Interesting Links for 11-02-2026

[andrewducker]

1. Custom machine kept man alive without lungs for 48 hours

(tags:Technology organs )

2. Australian author guilty of creating child sex abuse material over erotic novel

(tags:australia children writing law abuse )

3. Semaglutide ameliorates osteoarthritis progression through a weight loss-independent metabolic restoration mechanism

(tags:medication health )

4. PR companies are using AI "experts" to con newspapers.

(tags:fraud ai journalism newspapers )

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

#2. "18-year-old Lucy and her father's 45-year-old..." - whose fucking business is this? Australia is introducing what kind of laws? It's not sharia, it's something unimaginable. They also must ban "Divine Comedy": Dante met a neighbor girl Beatrice when she was 8.

[andrewducker]

Absolutely.

[symbioid]

My first thought on the lung thing was eternal screams of damnation. I know it's a good story, but I feel like an image of bodies flayed open and being kept alive for torture.

My next thought was how Weird Al sees Mr Frump and his Iron Lung and sees him most every day.

(and reading the article I know it's not an Iron Lung, to clear up any misunderstanding from my previous link).

[threemeninaboat]

3) DAMN.

[andrewducker]

Yes. It's remarkably good news, and I'm wondering what other wonders this drug can perform!