I disrecommend getting medical advice from LLMs or YouTube videos.
2025-08-06 08:59:23
I disrecommend getting medical advice from LLMs or YouTube videos.
2025-08-05 15:08:41
Speaking of Trump: I was sitting in the Sheldonian Theatre on Saturday, for my daughter's graduation. The Vice-Chancellor favoured us with a shortish speech about the university's values, referencing the ceiling painting Triumph of Truth and Learning over Envy, Rapine, and Ignorance. In amongst the complex emotions I was feeling - joy for my daughter, grief for her mother who wasn't there, faint religious hope that perhaps she was watching from on high, and concern for my elderly father alongside me - I reflected that Trump is firmly aligned on the side of Envy, Rapine, and Ignorance, and is, for the moment at least, triumphing over Truth and Learning.
2025-08-05 14:58:25
Talk of neck and shoulder pain gets my attention.
I've had neck pain and associated nerve symptoms in my hands and feet since October. In April I had decompressive surgery on my neck for degenerative cervical myelopathy. Since then I've been had shoulder pain to go with it, which gets severe with prolonged mild exertion - cooking dinner, for example.
The surgeon is hopeful that some of these symptoms will moderate with time.
It is, as Russell says, an eye-opener. I realise that people live with much worse than this from a much younger age. It's an extraordinary and underappreciated achievement for them to keep going in those circumstances.
I disrecommend getting medical advice from LLMs or YouTube videos.
I disrecommend getting medical advice from LLMs or YouTube videos.
Speaking of Trump: I was sitting in the Sheldonian Theatre on Saturday, for my daughter's graduation. The Vice-Chancellor favoured us with a shortish speech about the university's values, referencing the ceiling painting Triumph of Truth and Learning over Envy, Rapine, and Ignorance. In amongst the complex emotions I was feeling - joy for my daughter, grief for her mother who wasn't there, faint religious hope that perhaps she was watching from on high, and concern for my elderly father alongside me - I reflected that Trump is firmly aligned on the side of Envy, Rapine, and Ignorance, and is, for the moment at least, triumphing over Truth and Learning.
Talk of neck and shoulder pain gets my attention.
I've had neck pain and associated nerve symptoms in my hands and feet since October. In April I had decompressive surgery on my neck for degenerative cervical myelopathy. Since then I've been had shoulder pain to go with it, which gets severe with prolonged mild exertion - cooking dinner, for example.
The surgeon is hopeful that some of these symptoms will moderate with time.
It is, as Russell says, an eye-opener. I realise that people live with much worse than this from a much younger age. It's an extraordinary and underappreciated achievement for them to keep going in those circumstances.