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Ergomorph 🌉⏩ 🇺🇸🦅 retweeted
This is one of the most anti-American things I have ever read.
Sometimes it only takes six words.
Ergomorph 🌉⏩ 🇺🇸🦅 retweeted
Amy Acton's stepfather's surviving biological daughter spoke to The Daily Mail when they knocked on her door in Ohio, while sobbing.
She said: She believed Amy's story, because her father raped her sister more than once (the victim in this 1974 indictment); she remembered Amy lived in a tent with Donna and Cledith; it's been terrible for her family to see Vivek's ad run in Ohio; and she heard rumors her father had victimized even more young girls.
NEW: I obtained the full Trumbull County file for Amy Acton's stepfather's 1974 charge which shows that he was indicted for incest involving his 16-year-old biological daughter in 1973. The sheriff was then unable to locate him to serve him a summons in the county and nothing further happened in the case.
Donna Arthur, featured in Vivek Ramaswamy's still-running campaign ad, married Cledith the next year in a neighboring county.
Ergomorph 🌉⏩ 🇺🇸🦅 retweeted
AI doomers can imagine a superintelligence inventing entirely new technologies to destroy humanity.
But somehow the possibility of that same intelligence solving problems we’ve struggled with for centuries is just naive techno-optimism.
Pretty impressive lack of imagination for people predicting the future.
Ergomorph 🌉⏩ 🇺🇸🦅 retweeted
ai: gives people who could never afford experts, top doctors or personal assistants access to medical knowledge, intellectual work and expert level help. basically for free
people: grrr how dare these companies make poor people more informed and empowered. burn it all down
Ergomorph 🌉⏩ 🇺🇸🦅 retweeted
For anyone getting into biology, please consider taking airborne disease resistance more seriously.
It's a super important area of medicine that is a huge cause of death and sickness but easily gets forgotten. We're likely to get many more airborne plagues in the future due to the combination of not just extremely dense and interconnected society (including city and farm animals), but also accidents from bio research and offensive biotech (both from random people and from secret government programs that can easily get themselves exempted from safety restrictions), all enhanced by powerful AI.
Right now, this area is getting way less love than longevity research (which continues to be super important!), but it's an area where there are lots of unclaimed wins that we know exactly how to do (but are not yet doing) with present-day tech:
* early detection
* passive universal testing
* filtration/ventilation/UVC
* better vaccines (including making them open source and open science)
* cryptography to make all of the above privacy-preserving
We can have China-level pandemic resistance with Sweden-level limited intrusion into people's lives, and then go even further. We just have to actually do the work for it.
Ergomorph 🌉⏩ 🇺🇸🦅 retweeted
I feel like Jared Kushner being at the center of the plot that ultimately led to an American journalist being dismembered via bone saw while he was still alive should be a much bigger deal than our billionaire owned news media is making of it.
Ergomorph 🌉⏩ 🇺🇸🦅 retweeted
Very definition of an impeachable offense
Trump admitted he blocked energy funding to punish blue states he lost in 2024, including $586 million for Illinois.
Courts ruled it illegal. He's still blocking the money.
Bipartisan permitting reform won't work if Trump ignores the law. He must reinstate the grants first.
ALT Screenshot of Duckworth’s letter to the leadership of both the U.S. Senate Committees on Energy and National (ENR) Resources and on Environment and Public Works (EPW), Page 1
ALT Screenshot of Duckworth’s letter to the leadership of both the U.S. Senate Committees on Energy and National (ENR) Resources and on Environment and Public Works (EPW), Page 2
ALT Screenshot of Duckworth’s letter to the leadership of both the U.S. Senate Committees on Energy and National (ENR) Resources and on Environment and Public Works (EPW), Page 3
ALT Screenshot of Duckworth’s letter to the leadership of both the U.S. Senate Committees on Energy and National (ENR) Resources and on Environment and Public Works (EPW), Page 4
Ergomorph 🌉⏩ 🇺🇸🦅 retweeted
Religious freedom is a fundamental human right and must be protected both here at home and abroad.
Earlier this month, Pakistan’s Supreme Court upheld the conviction and death sentence of a Christian man accused of blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad. This is one of many examples of the persecution Christians continue to face around the world simply for professing their faith in Jesus Christ.
On International Religious Freedom Day, we are reminded of our duty to be a voice for those suffering because of their faith and to forcefully advocate for governments to uphold their responsibility to protect innocent lives.
Ergomorph 🌉⏩ 🇺🇸🦅 retweeted
This is deeply troubling.
We just learned that Pete Hegseth’s Spiritual Advisor said that “separation of church and state does not exist”
Pete Hegseth is a threat to American democracy and must be fired immediately.
Ergomorph 🌉⏩ 🇺🇸🦅 retweeted
RFKs racist rant against Arabs was despicable. It was personally offensive since Alex Azar and myself —both Arab Americans —were his predecessors. I am proud of my Arab heritage. He is a bigot and a racist.
Ergomorph 🌉⏩ 🇺🇸🦅 retweeted
So… we just have AGI now right? Like OpenAI’s internal model is smart enough to solve the vast majority of problems someone might care about, given recent results. It’s just a matter of connecting it up right, data collection, etc. The intelligence part is solved.
Ergomorph 🌉⏩ 🇺🇸🦅 retweeted
"Amy Acton's mother is the first woman Republicans have ever believed in a rape case."
