Barbara Czyzyk

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

i'm obsessed with what's happening in AI reforestation right now

this Franco-Brazilian startup called MORFO took a patch of land in Brazil that was rock-hard and compacted from years of cattle farming. they replanted it using a single drone. months later the ground was covered in grass, bushes, and small trees. the land came back to life.

here's how the whole thing works.

1. drones scan the terrain with high-resolution cameras and sensors
2. AI analyzes the imagery alongside soil samples, moisture levels, slope, and surrounding vegetation
3. the system picks from a catalog of 300+ native species, deciding exactly which plants will thrive in which specific spot
4. the drone fires biodegradable seed pods packed with seeds, nutrients, and moisture at 180 capsules per minute
5. satellite and drone imagery monitors regrowth over time, with AI tracking vegetation cover and biodiversity
6. two people and one drone cover 50 hectares a day. a person planting by hand manages about one hectare.

and MORFO isn't alone. AirSeed in Australia drops 250,000 seed pods per day into bushfire-scarred koala habitat, replanting swamp mahogany that koalas depend on to survive. Flash Forest in Canada fires 50,000 pods daily into wildfire-destroyed boreal forest, planning the replanting alongside Cree Indigenous communities. re-green won Prince William's Earthshot Prize after planting 6 million seedlings across 30,000 hectares of Amazon and Atlantic Forest.

five companies across four continents built this same approach independently. nobody coordinated. the physics of the problem demanded it.

knowing which seeds belong in which soil used to require years of ecological fieldwork, manual planting crews, and budgets that made large-scale restoration nearly impossible. now two people with a drone and an AI model trained on local soil data can replant 50 hectares before lunch.

this is the AI work that'll still matter in 50 years.

[Local 12/WKRC-TV @Local12]

The Cleveland Clinic has agreed to end youth transgender care and has committed millions of dollars for detransition care.

[Adam Gwiazda @delestoile]

🟥 Czy Henry Nowak mógł przeżyć?
Dr Krzysztof Magier @DrMagier , lekarz pediatra i były konsul honorowy RP w Cowes, przeanalizował nagrania z policyjnej kamery nasobnej pokazujące śmierć Henry'ego Nowaka.
Dr Magier jest lekarzem prowadzącym oddział intensywnej terapii dziecięcej, z doświadczeniem w szkoleniach z medycyny pola walki oraz po specjalistycznym kursie leczenia ciężkich urazów (w tym ran postrzałowych i kłutych).
Nie zgadza się z opinią patologa i sędziego, że Henry Nowak nie miał żadnych szans na przeżycie i ze skucie go w kajdanki nic w zasadzie nie zmieniło. Wręcz przeciwnie – istnieje duże prawdopodobieństwo, że to interwencja policji przyczyniła się do jego śmierci.
Przeanalizował on raport z sekcji, który wskazuje na uszkodzenie żyły podobojczykowej jako główne źródło krwawienia i tłumaczy, gdzie leży problem.
U zdrowej osoby krwawienie żylne odbywa się pod niskim ciśnieniem i często samoogranicza się dzięki powstającemu naturalnie skrzepowi, a samo zbliżenie krawędzi rany i ucisk otaczających tkanek domyka żyłę na tyle, że spowalnia albo nawet zatrzymuje krwawienie.
Z nagrania z policyjnej kamery nasobnej wynika, że gdy policja przybyła na miejsce (prawdopodobnie 5-10 minut po zranieniu), Henry był na tyle przytomny, że mówił dość głośno. Nie był zatem jeszcze w stanie terminalnym. Po wykręceniu rąk do tyłu i skuciu za plecami najprawdopodobniej doszło do rozciągnięcia żyły, rozerwania skrzepu i gwałtownego nasilenia krwawienia. W ciągu zaledwie ok. trzech minut stracił przytomność i zmarł.
Osoby z podejrzeniem urazów wewnętrznych nigdy nie powinny być gwałtownie przemieszczane ani szarpane – takie działanie może zniszczyć naturalny skrzep i doprowadzić do masywnego krwotoku wewnętrznego.
Zamiast natychmiastowego wezwania zespołu ratownictwa medycznego i przekazania pacjenta w ręce ratowników, policja go skuła. Gdyby na miejscu jako pierwsi pojawili się paramedycy, szanse Henry’ego na przeżycie byłyby znacznie większe. "50%" - pisze dr Magier.
Ratownicy mogliby szybko założyć kroplówkę, podać płyny zwiększające objętość krwi krążącej oraz kwas traneksamowy stabilizujący skrzep, a w razie potrzeby wykonać dekompresję igłową (wkłucie grubej i długiej igły w płuco), bo problemem nie był tyle brak funkcji płuca, ale ucisk zalanego krwią płuca na serce i śródpiersie, który blokuje krążenie.
Co gorsza, incydent miał miejsce zaledwie kilka minut jazdy samochodem (2–3 minuty karetką na sygnale) od Southampton University Hospital – regionalnego Major Trauma Centre dysponującego pełnym zapleczem specjalistów, procedur i sprzętu. "Jestem przekonany, że gdyby Henry dotarł tam żywy, lekarze nie pozwoliliby mu umrzeć" - pisze dr Magier.
Podsumowując: agresywna interwencja policji, zamiast ratować życie, doprowadziła do śmierci przez nieodpowiednie postępowanie z ciężko ranionym człowiekiem, mimo że najwyższej klasy opieka była w zasięgu kilku minut. "Obawiam się, że Sędzia i patolog byli zbyt łaskawi dla policji" - pisze dr Magier.

[Barbara Czyzyk @barbszep]

No one is more Greek than Maria Callas in "Casta Diva" regarding casting to Greek Mythology "The Odyssey"

[Chad Crowley @CCrowley100]

They hate you for noticing the pattern.

During the Summer of Floyd, a Black, drug-addled career criminal died while resisting police after committing a crime, and whole cities burned while we were lectured endlessly about “racism.”

Now Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old White first-year student at the University of Southampton, is stabbed multiple times by Vickrum Digwa, a Sikh man carrying blades under Britain’s sacred multicultural laws.

Henry was walking home after celebrating with his university soccer team. He was not some violent thug. He was sober enough to be under the legal driving limit, in good spirits, sending videos to his friends, and simply trying to get home.

Digwa stabbed him in the chest and in the back of the legs as Henry tried to flee. Neighbors heard Henry crying that he had been stabbed and was dying.

When police arrived, Digwa played the race card, called Henry a “drunken racist,” and the officers believed him.

Henry told them he had been stabbed. One officer replied, “I don’t think you have, mate.”

Then they handcuffed him anyway.

He died after telling police he could not breathe.

He bled out in the street while his killer stood there, shielded by the very system that should have saved him.

The same political class that screamed for years over Floyd now falls silent.

That silence tells you exactly whose lives matter to them, whose do not, and why they hate you for noticing.

[Barbara Czyzyk @barbszep]

@donoharm @tabletmag This tracks with my experience as well. You can not even belive what is happening in US medicine.

[Barbara Czyzyk @barbszep]

@gothburz Meantime the Kushners familly and Ivanka is baking bigger cake - they are in Open AL.

[Barbara Czyzyk @barbszep]

@Rothmus The same he did at the Y Combinator. Invested in 400 companies before anyone else could do it.

The whole idea of AI was stolen from inventors at Y Combinator and presented to Elon Musk. Just find the person studying combinator Y applications.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Europe is on a path to destroying itself.

Unchecked immigration of millions of immigrants that burden their welfare states, bring violence and terrorism to their shores, and take over local governance, one city at a time.

Anti-capitalist policies that make it difficult for businesses to adapt their workforces to a rapidly changing competitive environment now accelerating due to AI.

A business environment and tax regime that is antithetical to startups.

The absence of any progress or innovation in AI and limited access to the compute necessary to compete.

Energy dependence due to the green movement at a moment when energy demands are rapidly increasing.

And now, the abandonment of the U.S. when we have asked for limited assistance — base access and flyover rights — in the midst of our efforts to eliminate Iran’s nuclear and ballistic threat which is already within striking range of Europe, after we have invested nearly $200 billion in helping Ukraine.

NATO is about to be toast. Europe’s defense burden is about to rise massively while their economies continue to fall further and further behind.

In short, Europe needs to wake up before it is too late, and it may very well be too late.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

AI can replace 99% of those administrators TODAY
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[Robert Lufkin MD @robertlufkinmd]

As a medical school professor, I can tell you: the New England Journal of Medicine just published something historic.

For the first time, the NEJM recognized corporations that make health-harming products as primary vectors of chronic disease.

Five corporate products drive 31% of ALL deaths worldwide every year:

- Fossil fuels: 8.1 million deaths
- Tobacco: 7.2 million deaths
- Ultra-processed foods: 2.3 million deaths
- Industrial chemicals: 1.8 million deaths
- Alcohol: 1.8 million deaths

Chronic diseases now cause 74% of deaths globally. At the root of most? Metabolic dysfunction -- triggered and accelerated by these products.

This is what I wrote about in "Lies I Taught in Medical School." We treat diseases one at a time. But the real problem is an environment engineered to make us metabolically sick.

The solutions exist. We just need the courage to implement them.

Full breakdown coming on the Health Longevity Secrets podcast.

Source: https://t.co/nEZWePbQTl

#MetabolicHealth #ChronicDisease #PublicHealth #NEJM #HealthLongevitySecrets

[Sen. Jeanne Shaheen @SenatorShaheen]

In the greatest country on Earth, those with Type 1 diabetes shouldn’t have to go bankrupt to afford the insulin medication they need.

Today, I introduced bipartisan legislation to change that.

[Barbara Czyzyk @barbszep]

@MaryBowdenMD Please be careful and get security.

[Barbara Czyzyk @barbszep]

@JackPosobiec Indian doctors

[Harshi Peiris, Ph.D. @Neuroscope_mp]

Hook 🚨BREAKING: German researchers treated 15 severe lupus patients with CAR-T therapy.

All 15 went into complete remission.
Many stopped ALL medication.

This might be the biggest shift in autoimmune medicine in decades. 🧵

[Barbara Czyzyk @barbszep]

@Kekius_Sage I think Pasterski won’t be the next Einstein — she’ll be the next Marie Skłodowska-Curie: Polish female and the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in different sciences (physics and chemistry), and mother of Nobel laureate Irène Joliot-Curie.

[Barbara Czyzyk @barbszep]

@RedPillRabbit The same in HealthCare.

[Barbara Czyzyk @barbszep]

@elonmusk 😂😂😂

[Barbara Czyzyk @barbszep]

@mcuban @anish_koka The Sad, Unspoken Truth About Humanity and Medicine especially in post Covid era.

[Barbara Czyzyk @barbszep]

@donaldtusk A gdzie inwestycje w nowoczesne technologie i AI? Europie zostalo 5 lat aby uczesniczyc w globalnej rewolucji technologicznej, za chwile bedziemy 100 lat za Chinczykami i Amerykanami.