Tim Meade

Code Disrupter; Futurist; Believer in people; Lover of all things knowledge. Inc 500. Twice. CEO @dodotdev. Creator of PKZip Multi-Platform way back when.

[Tim Meade @Timmeade]

We are now in public beta at https://t.co/GIh8pOzDKZ Many of our dev components are now available under a common API key. We are looking for LOTS of partners to help test and move things forwards. DMs are open.

[Tim Meade @Timmeade]

So I guess writing ANY code at all is flagged for a Fable 5 security issue. Seems like a big bait and switch @AnthropicAI #Fable5

[Tim Meade @Timmeade]

So trying Fable 5 from @AnthropicAI and not real pleased so far. I have tried 5 times in CoWork to do a security audit of my own code and it stops and says not allowed after burning a bunch of tokens. Anyone else get this done in CoWork?

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

Quite the description of James Talarico’s pastor today in NYT.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

March, 2024. 60 Minutes does a segment on the "rampant disinformation" on X since Elon Musk purchased the site.

Leslie Stahl: "The site is rife with trash talk and lies."

60 Minutes actually used a post that had gotten a Community Note for being fake as evidence that X is now "rife with disinformation."

60 Minutes warned that the "disinformation" on X could ruin elections and threaten democracy. 😂

Fun facts. Before the 2020 election Leslie Stahl told the world that Hunter Biden's laptop was just a conspiracy and that it had been discredited. Both lies. Before the 2024 election 60 Minutes edited Kamala's answers to make her sound coherent. Watch out for those posts with Community Notes on X though.

[Tim Meade @Timmeade]

I have same concerns

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Iran attacked Bahrain. No response.

Iran attacked Kuwait. No response.

Tonight Iran attacked Israel.

Keep showing weakness, and see how they become emboldened.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The reason ID is banned in California (and New York) elections is to enable large-scale fraud.

When you combine no ID and mail-in voting, fraud is de facto legalized.

[Daily Caller @DailyCaller]

John Fetterman Says He'll Start Wearing Suits If Graham Platner Proves He Didn't Send 'D*ck Pics' To Minors: 'You can set the record clear' https://t.co/usSgwR1KUc

[The Appalachian Podcast @GetOnTap]

On this day in 1944 a little town in the Blue Ridge Mountains with about 3200 people would lose 20 sons, with 19 coming on Omaha Beach during the first wave.

The “Bedford Boys” were made up primarily from Company A, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, and trained for two years in England before leading the charge for one of the greatest battles in history. Bedford would lose 23 sons in total, making it the highest per capita loss of life of any town, which led Congress in to designate Bedford as the site of the D-Day Memorial, dedicated in 2001.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A ceremony repeated every year on this day in France: sand of Omaha Beach brings forward from the brightness of the stone the names of the fallen, 82 years ago Today

[📹 Jackie Speier]

[Tim Meade @Timmeade]

Seems like a big deal to me. Family friend just passed from MS.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Scientists have identified specific gut bacteria that appear to trigger multiple sclerosis (MS).

In a groundbreaking study conducted at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, researchers examined 81 pairs of identical twins in which only one sibling had MS. This unique design allowed them to control for genetic and environmental factors, isolating the role of the microbiome.

The team found that two bacterial species, Eisenbergiella tayi and Lachnoclostridium, were significantly more abundant in the twins with MS. When these microbes were transferred into mouse models, they directly induced MS-like autoimmune symptoms, providing strong causal evidence.

This is the most precise identification of microbial triggers for MS to date and adds powerful support to the gut-brain axis in autoimmune disease. The discovery raises hope for new approaches to early detection, prevention, and treatment — potentially by targeting or modulating these specific bacteria before symptoms appear.

While human clinical trials are still needed, the findings represent a major step toward microbiome-based therapies for MS and other autoimmune conditions.

[Yoon, H., Gerdes, L. A., Beigel, F., Sun, Y., Kövilein, J., Wang, J., Kuhlmann, T., Flierl-Hecht, A., Haller, D., Hohlfeld, R., Baranzini, S. E., Wekerle, H., & Peters, A. (2025). Multiple sclerosis and gut microbiota: Lachnospiraceae from the ileum of MS twins trigger MS-like disease in germfree transgenic mice—An unbiased functional study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(18), e2419689122. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2419689122]

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Formidable Two, Normandy Veterans at Colleville-sur-Mer for the 82nd anniversay of D-Day.

100 year old Ken Hay and Henry Rice.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Today is the 82nd anniversary of the Battle of Normandy - D-Day.

We owe many of our freedoms to the extraordinary courage shown 82 years ago.

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

My AI version of California voting.

[Lt. Col. David Flippo, USAF Ret. @DavidFlippoNV]

Tonight the Save Act FAILED in the Senate - because 4 RINO Republicans betrayed the American people and voted with the Democrats.

We must get rid of the RINOs, we must Save America! 🇺🇸

[NickFrank40 @NickyFrank30]

Hearing from friends in Maine tonight

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

🚨 The DOJ has announced they are pursuing several election fraud investigations with the FBI in California,

The longer they count, the less they count. How is that possible?

The Democrats manufactured this by design. The election cheat machine in California is so wildly unconstitutional and fraudulent it’s not even funny.

Nobody believes that Steve Hilton isn’t in the lead for Governor.

Nobody believes Nithya Raman is more popular than Spencer Pratt.

Nobody believes the 200 dead people registered to vote at your local park or Porta Potty are real voters.

Nobody believes it should take MONTHS for votes to be counted.

Require ID to vote.
Count on election night.
That’s not controversial.

Every serious democracy on earth manages to do it.

California should too.

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

Did they just openly steal the election from Pratt?

Reading the politics sites, he officially got "zero" out of 24,000 late votes cast in LA - but that might change to "16?"

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

84 years ago today, a pilot running out of fuel made a decision that won the Pacific War. Most Americans have never heard his name.

June 4, 1942. Six months after Pearl Harbor, Japan's navy is undefeated. Four of the carriers that burned Pearl, Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu, are steaming toward Midway to finish off the US Pacific Fleet.

At 7:52 AM, Wade McClusky launches from USS Enterprise leading 32 Dauntless dive bombers. Here's the detail nobody mentions: McClusky is a fighter pilot. He'd been given the air group weeks earlier and had barely flown a dive bomber in combat. Now he's leading every SBD the Enterprise has at the most important target in the Pacific.

9:20 AM. He arrives at the intercept point where the Japanese fleet is supposed to be.

Empty ocean. Nothing for miles.

The Japanese had turned. Nobody knew where. And now McClusky owns the worst math problem in naval aviation: his fuel is bleeding away, and every minute he keeps searching, he condemns more of his own pilots to ditch in open water where nobody will find them.

Doctrine is clear. Turn back.

McClusky keeps going. He works a search pattern, squeezing miles out of dying fuel tanks.

9:55 AM. Far below, a single Japanese destroyer is cutting a white scar across the ocean at flank speed. It's the Arashi, racing to rejoin the fleet after depth-charging the American submarine Nautilus. Think about that. A failed sub attack is about to give away the entire Japanese navy.

McClusky reads the wake like an arrow and follows it.

10:02 AM. The horizon fills with the entire Japanese strike force. Four carriers, their decks crammed with planes being refueled and rearmed. Fuel lines snaking everywhere. Bombs stacked in the open.

And here's the miracle: the sky above them is empty. Minutes earlier, American torpedo squadrons had attacked at sea level and been annihilated. Torpedo 8 lost all 15 planes. One survivor, Ensign George Gay, watched what came next while hiding under his seat cushion in the water. Those doomed pilots dragged every Japanese fighter down to the waves. The door upstairs was wide open.

10:22 AM. McClusky pushes over from 14,500 feet. Both squadrons follow him down onto Kaga. It's actually a mistake, doctrine said split the targets, but Lt. Dick Best catches it mid-dive, pulls out with two wingmen, and goes after Akagi alone. His single bomb pierces the flight deck into the packed hangar. It's enough.

By 10:28, Kaga, Akagi, and Soryu, the third hit simultaneously by Yorktown's bombers, are floating infernos. Six minutes. Three carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor, gone. Hiryu follows them to the bottom that evening.

The cost of McClusky's gamble was real. Many Enterprise bombers never made it home, some shot down, others swallowed by the sea when their tanks ran dry. McClusky himself was jumped by two Zeros on the way out, took five bullets through his shoulder, and still flew his shot-up Dauntless back to the Enterprise.

Admiral Nimitz said McClusky's decision "decided the fate of our carrier task force and our forces at Midway." Japan never won another major battle.

One borrowed pilot. One destroyer's wake. One choice to keep flying when every gauge said go home.

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Alex Kershaw’s D-Day coverage has begun.

Every year it is utterly exceptional.

Do ‘Follow’ him and keep up-to-date with his posts: