Detecting pancreatic cancer can be challenging for doctors. By the time they identify the disease, it’s often too late to treat effectively. But an AI model developed by the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., might be able to find signs of the disease before tumors are visible on a scan. Read more from NBC News:

https://flip.it/P4ARsQ

#Tech #AI #Health #Cancer #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

"My sister called: our father was about to die. Our parents, long divorced, were both in hospice, on opposite coasts." —Amanda Peet for The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/my-season-of-ativan?src=longreads

#longreads #family #hospice #cancer #writing #reading

#UH #Cancer Center #DataBreach affects nearly 1.2 million people

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/university-of-hawaii-cancer-center-ransomware-attack-affects-nearly-12-million-people/

#privacy #cybersecurity #healthcare

@EUCommission, developing cure would be even better.

And also cure for other detrimental viruses, like from the herpes family. Not much known, but #EBV causes #cancer and #MultipleSclerosis #MS, and #CMV puts high burden on the immune system and accelerate #aging 🙄

This is good, good news, y'all.

The #RodaleInstitute is helping #GeneralMills transition GM farms to organic farming, aka farming without chemicals -- as #RobBell puts it: that thing that for thousands of years was just called #FARMING.

AND #Sprouts is the fastest-growing retail grocery in the USA.

Whole episode is great, but what I'm referring to is 07:15 - 15:20.

https://robbell.podbean.com/e/the-return-of-rodale-jeff/

#RegionalResourceCenters
#organic
#food
#foodie
#pesticides
#cancer
#GoodNews
#3GoodThings

"Actually preventing cancer—far preferable to curing it, if less interesting—would mean asking why our cancer rates are so high in the first place." —Sofi Thanhauser for Virginia Quarterly Review https://www.vqronline.org/summer-2025/essays/profits-and-false-promises?src=longreads #health #healthcare #cancer #prevention

Discourse didn’t die from censorship.
It died from convenience — from reacting faster than we can think.
A new essay on capitalism, comment sections, and the death of thought.

🔗 philosophics.blog/2025/11/10/when-nobody-reads-capitalism-comment-sections-and-the-death-of-discourse

#Philosophy #CriticalTheory #Capitalism #Postmodernism #AntiEnlightenment #blog #psychology #AttentionEconomy #amwriting #apology #cancer #society #socialmedia #LinkedIn #criticalthinking #communication

Alt...

text and data streams flowing into a glowing bureaucratic machine, somber lighting, muted desaturated color palette (beige, grey, pale blue), faint halo of artificial light suggesting algorithmic control, inspired by Magritte and Chris Ware, intellectual atmosphere, concept art, 4k detail, cinematic composition, editorial cover style

Western liberals: "Capitalism is not the problem. The problem is crony capitalism. What we need is 'real' and 'fair' capitalism where large corporations don't have so much of the market share."

'Yeah, bruh! Cancer is not the problem. The problem is stage 4 cancer. What we need is stage 2 cancer.'

#liberals #neoliberalism #cancer #capitalism #politics #economics #analogy #metaphor #fairness #marketshare #markets #aspiration #perspective #psychology #humannature #huimancondition #philosophy

Alt...

Western liberals: "Capitalism is not the problem. The problem is crony capitalism. What we need is 'real' and 'fair' capitalism where large corporations don't have so much of the market share." 'Yeah, bruh! Cancer is not the problem. The problem is stage 4 cancer. What we need is stage 2 cancer.'

"#Vaccines are a government plot to poison us"

Distrust them but this is about #science

"Vaccines kill, not #COVID"

Vaccines harm a handful, COVID kills and maims millions

"Just get sick: immunity!"

Yes, a #vaccine trains the immune system- without the suffering

"I take #ivermectin"

That's for worms

"Stop lying. Next you'll tell me it cures cancer, LOL"

Woah!: '#COVID19 #mRNA vaccines can trigger the #immuneSystem to recognize and kill #cancer, research finds'

https://www.livescience.com/health/cancer/covid-19-mrna-vaccines-can-trigger-the-immune-system-to-recognize-and-kill-cancer-research-finds

"My hope is in the next 5 or 8 years, we will turn most cancers, many of which today are ultimate death sentences, into manageable conditions," Wright said.

[that sounds great, but #Trump has defunded #CleanEnergy, he actually wants to use #coal & other #FossilFuels which will increase #cancer rates!]

#science #law #EnvironmentalLaw #AI #tech #energy #electricity #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

…"We're going to get just massively faster progress using the computation from these #AI systems that I believe will have practical pathways to harness #fusion #energy in the next 2 or 3 years."

Wright said the #supercomputers would also help manage the US arsenal of #NuclearWeapons [Skynet anyone?] & accelerate #drug discovery by simulating ways to treat #cancer down to the
molecular level.

#science #law #EnvironmentalLaw #tech #electricity #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Exclusive: #US Dept of #Energy forms $1B #supercomputer & #AI partnership with #AMD

The US has formed a $1 billion partnership with Advanced Micro Devices to construct 2 supercomputers that will tackle large scientific problems ranging from #NuclearPower to #cancer treatments to #NationalSecurity, Energy Secy Chris Wright & AMD CEO Lisa Su told Reuters.

#science #law #EnvironmentalLaw #electricity #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-department-energy-forms-1-billion-supercomputer-ai-partnership-with-amd-2025-10-27/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Game Design Legend Rebecca Heineman’s Medical Issues
Not to repeat the title unnecessarily, but Time Extension reports that Rebecca Heineman has been diagnosed with cancer. This is a huge deal, her history in gaming goes back to the days of Electronic Games magazine! She was one of the founders of Interplay, programmed London Blitz for Avalon Hi
https://setsideb.com/game-design-legend-rebecca-heinemans-medical-issues/
#news #bardstale #cancer #GoFundMe #Interplay #news #RebeccaHeineman

#cancer #capitalism #fascism #ausgov #politas #classwar #eattherich #oppression #repression #greed #money

although I am months late in finding this out, a short eulogy for Thom Miller/Retro Guy, the creator and maintainer of RockSolid Light (RSL) - a web-based NNTP server

i have rarely known someone so dedicated to their passion project as he was. many of the features RSL came to support, like encrypted private messaging between server shards, were because folks like me naively asked "would this be possible?". suddenly, a week later, thom would post an announcement that the feature now existed and was ready for testing and feedback. sometimes he'd disappear for a week or two, only to return with an apology that he had been sick from his ongoing cancer treatments.

I consider him to be one of the most dedicated developers I've ever had the pleasure of working with, and Tomo - my fork of RSL - would have never existed without his constant willingness to lend a hand.

his death was announced on usenet. thom had been fighting pancreatic cancer for years through various treatment regimens. my condolences to his wife, who I'm sure lost a lot of time spent with thom as he worked on RSL.
https://alt.obituaries.narkive.com/k4pzKhgi/thom-miller-operator-of-novabbs-and-programmer-of-rslight-died

#usenet #cancer

I have been away from the Internet for at least a couple months. I came to quickly check my feeds and I am sad to have found report of the passing away of a very cool hacker, Thom Miller, known by the handle, Retro Guy. According to his wife Kaylen Miller, Thom died about two weeks ago from pancreatic cancer. He had a years-long struggle with cancer and multiple therapies and surgeries. During all the time of his illness he continued to hack away providing network access and software updates absolutely free to his user base. He was a strong believer in the value of open and decentralized communication for all. His software is simple and awesome, and useful for censorship-resistant communication. (https://gitlab.com/rslight-public/rocksolid-light)

Thom, known as Retro Guy, created the Rocksolid Light NNTP forums and server software. He served the hacker community as a free speech advocate and provider of free speech communication networking. He refused to censor opinions that he found offensive or stupid on the principle of the golden rule. He endured a lot of annoyances to provide service for many. Thom maintained the software for years giving web-based NNTP access to countless users. Thom was always helpful and patient with users needing assistance, even when he was feeling ill and suffering. He pushed through his pain to serve others with something he believed was a necessary tool and blessing for the general public.

I am sad to learn of Thom's passing. He will be missed and remembered. I will remember him by continuing to run his software.

More:
https://news.novabbs.org/rocksolid/article-flat.php?id=1024&group=rocksolid.nodes.help#1024

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https://news.novabbs.org/rocksolid/article-flat.php?id=560&group=rocksolid.nodes.announce#560

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https://news.novabbs.org/rocksolid/article-flat.php?id=561&group=rocksolid.nodes.announce#561

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https://www.novabbs.com/interests/article-flat.php?id=25410&group=alt.obituaries

#obituary #rocksolidlight #usenet #nntp #freespeech #cancer #condolences #networknews #retroguy #novabbs #bbs