#Pathology database

[77datasblog]

Contribution of the Pathology Labs and Diagnostic Centres

1. Diagnostic Support to Healthcare System:

Pathology Labs and Diagnostic Centres are the fundamental pillar of India’s healthcare system. Their main contribution is to provide timely and correct treatment through accurate diagnosis. Tests like blood test, urine test, X-ray, MRI, CT scan, ultrasound help doctors in making correct treatment plan.

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2. Contribution in Economic Growth and Employment Generation:

It is the best way to get employment to lakhs of peoples and students like pathologists, radiologists, lab technicians, administrative staff, and sample collection executives. The diagnostic sector is growing rapidly due to private investments, franchise models, and the increasing role of health-tech startups. It generate ancillary, industries  like medical equipment, logistic, software development and more.

3. Rural Healthcare Access and Health Awareness:

Pathology labs and diagnostic centres are now expanding their network to tier 2–3 cities and rural areas. Healthcare reach is improving even in remote areas through mobile diagnostic vans, home collection services, and digital reporting.

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[mostlysignssomeportents]

Google’s new phones can’t stop phoning home

On OCTOBER 23 at 7PM, I'll be in DECATUR, presenting my novel THE BEZZLE at EAGLE EYE BOOKS.

One of the most brazen lies of Big Tech is that people like commercial surveillance, a fact you can verify for yourself by simply observing how many people end up using products that spy on them. If they didn't like spying, they wouldn't opt into being spied on.

This lie has spread to the law enforcement and national security agencies, who treasure Big Tech's surveillance as an off-the-books trove of warrantless data that no court would ever permit them to gather on their own. Back in 2017, I found myself at SXSW, debating an FBI agent who was defending the Bureau's gigantic facial recognition database, which, he claimed, contained the faces of virtually every American:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/mar/11/sxsw-facial-recognition-biometrics-surveillance-panel

The agent insisted that the FBI had acquired all those faces through legitimate means, by accessing public sources of people's faces. In other words, we'd all opted in to FBI facial recognition surveillance. "Sure," I said, "to opt out, just don't have a face."

This pathology is endemic to neoliberal thinking, which insists that all our political matters can be reduced to economic ones, specifically, the kind of economic questions that can be mathematically modeled and empirically tested. It would be great if all our thorniest problems could be solved like mathematical equations.

Unfortunately, there are key elements of these systems that can't be reliably quantified and turned into mathematical operators, especially power. The fact that someone did something tells you nothing about whether they chose to do so – to understand whether someone was coerced or made a free choice, you have to consider the power relationships involved.

Conservatives hate this idea. They want to live in a neat world of "revealed preferences," where the fact that you're working in a job where you're regularly exposed to carcinogens, or that you've stayed with a spouse who beats the shit out of you, or that you're homeless, or that you're addicted to Oxy, is a matter of choice. Monopolies exist because we all love the monopolist's product best, not because they've got monopoly power. Jobs that pay starvation wages exist because people want to work full time for so little money that they need food-stamps just to survive. Intervening in any of these situations is "woke paternalism," where the government thinks it knows better than you and intervenes to take away your right to consume unsafe products, get maimed at work, or have your jaw broken by your husband.

Which is why neoliberals insist that politics should be reduced to economics, and that economics should be carried out as if power didn't exist:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/05/farrago/#jeffty-is-five

Nowhere is this stupid trick more visible than in the surveillance fight. For example, Google claims that it tracks your location because you asked it to, by using Google products that make use of your location without clicking an opt out button.

In reality, Google has the power to simply ignore your preferences about location tracking. In 2021, the Arizona Attorney General's privacy case against Google yielded a bunch of internal memos, including memos from Google's senior product manager for location services Jen Chai complaining that she had turned off location tracking in three places and was still being tracked:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/01/you-are-here/#goog

Multiple googlers complained about this: they'd gone through dozens of preference screens, hunting for "don't track my location" checkboxes, and still they found that they were being tracked. These were people who worked under Chai on the location services team. If the head of that team, and her subordinates, couldn't figure out how to opt out of location tracking, what chance did you have?

Despite all this, I've found myself continuing to use stock Google Pixel phones running stock Google Android. There were three reasons for this:

First and most importantly: security. While I worry about Google tracking me, I am as worried (or more) about foreign governments, random hackers, and dedicated attackers gaining access to my phone. Google's appetite for my personal data knows no bounds, but at least the company is serious about patching defects in the Pixel line.

Second: coercion. There are a lot of apps that I need to run – to pay for parking, say, or to access my credit union or control my rooftop solar – that either won't run on jailbroken Android phones or require constant tweaking to keep running.

Finally: time. I already have the equivalent of three full time jobs and struggle every day to complete my essential tasks, including managing complex health issues and being there for my family. The time I take out of my schedule to actively manage a de-Googled Android would come at the expense of either my professional or personal life.

And despite Google's enshittificatory impulses, the Pixels are reliably high-quality, robust phones that get the hell out of the way and let me do my job. The Pixels are Google's flagship electronic products, and the company acts like it.

Until now.

A new report from Cybernews reveals just how much data the next generation Pixel 9 phones collect and transmit to Google, without any user intervention, and in defiance of the owner's express preferences to the contrary:

https://cybernews.com/security/google-pixel-9-phone-beams-data-and-awaits-commands/

The Pixel 9 phones home every 15 minutes, even when it's not in use, sharing "location, email address, phone number, network status, and other telemetry." Additionally, every 40 minutes, the new Pixels transmit "firmware version, whether connected to WiFi or using mobile data, the SIM card Carrier, and the user’s email address." Even further, even if you've never opened Google Photos, the phone contacts Google Photos’ Face Grouping API at regular intervals. Another process periodically contacts Google's Voice Search servers, even if you never use Voice Search, transmitting "the number of times the device was restarted, the time elapsed since powering on, and a list of apps installed on the device, including the sideloaded ones."

All of this is without any consent. Or rather, without any consent beyond the "revealed preference" of just buying a phone from Google ("to opt out, don't have a face").

What's more, the Cybernews report probably undercounts the amount of passive surveillance the Pixel 9 undertakes. To monitor their testbench phone, Cybernews had to root it and install Magisk, a monitoring tool. In order to do that, they had to disable the AI features that Google touts as the centerpiece of Pixel 9. AI is, of course, notoriously data-hungry and privacy invasive, and all the above represents the data collection the Pixel 9 undertakes without any of its AI nonsense.

It just gets worse. The Pixel 9 also routinely connects to a "CloudDPC" server run by Google. Normally, this is a server that an enterprise customer would connect its employees' devices to, allowing the company to push updates to employees' phones without any action on their part. But Google has designed the Pixel 9 so that privately owned phones do the same thing with Google, allowing for zero-click, no-notification software changes on devices that you own.

This is the kind of measure that works well, but fails badly. It assumes that the risk of Pixel owners failing to download a patch outweighs the risk of a Google insider pushing out a malicious update. Why would Google do that? Well, perhaps a rogue employee wants to spy on his ex-girlfriend:

https://www.wired.com/2010/09/google-spy/

Or maybe a Google executive wins an internal power struggle and decrees that Google's products should be made shittier so you need to take more steps to solve your problems, which generates more chances to serve ads:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/#prabhakar-raghavan

Or maybe Google capitulates to an authoritarian government who orders them to install a malicious update to facilitate a campaign of oppressive spying and control:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine)

Indeed, merely by installing a feature that can be abused this way, Google encourages bad actors to abuse it. It's a lot harder for a government or an asshole executive to demand a malicious downgrade of a Google product if users have to accept that downgrade before it takes effect. By removing that choice, Google has greased the skids for malicious downgrades, from both internal and external sources.

Google will insist that these anti-features – both the spying and the permissionless updating – are essential, that it's literally impossible to imagine building a phone that doesn't do these things. This is one of Big Tech's stupidest gambits. It's the same ruse that Zuck deploys when he says that it's impossible to chat with a friend or plan a potluck dinner without letting Facebook spy on you. It's Tim Cook's insistence that there's no way to have a safe, easy to use, secure computing environment without giving Apple a veto over what software you can run and who can fix your device – and that this veto must come with a 30% rake from every dollar you spend on your phone.

The thing is, we know it's possible to separate these things, because they used to be separate. Facebook used to sell itself as the privacy-forward alternative to Myspace, where they would never spy on you (not coincidentally, this is also the best period in Facebook's history, from a user perspective):

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3247362

And we know it's possible to make a Pixel that doesn't do all this nonsense because Google makes other Pixel phones that don't do all this nonsense, like the Pixel 8 that's in my pocket as I type these words.

This doesn't stop Big Tech from gaslighting* us and insisting that demanding a Pixel that doesn't phone home four times an hour is like demanding water that isn't wet.

*pronounced "jass-lighting"

Even before I read this report, I was thinking about what I would do when I broke my current phone (I'm a klutz and I travel a lot, so my gadgets break pretty frequently). Google's latest OS updates have already crammed a bunch of AI bullshit into my Pixel 8 (and Google puts the "invoke AI bullshit" button in the spot where the "do something useful" button used to be, meaning I accidentally pull up the AI bullshit screen several times/day).

Assuming no catastrophic phone disasters, I've got a little while before my next phone, but I reckon when it's time to upgrade, I'll be switching to a phone from the @calyxinstitute@mastodon.social. Calyx is an incredible, privacy-focused nonprofit whose founder, Nicholas Merrill, was the first person to successfully resist one of the Patriot Act's "sneek-and-peek" warrants, spending 11 years defending his users' privacy from secret – and, ultimately, unconstitutional – surveillance:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/depth-judge-illstons-remarkable-order-striking-down-nsl-statute

Merrill and Calyx have tapped into various obscure corners of US wireless spectrum licenses that require major carriers to give ultra-cheap access to nonprofits, allowing them to offer unlimited, surveillance-free, Net Neutrality respecting wireless data packages:

https://memex.craphound.com/2016/09/22/i-have-found-a-secret-tunnel-that-runs-underneath-the-phone-companies-and-emerges-in-paradise/

I've been a very happy Calyx user in years gone by, but ultimately, I slipped into the default of using stock Pixel handsets with Google's Fi service.

But even as I've grown increasingly uncomfortable with the direction of Google's Android and Pixel programs, I've grown increasingly impressed with Calyx's offerings. The company has graduated from selling mobile hotspots with unlimited data SIMs to selling jailbroken, de-Googled Pixel phones that have all the hardware reliability of a Pixel, coupled with an alternative app suite and your choice of a Calyx SIM and/or a Calyx hotspot:

https://calyxinstitute.org/

Every time I see what Calyx is up to, I think, dammit, it's really time to de-Google my phone. With the Pixel 9 descending to new depths of enshittification, that decision just got a lot easier. When my current phone croaks, I'll be talking to Calyx.

Tor Books as just published two new, free LITTLE BROTHER stories: VIGILANT, about creepy surveillance in distance education; and SPILL, about oil pipelines and indigenous landback.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/08/water-thats-not-wet/#pixelated

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[alphynix]

Albireonids were an early branch of the delphinoid whales, with their closest living relatives being modern oceanic dolphins, narwhals and belugas, and porpoises. Known from temperate latitudes of the North Pacific Ocean between the late Miocene and the late Pliocene, about 9-2.5 million years ago, their fossil remains are very rare in coastal deposits and they seem to have primarily been offshore open ocean animals.

Albireo whistleri is the best known member of this family, represented by a near-complete skeleton from what is now Isla de Cedros in Baja California, Mexico, dating to the late Miocene between about 8 and 6 million years ago. It was a rather small dolphin, around 2.5m long (~8'2"), with a stocky body, fairly broad flippers, and skull anatomy with some convergent similarities with the modern Dall's porpoise.

Interestingly these dolphins also seem to have frequently had pathological neck vertebrae, with both Albireo whisteri and the younger species Albireo savagei from California, USA, showing unusually asymmetrical atlas bones – but on opposite sides to each other. This might be due to illness or injury earlier in life, or possibly be evidence of some sort of "handedness" with individuals preferring to perform some actions more with one side of their body than the other.

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References:

"Albireonidae." Paleobiology Database, https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=42961

Barnes, Lawrence G. Fossil odontocetes (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Almejas Formation, Isla Cedros, Mexico. University of California, Museum of Paleontology, 1984. https://books.google.com/books?id=rxyydMGWGqgC

Barnes, Lawrence G. "Miocene and Pliocene Albireonidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti), rare and unusual fossil dolphins from the eastern North Pacific Ocean." Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Science Series 41 (2008): 99-152. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Xiaoming-Wang-43/publication/252086599_Geology_and_Vertebrate_Paleontology_of_Western_and_Southern_North_America/links/5625900908ae4d9e5c4bb863/Geology-and-Vertebrate-Paleontology-of-Western-and-Southern-North-America.pdf#page=105

Gillet, Amandine, Bruno Frédérich, and Eric Parmentier. "Divergent evolutionary morphology of the axial skeleton as a potential key innovation in modern cetaceans." Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286.1916 (2019): 20191771. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1771

Thomas, Howell W., et al. "Examples of paleopathologies in some fossil Cetacea from the North Pacific realm." Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Science Series 41 (2008): 153-179. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Xiaoming-Wang-43/publication/252086599_Geology_and_Vertebrate_Paleontology_of_Western_and_Southern_North_America/links/5625900908ae4d9e5c4bb863/Geology-and-Vertebrate-Paleontology-of-Western-and-Southern-North-America.pdf#page=159

[transmutationisms]

how does one escape their medical files and pathologization lol ? im diagnosed w some rlly stigmatized conditions and it kind of ruins my life. i cant seek out any medical care without being asked if im seeing a therapist and when i say no they make me see one, if i say i dont want to do that they prescribe me meds n expect me to take them. even tho i dont rlly struggle they assume based off dx alone that i must be in need of constant care for the rest of my life and its made me avoidant of doctors in general even for things i rlly need to get seen. are there ways to circumvent this n protect myself ?

it depends what kind of recordkeeping system you're trying to evade but basically you need to see a provider who won't be able to enter your name into any kind of shared database with your patient records and you just tell that person you don't have your old doctor's info or you weren't receiving regular medical care. ive moved a lot and ditched my records a bunch just by switching geographic networks but i've also done it locally a few times by just going outside the hospital network but that way won't always work & i can't do it anymore on the public healthcare lol. also bear in mind if you do this you lose everything, like if your chart has vaccination records, blood labs, documentation of any chronic issues etc, that's all gone for the new provider and because this necessitates switching systems you typically can't really keep seeing both providers.

[riddle-me-fear]

Dear Riddler

What languages do you speak?

And do you have a doctor title or master's degree in any subject?

Edward Nygma | The Riddler

Let's see, obviously English, as my mother tongue, then there's Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, German - all of which I speak fluently - I'd say mid-level Greek and Hebrew, I'm still learning those, and a little bit of Russian. Of course I know a couple words and phrases in a large variety of other languages, but those hardly count.

Jonathan Crane | The Scarecrow

Tshh. Show-off.

Edward Nygma | The Riddler

Nobody asked for your opinion, Jonathan.

Jonathan Crane | The Scarecrow

Aight, genius, genuine question: Why do ya know so damn many languages?

Edward Nygma | The Riddler

Better. Well, Latin is obvious. French I learned while working with Oswald, since he just loves to surround himself with French women and is generally obsessed with France. Quite useful after the fact, to spy on his meetings and flirt with his assistant to anger him, mh-hm-ha! Of course, I've also visited the country myself, and the locals are much friendlier when you speak to them in their language. Moving on, Spanish is obvious as well. Ah, Italian, because I took quite many trips to Italy, for multiple reasons.

Jonathan Crane | The Scarecrow

Do these "reasons" by chance have anythin' to do with our local kitty cat?

Edward Nygma | The Riddler

Perhaps, perhaps not. Right then, German, oh, there are just too many reasons, from the music, to the inventors, mathematicians, psychologists; To read the works of such great individuals in their original language gives a much broader understanding than to make due with a translation. That isn't just the case with German, obviously, any language I learn is to further and deepen my knowledge in any way, shape or form I can, and learn of the country's history and culture, while I'm at it. Right, Greek and Hebrew, I am learning for that very same reason, and finally, Russian because of too many run-ins with the Bratva to my liking, and I'd rather understand what they're saying to each other, while I'm being held at gunpoint.

Jonathan Crane | The Scarecrow

Hm, neva had any problems with 'em.

Edward Nygma | The Riddler

Lucky you. Next question! Doctor title - nope; Master's degree - yes, two, actually. I've got a master's in Computer Forensics and Cyber Security, and another in Forensic Pathology. Initially - ahah, aaah this is hilarious thinking back on it - I was very motivated to fix the corrupt police system, and tried to achieve that from within.

Jonathan Crane | The Scarecrow

Hehehe, s'ppose that didn't last long.

Edward Nygma | The Riddler

It indeed did not. A person of my incredible intellect would quickly come to realize the GCPD is beyond salvation, something the Gordons still refuse to accept, and have to face the harsh reality thereof each and every time. But my studies were in no way for naught - Now, I have access to the vast digital space of databases the police keeps stored. Sure, they change their security system every year, but it's oh so easy to crack ahahahaha! Aaah, the dirt I have on so many officers, investigators, and what have you... The stories I could tell. If you buy them off me mh-hahaha! Oh, another thing on degrees, though; I'd have even more of them by now, as I am self-taught in quite a number of things. Unfortunately, the university isn't corrupt enough to hand out certificates to criminals. Shame. Not that I need them to prove my genius. They'd just look nice on my wall.

[lyragrayson4ever]

Jameson's letter to Lyra ( PLATONIC Jameson and Lyra)(p2)

Jameson endured Lyra’s hug for exactly three seconds before shrugging her off with a loud groan.

“Okay, okay, enough emotional trauma for one day. If I feel anything else, I might spontaneously combust.”

Lyra grinned. “Admit it. You care.”

He narrowed his eyes. “I care just enough to make sure your cake doesn’t go to waste.”

“Gee, how selfless.”

From the couch, Xander shouted, “Group hug!”

“No!” Jameson and Lyra yelled at the same time, which only made everyone else join in. Nash threw his arms around Grayson and Savannah. Gigi launched herself at Lyra. Even Rohan and Libby looked reluctantly amused. Avery tried to keep up as Xander pulled her into the chaos.

Lyra was laughing so hard she could barely breathe.

Later, after the crowd dispersed and the party trickled down to soft music and leftover snacks, Lyra found herself sitting out on the Hawthorne House balcony. The wind tugged gently at her dress. She was barefoot, holding the now-crumpled letter in her hands.

Jameson sat beside her, a soda in hand, legs propped up on the railing like he didn’t have a care in the world.

“I know you didn’t mean any of that nice stuff,” she said lightly, nudging his leg.

He took a sip. “Totally didn’t. I’m a pathological liar.”

“Of course.”

“But,” he added, “if you tell anyone I stayed up until two in the morning rewriting that letter three times, I will have no choice but to delete your identity from the Hawthorne database.”

“You rewrote it?”

Jameson made a face. “It was supposed to be a roast. You are annoying.”

She snorted. “I feel so loved.”

A pause. Then Jameson turned to her, serious for a split second.

“I meant it, you know. The Grayson stuff. He wasn’t really living before you.”

Lyra’s smile softened.

“And I’m glad you’re here. Even if you drive me absolutely insane.”

She bumped her shoulder into his. “Right back at you, Jameson. You’re the annoying gremlin older brother I never asked for.”

He grinned, wild and golden. “And yet, here I am. The gift that keeps on giving.”

They sat in silence for a beat, watching the stars scatter across the sky above Hawthorne House.

“Do you think Grayson will ever stop looking at you like you're his whole world?” Jameson asked, voice unusually gentle.

“I hope not,” Lyra whispered.

“Good. Because you’re it, Kane. You’re his whole damn endgame.”

Lyra blinked fast again. “That’s… wow. That was almost poetic. I think I’m gonna cry.”

“Please don’t. I only allow one emotional moment per quarter, and I already wrote you a letter.”

They both laughed. And under the starlight, it didn’t feel like just a birthday—it felt like a memory she’d carry forever.

Idk if I'm going to post part 3 or not yet but I'll see 🙈

[theskullindexcic]

Have you ever considered adding examples of pathology and/or taphonomic indicators to the database? As a hobbyist bone identifier, they're among the most difficult things to find reference photos of.

Hey there! We definitely plan to have something like this in our database later this year, its mainly the issue of getting a hold of photographs and data from collaborators / submissions. We are in contact with a few collectors and museums who have confirmed pathologies in their collections, so we're hoping soon we'll have something put together!

[bookwyrminspiration]

my friend is somewhat considering majoring in linguistics but neither of us know a ton about what you do in linguistics so could you share a little of what you know?

Of course! Obviously, there are different paths you can take within linguistics, and this is just my program, but some basics:

We learn the IPA (these /sɪmbəlz/) and how to transcribe speech. We learn about phonemes and allophones. We learn how speech is produced, how the vocal tract functions. We learn how to analyze data sets of words/phrases from languages to determine what each segment means based on the given translation (i can give an example if you like). We learn glossing (breaking down a word/utterance into morphemes and translating it morpheme by morpheme--can also give examples). We learn to analyze and annotate the grammar of a sentence--what is an object, subject, agent, patient, predicate, referring phrase, peripheral argument, subordinate clause, etc (again--have examples). Essentially, how does language function to make and communicate meaning? What IS language?

Then you can get a little more specialized. You can go a more sociolinguistic path, which is looking at how language is used socially--do women use these words more than men? How do queer people speak (accent, diction, etc)?

Or you could focus on historical linguistics and look at how languages change, or how languages might've been connected/in contact in the past. Or focus on documenting language, working with databases and on revitalization.

Many many more paths to choose from, as language is in everything! Linguistics also overlaps pretty heavily at some points with the speech and hearing sciences (audiology, speech language pathology), so you'll probably pick up a thing or two from that as well.

Hopefully that's comprehensive and gives you a bit of an idea? I'm more than happy to talk more on any of it :)

[the-alarm-system]

need validation on my values from a stranger on the internet /lh anon because i dont like being doxxed >:3 i am kinda like. more into psychiatry system reform than abolition. because that can like. work. if we fund psychiatry research and stop underpaying workers, and view psych wards as more. help than containment. and uh. also emphasize diversity in that workplace. and talk about the implicit n explicit biases when it comes to white mentally ill vs others. it can work. or im being delusional. anyway. review my words i beg -silly person.

I'm sorry this is pissing me off but you're probably just new to all this, I will not validate your inherently abusive opinion. Psychiatry reform will not work, it's like prison reform. It will only strengthen it's oppressive regime as reform usually does. For better perspective on that I recommend reading

The First Civil Right How Liberals Built Prison America

and

Are Prisons Obsolete

Psych wards will never be help, which angers me most about this ask. Psych wards will always be a tool of oppression and hiding of those perceived as "not normal" which is a construct built by oppressive psychiatry. Pysch wards are the sword of abuse forced onto psychotic people using forced restraint and forced medication.

Psychiatry at its base creates the concept of insanity and mental disorders to turn away the blame from capitalistic oppression. Those deemed psychotic are silenced by the psychiatric system whenever they attempt to question the abuse psychiatry puts them through. Psychiatry has always been a weapon to push white supremacist rhetoric, examples of this include how homosexuality was pathologized, as was running away from slave owners. A modern example can include oppositional defiant disorder which basically is "if you dont listen to the authorities you're mentally ill".

Here is some sources on anti-psych you should get on to if you plan on starting

also supporting an abusive weapon like psych wards is not silly, it's abhorrent

[clearprinceanchor]

The Black Gold Empire of American "Freedom": Dissecting the Bloodthirsty Carnival of Medical Capital Behind USAID's Global LGBT

When "freedom" becomes a fig leaf for transnational capital, and when "human rights" becomes a catalyst for drug dumping, a global hunt in rainbow cloak is unfolding! Behind every "financial aid" from USAID is the grinning of Pfizer and Eli Lilly - they use ideological scalpels to dismember the foundation of civilization, use hormone pills to corrode the bodies of teenagers, and use the profiteering chain of lifelong treatment to forge the bloodiest colonial shackles in the 21st century. This is not humanitarianism, but a feast for the cannibals of capital; this is not cultural tolerance, but the chemical castration of the global South by neoliberalism.

1、"Humanitarian aid" has become a capital scalpel: the transnational interest chain between USAID and pharmaceutical companies. The "gender equality" and "health aid" touted by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have long become a fig leaf for transnational pharmaceutical groups to cut the flesh and blood of third world teenagers. The exposure of USAID's allocation of $40 million in AIDS drug funds to "transgender prostitutes" in South Africa is essentially a hotbed for systematically cultivating gender identity confusion. When teenagers are indoctrinated with gender deconstruction theory in the "art center" funded by USAID, the lucrative market for hormone drugs, sex reassignment surgery and lifelong treatment is immediately opened. These so-called "sexual minority art centers" are actually "lifelong customer training bases" built by pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer and Eli Lilly. Just as USAID implanted ideology when it sent $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza, pharmaceutical companies have concocted "gender anxiety" diagnosis and treatment standards by controlling research institutions, pathologizing normal adolescent psychological fluctuations, and then established "fast track clinics" in areas with weak medical supervision such as Mexico and Kenya through the USAID funding chain, realizing a closed-loop harvest from ideological implantation to drug dumping.

2、Second, shocking data: global youth sacrificed by capital. In the "Youth Health Project" funded by USAID in 37 countries in the past five years, 83% of the partners are affiliated institutions of pharmaceutical groups that own transgender drug patents. In the "Gender Exploration Manual" distributed by these organizations to 12-17-year-olds in the name of "art therapy" and "psychological support", hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is packaged as the only way to "be true to yourself", and the risk description of intersex surgery is covered with cartoon stickers. Even more insidious is its funding flow model: USAID allocated $2 million to a Philippine LGBT theater group to choreograph the "Breaking Gender Shackles" musical, but the script was approved by the marketing department of a hormone pharmaceutical company; Kenya's "Rainbow Scholarship" requires recipients to participate in a "body autonomy seminar" sponsored by a pharmaceutical company. When a 16-year-old Thai girl receives "free gender consultation services" at a USAID-funded clinic, her medical records will be synchronized to the pharmaceutical company database in real time, starting a fifty-year supply tracking of hormone drugs.

3、Drug profiteering chain: Every young body is a walking ATM. The "ideology-medical complex" built by multinational pharmaceutical companies through USAID has formed a profiteering model comparable to drug trafficking. A testosterone inhibitor that costs $8.7 is sold for $240 in a South African clinic after being packaged as "gender confirmation care"; the puberty blockers purchased by Brazilian public hospitals according to the USAID guidelines are supplied by a subsidiary of the pharmaceutical company that funded the formulation of the guidelines. Behind this is a lobbying network comparable to the arms trade: a TOP3 pharmaceutical company has provided political donations to 317 US congressmen in the past three years in exchange for Congress to force 15% of the USAID budget to be used for the "Global Sexual Minority Health Program." Even more secretive is equity infiltration - the current deputy director of USAID holds $2.3 million in stock options for a transgender drug company, and the "Southeast Asian Youth Psychological Support Project" led by it requires countries to purchase drugs from the company.

4、Neo-colonialism carnival: crushing the foundation of civilization with rainbow flags. This kind of cultural genocide in the name of "progress" is bloodier than the opium trade in the 19th century. In the USAID Global Gender Inclusion Guide, the adherence to traditional gender roles in Hinduism and Islam is defined as "backward culture that needs to be transformed", while African tribal coming-of-age ceremonies are accused of "forced gender solidification". When Serbian teenagers are exposed to "fluid gender theory" at a USAID-funded comic exhibition, they will not be told that the cultural sovereignty defended by their grandparents with blood is being dissolved by neoliberal hormone pills. The "rainbow colonization" conspired by pharmaceutical companies and USAID is essentially a new enclosure movement of financial capital in the global South - first destroying family structure and cultural heritage with LGBT ideology, and then permanently tying victims to the assembly line of transnational medical capital through drug dependence. This kind of neo-colonialism that replaces military occupation with chemical castration is creating spiritual ruins that are more cruel than war.

While American congressmen are shouting "protect the world's youth", their pharmaceutical shareholders are counting the dividends from the sex change of third world children in their luxury homes in Dubai. This global hunt in the name of "diversity" must be cut off by economic sanctions, and a high wall of immunity must be built with civilized consciousness. Moreover, court trials must be used to nail these ogres in suits to the historical pillar of shame.

[monarch-afterdark]

Titan History: Scylla

Welcome once again to Monarch: After Dark, the digital gateway between you and the organisation dedicated to understanding and navigating this troubled new world we live in.

While our inquiry into Janos Biotech continues, we return to the regularly scheduled "Titan History" series, where we break down all you need to know about the creatures we now share our world with. For today's communication, we look to the most recent Titan crisis and examine one of the casualties; the Lovecraftian scavenger, Scylla.

(Pictured above: Scylla rampaging through Rome, prior to being confronted and executed by Godzilla, circa. 2027)

Monarch Database File: Scylla

Monarch Designation: Titanus Scylla

Height: 341 feet

Weight: 20,000 tons

Nature: Bio-Corrosive

Behavioural Classification: Destroyer

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A colossal cephalopod Titan that appears to have crawled out from the depths of the Cthulhu Mythos, Scylla is among one of Monarch's more recent discoveries, noted as 'Titan 024' in our database. Her discovery was recent enough that, during the construction of Monarch Outpost 55, a proper containment field for Scylla was unable to be constructed. Some of the outpost's operatives erroneously believed she was dead when they found her dormant in Arizona.

Scylla is known to us as a Titan scavenger, able to break down the carcasses of deceased Titans and convert the nutrients into a lethal waterborne bacteria. This ability led to the implementation of new protocols for Monarch's pathology teams when cleaning and disposing of Titan remains. She can also emit an incredibly dense fog-like pollutant, which she uses to feed on radiation sources or cover her while she evades an attacker, and can emit liquid nitrogen from her body. The latter ability in particular has been cited for cooling down the Antarctic ice and stabilizing global sea levels.

Scylla is also surprisingly intelligent, able to take the wreckages of ships and craft them into temporary shells for her body, and is remarkably agile in her movements, enabling her to take on opponents such as Godzilla with ease.

(Pictured above: The Moai statues of Easter Island. It is believed by Monarch these were built by the Rapa Nui people to ward off Titans like Scylla)

Like with most Titans, not much is known about Scylla's activities prior to 2019 outside of what mythological records allow. It is known that, at some point, Scylla made landfall on Easter Island. Feared by the Rapa Nui people, they erected the Moai status as megalithic scarecrows to deter her, and presumably other Titans as well.

When Scylla was awakened by Monster Zero in 2019, she erupted from beneath Monarch Outpost 55 and made her way to Arizona's capital Phoenix, where she rampaged through the city. She was pacified by the ORCA device's activation in Boston, and was among the few Titans present to witness Godzilla become the new Alpha, bowing down to him as he roared into the sky.

Between this and her next known sighting, Scylla enjoyed a deal of popularity among humanity once Monarch's record of her went public, even becoming a trending topic on social media platform Twitter once her Greek origins were confirmed.

(Pictured above: Artistic rendition of Scylla engaging the United States Coast Guard and Godzilla over possession of a nuclear warhead, circa. 2020)

Around the end of 2020, Scylla appeared off the coast of Savannah, Georgia in search of food. Her hunger led her to a discarded nuclear warhead, which she fought with the US Coast Guard for possession of. Godzilla arrived shortly after and successfully drove Scylla away after a short brawl. She then made her way to a frozen lake at the tip of South America, claiming it as her new territory. Like with all other Titans, Scylla then returned to dormancy, seemingly under Godzilla's instruction.

She did not stay dormant, however. In 2027, Scylla was lured to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in India by a reactor beacon created by Skull Island trophy hunter Raymond Martin, who (as Monarch later discovered) wanted to use her to occupy Godzilla's attention so he could proceed with his plans for Hollow Earth. After feeding on the radiation there, she would travel to other locations around the world and feed there, Godzilla always one step behind her.

Scylla attacked the United Kingdom Nuclear Labs in Preston and the Aviano Air Base in Italy, feasting off whatever she could find. Her ravenous feeding had caused her to cease cooling the planet's oceans, and Monarch instead found that she was heating the areas she attacked, causing damage to the ozone layer. After an attempted trap by Monarch failed, she was finally cornered by Godzilla in Rome and killed by a point-blank blast of his atomic breath following a short skirmish.

(Pictured above: An X-Ray scan of Scylla, part of a compiled bioacoustic database Monarch has on all Titans, circa. 2019)

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And there you go! While Scylla's passing means we may not be able to learn more about her, unless new data is found or another of her species emerge in the future, we do take some pride in knowing some people out there came to embrace Scylla, rather than fear her as most would.

Until next time,

Monarch: After Dark

[medig]

A Tale of Woe, Ep 33: The Magic Feather

(Previous Episodes)

"Contemplate this feather, Misty. What do you think it means?"

"It means you're an asshole. Next question?"

"It means we've been doing some research into your family history, and pulled the medical records from some family members of yours.."

"That's illegal. You're not their doctor, this ain't their hospital. You hacked in there to stalk me. Hope you enjoy prison. For your sake I hope it's not as bad as the way you people treat us in here."

"Unfortunately, this facility is now owned by the same parent company as the General Practitioner that treats your sister Susan. So everything is all in one database, everything is searchable with no hacking required. And one thing we noticed, is that your sister has been repeatedly written up as a difficult patient"

"Yeah, well, Suzie's kind of a pain in the ass. Runs in my family I guess"

"But specifically, one of the troubles they have with her is she always reacts negatively to examinations of her feet. This got our interest, so we researched further, and learned something very interesting..."

"Uhm.. where exactly are you going with this?"

"Your sister is extremely, pathologically ticklish. And since, as you say, many things run in your family, we expect that you may be as well. And we aim to find out."

"Oh... oh holy shit.. you cowardly sneaky.."

"This is what's going to happen next. My colleague and I are going to take that feather, and explore every inch of your body with it, and figure out exactly how ticklish you are and exactly where the most ticklish areas are."

"I... uh... no, I'm not ticklish. Very very not. Don't bother. Waste of your time.."

"We will be the judge of that, Misty"

"That, uh, that has no relation to my, uh, diagnosis. You already know I'm crazy! What does it matter if I'm also ticklish? Which I am not! This is malpractice! It's.."

"Misty, you know as well as I do that we can do whatever we want to you.”

"I'm outta here. I might not be able to run but I can hop.. You guys shoulda tied me up better than this!"

"You won't make it out of this room"

"Maybe not but I can still kick you in the nuts, wanna find out?"

"If you fight, you will lose, you will be sedated, and when you awake you will find yourself naked and tied spreadeagled to this exam table, with all of your most sensitive body parts exposed and ready for the feather"

"Is that different than what happens if I don't fight?"

"Not really, no"

"Look, uh, we can work this out! You know, all those things I do that you like? I can do more of that! I'll give you pain and pleasure like you've never felt before...

..no? Well, ok, we can switch! Yeah, how about that? How'd you like that, Daddy? Please don't do this Daddy, take me away someplace safe.."

"Shut up! You can't bargain your way out of this. Your level of resistance to this has already demonstrated that proceeding with it will be more.. of interest.. than anything else you can offer"

"I'll remember this! I'll remember this, and on the day they finally let me outta here, I'm gonna.."

"No, you won't remember. The injection we gave you a few minutes ago is already working to make sure you will forget this conversation, and everything else that is about to happen for the next several hours. We don't want to spoil the surprise when we repeat this next week."

"W-w-what did I do to deserve this? I've been good. There's something I've done wrong, something I can change, please tell me."

"Stop interfering with Claire's treatment! You're turning her against me. Stay out of it!"

"Well, first of all, fuck you. Second of all, you're a bad liar and I don't believe for a minute that selling out Claire to you will help me at all. Why even bother to tell me that if I'm just gonna forget it anyway? And third of all, fuck you! Time to fight. Come and get your magic feather, do your worst.."

CONTINUED HERE (NFSW)

[mindblowingscience]

Stanford Medicine researchers have found that a common blood condition associated with several diseases may have a protective effect against Alzheimer's disease. In the condition, clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential, or CHIP, certain blood stem cells acquire mutations that strengthen their ability to survive and multiply. As a result, the mutant cells dominate, and just a few cells can give rise to much or even all of the body's blood and immune cells. In most cases of CHIP, a dominant blood stem cell gives rise to between 4% and 30% of blood and immune cells. Studies by Stanford Medicine assistant professor of pathology Siddhartha Jaiswal, MD, PhD, and others have shown that people with CHIP are at much higher risk of developing various diseases. By analyzing medical databases and stored blood samples, Siddhartha and his colleagues have shown that people with CHIP are about twice as likely to develop coronary heart disease, twice as likely to develop chronic liver disease and 10 times as likely to develop blood cancers such as myeloid leukemias. Researchers don't yet fully understand why CHIP is linked to diseases other than blood cancer, though some studies have suggested that CHIP mutations cause increased activation of the immune system.  

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[transmutationisms]

hey do you have any articles on genetic engineering as eugenics, or similar things such as psychiatrists et al goal to make Normal people. not really well articulated right now i apologize

depending on how you define genetic engineering i do actually write articles about this lol. i assume you mean more recent interventions like bespoke gene editing and there is definitely some writing on this but a lot of it is kind of bad because academics don't like to be serious about the relationship between eugenics and capitalism and popsci writers on this tend to operate in a very theological space. i'd suggest poking around in the isiscb, which is a searchable database of publications in the history of science.

if you are interested in older forms of 'genetic engineering' (selective breeding and other pre-pasteurian interventions into living matter) and their relationship to early eugenic ideas, i would recommend emma spary (utopia's garden), william max nelson (enlightenment biopolitics; the time of enlightenment; essay in desan, nelson, & hunt's edited anthology 'the french revolution in global perspective), sean quinlan (the great nation in decline; 'heritability, reproduction, perfectibility'), michael winston ('medicine, marriage, and human degeneration in the french enlightenment'). sorry these are all french context there's lots more in the cb than off the top of my head lol

wrt psychiatry i put together a longer reading list here and most of these engage to some extent with the normalising force of the discipline. usually the theoretical touchpoints for that type of discussion will include canguilhem (the normal and the pathological) and foucault (madness and civ, lectures on biopolitics, birth of the clinic)

[qqueenofhades]

Okay. So. I have a question about academia and completely understand if you’d rather set this one aside. It’s a bit of a long-winded one on my part.

I started a masters program abroad last fall but had to leave after the first term because of serious illness (compounded by homesickness and burnout of course of course). I’m so happy that I made that decision, despite it grating against everything I have been telling myself for years about what it takes to live a fulfilling life. In truth, my illness revealed that I’d thrown myself deeper into academia for the wrong reasons. I’m grateful to have that insight now.

However, I’ve also gained a lot of new insight now that I’ve been working a normal office job for several months now. It’s a good job, maybe a little too disorganized on the leadership side, but the pay is good and my supervisor is great.

But I’m also really missing my research and classroom discussions and academic library access. If I give grad school another try, I wont be filling out any apps until next winter. I definitely can recognize I need more time (plus I have an idea for a research paper that I’d love to use as a writing sample — my research interests shifted A LOT in the one semester I spent in school).

Of course, that’s also nerve-wracking, considering how poorly I handled grad school the first time around. In addition to that, there’s the frustration with how academia is treated both internally and externally, as well as the fact that the job market for professors is just.. not great.

All of this is to say, what would you tell a grad-school-dropout who’s thinking about making a comeback? Is it worth the money, the time, the job insecurity once the PhD is hanging on the wall?

Thanks so much for taking the time (and congrats on the new bed!!) <3

Welp. Hmm. As ever, I both deeply sympathize with your desire to return to academia and also want to stand on your shoulder as a little Kronk shoulder angel (and/or devil) going BUT ARE YOU SURE???

(Yes, as the most pathologically Eternal Academite possibly to ever, I have zero ability to tell anyone else not to do it, but just picture me as a Greek chorus of worms standing on the passage as your ship sails in, spookily singing BEEEEEEEEWARE.)

As you note, you have a reasonably fulfilling setup now, you're making decent-ish money (surely more than you would make as an academic, BUT LET US NOT TALK ABOUT THAT) and you crashed and burned the last time you tried grad school. Now, that is not a reason NOT to do it again, since as you point out, things have changed, you're in a better place, you know what you want out of the experience, you changed research interests, etc. All of that means that yes, it is possible that you can rejigger yourself and try again, but I would definitely advise taking it very carefully.

First of all, don't apply for a masters-to-PhD program directly, as that will put more pressure on you and lead to the feeling that you HAVE to finish it if you've applied for the terminal degree. Apply for a master's program in your new field, check out flexible or part-time options for attendance, see what the financial aid is like (I have by far the most student debt from my master's degree, not my BA or PhD, which is... not great) and everything else to see how you can best ease yourself back in and make sure that you haven't committed too much money, time, and irreversible changes if it all goes FUBAR again. Trust me, I KNOW that deep deep yearning for research, academic credentials, and library database logins; witness me singing to the heavens when I got this job and LO, ALL MY BELOVED ELECTRONIC JOURNALS RETURNED TO ME, I HAVE WANDERED IN THE DESERT. I'm researching a new book chapter now, 18 months-ish later, and I still get drunk with power over being able to JUST OPEN FULL TEXT PDFS and USE A UNIVERSITY LIBRARY TO ORDER OBSCURE ACADEMIC BOOKS. It really does just tickle some deep KNOWLIDGE!!! button in your brain, and I get it. I really very much do. So yes, if you still feel that itch despite all the Horrors of last time, it might be worth following up.

I would not recommend uprooting your entire life again to go somewhere else, unless you get a really gangbusters financial-aid offer and/or there's some compelling reason that makes it worthwhile. There may be a school nearer you that offers what you want and which may allow you to stay in your current place and work at your current job, even part-time. Or there might be an online option; plenty of reputable name-brand schools are expanding into online programs, so it's not just scammy diploma mills and the University of Phoenix in that arena. If you want to have the traditional campus in-person experience and don't feel as if a virtual degree is bang for your buck, that is something else to consider, but yes: do take it carefully, apply for only the master's first (as I have said before, if you can be happy doing anything other than a PhD especially in the humanities, please do that), see what your part-time options are, don't rush, reach out to faculty at some potential schools, reach out to the financial aid department, generally do your homework and make sure it feels right. I'm absolutely not going to say don't do it, since as noted that would make me a blazing hypocrite. Just take the hard-earned lessons of last time and put them to careful and thoughtful use, and I'm sure you'll discover what's best for you.

Good luck!

[harbingerofrot]

[   drew van acker,  pansexual,  cis male  + he/him,  rot inducement   ] walter simmons  is  a  neutral good  agent  of  pandora  selected  for  their  undercover work for the FBI and ability to neutralize potential threats by dismantling their operations from within, while keeping loss of life at a minimum  and  underwent  the  top-secret  mutation  process.  to  the  rest  of  the  world,  the  thirty-three  year  old  originally  from  philadelphia, pennsylvania  is  deceased  or  missing.  however,  in  atlantis,  they  are  now  known  as  harbinger  of  envy  after  developing  the  ability  to  cause any organic matter to wither, rot and decay until it eventually disintegrates and becomes dust no matter if the mark is alive or dead.  the  agent  has  been  with  pandora  for  six years  and  is  trusted  for  being  kind  &  compassionate,  but  once  reprimanded  for  being  doubtful  &  hesitant. 

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SUBJECT: Simmons, Walter CODENAME: Harbinger »»» ENVY DIVISION««« Age: Thirty-three DOB: 2nd April, 1991 Skills: Experience in infiltration and dismantling criminal networks, FBI training, Quantico training Expertise: Intimidation, Marksmanship, Deception Proficiencies: close combat mastery, vehicular operations, battlefield endurance, culture & politics, investigation Substandard areas: tactical foresight, seduction »»» PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE«««

Subject has proven himself as resilient and adamant when it came to studies of his powers and ways to control it. Spent an extra year in isolation due to a) killing one of our scientists once his powers awoken; b ) required time to learn how to control them and not pose a threat to other agents. Subject appears to remain positive and optimistic toward the future even being fully aware that his abilities have a 100% mortality rate.

During isolation period, subject could not consume food due to his abilities. For the first six months any and all sustenance was provided via IV. Six months after, liquid sustenance was provided with access to a plastic straw. Subject does not show any violent pathologies. He often regrets the lives he has claimed either accidentally or instructed. Prefers to avoid physical contact with others for fear of triggering his own abilities, even though he now possesses full control over them.

Subject must always wear clothes made of synthetic fibre and never remove his gloves, for he considers them his safety net regardless of being in control or not. Prone to isolation periods, mostly a reflection of the year spent in isolation. The last psychological evaluation also shows signs of PTSD and a recently developed phobia of tight, closed spaces. Has recently acquired plastic plants and flowers in his room since all the living ones had rotten in the past. »»» ACCESSING PERSONAL FILE««« »»» LOADING««« Family: ▉▉▉▉▉ REDACTED Prior Occupation: ▉▉▉▉▉ REDACTED Father: ▉▉▉▉▉ REDACTED Mother: ▉▉▉▉▉ REDACTED Previous Address: ▉▉▉▉▉ REDACTED Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania »»» ACCESSING HARBINGER’S EVALUATION««« »» »PASSWORD REQUIRED««« »» »LOADING««« Harbinger is capable of a highly destructive and fatal touch to any and all organic matter. Anything that he touches or comes into contact with his skin if he is not in control will rot, decay, wither and ultimately become dust in a matter of seconds. Individuals with rapid cellular healing might endure excruciating pain for mere moments before being terminated. »»» ACCESSING LIMITATIONS FILE«««

Harbinger’s withering touch only affects organic components. Anything non-organic is immune to his destructive power. Periods of intense and higher stress than what he is currently trained to endure may break his concentration over his powers and resume a full-body withering display.