NaibofTabr

Here we go, found it in the Health Impacts article:

There is experimental evidence that very slim fibers (<60 nm, <0.06 μm in breadth) tangle destructively with chromosomes (being of comparable size). This is likely to cause the sort of mitosis disruption expected in cancer.

And here in MECHANISMS OF ASBESTOS-INDUCED CARCINOGENESIS

It is somewhat more difficult to understand the “chromosome tangling hypothesis.” We recently found that asbestos fibers including crocidolite are actively taken up by several different kinds of cultured cells. Furthermore, those fibers enter both the cytoplasm and the nucleus. In this situation, asbestos fibers may tangle with chromosomes when cells divide. Whether there is a specificity of tangling for any chromosomal region is the next question to be addressed.

So not quite down to the DNA level, but basically chromosomes can get wrapped around asbestos fibers during cell division.

Hello computer

help desk -> sysadmin -> CISO -> goat farmer

"AI" is basically mass theft of culture, knowledge, and agency from the entirety of human record. It's no surprise that the robber barons are willing to pay people extremely well to expand its scope and efficiency.

We asked 100+ AI models to write code.

The Results: AI-generated Code

no shit son

That Works

OK this part is surprising, probably headline-worthy

But Isn’t Safe

Surprising literally no one with any sense.

Yeah, it's a crystal structure and it's really a shame that it causes so many health issues because it's kind of an amazing material otherwise. It's lightweight and strong enough to make bricks with but you can also make flexible fabric out of it, and it can hold up to really impressive amounts of heat. As the poster above said, it is still in use in some industrial applications because in some situations there is no effective alternative.

Of course the problem is that if you damage an asbestos brick or bend an asbestos fabric you get lots of tiny little asbestos fibers that come loose. My understanding is that the fibers are so small that they pierce cell walls and damage DNA strands, hence the cancer.

a menu?

"It's a brand new day
Yeah the sun is high
And all the birds are singin'
That you're gonna die!"

shoot the messenger

The first modem just transmitted data over the analog phone network as a series of beeps, a function which the phone system was never designed for.

Computer networking is kludges all the way down.

Realistically no organization has so many endpoints that they need IPv6 on their internal networks. There's no reason to deal with more complicated addressing schemes except on the public Internet. Only the border devices should be using IPv6.

Hopefully if an organization has remote endpoints which are connecting to the internal network over the Internet, they are doing that through a VPN and can still just be assigned IPv4 addresses on dedicated VLANs when they connect.

"We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky."