JP Massar

[Paul Bronks @SlenderSherbet]

Felis catus, nature's great hunter, stalks his prey like an assassin waiting for the perfect shot, then pounces with efficiency and precision.

[ScienceFocus @ScienceFocusonX]

Imagine destroying a tumor by turning it into ice.

Doctors in Australia are using a breakthrough technique that freezes cancerous tumors into a solid ice ball, causing the damaged cells to die off.

No major incisions.

No traditional surgery.

Just extreme cold targeting the tumor with remarkable precision.

A glimpse of what the future of cancer treatment can look like.

[NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day @apod]

In an interplanetary first, on July 19, 2013 Earth was photographed on the same day from two other worlds of the Solar System, innermost planet Mercury and ringed gas giant Saturn.

Pictured on the left, Earth is the pale blue dot just below the rings of Saturn, as captured by the robotic Cassini spacecraft then orbiting the outermost gas giant.

On that same day people across planet Earth snapped many of their own pictures of Saturn.

On the right, the Earth-Moon system is seen against the dark background of space as captured by the sunward MESSENGER spacecraft, then in Mercury orbit.

MESSENGER took its image as part of a search for small natural satellites of Mercury, moons that would be expected to be quite dim. In the MESSENGER image, the brighter Earth and Moon are both overexposed and shine brightly with reflected sunlight.

Destined not to return to their home world, both Cassini and MESSENGER have since retired from their missions of Solar System exploration.

Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA & NASA / JHU Applied Physics Lab / Carnegie Inst. Washington

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Elon Musk Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2026: $1.1 trillion

Jeff Bezos Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2026: $262 billion

Mark Zuckerberg Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2026: $202 billion

Tipped Minimum Wage
1991: $2.13 an hour
2026: $2.13 an hour

5 words: Tax oligarchs out of existence.

[Avi Roy @agingroy]

Chemo can't tell a cancer cell from a healthy one. That's the entire side-effect problem.

Nobel Prize winner Dr. Jennifer Doudna's lab just built something that can. It reads the cell's RNA, and if it finds the message for mutant p53, the single most common typo in cancer, it triggers a CRISPR enzyme to shred that cell's DNA.

One wrong letter is the trigger. Healthy cells, spared.

The killing works. In mice, a single dose roughly halved the tumors.

The unsolved half is getting it into every tumor cell in a living body. That's where every CRISPR cancer idea has stalled. Real advance, real wall.

[JP Massar @jpmassar]

Modesto Police Illegally Shared License Plate Reader Data Since at Least 2021
https://t.co/ADo042hoUt

[Media Alliance @twrling]

Some of these agencies searched upwards of 6,500 networks’ cameras—the equivalent of launching a nationwide goose chase over a booming subwoofer" #ALPR https://t.co/R3IwmZxx19

[Media Alliance @twrling]

I read a novel like that once. 1984, it was called.

[Naomi Brockwell priv/acc @naomibrockwell]

Everything on the internet will require an ID check soon.
And the government will monitor everything you do, pretending they don't need a warrant because you "voluntarily" gave your data and identity information away.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

When I fell asleep at the Garden, the Knicks were Winning. Then when I wake up, I see the Spurs have "won." It seems that in the 4th Quarter, the so-called referees kept "finding" Points for the Spurs. Rigged! Fake Game!

by Donald J. Trump

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

A robot.

On an asteroid.

300 million kilometres away.

Alone.

Took this photo of the surface of the asteroid Ryugu.

Then it died there, and it's still there now.

We have never gone back.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Fascism does not arrive saying “I am fascism.” It arrives saying “law and order,” “border security,” “anti-woke,” “election integrity,” and “national emergency.”

[Jaime Omar Yassin @hyphy_republic]

The reason this wasn't a huge story this week is because local reporting has become used to being fed stories from inside sources. City sold Flock based on idea that while it's recording your travel, only serious crime get you tagged. Some of these aren't even a criminal act

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

Being an American now is just waking up and being told how much more money the president and his billionaire buddies are stealing, then being expected to act like it’s a normal fucking day.

[JP Massar @jpmassar]

@FilmThePoliceLA Math is hard.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A single dose of a new cancer drug made a brain tumor almost disappear – in just five days.

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital reported “dramatic and rapid” tumor regression in the first patients treated with a next-generation form of CAR T-cell therapy for glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive brain cancers known.

The therapy, called CARv3-TEAM-E, was developed to overcome a major hurdle in treating solid tumors: their ability to hide from the immune system.

The personalized treatment reprograms a patient’s immune cells to attack the tumor, and in one extraordinary case, nearly eliminated the cancer within just five days. This novel therapy is designed to target multiple features of the tumor at once, a strategy that may help overcome the common challenge of treatment resistance in solid tumors like glioblastoma.

Although the tumors eventually returned, the early outcomes were described as unprecedented. One patient saw a 60% reduction in tumor size that lasted for half a year—an impressive result in a cancer known for its aggressiveness.

The trial’s success marks a major step forward for immunotherapy in brain cancer and raises new hopes for long-term control or even a cure. Researchers are now working to refine the treatment and extend its effects, with the ultimate goal of turning a once-terminal diagnosis into a survivable condition.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Donald Trump hates Democrats. He also hates Republicans. And - he hates Independents.
He hates Ukraine and Russia, Taiwan and China, Israel and Gaza. He hates Europe and despises Canada.
He hates the Rule of Law more than anything. He wants to change it, dictate it, be it, and wield it as a weapon. His hiring of Pulte to help him consolidate power through election shenanigans underscores this.
You know who else he hates? He hates his followers. In fact, he not only hates them, but they nauseate and disgust him. Privately, he marvels at how gullible they are and scoffs at how easily he influences them.
He has all this hate and no love. No ability to feel empathy. No sense of shame. No capacity for contrition. No counterbalance to any of his malice. He cannot see beyond himself. He has no friends - the allies he has, are allies as long as they are useful to him.
What does he have? Only self-based cravings and impulses. He craves attention, adulation, money, power, revenge, domination, and the illusion of grandiosity. He is a human id.
Deep down, he even hates himself.
He is ill, trapped, miserable, and malign. He is fearful of humiliation, fearful of death, and in decline.
He is a narcissist, sociopath, fraudster, sexual deviant, and parasite.
You couldn't build a worse person in a laboratory.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Turns out mRNA vaccines actually treat cancer

They don't cause it

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Can You Legally Own a Monkey in North America?

[Lammie_Art @Lammie_Art01]

If there's watermelon, shouldn't there be earthmelon, firemelon, and airmelon. The elemons