Stephen Gass

*14 years

@MarkInvicta @anishmoonka @Mast3rmo

@anishmoonka @Mast3rmo This makes me nervous. We just don't know, and can't know, what unintended consequences it will have.

Google wants to release 32 million mosquitoes across Florida and California, and not one of them can bite you. They're all male, and male mosquitoes don't drink blood. The plan is to send them out to mate, and let the local bloodsucker population quietly wipe itself out. The trick is one tiny bacterium. These lab-grown males carry Wolbachia, harmless to people and found naturally in something like half the world's insect species. When one of them mates with a normal wild female, her eggs come out duds. They never hatch. Keep flooding a neighborhood with these males week after week, and the next generation barely shows up. It needs no gene editing at all. The whole thing runs on one common germ and a lot of patience. This is Google's "Debug" project, run by its life-sciences arm, and right now it's in the hands of U.S. regulators, who are taking public comments until June 5. This batch is aimed at the mosquito that spreads West Nile, the most common mosquito-borne disease in the U.S. The famous earlier work went after a different one, the kind that carries dengue and Zika. People take this seriously because it has already worked. In a California test, releasing 14.4 million of these males cut the number of biting females by about 95% across the treated neighborhoods. Singapore ran its own version of the same idea and watched dengue cases fall more than 70%, with mosquito numbers down around 90%. Their 2025 dengue count was the lowest since 2018. That viral "1 billion mosquitoes across four continents" line mashes three different projects into one. The billion comes from a different company that uses genetically engineered mosquitoes, mostly in Florida and Texas. The four-continent footprint belongs to a nonprofit running its own Wolbachia releases in 16 countries. Google's own releases sit in the millions, mostly in California. Underneath the sci-fi headlines, the plan is almost boring. Raise millions of males that can't bite, and let their dead-end offspring thin the herd over time.

@KenMathias6 @anishmoonka

@anishmoonka It is always the unintended, at least from the public’s knowledge, consequences that get ya. Sounds positive but what else is it affecting?

@aincomeinvestor Sam Esmail created this movie, not the Obama’s. They were EPs which means they helped finance but were not part of the creative process. Watch Mr Robot if you’re interested in Sam’s viewpoints on the world

I’m begging you to please watch this scene. Executively produced by the Obamas btw.

Attention @JenkinsAndJonez - how do I get in touch with Jackson? I can’t find his social media. I’ve always had quality squirrel relations but am currently being terrorized by one at my new house! I stand with Jackson! #squirrelHatersBall

@Is_Not_Brian @TroyDot They literally have a parade to celebrate almost every ethnicity per year

Why the fuck does NYC have an Israel Day Parade lol

If you post work-related skits on LinkedIn you’ve hit rock bottom in the content world

A Milly did not age well. At all.

@AlThomp @catgirlprostate Hey Jeff!

@catgirlprostate He and his wife began Amazon delivering books from his garage in a station wagon, every one of us could do the same. Amazon is also the most amazing retailer I’ve ever purchased from while the demand for jobs at Amazon far exceeds their supply. Who exactly is he exploiting?

The simple truth is that anyone with anything close to that level of empathy simply wouldn't be able to reach anything close to bezos levels of wealthy, because that amount of money requires unbelievable amounts of human exploitation

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

@dpshow PavIA? Not….gooood, DP

"The message from the NFL was really clear: if you're not a cant-miss prospect, professionalism is not just valued – it's required." – DP on Diego Pavia going undrafted.

LEBRON JAMES LITERALLY CREATED A TEAMMATE TO THROW AN OOP TO IN THE PLAYOFFS MAN STOP ALL THE DEBATES

The fact of the matter is the Pittsburgh Penguins have a 0.00001% chance of winning the Stanley Cup solely due to these jerseys This is NOT a Stanley Cup winning look You can NOT lift the greatest trophy in sports while wearing this

‘How are you so focused under pressure?’ Me in 1995:

If you send me a “Hey” message on Slack or teams, best believe I will be ignoring that message until then rest of the message is sent

They wrote us off. We flipped the script.

@KeruboSk Stolen from TikTok

Work. Work. Work. Stay hydrated. Go to the dentist. 10,000 steps. “What’s for dinner?” Insurance. Drink water. Pay a bill. Pay a bill. Smile. Credit Score. Check engine light. Go get gas. ALLERGIES! TAXES! STUDENT LOANS! Phone storage full. Email. Email. Apple $12.99. Apple $9.99. Subscriptions. Subscription. Overdraft. Laundry. Fold. Text. Text. Text. Clean the house. “I haven’t seen you in a while.” Doctors appoinment. Hair appoinment. Nail appointment. RENT. WAR! GOVERNMENT! POLITICS! THE PRESIDENT!!

@FrankWhite718BK @TheCinesthetic Boom. This is the way

@TheCinesthetic The Shield

What TV Show has the best Pilot episode?

One of the best scenes in TV history

@BarstoolPAT SAME

I hate that I keep watching DTF Saint Louis. I hate it, every episode is a disappointment but I can’t stop

daunte culpepper after throwing the craziest 70-yard dart to randy moss.