Evan W Steeg

Interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral, transnational. USA, Canada, Indonesia. AI/ML (PhD), medtech, foresight, innovation. Hikes, bikes, reefs, funk bass. #ygk

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

What those boys apparently did was depraved, degenerate, and evil. If their actions managed to stay on the right side of some *consent* line, that possibly changes the criminality of the matter, but it doesn't transform their actions into mere misdeeds.

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

In his book Collapse, Jared Diamond studied a dozen societies across thousands of years, from the Maya to the Vikings, to answer one question: why do great civilizations fall? What he found wasn't drought, war or bad luck. None of those were ever enough on their own. The one thing present in every collapse was how the people at the top responded to what was happening below them.

The warning sign he found again and again was leaders who were completely insulated from the pain of ordinary people. When the powerful never feel the consequences, they stop seeing the problem, and when they stop seeing it, they stop fixing it. The Maya kings kept enriching themselves and building monuments while the farmers who fed them went hungry. Their civilization didn't fall because of one bad year. It fell because the people in charge had stopped living in the same world as everyone else.

Diamond called them "distant managers." They are the people in power who live so far from the damage that they are the last to understand how bad it has gotten. By the time they notice, the fields are already empty.

His most important finding was that collapse is a choice. Every society that fell had leaders who could have changed course and chose not to. The question for us is whether we will keep letting people who can't see us make that choice for us. Because we are there folks.

[Brendan May @bmay]

You don’t have to be religious (I’m not) to see what a profoundly good man this is, and the deep spirituality that sustains him and those around him. We are fortunate to have his energy during these relentlessly toxic times.

[scha·den·freu·de  @BlisterPearl]

And a plurality of voters fell for it. Unpresidented.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

I started fact-checking Donald Trump 10 years ago this month. Here are 15 thoughts on the nature of his lying, how it is received by the public and how it is covered by the media: https://t.co/Ersg0ThYjf

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Fire them all

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Watching people who propped up this corrupt disaster of an administration for their own enrichment start to slowly back away with their hands up will be good for short term dunks, but thats not good enough. It should be a reputational nuke from which these people never recover.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

After 6 years of failed attempts, a photographer finally captured this rare alignment of the Moon, a mountain, and a basilica.

Taken in Piemonte, Italy, this amazing picture shows the Basilica of Superga in the foreground, the Monviso in the middle.

[📸 ValerioMinato]

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

I know he just says stuff for effect, and yes, he does think his own voters are complete idiots who will buy all this. But I genuinely wonder if he can tell the difference between this and reality. His willingness to talk this way, more and more, is a sign of of a problem.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Melania loathes him. Xi disdains him.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Sunrise in Australia

[François Chollet @fchollet]

The purpose of the AI industry should be to produce tools that, in the human hand, will improve human prosperity and welfare.

It should not be to create a "successor species" to the human race. Entertaining such a thought makes you, de facto, the enemy of all present and future humans.

[John Pavlovitz Official @johnpavlovitz]

Two years ago, in the small room of a Cornell University fraternity house and in the white, empty silence of those phone screens, Jane Doe was being given the message that so many of our daughters hear every single day from their politicians, their pastors, from their fathers, and from their peers: you just don’t f*ckin’ matter.

Over seven hours of unimaginable suffering and indignity, she only needed one young man in that chat or in that house to have the slightest bit of humanity.

It would have taken one good man to spare her a lifetime of trauma.

And the fact that there was not one good man there to be found should fully sicken all of us.

https://t.co/J48GRqqrdL

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

"The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce ... The fundamental dignity of each person, therefore, is neither acquired nor earned, nor does it need to be justified ... The dignity of every human person can be described as infinite."

Pope Leo XIV: "Magnifica Humanitas."

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

For the first time since at least 1982, deaths now outnumber births in reliably Republican counties across America.

This demographic shift may already be reshaping US voting patterns.

https://t.co/K5QK3bxanK

[Covie @covie_93]

Fox News hosts spend their day telling their audience that Democrats are communists and communists are evil people, then in the evening they all got dressed up to attend a state dinner honoring a communist.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

[Ab Gamble 🇨🇦, grateful Canadian.. @AbGamble1]

When you lie on your resume about your herding experience..

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I've been a cardiologist for 25+ years. The last 90 days changed medicine more than the last decade, and almost nobody noticed. Here are the 10 biggest AI breakthroughs, and why you should be excited, not afraid 🧵

1/ 37,000 AI agents. One "virtual biotech." It analyzed thousands of trials, figured out which drug targets actually work in humans, and independently proposed a lung cancer strategy that a major pharma company later pursued. AI isn't a search engine anymore. It's a co-scientist.

2/ The first drug discovered AND designed entirely by AI (Insilico's rentosertib) just entered Phase 3. In patients, it reversed biological age by 3–6 years across six different aging clocks. Read that again!

3/ As a cardiologist, this one gives me chills. The FDA authorized "Queen of Hearts," an AI that reads a standard ECG and catches heart attacks, including the hidden ones doctors miss. 2x the sensitivity. Far fewer false alarms. It pages the cardiology team itself. In a heart attack, minutes are muscle.

4/ EchoNext spots 6 types of hidden structural heart disease from a cheap, 10-second ECG, and it does it better than cardiologists. It already flagged a patient who went on to get a heart transplant. Screening that used to need an echo lab now needs a test any clinic can run.

5/ UpDoc is the first FDA-cleared AI that talks directly to patients. It checks in between visits, adjusts insulin within limits the doctor sets, and documents everything in the chart. Chronic disease no longer has to wait for your next appointment.

6/ An autonomous AI agent called MIRA, with full access to medical records, went head-to-head with ER physicians on hundreds of real cases.
AI: 87.8% correct
Doctors: 78.1%
It ordered the tests, read the results, and wrote the plan.

7/ Google released MedGemma 1.5 and MedASR, open medical AI for imaging and clinical speech that anyone can build on. Every hospital. Every researcher. Every country. Open models mean medicine moves at internet speed.

8/ The FDA authorized Aletta, the first robot that draws blood on its own. It gets the vein on the first stick 94–95% of the time, even hard veins. One technician supervises three robots. The most common procedure in medicine just got automated.

9/ UCLA's SLIViT matches specialists on 3D MRI, CT, ultrasound, and retinal scans, and it's 5,000x faster. It isn't a new model for every organ. One architecture reads them all.

10/ The FDA has now authorized 1,600+ AI medical devices. They cover radiology, cardiology, and surgery, including real-time AI that checks breast cancer margins while the patient is still on the table. This isn't coming. It's here.

What this means to you:
→ Drugs that took 10–15 years are showing human results in a fraction of the time
→ Heart attacks get caught on a cheap ECG, not after a collapse
→ Doctors get hours back
→ Patients get answers between visits
→ Aging itself is becoming treatable

This isn't "AI will replace your doctor." It's AI finally becoming good enough that medicine starts to compound. The next 18 months will feel different.

Bookmark this. We're early. Stay positive!!!