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HEAD QUARTERS MORRIS TOWN 12TH MARCH 1777 Sir You are hereby required immediately to send me an exact return of your regiment, and to send all your recruits, who have had the small pox to join the Army. Those, who have not, are to be sent to Philadelphia, and put under the direction of the commanding officer there, who will have them inoculated. You are to leave a sufficient number of proper officers to carry on the recruiting service, who are to bring up their men as soon as they are ready. No pleas, of delay, on account of the dispersion of the officers can be admitted, as every commanding officer ought to know where his inferior officers are, and they what recruits they have, and where they are to be found. You are to remain at Philadelphia, to procure arms clothing &c., and send on, your Major to Camp, to receive your detachments. Your Lieut. Colonel is also to come on, as soon as circumstances will permit. I am Sir Your most humble servant Go: Washington George Washington wrote this letter to Lt. Colonel David Grier on March 12, 1777. In it, Washington instructs Grier to send new soldiers to Philadelphia so they could be inoculated for smallpox. Washington wanted to make sure that his troops were not affected by disease, and he believed that inoculation would help with that. So, just before this letter was written, Washington created a mandated system of inoculating his soldiers.
George Washington wrote this letter to Lt. Col. David Grier on March 12, 1777. In it, Washington instructs Grier to send new soldiers to Philadelphia so they could be inoculated for smallpox... just before this letter was written, Washington created a mandated system of inoculating his soldiers."
On an autism-Alzheimer’s “link”: @ejwillingham.bsky.social writes, “it’s a flimsily constructed just-so story that presents half-truths as whole, especially when the whole truth contradicts the implication that autism & Alzheimer’s disease overlap in causes and effects.”
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If one more person wanted to sign up for my Patreon today, that would be very cool and nice.
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Being young
From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks
I've noticed a trend on this platform a lot where people don't do alt text for a lot of things (obviously) but they ESPECIALLY don't do it for graphs and charts. Y'know: the visual data that the general public MOST OFTEN need explained and contextualized? So that's kind of weird.
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
Oh, and Thin Man movies. For sure.
Like, probably weirdly, but almost any of the John Wicks or Equalizers, a lot of Seth Rogen & Ben Stiller movies, or almost any Jane Austen adaptation (some exceptions). Also any Poirot w/Suchet, Holmes w/Brett, Marple w/Joan Hickson, & any Murder She Wrote (broad interp of "film," I know)
I read something not-that-article about this (sorry, hours ago and can't remember which outlet) and China is ALL IN on combining this tech with AI, and I do not for one minute believe that it's to capture the Big Household Laundry market.
yes
U.S. Navy destroyer repeatedly warned an Iranian-flagged cargo ship to stop over a six-hour period on Sunday before firing on the ship's engine room, disabling the Iran-bound vessel to allow helicopter-borne Marines to board and seize it, U.S. Central Command said in a statement. When the crew of the Touska, the Iranian ship, ignored the American warnings, a destroyer fired its MK 45 gun into the cargo ship's engine room, Central Command said. On Sunday, Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit were conducting a search of the vessel, which is now in American custody. 1 hour ago
One of the most blatant examples of sane-washing I've ever seen from the NYT.
This was an unarmed cargo vessel in international waters, crewed by noncombatants!
Sigh
The technical achievement here isn't the speed, it's the motion. Mechanical running is hard
100% gotta be a fact that China is pouring investment into biped robots+AI so they can sell to the household chores market and not for, well, any other reason.
Love to those posts with "alt-text" that ... contain zero description of the image. Just something like "copy of the letter" or "image from the movie" or whatever. Bait-and-switch like that is somehow more offensive than just not doing it at all tbh
No, but I was thinking more gaining access in ways that drones can't. Not Robocop but more Swiss-army-knife agile than drones w/more native compute. Wheels can't do many things that bipeds w/arms &presumably opposable thumbs could, potentially. Obv China not just into "runs faster than people"
Thanks for the condescending reply. Really makes me want to follow the links to information I already know.
OK, so imagine it armed with AI and a weapon and running faster than you. Bc that seems the likelier endgame here, in more ways than one
“A male, later identified as Zachariah Branch, continued to stand on the sidewalk without making an attempt to move,” said Branch’s police report via x.com. “I continued to give Zachariah Branch verbal commands to move from blocking the sidewalk and advised that if he did not, he would receive a citation for blocking the sidewalk. Zachariah Branch smirked, then stepped backwards and to the right, then remained standing upon the public sidewalk, so as to obstruct, hinder, and impede free passage upon the sidewalk as well as impede free ingress/egress to or from the adjacent places of business. Due to those actions and Zachariah Branch’s failure to comply with multiple verbal lawful commands, he was placed under arrest for misdemeanor Obstruction of LEO and received a citation for Obstructing Public Sidewalks.”
with alt-text
YALL.
There is a charitable organization in Chicago that donates books to women’s prisons. My boyfriend introduced me to it!!!
Yall support!! This is AMAZING. Women’s prisons do NOT get anywhere near the donations men’s do. That’s why my own organization exists.
LINK HERE: www.cbwp.org
Yes, both things. Some cautious promise and enormous, terrifying peril
Feels like this paper on protein-templated DNA synthesis by a natural enzyme warrants some comment.
So here's a 🧵. /1
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
V cool breakdown of discovery of a polymerase swapping in its own residues as nucleotide template to synthesize AC repeat. Not really inversion of central dogma from prot—>DNA as the template for the protein is not the result but v cool variation on themes. Like a kind of biochem nucleotide mimicry
Those of us doing research related to women’s health have been hit particularly hard by the govt’s sabotage of the NIH. I spoke to WaPo for this piece, as painful as it was to discuss the reality my lab is facing. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...
I mean, give it a weapon along with the AI and now it’s a Terminator that can outrun you
Yes, in reading about what they really can do (and it's not the time as much as it is bipedal/agile mobility on uneven terrain), and the expected combination with AI, and China's emphasis on both, well, the long-term prospects are dystopian AF.
Honestly in my reporting of this all I could think was: I really think I need people to be a little more afraid of needles.
Not afraid of needles, but more cautious of INJECTING RANDOM UNTESTED SHIT INTO YOURSELF.
Stuff that isn't just unapproved, but actually banned!
Wait until they hear about the other really fast bi- machines. They're called bicycles.
But really -- these successfully and rapidly covered 13+ miles over uneven terrain, etc., raising quite the specter of robot troops, SWATs, and worse, which I don't much like visualizing
