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Longevity, science, health, and peace. e/acc. Co-founder of the Thiel Fellowship

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She might become the dictatress of the world: she would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.
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10 years ago, we started giving teens $100k to drop out of college and create new things. Today, @zoink ’s @figma sold to @adobe for $20 billion and @vitalik ’s $180 billion @ethereum merged, reducing the world’s electricity consumption by .2%. A proud day for @thielfellowship
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I went into a self-service shop at the airport, picked up some food, and did self-checkout with a credit card. No contact with any human. The machine asked if I wanted to leave a tip. Are we entering a future where robots ask for tips?
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Republicans introduce a bill to decriminalize and deschedule marijuana.
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It was a bright cold day in April
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Supreme Court defends free exercise of Roman Catholic and Orthodox Jewish groups against Governor Cuomo. 5-4, conservatives vs liberals.
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If a claim is disputed its negation is disputed. @jack
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Joe Biden loves war. He championed and voted for Bill Clinton’s bombing of Belgrade, the Patriot Act, and George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq. He supported Obama’s wars in Syria, Libya, and Yemen. 1/2
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Fairly simple logic.
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They are calling this a huge crowd.
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Huge crowd gathered on a Philadelphia street chanting “Joe! Joe!” As Biden arrives
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The new secretary of defense says all wars must end. "We face the future with confidence and humility." "We are not a people of perpetual war." Our armed forces must be "the beacon of justice and goodness in the world." "Now, it's time to come home."
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Jim O’Neill
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U.S. out of Afghanistan.
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Jonathan Swan
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Scoop: Douglas Macgregor joining Pentagon as senior adviser to Acting SecDef. Sends the strongest possible signal that Trump wants to accelerate withdrawal of troops from the Middle East before the end of his presidency.
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FDA finally legalizes home testing, seven months after admitting Abbott's test is accurate, and 15 months after the SARS-Cov-2 genome was published.
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Jim O’Neill
4 years
Abbott's $5 lateral flow antigen test is the size of a credit card and gives results in 15 minutes. It seems perfect for home testing. However, FDA bans home use and also bans testing of presymptomatic or asymptomatic people.
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Among other treatments, @realDonaldTrump is taking #VitaminD , which is smart. Widespread D deficiency causes multiple health burdens, including #COVID severity. A @PLOSONE study of more than 190,000 Quest patient records confirmed an inverse correlation between D levels...
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Things return to normal.
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Cecilia Muñoz, Who Defended Family Separations Under Obama, Joins Joe Biden's Transition Team
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AI is software. Software is code. Code is text. Text is speech. Speech should be free. I’ve known JD Vance for almost ten years. I supported his Senate campaign during the primary and we’ve enjoyed engrossing conversations about technology, biology, and culture. JD was cheerful
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"Until Donald Trump’s arrival, the globalist revolution was almost solidified and institutionalized—with the United States increasingly its greatest and most “woke” advocate. We know its bipartisan establishment contours. China would inherit the world in 20 or 30 years. 1/5
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Facebook didn't just censor discussion of the lab escape hypothesis. They justified censorship by citing a letter organized by a funder of gain-of-function research at WIV.
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Jim O’Neill
4 years
More data on China corrupting American scientists. "Some 54 scientists have resigned or been fired as a result of an ongoing investigation by the National Institutes of Health into the failure of NIH grantees to disclose financial ties to foreign governments. 1/2
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Jim O’Neill
4 years
An uncontrolled study of 1061 #SARS2 patients (mean age 43.6) treated with #HydroxychloroquineAndAzithromycin immediately after diagnosis. 91.7% had "good clinical outcome and virological cure," according to the abstract. Are you listening, governors?
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What are we allowed to talk about?
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Does the past exist?
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Abbott's $5 lateral flow antigen test is the size of a credit card and gives results in 15 minutes. It seems perfect for home testing. However, FDA bans home use and also bans testing of presymptomatic or asymptomatic people.
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Jim O’Neill
4 years
X'd by reality.
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It's almost as if consultants who love war can't control how Republicans vote. Isn't that their job?
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Jim O’Neill
3 years
Let’s raise a glass to unwelcome attention
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Peter Daszak asked for US-funded virus data to be withheld, FOIAed by @USRightToKnow "It's extremely important that we don't have these sequences as part of our PREDICT release.. Having them as part of PREDICT will being very unwelcome attention"
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Jim O’Neill
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It’s almost as if some of these protests are not sincere efforts to reduce police brutality.
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Hollywood would nod as it put out more lucrative comic-book and cartoonish films for the Chinese markets, albeit with mandated lighter-skinned actors. The NBA would nod twice and trash a democratic United States, while praising genocidal China... 5/5
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Did she mean it when she put people in prison for marijuana?
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Wait so she didn't mean all of that stuff
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Kennedy Center officials discuss how they lobbied Congress and got a $25 million bailout, but will stop paying the musicians anyway.
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Tests should be available to all who want them. No symptoms, exposure, travel history, permission, visit to a point of care, or doctor's note should be required. Everyone has a right to know their status. The more people get tested quickly, the better we can control #COVID19 .
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We should have overreacted much sooner.
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FDA wants 22 days to decide if it is "reasonable to believe," on the "available" evidence, that "the known and potential benefits” of J&J’s single-dose vaccine “outweigh the known and potential risks." What would FDA do in an emergency? #unclogthefda @unclogthefda @atabarrok
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Jim O’Neill
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Bad news for blood boys. Many think that injecting young blood makes older people younger. But we show how recent studies rejuvenated bodies and brains even more by simply diluting old blood with a neutral solution, not young blood. #Blood #aging
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Jim O’Neill
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The #virus is already here—it’s just not evenly distributed yet.
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What is the function of truth? The Biden Administration is taking the position that taxpayers have no right to government information about how the pandemic started because...true information serves to "amplify...misinformation." I knew it had some function. @NIH
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Hans Mahncke
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NIH is withholding FOIA info as it "could be used out of context and serve to amplify the already prevalent misinformation regarding the origins of the pandemic." @randpaul is absolutely right to hone in on this. How on earth is it any of NIH's business how FOIA info is used?
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@VincentRK @DrEricDing Are these age-adjusted?
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Please stop pretending that vaccinated and boosted people can’t get Covid and can’t infect others.
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We would usher China into “the world community”—grimacing at, but overlooking the destruction it wrought on the global commercial order and the American interior. We would politely forget about Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, and the Uyghurs. 4/5
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The Department of Justice files a civil-rights suit against #yale , saying that "Yale’s discrimination imposes undue and unlawful penalties on racially-disfavored applicants," and "reinforces damaging race-based stereotypes..."
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Jim O’Neill
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...late 1940s. Our best and brightest like the Biden family, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Bill Gates, or Mark Zuckerberg would enlighten us about the “real” China, so we yokels would not fall into Neanderthal bitterness as they managed our foreordained decline. 3/5
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Jim O’Neill
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@cmclymer Even as a kid I somehow knew Korea in the show was a metaphor for Vietnam. And in the finale, as they listen to a radio bulletin in the OR, Klinger says “Vietnam! Where’s that?”
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Is autocorrect worth it?
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The self-appointed task of American elites—many of whom had already been enriched and compromised by Chinese partners and joint ventures—was to facilitate this all-in-the-family transition in the manner of the imperial British hand-off of hegemony to the United States in the 2/
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Jim O’Neill
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A California Senate committee approved a bill to legalize psilocybin, DMT, ibogaine, LSD, and MDMA for those 21 and over.
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Jim O’Neill
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Facebook didn't just censor discussion of the lab escape hypothesis. They justified censorship by citing a letter organized by a funder of gain-of-function research at WIV.
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Jim O’Neill
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Vitamin D deficiency is widespread, easy to test and correct, and causes multiple health burdens. #VitaminD deficiency also drives #COVID19 severity. For example, a study of n=780 showed 7.6x fatality for D<30ng/ml, 10x for D<20 (controlling for age, sex, and comorbidities).
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Why is there something rather than nothing?
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@VPrasadMDMPH Trump didn’t recommend bleach. And UV is not crazy.
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Jim O’Neill
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"Ultraviolet blood irradiation (UBI) was extensively used in the 1940s and 1950s to treat many diseases including septicemia, pneumonia, tuberculosis, arthritis.... Low and mild doses of UV kill microorganisms by damaging the DNA..."
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Jim O’Neill
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They constructed the zoonotic narrative in a single weekend, and they almost got away with it. With the help of Twitter and Facebook, they made the null hypothesis unmentionable. An excellent thread.
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Hans Mahncke
3 years
1/ The Jan 31-Feb 2 timeline is so significant because it reveals the origins of the lab leak cover up. As soon as Fauci saw the Science article he knew he had a big problem. This kicked off a frantic 48h in which Fauci planted the seeds for a natural origins narrative.
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Lin persuaded me that we should call this disease SARS2. We should definitely not take language advice from WHO, which told us stigma would be worse than the virus. #SARS2
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Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬
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I am realizing more and more how unusual, unscientific, unmedical, and counterproductive it is for WHO to select the name #COVID19 and reject SARS2. In fact it would be most consistent with medical practice to just call it SARS. Here's why... (1/n)
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Jim O’Neill
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The New Hampshire house wants people to move there.
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Liberty NH 🦔⚡️🌲
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New Hampshire had a considerable amount of historic pro-liberty bills pass the House this week! Here’s a thread of some of the awesome legislation that passed the House!
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Biden appointed pro-aging fatalist Ezekiel Emmanuel as a pandemic advisor. He wants to die at 75 and will refuse vaccines and antivirals at that age.
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President Trump just extended social distancing guidelines to April 30. At the end of the briefing, he said “Unfortunately, the enemy is death.”
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"We...who have been forced by no man to stand and speak, when to speak was to choose between death and life..." via @YouTube
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@CalebJHull @Surabees In 1995, Bill Clinton challenged Newt Gingrich to a debate, and Gingrich accepted. They met on a field and debated policy with no moderator and no commission. Viewers made up their own minds about what they saw. Trump and Biden should do this.
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The Biden Administration bullied @amazon into hiding books about vaccine efficacy and safety. 1/2
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Rep. Jim Jordan
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THE AMAZON FILES – “feeling pressure from the White House” Internal docs subpoenaed by @JudiciaryGOP & @Weaponization indicate that @amazon bowed down to Biden White House pressure to censor BOOKS. 🧵 Thread:
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I learned about controlled burns as a kid and they made such intuitive sense I figured they were common knowledge. When I moved to California, it took me years to realize the politicians were in denial about something so obvious.
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America had a race war to prevent a class war.
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Some progressives tried to steal an election in San Francisco
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Remember when berniecrat Jason Kruta was arrested for stealing recall signatures from a parent, and co-chair @BluebirdRave said it was bc he “cared more about democracy?” lmao The org is a clown show and was willing to literally steal an election, foiled by its own incompetency.
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A group punishes a person for his ethnicity.
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Max Harrold
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Montreal Symphony Orchestra drops Russian piano prodigy from concerts amid backlash
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In 2018, Eco Health Alliance asked DARPA to fund "chimeric viruses, genetically enhanced to infect humans more easily." They wanted to "release skin-penetrating nanoparticles containing 'novel chimeric spike proteins' of bat coronaviruses into cave bats."
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They miscalculated the blowback
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Techmeme
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Sources: the OpenAI board is in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO; source: Altman is "ambivalent" about coming back and would want governance changes (The Verge) 📫 Subscribe:
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"Ultraviolet blood irradiation (UBI) was extensively used in the 1940s and 1950s to treat many diseases including septicemia, pneumonia, tuberculosis, arthritis.... Low and mild doses of UV kill microorganisms by damaging the DNA..."
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"Florida was cheated out of two additional seats it should have gotten; Texas missed out on another seat; Minnesota and Rhode Island each kept a representative they shouldn’t have; and Colorado was awarded a new member of the House it didn’t deserve."
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Mickey Kaus
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How many electoral votes did red states lose to blue states in this? Looks like 3
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And for decades he was a ruthless leader in escalating America’s violent war on drugs, constantly lengthening prison sentences, aggravating racial disparities, gloating about imprisoning rave organizers, and punishing people for harm reduction.
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This is what epistemic speciation feels like from the inside.
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@HansMahncke To fully appreciate the panic, note that Jan 31-Feb 2 was a weekend.
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We develop rejuvenation biotechnologies that will repair the accumulated cellular and molecular damage in our tissues and restore youthful vigor. We made significant progress last year toward strengthening immune systems, eliminating senescent cells, rejuvenating the neocortex...
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Jim O’Neill
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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. --Carl Jung
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I saw the best minds of my generation
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Widespread #VitaminD deficiency causes multiple health burdens including #COVID severity. In a controlled trial adjusted for age, sex, and comorbidity, a group given D, magnesium, and B12 needed oxygen 6.5x less. D protects against respiratory infection and lung injury.
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@michaelmalice We could get 70% of the benefits and only 5% of the harms if we just made the federal government do less. Then red states and blue states could have policies more to their liking.
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@eugenegu He said he thinks that's the most likely etiology. What do you think is more likely?
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Thiel Fellow Dylan Field founded Figma, which is now worth $10 billion.
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Dylan Field
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Beyond excited to share that @figmadesign has closed a $200M Series E funding round led by Durable Capital! Morgan Stanley’s Counterpoint Global is also participating along with other new and existing investors. (1/5)
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The Wuhan Institute of Virology did gain-of-function research to create viruses. It has not been transparent about studying RaTG13, which is similar to SARS-Cov-2. It also did classified research for the Chinese military.
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Jim O’Neill
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A woman in Rostov was arrested and convicted for holding up a blank sign.
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ОВД-Инфо
3 years
Суд в Ростове-на-Дону арестовал активистку Анастасию Николаеву на восемь суток. В суде ее интересы защищал адвокат Сергей Ковалевич, сотрудничающий с ОВД-Инфо. Николаеву признали виновной по статье о неповиновении полицейскому из-за одиночного пикета с пустым листом.
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All models are wrong, but some are useless.
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Poets are the unacknowledged neuroscientists of the world.
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The President should appoint Tom Kalil as Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Tom knows how to turn frontier science into smart policy and he has the right research priorities to make America stronger and healthier. @tkalil2050 @WHOSTP45
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Jim O’Neill
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I don't listen to many podcasts, but my old friends @michaeljknowles @EricRWeinstein and @tedcruz sat down for a left plus right conversation that managed to be quite productive, and I think you'll like it.
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@HHSGov takes action to reduce drug prices. PhRMA is displeased. 1. FDA will allow various drugs to be imported by states, tribes, pharmacies, wholesalers, and consumers from Canada and other countries with consumers getting the savings. 1/6 #Drugs #healthcare
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Jim O’Neill
2 years
@generativist All the rooms are quiet rooms
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3 years
The end of slavery was a joyous and historic achievement. Happy Juneteenth, everyone!
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Jim O’Neill
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Can we just stop changing our clocks twice a year? The one industry that doesn’t need disruption is daylight.
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How quickly we forget.
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Jim O’Neill
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If my wounds have no beauty to the beholder's eye, they are, at least, honorable in the estimation of those who know where they were received.
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In 93% of those cases, the hidden funding came from a Chinese institution."
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Science fiction is the first draft of history.
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“Elon Musk Has Said He Is Committing Around $45 Million a Month to a New Pro-Trump Super PAC” - WSJ @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump
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Jim O’Neill
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How much of the defense budget should be biodefense?
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Jim O’Neill
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Dear @elonmusk Please abolish shadowbanning at Twitter. As an example, I sent the tweet below in July and Twitter hid it from searches. I can't find it by searching my tweets for keywords, but only by scrolling all the way back. Thank you.
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Jim O’Neill
2 years
What is the function of truth? The Biden Administration is taking the position that taxpayers have no right to government information about how the pandemic started because...true information serves to "amplify...misinformation." I knew it had some function. @NIH
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Jim O’Neill
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@Plinz The curve not a lie. The dotted line is a lie. We should #makeventilators and #flattenthecurve at the same time, with great urgency.
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Jim O’Neill
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Ok, I guess I could settle for boring twenties if that's still available.
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Jim O’Neill
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First they came for Alex Jones, and I did not speak out--because come on.
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Jim O’Neill
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@ggreenwald The reporting would have been worse and more harmful if the trial had not been broadcast.
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