20230417 Newsletter. Twitter/Substack dispute still ongoing. Rightwing threat to mRNA vaccine.
Aging is just a technological problem. More progress reported in the scientific magazines.
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Twitter/Substack problems reduced but still can’t do the Gay artist show casings. Not sure what to do to get the Gay art posts restarted.
You can retweet a post with a Substack link and now you don’t get a safety warning if you click on the link, but I still can’t get a Tweet into a Substack post.
I tried a lot of the competitors to Substack. They are either very complicated and sometimes not well designed. They had other issues. They wouldn’t give previews of Tweets for the cover image. So, for the time being I am going to just stay on Substack.
I did get the Twitter blue tick, but it just means you can have long tweets with short previews and I didn’t see much use for it.
I don’t recommend Gay artists to try Substack at this point. I deleted the post I did on Gay artists migrating to Substack.
Twitter undermines campaign against Ugandan homophobia.
The image for my Dallas Gay Liberation Substack was censored on my Twitter account. I am getting really tired of some whiner complaining and Gay people getting censored.
Ageing is just a technological/biotechnology problem
I don’t think this is going to be a fountain of you thing. It will be likely that they will find ways of slowing down aging. Nature magazine is one of the two most prestigious science magazines in the English speaking world.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01040-x
Of course, none of this will do you any good if you are accelerating your aging by bad habits or drop dead because of health issues, like morbid obesity.
I share this to let people know two things.
1. Aging is just a technology/biotechnology problem. Aging is not mystical, but a complex biomolecular issue. Like anything in the material world, it is something that can be studied and dealt with.
2. Biotechnology, biology, and medicine are progressing at a stunning pace. New means of investigations are being developed at a rapid pace. One article explains how cyro electron microscopy allows the viewing of extremely small biological structures. Another article announces that AI has not only solved the protein folding problem, but did it for hundreds of millions of linear protein sequences.
For Gays this becomes a policy issue in that we want to support research into medicine, biology, and the sciences in general.
A threat to the development and release of an HIV vaccine.
It is a threat to the development and release of any vaccine.
A right-wing crank activist federal judge has overruled the FDA approval of a drug on some pretext. The entire pharmaceutical industry is in an uproar since the approval of any drug is in danger if some crank federal judge can decide that he will disapprove some drug the FDA has approved of. Further why do research if you get your drug approved but some crank judge revokes the approval?
Currently mRNA technology is being used to develop vaccines for HIV, HPV, and Herpes and will likely be used for other drugs. Some crank judge might rule against a drug either because it is an mRNA vaccine or an STD vaccine.
The following are links to articles about this. Ars Technica is more for general readers, Nature magazine is more for scientists.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01044-7
Uganda is coming to Dallas. / Bypassing the LGBTQXYZ
I am going to publish a report on this for this newsletter, but with a different focus. However, this post at Dallas Gay Liberation will bring you up to date.
The local LGBTQXYZ establishment hasn’t acted on this news at all. I have been getting serious interest from individuals though. I wrote that there are a lot of issues and items that the local LGBTQXYZ establishment can’t or won’t report on. This is where a person could have a newsletter for their community and have influence bypassing the LGBTQXYZ. I will put a link to my post on Bypassing the LGBTQXYZ at the end of this newsletter.
r/gaytransguys
“Gay” trans guy worried that they might have gotten pregnanthttps://www.reddit.com/r/gaytransguys/comments/12fn5zb/nervous_about_pregnancy/
The bleak reality of “Gay” trans guys. No Gay person wants to date them and they end up later in life alone. Some “Gay” trans guys will point to a relationship that is supposedly a homogender relationship, but at some point it turns out it was just heterosexual for the other guy all alonghttps://www.reddit.com/r/gaytransguys/comments/12gcugt/i_must_be_unlovable/
Transman is asking if catfishing is okay. Also, he doesn’t consider himself trans and says, “I just don’t see myself as trans. I just see myself as a guy who is somewhat lacking in the dick department. https://www.reddit.com/r/gaytransguys/comments/12k1qvt/is_it_bad_to_not_say_im_trans_straight_away/
On Grindr they ask questions related to having sex. Makes this trans person uncomfortable. https://www.reddit.com/r/gaytransguys/comments/12k09va/do_you_also_feel_uncomfortable_when_men_think/
Transman upset with women invading Gay male spaces. Also note, sharing Grindr info on Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/gaytransguys/comments/12i72ur/im_sorry_but_respectfully_get_the_fuck_off_of/
Exploiting Gay identity to work out her mental health problems
A transman who identifies as Gay. On her deleted account she is angry that Gay men won’t date her.
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