#BioTech Pro

[young-royals-confessions]

Responses to my job ask!

Thanks to all who wrote in, and thank you to the anon who suggested doing this—I found it so interesting to read the responses!

Occupations of Young Royals Confessions readers:

I'm an esthetician

I'm a videogame localization tester 😊

I am a teacher at a private school, and the history class I teach focuses primarily on revolutions and decolonization movements around the world. Working at a private school (but not being the same social class as most of my students) gives me a lot insights into the frightening soft power world of Hillerska.

I work in higher ed communications.

I used to be a civil servant, but got fed up with politics (and my bosses) and quitted. Now I currently don't work anywhere - keep my household, take care of my family and of myself.

I'm disabled. Was a teacher before.

I‘m a Marketing Manager :)

I am a teacher, I teach English at a secondary school in Europe.

I’m a graphic designer

Social worker :)

I have an engineer degree but now I work in the social field as a project manager.

Marketing manager by day, fic writer by night 🦸🏼‍♀️

I'm a train planner (shout out I've you've never heard of it before) and a freelance interpreter.

I’m an accounts administrator 📊

I'm an analytical chemist

Stay at home parent! 👶🏻

I work in a public university, writing grant applications and funding proposals, to persuade philanthropic organisations and individuals to fund our research and scholarships.

Casual retail worker, also meant to be a student but not currently at school lol

I’m a small business owner, selling handmade crafts and illustrations ☺️

I’m working as a Laboratory manager in a Biotech Company but I’m a pro in doing all things yr instead

I’m currently a full time student at uni but in my free time I help kids/teens with their homework

I’m a preschool teacher, work with kids aged 1-3. Sadly can’t read fanfic under the desk.

I work in a municipality where I help politicians and officials (no clue if that's the correct translation) with everything they need to keep the town and people happy. It's really interesting to sit behind the scenes and watch big decisions being made.

I'm a History of Latin America professor in an university and I'm also a second time PhD student. I also give surprise tests to my students to deal with my Young Royals feelings lmao

[eretzyisrael]

by Shiryn Ghermezian

The Philly Palestine Coalition on Monday began a petition that demanded the cancellation of the film festival, which is co-sponsored by Israel Bonds, the Consulate General of Israel, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Pennsylvania. The pro-Palestinian group falsely claimed that Israel Bonds “finances the Israeli government’s budget” and “directly contributes to the displacement of Palestinians, the expansion of unlawful settlements, and unchecked settler violence.” The petition also falsely accused the state of Israel of genocide, apartheid, and occupation in its treatment of Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip.

According to the Israel Bonds website, proceeds from the sale of bonds have contributed to Israel’s growth in high-tech, cleantech, and biotech. Capital from Israel bonds have also “helped strengthen every aspect of Israel’s economy, enabling national infrastructure development … [and] expanded transportation networks enabled by investments in Israel bonds help facilitate shipment of ‘Made in Israel’ technology around the world, enhancing national export growth.”

Soon after facing pressure from the Philly Palestine Coalition, the BMFI announced on Monday it pulled the screening of The Child Within Me — a day before the scheduled event.

“Bryn Mawr Film Institute is not a political organization. We don’t endorse or oppose any causes,” the BMFI said in a released statement. “In past years, we have not regarded hosting a screening from the Israeli Film Festival as a political partnership or taking a stance on any issues. This was our feeling when we arranged the 2024 screening many months ago. However, as the situation in Israel and Gaza has developed, it has become clear that our showing this movie is being widely taken among individuals and institutions in our community as an endorsement of Israel’s recent and ongoing actions. This is not a statement we intended or wish to make.”

“BMFI is a safe place for civil and nuanced conversations about diverse stories,” the film institute added. “For the well-being and safety of all patrons, BMFI will not be a location for anger and violence. For those who wish to partake in an IFF screening, there are upcoming screenings at other venues.”

The Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and the Anti-Defamation League’s chapter in Philadelphia were outraged by the move. They urged the BMFI to immediately reverse its decision to cancel the screening.

“Although BMFI states that this decision was made in an attempt to avoid controversy, this action only serves to blacklist Israeli culture, playing into the hands of antisemites who try to deny the Jewish people their voice and existence,” the two Jewish organizations said in a joint statement on Tuesday. “The IFF intentionally offers a multifaceted view of Israeli society. Each season, carefully curated feature films and documentaries provide glimpses into the intricate tapestry of Israeli life, allowing audiences to form their own informed opinions … Let us celebrate cultural diversity, promote dialogue, and recognize the transformative power of film in connecting us all.”

[patchiko]

GUYS GUY PICK U SHOULD PICK WHICH U WANNA SEE FIRST (Read synopsis or idk summaries first)

btw: reader is gonna be gender neutral and probably not gonna post smut directly into the fic! yall can rq tho! and i might ignore this if i fall into my descent of madness for either.

Ak!Jason x Philosophy or Biotech Major College Student, (RomCom vibes, silly, moments with angst bc yk were dealin’ with ak!jay,)

PROS: FUNNY ! FUN! PROBABLY GONNA BE UPDATED FREQUENTLY.

CON: GONNA TAKE ME AWHILE TO ACTUALLY GET DOWN PLOT ! AND IM GONNA BE A PERFECTONIST CAUSE ITS AK!JAY RELATED.

Comic Jason x Vigilante Reader (I basically rewrite what DC has been trying to do with Jasons relationships but do it GOOD, slower then slow burn, Bullet Train humor, Mystery/Action, Blade Runner 2049 Atmosphere, Story about breaking cycles and healing, probably gonna snag inspo from Majoras Mask. Lengthy but not in an its horribly long/dragged way )

PROS: Fun for me to write, i get to dabble in my experiences with healing and philosophy, i like the vibes for my chapters i got down so far. lots of action. cool atmosphere. i get to be silly and fun

CONS?:, gonna take me awhile, readers gonna have personality/backstory bc how else am i gonna write a story about healing and cycles without character flaws and traumas. vigilante is like if i fused spiderman, tony stark, and fucking link into one person and made them morally grey with commitment/isolation issues. (HELL!!)

[cadyrocks]

We badly need IP law reform on so many levels, but the most obvious is abandonware.

If you aren't going to provide a First-Party source for your software, if you are not publishing that software any more, it is abandonware, and you have no business complaining when people find other ways of getting it.

If you aren't going to provide a first-party source for your hardware, if you are not making that hardware any more, it is abandonware and you have no business complaining when people emulate it.

If you aren't providing crucial security updates for your older software, it is an abandoned version and you have no business complaining when people fix it outside the bounds of your company.

If you are not providing updates or maintaining functionality on certain crucial types of software (say, anything biotech related), you have no business complaining when the state requires you to publish your code as open source.

Obviously you can argue for caveats to this. I'm not an IP lawyer, and even from my pro-piracy stance, I get that it could be a problem if, say, Guitar Pro 6 comes out, Guitar Pro 5 support ends, and as a result GP5 immediately loses IP laws. But the current way things work is, quite frankly, absurd.

IP law exists, as Cory Doctorow would put it, as a way to prevent your customers from acting in ways that benefit them at the cost of your shareholders. At the same time, companies are aggressively attacking attempts at cultural archives in the name of profits for products you can't even buy from them. Companies are sitting on mountains of "intellectual property" they aren't selling or using, often simply to ensure nobody else gets it. This is all totally fucked. And don't get me started on patent trolls.

[mitigatedchaos]

2008 - 2020+

(~1,700 words, 8 minutes)

A summary of events and my ideological development from 2008-2020; most of this will be familiar to long-time readers; this post is mostly for later review in 5-10 years.

[ @lokifreign ]

did it seem sudden in 08?

[ mitigatedchaos ]

10 years ago was 2013. By 2013, the direction of the eventual [identitarian] shift was visible, but it wasn't established that "real" "serious" liberals were going to go along with and indulge it.

[ @lokifreign ]

I had a different view (I'm 51; Clinton cleared up any lingering misunderstandings I entertained about dem/lib); it's interesting - I'd love to read something clear about that time period from that perspective. 08 for me was more about the death of the free internet, but I'd be really interested at seeing that realization from the inside somewhat namean. thanks fr sharin'! 🫀👍 [...] never mind! ^_^ all set

So to clear this up for anyone else...

2000-2008

From the perspective of someone who grew up in the 00's, the Republican Party put a tremendous amount of political investment into the Iraq War, which turned out to be a disaster. The only WMDs were leftover chemical shells, not exactly a "clear and present danger;" I'm not aware of any of them being used in terrorist attacks.

2008-2012

So going into 2008, Republicans looked epistemically bankrupt. The War probably cost them an entire generation. It was such a colossal fuck-up that one of the early MitigatedChaos essays, back in 2017, was "A Price Paid in National Will," arguing that patriotism is an exhaustible resource. It is basically screaming at the 00's US establishment right for squandering a valuable and precious resource with their dumb war. [1] As it happens, military recruitment is way down.

By contrast, the first-term Obama-era Democratic coalition offered us people like Roland Fryer, a pragmatic-minded black academic who was willing to reach counterintuitive conclusions or try things like just paying students to see if that worked. Combined with things like the lead-crime hypothesis or support for early childhood education, the epistemic grounding was a lot better than what they offered after 2016.

The public position of the Democratic Party 2008-2012 was largely meritocratic colorblind liberal individualism, combined with moderate immigration restrictionism, with only a modest exception for Affirmative Action in universities. They were still pro free speech, valued professionalism, and valued things like consumer rights, and mostly weren't against patriotism.

This was an extremely well-hedged set of positions, adequately handling risks from multiple directions at once - and the follower libs (the "Stage 3s" as post-rationalists would call them) echoed all of it, causing the overall Democratic coalition to seem much, much smarter than they actually are.

Even electing a black President seemed a decent bet, and if there is one thing Obama is really good at, it's projecting a Presidential image.

If you combine this with Transhumanism and an expectation that significant new technologies will overcome long-standing issues in the case that social solutions don't work, kicking in around 2040-2050, as most Rationalists probably would have expected at that time, it covers most of the bases. Get some potential gains from social policy, stalling for time for a few decades, and then if any problems are leftover, mop them up with biotech.

I was also engaged in a phase of gender exploration from around 2009-2012 (in cyberspace). I encountered some of the current gender ideas early. At the time, because they weren't as popular, there was a stronger selection effect.

2013-2017

From around 2012-2013 onwards, we started getting the articles about "manspreading," and "mansplaining," combined with a frame that it was prohibited for men to question this because of "male privilege" including subconscious bias which, by definition, they could not be aware of.

I actually checked in on a Mens Rights forum around this time, and a GamerGate forum later, and contrasted what I actually saw with both media coverage and left/lib representations which were... basically almost all completely different from my direct observations.

I was very doubtful because the epistemic norms of the movement were just awful, and very obviously designed in a way that was prone to abuse.

From around 2014 onwards, those same norms were shifting to the much more dangerous field of race. Obama didn't campaign on it, and more "serious" Democrats instead of like, Gawker, were more focused on things like "Republican obstruction in Congress."

By late 2014 or early 2015, I had given up on defending the Obama Administration in arguments, which I'd been doing since around 2008.

From 2013-2015, I was feeling depressed and anxious. Without realizing what I was doing at first, I began an exercise to rework the basis of my politics by working on a fictional country, rewriting it again and again and again.

The development of some kinds of political writers may require something like this, either working from a distant time, like Moldbug, or trying to work out a simulation of a country repeatedly and gaming things out with others, as Scott Alexander and I both did. This allows something that I call Ideological Stereoscopic Vision - viewing the same issue from two ideological perspectives simultaneously. With this, it's possible to see the functional mechanics of your original ideology, which otherwise just appear to be truths.

I was going leave the Presidential box blank in the 2016 election, but voted for Clinton as a personal favor for a dear friend.

Overall my basic model from 2012 wasn't that bad. I hadn't called to deplatform all the Republicans, for instance, and once Trump won the primary, based on the uncertainty I concluded that it was possible he would win the general election.

However, I had to build a much more sophisticated model to explain the benefits of things like colorblind liberal individualism, and explain why it was being attacked, and how. Until 2014, I hadn't considered it something that even could come under serious attack, since influential people should know better than to let that happen.

2017-2020

Around 2017, I opened the blog MitigatedChaos.

In 2018, Roland Fryer was #metoo'd. An investigation mostly cleared him except to require workplace sensitivity training (proportional, IMO). However, the investigation was apparently overruled by a secret committee, and in 2019 he was suspended for 2 years without pay.

In 2018, Robin DiAngelo's "White Fragility" was published. This was followed in 2019 by Ibram Kendi's best-selling, pro-"corrective" discrimination, "How to Be an Anti-Racist." (At some point in 2020 or maybe 2021, the Microsoft Windows 10 login screen featured a link to "anti-racist books" with Kendi's book at the top.)

Unlike Fryer, both writers seemed uninterested in whether their proposals would actually work, as did their readers.

As someone who had voted for Obama in 2012, I was willing to elect politicians or spend money, even if that money might not necessarily work, but that was assuming those involved were actual academics making a serious attempt with some chance of success, not spiteful unqualified quacks.

Because people throughout society demanded that I take race seriously, in 2019, I conducted an investigation into school funding and whether charter schools would be capable of closing racial outcome gaps. (It's difficult to assess their effectiveness on grades due to selection effects on parents, but they're about as cost-effective as public schools, may produce a modest benefit, and allow parents to at least provide a safe environment for their children. The few online charter schools in my sample had dismal results.)

That was when I learned that the social interventions camp were 90% bluffing, hadn't checked the research, and the amount of good faith I had been giving them since 2014 was unjustified. Each of them assumed that someone else had been doing the actual work (not "doing the work" of reading about bad things that happened to racial groups, but the work of figuring out how to solve things).

That was mostly true in 2010. It certainly wasn't by 2018 - or at least the links between the people doing the work and the actual movement were well broken by that time. The implicit claims of what Social Justice can deliver, and the urgency with which they make their demands, have been wildly disproportionate the entire time.

Going into 2020, I still had hope that serious liberals might be in charge somewhere. But instead of actual reforms which might be useful, we got "Defund the Police," which as the CHAZ and subsequent national stats have demonstrated, is delusional.

After 2020

When it turned out that Biden is just lame, and the great racial awakening wasn't as promised, some of the air went out of it. Biden had the opportunity to end the thing in one swoop by just leaving Trump's executive order in place, but instead confirmed that the Democratic Party is committed to this program of crank race dogma, and in the institutions the supporters are digging trenches.

Mainstream Republicans are aware of the problem and acting now, so what was a rout has stabilized into a war front. The primary mission of the right-wing ideological vanguard from 2017-2022, waking the Republicans up to the scale of the problem, and punching through the window of social acceptability hard enough to get them moving, is now complete. As a vital or artistic movement, they no longer have the same margin of information advantage, and energy is leaving the scene.

Sometime after 2020, I developed the coalitional interest deadlock theory to explain some of what had happened - why did the Democrats double down on such a hateful strategy that's obviously bad for the country? Why not just stick with their epistemically-advantaged position from 2012? One possible answer: because each of their coalition members inhibits any other coalition member's attempts to fix anything, so the only thing to do is find an outgroup to blame and hope no one notices, as no one is willing to negotiate a settlement to free up resources for improvement.

They have little to offer but decline and hatred, for now. Maybe in 10 years, they'll be as different as the 2020 Republicans are from 2000's.

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[1] A left-anarchist view here would be that such sentiments will always be exploited for wasteful wars of imperialism that enrich a small and well-connected group at the top; there is something to such a view, but the actual 21st-century US wars, and their duration, also seem to have been caused by ideological derangement.

[tomorrowusa]

A friendly reminder that letting any Republican get elected president in 2024 will be a disaster for a woman's right to choose.

Donald Trump Donald Trump, the former president and GOP front-runner, has boasted about the fact that he appointed three of the Supreme Court justices who were part of the decision that overturned Roe. [ ... ] Ron DeSantis DeSantis calls himself a “pro-life candidate” and signed two abortion bans into law in Florida—a 15-week ban last year and the six-week ban this year—and suggested to Tucker Carlson in July he would sign a national version of Florida’s six-week abortion if he were president. More recently, during the second GOP presidential primary debate on Wednesday, he confirmed that he would sign a 15-week nationwide ban. [ ... ] Tim Scott Unlike some of his counterparts, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott has not shied away from abortion on the trail and has made it clear to Iowans that he supports a national abortion ban.  “I am 100% pro-life. When I am president of the United States, I will sign the most pro-life legislation the House and Senate can put on my desk,” Scott wrote in a July op-ed for the Des Moines Register.  [ ... ] Nikki Haley Nikki Haley, a former UN ambassador and South Carolina governor, said during a May campaign event in New Hampshire that she would sign a nationwide abortion ban, without specifying details.  [ ... ] Mike Pence A good foundation of former Vice President Mike Pence’s political career has been built on opposing reproductive rights.  “I’m pro-life and I don’t apologize for it,” Pence frequently says. He ran for Congress in 1996 for “the babies” and said he was the first person to introduce legislation to defund Planned Parenthood in the US House of Representatives. [ ... ] Vivek Ramaswamy Vivek Ramaswamy, a former biotech entrepreneur, describes himself as “unapologetically pro-life,” but has said he does not believe a federal abortion ban “makes any sense,” while in the same breath comparing abortion to murder. “This is not an issue for the federal government. This is an issue for the states. I think we need to be explicit about that,” Ramaswamy told CNN in May. “If murder laws are handled at the state level and abortion is a form of murder, the pro-life view, then it makes no sense for that to be the one federal law.” At the state level, Ramaswamy said he backs outlawing abortion after six weeks. [ ... ] Chris Christie Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor, told NBC he is a “pro-life” candidate who supports abortion exceptions for rape, incest, or the life of the mother. [ ... ] Asa Hutchinson Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed a near-total abortion ban into law in 2021. The measure outlawed all abortions, except those performed to save the life of the mother. It did not include exceptions for rape or incest. [ ... ] Doug Burgum North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum signed a near-total ban on abortion into law in his state in April of this year. The law bans abortion throughout pregnancy, with exceptions for cases of rape, incest, or medical emergencies up to six weeks of gestation. After six weeks, rape and incest victims cannot get abortions.

ALL of those candidates would appoint radical anti-abortion fanatics to the federal courts including the US Supreme Court.

Those candidates may differ on wording or nuance but are united in their desire to put a GOP uterus cop in every American bedroom.

Voting for some clown running as an independent or a third party candidate who has ZERO chance of getting elected is as bad as voting Republican. The only way to protect reproductive rights for the rest of this decade is to re-elect Democrat Joe Biden; remind people of this whenever the topic of abortion comes up.

[skayafair]

Is Cassius suited to be a leader?

I wonder whose bright idea at Vincula it was to make Cassius the leader.

Don't get me wrong, they're my (and I'm pretty sure everyone else's) favourite character, it's impossible not to like them. But what I ADORE is them having some very real shortcomings, and these shortcomings aren't very compatible with leadership.

The leader should keep their cool at any situation, stay level-headed about any problem (at least on the outside), and they DON'T act on impulse of jump straight into danger. It's just irresponsible - the leader is the decision-maker for the whole team, the one who plans and solves issus. If the team loses its head - who's gonna do all the work?

Ok, they have Greg to get them out of trouble. I think I need an art with Cass wearing "I get myself into trouble" shirt and Greg wearing "I'm getting everyone's asses out of trouble" one… hm. But still! Well, let's start from the beginning. First of all, it became clear to me in season 1 that Vincula, probably, didn't really have all that much budget and the Breach was a little experimental side-project of theirs, so they couldn't go for some super pro scientists. I mean Lizzie is… err alright, but Alyx sounds VERY young? And a physicist looks like a really important role for exploring new worlds?.. Plus, super pro scientists would have most likely rejected the proposal since they all treasure their lives pretty much, thanks a lot, and have their own research going. They are used to sitting at the tables for that, mostly, or ok, being in the wild, but with as many safety precoutions as possible. I mean, look at Silas. Classic and understandable. So Vincula needed not only people with paranormal experience, but also some desperate poor unfortunate souls who'd be ready to risk anything - to have a chance to escape, to prove something to themselves, just earn enough money to live happily for some years maybe… or naive, young ones who'd be happy to go through danger if it means something bright and great on the other side. In any case, they needed people who could take the risk, this had to be the main requirement.

Well, THIS one Cassus meets to an exessive degree.

Then, they are active, hate stalling - which is good for Vincula, the team should have the drive and someone to provide it. They are also overflowing with responsibility for others, and I LOVE how this is starting to play out by the end of season 2, I'll expand on this later. So Cass will make sure the team doesn't lose anyone as much as it's humanly possible, good. They also keep their physical form in check, which is important if you want to send someone to an expedition. And last but not least, they are a biologist - sounds logical for a biotech company to appoint a biologist as the head of the team, especially if they are SO ready to dive head-first into anything just to see and learn and study and are brimming with enthusiasm.

Oh, and did I mention Cassius (and, therefore, the whole team) should be easy to manipulate since Vincula has a lever over them?

Looks good!

Except nearly every point of this list is a double-edged sword.

First of all, the responsibility. Oh yes, Cass is filled with it to the brink, no doubts here. The problem is, it doesn't extend to their own safety, only for the others. Which can easily lead to the team losing their head, both literally and figuratively, in the middle of the mission. It's a good thing, I guess, that Cass doesn't do much actual planning. They were right back in the worm cave when they told Silas they don't have a plan because no one knows what's coming at them anyway. And Vincula gives the team some guidelines on what to do. So what role does Cassius play here at all?..

To me it looks like they are the inspiration for the breachers, said driving force, someone to push forward. Little did Vincula know Cass is just as good at pushing back and not moving an inch forward if they decide so...

Anyway, this CAN actually work, with one condition. There has to be TWO heads. One embodying the ideals, the driving force, inspiring others to follow them, the charismatic one. Cass checks all the boxes. And the other one - cautios, calculating, level-headed, not constricted by black-and-white thinking, the planner, because even in the most unknown conditions there should be SOME course of action prepared. The grey cardinal, so to say. And... this place is vacant in breachers team. Ok HAS been vacant up until later in S2. Which is why they were unbalanced for a looong time. I'm surprised they've lost only one member before getting to Breach 4. Greg tries his best to be the voice of reason and Silas warnes agains the worst possible outcomes but they are often batted away. Cassius doesn't take them as seriously as they should, and this results in casualties.

But anyway, back to the safety responsibility not being extended to Cassius themselves. To me this screams some really serius issues which are bound to backfire, and in a potentially highly dangerous unpredictable environment I'd want my people to be as mentally stable as possible. Alright, to be fair this can probably be only said about Greg and J out of the whole team. Maybe Alyx, I'm not so sure about her, being succeptible to all the hallucinations. And it DOES backfire mutiple times! Cass constantly charges right into action which results into them being hurt. This can't be good for the team's spirit. Cassius glues them together, and it's a very important role. If they are lost, the team will fall apart. Cassius seems to not realize this, and this is a fatal flaw for a leader in my eyes.

This one also leads to another thing - they are hot-headed and impulsive. It's the dark side of their drive: they hate to sit still and want to move forward, but this can lead to carelessness. The breachers had to make effort to convince them to listen to Lizzie when she spotted the acid Nessie and they didn't know it was there yet. What if the team didn't manage? And after they did, OF COURSE Cass had to volunteer to get the water. Because they see themself as totally disposable, meaning nothing. Goes very well with their sort of self-centeredness and coarseness in social situations, yep. Damn I love how this character is built because it all makes so much sense and fits so well together! *_*

So, we already established that lack of self-preservation a.k.a. responsibility for their own safety, especially paired with their hot temper, takes from Cass' ability to be a good leader.

Being very driven also showed its dark side.

Next, the lever thing. Cass complies so far, but they aren't the one to be obedient, and they are getting closer and closer to the breaking point when all the threats won't matter if they put the team and other worlds safety on the line. Vincula and Yanus seemed to miss the fact that Cass will give themselves up in a blink of an eye if it means others will be safe and sound. Which also means don't back this person into a corner. At best they will stand their ground like a rock, at worst they'll start biting back, and this will hurt. That, or do something stupid that will undermine the whole mission and will take some budget to cover the losses at the very least.

Right, about "something stupid". Cass is emotional. They are the beating living heart of the team, but also impulsive and hot-headed, as I mentioned. And they CAN let their emotions take the better of them. Not in any case, they have to be exposed to a considerable pressure for that, but one can't break the heart and expect it to keep pumping the blood for the whole body to keep moving. Also, partly due to their iself-worth issues, they aren't really that well-versed in social situations which creates conflicts. Cass is charismatic and seems to be able to pull even a tree into a friendly conversation if they want to, but this just barely saves them as the glue of the team. Others correct them from time to time, and Cass is already pretty self-conscious about themselves being not very sensitive to others. It's not a bad thing on its own but not very fitting for a leader, is it?

Now, let's follow this emotional thread back to the responsibility. I mentioned that Cassius is overflowing with it, and it's actually not very good. First of all, they grew too attached to the team, so they won't be able to make some cold-blooded decisions which may be necessary in dangerous environment. Ok, the team likes to think for themselves so they just decide collectively. Good.

But - and this is my favourite thing that picked up the most in the end of season 2 - Cassius doesn't manage to bear the weight of this responsibility because of how attached they are to everyone and their perfectionism in this department. The responsibility has already transformed into a full-blown anxiety, dragging Cass down and feeding to their other insecurities. Cassius is breaking underneath it all. They took up this job and role - and they don't really manage. They are still going to carry on with it bacause of the responsibility and their strong principles, but they are already crumbling down. And starting to make fatal mistakes.

I didn't listen to S3 yet and I'm VERY curious how they are going to handle the loss of Greg. It's good Silas is being taken seriously now and sort of co-regulates with Cass, helping to manage their emotions, cooling them down when necessary and supporting at their lowest - they both are gradually coming to that co-leadership model, mutually growing personality-wise, and I really like how slowly and naturally it was being established throughout the seasons, - but for the sake of Cass' own mental well-being I wish it happened earlier. By the look of it this loss is going to hit hard. Hope I won't be disappointed.

This last point - losing the battle in being the leader who keeps everyine safe, like an Atlas holding the sky, - is my favourite developement of the whole season, I think, because I don't see it all that often, but it's INTERESTING. Come on! True, I don't consume THAT much media, but I'd say it's not too little either, and this kind of character developement is rare. Because it means you'd have to let your best piece break and then what? Leave them? Restore? Set them up to the darker path? Turn into a villain? So many possibilities! But it's a risk, because what if the audience won't like losing their favourite? At least that's how I see the reasoning.

I can only think of two other examples with very similar qualities, character traits and positions being led a similar path - it's Arcane's Vi and Shiro from Voltron the Legendary Defender. They are both charismatic, glue/link everyone together, have this easy air around them - it's impossible not to feel good in their presence, same with Cass. Vi can also be pretty rough or crude at times. All are fighters. At the same time all three share the same leadership anxiety. They have big things to accomplish, people depending on them, either by their own miscalculated decision or by lack of other options, and don't really know how to approach this. Shiro didn't ask for a bunch of kids to lead into a full-blown war, he has a PTSD and ends up bringing quite a number of serious problems. Vi flings herself into the conflict between two city parts because her sister is in the center of it, but she drags a lot of people into it and makes a ton of mistakes. And so does Cass - they lead the breachers but clearly underestimated the risks and their own mental stamina. All three aren't going to give up, even when they really want to. All are broken by their decisions in various ways. This all is so raw and alive. I wish more creative teams explored this way of character developement.

And I'm looking forward to learning where Cass is headed, of course - now with those new losses and newfound strengths. Just... as soon as I pump up the courage because as much as I love it, heavy emotional stuff is, well, heavy.

By the way, I love how the podcast is structured - there are hints in the begining that start to make sense later, both Cassius' lines (mysterious so far, it's only clear they have amnesia and are talking to someone or somethig powerful? or, rather, influential?) and the backwards order of the worlds in the book Silas translates. So I think I'll just relisten to both seasons before I begin S3.

[susansontag]

mary harrington is my problematic fave when it comes to feminism. problematic because she just can’t stop herself from saying weird things about abortion from time to time despite being a self-professed pro-choicer. she’s also ‘anti-progress’ but by progress she means like the dystopian ends of capitalist biotech

[cloudbattrolls]

The Fall

Jastes Verdan & Guardian Artifice | Present Night

Jastes had found nothing in the system’s head he could identify as malware or a hidden drive for Recent to pop out of. Nothing broadcasting a signal like the Spine had for First to be controlled remotely either. 

He had searched its whole body for good measure, knowing Recent might have hidden such a thing elsewhere to throw him off. But if First was being controlled, it was in no way he could identify. 

He had put the artifice back together tiredly, apologizing after he had the insects restart it. Then he’d eaten and slept, and woken up not long ago.

A few of them still fluttered around it now, as if concerned it would come to further harm. He knew he was projecting - they were only simple biotech - but it was still comforting to imagine something else was on their side, that they weren’t completely alone.

“It is fine.” It assured him now, as they sat across from one another, both next to the garden. “Now we know I am safe. But, we should still be cautious. I think…it’s likely I have been spared to be used.” It said, tail drooping. “I can’t imagine another reason.”

It threaded its bladed fingers together, thinking. “Maybe it wants to turn me against you at the last moment, before you escape. It has a cruel sense of humor.”

“Over my dead body.” Jastes said grimly. 

“Jastes, how can you stop that?” First pointed out. “Perhaps you should leave me behind.” It said, weary but resigned, looking at the rocky ground. 

“No.” He said, fists clenched. “Not if it means abandoning you to this.”

It raised a hand to its mouth, its tail still.

“You would risk yourself for me?” It said, sounding intrigued and emotional alike.

“I want to do something right.” He admitted. “I…how much do you know about what happened, with me and Process?”

It looked away. Perhaps it felt awkward.

“I witnessed your fight. I am…I understand why Pro did that. But, I don’t think it was fair. Especially not to you.”

“Thanks.” He snorted. “Anyway. I don’t want to let down the resistance a second time in a row, I came down here to get something we could use. I can’t offer you a free ride up there - you’ll have to help us out - but it’ll be something.”

It laughed loudly, a strange, hacking sound that turned into a cough, but it laughed. He blinked, then smiled hesitantly himself.

“I want to be useful.” It said, more firmly than it had spoken before. “I wasn’t meant for this.” 

First waved a hand, the light pouring down into the array of flowers gleaming off the gray metal as well. 

It looked at the rocky ceiling.

“Maybe I am not yet ready to guard Civitrecce, but how will I ever be if I stay down here? I can only be finished back home, where I can learn and grow. I want to see the moons again. I want…I want to feel the wind.”

Jastes smiled, sadly at first, then his expression turned to pure determination.

“First. Can you use weapons?”

It looked at its hands. “I am supposed to be a weapon, if necessary. With your power…we could make me into a better one.”

Jastes’s eyes flashed green, their tiny LED lights making a steady glow distinctly different from the crackling and pulses of usual psi.

“You’re going to be an armory when I’m done. Let’s get to work.”

It was technically impossible to tell, but Jastes swore he saw the system smile. 

—

When they left the garden room, extremely wary, First was far better equipped than it had been before, but the yellowblood was still worried. Its cough had started to get more frequent, so he knew they couldn’t rely on stealth. It was probably pointless to try, anyway; he was sure Recent knew where they were at all times.

Yet as they walked down the cavern passages, they weren’t met with any resistance. No traps. No whirring blades.

It was eerily quiet, their footsteps the only noise as they walked along in the hallways’ dim green glow.

Jastes’s eyes narrowed. Recent probably had all its versions protecting the way back into the Spine, if he had to guess. Maybe it would try to force him to take its new body with him instead. 

A few insects flew with First as it shook with a cough. It was little comfort, but at least they’d have some method of fixing it up if something happened - which seemed likely. 

It had said it didn’t know what was causing its ailment, but at least these would be useful for any injuries.

It had explained to him that unfortunately, the newer versions could heal themselves; the one he’d damaged with his laser would be fixed by now, even if it had likely scavenged another body for parts. The insects were a leftover repair service for early ones like itself, when Torvah hadn’t perfected internal self-maintenance yet. 

How long did they have to work on you? Jastes had asked, his fingers inches deep in its arm as he’d carefully turned part of the synthetic flesh and bone into a laser. 

He’d already converted other parts of it into more blades and fixed up its hands to be more dexterous and nimble; First had been so delighted its tail had wagged for minutes as it thanked him.

A few sweeps, First had said. I don’t remember how long it was exactly. At first my mind was much simpler, but I gained awareness as Torvah upgraded me. 

The resistance leader marveled at the strangeness of it, a person’s perception of the world growing and changing in real time. 

He heard a clicking, chittering noise and tensed up. 

First froze as well.

It sounded again, closer.

Closer.

Yet he could see nothi -

“Jastes, above!” First shrieked a moment before it blasted at the bladed construct trying to drop onto the yellowblood from the passage ceiling.

He jumped to the side as it hit the stone with a thud, augments automatically assisting him even as his nervous system struggled to keep up.

He lobbed an electromagnetic pulse at it; he’d need his own laser blasts for later. This time, he also flashed a series of lights to induce a seizure, and felt a grim satisfaction when it slumped, covering its glowing green eyes.

Targeting both aspects of them was the only way to keep them down. 

He kept moving, close to the room where he’d come in now. Just as First’s insects clung to it under its clothes, his own little robot extensions laid camouflaged against his skin, ready to spring into action.

It was coughing more heavily, though. His brows knitted in concern, but they couldn’t stop now.

But his pace did come to a sudden halt as he looked into the entrance of the room he’d come out, bloodpusher sinking in despair.

The floor and walls were completely covered with spikes and prongs, metal and organic alike, the screen itself the only clear space. They looked as if…as if they’d grown there, from the deep, ripped grooves in the floor, rooted in like plants.

“Camouflage.” First wheezed, catching up to him. “But it couldn’t really have the material for all of this, even scavenging the other bodies. This must be - ”

It fell to its knees, retching. 

Jastes thought hard and fast, his biotech thinkpan calculating, inducing, devising possible angles to tackle this from.

“Gordian knot.” He muttered under his breath, forming his little robotic helpers into a hovering cloud. 

“If you can’t untie it…”

They spread out across the room, and readily generated small forcefields, like the one he had used against the body that had injured first.

He arranged them in a row, making a series of steps, as he picked up First one last time in his arms. It was easier now, since he’d had time to further increase his own strength, his bone density, his muscular resilience. 

He took a step up onto the first safe surface, then the second, a flat shimmering plane using the very tips of the spikes themselves as a frame. 

“Cut it.” 

As the cyborg took another cautious stride, the spines began releasing more blades, stabbing at the shields to weaken and break them. He swore he heard a ripple of laughter. 

He ignored it.

Jastes went faster, taking more daring leaps, knowing he had seconds before they all went down and he and First were -

He fell. Mere feet from the screen, he fell, panicking, screaming -

First blasted the spines where they fell down to slag with all the laser force it had left, burning Jastes a bit from the recoil, then slumped in his arms again.

The yellowblood’s boots burned too, from the sizzling metal, the heat in the air robbing him of what little oxygen there already was as he coughed along with the weakened security system. The grooved floor and half-melted bits of metal made for unsteady footing, but far better than getting gored to death.

“So close, and yet, so far.” A fondly derisive voice called.

The screen shone out of reach, active, still behind a few feet of thick, sharp spines. His robotic extensions were out of charge; half had been melted by First’s blast anyway. He only had a few left; barely enough to get there - and how to even climb back up high enough to do so?

The other spikes started to extend their blades at him again, whirring and clicking, and Jastes gathered his robots in close.

“Shield us.” He told First, and the system coughed, but did it, forming a shimmering bubble around them as he jumped in the air, hanging for just a brief second.

Right before the bubble shut, he sent out his own laser blasts in a bright, deadly green fan, leveling all the spines around them with a roar and sound of deforming and melting. They weren’t entirely metal, just as First had said.

The shield protected them as they landed back again, though Jastes was breathing hard. He knew they didn’t have much time before Recent tried something else. His arms and shoulders were tired, his lungs damaged, his skin burned. 

The yellowblood knew what he had to do. What he’d always had to do, ever since he’d come down here, his original hopes dashed almost the instant he had arrived.

He steadied himself, adjusting his friend in his arms, then willed his robotic extensions to turn to shields again, making steps for him to go up. It was slow, but there was only a short ways to climb to touch the screen.

Then the resistance leader switched them to detonation mode, counting down via timer. He smiled grimly, taking one last look at the devastation around him, and then turned to an AI again, converting First as well as he leapt into the Spine.

As he jumped out of it seconds later, leaping through the data stream, he swore he could feel the rumble of the ancient generator exploding behind him, destroyed at last after all these sweeps.

Forever sealing off the terror below.

Seconds after that, he was home.

Jastes breathed hard, flush with victory as he dragged them both out through a computer screen in his room at the safehive, becoming flesh once more. Yellow blood dripped from his wounds, he ached all over, but they’d made it, they’d made it, they were safe, and Recent could never - 

The security system teetered, stumbled, and fell to the floor. 

First coughed hard enough that its whole body shook, its tail flat, arms pressed against its body. “I can’t…I’m sorry…”

Jastes panicked, eyes wide, ears flat against his head. 

“No, not after everything, no, come on.” He said, desperate. “It can’t have been for nothing!”

“Wasn’t…nothing.” First said, gravelly voice cracking. “Destroyed the Spine…stopped the other one…Torvah would be proud of you.”

“I don’t care!” He cried. “You have to live!”

“Bury me somewhere with flowers…like the garden.” First said, lying down on the floor, curling up with its tail around it, coughing once more, its body heaving. “Goodbye, Jastes.” 

It shook a little, then was still.

Its green eyes went out, replaced with the lifeless gray he had seen before when opening it up.

Jastes dropped to his knees. No, there had to be a way, there had to be, it was only part biological - what about the bugs - 

What happened if he revived it, if he even could? It would still be flawed in a way he could not fix. Suffering in a world that wouldn’t be kind to it anyway.

At least…for now.

“I’ll learn more.” He vowed. “I’ll study, and one night, I’ll bring you back. You’ll live a real life. We’ll be friends.”

He carried its body one last time, out through the back door, ignoring the questions and noise of the resistance at his return, deaf to their chatter as a few of them followed him out. None of that mattered right now, not even his own wounds. 

The yellowblood simply kept walking, pushing through his pain, his fatigue.

Jastes found a little spot with a few wilted flowers almost ready to die, but it was the best they had at the outskirts of Civitrecce, in this lonely place.

The resistance leader did not know how long he dug in the soft ground on that warm night, only that time seemed to blur, and he found himself with a shallow grave.

Tiredly, he eased the corpse into it, pushing with his dirtied, calloused hands. Someone helped him; he wasn’t sure who. They carefully helped lift the heavy tail, tucking it around the body.

Then he filled the hole back in, numbly watching the metal face plate cover over with soil.

He sat there, regaining his strength, not wanting to leave just yet, and a troll or two sat with him. Little bugs flew around him, and he had no strength to swat them or ability to care if he got bitten.

In time Jastes forced his stiff body upward, remembering the sun would rise eventually, and went back to the safehive, beckoned by the various voices that called him back and the two by his side.

His people needed him.

—

Hours later, with the sun high in the sky, a bladed hand broke through the dirt.

“Ahhhhh, finally.” Said the voice it belonged to, now wriggling up from below, different from First’s. Smoother. More self-satisfied. 

Black sclera with green slits now shone through the metal faceplate, instead of the solid green there had been before.

A few biotech hybrid insects flew out with the security system to join the natural ones flitting about, their repair work now done. With far more limited numbers, it had taken them hours to undo the flaws that had caused the cough, and to transfer the updates they had carried. Now this body contained the artifice’s most recent version.

You had to admit, Arty thought, the cough had worked perfectly. First had worked perfectly. 

It had never been controlled at all. It had been altered before Jastes ever came, meant to slowly degrade, gain the yellowblood’s sympathy sufficiently for him to take it with, then die. It had never known what was really happening.

Jastes was meant to be suspicious, of course. He would be anyway, so give him something to solve, a puzzle of its motives to stew over. Make it difficult enough that he’d think blowing up the Spine was a victory.

Make it sad enough that he’d bury First like he was supposed to.

“Every good story’s ending is another’s beginning.” Arty whispered, as it fully pulled itself free of the ground and stood up, stretching out in the sunlight for the first time in over four hundred and sixty sweeps, joyously soaking in its warmth. 

“Now, at long, long last, I AM FREE!”

THE END OF

THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES

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Having vanquished the manufactured menaces of vaccine mandates, the gay agenda and widespread election fraud, Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, used his midterm’s election victory speech to position himself as a wartime leader. Now, he was preparing his constituents for the existential battle posed by their newest imaginary adversary: wokeness. In Churchillian tones, he announced: “We fight the woke in the legislature. We fight the woke in the schools. We fight the woke in the corporations. We will never, ever surrender to the woke mob. Florida is where woke goes to die.”

DeSantis was summoning the resentment that produced the racial terrorism of Reconstruction, the pro-lynching Red Summer of 1919, and the pro-segregation states’ rights movement. This time, it was called anti-woke: a modern-day mixture of McCarthyism and white grievance.

In 2021, the right became increasingly irate at what it described as “wokeness” but which tended to mean any attempt to engage in civil rights or social justice. In 2022, anti-woke became an ideology in itself, an attempt for the right to rebrand bigotry as a resistance movement.

The movement found a leader in DeSantis, who leveraged the anxiety of white voters to win re-election and author the Stop Woke Act, a legislative prototype that would prevent educational institutions and businesses from teaching anything that would cause anyone to “feel guilt, anguish or any form of psychological distress” due to their race, color, sex or national origin. A federal judge ultimately struck down large parts of the bill, calling it “positively dystopian”.

DeSantis is not the only soldier in this war. Tucker Carlson, Fox News’ most celebrated anti-woke host, has informed his audience that everything from Black Lives Matter to brown M&Ms are purveyors of evil wokeism. He told his viewers that the threat from the woke was far greater than the threat from Russia, asking: “Has Putin ever called me a racist? Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him?”

Then there’s Steve Bannon, a mercenary for hire who sympathized with the Russian president in February because “Putin ain’t woke, he is anti-woke”. They have ground support from infantrymen like Vivek Ramaswamy, a Fox News contributor and biotech founder who believes conscious investing is going to destroy America (the New Yorker described him as “the CEO of Anti-Woke Inc”).

Toby Neugebauer, another foot soldier, attempted to start an anti-woke bank this year until he was forced to step down after allegations of workplace misconduct (the bank shuttered shortly after). Elon Musk also signed up when he took over and torpedoed Twitter, declaring: “The woke mind virus is either defeated or nothing else matters.” And the movement has found a British ally in Piers Morgan, who rails against Meghan’s “woke war”.

These men are united in their crusade against consciousness. They say they are serving a patriotic ideology that will deliver America from the scourge of Black history, diversity, equity, inclusion, trans rights, homosexuality and women choosing what to do with their own bodies. Just as conservatives managed to turn terms like “political correctness”, “family values” and “religious liberty” into bludgeons with which they can beat back the specter of equality, they successfully redefined “wokeness” by turning it into a pejorative that is synonymous with the demise of everything good and white about America.

It’s a neat trick, really. But it’s nothing new.

Staying woke is predicated on a maxim so common in Black America that the New York Times once simply called it a part of the “Negro idiom”. The first documented use of the phrase “stay woke” occurred in 1938, when Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter ended a song about nine Black men by advising Black people traveling through Alabama to “stay woke … Keep your eyes open.” In 1940, a member of the Negro United Mine Workers promised that the striking members would “stay woke up longer” than their opposition.

When Martin Luther King stood before Morehouse College’s graduating class to deliver the first draft of an address that would serve as his go-to speech for the rest of his life, he knew he was becoming a pariah. By 2 June 1959, the US government had already started a program aimed at “maintaining the existing social order” by “neutralizing individuals perceived as threats”. Long before King warned the students against complacency and racial backlash, the FBI had created what a Senate intelligence report referred to as “labels without meaning” that would eventually convince white Americans that King was an anti-American Marxist hellbent on destroying their beloved country.

On that day, King debuted his Remaining Awake speech, explaining: “There would be nothing more tragic during this period of social change than to allow our mental and moral attitudes to sleep while this tremendous social change takes place.”

But less than a decade later, many white Americans were ignoring the central theme of King’s most consistent message: stay woke. By 1964, a majority of white New Yorkers felt that the civil rights movement had “gone too far”. In 1965, a Gallup poll found that 85% of Americans believed that communists were involved in the civil rights movement. By 1966, only 36% of white Americans believed that King “helped the negro cause”.

My, how the times haven’t changed.

The war against wokeness is an inevitability, one that is either ignored or unknown to those who accept the whitewashed history that the anti-woke warriors seek to preserve. While some see this as part of the backlash to the racial reckoning of 2020, the cyclical effort to stymie progress is as predictable as a pendulum.

Historical precedent

When more than 90% of Black men in the post-civil war south registered to vote, the racial resentment resulted in poll disenfranchisement, Jim Crow, and the Black codes that fed the exploding prison labor industry. After the first world war, more than 380,000 Black veterans returned to the south and began asserting their rights, producing a nationwide lynching epidemic. The integration of the US armed forces created the Dixiecrat movement. Civil rights legislation created a mass migration of southern conservatives from the Democratic Party to the GOP.

And this year, the pro-racist movement convinced its followers to publicly come out against antiracism, empowering “small government” conservatives who were previously whining about the whittling away of their “freedoms” to start demanding that the government regulate reproductive rights, sexual identity and gender expression.

Our nation has always used misinformation as kindling for a bonfire that draws “patriotic” moths to an undemocratic flame. Ultimately, the rise of the anti-woke movement is the latest iteration of the effort to maintain the existing social and political order. It is just another “label without meaning”: a cloak for racism, homophobia, transphobia and all manner of inequality. At its core is the desire to form a less perfect union, establish injustice and dismantle domestic tranquility. It is unpatriotic. To be anti-woke is to be anti-American.

Contrary to the claims of those who profess to know “what MLK would have wanted”, King spoke more about being woke than he did about dreams or mountaintops. His Remaining Awake speech contradicted the conservative assertion that institutional racism is a myth and dispelled any notion that the US is not a racist country. In his 1964 address to Oberlin College, King called racism a “national problem”, explaining that “everyone must share in the guilt as individuals and as institutions”. Anti-woke activists would have hated his 1966 lecture at Southern Methodist University, when the speech included a version of history that began in 1619 as the “first Negro slaves landed on the shores of this nation … against their will”. That sounds a lot like critical race theory. Maybe he was trying to teach people how to be an anti-racist.

On 31 March 1968, King decided to sprinkle a few Bible verses into his trusty speech for a sermon at the National Cathedral in Washington DC. In the church called the “spiritual home for the nation”, King gave the most complete version of Remaining Awake Through a Revolution. It was longer than the I Have a Dream and I Have Been to the Mountaintop speeches combined. King explained that battling injustice would cause some Americans to lash out against those fighting to live in a free country. Still, he admonished the worshippers to stay woke, while he offered what still stands as the clearest explanation for the entire phenomenon.

“I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom,” King preached, before revealing the reason why he believed the beta version of the anti-woke movement was doomed.

“If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery couldn’t stop us, the opposition that we now face will surely fail … however dark it is, however deep the angry feelings are, and however violent explosions are, I can still sing We Shall Overcome.”

Four days after he assured the nation that “we shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice”, an anti-woke warrior fired a bullet into Martin Luther King’s face.

So was King wrong?

Maybe the moral arc of the universe is just part of a circle that bends towards whiteness. Perhaps the lesson of 2022 is those who refuse to teach America’s true history have doomed us to repeat it. Or maybe it is a lesson in physics – for every positive action there is an equal and opposite backlash. Emancipation, then mass incarceration. Reconstruction, then segregation. The civil rights movement begat the states’ rights movement. The 1619 Project spawned the 1776 Project. LGBTQ+ pride produced “don’t say gay”. The response to critical race theory was the “great replacement theory”. Black Lives Matter spawned White Lives Matter. And when the murder of George Floyd opened the eyes of people who say they “don’t see color”, the racial reckoning resulted in an equal and opposite white backlash that morphed into the anti-woke movement.

On 5 April 1968, the president of the United States joined an estimated 4,000 mourners to remember King at the church where he delivered his last sermon. As a bell tolled and worshippers exited, a group of white children standing outside began singing We Shall Overcome.

This, my friend, is the oxymoron of America. And that is the lesson for 2022. The only reliable thing in America is the recurring racial backlash; everything else is sermon and song. Progress is fragile. Momentum is fleeting. This country is not a pendulum; it is a metronome. And King was right: we shall overcome. He was also correct when he told the audience at the National Cathedral that “truth, crushed to the ground, will rise again”.

2022 was about the crushing.

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hi! are you doing biotech? if yes can you please answer my questions my 12th is about to get over and I'm confused I know I cannot score good in neet so i chose physiotherapy initially but now I think it doesn't have much scope and all my family and friends are telling me the same so now I'm looking for other options can you please tell me how did you get in college and pros and cons and annual pay check too?(after looking at your posts I assumed you have taken biotech)

*cracks knuckles*

Ok so anon I went through the same thing, knew i can't score enough in neet so choose to never give it. My initial plan was physiotherapy too but(i researched) NO PLZ don't go there, lets get straight at it...the field has really less scope and you'll be stuck there and the pay is not much. Same with the other courses like homeopathy, ayurveda etc etc those are sirf naam ke course won't give u enough money or a stable job. Then comes dental...I won't say no but i would say there's a shit ton of competition to get a good earning job

The options left (I'm assuming you're pcb) are bsc and pharma

The entire field of bsc is really very much wide and has shit ton of scope and options not only biotech and biochem

I'm doing double degrees (yea you can but u need to see if the college has that option) primary degree being biochemistry and other one biotechnology

Most of the field literally works on reasearch so you have hundreds of different scopes (fairy speaking i saw the amount job opportunities and ran to this course)

Those are some for biochemistry.....the research thing is the best... researches can never stop hence job options can never decrease and also this field has soo many undiscovered jobs which are already in work

This is about biotechnology

The 1st photo is the areas you can go in and the second photo is the list of job (there are more which aren't stated here) but also it depends on your interest in this field

Biochem and biotech are very much interattached field so you can choose any one of them which opens up the same options in masters (don't skip that, masters in important) and many of the same jobs except that biotech is more research focused and harder than biochem

For applications in college you'll have to search up colleges (in ur area or where u want to be) make a list according to ranking (honestly speaking don't get a lower ranked one) and then applying and waiting to get in the colleges which are on top of ur list

The pros of this course are 1. Many more fields in masters 2. More scopes in jobs 3. Paycheck is always high (a friend of mine who did this course and masters got a job in Pfizer and now is living in us for free..lowest to lowest you can atleast get a job in any hospital labs and not sit at home(the biggest pro)

The cons are 1. This shit ain't easy you'll have to use maximum brains 2. Biotech is more research oriented and also more lab work less (0) desk work..3. if u choose double degrees then it's good for job but forget your life

Annual pay check depends on the company you get jobs in or work for taht depends on your capability to get the job (makes it a bit risky)

It was really fun answering this anon...hope this answers everything related to what u wanted...if not you can send another ask I'll be happy to help

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Between Erina and David: Pros: the two are absolutely awesome biotech research partners, not to mention their bond over a mutual love of coffee Cons: they're quite in sync, but they also have all-nighters (FOR SCIENCE)... and have no sleep schedule... in sync :L

Send me one Pro and one Con you could see with shipping our muses together!

     There was a gentle laugh to that last comment, remembering all of the nights they spent awake together. What was a sleep schedule? He would never know. Even then, with the loss of Elaina... this was admirable.

     “Can’t say I’ll ever regret our nights we’ve spent awake performing science,” he laughed, nudging her.

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Potentially signally a shift towards

genetically modified crops. Advocates of GM Corn argue that its promo- tion is the sole solution to meet the surging de- mand for corn in India. With ethanol producers fiercely vying for maize supplies, the poultry in dustry, heavily reliant on maize for feed, has urged the Union Government to permit the import of genetically modified maize and soy meal Fur thermore, it advocates for the introduction of high-yielding GM seeds to enhance productivity nationwide. While sup porters claim that genet ically modified crops can solve immediate farming problems, closer exam ination uncovers many worries that need to be carefully thought about. GM corn does not direct ly augment yields, by rather tackles short-term pest-related issues, pro viding a temporary boost to productivity. However, is GM Corn

the exclusive remedy India’s maize demand surge? Before hastily endorsing it as the sole option, ought we not assess past experiences such as that of BT cot ton in India? GM Cotton was introduced in India in the 2002–03 season, and by 2007–08, nearly 90% of cotton farms in India were under GM Cotton. Afterward, the typical amount of cotton harvested dropped by 23%, going from 554 kilograms per hectare in the fiscal year 2008 to 429 kilograms per hect are in the fiscal year 2024 (an estimated figure). In stark contrast, Bangla desh witnessed a remark- able surge in cotton yield during this period, from 263 Kgs/ha to 737 Kgs/ha, The adoption of Hybrid BT cotton in India has led to a yield plateau, escalat ing production costs, and diminished productivity, resulting in decreased farmer revenues, cor related with heightened

behind this de dine remains unclear, In European countries, governments are promot ing non-GM corn and have banned GM Corn, While GM seeds offer traits like pest resistance and herbicide tolerance, they often entail higher costs and uncertainties regarding market accep tance. Non-GM maize presents an alternative that reduces reliance on expensive GM technolo- Ry potentially enhancing the economic viability of farming operations. European countries, in particular, impose strin gent regulations on GM crops, creating lucrative opportunities for farm ers producing non-GM maize. Moreover, niche markets seeking natural or organic products often favour non-GM maize, enabling farmers to cater demands and command premium prices. In an era where food transparency and traceability are par- amount, non-GM status serves as a selling point for farmers, enhancing their market competi tiveness. Recently, Mex ico has also decided to han genetically modified corn, as reported in the news. According to an article published by Lucy Sharratt, Coordinator of the Canadian Biotech nology Action Network, a project of Make Way Charitable Society, Mex ko’s restrictions on GM corn aim to safeguard the integrity of native corn from GM contamination and to protect human health. the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network is a large net work of farmers and en vironmental groups that has been monitoring the. use of genetically modi fied organisms (GMOs) for over 15 years. As per them, their research con- tinues to uncover indica- tors of potential harm to humans from consuming GM insect-resistant corn. Most GM corn plants are genetically modified to kill insect pests, express ing a toxin from the soil bacteria Bacillus thuring- iensis (Bt), known to harm the guts of specific types of insects but not others. Farmers have long utilized Bt as a spray to combat pests, but the Bt toxins in GM crops dif fer in structure, function, and biological effects. Indeed, peer-reviewed studies across the scien- tific literature persistently find that Bt toxins in GM. plants can harm insects (spiders, wasps, lady- bugs, and lacewings, for example) that are not the intended targets.

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