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YouTube video by Anthropic What do you think of my business idea?

Anthropic mocks OpenAI ads in new #SuperBowl campaign

✔️Pledges to keep Claude ad-free
✔️Direct move against OpenAI’s recent decision to bring ads to #ChatGPT
✔️OpenAI argues free access to ChatGPT does more good than Anthropic’s paid-only subs that reach only fraction of users

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AI helps doctors spot breast cancer in scans: world-first trial Artificial intelligence helps doctors spot more cases of breast cancer when reading routine scans, a world-first trial found Friday.

More than 2.3 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer and 670,000 died from the disease in 2022, according to the World Health Organization.
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They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

DOJ database on Epstein files released so far has 5,361 hits on the name Trump.

www.justice.gov/epstein

New York has groundhogs predicting if it’s going to be a longer winter.

Texas has Ted Cruz leaving if it’s going to be a bad winter.

Where?!

The Friends We Made Along the Way: Sunsetting Brain Tumor Social Media (#BTSM) Online Chats December 7, 2025 Dear Members of the #BTSM Community, It is with both gratitude and reflection that today we announce the decision to sunset the regular Brain Tumor Social Media (#BTSM) online chats. The #BTSM community was founded in May 2012 to foster support, provide education, and advocate for the brain tumor community, and has served as a vital online gathering place for patients, care partners, clinicians, researchers, and advocacy organizations. Through monthly live Twitter chats (and later other online formats), participants could share experiences, ask questions, and discuss topics related to diagnosis, treatment, research, quality of life, survivorship, and end of life. #BTSM has always been a grassroots initiative—created, moderated, and sustained by patients and care partners committed to connection and advocacy. Rationale for Sunsetting #BTSM Chat This decision was made after careful consideration of several key factors, and #BTSM advance care planning: • The social media landscape has changed significantly since #BTSM began, and patterns of engagement have evolved accordingly. • Many of our dedicated moderators and organizers are transitioning into new professional and personal roles, making it increasingly difficult to sustain the regular chat schedule. • The needs of the brain tumor community continue to evolve, and the traditional live-chat format no longer fully reflects the ways individuals connect and share information online. After much discussion, the organizer team determined that this is an appropriate moment to close this chapter of scheduled #BTSM chats, while honoring the extraordinary legacy of community and advocacy they represent. Gratitude to the #BTSM Community We extend our deepest appreciation to every person who participated in #BTSM chats over the years. Whether you shared your story, offered support, asked a question, or simply followe…

Recognition of #BTSM Moderators The power of #BTSM has always come from its people—the patients, care partners, clinicians, researchers, advocates, and friends—those whose dedication to tuning in, whose curiosity to learn, willingness to help, kindness to strangers, and belief in a movement have defined this effort. The real #BTSM are the friends made along the way. But the success and longevity of #BTSM would not have been possible without the extraordinary efforts of its organizers and moderators. Their dedication, time, and commitment - often undertaken quietly and without recognition - sustained the community, provided steady guidance throughout its evolution, and has been instrumental in fostering a safe, inclusive, and supportive environment for all participants. We gratefully acknowledge the following individuals for their years of service (from - to) and leadership: • Charlie Blotner, co-founder (2012 - 2020) • Liz Salmi, co-founder (2012 - 2021) • Adam Hayden (2017 - 2021) • Jeremy Pivor (2018 - 2021) • Sabine Schwab (2018 - present) • Lisa O’Leary (2018 - 2024) • Ashley Love Sumrall (2020 - 2022) • Emily McIntosh (2021- present) • Shawn Carey (2022 - present) • Guy Lipof (2023 - 2024) • Stuart Selby (2024 - present) Looking Ahead: A Future #BTSM? While the regularly scheduled chats have concluded, the #BTSM hashtag remains active as a continuing means for connection, resource sharing, and community engagement within the broader brain tumor social media ecosystem. We encourage ongoing use of the hashtag to amplify awareness, share knowledge, promote collaboration, and sustain the relationships #BTSM inspired. Though this marks the end of one era, it also represents an evolution—an opportunity for new forms of connection, advocacy, and dialogue to emerge. We offer our heartfelt thanks to every individual who has contributed to the success of #BTSM since its inception. Together, we have created a legacy of patient empowerment, advocacy, and community. No…

We are incredibly grateful for the community we have created - it's time to say goodbye to our regularly scheduled chats. With ❤️, the #BTSM chats co-founder & organizer team @thelizarmy.bsky.social @sabine-nj.bsky.social @mcintose.bsky.social @shawncarey42.bsky.social @stuartselby.bsky.social

An advocate who offered a window on the experience of living with brain cancer dies at 43 Adam Hayden, a patient advocate and the subject of an earlier profile in STAT, has died at age 43.

And this great article in @statnews.com:
"An advocate who offered a window on the experience of living with brain cancer dies at 43"
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❤️💔

How Cameroon Fought to Save Its Malaria Program After the U.S. Cut Critical Funding

Historians will count the children harmed by the US State Department in 2025 as among this administration’s greatest atrocities

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/h...

DOJ Disclosures

👇🏽The Justice Department posted the new documents, totaling about 3,900 files, on its website on Friday.

They can be accessed here, under the section labeled "Epstein Files Transparency Act."

www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-...

This and the people who become overnight experts to profit from every techno-optimist trend/hype: same STRONG grifter vibes.

May 2026 allow more spaces to listen and learn from technologists, lawyers, activists, and social workers with proven expertise and sideline marketing/PR profit chasers 🤞

❤️❤️❤️❤️

Oracle says 57% of its $523B backlog comes from OpenAI, projecting $74B losses by 2028. Nvidia invests $100B, OpenAI commits $300B to Oracle, Oracle buys Nvidia chips, a $610B circular flow. In the dotcom bubble Lucent collapsed at 24% vendor financing; Nvidia’s exposure is 67%.

In the latest Situation Report, we highlight ongoing policy changes regarding Medicaid work requirements, the future of the children’s vaccine schedule, and fewer grants being awarded from the NIH and NSF leading to less research: academyhealth.org/blog/2025-12...

what if fda focused more on getting publicity for this?

Round of applause for this researcher’s work.

Brilliant backdoor attack. 🤣

Kohler Health also confirmed that it can harness the collected poop 💩 pics to train AI.

YouTube video by BangersOnly Breaking Rust - Walk My Walk (Lyrics)

‼️An AI-generated country song just hit #1 on Billboard's country digital sales chart.

The catch? The vocal style belongs to Blanco Brown, a real Black artist who had no idea his sound was being cloned until friends started texting him!!

🎧 Listen in! What do you think?

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Delulu - YouTube

I may know some kids who released an album. 🤣

It’s pretty amazing to think what music will be like for this generation.

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A portrait.

If You Could Read My Mind — Wait, You Can? Over the years, one area of tech/health tech I have avoided writing about are brain-computer interfaces (B.C.I.). In part, it was because…

In the digital era, we've been fighting -- and, for the most part, losing -- many battles about privacy, but none may be more important than the current one for our neural data.

@downing.bsky.social @healthblawg.bsky.social @fredtrotter.bsky.social

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We saw it just barely! Not lighting up the sky which I hope to see someday but glad we went out.

Please please let me see the aurora tonight. 🙏

I have wanted to see it my whole life.

I heard about Solid a few years ago but was too early in development. Thanks for flagging!

Hey excuse me it’s #InternationalDogDay.

Microsoft AI CEO: Dangerous, Seemingly Conscious AI Is Close | Entrepreneur Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, 41, warned in a personal essay published earlier this week that AI could one day appear to be conscious, posing a danger to society.

Microsoft AI CEO Warns That 'Dangerous' and 'Seemingly Conscious' AI Models could cause people to become disconnected from reality.

www.entrepreneur.com/business-new...

Will come visit!