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Donate to My War with cancer in 2025 and other major setbacks, organized by Nicholas Avery

I hope this message finds you well. My name is Nick, and I am writing to you in the spirit of openness and honesty. In 2025 I underwent emergency medical treatment for a skull tumor, and after initial interventions failed I received CAR T-cell therapy at City of Hope Cancer Centers in California. This journey along with the rest of the year has been one of the most challenging years of my life.

Because of cancer treatments and multiple hardships throughout the year, medical bills, recovery needs, a car accident, and not allowed to return to work yet, I established a GoFundMe campaign to help cover necessary expenses and give myself a chance at recovery and Here’s the link to the campaign:

https://gofund.me/546bee7a8

I understand Lifeboat core values and mission is towards making the world a better place and after years of growing with this community, which is why I believe that human life, is a part of what makes our future worth safeguarding.

I’m reaching out because we all have our own personal humanitarian crisis and unfortunate this year is mine. I appreciate any support, be it words of encouragement or donating to my campaign is all deeply appreciated. Thank you for letting me a part of this community. The link is posted in a comment.

A special THANK YOU to Eric Klien for being supportive and donating.

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Windows is rolling out the ability to handle all app updates from just your OS, but with limited support right now

Good news, an actually good Windows update is here. But it likely won’t be useful for a while. Still, the foundation has been laid for your apps to update themselves thanks to the introduction of the Unified Update Orchestration Platform (UOP).

The UOP will “download and install updates based on user activity and system state”. Though rather than Windows Update, which provides patches for the OS and some applications and services, or Microsoft Store, UOP allows apps to stick to their own backend updating service. So, think of it like the OS helping apps to download updates when the system isn’t in use.

Metaphysical Difficulties in Process Theology: W. Norris Clarke, S.J

Note from Jay McDaniel: The process tradition is at its best when it resists sectarianism and avoids even the faintest hint of certainty about ultimate metaphysical principles. In this spirit, it welcomes critique—not with reactionary defensiveness, but with deep listening and with the recognition that the critique may, after all, be right. There is no need for combativeness. As Whitehead cautions: “There remains the final reflection, how shallow, puny, and imperfect are efforts to sound the depths in the nature of things. In philosophical discussion, the merest hint of dogmatic certainty as to finality of statement is an exhibition of folly.” (Process and Reality, Preface, xiv.)

China unveils planetary exploration roadmap targeting habitability and extraterrestrial life

Great, but where on earth is the EU in this new space race?

HELSINKI — China is charting a long-term deep space strategy centered on planetary habitability and the search for extraterrestrial life, according to a newly revealed mission roadmap.

A slide titled “habitability and search for extraterrestrial life — guiding the future development of China’s planetary exploration,” was shared on Chinese social media by the country’s Deep Space Exploration Laboratory (DSEL), a national-level research institution under the China National Space Administration (CNSA). It outlines a number of planned and potential missions, many with astrobiological implications.

The first mission is the Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission, already approved and currently scheduled to launch around late 2028. Among its main objectives is investigating potential traces of past or present life on Mars.

Novel application of punch excision therapy in the treatment of keloids: A systematic review

Keloids are fibroproliferative disorders of the skin marked with elevated interleukin-6 and transforming growth factor-beta, causing pain, pruritus, and decreased quality of life.1 Punch excision therapy is emerging as a simple, quick, and accessible treatment option for keloid management. This review summarizes the current evidence on the efficacy and safety of punch excision therapy in keloid management.

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