pedophile network is much bigger than the Epstein files. This article uncovers a lot of corruption in TX govt and religious organizations. I believe most Texans reject corruption of this magnitude, especially hurting children. It's sickening.
Everybody's talking about what a disgrace Trump was at the Ohio rally, but for real terror I suggest everybody read the Times interview transcript. He's got the codes, folks.
Republican ad buys are getting desperate. We saw Ken Paxton ads on the NFL game between the Eagles and the Rams, and Cally saw Jon Husted ads during the Guardians/White Sox playoff game on Saturday.
They're throwing money at *national* programs (at inflated buy rates because sports) for statewide races. The ROI can't be worth it.
They're already going ad buys on local stations during non-sports programming, when viewership is low.
The only way they could do geographically targeted ad buys during a network broadcast would be the local station breaks. They would have to line up the ad buys on the local outlets and, because they're only a limited number during a live sports broadcast, they might not have been able to book some or many of the local stations's breaks.
So, yeah, more expensive, but it might have been their only option to cover the entire state during a game.
"I would say Donald Trump is probably at this point in his term the least popular Republican president since Herbert Hoover" -- Enten details how Trump is down 20 points of approval in Kansas relative to his first term
Brazil’s presidential election, between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro, son of the coup-throwing Jair Bolsonaro, buddy of the Trumps and tyrants globally, is going to a runoff, because neither garnered a majority of the vote. So that is very bad.
He was explaining to me that Jair Bolsonaro has FOUR FUCKING SONS - Flávio running for President; Carlos got elected senator in a state he doesn’t live in (defeating another right wing senator); Eduardo - got elected to Brazil’s congress and “Jair Renan Bolsonaro” who enjoys political asylum in the United States. ALSO Jair Bolsonaro’s wife (former First Lady) Michelle Bolsonaro is elected to Brazil’s senate.
My friend very unhappy with all of this - feels like Flávio will win and free his father from jail.
Seen in San Francisco: A Halloween display in which a skeleton Prince Charming appears to have been stabbed by a sword-wielding skeleton hot chick, who offers the glass slipper to a skeleton Cinderella reclining in her carriage.
Ted Nugent is having some buyer's remorse. Turns out "owning the libs" feels a little different when the policies you voted for start hitting your own interests.
Tillis is some piece of work - he voted for all of the cabinet nominations, he voted for Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barret, he voted against KB Jackson, he voted against impeachment conviction for Jan 6th, and NOW he's worried about executive branch overreach?
Look in the mirror to see what the problem is and go fuck yourself you spineless buffoon
Out of the blue last week, I received a text from someone unknown that said Dr. Fauci was on the Nobel list. I thought that's a giant f-u to Donald, it would be so fitting. Mark Carnie (sp) would also make his head explode. And Donald will be shocked he doesn't get the award again, what with all those unnamed wars he's ended.
They should do a Razzie version of the Nobels. Just give him 12 plastic spray painted gold trinkets of a middle finger. “Congratulations you represented the complete opposite type of success that the Nobel Prize likes to recognize”
LOL, I watched Donnie Darko last night and one of the great scenes is when he tells his crazy gym teacher to shove the instructional curriculum up her ass.
"Oh, how charming. That was Donny, at a campaign rally last night in Vandalia, Ohio — and he’s closing the deal by promising that things will get shoved up asses. How nice!
Donny’s rancid anus-mouth has always been a ticking time bomb — but at least he kind of used to keep it barely civil, more or less. Not any more. His rapidly-advancing dementia has collapsed his cortex to the point where all the filters have gone fuckity-bye. Now, you never know how low Donny might go.
It's all about small this week. Your hed gif explainer: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/the-abnormal-beating-of-airway-cilia
And also, a meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/9490c943-0640-44fb-95b3-5694eb4e76fe
confused cilia
Very cool.
Y’all are gonna hate me 🎶 cecilia, you breaking my heart 🎶
I was serenaded with this song until I was in highschool. Cecelia was my paternal grandmother's name and my middle name.
Celia was my Mom’s name and her bestie used to do the same.
(giggles)
He blinded me with SCIENCE!!!
I dream of membranes
With the light green cilia . . .
There is controversy over whether AI was somehow used for the cilia video: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck4gjn1yzprno
I think it's real. During a colonoscopy under "twilight" medication, the doc used a large overhead screen. I was high as a kite, but in fact the trip through my colon looked like artwork. Brightly colored.
I don't think there's any question AI was used, the videographer admits to such. But he says it was done in post processing, which seems to me an appropriate use of the tech: you know, for recoloring to better visualize the process. I didn't realize it was at all controversial.
The problem is that you can't trust AI to limit itself to one specific task.
Because my mind clings to stuff with the indifference of flypaper, relevant? Irrelevant? Useful? Doesn't matter! I read "all about small" and recalled Steve Martin's comedic effort 𝘓𝘦𝘵'𝘴 𝘎𝘦𝘵 𝘚𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭, which holds the blame for "Well, 𝘌𝘹𝘤𝘶uuuuuse 𝘔𝘌!" becoming what it became, even without intertubes.
I couldn't possibly hold that against Dr. Ning Xu, because his work is brilliant. 𝘐𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, I might add, if I was shameless
"One time I got really small, crawled inside a vacuum cleaner.
"And then the drugs wore off."
The mucus must flow.
Cilia is as cilia does
Teeny tiny indeed.
I am glad to hear there were ever any principled people in Sam Alito’s life, and that they hurt his feelings by ceasing to be in his life.
Ken Paxton's pedophile network is much bigger than the Epstein files. This article uncovers a lot of corruption in TX govt and religious organizations. I believe most Texans reject corruption of this magnitude, especially hurting children. It's sickening.
https://bsky.app/profile/super-joe-man.bsky.social/post/3mx3hbynxb22w
Everybody's talking about what a disgrace Trump was at the Ohio rally, but for real terror I suggest everybody read the Times interview transcript. He's got the codes, folks.
Republican ad buys are getting desperate. We saw Ken Paxton ads on the NFL game between the Eagles and the Rams, and Cally saw Jon Husted ads during the Guardians/White Sox playoff game on Saturday.
They're throwing money at *national* programs (at inflated buy rates because sports) for statewide races. The ROI can't be worth it.
They're already going ad buys on local stations during non-sports programming, when viewership is low.
The only way they could do geographically targeted ad buys during a network broadcast would be the local station breaks. They would have to line up the ad buys on the local outlets and, because they're only a limited number during a live sports broadcast, they might not have been able to book some or many of the local stations's breaks.
So, yeah, more expensive, but it might have been their only option to cover the entire state during a game.
Fair point, but no one in Texas was watching the Eagles-Rams game. They got Cowboys-Texans instead.
"I would say Donald Trump is probably at this point in his term the least popular Republican president since Herbert Hoover" -- Enten details how Trump is down 20 points of approval in Kansas relative to his first term
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mx4wv56ma22f
Enjoy this bit now since Bari Weiss will probably fire Enten once she gets the keys to CNN!
I slept late and had upsetting, disturbing dreams.
well, here I am.
I wish for you something sweet and lovely, this day.
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Brazil’s presidential election, between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro, son of the coup-throwing Jair Bolsonaro, buddy of the Trumps and tyrants globally, is going to a runoff, because neither garnered a majority of the vote. So that is very bad.
•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•
I have a Brazilian friend studying in the US -
He was explaining to me that Jair Bolsonaro has FOUR FUCKING SONS - Flávio running for President; Carlos got elected senator in a state he doesn’t live in (defeating another right wing senator); Eduardo - got elected to Brazil’s congress and “Jair Renan Bolsonaro” who enjoys political asylum in the United States. ALSO Jair Bolsonaro’s wife (former First Lady) Michelle Bolsonaro is elected to Brazil’s senate.
My friend very unhappy with all of this - feels like Flávio will win and free his father from jail.
It's comforting, in a really terrifying way, that the US is not the only country filled with STUPIDS.
Seen in San Francisco: A Halloween display in which a skeleton Prince Charming appears to have been stabbed by a sword-wielding skeleton hot chick, who offers the glass slipper to a skeleton Cinderella reclining in her carriage.
https://bsky.app/profile/corvid-opera.bsky.social/post/3mx2ooh45pc2i
I'd read that fairy tale.
VERY SF!!!
Guess who else is sorry?
Would you believe...TED NUGENT????
Ted Nugent is having some buyer's remorse. Turns out "owning the libs" feels a little different when the policies you voted for start hitting your own interests.
https://bsky.app/profile/iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social/post/3mx3r7tvnts2c
Sorry for what, loser? The little bit I watched was sorry for all the wrong reasons.
WHARS MY MONEY????? (fuck off ted)
Blah blah blah all those POC, trans kids, women, immigrants, the environment…who cares! But hey, my money! GFY Ted
fuck that guy
With a red hot crowbar.
I see he still has a "face". I guess the leopards haven't finished yet.
"Spooky season rolls around and everyone thinks they are Dracula."
https://bsky.app/profile/philoof.bsky.social/post/3mwyktebuvs27 (sound up)
Terrifyingly adorable!
"Listen to them, the luv-muffins of the night. What squeaking they make!"
trump/FOX, pissing each other off. Parasites attacking each other. Makes me smile!
Women's basketball? Land of Hopes and Dreams tour? Jack Smith is going to find himself the target of trump's secret police.
He probably already is and knows it.
Tillis is some piece of work - he voted for all of the cabinet nominations, he voted for Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barret, he voted against KB Jackson, he voted against impeachment conviction for Jan 6th, and NOW he's worried about executive branch overreach?
Look in the mirror to see what the problem is and go fuck yourself you spineless buffoon
The Nobels are being announced this week, bad news for Trump and an excuse to rain more abuse on we poor mortals.
But he ended eight wars and only started two, so he should win for peace and math.
That eight wars thing is such a lie (I know you know). Too hard to untangle for the true believers, I never should have tried.
Out of the blue last week, I received a text from someone unknown that said Dr. Fauci was on the Nobel list. I thought that's a giant f-u to Donald, it would be so fitting. Mark Carnie (sp) would also make his head explode. And Donald will be shocked he doesn't get the award again, what with all those unnamed wars he's ended.
Fauci is very deserving, I would have guessed he'd won one before, both for his Covid work and his fight against AIDS.
They should do a Razzie version of the Nobels. Just give him 12 plastic spray painted gold trinkets of a middle finger. “Congratulations you represented the complete opposite type of success that the Nobel Prize likes to recognize”
Give him a gold turd and call it the "Not so noble POS prize"
we already gave him a RAZZIE for his "performance" in...GHOSTS CAN'T DO IT!
If Mark Carney gets the Peace Prize, it was nice knowing you all.
"NUKE CANADA!"
-Trumpf
I'm pulling for Mark.
Hard to believe someone with one of the highest IQs in the world who knows everything about everything can't get a Nobel.
Shocking.
you don't think he's going to sweep them this year?
You funny, Nurse!
It's Banned Books Week!
Read something *they don't want you to*!
https://www.ala.org/bbooks/banned
𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘇𝗻𝗶𝘁 𝗙𝘂𝗰𝗸𝘄𝗶𝘁: 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗮 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗼𝗻, 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗲, 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗿. 𝗟𝗲𝘁 𝘂𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀.
𝘈𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘵 𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘴.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-218667870
LOL, I watched Donnie Darko last night and one of the great scenes is when he tells his crazy gym teacher to shove the instructional curriculum up her ass.
"Oh, how charming. That was Donny, at a campaign rally last night in Vandalia, Ohio — and he’s closing the deal by promising that things will get shoved up asses. How nice!
Donny’s rancid anus-mouth has always been a ticking time bomb — but at least he kind of used to keep it barely civil, more or less. Not any more. His rapidly-advancing dementia has collapsed his cortex to the point where all the filters have gone fuckity-bye. Now, you never know how low Donny might go.
So we’ve got that going for us. Which is nice."