Wednesday, June 24 — Rex Daily

I Daily Wisdom

Robert Greene The Daily Laws June 24 · Demonic Language

Most people employ symbolic language—their words stand for something real, the feelings, ideas, and beliefs they really have. Or they stand for concrete things in the real world. (The origin of the word

symbolic

lies in a Greek word meaning “to bring things together”—in this case, a word and something real.) To master the art of indirection, you need to master the opposite: diabolic language. Your words do not stand for anything real; their sound, and the feelings they evoke, are more important than what they are supposed to stand for. (The word

diabolic

ultimately means to separate, to throw things apart—here, words and reality.) The more you make people focus on your sweet-sounding language, and on the illusions and fantasies it conjures, the more you diminish their contact with reality. You lead them into the clouds, where it is hard to distinguish truth from untruth, real from unreal.

Daily Law: Keep your words vague and ambiguous, so people are never quite sure what you mean. Envelop them in demonic, diabolical language and they will not be able to focus on your maneuvers, on the possible consequences of your manipulations.

The Art of Seduction

: Use the Demonic Power of Words to Sow Confusion

Steven Pressfield The Daily Pressfield Day 175 · MICKEY AND MOONIE CLIMBING A TREE I

nce had two kittens, Mickey and Moonie. Moonie was the brave one. One day at the base of a pine tree, Moonie started climbing. He extended his little kitten claws and hauled himself, a few inches at a time, up the bark-y barrel of the tree. What did Mickey do? Did he cli mb too? No, he grabbed Moonie by the hind legs and tried to drag him back down. Mickey wasn’t “bad.” He was just enacting a natural instinct. For us as artists, “the fight” is often between our own commitment to achieve and the indifference of others, or even their (conscious or unconscious) sabotage. Writing Seminar, Nashville, 2019 Gore Vidal is famously quoted as declaring, “Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.”

Leo Tolstoy A Calendar of Wisdom June 24

Understanding or mindfulness of death teaches one to choose the things which are complete or could be completed; and those things are the most important.

You could die very quickly; but yet you have time to rid yourself of your passions.

Be humble to everyone.

—MARCUS AURELIUS

A wise person thinks more about life than about death.

—BENEDICTUS SPINOZA

There is no death for the spirit; therefore, a person who lives a spiritual life is freed from death.

Do you worry about the moment when you die?

Our life is only a moment in eternity.

Think and you will see that you have eternity behind you and before you, and between these two huge abysses, what difference does it make whether you live three days or three centuries?

—MARCUS AURELIUS

Whenever you ask whether you should behave in this way or the other, ask yourself, what would you do if you knew that you could die this evening, and nobody would find out about your action?

Death spurs people to finish their affairs; among all actions, there is only one type which is complete, and that is love which seeks no reward.

II The Day Ahead

Today · 15:00 ⭐ 基礎研全体Mtg (Group A) - Presentation 基礎研全体Mtg 2026
Tomorrow · 18:30 サークル（木） 2026年間予定

III Signals & Dispatches

AI / ML

@trq212 source ↗ Claude Tag is getting attention as a new agent interaction pattern, with early best practices already forming around human agent handoffs.
@GarrettLord source ↗ A useful framing for AI builders: evals are becoming strategic IP, not just a quality checklist.
@analogalok source ↗ Local inference keeps getting more practical, with a Gemma 4 26B sparse MoE quant reportedly running on an 8GB RTX 4060 laptop.

Drug Discovery

@GENbio source ↗ Merck and Protillion launched an AI drug discovery collaboration worth up to 510 million dollars in milestones around Protillion’s on chip proteomics platform.
@bphillipsai source ↗ OpenAI’s LifeSciBench and GPT Rosalind are being framed as a meaningful step toward specialist models for real drug discovery work.
@AlertsAndNews source ↗ Greenstone Biosciences and Intel announced a collaboration to scale human centric AI enabled drug discovery.

Biotech

@ResearchPulse1 source ↗ Novo Nordisk’s China visit underlines how aggressively big pharma is scouting Chinese biotech pipelines for faster molecule development.
@CellCellPress source ↗ Cell highlighted new work on the role of endogenous immune compartments after CAR T therapy in recurrent GBM.
@luminabio8 source ↗ Peptide research is being pitched as a route to next decade breakthroughs by working with endogenous signaling pathways rather than only conventional drugs.

Tech

@SierraPlatform source ↗ Sierra says Codex and Claude Code forced a redesign of both engineering workflow and hiring, including a rethink of the coding interview.
@HiCagr source ↗ The CXL plus flash argument is about memory economics: DRAM can dominate server and rack cost, leaving room for new hierarchy designs.
@saxena_puru source ↗ Semiconductor positioning looks crowded, with record weekly inflows into the SOX complex raising the risk of a near term sentiment top.

Japanese Politics

@antitaxhike source ↗ A Yomiuri poll showed cabinet support rising to 69 percent and LDP support to 39 percent, while opposition parties stayed below 5 percent.
@fukuchan_ib source ↗ Yomiuri criticized the LDP and Ishin push to cut Lower House seats, arguing electoral design should be debated fully in the Diet.
@HIRAHARAKOUYA source ↗ Osaka Governor Yoshimura addressed litigation over the February double election and questions around democratic process and coalition politics.

IV Sky over Ibaraki

🌤️ +20°C

humidity 78% · wind ↙5 km/h

mild and fairly humid, light breeze

V What Rex Can Do Today

Prep a one page brief for today’s 15:00 Basic Research Division presentation so the TRIM3 through TRIM5 story lands cleanly.
Scan fresh AI drug discovery posts and papers, then pull three items worth saving into the career notebook.
Review the Fr. Conor pipeline logs and confirm the next Dropbox proofread handoff is clean.

VI Toward the Long Game

Read one specialist eval paper or post and sketch how a StemRIM peptide design benchmark could look.
Spend 30 minutes comparing Protillion, Greenstone, and Insilico style AI drug discovery partnerships for patterns pharma is funding.
Build one small notebook that scores peptide variants with simple descriptors, then note what would need wet lab validation.