Michael Skaff

Tech and Healthcare leader, VC/PE/startup advisor. VP Healthcare Tech, Vayyar. Building the future of #healthcare. #Agetech #DigitalHealth #Healthtech #Aging

[Michael Skaff @mskaff]

Planning my trip to Yosemite - staying at Evergreen Lodge at Yosemite. For friends who travel: https://t.co/AWM1y9Wd3r @evergreen_ynp

[Michael Skaff @mskaff]

Worth a read.

It’s the End of the Internet as We Know It https://t.co/t7zSrv8vmq

[Liz Parrish MBA @ParrishLiz]

A new study suggests it may be possible to regenerate cartilage lost to aging or arthritis with an oral drug or local injection, rendering knee and hip replacement unnecessary.
https://t.co/i8xBBFvbvc

[Michael Skaff @mskaff]

Significant #flooding in Marin today. This was San Rafael an hour ago:

[Jenna Guillaume @JennaGuillaume]

Carl Reiner gave Rob Reiner a copy of The Princess Bride, and Rob Reiner loved it and its father/son love story so much he turned it into a movie (with a grandfather and grandson). Three days before Carl’s death in 2020, he and Rob reenacted the final scene and “As you wish”

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

⚠️TYLENOL & AUTISM—RFK Jr and Trump are wrong—the largest & best study in the world in 2.5 MILLION KIDS—found no increased autism risk with acetaminophen (aka paracetamol, Tylenol) use by the mother during pregnancy. A crude unadjusted analysis found only a preliminary 5% risk, but once you adjust for family by matching using sibling controls (who didn’t get autism), the even tiny 5% risk vaporizes to 0% 📉. (Fun fact: I used to do drug safety epidemiology and have been whistleblower against big pharma when their drugs were dangerous—so I know a few things about drug safety data). Thread 🧵.

[Michael Skaff @mskaff]

I thought someone had doctored this tweet, but apparently not.

[Royce Chamberlin @RoyceChamberlin]

I am excited and honored to announce I have been appointed to the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the DoD.

Helping ensure our country is viewed as a force not to be reckoned with.

[LenaSun @bylenasun]

SCOOP: Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts. Our story. w ⁦@Carolynyjohnson⁩ ⁦@rachel_roubein⁩ ⁦@LaurenWeberHP⁩ ⁦@JoelAchenbach⁩ https://t.co/zHDvoG5lgj

[Outage.Report @ReportOutage]

Reports indicate that Spotify is currently down for many users
➡️https://t.co/6lhWsIU85I
Repost if it's also down for you #SpotifyDown #SpotifyOutage

[Michael Skaff @mskaff]

@SpotifyCares You’ve been down for a while now…paid service credit?

[SpotifyCares @SpotifyCares]

Hi everyone! We're aware of issues affecting the Spotify app and website loading. The right team is on it and working on a fix. We'll keep you posted on our Community at: https://t.co/eHTWZiDKu8

[Michael Skaff @mskaff]

@seanwdoolan Congratulations, Sean!

[Michael Skaff @mskaff]

Pretty compelling how capable these tools have become in such a short period of time.

[Akshay 🚀 @akshay_pachaar]

MCP is on fire.

AI agents can now talk to real world tools, apps and actually get stuff done.

This changes everything.

Here are 10 amazing examples:

[Avi Chawla @_avichawla]

Here's the workflow of an MCP-powered Agentic RAG.

It searches a vector database and falls back to web search if needed.

Check the full breakdown (with code) below👇

[Ars Technica @arstechnica]

After market tumult, Trump exempts smartphones from massive new tariffs https://t.co/4qjQLd7tLF

[Michael Skaff @mskaff]

Just a reminder of one of the reasons Twitter (X) has become such a cesspool: https://t.co/ZVOd2ny9M3

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Scientists are sometimes wrong

Pseudoscientists are always wrong

I would stick with the scientists

[Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail's budget of £200,000 was raised by 10 investors to contribute £20,000 each.
3 of those investors were Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Genesis.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

RFK Jr saying "none of the 72 vaccines given to children have been tested against placebo "

The reality :

- Children are not given 72 vaccines
- The ones they are given have been tested against placebo

This serial liar is your HHS Secretary.

[Susan Rice @AmbassadorRice]

Unconscionable👇🏽