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A powerful open letter from President Zelenskyy to Putin:
When you came to power in Russia more than 26 years ago, many people in Ukraine viewed you positively. That is how it was. But that is now in the past. 1/19
When you came to power in Russia more than 26 years ago, many people in Ukraine viewed you positively. That is how it was. But that is now in the past. 1/19
Now, the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians view it positively that our long-range drones paid a visit to the opening of your forum in St. Petersburg, covering a distance of more than 1,000 kms. As you know very well, that distance is not the limit of our capabilities. 2/19
For 26 years, your time in power has completely changed the agenda of relations between Ukraine and Russia. From discussions about trade and other civilian matters, our nations have moved to talking almost exclusively about strikes and losses. 3/19
🧵 The Gut-Immune-Brain Axis, MTHFR, and Vaccine Injury: A Systems Biology View
*** The following is taken from a conversation with Alter Systems AI. Disclaimer: Always check an AI for accuracy.
*** The following is taken from a conversation with Alter Systems AI. Disclaimer: Always check an AI for accuracy.
🧠 The Gut-Immune-Brain Axis
The gut isn't just digestion—it's the body's largest immune organ. Roughly 70% of the immune system resides in gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT). What happens there doesn't stay there.
The gut isn't just digestion—it's the body's largest immune organ. Roughly 70% of the immune system resides in gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT). What happens there doesn't stay there.
Key mechanisms:
1/ Intestinal permeability ("leaky gut"): When tight junctions between enterocytes break down, partially digested proteins, bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS), and other antigens cross into circulation. This triggers systemic immune activation.
2/ Microglial priming: LPS and pro-inflammatory cytokines from the gut cross the blood-brain barrier or signal via the vagus nerve, priming microglia (the brain's resident immune cells). Primed microglia overreact to subsequent hits.
1/ Intestinal permeability ("leaky gut"): When tight junctions between enterocytes break down, partially digested proteins, bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS), and other antigens cross into circulation. This triggers systemic immune activation.
2/ Microglial priming: LPS and pro-inflammatory cytokines from the gut cross the blood-brain barrier or signal via the vagus nerve, priming microglia (the brain's resident immune cells). Primed microglia overreact to subsequent hits.
New state witness, Coach Rob Starr, the head track coach at Memorial High School where Austin Metcalf went to school. He is testifying about track culture and how the tent was a big deal. Each school has a tent with their name, logo on it, and kids who don't belong to that school do NOT go to the tents of other schools.
"As far as the tent specifically--basically the tent marks your spot," Starr said.
"What the tent represents is kind of like your bench. Think of it like a football or basketball bench. That tent is a safe area for your team."
"As far as the tent specifically--basically the tent marks your spot," Starr said.
"What the tent represents is kind of like your bench. Think of it like a football or basketball bench. That tent is a safe area for your team."
Starr added that the student athletes keep their belonging/valuables under the tent, and sometimes, a coach is even assigned to stay the tent to keep on eye on belongings/kids.
"It is a big deal to keep people out from underneath your tent,' Starr says.
"It is a big deal to keep people out from underneath your tent,' Starr says.
Starr explained he was going to be busy running the track event the day of the stabbing and texted Austin Metcalf in the morning to ask him to step up and be a leader by helping to run the event.
"We deny...that race or ethnicity may, in any way, function as a moral norm directing or defining love for neighbor."
The final statement here strikingly overreaches and I think carries implications that the authors have not thought through in terms of rights, duties,
The final statement here strikingly overreaches and I think carries implications that the authors have not thought through in terms of rights, duties,
obligations, and sins concerning one's own and other races/ethnicities:
Compare this with the following from Bonaventure Hinwood's work here () which I find to be the most balanced theological perspective on race I have read. He argues that racesarchive.org/details/race-r…
Compare this with the following from Bonaventure Hinwood's work here () which I find to be the most balanced theological perspective on race I have read. He argues that racesarchive.org/details/race-r…
and ethnicities are true goods possessing certain rights and therefore capable of being wronged as such (e.g., by genocide, unjust discrimination), while simultaneously insisting that such rights are neither supreme nor absolute and must always remain subordinate to fundamental
Open Letter
To the President of the Russian Federation
From the President of Ukraine
When you came to power in Russia more than 26 years ago, many people in Ukraine viewed you positively. That is how it was. But that is now in the past.
Now, the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians view it positively that our long-range drones paid a visit to the opening of your forum in St. Petersburg, covering a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers. As you know very well, that distance is not the limit of our capabilities.
To the President of the Russian Federation
From the President of Ukraine
When you came to power in Russia more than 26 years ago, many people in Ukraine viewed you positively. That is how it was. But that is now in the past.
Now, the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians view it positively that our long-range drones paid a visit to the opening of your forum in St. Petersburg, covering a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers. As you know very well, that distance is not the limit of our capabilities.
For 26 years, your time in power has completely changed the agenda of relations between Ukraine and Russia. From discussions about trade and other civilian matters, our nations have moved to talking almost exclusively about strikes and losses.
You have spent nearly half of your 26 years in power in Russia waging war against Ukraine.
You have spent nearly half of your 26 years in power in Russia waging war against Ukraine.
Whatever you may say about NATO, geopolitics, or the Russian language, this war is your personal choice — a war without a real cause. That is how history will remember it.
Those years could have been very different.
We often hear that you are comfortable with this war. Of course, not in those cases when it comes to the security of your residence in Valdai or your parade in Moscow. Your own life is valuable to you.
Those years could have been very different.
We often hear that you are comfortable with this war. Of course, not in those cases when it comes to the security of your residence in Valdai or your parade in Moscow. Your own life is valuable to you.
1/ A "time bomb" has detonated under Russian rumps. Botched attempts in the early 1990s to replicate Brazilian butt lifts are now disintegrating inside Russian backsides, causing buttocks to 'literally melt'. ⬇️
2/ 'Baza' reports:
"Thirty years later, the first post-Soviet buttock augmentations have become a shapeless mess and caused a ton of discomfort to their "owners."
"Thirty years later, the first post-Soviet buttock augmentations have become a shapeless mess and caused a ton of discomfort to their "owners."
3/ "Although thinness was popular among Russian women at the time, some dreamed of a "Brazilian butt" and opted for injections to achieve it. The procedure took only 20 minutes, and doctors didn't particularly bother with recovery.
A new Zman Yisrael poll reveals that for the first time in months, the anti-Netanyahu Zionist bloc has a clear outright majority in the Knesset without needing the backing of Arab parties. 1/6
If elections were held today, the 120-seat Knesset would look like this:
🔹 Anti-Netanyahu Zionist Bloc: 62 seats 📈
🔸 Pro-Netanyahu Bloc: 50 seats 📉
🔸 Arab parties (Ra'am & Hadash-Ta'al): 8 seats
2/6
🔹 Anti-Netanyahu Zionist Bloc: 62 seats 📈
🔸 Pro-Netanyahu Bloc: 50 seats 📉
🔸 Arab parties (Ra'am & Hadash-Ta'al): 8 seats
2/6
The other big story is the rise of Gadi Eisenkot and his Yashar party. People thought the Bennett-Lapid merger all but cemented Bennett's position as the likely PM to replace Netanyahu, Eisenkot is breathing down his neck with 19 seats. 3/6
Mr. .@TimBurchett_N
Why are we targeting low hanging fruit ?!?
When will the DOJ, IRS, and House/Senate Ethics Committees announce indictments of Capitol Hill officials involved in secret offshore banking?
1/9
Why are we targeting low hanging fruit ?!?
When will the DOJ, IRS, and House/Senate Ethics Committees announce indictments of Capitol Hill officials involved in secret offshore banking?
1/9
Multiple reports have highlighted lawmakers with offshore accounts, shell companies, and foreign money-laundering ties—including the Henry Cuellar indictment and allegations surrounding Dan Goldman’s Cayman Islands funds.
2/9
2/9
Yet no broad crackdown on Capitol Hill’s offshore banking has followed.
U.S. taxpayers deserve transparency. Will there be accountability for lawmakers hiding wealth offshore, or will this remain a loophole for the powerful?
#OffshoreBanking #CongressionalCorruption
3/9
U.S. taxpayers deserve transparency. Will there be accountability for lawmakers hiding wealth offshore, or will this remain a loophole for the powerful?
#OffshoreBanking #CongressionalCorruption
3/9
They took a B-17 that had been left for scrap, rebuilt it by hand, and bolted on so many extra machine guns it became one of the most heavily armed bombers in the Pacific.
Then they volunteered for a solo mission over enemy territory that few crews wanted.
Its tail number was 666.
This is the story of the Eager Beavers..🧵1/7
Then they volunteered for a solo mission over enemy territory that few crews wanted.
Its tail number was 666.
This is the story of the Eager Beavers..🧵1/7
🧵 2/7
The pilot was a young officer named Jay Zeamer.
By early 1943 the Army Air Forces had more or less given up on him as a pilot. He had never managed to qualify to command his own bomber. He was bounced between units, used as a fill-in copilot, the odd man out who could not seem to get checked out as a first pilot. On paper he looked like a washout.
But Zeamer wanted to fly combat more than anything. So he did something unusual. He started gathering other men who had been passed over, rejected, or labelled as difficult. Misfits no other crew wanted.
Among them was an old friend, a bombardier named Joe Sarnoski.
Together they became known around the airfield as the Eager Beavers, because they volunteered for the missions nobody else would touch.
There was just one problem. A crew needs an aircraft. And nobody was going to give the rejects a good one.
The pilot was a young officer named Jay Zeamer.
By early 1943 the Army Air Forces had more or less given up on him as a pilot. He had never managed to qualify to command his own bomber. He was bounced between units, used as a fill-in copilot, the odd man out who could not seem to get checked out as a first pilot. On paper he looked like a washout.
But Zeamer wanted to fly combat more than anything. So he did something unusual. He started gathering other men who had been passed over, rejected, or labelled as difficult. Misfits no other crew wanted.
Among them was an old friend, a bombardier named Joe Sarnoski.
Together they became known around the airfield as the Eager Beavers, because they volunteered for the missions nobody else would touch.
There was just one problem. A crew needs an aircraft. And nobody was going to give the rejects a good one.
🧵 3/7
So they found their own.
Sitting at the edge of the field was a worn-out B-17E Flying Fortress, tail number 41-2666. It had been knocked around, used hard, and was largely being kept around for spare parts. Everyone called it Old 666.
The Eager Beavers adopted it and went to work. They rebuilt the tired bomber by hand. Then they did something that set it apart from every other B-17 in the theater. They up-armed it.
A standard B-17 carried around a dozen machine guns. The Eager Beavers crammed in extra ones, including a fixed forward-firing gun that Zeamer could aim and fire himself from the cockpit, something a bomber pilot almost never had. By some accounts they pushed the total as high as 19 guns, with spare weapons kept aboard in case any jammed in combat.
They had turned a junked bomber into one of the most heavily armed aircraft in the Pacific.
Now they just needed a mission worthy of it.
So they found their own.
Sitting at the edge of the field was a worn-out B-17E Flying Fortress, tail number 41-2666. It had been knocked around, used hard, and was largely being kept around for spare parts. Everyone called it Old 666.
The Eager Beavers adopted it and went to work. They rebuilt the tired bomber by hand. Then they did something that set it apart from every other B-17 in the theater. They up-armed it.
A standard B-17 carried around a dozen machine guns. The Eager Beavers crammed in extra ones, including a fixed forward-firing gun that Zeamer could aim and fire himself from the cockpit, something a bomber pilot almost never had. By some accounts they pushed the total as high as 19 guns, with spare weapons kept aboard in case any jammed in combat.
They had turned a junked bomber into one of the most heavily armed aircraft in the Pacific.
Now they just needed a mission worthy of it.
New research from @japhba and I!
Activation Oracles are a pretty cool interpretability tool. They answer natural questions about activations, but they suffer from vagueness and hallucinations. Can AO training be improved?
Turns out: Yes! We identify four fixes that make AOs substantially more useful!
Activation Oracles are a pretty cool interpretability tool. They answer natural questions about activations, but they suffer from vagueness and hallucinations. Can AO training be improved?
Turns out: Yes! We identify four fixes that make AOs substantially more useful!
An Activation Oracle is a finetuned LLM that takes another model's activations as input and answers natural language questions about them. Great for open-ended questions like "why is the model about to backtrack?"
The problem is that the original Activation Oracles hallucinate very often, are vague, and they're hard to eval.
The problem is that the original Activation Oracles hallucinate very often, are vague, and they're hard to eval.
We found 4 simple fixes to make Activation Oracles better!
1) Use better datasets
2) Train on on-policy data, not fineweb
3) Feed multiple layers (Thank you Niclas Luick!)
4) A slight improvement to the injection formula
1) Use better datasets
2) Train on on-policy data, not fineweb
3) Feed multiple layers (Thank you Niclas Luick!)
4) A slight improvement to the injection formula
I have done many investigations into statins starting around 2004.
The facts are shocking.
And then my husband was harmed by them.
Who caught it?
Not his doctors. I did.
They didn't even ask about his statin use when he had debilitating leg pain.
It should have been the first thing they asked.
They gave him shots in his knees and acted mystified when it didn't help.
Turns out he had developed a potentially fatal side effect called rhabdomyalosis.
Ony because I was reporting the stories on statins did I recognize what might be wrong.
Since I first began looking into statins, serious side effects the manufacturers initially denied have been added to the label.
Many esteemed doctors are ignorant of these, partly because of how and what they're taught in med school (see my book "Follow the Science."
In this threat I will link to some reporting on statins.
The facts are shocking.
And then my husband was harmed by them.
Who caught it?
Not his doctors. I did.
They didn't even ask about his statin use when he had debilitating leg pain.
It should have been the first thing they asked.
They gave him shots in his knees and acted mystified when it didn't help.
Turns out he had developed a potentially fatal side effect called rhabdomyalosis.
Ony because I was reporting the stories on statins did I recognize what might be wrong.
Since I first began looking into statins, serious side effects the manufacturers initially denied have been added to the label.
Many esteemed doctors are ignorant of these, partly because of how and what they're taught in med school (see my book "Follow the Science."
In this threat I will link to some reporting on statins.
Here's one of my first reports on statins at CBS News.
This line of reporting prompted statin makers to contact CBS and threaten to cancel their advertising if I didn't stop.
cbsnews.com/news/statins-s…
This line of reporting prompted statin makers to contact CBS and threaten to cancel their advertising if I didn't stop.
cbsnews.com/news/statins-s…
Here's a more recent, comprehensive story I reported for my TV program @FullMeasureNews
Events Receiving Limited Public Attention
The deaths of Suchir Balaji & Nuno Loureiro — linked to large affiliated institutions — have drawn less sustained public scrutiny than other high-profile cases, despite their professional significance & controversies surrounding them.
The deaths of Suchir Balaji & Nuno Loureiro — linked to large affiliated institutions — have drawn less sustained public scrutiny than other high-profile cases, despite their professional significance & controversies surrounding them.
Balaji’s controversial death was ruled a suicide by the San Francisco Medical Examiner;
OpenAI’s public statements avoided speculation.
Family & critics challenged this, citing inconsistencies in investigation;
without FEDERAL REVIEW, the case remains a private matter.
OpenAI’s public statements avoided speculation.
Family & critics challenged this, citing inconsistencies in investigation;
without FEDERAL REVIEW, the case remains a private matter.
The absence of a criminal investigation limited the scope of public debate.
Similarly, Loureiro’s death, while tied to MIT’s research environment, was not widely reported in mainstream media, possibly due to its lack of direct public controversy or high-profile connections.
Similarly, Loureiro’s death, while tied to MIT’s research environment, was not widely reported in mainstream media, possibly due to its lack of direct public controversy or high-profile connections.
