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PICARD: Data, shields up
DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.
[camera shakes]
WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS
DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't
Stop a statin and your LDL cholesterol rises 30% in four days. Nobody writes a WSJ feature about it. Stop certain blood pressure medications and your BP can spike within hours. Nobody calls it a design flaw.
Levothyroxine, antidepressants, insulin, metformin, antihistamines. Chronic treatments for chronic conditions, and all of them stop working when you stop taking them. None of them generate think-pieces questioning whether patients should have started.
The AMA classified obesity as a disease in 2013. Thirteen years later, it’s still the only chronic condition where “you have to take it forever” is framed as an argument against treatment rather than a description of how medicine works.
@GergelyOrosz AI-washing over hiring, plus tokens cost a lot of money which needs to come from somewhere (not the annual new mega yacht fund, of course)
Meta laying off 10% of staff when revenue is at an all-time high, revenue growth is a beast (33% YoY!!), profits at an all-time high:
just depressing
These layoffs are not because Meta needs to lay off, but because Zuck wanted to lay off for whatever reason
it’s in gemini, just create it in ai studio. oh, that’s for your personal google one account. for workspace you need gemini business. no, not gemini advanced, that’s ai pro now. unless you need ai ultra. oh agents? you do that in spark actually. no, not gemini api managed agents, that’s different. for coding use jules. unless you mean the agentic ide, that’s antigravity. no, that’s the old antigravity, download the new one. actually gemini cli is being deprecated, use antigravity cli. no the flash model is smarter than the pro model. unless you need pro. if it’s video, use flow. no, flow uses veo. no, nano banana is images. actually that’s in gemini now. unless you’re in search, then it’s ai mode. no, research is notebooklm. anyway it’s all very simple.
@girlie_mac I didn’t know that seals came in the color green, but my AI assistant says that’s a natural thing to happen until they molt, show their dark coat again, and the cycle begins anew.
@maiab Nodding my head in agreement.
Folks don’t understand that ‘smart + hard working’ is just a part of the preparation. It’s table stakes, not a differentiator.
The differentiator is the ‘luck’. Which only matters if the ‘smart’ + ‘hard work’ has been put in already.
@AlexH_Johnson What if there was…a system for warning early, which was available for banks?
That would help them…clear the house.
Just my two cents. (I’ll see myself out)
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