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(1/2) What happens when we push the science behind desalination? Five Track B #XPRIZEWaterScarcity Semifinalists from the U.S. East Coast and heartland areas are exploring new solvents, membranes, distillation, and reverse osmosis approaches to recover more fresh water with less energy.
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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
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Where are the protests? Where is the outrage? Russia targeting civilians daily.
This is beyond horrifying.
Russia struck a railway station in Dnipro with a drone, killing 13 people who were simply waiting for their train.
The drone operators could see the platform in real time. They could see the civilians standing there. They knew what they were targeting, and they struck anyway.
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A horrific Russian strike on the railway station in Dnipro. The Russians launched a drone attack on a platform where an ordinary commuter train and a scheduled passenger train were standing. Unfortunately, 13 people have been confirmed killed as of now. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Ten more people were injured. All necessary emergency services are working at the scene.
Just how many terrorist strikes has Russia carried out against our people since sanctions were lifted on certain Russian oligarchs and the Russian energy sector, rather than de-escalating? This is precisely why Ukraine has always said that just and decisive action by America and Europe is needed in response to Russian escalation – sanctions against Moscow and its war machine must not be eased for as long as this Russian war continues. It is time for new, stronger sanctions steps by the EU, the United States, and the G7. I thank everyone who is ready to help in this way.
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Eight years ago today, we suffered the deadliest act of antisemitism in American history when a killer entered Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh while people prayed and murdered 11 of our neighbors.
It’s been 2,922 days since the attack, but the pain still lingers in our Commonwealth. Today we offer prayers of comfort to those touched by this violence.
Let today be a moment for action, remembrance, and resolve to combat antisemitism in all forms.
May the memories of Joyce Fienberg, Richard Gottfried, Rose Mallinger, Jerry Rabinowitz, Cecil Rosenthal, David Rosenthal, Bernice Simon, Sylvan Simon, Daniel Stein, Melvin Wax, and Irving Younger forever be a blessing.
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It’s kinda crazy to me that we melt sand down, clean it to 99.99999% purity, literal wizards have to draw it slowly into an ingot, we cut it, inscribe a hundred billion little on/off switches on it, and when you run electric current through it you can do basic arithmetic, which when you do enough of it can do any math on the planet, and which describes reality well enough that we can teach it the ontological meaning of words and their distance from each other on a high-dimensional space, and if you ask, it can tell you what word comes next and that apparently is powerful enough that if you do it a hundred billion times it’s the smartest thing to ever exist
oh yeah and we use this primarily for email
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Yes. Israel has imprisoned Jews for murdering Palestinians, including Amiram Ben-Uliel (three life sentences for the 2015 Duma arson that killed a Palestinian family) and Yosef Haim Ben-David (life plus 20 years for the 2014 murder of Muhammad Abu Khdeir). Elor Azaria also served prison time for manslaughter.
No. Palestinian authorities have not imprisoned Palestinians for murdering Jews. The PA has never indicted anyone for such murders, practices temporary "protective custody" instead, and pays stipends to those held by Israel for these acts.
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This is one of the most comical ads this election cycle. Yes, Americans are chatting at the grocery store about how they can’t buy groceries because their tax dollars “go to Israel” 🙄 😂 nevermind the fact that Israel has invested 100% of military aid in the U.S. economy since Oct 7, and has also purchased over $1 billion *additional* in arms, according to DoD. Federal military aid is also prohibited from being spent on anything other than U.S. arms, so the line about healthcare is even more comical. El Sayed and his Islamist fans like Cenk Uygur want and expect American voters to be so stupid they never check.
Not only is this ad insane, conspiratorial, and antisemitic — it is also flat out false. El Sayed isn’t for the people of Michigan, he isn’t even for America. He is for the Muslim Brotherhood.
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The following is intended for those who want to put “די” in the ballot box but are hesitating because of the electoral threshold. (Those who have no intention of supporting us can simply skip this...)
One of the biggest (and most common) mistakes Israeli voters make is giving up on voting for the party that truly represents them in favor of a “larger party,” believing that this is a smarter (and more “strategic”) choice.
Why is this a mistake?
Voters who believe in a small party and what it has to offer, but nevertheless choose to vote for other parties they identify with less, create a self-fulfilling prophecy, especially for parties that are just above the electoral threshold.
Worse still, Israel’s political graveyard is full of large and medium-sized parties that urged voters to support them solely on the basis of the “large party” argument, only to lose the opportunity to form a government precisely because they weakened the smaller parties they needed to build a coalition.
So, to everyone who wants to vote for us with their heart, I would add that voting for us is also the rational choice. Not only are we crossing the electoral threshold in most polls, but your vote will help ensure that all the other people who currently support us also receive the political representation they want. In this sense, a marginal vote for us is a vote that is “worth more,” because it helps push the party across the electoral threshold, which translates into four seats in the Knesset.
Putting “די” in the ballot box is the most rational vote you can cast, and the highest-value vote you can give in this election.
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This video only strengthens my conviction that the future of European civilisation is a multi-species thalassocracy in which whales, dolphins, octopuses and other great and noble creatures of the deep are allowed political representation.
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Thousands upon thousands of Israelis are gathered in Hostage Square, calling for change before the upcoming elections.
We can have a better, more peaceful future.
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According to the PAC supporting Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate, the reason Americans can’t afford groceries is because the U.S. is paying for “Israel to kill Palestinians.”
Blaming America’s problems on Israel isn’t simply criticism of foreign aid.
That’s why they don’t care about the billions of aid going to Egypt, Jordan and Ukraine. Or about US military forces defending Europe, South Korea and Japan.
Israel is central to the identity of most American Jews.
Singling out Israel as the cause of American suffering is a thinly veiled attempt to turn Americans against their Jewish compatriots, portraying their support for Israel as evidence of divided loyalties and their political influence as a threat to the interests of their fellow Americans.
It is an old antisemitic tool dressed up as a foreign-policy argument.
@PatinkinMandy
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The High Cost of Delusion – When “Resistance” Becomes Self-Destruction: This is the insanity of the Palestinian “resistance” narrative: repeating the same failed approach for decades and expecting different results. When two selfish psychopaths in Hebron, much like Hamas’s two psychopaths in Gaza, Sinwar and Deif on October 7, chose armed “resistance” without regard for the consequences, ordinary Palestinians pay the highest price. The Israeli military has ordered the evacuation of an entire district, demolishing homes, businesses, factories, and infrastructure while displacing thousands of civilians. Unsurprisingly, many Palestinians are furious with the attackers and those who glorify them, seeing their actions as reckless, futile, and devastating for an already defenseless population.
That anger is compounded by the timing: with Israeli elections approaching, elements of the governing coalition are eager to showcase hardline policies toward Palestinians in a last-minute bid for votes. And yes, punishing an entire area of Hebron for the actions of two individuals is unjust and a form of collective punishment. Nevertheless, this is the post-October 7 reality imposed by Israel’s security and political establishment: the price of deadly attacks will be devastatingly high, whether in Gaza, southern Lebanon, or the West Bank. Acknowledging this is not endorsing it. It is recognizing that Palestinians face a new reality that demands a different course.
Isn’t it long past time for a fundamental shift in Palestinian socio-political discourse and thinking, one that rejects fantasies of “resistance” which repeatedly produce more death, displacement, and loss of land and opportunity? Do not turn the West Bank into another Gaza.
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#BREAKING: World’s first cancer vaccine cuts tumor recurrence by 42% in Moderna’s phase 3 trial.