"Let me f—king be!" 👏 After the 'KPop Demon Hunters' fame, Rei Ami is ready to be fully herself as a solo artist.
Watch more in her interview with Billboard News.
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Am I beating the market?
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In the Age of Artificial Intelligence, What Becomes of Human Need?Maslow’s hierarchy once traced an ascending arc of human aspiration: from the bare demand for survival, through the hunger for safety, the longing for connection, the craving for recognition, and finally to the luminous call of self-actualization.Yet the swift, almost vertiginous advance of AI promises a rupture in this ancient sequence. Robots of every form will proliferate; robots will design, assemble, and repair other robots, closing upon themselves in an autonomous loop of production. In principle, the entire chain of primary, secondary, and tertiary industry could be surrendered to these tireless agents. The material conditions of clothing, food, shelter, and movement would no longer require human labor. Humanity would at last stand outside the necessity of toiling for its own physical such a condition of radical material abundance, the lowest rung of Maslow’s ladder—the sheer demand for survival—would cease to be a problem at all. It would simply evaporate. What remains, however, lies beyond the reach of any algorithm or automaton: the need for safety, the need for genuine companionship, the need for esteem, and the need for in this new epoch, acquires a darker and more intimate face. It is no longer merely the threat of storm or predator, nor even the ordinary hazards of crime. It becomes the quiet dread that the instruments of governance—now armed with predictive surveillance, automated judgment, and total informational transparency—may be turned against the very citizens they claim to protect. The same intelligence that liberates matter may perfect the machinery of control.Nor can the social dimension of human life be outsourced. A humanoid robot, however perfectly mimetic, remains an artifact without interiority. It may simulate tenderness, but it cannot suffer with us, nor rejoice in our presence. Like the inflatable companion that answers only the most transient of appetites, it offers the appearance of relation while withholding its substance. We remain, irreducibly, creatures who require to be known by other minds that are themselves vulnerable, limited, and mortal.The need for esteem is equally intransigent. Respect is not a quantity that can be algorithmically dispensed; it is a recognition that must pass between beings who can, in principle, withhold it. A machine’s approval carries no moral weight, for it cannot choose otherwise. To be esteemed by silicon is to be esteemed by nothing at all.Finally, self-actualization—the highest and most mysterious demand—belongs to the order of spirit. It is the restless movement toward meaning, toward the integration of one’s existence into a larger horizon of significance. No system of optimization, however vast, can generate this movement from within itself. Meaning is not computed; it is lived, risked, and discovered in the fragile space between one finite consciousness and another.Thus, even as AI dissolves the ancient problem of material scarcity, it leaves untouched—and perhaps renders more urgent—the distinctly human questions that have always lain beyond the reach of tools: Who am I when I am no longer needed to produce? With whom do I stand when every transaction can be performed without another person? And what, finally, remains of me when the last material obstacle has been removed and only the soul is left to answer for itself?
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What I learned about high fashion, is that when you are at an event and there’s a staircase, you need to be photographed walking down the stairs with a serious expression. Needed help from
@Grok AI for the movement. How am I doing? 😉😂
@XFashion
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ItsGreatToBe78#
TIMELESS- The Art of Reinvention and Resilience at Any Age 📕
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THINGS MY PATIENTS TAUGHT ME — No. 6
HIS HEART HAD TO STOP BEFORE HE'D LISTEN TO IT
He was fifty-two, and he'd been calling it indigestion for three days.
He finally gave in when the pain climbed into his jaw in the middle of a board meeting. Minutes later he was on my table, and his heart stopped keeping time — it dissolved into that useless quivering we call V-fib, which is not a heartbeat at all. It's a muscle panicking.
We shocked him. Nothing. We shocked him again. Through the glass I could see his wife holding her handbag against her chest like it was armor.
Then a blip. Then another. He came back to us. Two stents propped open arteries he'd spent twenty years quietly closing, sixteen hours a day.
Do you know what he asked for when he woke up in the ICU?
Not am I okay. Not where's my wife.
"My phone."
I told him he had nearly died the day before. He told me I didn't understand — there was a deal that couldn't move without him. And for five days he ran his company from a hospital bed. Calls. Emails at three in the morning. His wife pulled me into the hallway and said, "I can't make him believe it happened."
Then, the day before discharge, I walked in and found him staring out the window. Something had finally cracked.
His assistant had sent flowers. The card said the office wasn't the same without him. But she'd also let slip, on the phone, that they'd already handed his biggest client to someone else.
"Twenty years," he said. "Sixty-hour weeks. Anniversaries. My kid's games. I was the indispensable one." He looked at me. "They figured it out in five days."
I've repeated that sentence to patients a hundred times since. They figured it out in five days.
I sat down and told him the truth as I saw it: his heart didn't just have a blockage. It had staged a revolt against the way he was living.
Six months later I barely recognized him walking in. Thirty pounds down. The permanent clench gone out of his shoulders. His wife told me he'd bought a kayak and was on the water at sunrise three mornings a week, and that his blood pressure was the lowest it had been in two decades.
"I'd have died successful," he said. "But unfinished."
Here's what he taught me, and I say it now to nearly every man who sits in my chair convinced he can't be spared:
Your body is keeping a ledger. Every skipped meal, every stolen hour of sleep, every year you told yourself you'd rest after this next thing. It says nothing for a long time. And then one ordinary afternoon, without warning, it presents the bill.
The heart speaks in a lot of languages. Pressure. Pain. Rhythm. And when nothing else gets through — silence.
Our job isn't only to restart it. It's to help a man finally hear what it had been telling him for twenty years.
So let me ask you what I asked him.
What is the thing you keep promising yourself you'll do after — and who exactly are you counting on to still be there when after arrives?
Blessings.
P.S. He came back a year later with a photo on his phone he wanted me to see. Him in the kayak, sun barely up, water like glass. "Best conference room I've ever had," he said. I've thought about that more than the stents.
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I'm a cardiologist. I've spent twenty years inside American healthcare, and I'll say the quiet part first: the system is indefensible.
We spend roughly 18% of GDP on health care — the highest on earth — and have a lower life expectancy than countries spending half as much. Medical bills are a leading cause of bankruptcy. I have patients rationing insulin. I fight prior authorizations for medications that prevent heart attacks and imaging that finds cancer early.
Anyone defending the status quo isn't practicing medicine. They're profiting from it.
So why am I not for #
MedicareForAll# ?
Because I've watched what government-run health care actually does — from inside the exam room.
Denial doesn't disappear. It changes uniforms. Insurers deny by prior authorization. Single-payer systems deny by waiting list. Canada's median wait from referral to treatment has run over 25 weeks. The UK's NHS backlog has hovered around 7 million. When you eliminate the price signal, you don't eliminate rationing — you just move it from a claims department to a queue, and queues are invisible. Nobody sues a waiting list.
Medicare rates don't cover the cost of care. Hospitals lose money on Medicare and Medicaid and make it back on private insurance. Extend Medicare rates to everyone and that cross-subsidy vanishes overnight. Rural hospitals go first. Independent practices consolidate into hospital systems. The physicians I know would retire early, and the smartest students would go elsewhere. You can legislate coverage. You cannot legislate a doctor into existing.
The fraud problem is already staggering. HHS loses an estimated $100 billion a year. Investigators found a hotel in Los Angeles where every room was a registered hospice with zero patients — just addresses billing Medicaid. If we can't police the programs we have, scaling to the entire country isn't reform. It's a bigger target.
And the innovation math is real. Just this month: the first oral PCSK9 inhibitor approved, five Lp(a) drugs in late-stage trials, engineered immune cells that clear arterial inflammation. Americans overpay for drugs, and that overpayment subsidizes global R&D. Crush prices to European levels and something has to give. I'd rather fix the pricing abuse than gamble the pipeline.
What I'd actually do, and none of it requires a $30 trillion bet:
Real price transparency, enforced — you can't have a market where nobody sees prices.
Break the employer link so insurance is portable and you don't lose coverage with your job.
Expand HSAs and direct primary care — my colleagues doing it spend more time with patients and charge less.
Break the PBM middlemen inflating drug costs.
Site-neutral payments so a hospital can't charge triple for the same test.
AI-driven fraud auditing — flag every provider billing 10 standard deviations above peers and audit them.
Universal catastrophic coverage so nobody goes bankrupt from cancer.
Now the honest counterpoint, because you deserve it: the strongest case for single-payer is administrative. Private insurers run 15-25% overhead. Traditional Medicare runs 2-3%. Most published economic analyses do project net savings. And every peer nation with universal coverage spends dramatically less than we do. Those aren't talking points — they're real findings that my side has to answer.
I just don't believe the answer to a bureaucracy that denies your care is a bigger bureaucracy that can't be sued.
Fix the prices. Fix the fraud. Cover the catastrophes.
Don't hand the whole thing to the same people who couldn't notice 29 hospices in one hotel.
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At the core of AI, you really just need:
1) a thing that does
2) connections into tools
3) a place to hold stuff
4) a spot to share and update
In slot 1, we're talking AI agents like Codex or Claude Code or GrokBot. Whether you have a daily driver or a mix and match, doesn't matter. Just an LLM-based system that can spin up hundreds or thousands of agents across multiple tasks at once.
In slot 2, we're talking toggling them toggles and connecting Codex to places like Gmail, Stripe, Magnific, Remotion, web browser, computer use, etc. Your risk tolerance will determine how many toggles you toggle. I now feel comfortable with both Codex and Claude Code having access to my GDrive, Fireflies, etc. and did not feel comfortable when the tool connections first came out.
In slot 3, when AI creates a document or a dashboard, where is it? This could be Google Drive, Dropbox, GitHub, your local storage, Obisidian. But it needs to be a place for your agents to build up their artifacts, task managers, and brain. Their memory. The more multiplayer your system is, the more IAM and cloud matter (aka local storage won't cut it).
In slot 4, you need a hub. When AI completes tasks for you or wants to ask you something, where is it doing that? I use Slack as my team's hub and we have enabled Claude Tag and built our own Claude Code apps as well.
Am I missing anything? Let me know.
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