Ryan DeYoung

Christian, Home Builder, Drummer, Vigilante Superhero, Husband, and Now ...Dad!

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

We just crossed a line in medicine that humanity has been walking toward for a hundred years.
For the first time, doctors can take a biopsy of your specific tumor, read its unique DNA mutations — the exact fingerprint no other cancer on earth shares — and build a custom mRNA blueprint written for one human being. Yours.
It doesn't poison the cancer. It teaches your own immune system what to hunt.
And this week, Phase 3 results confirmed it works.
Added to the best immunotherapy we already had, this individualized cancer vaccine has been dramatically cutting the odds that high-risk melanoma comes back. In the earlier data, the combination reduced the risk of recurrence or death by 49%, and the risk of the cancer spreading to distant organs by 62%, compared to the standard treatment alone. This week's Phase 3 readout confirmed the benefit holds. That is not a modest tweak. That is a different trajectory for a human life.
And melanoma is just the first door. The same approach is now in trials across lung, bladder, and kidney cancers — a whole program of them, racing forward.
Understand what this actually means, because it's bigger than one drug.
For all of history, we fought cancer with blunt weapons. Cut it out. Burn it with radiation. Flood the whole body with chemotherapy and hope the cancer dies before the patient suffers too much. We were swinging a hammer in the dark.
This is a blueprint. A weapon designed atom by atom for one person's disease, that turns their own body into the thing that finds and destroys it. We are watching medicine shift from managing cancer to hunting it.
I've spent my life as a physician, and I did not expect to see this so soon. We were told personalized cancer vaccines were a thirty-year dream. They are happening right now, in real patients, with real data, in our lifetime.
I don't say this lightly, and I say it as a doctor who knows exactly how rare these moments are: this is one of the most hopeful things to happen in the history of the field.
I woke up thinking of the words of the morning prayer — Modeh Ani — I thank You. Gratitude, the moment you open your eyes, for a soul returned and a day given. To be alive at the exact hour when human beings learned to teach the body to cure itself feels like standing inside that prayer.
We are not at the end of cancer. But we are, unmistakably, at the beginning of the end of its reign.

[Alexander Koch @alexkoch_ai]

You can now book two humanoids for our cleaning service in SF. One humanoid for 60 minutes is $30, two are $60.

You can book a cleaning at https://t.co/Brl42KyISx. If you don’t have an invite code yet, join the waitlist. Timelapse at 5× speed (~40 minutes in real time).

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

The “Batman effect” was demonstrated in an experiment where a woman who appeared to be pregnant boarded a train. When another experimenter entered dressed as Batman, passengers were far more likely to offer her their seat—67.2% did so compared with just 37.7% when Batman wasn’t present.

This Italian metro experiment, published in npj Mental Health Research, tested how an unexpected disruption could influence public kindness. A woman who appeared pregnant boarded a train, and commuters offered her a seat 37.7% of the time. When a researcher dressed as Batman entered through another door, that number jumped to 67.2%. Researchers suggested the bizarre sight may have jolted passengers out of their usual mental autopilot.

[Rod @rod_mallo]

boarding was solved mathematically in 2008. no airline has used it once.

why?

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

🚨Official Fundraiser for the In-N-Out HERO Who Confronted a Mass Shooter and Saved Lives

He Needs Us Now…

Austin and his wife were sitting in the drive thru when gunfire rang out.

Immediately, Austin told his wife to stay in the car and ran toward the gunfire.

Austin came FACE to FACE with the mass shooter and confronted him as the gunman fired and others escaped.

Austin is now fighting for his life.

Please help this hero who was willing to sacrifice his life so that others could escape with theirs.

This is his official GiveSendGo set up by his wife.

Your donation will help cover lost wages, medical expenses, rehab, rehabilitation, travel to appointments, and everyday household expenses.

Let’s show Austin and his family that we appreciate real heroes who stand up to evil.

Let’s show the world that Americans stand together against evil 🇺🇸

https://t.co/98Cg6VMt9Y

[Whiplash437 @MrWhiplash_]

🚨 THIS IS GOING TO BREAK THE INTERNET!

Elon Musk just dropped Neuralink's craziest bombshell:

“In the next 6 to 12 months, we're going to implant the first vision devices. Even if you're 100% blind from birth, we're going to write directly to your visual cortex… and you're going to see.”

“And that's just the beginning. In the long term, you'll have ultra-HD resolution and real superpowers: you'll see in infrared, ultraviolet, and even radar. Literally like a superhero.”

The future is no longer science fiction. It's Neuralink.

[Ryan DeYoung @ryanthebuilder]

@ChefGruel @grok type up the lessons from this video

[Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack]

BREAKING: USA comes back from huge deficit to defeat Belgium 5-4 after receiving four surprise mail-in goals at 3:00am

[David Bearman @DavidBearman]

Still one of the greatest skits ever.

[The🐰FOO @PolitiBunny]

Holy shit, I love this.

Watch.

He's amazing.

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

Mt. Everest vs. the tallest mountain in the solar system.

Olympus Mons on Mars.

[Matthew Kobach @mkobach]

I now demand all brackets to be designed in a circle

This is beautiful

[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

Next time you're feeling sad or down remember what Eddie Murphy once said...

[80's & 90's Throwbacks @8090Throwbacks]

Ferris Bueller took his "Day Off" 41 years ago today. June 5th 1985. Happy Ferris Bueller Day #80s

[Community Notes & Violations @CNviolations]

When you drop your AirPods

[NFL Memes @NFLMemes]

The 49ers have made their selection

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

JUST IN 🚨 Nick Shirley CONFRONTED one by one Democrat politicians SUPPORTING the “Stop Nick Shirley” Act in California right to their face

Nick Shirley has NO FEAR

KEEP IT GOING 🔥

[Pierre Nerval @PNerval]

Excellente comparaison des modules Apollo vs Orion.

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

When liberals get AI robots 🤣🤣

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Good for him!