The Polythróna with Hadrian Archo

  I think it's hit me over the past few days that I live a double life, professionally speaking. At Work I work at a government research facility as a biomedical researcher that's embedded into a clinic. Our system is like this because doctors who work in clinical resaerch are still doctors, and doctor's don't have time to understand all the nuances of conducting research. They're concerned with getting their question answered about whether something is going to be a better treatment or not than what's already out there. Because of the government aspect, as well as the structure of clinical clinical research. We have a very clear hierarchy in my workplace that can be described from top to bottom: Medical Doctors Lab Chiefs Nursing Chiefs Physician Assistants Nurse Practioners Nurses who coordinate studies Nurses who manage individual patient cases Non-chief scientists regardless of credentials (PhD, MS, BS/BA) In this sense, I'm at the bottom of this hierarc...

Introduction It's been about two years since my last post. As expected in life, many things have changed over the course of two years. These changes first brought me to abandon the blog in the first place, but just like in all cycles, the blog will come back because the changes in life find its way back here. What's changed? The biggest changes in life since the last blog is that I became highly involved in nonprofit work, and have developed quickly as a leader in my local nonprofit community. I started my own nonprofit and sat on the board of a second at the same time throughout the past 2 years. This all happened while I'm still working my day job as a researcher. While that presents a full schedule, there was still enough time to engage in online antics during the moments when I was walking from A->B, on an elevator, or the occasional downtime periods. In those gaps, I was in charge of a couple of online Discord communities.  How did this affect blogging? Firstly, it ...

I thought I would be able to keep up with writing during Lent, but the truth is that I wasn't able to. I will return after Holy Week.  For those of you participating in Lenten practices such as more prayer, more church, and more readings, we only have a few weeks left. May the fruits of your labor this year be remembered in the Heavenly Kingdom.  In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Both now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

Earlier Parts of this series  Part 1, Why Now?   https://hadrianarcho.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-metaverse-primer-by-jefferies-part.html Part 2, A Peculiar Economy   https://hadrianarcho.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-metaverse-primer-by-jefferies-part_15.html Introduction At the beginning of this discussion regarding the Metaverse, I had already begun to think about the effects that a fully developed metaverse would have on crime, punishment, and censorship. Because of my rather sluggish writing process, I was not able to complete this part of the discussion before a very important news article arrived onto the landscape this year. You may or may not have heard of this piece of news, but some time ago, a lady had reported that she has been “raped” in the metaverse [1] . In the story, a woman from the UK, Nina Jane Patel, claimed that within a minute of joining the metaverse platform, Horizon Venues, a group of 3-4 avatars had sexually assaulted her [1] [2] . In more ex...

 Originally Written: 07/26/17 10am today marks my first ever autopsy. It’s different from anything else I’ve ever seen in medicine yet. There’s a distinct separation of it from surgery in the fact of the gentleness of the operation. Surgeries still have a gentle touch to their work. There’s more inherent respect with it. Maybe it has to do with the distinction between life and death in both cases. However, it still doesn’t mean a body should be manhandled. Truth be told, my thoughts about it are still scattered. It’s better just to do a runthrough of it over the next couple of pages in order to really just process what I had witnessed. It’ll also give me a more balanced look for perspective and some insight to process it. The patient: 71yo white woman from unknown location Diagnosed with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy at some point in her life, probably later in life Was put on hospice during her last days May have had a meniscus repair or knee replacement Was treated w...

  Introduction I was about to begin my drive back home and before I did I thought that I would go ahead and open Discord to check on any messages or pings that I missed while I was volunteering today. On my opening of the app, I was prompted with a pop-up screen that announced that Discord is changing its policies. At first I thought it was likely just their privacy policy since those seem to change on a dime these days due to constantly shifting trends, regulations, and laws regarding privacy [1] . However, I headed over to the discord blog and I was surprised to see that they were doing more than just their privacy policy. I set out to figure out why exactly they went along with these changes. Summary of Changes The changes of the policies according to the official blog are as follows [2] : In the community guidelines section of their terms, they no longer allow the sharing of: Anti-vaccine content Medically unsupported and dangerous cures for disease Content that disto...