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Black mirror episode IRL incoming.
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People who cured / are curing their own cancer on X:
1/ @sytses - bone cancer, billionaire founder of Gitlab, developed 10+ personalized therapies for himself.
2/ @paul_conyngham - shrank his dog Rosie's mast cell cancer tumors after chemo and surgery weren't enough. Now backed by YC and Founders Fund
3/ @miriamgonp - stage 4 breast cancer, tumor sequenced, searching for vaccine manufacturer now
4/ @kevinace - stage 4 lung cancer, angel investor in 300+ companies, first drug stopped working after 18 months. Vaccine designed, now paying $300k out of pocket for the vaccine
5/ @masonbgrant: going founder mode on his his 32-year-old wife's rare liver cancer, sequencing her tumor with AI agents
6/ @ArunRLverma: former product leader at Atoms and Shopify, brain tumor, built a vaccine from his tumor. Now building an AI health agent startup based on what he went through
We're going to make it
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Have told Michael Anton that it isn’t worth his valuable attention to respond to the aspersions of a bitter troll—but as James’ maligning of Claremont and those influenced by its work is unceasing, I relented. A public denouncement of James by Anton is entirely justified. 🔗 👇
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🏛️Peter Thiel is coming to Nashville to deliver his four-part lecture series on the Antichrist. As the war for AI rages and parties push for regulation to ward off Armageddon, his thoughts have never been more pertinent.
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This is concerning. For the first time, a Chinese model Kimi K3 has taken #1 on the Frontend Code Arena and is scoring at or near the frontier on other benchmarks.
Meanwhile America is tying itself in knots: politicians and bureaucrats are banning new data centers, piling on state regulations, and pushing for new federal agencies to pre-approve frontier models.
This is how you lose the AI race. The rest of the world won’t play by our rules if we bog ourselves down. Permissionless innovation is how America won the internet and became the technological envy of the world. We can do it again with AI -- while addressing risks in a targeted way -- or we’ll watch our lead evaporate.
Big news: Kimi-K3 by @Kimi_Moonshot is now #1 in the Frontend Code Arena with 1679 pts, surpassing Claude Fable 5.
This is a 17-place jump from Kimi-k2.6 (#18 -> #1).
In Frontend, Kimi-K3 ranked #1 in 6 of 7 domains: Brand & Marketing, Reference-Based Design, Data & Analytics, Consumer Product, Simulations, and Content Creation Tools, landing #2 only in Gaming behind Fable 5.
The full model weights will be released by July 27.
Congrats to the @Kimi_Moonshot team on this major milestone!
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My timeline is 50% of Lindsey Graham’s sudden death and 50% of an 81-year-old man being launched in the air by a bison.
I’ll see you all on Monday.
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Applications are now open for the Museion Fellowship, Beck&Stone’s program for young professionals committed to cultivating the entrepreneurship and excellence needed to help rebuild American institutions.
Now in its fifth year, this Museion cohort will see an expansion into three tracks:
• Public Relations & Communications
• Design & Video Production
• Web Development & Technology
The six fellows selected for this year’s cohort will work closely with the Beck&Stone team and contribute to client projects through strategy, problem-solving, and creative work.
If you or someone you know may be a fit for Museion, we encourage you to apply or share this opportunity.
Apply here: beckandstone.com/museion/
Stolen valor plagues X - fix this @elonmusk @nikitabier
Original: Dec 23, 2025 → 7.7M views
Copy: Feb 17, 2026 → 3M views
Not a quote tweet. Just straight up theft to farm millions more impressions off someone else’s work.
This steals revenue from original creators under X’s ads revenue share — hurting X’s own creator-economy bottom line.
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There are 9,780 organizations in the United States that bill Medicaid under code T1019, Personal Care Services.
The top 1% of them, just 98 entities, collected $30.4 billion.
That’s 42.5% of all T1019 spending nationally.
Nine of those entities crossed the billion-dollar threshold individually.
The top 20 alone absorbed $28 billion.
And the geographic concentration will stop you cold: 17 of the top 20 are in New York State. Seven of them are in Brooklyn.
This is not a story about healthcare.
This is a story about industrial-scale wealth extraction from a system designed to serve the most vulnerable Americans.
The elderly.
The disabled.
The homebound.
And the near-complete absence of anyone overseeing the money.
Constantly refreshing your inbox is just vaping for the corporate soul. You break your flow for a quick hit, stumble on a message with ambiguous tone (are they mad??), and lose the next hour panic-decoding the subtext instead of doing your actual job.
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Fed Governor Stephen Miran said the central bank should lower interest rates by more than one percentage point in 2026.
