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Wait until someone auctions off their first born.Fun fact: The Swedish version of Rumpelstiltskin is about a offering their jus primae noctis.Payable on Receipt.https://t.co/qgvhvPZBHm https://t.co/Xym9W0ldAM
Somewhere out there there's a person writing a smart contract to manage the delivery of genetically validated semen.https://t.co/vRQ2yCmQm3https://t.co/3Jm6rRSPun
Entire societies restructure around centralized (re)production norms. Genetic material bought+sold on markets like we do with modern cow semen. Bodies become unable to gestate internally.Illegal markets of DIY incubators & pirated nutrient brine formulas are rife among poor.
I wish... I wish I was joking.https://t.co/p3FjS1mItq
"the high cost of sexed semen is the fact that a single US company holds the patents for the most advanced and trustworthy sorting technology. Sexing Technologies (ST Genetics), legally registered as Inguran LLC, has a monopoly over the sexed semen market"https://t.co/MYAxDC29Xm
I have some fucked up nightmares.https://t.co/NpGvisIjMFhttps://t.co/QMRkKBUHDt https://t.co/4P2ACuPp3g
Terry Tao will say things that that echo my own thoughts.https://t.co/u504v528eO https://t.co/CyB898tSIg
This is a saying from a movie "Universal Soldier"A movie about brining people back from the dead.https://t.co/6lkL8LRdAgIt always pops into my head when I'm talking about military applications of consumer tech.https://t.co/RtcrlMC8WR
"We can rebuild him. We have the technology."https://t.co/V16gCxPQVbhttps://t.co/8RcOwtjNUS
Bootstraping an egregore from first principles.https://t.co/rxqPxF8RWo
"There are some bulls that are able to produce semen every day, however the best ones only produce it about once every 7-10 days. However, they produce enormous quantities of it. " https://t.co/adUkvLksJ3
"If you use the synchronization program and AI, you will also get the advantages of concentrating calving season into an early, narrow time frame. That should give a more uniform calf crop, with heavier average weaning weights."https://t.co/t33plZhhKw
Bull semen markets built with AI and Blockchains to produce lower carbon footprint meat? More likely than you think.https://t.co/2ax2ThujkS
@Rahmeljackson Makes me wonder if there are any DIY sperm banks that might compete with @givelegacyinc. Would be really ironic to find a decentralized (sperm)banking initiative in the wild.I know there is some movement to track beef with bl*ck*hains, but the bull semen hasn't noticed it yet.
Turning cows into meat, faster, with less energy.https://t.co/50wbAOV7kT
Invest in bull semen today!https://t.co/aZXFFMzUOH
"when the Kansas legislature voted to prohibit criminal sodomy in 2010, it did not intend to ban artificial insemination. But the letter of Kansas’s law—which would weigh heavily in an actual court case, particularly with a textualist court—is unambiguous"https://t.co/yjo8r1loxx
Invest in electric cow buttplugs to sodomize bulls to harvest semen on a blockchain with smart contracts!The future is now! /shttps://t.co/7GEoRDJuZd
I have been reading up on the impact of electrical stimulation of the human vagus nerve and it's relation to ejacaulation, because I wanna figure out how to avoid that effect while working on a non invasive seizure ideas.https://t.co/HUHi2F75dnhttps://t.co/kO6IlpWSDm
Well, should say "less invasive".If John Harvey Kellogg was around today he'd be installing VNS devices under people skin and attaching it directly to the vagus nerve.https://t.co/GCAOku9mi4
The problem is not his observation on electrocuting vagus nerve via urethra doesn't work to reduce seizures... The problem is that he's doing it to them in a sanitarium and for the purpose of sexual repression.I suppose it's better than ritual sterilization, but not by much.
> implying we stopped farming people like cattlehttps://t.co/CGa0idloGS
Just to be clear, I actually approve of the surgery method for reducing seizures. A lot of people suffer from treatment-resistant seizures and if this thing works for it, more power to them! I fully support sub-surface cyborgs and medical prothesis.https://t.co/zG3uTYmFdD
I live in this weird space of ideas. On one hand I spend time exploring ways of optimizing health using technology. But on the other hand is specter of abusive rent-seeking & extraction norms that haunt me.https://t.co/QBQnFp0K1i
No thanks @elonmusk, I don't want a computer chip from a large corporation to be implanted in my brain. I think it's a good idea tho, and your heart is in the right place.I want to chip myself with open technology and solve my own autism. Not become a borg. https://t.co/tedu3WggzW
I found the narrative framing from the Deux Ex game franchise sums up the dichotomy nicely.https://t.co/cHJuhIKxrshttps://t.co/P6h9ERFTHb
I'm living a cyberpunk novel. Buying products on a computer, having a system of networked couriers transport said items to my house. I open them up and proceed to hack and disable corporate surveillance subsystems, working on building my own when I can't. https://t.co/DvjpCAMPqq
Markets Booming? Boom boom.https://t.co/L8aOhdM8fN
I have spent enough time researching the history of sequestering virgins in temples to harvest their oral microbes for alcohol production based health rituals to know where this ball is headed.https://t.co/RfbHtySqKw
I'll have you know it's not eating feces,it's Fecal Oral Interspecies Transfaunation.(you have to say it like that for the ritual to work)https://t.co/B7Jvf8NZWk
I wanted my poop on a blockchain. Now I'm wondering if there is already a commodities market forming for selling cow microbes to promote better milk production.https://t.co/23n4m5KtZN
I learn more from veterinarian science than I do from human science. People will just go and cut a hole in the side of a cow so we can shove bacteria in them.We also pull bacteria out & use calf stomach enzymes to make cheese.Dairy farming is intense.https://t.co/QVXDQ7qAPS
"lightweight automated semen analysis platform [...] could be especially important for fertility clinics, personal male fertility tests, as well as for field use in veterinary medicine such as in stud farming and animal breeding applications." https://t.co/cePY9UDF2H
"YoSpermTest has put together a kit that clips a mini microscope onto a cell phone camera and makes use of the camera light. It automatically reports results with a live sperm count."https://t.co/mBbrLCtRBm
I'm buying a minifrige today. And an endoscope. And a projector.I also saw a tiny refrigerator meant for beer cans that would fit Petri dishes. Now I have bad ideas about projecting a video of my semen on the ceiling.The local discount store sometimes gets weird things.
Tired: Proof of Stake.Wired: Proof of insemination.Inspired: Proof of Steak.https://t.co/x9JRLGGo8s
"The real-time tracking is important, since cows inseminated within the first four hours of estrus are more likely to produce female calves, while cows inseminated after that result in males."https://t.co/cHp0PnlaM9Oh gosh.https://t.co/lbS0rETJrj
Blockchain based semen verification service powered by technology developed to breed horny cows. Soon?https://t.co/C7W1IglTmt
"Many people want a pandemic baby, but some sperm banks are running low. So women are joining unregulated Facebook groups to find willing donors, no middleman required."https://t.co/jqNv0uUp9g🧐
"Egg donation, however, is a largely unregulated industry. Says the owner of an entertainment PR firm that reps top actors and musicians who experienced secondary infertility at age 41, "Nothing's done to say the donor's fertile, sane or healthy.""https://t.co/F3kOnslvWs
Friendly reminder, if you call police in Florida about your potentially exploding semen thermos, the information is considered public record and the news media can (and will) requisition the ID. This is why "florida man" is popular.https://t.co/spArWAz9Vzhttps://t.co/jXKY5ZvzCp https://t.co/BlHQvC00a1
Anyone wanna buy rights to my semen via NFT before I sterilize myself? I wanna find a creative way to pay for the vasectomy.https://t.co/vJ5As3wZ6O
Tired: Arctic Code VaultWired: Arctic Semen VaultInspired: economic forcing function for an emergency Martian emergency sperm bank.Hired: Project Hyperion, but with robot nurses.https://t.co/y2R17PltLG https://t.co/TEeRnQFwwr
"the egg producers industry group has recently announced that by 2020, they should be able to end the practice of grinding newborn baby chickens to death. Instead, they’ll just sell the fertilized eggs as, well, eggs."https://t.co/ox7eJkNfcnYay! More eggs for me.
"Abbotsford’s Bakerview EcoDairy is planning to change that by using blockchain technology to track information about an individual cow’s life, and then giving that information to the person buying its meat at the market."https://t.co/51tbACVR5T
Thinking about semen quality blockchain oracles right now.https://t.co/gJCdYU7Ygt
Thinking about the impact of market incentives and the idea of selling shovels to gold diggers.https://t.co/zVye2nb7i2
I should look into nondestructive ways to harvest eggs from various mammals. https://t.co/A667iXyBvP
"It’s not the first time we’ve studied sperm in space. In 2017, NASA found that frozen mouse sperm survived a 9 month trip to the ISS, and was able to produce healthy mice back on Earth."https://t.co/Hur7GZ8hb7 https://t.co/IVkJxSpUM0
"This work also raises the possibility of a "doomsday vault" for sperm in space that could help preserve animal species from disasters on Earth, much as the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, does for plant species."https://t.co/vrdb96AYBs 🤔
For sale: Muridae oocyte, never born."a two-part system that includes incubators, nutrients and a ventilation system. The mouse embryos are placed in glass vials inside incubators, where they float in a special nutrient fluid."https://t.co/tLB90DdyCahttps://t.co/pbtWsOcFb5
"novel surgical method for collecting oocytes from unique and irreplaceable mice is described. This method, surgical oocyte retrieval (SOR), facilitates the collection of ovulated oocytes, does not require euthanasia, and preserves reproductive potential."https://t.co/A8rqRztgob
Using mouse ovaries to make humans is illegal in Canada.https://t.co/4rF0M11xjD
Have you considered the problem of semen sexing being patent encumbered?https://t.co/p3FjS1mItq
"the high cost of sexed semen is the fact that a single US company holds the patents for the most advanced and trustworthy sorting technology. Sexing Technologies (ST Genetics), legally registered as Inguran LLC, has a monopoly over the sexed semen market"https://t.co/MYAxDC29Xm
... and how to get around it using CRISPR?"That would be valuable to beef ranchers, she thinks, because males grow bigger and faster. It’s that much more steak. Beef is already America’s most valuable farm product."https://t.co/2VSiwBXWa9
Weird shit my GF send me."Humanity has been turned into sperm and taken off planet, earth teeters on the edge of annihilation—and still, the Magical Girls fight on."https://t.co/4C70FbpJuMhttps://t.co/n6QGH2Olod
Still haven't found this one yet tho.https://t.co/7YiB7yETK4
Vital juices for sale, never worn.https://t.co/EPmT0F0ipx
Wow, this is fucked up.https://t.co/WzjwfJen8c
NFTs lol."The state of Illinois is testing a new way for people to prove their identities, albeit without the need to request their birth certificates and wait weeks for it to arrive in the mail." https://t.co/gkUozxVoTZhttps://t.co/TGPFUiIb1V
"the map they currently had was about as accurate as a 16th-century atlas of the New World, full of unknown and mislabeled territories. Maybe, by tinkering in the wrong place, they had arrested development in the womb." https://t.co/8rjtG5oo4l
"Part of the editing machinery, the piece of bacterial DNA that delivered the desired gene into Buri’s cells, called a plasmid, had accidentally gotten pasted into his genome. He was, in fact, part bacteria" https://t.co/FWbMVshDgI
"An updated bovine genome released in the spring of 2018 revealed that instead of inserting the SRY gene 10,000 base pairs away from a gene essential for cell growth, as intended, Owen’s team had stuck it right in the middle." https://t.co/myCZkfwar6
I love how we are running head long into destroying our genetic lineages because we don't know what causes Parkinson's and assume it's genetic.https://t.co/0Zox7THl31
Mom, the idiots are trying to manipulate the gene pool again.https://t.co/t9xOWcGMSP
Was just talking to my GF about how I don't want kids, but might consider donating my semen after I figure out how to fix DNA damage in it that could cause autism.Then I open twitter again... https://t.co/STEqgwHXei
I'm learning a lot about Denmark.“In terms of fertility, people in Denmark are just more open-minded and less judgmental,”https://t.co/CgB2WDaQOZ
"I get impression the AI risk thing is a red herring in the talons of a black swan."https://t.co/iX5kTbsR1F
@desantis I'm looking at startup jobs in my fields of interest and found three embryo selection companies and a bunch of companies looking at engineering microbiomes. Then I looked at who was funding them.I get impression the AI risk thing is a red herring in the talons of a black swan.
I saw this on bluesky and they were talking about removing cis men from gene pool via implementing virgin birth protocols and artificial semen.I encouraged them by discussing how we can also remove cis women via oocyte generation and external gestation. https://t.co/9ZEs4NiXbY
This entire space of ideas is probably all entirely bullshit done via mturk or something like that by some political science psych majors. https://t.co/WecUtSmmIE
All of the PICS publications seem to talking about a study in their methodology, but I can't actually find the way they collected the data.I am skeptical of the skeptics lmao.https://t.co/w9kKhLXTsT
Can't find much about that PCIS thing, so I emailed them. https://t.co/9UFLtUNv9C
The chart is by @jburnmurdoch but I don't have a subscription to the @FT to be able to view it to dig in further to analyze any potential narrative gotchas on the topic. Tho it does list a datasource. I'll try to find that next.https://t.co/TFFyocFvgJ
@jburnmurdoch @FT They broke it down in a thread as well so that is useful.https://t.co/UR760YyrQ4
Having a good sense of how male and female divisions are forming across cultures is important for predictions about fertility tech and the future of the human species, so I wanna make sure I'm not making judgments via a potentially flawed sociology study.https://t.co/MWqHrrjBxv
Yes, lets use Likert scales to measure moral standings on a hot topic commonly used by modern society as a signaling good. I'm sure these won't be subject to Social Desirability biases. (A known failure point among these kinds of tests.)https://t.co/J60TasttqU
The "occupy different spaces" thing is an interesting angle. https://t.co/xpGFopnS9n
The reason why I am writing about this in a thread about fertility concerns is that there is an obvious extension from political polarization and "different spaces" to the problem of dating and relationships.https://t.co/lzHUaNM7DT
I wonder what percentage of people don't really understand how sex and human reproduction works at all. I heard horror stories of men being so clueless they were sticking their member into a woman's belly button.https://t.co/gcnbOb6xAl https://t.co/mCSOD4mIXO
I wrote a reply thread to @goblinodds at one point about how online social apps are failing to act as match makers. Which also makes me wonder how different societies are handling this, or if we area all migrating to shitty tinderclones.https://t.co/cNSt1s8rdG
An entirely separate concern from this is the idea that maybe part of the reason fertility is in decline is that nobody is fucking.But relationship statistics are notoriously bad. Like the one about divorce rates? It's massively skewed by serial divorcers.
Many of us have the concepts from ideocracy in our heads - thinking about how poor dumb people are potentially out-breeding the richer folk who are putting off births until after their careers are established.But what if that's not the case?
But what if socioeconomically disadvantaged are too poor to have relationships at all? https://t.co/Eo1dSs6CnDAnd how much of this interpreted under a western lens where 1950s leave-it-to-bever style propaganda promote single/nuclear family homes and urbal sprawl.
With a larger proportion of people living at home for longer, but without the tradition of matchmaking and strong family alliances that facilitate family/tribal intermarriage, what is going to happen?https://t.co/2grZDmwsUm
I don't think people realize the extent that western living arrangements have changed over the past 150 years.Heck, people lived in Icelandic turf houses until ~WWII -> entire families communally living in one room, fucking and birthing and such. https://t.co/Fntensyvg9
Upon looking at the kind of stuff that @Evolving_Moloch has explored w/ regards to male/female divides among hunter-gatherers and other interesting communities? Divergences between men/women seem fairly common and they still managed to procreate.https://t.co/rF0b9kclVE
The FDA approve two at-home insemination kits the past couple of months. One of them is a really interesting product, it was equity crowdfunded! https://t.co/yk97MW3Eam
And you can buy cum injectors on amazon now.https://t.co/zJ6yS56cAn
In other news. anyone wanna buy me a $3000 at-home freeze drier so I can see if I can rehydrate cum?https://t.co/dY8je7H4uW
Ooh, the @SkepResCenter got back to me. It seems they took their studies seriously. This is definitely NOT a cheap poorly thought out survey on mturk, so that is a good sign. Qualtrics is much more reliable IMHO.https://t.co/WusMENdNzjhttps://t.co/NkfGG2J4Mk https://t.co/F7XvAjLSQB
I spend a lot of time thinking about social dynamics and I'm constantly annoyed finding surveys that don't do a good job, or report loaded findings.Having quality data that I can make stronger judgments on this something I value a lot. Thanks @SkepResCenter for that.
Heh. Must be something in the water if Mr. Adams is keen to it.https://t.co/nTBaNoRCnC
The most important thing I can be doing with my life is trying to get Project Viril to a working state.https://t.co/vDIyd7fzlg
Part of this involves testing freeze dried semen as a means of long term storage. So by association, I need to find a way to ship dog products (for FMT) without a cold chain. https://t.co/39pUbeGmyM
I figured everyone spends hour and hours researching the nature of semen storage to figure out how to store poop for mars. But in retrospect, I'm just weird.https://t.co/oKCDQbEgu6
I think I may need to mod these to have a more reliable fan, lots of reviews say it ends up failing.https://t.co/vRC8puEGw7Maybe can also run a cooling loop thru it to have more than one contribute to cooling off a semen storage cup.https://t.co/if1dtyu2V9 https://t.co/Xym912VtfW
