Never, ever, take a medication holiday without prior authorization from your psychiatrist and certainly not when you're outside the padded room and have access to the internet.

Healthcare is expensive largely because skilled physicians are scarce. Whether that's due to the difficulty of medical training, limited medical school capacity, or both, the result is the same: there are far fewer qualified surgeons than there are people who need them. Scarcity drives up the value of their time.
Imagine a world where anyone could become a competent brain surgeon simply by reading "Brain Surgery for Dummies". In that world, surgical labor would be as abundant as barbering, and the cost of surgery would approach the cost of a haircut. (Incidentally, barbers were the original surgeons.)
Humanoid robots and AI could move us close to that scenario. If a robot can reliably execute the physical motions of surgery under the guidance of a highly capable model, then the scarcity shifts from human dexterity to software. We've already seen early demonstrations, such as a gallbladder surgery performed using a Unitree G1 humanoid robot. Assuming robotic hand dexterity continues to improve over the next five years, it's plausible that the countdown to the obsolescence of manual surgery will begin around 2031. On that timeline, human-performed surgery could become the exception rather than the norm within roughly fifteen years—around 2046.
By that point, the same humanoid robot that unclogs your toile and performs household repairs could also perform highly specialized surgery ---and give you a haircut. Strangely, the robotic haircut sounds more scary than the brain surgery.
One counterargument is that the AI models capable of performing neurosurgery will be proprietary and tightly controlled by a handful of corporations. But it's not obvious that such a monopoly would be sustainable. The history of AI suggests otherwise. Today, there are high-quality open-source models across many domains. A company might maintain a lead for a few years, but eventually open alternatives emerge. Just as Nvidia released its self-driving reasoning model Alpamayo as open source, it's easy to imagine a consortium of surgeons, universities, or nonprofits releasing open-source surgical models. Once that happens, the software behind expert surgery becomes broadly accessible, and the economics of healthcare change fundamentally.

A different group showed that the whole transplant can be done autonomously with no human involvement. Reference: https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/07/09...

They overhyped Mythos/Fable and it got banned temporarily. They really suck at the fine line between getting the benefits of marketing your product as able destroy world and getting it banned because you said it can destroy the world.

Why are there so many contact binaries, seems odd.

News at 11.

Samsung should get into the robotics and reusable rockets business ASAP.

Ask your girlfriend.

Which one:
"I did it, but it is not illegal to destroy cameras."
"I did it, but I'm insane."
"I'm a nice guy, find me not guilty (even though both you and I know I'm guilty legally *wink* *wink*) because I don't deserve the punishment."
"It was self-defense."
"I didn't do it."

Isn't that a Thai girls name? Well, I hope it was a girl.

First, buy an e-Ink display..

WTF? We all know that once you have the panel you just make a frame and hook up a compute device and HDMI or whatever to it. I thought the article was going to explain how to DIY make an e-Ink panel from scratch using a matrix of chewing gum, cat piss, and squid ink or whatever.

Nice trick, I spent 31 minutes looking for the control group.

The immune system is tuned to treat anything different as enemy. Viruses are successful when they closely mimic a legit biological process .. meaning if there is something wildly different the immune system can lock onto it easier not harder.

No. My point is that the Republicans either don't think that far ahead or don't mind killing the golden goose because they feel their base is too dumb to remember and they can wing it if/when the time comes. Democrats meanwhile think too much.

References:
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/...
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/d...