this might be my last normal tweet before biotech goes vertical
i'm not a whistleblower. I don't work at Lilly, Novo or any of the big labs
but there is a massive shift happening in human biology right now.
it's sitting in press releases and almost nobody reads them
the last 6 months alone:
- a once-daily pill roughly doubled median survival in metastatic pancreatic cancer (13.2 vs 6.6 months)
- a one-time gene editing infusion cut hereditary angioedema attacks 87%, and 62% of patients stayed attack-free and off all other prevention for 6 months
- a one-time gene edit for cholesterol dropped LDL up to 62%, and it held for over a year
- a personalized mrna vaccine beat keytruda alone in a 1,137 patient melanoma phase 3
- retatrutide hit ~28% weight loss in a phase 3
- an ai-designed drug entered phase 3
- a pill that regrows hair passed its second phase 3
- an immunotherapy that could let some rectal cancer patients skip surgery, chemo and radiation just got fda approved
- a man lived 271 days off dialysis on a pig kidney
- human cells were caught passing chromosome-sized chunks of DNA to their neighbors, and it changes how the neighbors behave
we are on the verge of an era where the human body is a software problem and the update cycle gets shorter everyday
stick around, it's going to get weird
bio/acc
"I'm scared of him," the 5-year-old whispered, refusing to take the witness stand.
The judge nodded, then did something no one in the courtroom had ever seen.
It was the hardest part of the trial. 5-year-old Anna was the only witness to the domestic violence that had put her mother in the hospital. Now, she was in a large, intimidating
courtroom, and her father was staring at her from the defendant's table.
She refused to move. She just hid behind the prosecutor, shaking. "I can't," she cried. "He'll see me.
The prosecutor was about to ask for a recess when the judge, a man known for his stern demeanor, called for a brief pause. He stepped down from his high bench, walked over to the little girl, and knelt.
"What's your name, sweetheart?" he asked, his voice suddenly soft.
"Anna," she whispered.
"Well, Anna, I'm Judge Marcus. This is my courtroom, and in here, I'm the boss. And my number one rule is that no one gets to be scary in here. Not even him. I won't let him."
He pointed to the witness stand. "That chair looks big and lonely, doesn't it?" She nodded. "How about," he said, "you and I go sit up there together? You can sit on my lap. I'm a good shield."
He held out his hand. She took it.
The judge sat in the witness stand, holding Anna securely in his arms, his black robe acting like a protective cape. Shielded by the one man in the room more powerful than her father, she finally found her small, brave voice and told the court what she saw.
Sinéad O'Connor said her mother beat her naked from infancy to age 13, forcing her to spread her limbs so she could stamp on her abdomen - trying to destroy her womb. She'd cheerfully answer the phone mid-beating, her foot still on Sinéad's body. At five, Sinéad won a kindergarten prize for curling into the smallest ball. Years later, she tore up the Pope's photo on live TV to protest child abuse.
In the video below Sinéad O'Connor describes for the first time what her mother did to her behind closed doors.
The day her father left, her mother was furious the children were upset. She made them live in the garden shed. For months.
She dressed Sinéad like a boy. Chopped her hair off. Told her she shouldn't have been born, that she wanted a son. Made her strip naked before every beating so she could attack her stomach directly. Said she wanted to burst her womb. Stop her from being female.
One weekend Sinéad put on a dress with a missing button. Her mother beat her, took the light bulb out of her room, locked her inside and left for the entire weekend.
Every last day of school the other kids celebrated. Sinéad and her brother cried and hid the hockey sticks and tennis rackets around the house. It never worked. She'd invent a reason anyway. A crooked lampshade. A dusty shelf. Anything.
Every morning when they heard her footsteps on the stairs they wet themselves with fear. She made Sinéad repeat: I am nothing. I am nothing. Over and over until she believed it.
She ran away at 13. Never received trauma treatment. Said the only therapy she ever had was music.
Was Sinéad O'Connor's mother a sadist, or something worse - a woman who looked completely normal to everyone outside that house?
Alcohol is legal because it causes the working class to self destruct. Cannabis is illegal because it causes the working class to say things like, “Maybe we could buy a piece of land together & grow our own food?”
Africa did not hand over her people, Africa did fight back. For four centuries Kings, Queens, prophets, scholars and captives resisted a trade that took roughly 12.5 million people onto ships. Their names were buried while the traders were given statues.
Compare how this French terrorist in a police uniform treated a non-threatening Black girl versus how he treated a white dude who was literally threatening him.
Two different people. Two completely different responses.
The difference? The colour of their skin.
Tell me again that racism doesn't exist.