#ultrasensitive

[thirdity]

If Kafka had been a woman. If Rilke had been a Jewish Brazilian born in Ukraine. If Rimbaud had been a mother, if he had reached the age of fifty. If Heidegger had been able to stop being German, if he had written the Romance of the Earth. Why have I cited these names? To try to sketch out the general vicinity. Over there is where Clarice Lispector writes. There, where the most demanding works breathe, she makes her way. But then, at the point where the philosopher gets winded, she goes on, further still, further than all knowledge. After comprehension, step by step, she plunges trembling into the incomprehensible shuddering depth of the world, the ultrasensitive ear, tensed to take in even the sound of the stars, even the minimal rubbing of atoms, even the silence between two heartbeats.

Hélène Cixous, "Coming to Writing" and Other Essays

[todaysdocument]

Annex No. 1 A Program of Covert Action Against the Castro Regime

Collection JFK-4: Papers of John F. Kennedy: Presidential Papers: National Security FilesSeries: Country FilesFile Unit: Cuba: Subjects, Paramilitary Study Group, Taylor Report

PARAMILITARY

STUDY

SANITIZED COPY

Archivist of the U.S.

Authority: NLK-76-139

Secret

"EYES ONLY"

ULTRASENSITIVE

copy no. 1

EYES ONLY

[SECRET]

This document is our basic policy

paper. It was approved by the

President at a meeting in the

White House on 17 March 1960.

EYES ONLY

[SECRET]

EYES ONLY

[SECRET]

16March 1960

A PROGRAM OF COVERT ACTION AGAINST THE CASTRO REGIME

1. Objective: The purpose of the program outlined herein is to bring

about the replacement of the Castro regime with one more devoted to the true

interests of the Cuban people and more acceptable to the U.S. in such a manner

as to avoid any appearance of U.S. intervention. Essentially the method of

accomplishing this end will be to induce, support, and so far as possible direct

action, both inside and outside of Cuba, by selected groups of Cubans of a sort

that they might be expected to and could undertake on their own initiative.

Since a crisis inevitably entailing drastic action in or toward Cuba could be

provoked by circumstances beyond control of the U.S. before the covert action

program has accomplished its objective, every effort will be made to carry it

out in such a way as progressively to improve the capability of the U.S. to

act in a crisis.

2. Summary Outline: the program contemplates four major courses of

action:

a. The first requirement is the creation of a responsible, appealing

and unified Cuban opposition to the Castro regime, publicly declared

as such and therefore necessarily located outside of Cuba. {REDACTED SENTENCES}

EYES ONLY

[SECRET]

[five-rivers]

If you are still taking Prompts, I would love to know how Danny's Delivery went in your fic Delivery in your Grandfather Clock's series. Like, I'm just imagining him getting shot (not seriously) and Clockwork fussing over him even while he congratulates Danny on doing a good job.

"Okay," said Sam, the minute Danny's parents and the doctor went out into the hallway to talk. "Spill."

"It pretty much went how I said it went," said Danny, shrugging. "I found that guy's notebook and decided to bring it back to him. The Guys in White were there with their stupid ultrasensitive targeting system. I set it off and they shot me."

"Yeah, you're helpful, but you're not that helpful," said Sam. "You'd normally have handed it off to Jazz, since she's got some classes there."

That was true.

"You've done it before," said Jazz, crossing her arms. No help there.

"Okay, you're right, but you have to promise not to get mad," said Danny.

Sam and Jazz looked at each other. Danny would have liked Tucker to be there, just for the sake of Guy Solidarity, but Tucker refused to get anywhere near a doctor's office unless someone was actively dying.

"Go ahead," said Jazz, finally.

"Clockwork gave me the notebook and told me to bring it back," said Danny. "Because, he said, the Guys in White would lose a lot of recruits and that'll be important in the future."

"He sent you somewhere to get shot at?" asked Jazz.

"I knew I was going to get shot at, and I did it anyway. That's kind of what I do every time I fight ghosts, too."

Jazz made a face. "That's true."

"So, it was time agent stuff," said Sam. "That's still working out for you?"

"Oh, yeah, it's great," said Danny. "Clockwork is great."

"I'm glad, but still... I don't like that he sent you to get shot at on purpose."

"But I'm fine."

"And remember what he was like during the snake thing," said Sam.

"I wasn't there during the snake thing," said Jazz. "Because you didn't tell me about the snake thing until after."

"Oh, yeah. Well, he was completely doting on him. Like at the, you know, at the party."

"You can say deathday around me, I'm not going to freak out."

"I know, I know," said Jazz. "We all like Clockwork, it's just that with Mom and Dad... You don't need someone else who cares more about work."

When it came to ghosts, things weren't quite that simple. He didn't think things were quite that simple with his parents, either.

"Yeah, but it was about making me safer in the future."

Jazz's expression softened further. "If you're sure that's what's going on, okay," she said. She sat down in one of the chairs. "But maybe give me a heads up in the future? You nearly gave us a heart attack."

"Mostly you," said Sam.

"Mostly me," agreed Jazz.

"Time out," said Clockwork.

Danny sat up straighter on the examination table. "I didn't mess anything up, did I?"

"Not at all," said Clockwork. "You did wonderfully. Everything is as it should be." He held out a hand. "May I?"

Danny nodded and slid the paper examination gown to one side so Clockwork could see the burns more easily. They weren't serious, and he was already healing quickly, but they were worse than what a regular human would have gotten from those weapons... Which had, at least, made the doctor and his parents that much more angry at the GIW. Although, who knew how long that would last or what excuses the GIW would come up with.

Clockwork adjusted one of the watches on his wrist and passed his hand over the burn. Danny watched as another couple of days of healing passed in front of his eyes.

"I need to learn that trick," said Danny, putting the gown back into place.

"I will be happy to teach you," said Clockwork.

Danny blinked at him. "Really?"

"Really. Time in."

[bluehardtops]

CHOCOCAT is full of energy, but this little black cat tends to be a little scatterbrained at times! He can catch various information with his ultrasensitive 'antenna' whiskers!

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[scumbag-the-hedgehog]

"I'M GOING TO TURN YOU INTO A FOOTSTOOL!"

" That wasn't a compliment. "

[covid-safer-hotties]

Also preserved on our archive

DM me if you have access to the attached study: I'd like to read it and it's paywalled.

Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital discovered that individuals exhibiting a wide range of long COVID symptoms were twice as likely to have SARS-CoV-2 proteins in their blood compared to those without such symptoms.

A new study suggests that a persistent infection may be the cause of long COVID symptoms in some people. Conducted by Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a key institution within the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, the research identified signs of ongoing infection in 43 percent of participants who reported cardiopulmonary, musculoskeletal, or neurologic symptoms associated with long COVID. These findings were published today (October 9) in Clinical Microbiology and Infection.

“If we can identify a subset of people who have persistent viral symptoms because of a reservoir of virus in the body, we may be able to treat them with antivirals to alleviate their symptoms,” said lead author Zoe Swank, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Advanced Detection Methods and Study Results The study analyzed 1,569 blood samples collected from 706 people, including 392 participants from the National Institutes of Health-supported Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Initiative, who had previously tested positive for a COVID infection. With a highly sensitive test they developed, researchers looked for whole and partial proteins from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. They also analyzed data from the participants’ long COVID symptoms, using electronic medical chart information or surveys that were gathered at the same time as the blood samples were taken.

Compared to people who didn’t report long COVID symptoms, those who reported persisting symptoms affecting heart and lung, brain, and musculoskeletal systems many organ systems were approximately twice as likely to have SARS-CoV-2 proteins circulating in their blood. The research team was able to detect the spike protein and other components of the SARS-CoV-2 virus using Simoa, an ultrasensitive test for detecting single molecules. Commonly reported long COVID symptoms included fatigue, brain fog, muscle pain, joint pain, back pain, headache, sleep disturbance, loss of smell or taste, and gastrointestinal symptoms.

Specifically, 43% of those with long COVID symptoms affecting three major systems in the body, including cardiopulmonary, musculoskeletal, and neurologic systems, tested positive for viral proteins within 1 to 14 months of their positive COVID test. But only 21% of those who didn’t report any long COVID symptoms tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 biomarkers in this same period.

It’s possible that a persistent infection explains some – but not all – of the long COVID sufferers’ symptoms. If this is the case, testing and treatment could aid in identifying patients who may benefit from treatments such as antiviral medications.

Multiple Causes of Long COVID One of the questions raised by the study is why more than half of patients with wide-ranging long COVID symptoms tested negative for persistent viral proteins.

“This finding suggests there is likely more than one cause of long COVID,” said David Walt, PhD, a professor of Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Principal Investigator on the study. “For example, another possible cause of long-COVID symptoms could be that the virus harms the immune system, causing immune dysfunction to continue after the virus is cleared.”

Ongoing Research and Future Directions To better understand whether an ongoing infection is behind some people’s long COVID symptoms, Swank, Walt and other researchers are currently conducting follow-up studies. They’re analyzing blood samples and symptom data in larger groups of patients, including people of wide age ranges and those with compromised immune symptoms. This way, they can also see if some people are more likely to have persistent virus in the body.

“There is still a lot that we don’t know about how this virus affects people,” said David C. Goff, M.D., Ph.D., a senior scientific program director for the RECOVER Observational Consortium Steering Committee and director of the Division of Cardiovascular Sciences at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of NIH. “These types of studies are critical to help investigators better understand the mechanisms underlying long COVID — which will help bring us closer to identifying the right targets for treatment.”

Goff added that these results also support ongoing efforts to study antiviral treatments.

The SARS-CoV-2 blood test developed by Brigham and Women’s researchers is also currently being used in a national study, called RECOVER-VITAL, that is testing whether an antiviral drug helps patients recover from long COVID. The RECOVER-VITAL trial will test the patients’ blood before and after treatment with an antiviral to see if treatment eliminates persistent viral proteins in the blood.

Potential Viral Persistence in Other Diseases The idea that a virus can stay in the body and cause ongoing symptoms months after an infection isn’t unique to COVID. “Other viruses are associated with similar post-acute syndromes,” said Swank. She noted animal studies have found Ebola and Zika proteins in tissues post-infection, and these viruses have also been associated with post-infection illness.

Reference: “Measurement of circulating viral antigens post-SARS-CoV-2 infection in a multicohort study” 9 October 2024, Clinical Microbiology and Infection. DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2024.09.001 www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-743X(24)00432-4/abstract (PAYWALLED)

[redibinch]

Chococat as Prodigy!

He can catch various information with his ultrasensitive 'antenna' whiskers!

[solsoolecito]

How’d you lose your virginity?

This is an old ask, and i know you want the horny details (those come later in the post, dw), but since I feel like telling you guys (kinda) funny stories (i have a bunch of those), I'll tell you that both my first time with a girl and my first time with a guy had funny moments.

With the girl, she feel out of bed and i got a leg cramp right in the midst of everything.

With the guy, i bought coral (pink tone) colored, ribbed and ultrasensitive condoms without meaning to, and we got interrupted, i kid you not, like 8 times.

And about the details, with the guy it was during a party i hosted, we knew each other from before, it was pretty casual. It was on my bed and pretty vanilla. Came a good few times :)!

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

International team captures direct high-definition image of the 'cosmic web'

Matter in intergalactic space is distributed in a vast network of interconnected filamentary structures, collectively referred to as the cosmic web. With hundreds of hours of observations, an international team of researchers has now obtained an unprecedented high-definition image of a cosmic filament inside this web, connecting two active forming galaxies—dating back to when the universe was about 2 billion years old.

A pillar of modern cosmology is the existence of dark matter, which constitutes about 85% of all matter in the universe. Under the influence of gravity, dark matter forms an intricate cosmic web composed of filaments, at whose intersections the brightest galaxies emerge. This cosmic web acts as the scaffolding on which all visible structures in the universe are built: within the filaments, gas flows to fuel star formation in galaxies. Direct observations of the fuel supply of such galaxies would advance our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution.

However, studying the gas within this cosmic web is incredibly challenging. Intergalactic gas has been detected mainly indirectly through its absorption of light from bright background sources. But the observed results do not elucidate the distribution of this gas. Even the most abundant element, hydrogen, emits only a faint glow, making it basically impossible for instruments of the previous generation to directly observe such gas.

In this new study, an international team led by researchers at the University of Milano-Bicocca and including scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) obtained an unprecedented high-definition image of a cosmic filament using MUSE (Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer), an innovative spectrograph installed on the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile.

Even with the advanced capabilities of this sophisticated instrument, the research group had to carry out one of the most ambitious MUSE observation campaigns ever completed in a single region of the sky, acquiring data over hundreds of hours to detect the filament at high significance.

The study, led by Davide Tornotti, Ph.D. student at the University of Milano-Bicocca, used this ultrasensitive data to produce the sharpest image ever obtained of a cosmic filament spanning 3 million light-years and connecting two galaxies, each hosting an active supermassive black hole.

The discovery, recently published in Nature Astronomy opens new avenues to directly constrain gas properties within intergalactic filaments and to refine our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution.

"By capturing the faint light emitted by this filament, which traveled for just under 12 billion years to reach Earth, we were able to precisely characterize its shape, explains Tornotti. "For the first time, we could trace the boundary between the gas residing in galaxies and the material contained within the cosmic web through direct measurements."

The researchers took advantage of supercomputer simulations of the universe run at MPA to calculate predictions of the expected filamentary emission given the current cosmological model. "When compared to the novel high-definition image of the cosmic web, we find substantial agreement between current theory and observations," Tornotti adds.

This discovery and the encouraging agreement with supercomputer simulations are key to understanding the tenuous gas environment around galaxies and open up novel possibilities to pin down the galaxies' fuel supply.

Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia, MPA staff scientist involved in the study, concludes, "We are thrilled by this direct, high-definition observation of a cosmic filament. But as people say in Bavaria: 'Eine ist keine'—one doesn't count. So we are gathering further data to uncover more such structures, with the ultimate goal of having a comprehensive vision of how gas is distributed and flows in the cosmic web."

TOP IMAGE: Simulation of a vast region of the universe based on the current cosmological model and performed using supercomputers. In the image, the faint glow of the gas within the cosmic filaments, forming a dense cosmic web, is shown in white. At the intersections of these filaments, the gas within galaxies, which fuels the formation of new stars, is highlighted in red. Credit: Alejandro Benitez-Llambay/Universität Mailand-Bicocca/MPA

LOWER IMAGE: The image shows the diffuse gas (yellow to purple) contained within the cosmic filament connecting two galaxies (yellow stars), extending across a vast distance of 3 million light-years. Credit: Davide Tornotti/University of Milano-Bicocca

[everydetailofher]

#ultrasensitive

[cruel-kaya]

My dad is so done like so done with me and my mom cause we even for God's sake can't take care of ourselves and we keep on getting into troubles and then we blame him for mistakes we did(????) And he can't even lash out cause we are ultrasensitive beings....

[spaceintruderdetector]

[probablygoodrpgideas]

Light Ultrasensitivity

(not to be confused with sunlight hypersensitivity)

A rare genetic mutation that amplifies the natural sensitivity of light that people living in the Underground have developed that allows them to see perfectly in dim light at the cost of direct sunlight being uncomfortable to be in.

People with ultrasensitivity need so little light that they can read a book with a candle being lit in a different room but on the flipside, the light of a torch in the same room as them can be unbearable painful.

While the condition is considered to be a bit of a double-edged sword among those living in the Underground, those with it who migrate to the surface or second generation children of migrants from the Underground born with it suffer greatly from it. They usually need to remain blindfolded during the day and even nights with particularly bright moonshine can be painful.

[deathdetermineslife]

hi hi !! @yume-yearning okay first sebastian gets chococat !!!

Chococat is full of energy, but this little black cat tends to be a little scatterbrained at times! He can catch various information with his ultrasensitive 'antenna' whiskers!

and takaya gets kerokerokeroppi !!

A popular guy around Donut Pond along with his brother and sister, Koroppi and Pikki, the energetic Keroppi loves adventure! He’s not good at swimming like a frog (breast stroke) but he’s a great freestyle swimmer! And great at singing! They all live in the Kerokero House on an island in Donut Pond.

[blackwood23]

Room 3: A 4' tall potted shrub sits against the south wall. Some of the leaves have been pinched off. Chewing or smoking a leaf imparts a magical effect:

1. Purple vision for d4 hours

2. +2 save versus Poison for d4 hours

3. Sleep for d4 hours

4. Save or head turns into frog head (actual size)

5. Ultrasensitive hearing for d4 hours

6. Weakness to fire damage for d4 hours

Room 4: A safe sits on the west end of the room. A potion deliberately left to decay inside has filled it with poison gas; save or take 1d6 damage and suffer blindness for the same number of turns. The safe also contains 73 septims, two quartz crystals (5 gp each), a copper wolf amulet (30 gp), a silver amethyst ring shaped like a cat's eye (150 gp), and a Nordic gold coronet with emeralds cut in the shape of Dragon language characters (1,800 gp); they read "I take breath."

Room 5: Bandits' barracks. Bedrolls, supplies for maintaining weapons and armor, empty wine bottles, etc.

Room 6: Chimes attached to south side of north door. Bandit chief Kzarr-kesh's chambers. He is a 3rd level Khajiit fighter with Leather armor, wielding a Steel longsword and a Steel dagger. He is notable for his unflappable joviality and love of contests, though he is no more compassionate than the next brigand. A locked footlocker under his bed contains a scroll of Protection from Undead, a Silver dagger (30 gp), and a stone slab carved with an unlabeled map showing a route from this hideout to Seldren Morobor's lair. He carries the key to the footlocker (and the locked doors in this hideout) on his person, except at night when he puts it on his nightstand.

Room 7: Barren pyramid chamber. Facing the stairs on the west wall is an inscription in Jel reading "One became many". Stairs go down to Room 8.

Room 8: Ring of cracked pillars. It's possible to break them and thus collapse room 8 and everything above it. There is a 1% chance per day of this happening without outside effort at sunrise. Shelves on the walls are full of empty clay jars smelling of sap. An inscription on the west wall in Jel reads "Many become one."

Room 9: Sarcophagus made of stone. It takes a combined Strength score of 22 to move the lid. Unliving things placed inside will have decay reversed but will not be restored to life.

[m4carooni]

ultraviolence? more like ultrasensitive 😎