To give you an idea of the sheer insanity of what’s happening in Russia: Kremlin TV is currently running a story about the "miraculous discovery" (under Putin’s direct involvement and in front of the cameras, of course) of the relics of a 14th-century Moscow warlord (despite the fact that the location of his tomb in the Kremlin has been well known for the past 500 years).
And in their version of reality, he defeated a Tatar warlord (a rebel of the Golden Horde) who had allegedly been sent against Moscow (despite Moscow itself being subject to that same Golden Horde then), by, of all people, the Genoese and the Pope -- "just like today" -- as a "proxy army of the West against Russia."
And now they plan to take those remains to the front so that they can magically help the Russian army in its war of annihilation against Ukraine -- and I absolutely shit you not.
@PatrickRuffini Metrics on communications ability perhaps as well. Access to donor networks. Metrics for work-ethic as well.
What does the electoral equivalent of the NFL combine look like?
Look at the bright side. At least Pierre has experience in situations where an MP with leadership ambitions is undermining the center and putting themselves ahead of the team.
This is freaking huge: For the first time, a AI-assisted personalized mRNA cancer treatment has succeeded in a Phase 3 trial.
Moderna and Merck sequence each patient’s tumor and compare it with their healthy DNA. AI then helps identify which of the tumor’s mutations are most likely to trigger an immune response.
From those targets, Moderna produces an individual mRNA treatment encoding up to 34 neoantigens, The earlier Phase 2 trial followed patients with surgically removed high-risk melanoma for five years:
- 68.8% remained cancer-free, compared with 49.1% on Keytruda alone
- 49% lower risk of recurrence or death
- 59% lower risk of distant metastasis or death
Now the much larger Phase 3 trial involving 1,137 patients has also succeeded.
Absolutely incredible. Dario was right: cancer will be cured in just a few years!
People are not ready for 10x acceleration, let alone 100x or 1,000x faster rate of progress.
But that's where we're headed.
The world of the early 2030s will be much harder to imagine than most people realize.
As someone trained as a trade economist, it is my duty to share the 1929-1933 Kindleberger Spiral, showing the month-month decline in global trade due to the combined factors of the (global) Great Depression and retaliatory tariffs. Smooth Hawley is implemented mid-June 1930.