Metisse

Biophys/biochem; modeling educ.
Remember boron neutron capture therapy and it's first trial using prisoners, killing them? Don't experiment on humans.

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Harry Markopolos was the whistleblower who revealed the Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme years before it became widely known.

Markopolos, a financial analyst at a firm competing with Madoff's, embarked on a mission to decode Madoff's investment strategy.

Through his investigation, he concluded that Madoff was defrauding investors.

Describing himself as a "math geek," Markopolos reached his conclusion by analyzing the numbers and identifying that Madoff's reported returns were mathematically impossible.

In 2001, he presented his evidence to the SEC and reached out to several journalists, yet his warnings were ignored, leaving him to live "in fear for his life."

Markopolos believed his warnings were disregarded by the SEC because the agency's staff lacked the necessary financial expertise to understand the fraud he had uncovered.

This oversight would lead to significant embarrassment for the SEC when Madoff's scheme was finally exposed in 2008.

The Biggest Ponzi Schemes in History https://t.co/TWUcODdIPx

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The Trump administration has shuttered the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, which studies harmful invasive species such as the Spotted Lanternfly.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

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Pretty clear that Israel isn’t going to play ball with Trump’s deal

[Metisse @rickman3a]

https://t.co/Dgn8xVVx3c

[Metisse @rickman3a]

Critics say Trump’s opening of public lands to off-road vehicles is ‘reckless and nonsensical’ https://t.co/IIXBt2xzQJ

[Metisse @rickman3a]

@suchnerve ... and then you woke up? Because that must have been a dream!

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Elon Musk is being given 715 acres of land in the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. A lawsuit has been filed by numerous Conservation groups. They say it violates laws that are protecting refuges and harms endangered species. It’s on a National Historic Landmark.

[Lesley Abravanel 🪩 @lesleyabravanel]

When caught in a blatant lie about US missile stockpiles, Pete Hegseth snaps at the reporter, saying "you don't have to read back to me what I testified." He knows he lied under oath about our military readiness, and he hates being held accountable. Pathetic Pentagon clown show.

[Vipin M. Vashishtha @vipintukur]

#LongCOVID may leave a visible metabolic fingerprint in the brain—years after the initial infection.

➡️ Using 18F-FDG PET-CT, researchers found persistent areas of reduced brain glucose metabolism (hypometabolism) in Long COVID patients, particularly those suffering from fatigue and post-exertional malaise (PEM). 1/

[Lily Jamali @lilyjamali]

From earlier: Grads walking out of Stanford Stadium as Google CEO Sundar Pichai took the stage to deliver his commencement speech. Some carried signs protesting Google’s US government contracts. “ICE spies with Google AI,” one sign read. @BBCWorld

[Metisse @rickman3a]

Gift article:
https://t.co/SmK16NV6Uc

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

We got our COVlD map out 3 days early this week on Friday. One of you alerted the local news media in #Idaho, and it was breaking news by Saturday.

Everyone should replicate this approach with local hot spots. 👏👏👏

[Parmita Mishra @parmita]

OH MY GOD LOOK AT THIS CUTIE

scientists just described a new octopus species from 5,800 feet beneath the Galápagos.

it’s the size of a golf ball. it’s BLUE. the rarest color in nature. the scientist on the submersible camera saw it and you can literally hear her on the recording go ‘He’s tiny! It’s blue!’

because of current techniques that we want eventually completely eliminated at @precigenetic with non invasive methods, the octopus had to be robotically scooped up and chemically preserved to be taxonomically described as a new species…anyway.

the octopus expert who received the preserved specimen in the mail opened it and said ‘Oh! My goodness!’ they CT-scanned it (the expert refused to dissect it) and built a 3D model of its insides because no human had ever seen them before.

it belongs to a family whose members normally live near Antarctica and are much larger. this one is the loner alone on a seamount near the equator. 6,000 feet down. waiting to be found for the first time in the history of the planet. the researcher said ‘there’s nothing like spending the day looking at something no other human has ever seen’

[Acyn @Acyn]

Hegseth: Nobody makes better or more munitions than the US.

Brennan: But there is a crisis with those stockpiles right now.

Hegseth: That is a manufactured story that the media wants to peddle.

Brennan: You testified under oath that it would take years to rebuild those stockpiles.

[Metisse @rickman3a]

The need for an INDEPENDENT regulatory agency for Ai, not midnight "executive" orders:
https://t.co/kNZutRquBZ

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

The problem @DavidSacks is that the Administration has a credibility gap on whether decisions are being made with political or retributive motives or for the national interest. Trump's mantra has been, until now, accelerationism and no regulation.

Why not work with Congress to set up an independent agency for AI safety, like the nuclear commission or FERC, so that the public has confidence in these decisions?

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

Tomorrow is President Obama appreciation day! Keep the memes and Obama pictures going all day.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

We took Erin Brockovich's map of every data center in America. Then we laid the nation's aquifers on top of it.

We noticed they're not building data centers where the land is cheap. They're building them where the water is.

Farmers near these facilities say their livestock have stopped falling pregnant. Residents say the humming never stops.

And the projects arrive under NDAs, so most towns don't know until the ground is already broken.

The question isn’t where they’re building anymore. It’s why they’re building where they’re building. Tonight, we think we can answer that question.

We’ve been covering the data center issue in great detail on this broadcast, and for good reason. It’s a serious problem in America and worldwide, and it’s one that is uniting people from all sides of the political aisle because, guess what, whether you are a conservative or a liberal, you have human rights that enable you to have access to basic survival needs like water, which was given to us by God, not by the state or Big Tech, by the way.

Erin Brockovich joined the data center fight recently. She launched a site including a map that shows data centers either completed, under construction, planned, or community reported, likely due to all those pesky NDAs in place stopping us from knowing they’re coming to our area. But the public isn’t stupid.

So Maria thought she’d do something a little bit different. She created a series of maps using Erin Brockovich’s data center data, then superimposed aquifer maps onto those maps, then superimposed smart city locations onto those maps. What Maria found was pretty mind-blowing and, she says, lends credence to her theory that those in charge are purposely making rural areas unlivable for the purpose of pushing people into smart cities, where they will be under constant surveillance and on a short leash.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

As a reminder, almost 11 years ago, Jeffrey Epstein took this picture of the world’s first trillionaire.

We need a revolution against the treachery of elites.

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

Crazy to see previously antiregulatory people suddenly fine with government shutdown of a company’s showcase product with zero public transparency.

Absent bipartisan and independent scientific oversight, the approach outlined below leaves (a) the government with too much room to be arbitrary and (b) business with too much reasons to worry about what might come next.