Siobhan

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Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say they have discovered how a previously unknown group of gut bacteria can boost the efficacy of a class of anticancer drugs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/15/japan/science-health/japan-anticancer-drugs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #cancer #medicine #drugs
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs

The discovery may help raise the success rate of a type of cancer treatment that currently works for only 20% of patients who receive it.

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#Meta is building a new #AI data center that is expected to use 5 GW of #energy.

That is a staggering amount of power for one facility. For reference, on a really hot day Washington, DC and Baltimore combined use about 11 GW of energy at the peak of the day.

Andreessen was born in Iowa and grew up in Wisconsin, places famous for discrimination against white heterosexual men (NOT!). He has made billions of dollars β€” as a white heterosexual man.

Yet he wants all of us to believe that white heterosexual men have been disadvantaged, discriminated against, due to DEI.

And he and men of his ilk have a huge megaphone because, did I say, billions?

#TechBros #MarcAndreessen #PoliticsofGrievance #racism #gender #DEI #woke
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@ildiavolorosso To save anyone else a Google for per capita GDP:

US: 89,105

Australia: 64,547

@steven Yeah, but the stat is about median wealth, which is a different measure.

GDP per capita is an average. Median reflects the actual distribution.

One other small subtlety: GDP is an approximation of income (a flow) whereas wealth (a stock) is the value of what someone holds.

@ildiavolorosso Right, but if you want to make a measure of inequality out of those numbers, you'd use per capita GDP.

The median American wealth is 1.2x per capita GDP.

The median Australian wealth is 4.2x per capita GDP.

Otherwise you're mostly just comparing population numbers.