Christine Peterson @lifeext

@235antz If you ever hear of such an infection again, there are options other than antibiotics. Oxidative treatments work against bacteria in general. Most MDs do not know about these; Big Pharma discourages them strongly.

I don’t know about their being bioweapons per se, but a friend of mine was put into dementia by one of these “flox” drugs: avoid them

Thermobolic @Thermobolic

2 days ago

Common antibiotics that are capable of ruining your life. Watch for anything with "flox" in it. Ciprofloxacin (Cipro) Levofloxacin (Levaquin) Moxifloxacin (Avelox) Ofloxacin Norfloxacin Gemifloxacin (Factive) Delafloxacin (Baxdela) Read the post below

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I’ve started the equivalent of the human genome project for chemistry mapping all reactions, molecules & materials using Chemputation. This asset will be as important for chemistry & materials science as the protein structural database is for biology.

A company nobody has heard of just turned the World Cup into the largest mass surveillance experiment in history. The company is called Flock Safety. It is based in Atlanta, valued at $7.5 billion, and operates roughly 80,000 automated license plate readers across the United States. It has customers in every single state except Alaska. Police departments, HOAs, businesses, school districts. 6,000 of them. And every camera in that network shares data with every other camera in the network in real time. WIRED published an investigation mapping every Flock camera positioned near a US World Cup stadium. They counted 1,181 of them. The tournament has 11 American venues, runs through July 19, and is expected to bring around 6.5 million ticketed fans into the country, most of them international visitors who have no idea any of this exists. Now layer on what is happening inside the stadiums themselves: Every World Cup venue in the US is using biometric facial recognition for entry. Fans walk up and their face is the ticket. Visitors from 48 countries are being silently enrolled into biometric databases they were never told about. So here is the picture: Outside the stadium, a private company is logging your license plate, your car's make and model, your bumper stickers, your roof rack, and exactly when you arrived. Inside the stadium, your face is being scanned and stored. Both systems run on infrastructure that did not exist a decade ago, controlled by a company that answers to its investors. Now look at how this system is actually being USED: A police officer in Texas used Flock to track down a woman who was seeking an abortion. A Georgia state trooper used a Flock camera to ticket a motorcyclist for "holding a phone in his left hand," even though Flock's own official policy claims the system cannot be used for traffic enforcement. Search engines were caught exposing private Flock query logs to the open internet, including the justifications police were typing in to search for specific plates. 8 Washington state law enforcement agencies were caught giving US Border Patrol direct one-to-one access to their entire Flock feed. And cops are being arrested across the country for using the system to stalk people. EVERY previous Olympics and World Cup has left behind a permanent surveillance grid in its host country. Beijing 2008 normalized China's facial recognition state, Athens 2004 built monitoring infrastructure the Greek government quietly kept running for two decades, and the 2026 World Cup is doing the same thing inside the United States, except the operator is not a government with elections. This time it's a venture-backed startup whose entire business model is to keep these cameras running long after the games are over. The tournament ends July 19 but the cameras stay, the license plate database stays, the biometric records stay, and the "security infrastructure" being installed for one month of soccer is going to be watching American streets for the next 30 years. The World Cup is just the cover story for what comes after.

I like clover! Just tell the kids to watch out for bees

The Fourth Musketeer @IV_Musketeer

2 days ago

Before the 1950s, clover was a STANDARD component of American lawns. Seed mixes included it on purpose. Then broadleaf herbicides were invented. They killed clover along with "weeds." So the chemical companies rebranded clover as a weed — to sell more herbicide. That's it.

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I wish this were not true. But I believe that it is

The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox

2 days ago

This information comes from the work of medical researcher @MidwesternDoc. For all the sources and details, read the full report below. midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-they-rig…

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Superb work training models on molecules that already extend lifespan to scan the whitespace of others that might and identifying 6 additional molecules which did extend lifespan in mice.

João Pedro de Magalhães @jpsenescence

3 days ago

Can we use machine learning to predict longevity drugs? 💊 In our updated preprint led by @AlekseyVBelikov we trained ML models on compounds in the DrugAge database that extend lifespan in mice. Features associated with longevity drugs included receptors for neurotransmitters,

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The universally acknowledged most competent part of the @sfgov bureaucracy is the part operated by a private for-profit contractor.

Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil

2 days ago

SFO's private TSA really is the best in the country.

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@lugaricano Big question is whether and how we can de-centralize open model development/training. Maybe something like SETI@home? Or, are there ways to incentivize open model development?

some truth here

Adriana Porter Felt @__apf__

2 days ago

every city name in California has three ways to pronounce it: (1) the Spanish way (2) the way an English speaker would pronounce it if they hadn't heard the name before (3) the way locals actually pronounce it, which is neither of the previous two. like San Rafell and Beneesha

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Faster please

Russell Kaplan @russelljkaplan

3 days ago

Besides full body ultrasound CT, just wait until solid-state nanopore sequencing reaches industrial maturity and we get cheap, abundant at-home DNA/RNA testing. You'll know exactly what's causing your cold, what kind of mold that is, which antiobiotic to take, what's wrong with

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Interesting proposal

FarhanX_AI @FarhanBuildsAI

3 days ago

🚨 THIS COULD BE THE LAST PAPER EVER WRITTEN BY HUMANS — FOR AI TO READ. A groundbreaking new paper co-authored by 37 researchers from Stanford, CMU, Michigan, and other top institutions—titled *The Last Human-Written Paper*—delivers a provocative wake-up call: the traditional

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Everyone arguing about whether the Midjourney Scanner can replace an MRI or CT is missing the point. The reason it's reasonating so broadly, and especially with technologists, is that it could create a beautiful opportunity for The Bitter Lesson to get a foothold in healthcare. Almost all of our medical data has been totally bastardized by the way we capture and store it. The EHR is supposed to be a medical record, but it is really a billing system. Every patient encounter gets compressed into a lossy template or heuristic just to facilitate billing logic. The Bitter Lesson is simple. AI gets powerful when you feed it raw, unfiltered data and let learning, search, and compute to the work. Stop worrying about whether AI can sharpen the resolution of the ultrasonic tomography. If the images get prettier for human interpretation, that will just be a nice bonus. The actual goal should be to capture as much raw signal of a person's clinical state as possible. Connect that signal to similar measurement of future outcomes. Then let a model learn from that data with minimal imposition of human judgment or measurement. Start with the assumption that we don't even necessarily know what we're looking for. This is the way to actually do great medical science. I've watched this play out in endoscopy. As an example, historically we would take 15-20 minute colonoscopy videos of patients with ulcerative colitis and compress it down into a Mayo score of 0, 1, 2, or 3 based on the single worst moment of the entire video. So much data wasted just because we needed a human-digestible heuristic. It turns out if you instead capture all of that raw data and use it to train a self-supervised model, those embeddings can actually learn far more about a patient's disease state. So much more that they can actually predict treatment outcomes. This is why I'm personally fired up about the Midjourney Scanner. Don't think about it like an MRI or CT. Think of it as a beautiful fountain of human health data.

wow

0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229

3 days ago

If you thought Flock cameras were concerning, meet what comes next. A company called Leonardo has developed a system called ELSAG SignalTrace. It broke into public awareness just days ago and is already being marketed to law enforcement agencies across the country. It makes

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@leecronin who says you are too contrarian for wanting this?

@robinhanson well I hope they are paying you for this

In less than 24 hours in SFBA: - Midjourney unveils ultrasonic CT - Google’s AMIE outperforms PCPs in chronic disease management - Now, OpenAI releases health benchmark performance of its free tier model (5.5 Instant), with significant progress from 4o Just an incredible time to be in this city, and an incredible time to be an American. I am in awe of these accomplishments.

Karan Singhal @thekaransinghal

3 days ago

We’re bringing frontier health intelligence to everyone for free in ChatGPT. GPT-5.5 Instant is a substantial step forward for health–reaching frontier performance–and because it’s available to all free users, more people benefit. 🧵 x.com/OpenAI/status/…

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"markets are politically constructed … in ways that undermine the common good. … for instance, … corporations … spend trillions buying back their own shares instead of investing productively" Huh? Share sellers will then invest elsewhere! nature.com/articles/d4158…

Three months ago I wrote my first reflections on AI I had been using OpenClaw for a few weeks, and it blew my mind I could now simply talk to a computer, and it could orchestrate and execute complex, creative tasks of all kinds This open-source AI harness gave me, personally, new powers of computer programming, design, and beyond that I never had before It was a real “I know Kung Fu” moment, straight out of The Matrix The most awesome part was that the harness itself -- the software I was using to operate the AI “brain” or model -- was open source and fully customizable The evolution of AI had been forked away from corporate dominance to create a path of sovereignty for the user, allowing them to choose their own intelligence It felt like we were on the brink of something big And yet still, three months later, it feels like these times were so very long ago In February and March, we ran a fun OpenClaw experiment at HRF with just a few people, to see what kind of impact personal agents could have on productivity and on reducing busy work and bureaucracy By May, we had actually started to give some of the world’s leading dissidents easy-to-use, extremely powerful, freedom-oriented AI tools to help them turn their dreams into reality We do this at “Agent Camps”: 3-day, in-person experiences with teachers who are experts in education, design AI software, AI hardware, and software engineering We have also created beautiful, engaging AI experiences and content at massive live events ranging from Bitcoin 2026 in Vegas to the Oslo Freedom Forum, sparking curiosity in thousands of people We began with the open-source ethos, and now have been able to add privacy, and even full sovereignty, to our toolset The product HRF has helped bring into existence -- Finite -- now offers a “private” mode where the inference provider can’t read the user data, similar to a Signal server. This product is what our Agent Camp graduates now use, and is what we hope to scale to more and more activists as we move through the year We are even testing a “local” mode powered by our very own cluster, that we control, that gives us the ability to control the full AI stack What I’m still struggling to digest is how fast the AI hardware and software environment is evolving towards making “sovereign AI” a practical reality There’s a lot of doom in the headlines around the big AI corporations and their relationships with governments -- for good reason -- but when you zoom out and consider the big picture, the undeniable reality is that open weight models are getting more powerful, easier to use, and smaller so that they fit on cheaper and more widespread devices One year ago, open weight AI models were mostly a joke. They couldn’t really execute anything that complex Today, it’s getting hard to tell the difference between a personal agent powered by the best open weight models versus the best frontier ones And while the frontier model companies are struggling through massive scaling and legal and political issues, open weight models and open-source harness software sets are blazing ahead Consider that just *3* months ago, local AI was mostly a joke Today it actually works: HRF and Finite currently have an uncensored model running on ~ $4,500 of equipment that can serve a dozen people, and it’s extremely useful for research. No third parties involved. The cost to do this will only decrease over time until it is something that simply can be run on any phone or computer or tablet Already there are ways where you can run an open weight model on an iPhone, completely locally, and get a decent research assistant, no internet required The latest development is the fusion model: where harnesses can “fuse” together several model brains to nearly replicate, for certain tasks, the performance of something like Fable -- the most powerful frontier model on earth Technology and business and culture are, surprisingly, pushing us faster and faster towards workable freedom AI that is either privacy-protecting or completely sovereign, for the average person The evolution of AI continues to trace the evolution of the computer, which went from something you had to once rent from a university or a library to something in the 1980s that came into your home in the form of the “personal” computer We are in the middle of a similar shift where you might now “rent” compute from a giant corporation, to a world where, quite possibly, much of, or even most of, your compute will one day be done on devices you own and control This shift could be expedited dramatically by companies like Apple, Google, and maybe even WhatsApp or Signal getting into the local AI game, and enabling users to fire up local AI assistants or use inference through a TEE We are already seeing companies like Apple make very positive signs in that direction So what’s the bad news? There is plenty. The top-end frontier models are coming under increasing pressure from governments, and will likely end up fully KYC’d and gatekept, only accessible to a tiny few trusted people and institutions This is the nightmare scenario: a small few with superpowers, and a permanent underclass with none But if the average person can, in the next 12-18 months, use open-source software with no KYC to privately access or locally download frontier-like intelligence… then, the expansion of freedom in the 21st century seems more realistic So far at HRF, we have worked with Finite to focus on helping activists learn the magic of personal agents. Make no mistake, dictators and tyrants are pushing full speed ahead on AI. We can’t afford to sit on the sidelines. We give dissidents their own agent, even if running on a frontier brain, just to try it out on harmless or fun projects, to see what is possible and start building their “agent” muscle and mental framework This step alone is hugely liberating. When you watch someone use an agent for the first time, it’s like being in the same room as someone when they first used email or the internet, but even more jaw-dropping. Some people even get so emotional that they cry, happily. Something else we have helped organize are the “AI Hack for Freedom” events, where activist team captains collaborate with developers to make freedom tools. The first one was in January of this year, and what made it special is that the devs could actually, with coding agents, make shippable products in just 2 days. But at the May “AI Hack for Freedom,” just a few months later, the activists now helped make the software, driving the process themselves! Developers still help of course, but the shift is remarkable On June 2 at the Oslo Freedom Forum we debuted the "AI Lounge", a cafe-style, Apple Store-vibe experience where attendees could come in and start playing with cutting-edge personal agents powered by our customized version of Hermes. They could choose a frontier experience or a “private” mode powered by a TEE model, or they could even play with a fully local uncensored model It was a home run. Human rights defenders who had never thought of themselves as digital creators were completely engaged, generating incredible things So what next? Two big steps We aim to put our harness server into the TEE, so that no one can see what activists are doing, even as they use top-of-the-line models And we aim to finalize a mobile app where you can talk to your agent in a slick way, fully encrypted, with no third parties or KYC At that point, we will have what we need to really take it to the next level and start to truly scale the freedom AI experience Later this year, I expect the discussion to move beyond personal agents to organizational agents. Following in the footsteps of Block, more and more organizations will set up an “organizational brain,” where their key internal meetings, achievements, outcomes, and goals will all be uploaded live into an AI-powered database, so that complex projects can be created by individuals in minutes instead of requiring teams of people, taking months I’ve built my own “local brain” with all of my writings, posts, interviews, etc -- and I’ve seen how powerful this is. I can’t wait to help freedom fighters build brains for themselves and their organizations, to continue to superscale their work I plan to continue these updates -- so in September, I will come back with more Stay tuned!

This post by @DavidSHolz lives rent free in my head. Midjourney's new product follows his principles to the t. Love it

Midjourney @midjourney

4 days ago

A technical dive inside our new "Midjourney Scanner"

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