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2008.05.02 15:47 Collapse of Civilization

Discussion regarding the potential collapse of global civilization, defined as a significant decrease in human population and/or political/economic/social complexity over a considerable area, for an extended time. We seek to deepen our understanding of collapse while providing mutual support, not to document every detail of our demise.
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2010.02.16 20:01 rexjoec r/Investments: Sharing and discovering new investments and investment opportunities

Investments is a community for sharing and discovering new investments and investment opportunities, both mainstream and alternative.
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2009.01.31 02:51 ProLife

A place for Pro-Lifers of all religious, secular and political views to gather on Reddit.
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2024.05.08 22:30 aznpersuazion Artificial Intelligence is NOT a Good Career

As with most things, the opinions expressed in this post are my own. Consider this as just one data point, and not as a guide to your career.
I've been working in the Data/AI space for 5 years now and I've seen hundreds of starry eyed people wanting to work in A.I. because they want to work with the latest and coolest cutting edge technology. But I want to share with you a few reasons why A.I. is not a good career choice.
  1. A.I. positions could end up like the "data scientist" position. Looking at the history of the data scientist position, in 2010-2020, the hype around data science made it so that millions of people flocked to that position. Companies eventually realized that most them actually didn't need data science, and the impact of the position didn't always help them profit. The demand of the job has plummeted in recent years, leaving millions of aspiring data scientists unemployed or needing to pursue a different career.
  2. A.I. positions will be less than .0001% of tech engineering jobs. In the next few decades, the demand for software and data engineering roles will be much more needed at most companies that A.I. roles. Only a small group companies will a be pursuing A.I. initiatives, while the majority of companies will still need software and data engineers. But because 90% of tech news is A.I. related, there will be a massive influx of people trying to enter the space.
  3. The barriers to entry are huge. To pursue a career in A.I. and machine learning. A person's understanding of statistics and software engineering need to be extremely high. To get to that level of knowledge requires much more dedication and studying than most people imagine. Becoming a decent software engineer or data professional is already difficult for the average person.
Before you decide to pursue this as a career, it's important to consider some of the cons listed below. Perhaps consider taking a smaller step first and trying to land a job as a software engineer or data analyst. If you're already in a technical field, consider not putting all your eggs into one basket, and making sure you know enough skills to stay gainfully employed in the job market.
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2024.05.08 19:45 xd_RoamingKnight If Sweden and Estonia went to war, would it technically be the Battle of the Bastards?

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2024.05.08 17:18 fark13 Manager, Sales Analytics - NBC Sports Next - NBCUniversal - United states

Manager, Sales Analytics - NBC Sports Next - NBCUniversal - United states
Company DescriptionWe create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we’ll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.NBC Sports Next is where sports and technology intersect. We’re a subdivision of NBC Sports and home to all NBCUniversal digital applications in sports and technology within our two groups: Youth & Recreational Sports and Golf. At NBC Sports Next, we make playing sports better through innovative technology and immersive experiences for athletes, coaches, players and fans. We equip more than 30MM players, coaches, athletes, sports administrators and fans in 40 countries with dozens of sports solution products, including SportsEngine, the largest youth sports club, league and team management platform; GolfNow, the leading online tee time marketplace and provider of golf course operations technology; GolfPass the ultimate golf membership that connects golfers to exclusive content, tee time credits, and coaching, tips, and more.At NBC Sports Next we’re fueled by our mission to innovate, create larger-than-life events and connect with sports fans through technology that provides the ultimate in immersive experiences. NBC Sports Next includes three groups. This role is part of our Youth & Recreational Sports group.Youth & Recreational Sports is comprised of technology platforms, such as SportsEngine, SportsEngine Motion, TourneyMachine, and TeamUnify that enable athletes, parents, coaches and team administrators in the youth and recreational space to manage their organizations, collect payments, share schedules, find programs to participate in and connect with other families. Additionally, NCSI enables leagues and organizations to properly screen and train coaches in an effort to keep kids safe.Come join us as we work together as one team to innovate and deliver what’s Next. Job Description* The Manager, Sales Analytics supports the Youth & Rec Sports (YRS) GoToMarket teams’ efforts within NBC Sports Next. - The Manager, Sales Analytics conducts and oversees analyses focused on optimizing and understanding sales effectiveness and how it impacts marketing performance, customer retention, and lifetime customer value. - Reports to the Senior Director, Sales Strategy and Operations, and will collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Salesforce Administration, Marketing, Revenue Operations, and Product teams to deliver actionable insights and initiatives that contribute to meeting company goals. - A successful Manager will quickly build a deep understanding of the business and be able to effectively communicate results and present recommendations to the Sales leadership team. - The Manager will be hands-on, diving deep into the data for specific analyses, while staying focused on the high-level strategy and objective. QualificationsBasic Qualifications* Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience with a concentration in Business Admin, Analytics, Statistics, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Finance, or other related fields - 3+years in data analytics, data visualization, or data aggregation with preferred experience specific to the SAAS industry - Experience supporting Sales functions, either directly or indirectly. - Proficiency in Excel and working knowledge of Salesforce and SQL or other relevant data mining tools Desired Qualifications* Results-driven, strategic thinker able to thrive in a dynamic, rapid-growth environment. - Exceptional candidates will have best-in-class data skills including SQL, Excel, dataset manipulation, and data visualization. - Experience as a Data Storyteller (i.e. dive deep into the data, extract key insights and effectively communicate them to the business) Additional Job Requirements* This position has been designated as hybrid, generally contributing from the office a minimum of three days per week. - This position is based out of the Minneapolis, MN office. (Current internal remote employees may not need to relocate.) Additional InformationNBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. NBCUniversal will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative For Hiring Ordinance, where applicable.If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access nbcunicareers.com as a result of your disability. You can request reasonable accommodations by emailing [email protected].
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2024.05.08 17:18 fark13 Manager Sales Analytics NBC Sports Next - NBCUniversal - United states

Manager Sales Analytics NBC Sports Next - NBCUniversal - United states
Job Description
  • The Manager, Sales Analytics supports the Youth & Rec Sports (YRS) GoToMarket teams’ efforts within NBC Sports Next.
  • The Manager, Sales Analytics conducts and oversees analyses focused on optimizing and understanding sales effectiveness and how it impacts marketing performance, customer retention, and lifetime customer value.
  • Reports to the Senior Director, Sales Strategy and Operations, and will collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Salesforce Administration, Marketing, Revenue Operations, and Product teams to deliver actionable insights and initiatives that contribute to meeting company goals.
  • A successful Manager will quickly build a deep understanding of the business and be able to effectively communicate results and present recommendations to the Sales leadership team.
  • The Manager will be hands-on, diving deep into the data for specific analyses, while staying focused on the high-level strategy and objective.
Qualifications: Qualifications Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience with a concentration in Business Admin, Analytics, Statistics, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Finance, or other related fields
  • 3+years in data analytics, data visualization, or data aggregation with preferred experience specific to the SAAS industry
  • Experience supporting Sales functions, either directly or indirectly.
  • Proficiency in Excel and working knowledge of Salesforce and **** SQL or other relevant data mining tools
Desired Qualifications
  • Results-driven, strategic thinker able to thrive in a dynamic, rapid-growth environment.
  • Exceptional candidates will have best-in-class data skills including SQL, Excel, dataset manipulation, and data visualization.
  • Experience as a Data Storyteller (i.e. dive deep into the data, extract key insights and effectively communicate them to the business)
Additional Job Requirements
  • This position has been designated as hybrid, generally contributing from the office a minimum of three days per week.
  • This position is based out of the Minneapolis, MN office. (Current internal remote employees may not need to relocate.)
Additional Information NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. NBCUniversal will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative For Hiring Ordinance, where applicable. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access nbcunicareers.com as a result of your disability. You can request reasonable accommodations by emailing AccessibilitySupport@nbcuni.com.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience with a concentration in Business Admin, Analytics, Statistics, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Finance, or other related fields
  • 3+years in data analytics, data visualization, or data aggregation with preferred experience specific to the SAAS industry
  • Experience supporting Sales functions, either directly or indirectly.
  • Proficiency in Excel and working knowledge of Salesforce and **** SQL or other relevant data mining tools
    Desired Qualifications
  • Results-driven, strategic thinker able to thrive in a dynamic, rapid-growth environment.
  • Exceptional candidates will have best-in-class data skills including SQL, Excel, dataset manipulation, and data visualization.
  • Experience as a Data Storyteller (i.e. dive deep into the data, extract key insights and effectively communicate them to the business)
    Additional Job Requirements
  • This position has been designated as hybrid, generally contributing from the office a minimum of three days per week.
  • This position is based out of the Minneapolis, MN office. (Current internal remote employees may not need to relocate.)
Additional Information
NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. NBCUniversal will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative For Hiring Ordinance, where applicable.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access (nbcunicareers.com)(http://nbcunicareers.com/) as a result of your disability. You can request reasonable accommodations by emailing (AccessibilitySupport@nbcuni.com)(mailto:AccessibilitySupport@nbcuni.com).

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2024.05.08 12:48 No-Lab4175 【俄粉速进】世界各国每十万人中的性工作者人数

【俄粉速进】世界各国每十万人中的性工作者人数
欧洲各国每十万人中的性工作者人数
世界各国每十万人中的性工作者人数
一些比较搞笑的不可信的统计——比如传说中的德国 40 万性工作者——就不计入了。这里选取的都是个人认为相对可信的数据，然后优先选其中年份较新的。
国家 统计年份 占比（‰） 性工作者 总人口 ② 统计来源
俄罗斯 2018 20.76 3,000,000 144,477,859 Irina Maslova ③
俄罗斯 2013 6.97 1,000,000 143,506,995 Зубов, Игорь Николаевич ④
卢森堡 2010 9.86 5,000 506,953 TAMPEP ㉚
摩尔多瓦 2022 6.22 15,800 2,538,894 UNAIDS ①
瑞士 2017 2.30 20,000 8,451,840 UNAIDS ①
乌克兰 2022 2.28 86,600 38,000,000 UNAIDS ①
乌克兰 2021 1.98 86,600 43,822,901 UNAIDS ①
白俄罗斯 2022 2.02 18,600 9,228,071 UNAIDS ①
保加利亚 2018 1.92 13,500 7,025,037 UNAIDS ①
土耳其 2016 1.89 150,000 79,277,962 Ayşegül Akbay ㊱
希腊 2017 1.67 18,000 10,754,679 Γρηγόρης Λάζος ㉝
希腊 2015 1.85 20,000 10,820,883 ERRE ㉜
格鲁吉亚 2018 1.75 6,525 3,726,549 UNAIDS ①
克罗地亚 2016 1.68 7,000 4,174,349 Ivo Pilar ㉞
芬兰 2010 1.64 5,500 3,363,352 TAMPEP ㉚
意大利 2017 1.61 97,500 60,536,709 Associazione comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII ⑧
意大利 2014 1.48 90,000 60,789,140 Codacons ⑨
荷兰 2016 1.47 25,000 17,030,314 UNAIDS ⑭
斯洛伐克 2010 1.39 7,500 5,391,428 TAMPEP ㉚
捷克 2018 1.22 13,000 10,629,928 UNAIDS ①
拉脱维亚 2010 1.19 2,500 2,097,555 TAMPEP ㉚
波黑 2017 1.16 4,000 3,440,027 UNAIDS ①
英国 2016 1.11 72,800 65,611,593 Home Affairs Select Committee ⑫
英国 2015 1.12 72,816 65,116,219 BIROn ⑬
斯洛文尼亚 2010 1.10 2,250 2,048,583 TAMPEP ㉚
马耳他 2015 1.05 467 445,053 FEP ㉔
塞浦路斯 2015 0.99 1,180.5 1,187,280 FEP ㉔
西班牙 2018 0.96 45,000 46,747,754 UNAIDS ①
葡萄牙 2008 0.92 9,700 10,558,177 Le STRASS ㉔
丹麦 2020 0.77 4,500 5,831,404 Socialstyrelsen ㉛
丹麦 2010 1.00 5,560 5,547,683 TAMPEP ㉚
匈牙利 2023 0.85 8,500 9,967,308 ㉕ Földi Ágnes ㉟
爱沙尼亚 2018 0.76 1,000 1,321,977 UNAIDS ①
挪威 2010 0.67 3,300 4,889,252 TAMPEP ㉚
奥地利 2024 0.61 5,500 8,958,961 Bundeskriminalamt ㉖
奥地利 2013 0.73 6,200 8,479,823 RSO Wien ㉗
塞尔维亚 2017 0.56 3,901 7,020,858 UNAIDS ①
法国 2023 0.62 42,000 67,971,311 Le STRASS ⑩
法国 2018 0.45 30,000 67,158,348 DOS ⑪
法国 2016 0.45 30,000 66,724,104 Le STRASS ⑩
德国 2022 0.34 28,280 83,797,985 StBA ⑥
德国 2019 0.49 40,400 83,092,962 StBA ⑦
立陶宛 2010 0.45 1,400 3,097,282 TAMPEP ㉚
比利时 2021 0.26 3,046 11,586,195 MPRA ㉘
比利时 2020 0.26 3,000 11,538,604 Le Monde ㉙
爱尔兰 2017 0.21 1,000 4,807,388 UNAIDS ①
罗马尼亚 2010 0.19 3,801 20,246,871 TAMPEP ㉚
波兰 2017 0.18 7,000 37,974,826 Mariusza Jędrzejki ⑤
瑞典 2015 0.15 1,500 9,799,186 FEP ㉔
以及大家都想看的，一些欧洲之外的数据：
国家 统计年份 占比（‰） 性工作者 总人口 ② 统计来源
韩国 2024 2.84 147,000 51,784,059 ㉕ IUSW ㉑
韩国 2013 9.91 500,000 50,428,893 MOGEF ⑲
韩国 2010 24.22 1,200,000 49,554,112 KWAU ⑳
古巴 2018 7.28 82,451 11,328,244 UNAIDS ①
中国 2018 7.14 10,000,000 1,400,000,000 张丽佳 ⑮
中国 2013 4.41 6,000,000 1,360,000,000 HRW ⑯
加拿大 2017 4.64 169,473 36,545,236 Lynn Kennedy ㉓
台湾 2024 4.18 100,000 23,923,277 ㉕ IUSW ㉑
美国 2024 4.41 1,500,000 339,996,564 ㉕ IUSW ㉑
美国 2012 3.19 1,000,000 313,877,662 Gus Lubin ㉒
巴西 2017 2.62 546,848 208,504,960 UNAIDS ①
南非 2022 2.44 146,000 59,893,885 UNAIDS ①
日本 2020 2.38 300,000 126,261,000 要友紀子 ⑱
日本 2013 2.35 300,000 127,445,000 飯田泰之 ⑰
泰国 2018 2.02 144,000 71,127,802 UNAIDS ①
摩洛哥 2018 2.00 72,000 35,927,511 UNAIDS ①
菲律宾 2022 1.98 229,000 115,559,009 UNAIDS ①
墨西哥 2022 1.91 244,000 127,504,125 UNAIDS ①
蒙古 2022 1.77 6,000 3,398,366 UNAIDS ①
阿根廷 2018 1.68 74,896 44,494,502 UNAIDS ①
伊朗 2022 1.56 138,000 88,550,570 UNAIDS ①
缅甸 2018 1.25 66,000 52,666,014 UNAIDS ①
马来西亚 2021 1.10 37,000 33,573,874 UNAIDS ①
巴基斯坦 2018 1.04 228,787 219,731,479 UNAIDS ①
哈萨克斯坦 2022 1.03 20,300 19,621,972 UNAIDS ①
印度尼西亚 2022 1.01 278,000 275,501,339 UNAIDS ①
越南 2018 0.90 85,600 94,914,330 UNAIDS ①
澳大利亚 2016 0.85 20,500 24,190,907 UNAIDS ⑭
印度 2016 0.49 657,829 1,340,000,000 UNAIDS ⑭
阿富汗 2017 0.35 12,500 35,643,418 UNAIDS ①
埃及 2018 0.22 22,986 103,740,765 UNAIDS ①
①：UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS)
②：World Bank
③：Amnesty International
④：Телекомпания НТВ. МВД пересчитало российских проституток.（因为俄罗斯网站被屏蔽所以没法放链接）
⑤：Forsal
⑥：StBA (Statistisches Bundesamt)
⑦：StBA (Statistisches Bundesamt)
⑧：La Stampa
⑨：AGI (Agenzia Giornalistica Italia)
⑩：Le STRASS (Syndicat du TRAvail Sexuel)
⑪：DOS (U.S.Department of State)
⑫：Parliament of the United Kingdom
⑬：BIROn (The Birkbeck Institutional Research Online)
⑭：UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS)
⑮：Forbes
⑯：HRW (Human Rights Watch)
⑰：夜の経済学
⑱：BuzzFeed News
⑳：The Korea Times
㉑：IUSW (International Union of Sex Workers)
㉒：Business Insider
㉓：PLOS One
㉔：FEP (Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto)
㉕：UN (United Nations)
㉖：Kurier
㉗：RSO Wien (ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien)
㉘：MPRA (Munich Personal RePEc Archive)
㉙：Le Monde
㉚：TAMPEP
㉛：VIVE (The Danish Centre for Social Science Research)
㉜：The Daily Telegraph
㉝：Helpis
㉞：Jutarnji list
㉟：RTL (RTL Klub)
㊱：Milliyet
附一张全球性工作者迁徙图（原论文）：
https://preview.redd.it/r5e3qc3ms6zc1.png?width=3388&format=png&auto=webp&s=cccea33c8e4a8f845f6b137b0c53df72e90033cc
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2024.05.08 12:30 No-Lab4175 【俄粉速进】世界各国每十万人中的性工作者人数

【俄粉速进】世界各国每十万人中的性工作者人数
欧洲各国每十万人中的性工作者人数
世界各国每十万人中的性工作者人数
一些比较搞笑的不可信的统计——比如传说中的德国 40 万性工作者——就不计入了。这里选取的都是个人认为相对可信的数据，然后优先选其中年份较新的。
国家 统计年份 占比（‰） 性工作者 总人口 ② 统计来源
俄罗斯 2018 20.76 3,000,000 144,477,859 Irina Maslova ③
俄罗斯 2013 6.97 1,000,000 143,506,995 Зубов, Игорь Николаевич ④
卢森堡 2010 9.86 5,000 506,953 TAMPEP ㉚
摩尔多瓦 2022 6.22 15,800 2,538,894 UNAIDS ①
瑞士 2017 2.30 20,000 8,451,840 UNAIDS ①
乌克兰 2022 2.28 86,600 38,000,000 UNAIDS ①
乌克兰 2021 1.98 86,600 43,822,901 UNAIDS ①
白俄罗斯 2022 2.02 18,600 9,228,071 UNAIDS ①
保加利亚 2018 1.92 13,500 7,025,037 UNAIDS ①
土耳其 2016 1.89 150,000 79,277,962 Ayşegül Akbay ㊱
希腊 2017 1.67 18,000 10,754,679 Γρηγόρης Λάζος ㉝
希腊 2015 1.85 20,000 10,820,883 ERRE ㉜
格鲁吉亚 2018 1.75 6,525 3,726,549 UNAIDS ①
克罗地亚 2016 1.68 7,000 4,174,349 Ivo Pilar ㉞
芬兰 2010 1.64 5,500 3,363,352 TAMPEP ㉚
意大利 2017 1.61 97,500 60,536,709 Associazione comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII ⑧
意大利 2014 1.48 90,000 60,789,140 Codacons ⑨
荷兰 2016 1.47 25,000 17,030,314 UNAIDS ⑭
斯洛伐克 2010 1.39 7,500 5,391,428 TAMPEP ㉚
捷克 2018 1.22 13,000 10,629,928 UNAIDS ①
拉脱维亚 2010 1.19 2,500 2,097,555 TAMPEP ㉚
波黑 2017 1.16 4,000 3,440,027 UNAIDS ①
英国 2016 1.11 72,800 65,611,593 Home Affairs Select Committee ⑫
英国 2015 1.12 72,816 65,116,219 BIROn ⑬
斯洛文尼亚 2010 1.10 2,250 2,048,583 TAMPEP ㉚
马耳他 2015 1.05 467 445,053 FEP ㉔
塞浦路斯 2015 0.99 1,180.5 1,187,280 FEP ㉔
西班牙 2018 0.96 45,000 46,747,754 UNAIDS ①
葡萄牙 2008 0.92 9,700 10,558,177 Le STRASS ㉔
丹麦 2020 0.77 4,500 5,831,404 Socialstyrelsen ㉛
丹麦 2010 1.00 5,560 5,547,683 TAMPEP ㉚
匈牙利 2023 0.85 8,500 9,967,308 ㉕ Földi Ágnes ㉟
爱沙尼亚 2018 0.76 1,000 1,321,977 UNAIDS ①
挪威 2010 0.67 3,300 4,889,252 TAMPEP ㉚
奥地利 2024 0.61 5,500 8,958,961 Bundeskriminalamt ㉖
奥地利 2013 0.73 6,200 8,479,823 RSO Wien ㉗
塞尔维亚 2017 0.56 3,901 7,020,858 UNAIDS ①
法国 2023 0.62 42,000 67,971,311 Le STRASS ⑩
法国 2018 0.45 30,000 67,158,348 DOS ⑪
法国 2016 0.45 30,000 66,724,104 Le STRASS ⑩
德国 2022 0.34 28,280 83,797,985 StBA ⑥
德国 2019 0.49 40,400 83,092,962 StBA ⑦
立陶宛 2010 0.45 1,400 3,097,282 TAMPEP ㉚
比利时 2021 0.26 3,046 11,586,195 MPRA ㉘
比利时 2020 0.26 3,000 11,538,604 Le Monde ㉙
爱尔兰 2017 0.21 1,000 4,807,388 UNAIDS ①
罗马尼亚 2010 0.19 3,801 20,246,871 TAMPEP ㉚
波兰 2017 0.18 7,000 37,974,826 Mariusza Jędrzejki ⑤
瑞典 2015 0.15 1,500 9,799,186 FEP ㉔
以及大家都想看的，一些欧洲之外的数据：
国家 统计年份 占比（‰） 性工作者 总人口 ② 统计来源
韩国 2024 2.84 147,000 51,784,059 ㉕ IUSW ㉑
韩国 2013 9.91 500,000 50,428,893 MOGEF ⑲
韩国 2010 24.22 1,200,000 49,554,112 KWAU ⑳
古巴 2018 7.28 82,451 11,328,244 UNAIDS ①
中国 2018 7.14 10,000,000 1,400,000,000 张丽佳 ⑮
中国 2013 4.41 6,000,000 1,360,000,000 HRW ⑯
加拿大 2017 4.64 169,473 36,545,236 Lynn Kennedy ㉓
台湾 2024 4.18 100,000 23,923,277 ㉕ IUSW ㉑
美国 2024 4.41 1,500,000 339,996,564 ㉕ IUSW ㉑
美国 2012 3.19 1,000,000 313,877,662 Gus Lubin ㉒
巴西 2017 2.62 546,848 208,504,960 UNAIDS ①
南非 2022 2.44 146,000 59,893,885 UNAIDS ①
日本 2020 2.38 300,000 126,261,000 要友紀子 ⑱
日本 2013 2.35 300,000 127,445,000 飯田泰之 ⑰
泰国 2018 2.02 144,000 71,127,802 UNAIDS ①
摩洛哥 2018 2.00 72,000 35,927,511 UNAIDS ①
菲律宾 2022 1.98 229,000 115,559,009 UNAIDS ①
墨西哥 2022 1.91 244,000 127,504,125 UNAIDS ①
蒙古 2022 1.77 6,000 3,398,366 UNAIDS ①
阿根廷 2018 1.68 74,896 44,494,502 UNAIDS ①
伊朗 2022 1.56 138,000 88,550,570 UNAIDS ①
缅甸 2018 1.25 66,000 52,666,014 UNAIDS ①
马来西亚 2021 1.10 37,000 33,573,874 UNAIDS ①
巴基斯坦 2018 1.04 228,787 219,731,479 UNAIDS ①
哈萨克斯坦 2022 1.03 20,300 19,621,972 UNAIDS ①
印度尼西亚 2022 1.01 278,000 275,501,339 UNAIDS ①
越南 2018 0.90 85,600 94,914,330 UNAIDS ①
澳大利亚 2016 0.85 20,500 24,190,907 UNAIDS ⑭
印度 2016 0.49 657,829 1,340,000,000 UNAIDS ⑭
阿富汗 2017 0.35 12,500 35,643,418 UNAIDS ①
埃及 2018 0.22 22,986 103,740,765 UNAIDS ①
①：UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS)
②：World Bank
③：Amnesty International
④：Телекомпания НТВ. МВД пересчитало российских проституток.（因为俄罗斯网站被屏蔽所以没法放链接）
⑤：Forsal
⑥：StBA (Statistisches Bundesamt)
⑦：StBA (Statistisches Bundesamt)
⑧：La Stampa
⑨：AGI (Agenzia Giornalistica Italia)
⑩：Le STRASS (Syndicat du TRAvail Sexuel)
⑪：DOS (U.S.Department of State)
⑫：Parliament of the United Kingdom
⑬：BIROn (The Birkbeck Institutional Research Online)
⑭：UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS)
⑮：Forbes
⑯：HRW (Human Rights Watch)
⑰：夜の経済学
⑱：BuzzFeed News
⑳：The Korea Times
㉑：IUSW (International Union of Sex Workers)
㉒：Business Insider
㉓：PLOS One
㉔：FEP (Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto)
㉕：UN (United Nations)
㉖：Kurier
㉗：RSO Wien (ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien)
㉘：MPRA (Munich Personal RePEc Archive)
㉙：Le Monde
㉚：TAMPEP
㉛：VIVE (The Danish Centre for Social Science Research)
㉜：The Daily Telegraph
㉝：Helpis
㉞：Jutarnji list
㉟：RTL (RTL Klub)
㊱：Milliyet
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The story takes place on another planet or in an atmospheric spaceship setting with a similar color scheme. There is no voiceover in this cartoon (to my recollection), and the main character, if you can even call him that, is either an ordinary individual or a uniformed soldier. At the same time, various groups of characters move through tunnels, caves, or the corridors of an enormous spacecraft (another element I recall from the cartoon - it was large and imposing, with numerous mechanisms, and resembled a spaceship that could travel to distant locations). Firearms are used in fights and battles within the cartoon, though I do not remember who was fighting whom. There may have been blood and traces of deceased troops or soldiers, as well.
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2024.05.07 18:34 -jbrs Bridging the Gap [OC]

Bridging the Gap [OC]
Hey all -
I've made this post to try to reach people on the other side. I would publish on my substack, but my audience is not at all aligned unfortunately; I think it'd be best to distribute among Kennedy supporters for them to then send to people in their orbit.
I've sent to AV24 but I don't think they've seen - if anyone has a contact at the campaign or AV24, please feel free to forward to them.
Thanks,
jbrs

Bridging the Gap

The challenge in the fight on vaccines isn't the facts. It's getting people to listen.
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Roadblocks

One of the biggest challenges in Robert Kennedy Jr’s candidacy is overcoming the ‘anti-vaccine’ label. It’s weaker than it was years ago - Covid changed everything - but it’s still a barrier for a lot of people. And it’s not that they listen to his views and find them unreasonable. It’s just the way he’s been attached to the label, a conversation-ending smear so effective that people will reject him instantly and outright before he’s even had a chance to speak.
Many of the vaccine skeptical know exactly what it’s like - they were once on that side too. It’s as Guy describes above: almost all of us started off believing the institutional story, until something forced us to question it. Once people actually listen to what the other side has to say, opinions tend to change pretty quickly.
But there are a few major roadblocks preventing most people from ever beginning down that path, and I want to talk about them because they're how an official narrative as weak as the one on vaccines has been able to stand as long as it has.
One roadblock is the extreme (and engineered) stigma around the issue - the hate and derision you'll receive for questioning the consensus out loud; the social and even professional consequences you'll face. It's powerful enough for most to recoil at the faintest hint of deviation from the institutional line. It's almost a disgust reflex, and often comes with anger.
Another is the stake we naturally develop as participants. We don’t want to believe we’ve harmed ourselves and those we’re responsible for, and so there's a tendency to be too quick to accept the word of authorities who reassure us that we haven't.
Both of those have shifted significantly in recent years - the counterexamples have become too salient, too undeniable.
But there's still one impediment that is only in the early process of moving, and which continues to bar the way for many, holding the other roadblocks in place as well. It's that people simply can't imagine how our system - the system that they rely on in so many ways - could allow something like what is being claimed to take place.
People often need to understand the full scope of how something could happen before they can begin to process evidence that it is. And the implications of what the other side claims are just prima facie impossible to them, so they can't even begin to consider the evidence presented.
The system in theory works: experts in the field will call out bad science and behavior. Institutions aren't perfect but the incentives and mechanisms are in place for errors to be called out and needed improvements to be made. If the harms are real, why wouldn't the experts speak out? What motivation could they possibly have to do something like this and cover it up? And how could they possibly pull it off with so many who surely don't share the motive watching?
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The intuitive conviction is that something like significant vaccine injury simply couldn't go undetected and unaddressed. The system would never allow it. And unfortunately what it usually takes is a personal experience with the failures of the system to start seeing that the way the system works in theory is not the way it works in practice - often an injury to oneself or a loved one.
(I'm very sympathetic to those who still take the default position for this reason - I wouldn't know either if I hadn't had my own set of experiences exposing me to the holes in the institutional story.)
If such an experience happens to you, you'll be gaslit about it if you bring it to anyone's attention, just a coincidence, and some continue to fall for it. But for many that intuitive conviction is broken. Their stance begins to open a little bit. In spite of all of the once-persuasive programming, it becomes undeniable that something is clearly wrong here. And at that point you can start to really take in the evidence.
You start to see some things that really shift your intuitions. Some were things you probably saw before, but you waved them off then - marginal issues, but the system still mostly works. The experts know what they’re doing; who were you to disagree? But now these discrepancies are forcing you ask questions, and they begin to pile up.
You see example after example of corruption and incompetence in public health and the pharma industry - the number of medications recalled, the fines for fraud and unethical business practices, the way the research process has been fundamentally corrupted, the bad incentives and conflicts of interest present all throughout the industry and its regulatory bodies, the way the institution protects itself at the expense of the public it serves.
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You see massive failures in other once highly-respected institutions and organizations - sometimes amounting to plain evil. You start to wonder if medicine and public health are so different, if they are so immune to the problems that plague every other institution.
You see the way whistleblowers and dissidents lose their livelihoods and reputations through targeted character assassination campaigns, and wonder if there aren't many more who are reluctant to speak out in face of such heavy consequences.
Then maybe you start actually looking into what the anti-vaccine loonies have been saying.

Narrative and Reality

It happened for me. I went to a chiropractor's office once many years ago and remember shaking my head in disbelief seeing the Vaccines Revealed series on display on the check out desk. It was a feeling of second-hand embarrassment and sharp judgment - don't you know all of that's been debunked? I didn't actually even know the claims made in the series or anything else about it - I just knew that everyone knows it's BS.
But eventually, I'm not sure exactly what prompted it, I watched some of the interviews. Maybe it was like this - I'd been confidently wrong before.
So I listened... and what I heard actually made sense. It wasn't what I was expecting, the tired and easily dispatched arguments I was sure would be presented. These were intelligent and knowledgeable people, often experienced doctors and nurses, once fully behind the program, but sacrificing their careers and the esteem of their peers to speak out about what they had come to see as a terrible injustice.
(Robert Kennedy Jr was one of those interviewed, and I remember I had a skepticism of him when I first saw him even though I didn't know anything about him; this strange closed stance I found myself taking even though I couldn't place or understand why exactly I took it. I must have absorbed it through all the negative coverage he received... He's become one of my greatest heroes in the time since.)
What I found is that these people on the other side generally seemed more knowledgeable, often a lot more, in the rare instances where engagement between the two sides was allowed. [1][2][3]
And I looked deeper and deeper. I wasn't sure about my ability to parse every claim, but when I'd read the rebuttals from the leading vaccine-proponents like Paul Offit or Peter Hotez, they just wouldn't even be in touch with what the opposition was saying. Often there would be major gaps in logic and other errors, but they were dismissive and certain enough in the presentation that nobody would have the confidence to call them out on it.
They seemed to be relying on the perception of authority and the stigma they'd created to intimidate observers out of actually thinking through the relevant issues.
They were hiding something - that much was clear to me.
And there's this idea of 'The Noble Lie' that the anti-vax side will often talk about. The gist is that the pro-vax side knows that there are merits to what the opposition is saying, but believe that they can't allow the public to know. Vaccines are too good, too important to allow debate to happen on the topic.
There's a section from the June 1984 Federal Register that seems to confirm this:
However, although the continued availability of the vaccine may not be in immediate jeopardy, any possible doubts, whether or not well founded*, about the safety of the vaccine cannot be allowed to exist in view of the need to assure that the vaccine will continue to be used to the maximum extent consistent with the nation’s public health objectives.*
And there’s more recent confirmation too -
https://reddit.com/link/1cmg7nz/video/es72g2ay41zc1/player
But here's the problem: they don't actually know the risk-benefit profile. They've never done the needed studies - long term data, true placebo controls, cumulative impact - though they'll lie to you about it.
They seem to just believe that given that there's so great a benefit, and the risk of injury seems so marginal, how could they ever let the program get called into question? How could they potentially let the progress against terrible, vaccine-preventable diseases be reversed?
Their own statements indicate it. This was what they said after they realized that infants were being exposed to levels of mercury far exceeding the federal guidelines:
The recognition that some children could be exposed to a cumulative level of mercury over the first six months of life that exceeds one of the federal guidelines on methyl mercury now requires a weighing of two different types of risks when vaccinating infants. On the one hand, there is the known serious risk of diseases and deaths caused by failure to immunize our infants against vaccine-preventable infectious diseases; on the other, there is the unknown and probably much smaller risk, if any, of neuro-developmental effects posed by exposure to thimerosal. The large risks of not vaccinating children far outweigh the unknown and probably much smaller risk, if any, of cumulative exposure to thimerosal-containing vaccines over the first six months of life.
Joint Statement of The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Public Health Service (FDA & CDC), July 7, 1999
Wanting to maintain public confidence in the program is the most charitable explanation for their deception, and I think it is the main force, though I think there are less charitable explanations that factor in too.
But even good intentions are no guarantee of a positive outcome. And people should expect problems to metastasize in precisely the areas where institutions have insulated themselves from scrutiny.
We’ve seen what happens when our leaders stifle dissent in service of the ‘greater good’:
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But before going into the risks of vaccines, understand that even the purported benefits should be called into question.
There's the widely quoted Guyer study -
The major declines in child mortality that occurred in the first third of the 20th century have been attributable to a combination of improved socioeconomic conditions in this country and the public health strategies to protect the health of Americans. [...] Vaccination, while first used in the 18th century, became more widely implemented in the middle part of the century. Vaccines against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis became available during the late 1920s but only widely used in routine pediatric practice after World War II. Thus vaccination does not account for the impressive declines in mortality seen in the first half of the century.
The book Dissolving Illusions also goes into this history and how the gains that have been attributed to vaccines have to be scrutinized, and that many of them owe to improvements in sanitation and nutrition.
I won't try to make the full case here, but the thing to understand is that there is systematic pressure to inflate perception of vaccine effectiveness at every turn going back decades and decades, and every single assumption and measurement has to be questioned because you can be damn sure it is not happening within the institutions.
From a study from 2005, before these processes of capture and suppression had achieved complete control and keen observers could still point out what was happening:
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And there's more, but that's all you need for a 'how'. Science is a human enterprise, subject to all of the human biases and failings that lead to massive errors in other domains. Groupthink, greed, self-protection, incompetence - public health and medicine are not somehow immune to them. If this was ever in doubt, it became clear to many during the COVID response.
Now as for the risks.
The number of mothers who know that their child was injured by vaccines - perfectly fine before, and then suddenly symptomatic, falling behind on milestones just after a 'wellness' visit - should tell you something.
The billions that have been paid out through the extremely arduous vaccine injury compensation program, which only a small fraction of vaccine injury parents can see through to completion, should tell you something.
The dramatic increases in autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders we've seen over the last few decades, coincident with a dramatic increase in the vaccine schedule), should tell you something.
It's not increased rates of diagnosis, as much as they want you to believe it:
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I've always liked this quote -
The thing I have noticed is when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. There's something wrong with the way you are measuring it.
Jeff Bezos
And it's not exactly crazy to think that injecting, e.g., aluminum and mercury into babies could have some negative health consequences. Given the plausibility of the mechanism, the anecdotes should carry even more weight.
But shouldn't any claims from anecdotes bear out in the data? [4] Yeah, the system should work in theory. But the reality is a different story -
The whistleblower was senior CDC scientist Dr. William Thompson
Slate received so much pushback for publishing this article that they had to publish a letter from the editor defending the decision - I subscribed based on their courage
https://reddit.com/link/1cmg7nz/video/x4ljagtq51zc1/player

Getting to the Truth

I won’t try to make a full case here - there is just too much.
But I’m not hoping to convince you that vaccines are unsafe or ineffective. I just want to give enough for anyone willing to listen to realize there's something going on here; that these agencies need an absolute overhaul, and that there needs to be a full investigation into what's taken place here with accountability for everyone involved.
Experts and institutions aren’t infallible; they need to be pushed back on and scrutinized.
When they are, long held consensus can often change:
This happened only after an arduous fight with the FDA
[1] - RFK Jr discussing vaccine safety with a family physician in his NewsNation town hall (2023)
[2] - JB Handley on The Doctors (2009)
[3] - Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy on Larry King (2009)
[4] - In the rare event a genuine comparison is made, some studies have found rather concerning results - but the findings are ignored and the researchers ridiculed for giving fodder to anti-vaxxers
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2024.05.07 17:33 fark13 Director, Marketing Analytics and Technology - NBC Sports Next and Fandango - NBCUniversal - United states

Director, Marketing Analytics and Technology - NBC Sports Next and Fandango - NBCUniversal - United states
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2024.05.07 17:33 fark13 Manager, Sales Analytics - NBC Sports Next - NBCUniversal - United states

Manager, Sales Analytics - NBC Sports Next - NBCUniversal - United states
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Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we’ll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.NBC Sports Next is where sports and technology intersect. We’re a subdivision of NBC Sports and home to all NBCUniversal digital applications in sports and technology within our two groups: Youth & Recreational Sports and Golf. At NBC Sports Next, we make playing sports better through innovative technology and immersive experiences for athletes, coaches, players and fans. We equip more than 30MM players, coaches, athletes, sports administrators and fans in 40 countries with dozens of sports solution products, including SportsEngine, the largest youth sports club, league and team management platform; GolfNow, the leading online tee time marketplace and provider of golf course operations technology; GolfPass the ultimate golf membership that connects golfers to exclusive content, tee time credits, and coaching, tips, and more.At NBC Sports Next we’re fueled by our mission to innovate, create larger-than-life events and connect with sports fans through technology that provides the ultimate in immersive experiences. NBC Sports Next includes three groups. This role is part of our Youth & Recreational Sports group.Youth & Recreational Sports is comprised of technology platforms, such as SportsEngine, SportsEngine Motion, TourneyMachine, and TeamUnify that enable athletes, parents, coaches and team administrators in the youth and recreational space to manage their organizations, collect payments, share schedules, find programs to participate in and connect with other families. Additionally, NCSI enables leagues and organizations to properly screen and train coaches in an effort to keep kids safe.Come join us as we work together as one team to innovate and deliver what’s Next. Job Description* The Manager, Sales Analytics supports the Youth & Rec Sports (YRS) GoToMarket teams’ efforts within NBC Sports Next. - The Manager, Sales Analytics conducts and oversees analyses focused on optimizing and understanding sales effectiveness and how it impacts marketing performance, customer retention, and lifetime customer value. - Reports to the Senior Director, Sales Strategy and Operations, and will collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Salesforce Administration, Marketing, Revenue Operations, and Product teams to deliver actionable insights and initiatives that contribute to meeting company goals. - A successful Manager will quickly build a deep understanding of the business and be able to effectively communicate results and present recommendations to the Sales leadership team. - The Manager will be hands-on, diving deep into the data for specific analyses, while staying focused on the high-level strategy and objective. 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2024.05.07 00:09 TarotLessTraveled Le Mat's Shredded Leggings (cross-post)

Le Mat's Shredded Leggings (cross-post)
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Le Mat journeys through the countryside with his few possessions in a bindle secured to a staff he grasps with his left hand and balanced over his right shoulder. In his right hand, he has a trekking pole. We don’t know how far he has traveled; nor do we know where he is going, but he is accompanied by an animal, though “accompanied” may be an inaccurate description; we are uncertain what the relationship is, just as we cannot say definitively what animal shares the frame with him: for most, it is a cat or dog; in the Noblet it looks more like a lynx.
Yoav Ben-Dov writes “the illustrated figure suggests a ‘village fool’ being chased by dogs”;[i] Fred Gettings, somewhat along the same lines, states it is a “rather sad card, which portrays a vagabond harassed by a fierce animal.” [ii] Neither interpretation resonates for me since Le Mat’s expression is imperturbable, presenting no indication he is even aware of the animal behind him, let alone that he is being chased or harassed by it. His eyes are up, presumably gazing toward some distant horizon; and the animal, at least in my view, does not appear at all menacing. Rather, it seems the cat (to me the animal looks more like a cat than either a dog or lynx) may be pushing Le Mat onward – a perception proposed by both Fred Gettings “the simplest interpretation must be that the creature represents the emotions driving the man along” and Alejandro Jodorowsky “Because he is now The Fool’s friend, the animal collaborates with him and pushes him forward.” [iii] However, when I am in a more melancholy state, it seems equally possible to me the cat is trying to prevent Le Mat from leaving (and leaving him behind).
Whatever the truth of the matter, the cat (or dog or lynx) has been widely blamed for shredding Le Mat’s hose, and it is certainly possible, though that also is speculation. It may be that Le Mat’s leggings were torn in some other way, and the hanging shreds are what attracted the animal’s attention.
Yoav Ben-Dov writes, “The exposed buttock scratched by the animal (a dog or a cat) may symbolize a weakness or a vulnerable point of which the querent is oblivious”; it is an interesting thought which merits consideration, but it is also a completely baffling statement insofar as in the CBD – the Conver update he created – Le Mat’s buttock is not exposed.
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Which leads to the most curious observation about this image: Le Mat wears a bright, multicolored tunic, complete with bells sown onto his collar, and a golden cowl, but his leggings and sleeves are flesh-colored and so tightly-fitting that from a distance, we might easily mistake them for his naked skin, particularly in the Ben-Dov revision in which they are the exact same color as his face and hands (in the majority of historical cards, the leggings and sleeves are flesh-colored while Le Mat’s face and hands are unnaturally white). We see the same thing in the Camoin-Jodorowsky deck: the figure is very colorful, and Jodorowsky’s commentaries are full of the symbolic resonances that result from colors. He writes, “we see a figure striding resolutely, wearing red shoes, while digging a red staff into the ground with every step” along a path that “becomes light blue as he sets foot upon it … [advancing] over a pure and receptive ground that he makes sacred as he wanders across it.... His flesh-colored beggar’s pouch is lit from within by a yellow light. The bindle staff he is carrying is light blue and ends in a kind of spoon. It is a receptive axis that carries the light of Consciousness, the essential, the useful substratum of experience. A tiny green leaf, the symbol of eternity, is concealed in his hand holding this staff.... On The Fool’s belt we see four small yellow bells.... the animal, which has become receptive, is light blue in color.... The Fool’s costume is red and green. He is essentially bearing animal life and plant life within. But his light-blue sleeves indicate that his activity, symbolized by his arms, is spiritualized, and his yellow cap bears the light of intelligence. Two half-moons can be seen on his cap. One of them, light yellow framed by an orange circle, is pointed toward the sky. The other, located on the red ball at the end of the back portion of his cap, is pointing toward the ground. The red moon represents the total gift of action, and the yellow moon represents the total reception of Consciousness.”
It is a virtual pallet of colors and meaning, yet not one word about his flesh-colored hose and tight sleeves. It beggars the mind that perhaps the most significant aspect of the image is never addressed. Nor does his student, Yoav Ben-Dov, mention this curious detail; he talks about Daoist and Zen philosophies, what we see in modern English-style decks, but nothing about this intriguing element, let alone how it contributes to our understanding of the card.
When Jean Noblet created his deck in 1650, Le Fou was very much exposed – far more than a buttock! – blissfully ignorant of the pain he was about to experience. It is a very different kind of image than we see in other TdMs, one deserving of elucidation. Unfortunately, we get very little of that either. Jean-Claude Flornoy writes “his buttocks and genitals [are] exposed so that they are accessible for his next sexual encounter.” [iv] It is a bit underwhelming considering this is probably the most iconic image in the entire deck. J. M. David does not add much insight either, observing that Le Fou does not wear any “short-like ‘underwear’ braies,” and “the exposure of his genitals adds to the sense that he is perhaps a ‘simpleton’ upon whom has been given the privilege of bearing the day’s crown.” [v] He does not speculate any further than this. The only writer who does seem to ponder what the image might actually signify is Robert Swiryn, who proposes, “This odd image can therefore be viewed as a vulgar affront by the Cathars (represented by the Fool) to the “dogs” of the Church, who they held in contempt. Just like the lampooning of a medieval political cartoon, the creators of the Tarot of Marseilles would have used this subversive image to ridicule their persecutors. In a sense, this card makes a statement of defiance: that even in the darkness of the aftermath of the Cathar repression, the Fool walks on with the knowledge that his spirit cannot be conquered, but lives on in each and every one of us.” [vi] It is an interesting idea, fitting nicely with his overall theory; it seems unlikely we will ever know whether his hypothesis is correct, but at least he gives us something to think about.
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https://preview.redd.it/n00refqoqvyc1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=288fd662aa5aec628c75515452439bd75137bd0d
Very few master cardmakers that came after Noblet in the TdM and related traditions followed in his wake; those that did offered a more modest image. In Noblet, Le Fou wears dark green hose with a red waistband; in the Coly, gold with red; in the 1880 Conver, which appears to have inspired Paul Marteau (who himself inspired others in the modern era), Le Mat’s leggings are blue, clearly showing the fleshy buttock beneath, an image that seems to fit Ben-Dov’s comment far better than his own creation.
All this begs the question, “what does this divergence mean?”
Any speculation must start with the general symbolism of clothing: typically, clothes manifest the persona, which is a term popularized by the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and taken from the Latin word used to signify the masks that actors used in the theater in ancient Greece and Rome. Although plays consisted of parts for many characters, there were often far too few actors to perform them separately, so they had to play multiple roles; the vast majority of actors were male, so these had to play female parts as well. An actor might be a King in one scene, a beggar in the next, a witch in another and keep going back and forth between these roles, so he would don a different mask for each. The audience knew it was the same actor, but the mask he wore let them know which role he was playing and allowed them to, in the words of British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “willingly suspend their disbelief” and thereby enter into a state of mind that allowed them to accept even the most implausible of narratives without interference of critical thinking.
The persona, then, is an outward display; it is meant to convey our social position or emotional state. Our personas allow us to enter into and function in society in essentially predictable ways. They do not typically reveal our individuality.
Many times, people wear uniforms or costumes that allow others to identify and interact with them in their social roles, so we see they are policeman, firefighters, doctors, priests, etc. We expect business professionals to wear suits and ties, not flip-flops and ripped jeans when we meet with them. They might wear far more casual clothing when they are at home, but our expectations make such dress inappropriate when they are at work.
When we look at Le Mat, we generally do not think about the man; we do not wonder whether he has a family or whether he worries about his mortality, whether he is passing through the dark night of the soul or is at heart a sculptor or composer. We see the habiliments of his profession, and we judge him on that basis alone. In nearly every commentary, he is referred to as a fool, and some even wonder whether he is mentally unstable or is going round his walking staff in an endless circle (ideas that would never occur to anyone were he dressed differently!): no one wonders whether he might be another Einstein or Abelard. Such musings are irrelevant: he is, for us, nothing more nor less than the function he fulfills in our community.
In the more popular variation, his hose and long sleeves are flesh-colored. These elements are then at odds with the rest of his costume. They signify human warmth (this also puts them at odds with the deathly pallor of his face and hands). Sometimes we construct our personas to reveal how we wish others to see us: a person may wear certain clothing to suggest he is more financially successful than he really is, or another person may wear clothing to identify her with a community that she may belong to or one to which she would like to belong. We select clothes often to set up other people’s perceptions of us, so even people unknown to us will be able to discern certain of our values (at least those we want them to perceive) just by observing our surface appearances.
Le Mat is not trying to hide that he is a jester by trade; he is not covering his colorful tunic or silencing his bells, for instance, but his leggings and sleeves suggests that he also hopes others will see an individual within, someone to whom they might relate on a more human level. However, when the flesh-colored coverings are torn away, we see that underneath them is more of his costume, and this suggests that his persona is closer to his “skin” than any human individuality. It may also indicate that even though he may wish to belong to the greater community (“I had rather be any kind o' thing than a fool”) [vii] by showing off the same flesh that defines them, it is sadly not to be: he cannot belong because he is incapable of disidentifying himself with his social role; even the animal traveling with him which likely represents some instinctual aspect of him connects to (or possibly reveals by shredding his hose) the collective character which so completely envelops him.
The less popular variation suggests the opposite, very much along the lines of what Ben-Dov wrote. Beneath the costume is a man, and beneath the costume of civilized man is an instinctual/animal nature that we mostly would prefer to forget. The shredded hose reveals not merely flesh but the basest aspect of humanity, associated with the most crude and carnal functions that define us, such as excreting waste (not to mention expulsions of stinking gasses) and engaging in sexual intercourse. Undeveloped, it is the source of the “infantile ego,” Freud’s id, that acts on impulse and desire; it is symbolic of all that of which we are most ashamed and go to the greatest lengths to deny and cover with the trappings of culture.
In his traditional role as trickster, the court fool would frequently play upon this collective self-disgust, letting out loud, ostentatious farts during the most solemn of ceremonies, for he was the one who had no shame and was always an outsider.
However, we have no reason to suspect Le Mat even realizes he has been exposed; his torn leggings and visible buttock may, as Ben-Dov writes, exist to “symbolize a weakness or a vulnerable point of which the querent is oblivious.”
Related to the idea of the persona is Jung’s notion of the shadow, which consists of all the psychological elements and attitudes of which the individual is not aware. Other people can see them rather easily, just as we see what is beneath Le Mat’s hose, but because of where the rip is, Le Mat himself cannot see what parts of him are exposed and does not know what he is showing to the outer world. He believes they are seeing only what he wants them to see, the exterior he has dressed himself in, but far more is revealed than he had any intention of divulging.
For Marteau’s Le Mat, it is the instinctive part of man that shows out the back, just a corner, a part of him he does not wish to display. It matches in color the bindle he carries with him and serves very much the same purpose; it is a constant reminder that man must ever bear the inheritance of his fall into corporeality as he pursues his evolutionary journey.
[i] Ben-Dov, Yoav. Tarot: The Open Reading. CreateSpace, 2011, 2013.
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[ii] Gettings, Fred. Tarot: How to Read the Future. Chancellor Press, 1993.
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[iii] Ibid; Jodorowsky, Alejandro. The Way of Tarot: The Spiritual Teacher in the Cards. Translated by Jon E. Graham. Destiny Books: Rochester, Vermont • Toronto, Canada, 2004.
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[iv] Jean-Claude Flornoy. Seeing the World: Tarot Signposts on the Path to Perception. Translated and annotated by David Vine.
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[v] David, J-M. Reading the Marseille Tarot. Association for Tarot Studies, 2011.
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[vi] Swiryn, Robert. The Secrets of the Tarot: How the Story of the Cathars was Concealed in the Tarot of Marseilles. Pau Hana Publishing, 2010.
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[vii] Shakespeare, William. King Lear. 1.4.180
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2024.05.07 00:07 TarotLessTraveled Le Mat's Shredded Leggings

Le Mat's Shredded Leggings
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Le Mat journeys through the countryside with his few possessions in a bindle secured to a staff he grasps with his left hand and balanced over his right shoulder. In his right hand, he has a trekking pole. We don’t know how far he has traveled; nor do we know where he is going, but he is accompanied by an animal, though “accompanied” may be an inaccurate description; we are uncertain what the relationship is, just as we cannot say definitively what animal shares the frame with him: for most, it is a cat or dog; in the Noblet it looks more like a lynx.
Yoav Ben-Dov writes “the illustrated figure suggests a ‘village fool’ being chased by dogs”;[i] Fred Gettings, somewhat along the same lines, states it is a “rather sad card, which portrays a vagabond harassed by a fierce animal.” [ii] Neither interpretation resonates for me since Le Mat’s expression is imperturbable, presenting no indication he is even aware of the animal behind him, let alone that he is being chased or harassed by it. His eyes are up, presumably gazing toward some distant horizon; and the animal, at least in my view, does not appear at all menacing. Rather, it seems the cat (to me the animal looks more like a cat than either a dog or lynx) may be pushing Le Mat onward – a perception proposed by both Fred Gettings “the simplest interpretation must be that the creature represents the emotions driving the man along” and Alejandro Jodorowsky “Because he is now The Fool’s friend, the animal collaborates with him and pushes him forward.” [iii] However, when I am in a more melancholy state, it seems equally possible to me the cat is trying to prevent Le Mat from leaving (and leaving him behind).
Whatever the truth of the matter, the cat (or dog or lynx) has been widely blamed for shredding Le Mat’s hose, and it is certainly possible, though that also is speculation. It may be that Le Mat’s leggings were torn in some other way, and the hanging shreds are what attracted the animal’s attention.
Yoav Ben-Dov writes, “The exposed buttock scratched by the animal (a dog or a cat) may symbolize a weakness or a vulnerable point of which the querent is oblivious”; it is an interesting thought which merits consideration, but it is also a completely baffling statement insofar as in the CBD – the Conver update he created – Le Mat’s buttock is not exposed.
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https://preview.redd.it/3sjmlhf6qvyc1.png?width=785&format=png&auto=webp&s=e1ba58a99f2552e790e5499cb34a32587cf8b670
Which leads to the most curious observation about this image: Le Mat wears a bright, multicolored tunic, complete with bells sown onto his collar, and a golden cowl, but his leggings and sleeves are flesh-colored and so tightly-fitting that from a distance, we might easily mistake them for his naked skin, particularly in the Ben-Dov revision in which they are the exact same color as his face and hands (in the majority of historical cards, the leggings and sleeves are flesh-colored while Le Mat’s face and hands are unnaturally white). We see the same thing in the Camoin-Jodorowsky deck: the figure is very colorful, and Jodorowsky’s commentaries are full of the symbolic resonances that result from colors. He writes, “we see a figure striding resolutely, wearing red shoes, while digging a red staff into the ground with every step” along a path that “becomes light blue as he sets foot upon it … [advancing] over a pure and receptive ground that he makes sacred as he wanders across it.... His flesh-colored beggar’s pouch is lit from within by a yellow light. The bindle staff he is carrying is light blue and ends in a kind of spoon. It is a receptive axis that carries the light of Consciousness, the essential, the useful substratum of experience. A tiny green leaf, the symbol of eternity, is concealed in his hand holding this staff.... On The Fool’s belt we see four small yellow bells.... the animal, which has become receptive, is light blue in color.... The Fool’s costume is red and green. He is essentially bearing animal life and plant life within. But his light-blue sleeves indicate that his activity, symbolized by his arms, is spiritualized, and his yellow cap bears the light of intelligence. Two half-moons can be seen on his cap. One of them, light yellow framed by an orange circle, is pointed toward the sky. The other, located on the red ball at the end of the back portion of his cap, is pointing toward the ground. The red moon represents the total gift of action, and the yellow moon represents the total reception of Consciousness.”
It is a virtual pallet of colors and meaning, yet not one word about his flesh-colored hose and tight sleeves. It beggars the mind that perhaps the most significant aspect of the image is never addressed. Nor does his student, Yoav Ben-Dov, mention this curious detail; he talks about Daoist and Zen philosophies, what we see in modern English-style decks, but nothing about this intriguing element, let alone how it contributes to our understanding of the card.
When Jean Noblet created his deck in 1650, Le Fou was very much exposed – far more than a buttock! – blissfully ignorant of the pain he was about to experience. It is a very different kind of image than we see in other TdMs, one deserving of elucidation. Unfortunately, we get very little of that either. Jean-Claude Flornoy writes “his buttocks and genitals [are] exposed so that they are accessible for his next sexual encounter.” [iv] It is a bit underwhelming considering this is probably the most iconic image in the entire deck. J. M. David does not add much insight either, observing that Le Fou does not wear any “short-like ‘underwear’ braies,” and “the exposure of his genitals adds to the sense that he is perhaps a ‘simpleton’ upon whom has been given the privilege of bearing the day’s crown.” [v] He does not speculate any further than this. The only writer who does seem to ponder what the image might actually signify is Robert Swiryn, who proposes, “This odd image can therefore be viewed as a vulgar affront by the Cathars (represented by the Fool) to the “dogs” of the Church, who they held in contempt. Just like the lampooning of a medieval political cartoon, the creators of the Tarot of Marseilles would have used this subversive image to ridicule their persecutors. In a sense, this card makes a statement of defiance: that even in the darkness of the aftermath of the Cathar repression, the Fool walks on with the knowledge that his spirit cannot be conquered, but lives on in each and every one of us.” [vi] It is an interesting idea, fitting nicely with his overall theory; it seems unlikely we will ever know whether his hypothesis is correct, but at least he gives us something to think about.
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https://preview.redd.it/dcc7lgi9qvyc1.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=74dbef7b08ab94c5ebb1e9bc204e1972be6e60d4
Very few master cardmakers that came after Noblet in the TdM and related traditions followed in his wake; those that did offered a more modest image. In Noblet, Le Fou wears dark green hose with a red waistband; in the Coly, gold with red; in the 1880 Conver, which appears to have inspired Paul Marteau (who himself inspired others in the modern era), Le Mat’s leggings are blue, clearly showing the fleshy buttock beneath, an image that seems to fit Ben-Dov’s comment far better than his own creation.
All this begs the question, “what does this divergence mean?”
Any speculation must start with the general symbolism of clothing: typically, clothes manifest the persona, which is a term popularized by the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and taken from the Latin word used to signify the masks that actors used in the theater in ancient Greece and Rome. Although plays consisted of parts for many characters, there were often far too few actors to perform them separately, so they had to play multiple roles; the vast majority of actors were male, so these had to play female parts as well. An actor might be a King in one scene, a beggar in the next, a witch in another and keep going back and forth between these roles, so he would don a different mask for each. The audience knew it was the same actor, but the mask he wore let them know which role he was playing and allowed them to, in the words of British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “willingly suspend their disbelief” and thereby enter into a state of mind that allowed them to accept even the most implausible of narratives without interference of critical thinking.
The persona, then, is an outward display; it is meant to convey our social position or emotional state. Our personas allow us to enter into and function in society in essentially predictable ways. They do not typically reveal our individuality.
Many times, people wear uniforms or costumes that allow others to identify and interact with them in their social roles, so we see they are policeman, firefighters, doctors, priests, etc. We expect business professionals to wear suits and ties, not flip-flops and ripped jeans when we meet with them. They might wear far more casual clothing when they are at home, but our expectations make such dress inappropriate when they are at work.
When we look at Le Mat, we generally do not think about the man; we do not wonder whether he has a family or whether he worries about his mortality, whether he is passing through the dark night of the soul or is at heart a sculptor or composer. We see the habiliments of his profession, and we judge him on that basis alone. In nearly every commentary, he is referred to as a fool, and some even wonder whether he is mentally unstable or is going round his walking staff in an endless circle (ideas that would never occur to anyone were he dressed differently!): no one wonders whether he might be another Einstein or Abelard. Such musings are irrelevant: he is, for us, nothing more nor less than the function he fulfills in our community.
In the more popular variation, his hose and long sleeves are flesh-colored. These elements are then at odds with the rest of his costume. They signify human warmth (this also puts them at odds with the deathly pallor of his face and hands). Sometimes we construct our personas to reveal how we wish others to see us: a person may wear certain clothing to suggest he is more financially successful than he really is, or another person may wear clothing to identify her with a community that she may belong to or one to which she would like to belong. We select clothes often to set up other people’s perceptions of us, so even people unknown to us will be able to discern certain of our values (at least those we want them to perceive) just by observing our surface appearances.
Le Mat is not trying to hide that he is a jester by trade; he is not covering his colorful tunic or silencing his bells, for instance, but his leggings and sleeves suggests that he also hopes others will see an individual within, someone to whom they might relate on a more human level. However, when the flesh-colored coverings are torn away, we see that underneath them is more of his costume, and this suggests that his persona is closer to his “skin” than any human individuality. It may also indicate that even though he may wish to belong to the greater community (“I had rather be any kind o' thing than a fool”) [vii] by showing off the same flesh that defines them, it is sadly not to be: he cannot belong because he is incapable of disidentifying himself with his social role; even the animal traveling with him which likely represents some instinctual aspect of him connects to (or possibly reveals by shredding his hose) the collective character which so completely envelops him.
The less popular variation suggests the opposite, very much along the lines of what Ben-Dov wrote. Beneath the costume is a man, and beneath the costume of civilized man is an instinctual/animal nature that we mostly would prefer to forget. The shredded hose reveals not merely flesh but the basest aspect of humanity, associated with the most crude and carnal functions that define us, such as excreting waste (not to mention expulsions of stinking gasses) and engaging in sexual intercourse. Undeveloped, it is the source of the “infantile ego,” Freud’s id, that acts on impulse and desire; it is symbolic of all that of which we are most ashamed and go to the greatest lengths to deny and cover with the trappings of culture.
In his traditional role as trickster, the court fool would frequently play upon this collective self-disgust, letting out loud, ostentatious farts during the most solemn of ceremonies, for he was the one who had no shame and was always an outsider.
However, we have no reason to suspect Le Mat even realizes he has been exposed; his torn leggings and visible buttock may, as Ben-Dov writes, exist to “symbolize a weakness or a vulnerable point of which the querent is oblivious.”
Related to the idea of the persona is Jung’s notion of the shadow, which consists of all the psychological elements and attitudes of which the individual is not aware. Other people can see them rather easily, just as we see what is beneath Le Mat’s hose, but because of where the rip is, Le Mat himself cannot see what parts of him are exposed and does not know what he is showing to the outer world. He believes they are seeing only what he wants them to see, the exterior he has dressed himself in, but far more is revealed than he had any intention of divulging.
For Marteau’s Le Mat, it is the instinctive part of man that shows out the back, just a corner, a part of him he does not wish to display. It matches in color the bindle he carries with him and serves very much the same purpose; it is a constant reminder that man must ever bear the inheritance of his fall into corporeality as he pursues his evolutionary journey.
[i] Ben-Dov, Yoav. Tarot: The Open Reading. CreateSpace, 2011, 2013.
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[ii] Gettings, Fred. Tarot: How to Read the Future. Chancellor Press, 1993.
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[iii] Ibid; Jodorowsky, Alejandro. The Way of Tarot: The Spiritual Teacher in the Cards. Translated by Jon E. Graham. Destiny Books: Rochester, Vermont • Toronto, Canada, 2004.
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[iv] Jean-Claude Flornoy. Seeing the World: Tarot Signposts on the Path to Perception. Translated and annotated by David Vine.
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[v] David, J-M. Reading the Marseille Tarot. Association for Tarot Studies, 2011.
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[vi] Swiryn, Robert. The Secrets of the Tarot: How the Story of the Cathars was Concealed in the Tarot of Marseilles. Pau Hana Publishing, 2010.
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[vii] Shakespeare, William. King Lear. 1.4.180
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2024.05.06 22:30 aznpersuazion Artificial Intelligence is NOT a Good Career

As with most things, the opinions expressed in this post are my own. Consider this as just one data point, and not as a guide to your career.
I've been working in the Data/AI space for 5 years now and I've seen hundreds of starry eyed people wanting to work in A.I. because they want to work with the latest and coolest cutting edge technology. But I want to share with you a few reasons why A.I. is not a good career choice.
  1. A.I. positions could end up like the "data scientist" position. Looking at the history of the data scientist position, in 2010-2020, the hype around data science made it so that millions of people flocked to that position. Companies eventually realized that most them actually didn't need data science, and the impact of the position didn't always help them profit. The demand of the job has plummeted in recent years, leaving millions of aspiring data scientists unemployed or needing to pursue a different career.
  2. A.I. positions will be less than .0001% of tech engineering jobs. In the next few decades, the demand for software and data engineering roles will be much more needed at most companies that A.I. roles. Only a small group companies will a be pursuing A.I. initiatives, while the majority of companies will still need software and data engineers. But because 90% of tech news is A.I. related, there will be a massive influx of people trying to enter the space.
  3. The barriers to entry are huge. To pursue a career in A.I. and machine learning. A person's understanding of statistics and software engineering need to be extremely high. To get to that level of knowledge requires much more dedication and studying than most people imagine. Becoming a decent software engineer or data professional is already difficult for the average person.
Before you decide to pursue this as a career, it's important to consider some of the cons listed below. Perhaps consider taking a smaller step first and trying to land a job as a software engineer or data analyst. If you're already in a technical field, consider not putting all your eggs into one basket, and making sure you know enough skills to stay gainfully employed in the job market.
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2024.05.06 20:55 RedChipCompanies Oregon Therapeutics & Lantern Pharma Launch Strategic AI Collaboration to Optimize Development of First-In-Class Drug Candidate XCE853 - A Potent Inhibitor of Cancer Metabolism

Lantern Pharma Inc . (NASDAQ: LTRN), a leading artificial intelligence (AI) oncology drug discovery and development company, today announced a strategic AI-driven collaboration with French biotechnology company, Oregon Therapeutics to optimize the development of its first-in-class protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) (1) inhibitor drug candidate XCE853 in novel and targeted cancer indications. Lantern will be leveraging its proprietary RADR ® AI platform to uncover biomarkers and efficacy-associated signatures of XCE853 across solid tumors that can aid in precision development. Collaborative efforts are expected to identify biomarker signatures that can be used to stratify tumors most responsive to XCE853 and guide potential future clinical development and patient selection. Oregon Therapeutics is developing XCE853 in various cancer indications, including drug-resistant ovarian and pancreatic cancer, certain hematological cancers and several pediatric cancers including CNS cancers.
PDIs are promising targets for cancer therapy raising clinical interest recently 2 notably for their potential in cancers of poor prognosis like breast cancer 3 or ovarian cancer. Up-regulated expression of PDIs was found to be associated with worse clinical outcome in numerous cancers such as hepatocellular carcinoma (4) , as well as breast and ovarian cancers (5) . PDIs are protein chaperones and are central to maintaining cancer cell metabolism, additionally PDI inhibitors can cause cancer cell death through the accumulation of impaired proteins and dysregulated cellular stress responses. A combination of these effects is known as proteotoxicity , a unique and promising therapeutic strategy that may be especially effective in targeting cancers that are resistant to therapy.
In the US, nearly 612,000 people (6) are projected to die from cancer in 2024 and, resistance to anticancer drugs will be implicated in 90% of those deaths (7). To date, no PDI inhibitor has reached the clinic due to the complexities related to selecting and mapping the molecules that will most accurately target the right PDI enzymes. There are more than 20 PDI enzymes, with each playing a slightly different and often biologically redundant role. Oregon Therapeutic’s lead drug-candidate XCE853 is known to target PDIs of specific interest for cancer. Lantern Pharma and Oregon Therapeutics believe that computational tools, including foundational models, machine learning and large-scale molecular analysis can offer an ideal and streamlined pathway for breaking through these data and decision complexities – making RADR ® the perfect platform for better informing the role XCE853 can play in effective cancer treatment. (8, 9)
“To date, our first-in-class metabolic inhibitor, XCE853, has exhibited robust preclinical efficacy in both in vitro and in vivo models across multiple cancer types,” said Marc-Henry PITTY, MD, CEO of Oregon Therapeutics. “Lantern’s RADR ® AI platform will leverage the in vitro and in vivo data to potentially advance XCE853 development in a highly targeted manner and will help inform disease indications and biomarker signatures that can aid in the design of future clinical trials and in the pursuit of combination therapies with other approved cancer drugs. Our team is looking forward to efficiently selecting among the landscape of ideal development options and efficiently de-risking future clinical development decisions.” Oregon Therapeutics has previously performed preclinical studies indicating that in addition to ovarian and pancreatic cancer, XCE853 may also be particularly active in renal, prostate, lung, breast, and head and neck cancers, and leukemia based on preclinical cell-line studies. Oregon project leader, Sandrine Courtès PhD , who has been developing the collaboration with Lantern Pharma, stated: “ PDIs Inhibitors have a great potential, since this molecular target is highly expressed in several cancer types, supports tumor growth and is associated with clinical outcomes. ”
The collaboration focuses on the integration and interrogation of molecular, genetic and transcriptomic data pertaining to XCE853. This analysis will be powered by RADR ® and its growing library of over 60 billion data points from many diverse types of biological measurements and oncology experiments, as well as more than 200 ML algorithms focused on problems that are central to real-world cancer drug development. The initial objectives of the collaboration are to:
1) Uncover biomarkers and efficacy-associated gene signatures to guide in the eventual stratification and selection of patients for future clinical trials,
2) Identify tumor-based response and resistance mechanisms to XCE853 and strategies to overcome treatment resistance, and
3) Expand the use of XCE853 in additional therapeutic cancer indications for XCE853.
“Drug development teams have found significant data and modeling challenges in regard to tackling the complexities associated with PDI inhibitors given the challenges with creating meaningful models, and accumulating and deciphering the data,” said Panna Sharma, CEO and President of Lantern Pharma. “Our AI platform, RADR ® , can increase the confidence, insights, and comfort levels in developing data-driven development paths by modeling highly complex scenarios at a scale that only has become possible recently. It’s an ideal approach for Oregon Therapeutics, which has executed a series of highly targeted in vivo and in vitro experiments and is poised to make incredibly important and patient-centric decisions about the clinical future of the molecule. That's where RADR ® can play a highly essential and market defining role.”
Under the terms of the collaboration, Lantern Pharma is receiving equal IP co-ownership and drug development rights in newly discovered biomarkers, novel indications, and/or new pharmacological use strategies for XC853 and related analogues. Oregon Therapeutics is entitled to financial benefits resulting from the out licensing of the background IP to Lantern Pharma. Lantern Pharma and Oregon Therapeutics are both entitled to additional financial benefits resulting from the out licensing of any collaboration IP to a third party. No further financial details regarding the collaboration were disclosed.
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About RADR ®
RADR ® is Lantern Pharma’s proprietary integrated AI platform for large-scale biomarker and drug-tumor interaction data analytics that leverages machine learning. It is used to provide mechanistic insights about drug-tumor interactions, predict the potential response of cancer types and subtypes to existing drugs and drug candidates, and uncover patient groups that may respond to potential therapies being developed by Lantern Pharma and its collaborators.
RADR ® uses an ensemble-based approach to apply its library of algorithms to statistical, correlative, and inferential problems in drug-tumor interactions. This allows the platform to rapidly analyze large amounts of complex data and predict how both patients and tumors will respond to therapeutic combinations. RADR ® also evolves as new datasets are added, which improves and sharpens the insights generated from the algorithms.
RADR's highly scalable machine-learning methods are designed to guide drug development and yield new biological insights, while also having the potential to increase response rates and improve outcomes in clinical trials. The robustness and growing number of datasets powering RADR ® is anticipated to continue to improve machine-learning results, accelerate automation of other features and aid oncology drug development for Lantern and its partners with an ultimate focus on benefitting cancer patients.
About LANTERN PHARMA
Lantern Pharma (NASDAQ: LTRN) is an AI company transforming the cost, pace, and timeline of oncology drug discovery and development. Our proprietary AI and machine learning (ML) platform, RADR ® , leverages over 60 billion oncology-focused data points and a library of 200+ advanced ML algorithms to help solve billion-dollar, real-world problems in oncology drug development. By harnessing the power of AI and with input from world-class scientific advisors and collaborators, we have accelerated the development of our growing pipeline of therapies that span multiple cancer indications, including both solid tumors and blood cancers and an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) program. On average, our newly developed drug programs have been advanced from initial AI insights to first-in-human clinical trials in 2-3 years and at approximately $1.0 - 2.5 million per program.
Lantern’s lead development programs include a Phase 2 clinical program and multiple Phase 1 clinical trials. We have also established a wholly-owned subsidiary, Starlight Therapeutics, to focus exclusively on the clinical execution of our promising therapies for CNS and brain cancers, many of which have no effective treatment options. Our AI-driven pipeline of innovative product candidates is estimated to have a combined annual market potential of over $15 billion USD and have the potential to provide life-changing therapies to hundreds of thousands of cancer patients across the world.
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About XCE853
XCE853 is Oregon Therapeutic’s proprietary late preclinical stage drug candidate developed for multiple drug resistant cancers. XCE853 is a synthetic small molecule displaying an excellent docking and inhibition activity on the main human PDIs playing a key role in cancer. XCE853 displays cytotoxic activity at the nanomolar range on a large panel of cancer cells (80+ models) and is most interestingly, even more potent on a panel of multiple drug resistant models. XCE853 showed promising ex vivo activity on patients’ sample. XCE853 displayed excellent oral bioavailability in mice and was able to completely and irreversibly block the growth of several human cancers in vivo xenograft models. Preliminary toxicity package in rats and mice displayed an acceptable safety profile. This extensive preclinical package with transcriptomic and mechanism of action data will be augmented by insights powered by Lantern’s AI platform, RADR ® , to position the XCE853 drug-candidate for an optimized clinical development path focused on patient needs.
About OREGON THERAPEUTICS
Oregon Therapeutics is a French preclinical biotech developing PDI inhibitors issued from groundbreaking drug discovery programs. Oregon has developed XCE853 up to regulatory preclinical stage entry and demonstrated XCE853’s disruptive potential as “first in class” and “best in class” candidate in oncology. Oregon Therapeutics’ first objective is to bring XCE853 into Clinical Phase for the treatment of cancers in collaboration with Lantern Pharma. Based on the scientific rationale to exploit metabolic vulnerability of some cancers, the two priority indications are ovarian cancer and advanced pancreatic cancer. Potential additional indications include liver, prostate, head and neck and several orphan cancers.
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2024.05.06 20:50 FoolOfElysium The FULL ORIGINAL Account On Loosh By Robert Monroe Part 1

Excert taken from Robert Monroe's second book: Far Journeys. Starting on page 162
The context: Monroe is given a vision while currently having an out-of-body experience. His vision was about how this planet game into existence, and why. This version of Earth is not the first attempt at a successful harvesting of Loosh. The original "Crops" did not produce as much as humans do now. Our hearts and emotions generate far more energy that the animals.
This account adds nuance to the prison planet theory. The big issue with people using Monroe's coined term, "loosh" is that what is actually going on isn't as "evil" as most people think. It's more... ignorance. Read and you'll see.
"Someone, Somewhere (or both, in millions, or uncountable) requires, likes, needs, values, collects, drinks, eats, or uses as a drug (sic) a substance ident Loosh. (Electricity, oil, oxygen, gold, wheat, water, land, old coins, uranium.) This is a rare substance in Somewhere, and those who possess Loosh find it vital for whatever it is used for. Faced with this question of Supply and Demand (a universal law of Somewhere), Someone decided to produce it artificially, so to speak, rather than search for it in its "natural" form. He decided to build a Garden and grow Loosh. In the natural state, Loosh was found to originate from a series of vibrational actions in the carbon-oxygen cycle and the residue was Loosh in varying degrees of purity. It occurred only during such action, and secondarily during the reactive process. Prospectors from Somewhere ranged far and wide in search of Loosh sources and new discoveries were hailed with much enthusiasm and reward.
So it was that Someone and his Garden changed all this. Far off, in a remote area, he set to work on his experiment. First, he created a proper environment for the carbon-oxygen cycle, where it would flourish. He created a Balance with much care, so that proper radiation and other nourishment would be in continuous supply. He then tried his First Crop, which actually did produce Loosh, but only in small quantities and of comparatively low grade, not significant enough to take back to the heart of Somewhere. The problem was twofold. The life period was too short and the crop units themselves were too minute. This brought about limits in quality and quantity, as the crop had no time to generate Loosh in such close tolerances. Moreover, the Loosh could be harvested only at the moment of termination of the life span, not one moment before.
His Second Crop was no better, if as good. He changed the environment to another part of the Garden, where the density was gaseous rather than liquid and the higher-density chemicals formed a solid base and thus were still available. He planted numberless units in many varieties in a new form, with a great increase in size, some many thousands of times larger and more complex than the simple unicellular First Crop. He reversed the carbon-oxygen cycle. Yet all had a basic uniformity. Like the First Crop, they would reseed at regular intervals and terminate their life spans automatically. To avoid the uneven distribution of chemicals and radiation which had been prevalent in the First Crop, he immobilized the Second Crop. Each was designed to stay principally in its own section of the Garden. To this end, each was given firm tendrils which burrowed deep in the more dense chemical matter. Attached to this was a stem or trunk which helped elevate the upper portion upward for its share of needed radiation. The upper portion, broad, thin, and somewhat fragile, was designed as a transducer of carbon-oxygen compounds to and from the crop unit. As an added thought, brilliant color radiators accompanied by small particle generators were mounted on each unit, usually near the top and symmetrically centered.
He set up circulating patterns in the gaseous envelope around the crop, principally to aid in the reseeding process. Later, he discovered that the same turbulent effect served as a means of harvesting the Loosh. If the turbulence were violent enough, the Crop would be blown down, the life span terminated, and the Loosh would discharge. This was especially use- ful when an immediate Loosh supply was desired at a particular point rather than at Harvest Time. Despite all of this, the Second Crop was most unsatisfactory. While it was true that a much greater quantity was attained, the unrefined Loosh produced was of such low grade that it was scarcely worth the effort. In addition, the growth period was now too long and no increase in quality resulted. Some vital element was missing. Someone hovered over his Garden for a long period in study before he attempted the Third Crop. It was indeed a challenge. True, he was par- tially successful. He had grown Loosh. Yet the product of his efforts fell far short of the wild, uncultivated variety.
It was inevitable that he perceived the answer. The Third Crop was living proof of this Truth. The original carbon-oxygen cycle must be in- cluded. Mobility must be restored. Both factors had shown great promise in high-grade Loosh production. If size could be added to this, much could be accomplished. With this plan in the forefront, Someone removed various sample units from the First Crop, which was still thriving in the liquid portion of the Garden. He modified them to exist and grow in the gaseous area. He adapted them first to take nourishment from the Second Crop, which he permitted to abound for this very purpose. Thus it was that the first of the Mobiles, the Third Crop, came into being. The Mobiles took nourishment from the Second Crop, thus ending its life span and producing lowgrade Loosh. When each huge Mobile terminated its own life span, additional Loosh was produced. The quantity was massive, but the frequency pattern of the Loosh residue still left much to be desired.
It was by accident that Someone came upon the Prime Catalyst as regards Loosh production. The monstrous and slow-moving Mobiles had a life span far out of proportion to their nourishment input. The growth and life-termination process was of such length that soon the Mobiles would all but decimate the Second Crop. The entire Garden would be out of balance, and there would be no Loosh production whatsoever. Both the Second and Third Crop faced extinction. As the Second Crop grew scarce, energy needs of the Mobiles became acute. Often two Mobiles would seek to ingest the identical Second Crop unit. This created Conflict, which resulted in physical struggle among two or more of the ungainly Mobiles. Someone observed these struggles, at first bemused with the problem, then with great interest. As the struggles ensued, the Mobiles were emanating Loosh! Not in fractional amounts, but in sizable, usable quantities and of a much higher purity.
He quickly put the theory to the test. He removed another unit of First Crop from the liquid Garden area, redesigned it for the gaseous environment—but with one significant change. The new Mobile would be somewhat smaller, but would require the ingestion of other Mobiles for nourishment. This would solve the problem of overpopulation of Mobiles, and at the same time would create good quantities of usable Loosh during each conflict-struggle, plus a bonus if the new class of Mobile terminated the life span of the other. Someone would be able to transmit to Somewhere practical amounts of reasonably pure Loosh. Thus it was that the Rule of the Prime Catalyst came into being. Conflict among carbon-oxygen cycle units brings forth consistent emanations of Loosh. It was as simple as that. Satisfied that he had found the formula, Someone prepared the Fourth Crop. He knew now that the Third Crop Mobiles were too large and too long in life span to be ultimately practical. If grown in large numbers, the entire Garden would have to be expanded and enlarged. There was not space enough to grow such massive single units and the proportionate leafy Second Crops to support them. Also, he reasoned correctly that more rapid and increased mobility would expand the Conflict factor, with a resultant higher Loosh output.
In one single motion, Someone terminated the life spans of all the lumbering Third Crop Mobiles. (Note: Dinosaur extinction?) Going back to the First Crop in the liquid area, he modified and expanded them into a multitude of shapes and sizes, gave them complex multicellular structures of high mobility. He designed into them a pattern of balance. There were those that ingested a Second Crop type of carbon-cycle unit (basically immobile) as an energy source. There were others, very highly mobile, who required for energy the ingestion of other mobile Modified First Crop units. The completed circuit operated quite satisfactorily. The stationary Second Crop modification in the liquid environment flourished. Small, highly active liquid-breathing Mobiles took nourishment, "ate" the Second Crop modification. Larger and/or other active Mobiles consumed for energy the smaller "plant eaters." When any Mobile grew too large and slow, it became an easy target for the smaller Mobiles, who attacked in voracious numbers. The chemical residue from these ingestive actions settled to the bottom of the liquid medium and so provided new nourishment for the Stationaries (Modified Second Crop), completing the circuit. The result was a steady flow of Loosh—from the life-span termination of the Stationaries, from the intense conflict among the Mobiles to avoid ingestion, and finally from the sudden termination of the life spans of such Mobiles as the inevitable product of such conflicts.
Turning to another portion of his Garden—the gaseous area with a dense-compound base—Someone applied the same techniques with even more advanced improvements. He added many varieties of Stationaries (original Second Crop) to provide sufficient and diverse nourishment for the new Mobiles he was to create. As in the other Garden area, he made such Mobiles into a balance of two species, those who ingested and drew energy from the Second Crop Stationaries, and those who required other Mobiles for sustenance. He created them in literally thousands of original types, small, large—yet none so large as the Third Crop Mobiles—and ingeniously gave each some appurtenance for conflict. These took the form of mass, elusive speed, deceptive and/or protective coating and color radiation, wave-action and particle perceptors and detectors, and unique higher-density protuberances for gouging, grasping, and rending during conflict. All of the latter served neatly to add to and prolong the conflict periods, with the resultant increase in Loosh emanation. (Note: In other words, being eaten alive produces more loosh than a quick death.)
As a side experiment, Someone designed and created one form of Mobile that was weak and ineffective by the standards of the other Mobiles in the Fourth Crop. Yet this experimental Mobile had two distinct advantages. It had the ability to ingest and take energy from both the Stationaries and other Mobiles. Second, Someone pulled forth a Piece of Himself —no other source of such Substance being known or available—to act as an intensive, ultimate trigger to mobility. Following the Rule of Attraction, Someone knew that such infusion would create in this particular Mobile species an unceasing mobility. Always, it would seek to satisfy the attraction this tiny mote of Himself engendered as it sought reunion with the infinite Whole. Thus the drive for satisfaction of energy requirements through ingestion would not be the only motivating force. More important, the needs and compulsions created by the Piece of Someone could not be satiated throughout the Garden. Thus the need for mobility would be ever-present and the conflict between this need and that of energy replacement would be constant—possibly a continuous high-order Loosh emanator if it survived.
The Fourth Crop exceeded all of Someone's expectations. It became apparent that a consistent, useful flow of Loosh was being produced in the Garden. The balance of "life" operated perfectly, with the Conflict Factor producing immense amounts of Loosh and a steady supplement brought into being by the constant life-span terminations from all types of Mobiles and Stationaries. To handle the output, Someone set up Special Collectors to aid in the harvest. He set up Channels to convey the raw Loosh from his Garden to Somewhere. No longer did Somewhere depend principally upon the "wild state" as the principal source of Loosh. The Garden of Someone had ended that.
With the success of the Garden and the production of Loosh by cultivated means, Others began to design and build their Gardens. This was in accordance with the Law of Supply and Demand (Vacuum is an unstable condition), as the amounts of Loosh from Someone's Garden only partially met the requirements of Somewhere. Collectors on behalf of the Others actually entered the Garden of Someone to take advantage of those small emanations of Loosh overlooked or ignored by the Collectors of Someone. (Note: Energy vampires, reptillians?) Someone, his work completed, returned to Somewhere and occupied himself with other matters. Loosh production stayed at a constant level under the supervision of the Collectors. The only alterations were ordered by Someone himself. Under instructions from Someone, the Collectors periodically harvested segments of the Fourth Crop. This was done to ensure adequate chemicals, radiation, and other nourishment for the younger, oncoming units. A secondary purpose was to provide occasional extra amounts of Loosh created by such harvesting.
To reap such harvest, the Collectors generated storms of turbulence and turmoil in both the gaseous envelope and the more solid chemical formations that were the base of the Garden itself. Such upheavals had the effect of terminating life spans of multitudes of the Fourth Crop as they were crushed under the rolling base formation or smothered under waves from the agitated liquid area of the Garden. (By peculiarity of design, Fourth Crop units could not maintain their carbon-oxygen cycle surrounded by the liquid medium.) The Garden pattern of "Life" might have gone on thus throughout eternity had it not been for the perception and inquisitiveness of Someone. On occasion, he would study samples of Loosh from his Garden. There was no motive in doing so, other than the fact that Someone may have held a remote continuing interest in his project.
On a particular analysis of a Loosh sample, Someone had casually examined the emanations and was about to return it to the Reservoir—when he became aware of a Difference. It was very slight, but there it was. His interest centered immediately, he looked again. Woven delicately in with the more common Loosh emanations was a slender fragment of purified and distilled Loosh. This was an impossibility. Purified and distilled Loosh resulted only after the "wild state" Loosh had been processed many times. The Loosh from the Garden of Someone required the same treatment before it could be used. Yet here it was—so finely graded in its refined radiations that it could or would not return into compound with the raw substance. Someone reaffirmed his tests, and the result still was positive. There was a factor in his Garden of which he was unaware.
Quickly, Someone left Somewhere and returned to his Garden. Outwardly, all seemed the same. The solid-base gaseous areas of the Garden were an endless carpet of green reflection from the thriving Second Crop. The Modified First Crop in the liquid area was in perfect accord with the Action-Reaction Law (a Division of Cause and Effect). Someone perceived without delay that the Difference—the source of distilled Loosh— lay neither with the First nor with the Second Crop. He found his first momentary touch of distilled Loosh emanation in one of the units of the Fourth Crop (which by then had filtered throughout the plantings of the Second Crop). The flash came during the unusual action of this unit as it entered into a life-terminating struggle with another Fourth Crop unit. This alone would not create distilled Loosh, Someone knew, and he probed deeper for the source.
It was at that moment he discovered the Difference. The Fourth Crop unit was not struggling in Conflict over an ingestible remnant of a weaker Fourth Crop unit or a tasty frond from a nearby Second Crop stem—or to avoid termination of life and ingestion by the other conflicting Fourth Crop unit. It was in Conflict to protect and save from life termination three of its own newly generated species huddled under a large Second Crop unit waiting for the outcome. (Love.) There was no doubt about it. This was the action that produced the flashes of distilled Loosh. With this clue, Someone examined the actions of other Fourth Crop units in the Garden. He found similar flashes when other Fourth Crop units took the same action in defense of their "young." Still, there was an inconsistency. The sum of all such flashes of distilled Loosh emanation from all such actions by the current Fourth Crop units would not amount to half of the total he had found in the sample from the Reservoir. It was obvious that another factor was present.
Systematically, he hovered over the Garden, extending his perception to all areas. Almost immediately, he found the source. High-order distilled Loosh radiation was originating from one particular section of the Garden. Quickly, he hurried to the spot. There it was—an experimental Modified Fourth Crop unit, one of those that contained a Piece of Himself in its functional pattern. It was standing alone under the leafy upper portion of a large Second Crop unit. It was not "hungry." It was not in Conflict with another Fourth Crop unit. It was not acting in defense of its "young." Then why did it emanate distilled Loosh in such great quantity? Someone moved closer. His perception entered into the Modified Fourth Crop unit and then he knew. The unit was lonely! It was this effect that produced distilled Loosh.
As Someone drew back, he noted another unusual inconsistency. The Modified Fourth Crop unit suddenly had become aware of His Presence. It had collapsed and was jerking in strange convulsions on the solid-base formation. Clear liquid was being expelled from the two radiation-perceiving orifices. With this, the distilled Loosh emitted became even more pronounced. It was from this that Someone propounded his now famous DLP Formula, which is in effect in the Garden at this time. The balance of the story is well known. Someone included the fundamental in his formula: ". . . The creation of pure, distilled Loosh is brought forth in Type 4M units by the action of unfulfillment, but only if such pattern is enacted at a vibratory level above the sensory bounds of the environment. The greater the intensity of said pattern, the greater the output of Loosh distillate. . . ."
To put the formula into effect, Someone designed subtle changes in his Garden, all of them familiar to every historian. The splitting of all Crop units into Halves (to engender loneliness as they sought to reunite) and the encouragement of dominance of the Type 4M unit are but two of the most noteworthy innovations. As it appears now, the Garden is a fascinating spectacle of efficiency. The Collectors have long since become Masters at the Art of the DLP Formula. Type 4M units dominate and have spread through the entire Garden, with the exception of the deeper portions of the liquid medium. These are the principal producers of Loosh distillate. From experience, the Collectors have evolved an entire technology with complementary tools for the harvesting of Loosh from the Type 4M units. The most common have been named love, friendship, family, greed, hate, pain, guilt, disease, pride, ambition, ownership, possession, sacrifice—and on a larger scale, nations, provincialism, wars, famine, religion, machines, freedom, industry, trade, to list a few. Loosh production is higher than ever before . . .
CLICK!
(Back to Monroe's perspective out of body with his astral friend, BB, who referrs to Monroe as, "RAM." BB is not from Earth, but a friend of his got interested in Earth and incarnated there. BB was looking for him and ran into Monroe on the Astral. Also keep in mind the two of them are communicating psychically so Monroe is translating best he can. It's why the words are in parenthesis.)
I was closed tightly, turned inward, stunned. My first reaction was, there had to be some mistake, this was not the story-history of earth, BB had it mixed up with some other port of call on their cruise schedule. Yet as I ran the rote again, the overlay of what little I knew of earth's zoological and human history was uncomfortably accurate, albeit from another perspective. The food chain of earth's ecobiologic system had been well established. Knowing this about Mother Nature, some of the hard-core philosophic speculators had often pondered where the human animal fit in the process. The downside was obvious, who ate us! Before, it had been just that, speculation.
Now . . . BB opened, plied. (You get the percept, RAM?)
I dulled. (Yeah, I get it.)
(Well, then,) BB went on, (what's Loosh got to do with learning?)
I opened slightly. (And you got the rote before you came to Earth?)
BB smoothed. (Like I gave you, it was in the TSI cruise brochure. It was in with hundreds of other rotes we got before we left.)
I opened more, but tightly. (Where did the brochure come from?)
(Why, uh . . . yeah, from the Cruise Director.)
(Where did he get it?)
BB flickered. (I don't have a rote on that He just dumped them on us and rolled, "Here's the exciting and interesting stops we'll make on the cruise." I got a good percept because it was the last one we'd visit, so it was the last rote we got. That's why it's so clear. Some of the others are dim because they were in the middle. Not the earth rote, or humans. It's all clean, not wild at all.)
I hardened. (And where did the Cruise Director come from?)
BB lighted. (Oh, he and the rest are a bunch of curls from the system next to us.)
(Why did they offer the cruise to you in KT-95?)
BB smoothed. (Well, it was sort of a, uh . . . trade. We do it all the time with systems near us.)
(What did they get in trade?)
BB lighted. (Games, games! We got more games than any system four skips in any direction!)
I turned inward and closed. It was getting too hot to handle. If the rote was real . . . a huge if. I began to drop off. Anger, the feeling of being on the receiving end of a huge deception. The resentment at being manipulated, wanting to strike out at those who were conning me . . . us . . . all humans . . . who were taking something from us without our consent or permission. What happened to the freedom idea? Was every thought and action we took guided—no, directed and controlled just to produce more Loosh, whatever that was, for a breakfast table or a fuel tank in a Somewhere? And what could I do about it, even knowing? I dulled deeply and dropped off more and more . . .
(Hey RAM!) BB was fading rapidly. (Where you going!)
Return to the physical was near-instantaneous, exactly as if I had pushed the panic button, which I had not done for so long. Strong sense of tiredness, both mental and physical, neglected to check time of return. Low energy, no desire to do anything. Unable to get to sleep. Got up, went to the kitchen, and made a cup of coffee. Sat and stared at the cup. With no energy or desire for exploration during the two weeks following, in a depressed state, the only production that surfaced was:
It is sunset. The Guernsey has walked many miles around the pasture in her forage for food. The grass had been more lush today here, though she did not bother to consider why. She had come through the gate calmly when He directed her to do so, instead of the gate across the road. He knew she would find better grass here, and that was why He moved her here, though she did not realize it. She only did what He directed.
But now, at sunset, it is time again. She must go to His place. There is a goading pain on her underside that tells her this. At His place up on the hill, it is cool and there is more food. And He will take the pain away.
The Guernsey moves up the hill and waits beside His place. Soon, the gate will open and she will walk into her position in His place, and eat the grass He places before her. While she eats, He will relieve the pain until morning. After that, the Man will walk away with white water in a round container. The Guernsey does not know where he got the white water nor why He desires it.
Not knowing, she doesn't care.
(Next chapter)
It took me several months to adjust to the loosh rote. "Adjust" is a very broad word to describe a complete cycle of shock, rejection, anger, depression, resignation, acceptance. My sequence paralleled remarkably the pattern others have discovered and studies as to human response when notified of approaching death from illness or injury. Something was dying in me. I had long realized that the God of my childhood did not exist, at least not in the form and substance envisioned by my enculturation. However, I had deeply accepted the concept of creator and created—I had but to look around me at the elaborate and intricate order of design, of the symbiosis that made the whole process operate, the trees that grew plumb-line straight up if given the chance, that provided me and other oxygen breathers with what we needed while we fed to them unknowingly for a long period our waste products, which they needed to exist . . . the balance of the entire planet, whose outer filtering bands of energy permitted just the proper quantity and quality of sunlight so critical to biologic growth . . . and of course the food chain.
The loosh rote explained everything very neatly. Most important, it explained the purpose, the reason for it all, the why of it. This factor had long eluded me. The loosh answer was simple and obvious. The reason was there, in very prosaic fashion. We were indeed producing Something of Value. Loosh. If one finally was able to get past the emotional barriers involved, it became hard even then to find holes in the general concept. An explanation of total human behavior and history.
On a particular night, after great difficulty in getting two cycles of sleep, I awoke with a start and lay quietly in bed. Evidently my fear of what I might find was greater than I thought, as I unhooked with difficulty from the physical, then slipped out of the second body as it hovered. I scanned for the INSPEC homing signal, but there was none. This disconcerted me at first, but I was determined and foolhardy. I used the ident INSPEC (An aspect of Monroe's higher self, though he is currently unaware of it.)—the total rote I had on them—stretched out, focused, and let go. There was a quick, short sense of spinning movement, no impression of passing through the rings. Then deep blackness, and I was motionless. Nothing more.
The percept was forming that the ident I had used wasn't enough. I might be at the gate to INSPEC territory, but I didn't have the passport to enter. I had never tried to go to them, they had always met me. I had no percept of their reality/state; therefore I had arrived only at the site of our meetings. If I focused on . . . A warm vibration washed through me.
(Very good, Mister Monroe. You are quite correct. We are aware of the disturbance you have undergone. It was necessary that you experience this. It goes with the territory, as you put it.)
Then the loosh rote was real! I began to flicker . . .
(It is the translation that is not real. The difficulty of placing earth and human values properly into perspectives and energies that are not of time and space is a factor very familiar to you.)
I turned inward, picking up the loosh rote. Loosh, an energy generated by all organic life in varying degrees of purity, the clearest and most potent coming from humans—engendered by human activity which triggers emotion, the highest of such emotions being—love? Is love loosh?
(Continue, Ashaneen.)
But according to the rote, loosh is thrown off when life ends its physical existence, when pain occurs, anger, hate . . . these can't be the same as love.
(How would you define love in your terms?)
I knew that would be next in the order of things, and I couldn't come up with an answer. Throughout history, great minds and greater philosophers had given it a try, with only partial success, and I was none of these. I wouldn't even consider trying.
(But you know it exists. Love is not an illusion. You understand waveforms. All come from the same baseline, the colors and the white. The difference is frequency and amplitude.)
I knew what THEY were doing, and I appreciated it. My focus was being diverted from what I thought was unpleasant back into an abstract yet trunk-and-roots position. Using the same stuff—interactive experience— one began to learn to express anger, pain, fear, and all the rest, and finally —hopefully, if you passed the course—a special energy waveform labeled love. Yet we don't really know what it is and, with my suspicion growing, how to really use it.
(A carefully designed school of compressed learning.)
To learn to be high-quality loosh/love producers. The fact that human physical consciousness was for the most part totally unaware of being involved in the process may be an important ingredient itself. Precious few are cognizant of the nonphysical agenda, at least overtly. It was getting pretty heavy for my cognizance. Yet I began to get a very faint percept, elusive but it was there. What would happen if the Guernsey cow did discover that her milk had value? What could she herself do with it if she didn't have a calf to feed it to? Could she save it? Could she spend it on more hay or protein-vitamin blocks to lick? What if she then discovered man was taking the milk she produced? Rebel, refuse to deliver any more milk? Then she would no longer have a pasture in which to graze, protection from wild dogs, a bull when she needed it, and most of all, no barn to go to where she could get relief from the pain. Without a sense of serial time, she forgets that the pain eases eventually. Perhaps even knowing, she wouldn't care. She wouldn't want to mess up a good thing. Therefore: Who cares? Who would care!
(To use your term, you can't beat the machine.)
The percept was still there, faint, still to be explained or satisfied. What about those who do beat the machine? There always have to be exceptions, no machine is perfect, only one anomaly is needed to prove a statistic or create one. Are they carted off to be ground up into hamburger meat? If so, is hamburger a sort of super loosh or something entirely different? Is this also a part of the machine product, or is it rust that is scraped away and discarded?
And the bull calves, what is their role? Never will be loosh producers; it takes only one bull for every fifty cows, so there's a surplus. In nature—the machine?—left alone, there's a way that is automatically taken care of . . . the impersonality of that prospect of dominance and predation is certainly not in the winning column. Hold it there, the percept is getting stronger. There would be no loosh production without at least one, uh, one bull. So he is an indirect loosh producer, vital to the method. That would infer, so are grass, hay, water, minerals, and the rest.
(Remember your waveforms, beat frequencies you like so much.)
Let's see, here. If a smart transmitter propagates certain waves, they can resonate with other related vibrations of like kind to form a multiple pattern which if thought of as light—would be: white! So in and of itself, you don't have to be the end-product antenna or transducer, just one of the oscillators. You may never display actual loosh radiation, but you have a vital part in its production. Remembering the scan of my early years, I felt much better.
(Then why are you disturbed?)
The percept still itched inside me, THEY were right. What would I do with loosh/love if I had a large warehouse full of it? Hand it out? It would only come back with interest and I would have to build another warehouse to hold the compounding, growing volume. The percept surged brightly. It was so obvious . . . Someone, Somewhere. If I could . . .
(You are not ready at this point.)
I had a need to ask the question. Is .. .
(Somewhere is not the heaven of your history. It was created, as were all other systems.)
Then Someone . . .
(Is a creator who was created. You are a creator who was created. Each of you does carry a small rote, as you call it, of Someone, who created you. Through that rote of Someone, your creator, you carry a percept of the creator who created Someone.)
I turned inward. Even with this viewpoint, it was hard to set aside serial logic. The easy percept was how the multitude of distortions, misconceptions, misdirections came about. A little knowledge can be dangerous, and human creative imagination took over from there. If there had not been a Someone . . .
(Humans would not exist.)
I went over the idea of loosh/love. It must be quite a place to handle that much loosh, this Somewhere. It would fall neatly into many concepts of heaven. I grew wistful. Maybe we could go just to the edge of Somewhere, so I could get a feel of the place/state where there was so much love, surely near it, but not in it, just to observe from a distance. It would answer so much . . .
(That is not too much to ask, Mister Monroe. We can arrange it. Close tightly . . .)
CLICK!
. . . Even closed tightly, the radiation was so strong that it was nearly unbearable . . . I felt as if sweat were pouring off me, I was melting . . . but it wasn't heat . . . and I began to heave with great racking sobs and I couldn't understand why . . . then the radiation eased, and I opened a little. There was a form between me and the radiation, shielding me, and I could perceive a corona effect all around the form from the radiation beyond. It reminded me deeply of religious paintings I had seen, only this was live and in something far different from pigmented color . . .
(This is as close as you can tolerate. We are diverting most of the effective energy patterns, which are in themselves only the random residue, the leakage as you might call it, from the fundamental. Focus through us rather than the outer rim. It will help.)
With great difficulty, I narrowed and held on the center of the form . . . and I began to cool and calm down . . . slowly my rational and observing self began to emerge again, dominating the overwhelming emotional surge that had enveloped me . . . it was as if I perceived through a darkly tinted window and I had to work continually to keep the emotion below the threshold level, the wondrous and brilliant joy, awe, reverence, melded into one yet with flashes of each sparking momentarily . . . all coursing through me as I responded to the radiation, unable to prevent it and barely keeping it under control. This would most emphatically be the ultimate heaven, the final home . . .
(Observe more carefully. You are capable of doing so.)
I looked through the smoked-glass shield that was my INSPEC friend . . . and I was grateful, for I knew if I responded to this degree from just the reflection, the leakage, the full force of the radiation would have shattered me, I was not ready for it, if this was the percept from the distant edge . . . there, in the long view, was a radiant living form of incredible size, my first percept that of a tall standing humanoid, arms outstretched in front, palms upward . . . but just as quickly, it was not . . . instead, a shining globe, edges indistinct, behind it another, identical in appearance, behind it another, a continuous cascade moving away into infinity, beyond my percept ability . . . from each came numberless beams or rays, some huge in their diameter, others no wider than a pinpoint, all uniform in size throughout their length and beyond my percept as to their destination, some of them moving past me so close that I felt I could reach out and touch one . . .
(Would you like to do so? We will help you if needed.)
I hesitated, then with the warm assurance from the shielding INSPEC form, I stretched a part of me out, cautiously, and touched the smallest ray nearest me . . . in an instant, the shock spread throughout all what I thought I was, and I knew, and in knowing, knew that I would forget if I tried to remember, because what I was could not yet handle the reality of it . . . yet I never again would be the same even without remembering, except that it occurred and the indescribable joy of knowing only that it did take place and the echoes would reverberate in me throughout eternity, whatever my eternity was . . . gently, I felt myself being detached from the ray, and I collapsed behind the shielding form of my INSPEC friend. . . . Friend? INSPEC? I realized then how provincial my percepts were. I also realized how limited they were . . . the radiating globes, the rays emitted.
(You responded very well for the initial exposure. Your human loosh/love energy is transmuted into the center of what you perceive. From there it is redirected into what you call the rays, to the points where it is needed most. When you have progressed, we can guide you to one of the destinations so you can observe the results.)
My percept was not strong enough to bring any flicker whatsoever as to what exposure to the full force of such rays might be. But my human curiosity wouldn't let the basic question go unanswered, now that I had smoothed somewhat.
(It was created. It was always there, we have no percept of a beginning. Are you ready to return now?)
I turned inward and closed tightly. CLICK!
. . . We were back again in familiar blackness, only now it seemed empty and sterile, but the INSPEC energy was still beside me . . . now I would have to put together a new ident for them, if they could hold up so calmly under . . .
(INSPEC will serve as well as any other.)
But I couldn't let it alone. As shaken as I was, I knew I had to ask, because I had known they were greater, but how much greater now might be a depth . . .
(We are created, just as you are created. More than that, it is important that you obtain from your own percept. In your own—how do you put it?— time, you will find the reason for this.)
Suddenly, I felt a strong, urgent signal pulling at the back of me. I resisted at first, not wanting to leave, but the signal was persistent. With the warm pattern of understanding from my INSPEC friend, I turned and followed the signal.
It was then, lying there in the darkness, listening to the whippoorwill and the night crickets outside, the soft earth-scented breeze flowing in through the open window, feeling the hot warmth of our little dog Steamboat sleeping contentedly against the soles of my feet, the even breathing of Nancy sleeping beside me— that I felt the wetness of my cheeks and a few remaining tears in my eyes. And I remembered. Not much, but I remembered! I sat up in bed, wanting to jump up and shout in incomprehensible joy. Steamboat raised his head and looked at me curiously, then dropped back. My wife shifted position as I sat up, then gradually resumed her even breathing rhythm. I would not wake her, she needed her rest and recharge. I lay back and remembered. Sometime before dawn, I, too, fell asleep."
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2024.05.06 19:01 midshipmans_hat You can see the change in the Australian psyche with it's best selling cars over the years.

You can see the change in the Australian psyche with it's best selling cars over the years.
I've checked this and it's true. In the 2000's the Toyota Corolla want king. A car that was efficient practical and extremely reliable. A car to get from a to b then park. A nation that saw a car as just a car.
Then in 2011 the Mazda 3 became top. Bigger, bit more sporty and stylish, but still in a practical car in terms of it's utility.
That didn't last long though. The rise of the SUV was in the 2010's, but suddenly, in 2016, the UTE was king. The HiLux 8th generation is the top selling car for the next 6 years. The HiLux has been around since 1968, so why in 2016 was a this now the top selling car? The link below shows how in 2002 the first Ute (HiLux) was the 6th best selling in the top 10.
By 2013 it was number 3. The Ford Ranger at 10.
https://zoomcarwash.com.au/the-top-10-selling-cars-in-australia-how-weve-changed-zoom-carwash-and-car-detailing-brisbane/
Now here's the world wide best sellers for 2023
https://www.statista.com/statistics/239229/most-sold-car-models-worldwide/#:~:text=Best%2Dselling%20car%20models%20worldwide%20in%202023&text=The%20Tesla%20Model%20Y%20was,from%2067.3%20million%20in%202022.
Tesla, Corolla, Rav 4 are the top 3. Australia's top is Ranger, HiLux, D-Max. All Ute's. Has there been an explosion in tradie numbers? Or a crisis in masculinity?
https://www.carsales.com.au/editorial/details/top-20-best-selling-cars-of-2023-144094/
Not a single car that isn't a Ute or SUV in the top 10. Now admittedly the trend towards big Ute's and SUV's is repeated in world wide sales, but the Corolla is still at number 2. Australia has gone full Ute and SUV. Not out of necessity but out of simply wanting a big car, half of which is an empty tray that does nothing. I've barely seen a Ute actually used for its purpose. Top 3 all Ute's, that's just fashion.
Interesting, Japan's top 10 is Totally different. All small practical cars.
link.)
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