So, the big news I’ve been hinting at was finally fully confirmed yesterday: I got a new job! Huzzah! As such, starting Monday, I’m likely not going to have the time to consume enough random media to write about it daily. I’m thinking I’m going to transition to a weekly summary, with more items in it, that sums up some of the top bits I’ve read, watched, or otherwise consumed throughout that week. We’ll see though, I’m playing all of this pretty much by ear.
Inputs
1: Everyone’s favorite rascal in a tree stump, Punxsutawney Phil, emerged from his hovel and, for the first time since 2020, did not see his shadow. Good work, rodent!
2: In positive news for those beholden to artificial insulin to survive, it looks like another startup biomedical firm is launching to increase insulin production at lower prices.
The patent to the process of creating artificial insulin was given to the world. Afterward, various “improvements” have been patented and used to drive costs in the US to astronomical levels. Anyone seeking to crater this continual injustice is a friend of the people, and one I’m happy to see succeed. Fuck the greedy drug companies, as well as America’s asinine belief that medicine is some sort of free market. The supply is life, the demand is the prevention of pain and death, and any ghoul who insists on squeezing the lifeblood of America into outsized profit deserves our scorn and our shame.
3: In what might be the most Borgesian thing I’ve seen this week, a guy made a .pdf larger than the universe. Specifically, 37 trillion light years square. The map is most assuredly not the territory, and damned if folding it back up again wouldn’t be tricky.