Chris Edwards

@CaolanReports @JayinKyiv The inside is even more beautiful than the outside. I hope they were able to stop the fire. Knowing Ukranians, they will do everything humanly possible.

I just watched priests trying to save crucifixes from a burning monastery. This is what russia is destroying. The Kyiv Lavra is one of the holiest Orthodox sites on earth. A UNESCO World Heritage site. Moscow calls itself “Christian civilisation.” It’s literally barbarism.

@VolodyaTretyak I wonder if he really believes something so transparently pathetic that the "report" is 5 disconnected pages, or if he just does these things for reactions.

Elon Musk again supports Russian propaganda and conspiracy theories 😭

@dani43321 @StephanSturges Dude, it is definitely turning when it is in use. It spins a lot. This is just a photo, but if this was a video, it would be turning. ;) (Don't worry, I know).

my personal litmus test is asking ML engineers whether this is hardware or software

@ODNIgov @DNIGabbard Where's the info about 120+ labs that you claim? Your document names 4. And that report wasn't put together competently. Someone grabbed 4 pages from different pre-existing reports, jammed them together, and no one did anything to stitch the information together. Pathetic.

🧵 Here is the TRUTH: Dangerous gain-of-function research was funded by the U.S. government around the world, directed and approved by people like Dr Fauci. @DNIGabbard exposed that yesterday. Using U.S. government data, put together and uncovered by career subject matter experts in the Intelligence Community and other government agencies, yesterday’s release highlighted one example of the many overseas biolabs funded by the U.S., the research conducted there, and the significant risks they pose to the world, especially when located in a country at war.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 🔗 dni.gov/files/BIOLAB_S…

@MacFarlaneNews I think Aquaman should be entitled to file a brief. It would increase the dignity of proceedings.

Arraignment in the seashells-by-the-seashore case of James Comey is set for Sept. 30. Jury trial in October Judge has just ordered that outside groups STOP trying to file briefs in the case "Defendant and the government are ably represented by competent counsel"

@jax_pep7827 @DylanMalyasov @DNIGabbard She said she is disclosing 120 labs in the report. But the report listed 4. The press release doesn't say the report is a preview or partial. Her own press release is a blatant lie about her own report.

@DylanMalyasov @DNIGabbard Trump has been telling the world since his first term that he would irradicate the deep state, which is embedded in every country. He is not looking for political clout, he is telling the truth x.com/ODNIgov/status…

I am still puzzled by the @DNIGabbard Gabbard case and her publication regarding biological laboratories. I will not even comment on the stream of propaganda mixed with fragments of publicly available information that an AI apparently stitched together into a table and map containing non-existent Ukrainian cities. But there is a more fundamental issue. A U.S. intelligence official publicly releases information that, for the sake of argument, we will assume is accurate—if only out of respect for the office she currently holds. If that is the case, doesn’t this directly undermine U.S. national interests? It is worth remembering that a number of conflicts around the world have been justified by concerns over the development or potential use of weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological weapons. By publicly presenting such claims, one risks weakening the credibility of U.S. foreign policy, creating precedents that adversarial states may exploit, and potentially providing justification for similar actions by others. Was this really done in the interests of the United States? And how can Washington credibly criticize China’s handling of information related to the COVID-19 pandemic, or condemn incidents such as the Sverdlovsk anthrax outbreak—when anthrax spores were accidentally released into the air, killing dozens of people—if senior American officials themselves are willing to publicize sensitive claims of this nature? What I find difficult to understand is how a U.S. citizen, through their own actions, can end up damaging the interests and credibility of their own country.

@DylanMalyasov @DNIGabbard There's a more fundamental part that is inexplicable: her press release says that she is releasing info about 120 biolabs, but her actual released document only mentions 4 labs. And that document is only 5 pages, of disjointed pre-existing slides. What about the 116 other labs?

@drawandstrike Try reading the released report. Try. Then come back and try to argue anything.

You sound nervous. Asshole.

@RealJakeBroe Why did she say she is releasing info on 120+ biolabs, but her "report" only names 4 labs and it is a pathetic 5 pages in total? Her press release about her report does not exist in the same reality as her report.

SERIOUS QUESTION - If Ukraine went to the trouble of having secret US funded biolabs to produce biological weapons to kill Russians... then why hasn't Ukraine used any of them in the last 5 years of war? Russia has killed hundreds of thousands of their people and destroyed entire cities. What would be the purpose of developing biological weapons in secret to kill Russians if they would not even use these weapons in a full scale war that has lasted 5 years?

@WMckort @ryankatzrosene If plants were absorbing enough extra CO2, then atmospheric levels wouldn't be rising. It's gone from ~340 ppm in the 80s to ~425 today, and it gets higher every year. Plants absorb some, but nowhere near as much as humans emit. And, that is a temporary buffer, not true removal.

@ChrisWithRobots @ryankatzrosene The total amount of carbon fixed by land plants has increase by 12-13.5% since the 80’s as a response to increased CO2 levels. MODIS and AVHRR shows 25-50% of the earths vegetative land with increased greening, with only 4-5% showing browning.

I mean, I’m all for putting things into perspective, but when it comes to global warming, zooming out a couple thousand years is not exactly reassuring.

@WMckort @ryankatzrosene So? And if plants start dying off, they stop consuming CO2, and their decay instead releases some into the atmosphere. What plants can't do is massively increase the rate they convert CO2 into biomass. Especially when you keep screwing up their habitat.

@ryankatzrosene We are screwed if CO2 went below 150ppm. Plants die.

@RoyPentland @ryankatzrosene @Tacofridge So you're saying "it's fine" if we get the temperature earth was at 50 or 100 million years ago? That it won't be bad for us or the other creatures that currently live on the planet? Go look up the differences. Because it was a very, very different time.

@ryankatzrosene @Tacofridge So what’s your point Ryan? You have actually verified that massive climate changes have happened without human activity. There is no evidence of any climate changes due to human activities and you can’t prove otherwise.

@erik_london @Shayan86 @AlexDuncanTX Wow, racism much? And you support someone who is protecting the biggest pedo network in US history.

@Shayan86 @AlexDuncanTX I live in Irvine, California. My local Costco looks worse than this. WOuld be suprised they haven't started buying and selling children sex slaves....as Isl_m people always do. Disgusting.

Believe it or not, this is a Costco in Texas. Absolutely disgusting.

@ShadowbanSlam @GaryMarcus @barnes_law It may, but they tuned it so that it eventually misreads you, makes dumb assumptions, and wrongly talks down to you, as part of its 'safety'.

@GaryMarcus @barnes_law This is sad because at the end kf the day, OpenAI still has the best models (at least for non-comtroversial topics). But being the best doesnt really seem to cut it when they cant get the business side right.

This tweet from 14 hours ago is on track to get about a million views. But here’s the thing: the conclusion is true, but the tweet itself is already outdated. WSJ’s scoop that OpenAI is considering drastic price cuts - basically lighting money on fire to save customers – is further sign of weakness, and indicator of how much trouble OpenAI is in. And when they go down, they will likely pull Nvidia and Oracle and Coreweave etc down with them. Things are unraveling fast.

@ianbremmer Fun fact: The coal industry employs fewer Americans than Arby's restaurant. Imagine if Arby's had as much lobbying power as coal does.

not always hard to see the future…

@drew_dietle @jmills1955 @AmDiabetesAssn Compare the headlines between two conferences, one week apart. Last week: standing ovation for the first real treatment for pancreatic cancers, and a new treatment for 20% of cancers. This week: ADA kicks its own journal editor out of its major conference. ADA wasted so much.

@drew_dietle @jmills1955 @AmDiabetesAssn That is exactly what happened. ADA leadership called the police to have their own members, and journal editor, forcefully removed from the conference. Which is very awkward when those members are supposed to host panels.

Here is the official @AmDiabetesAssn response to recent events at the annual meeting

@ADA_DiabetesPro If you had lawyers or a PR team write this, get better lawyers and PR.

A statement from the American Diabetes Association regarding nonpartisanship. Read our full statement here: bit.ly/4uppisy

@nickmmark If that is the best justification they can come up with, then I hope ADA's leadership is better at being doctors than at being administrators.

ADA is defending their decision to *forcibly eject members from a scientific conference* as complying with IRS regulations?!? What IRS regulation requires this? If handing out an editorial was “overtly political” wouldn’t *publishing it in your flagship journal* also be?

@AmDiabetesAssn Having doctors, including the editor of your leading journal, assaulted, and stealing papers from them at your major conference, is not a good look. Nor is it good science, good patient care, or good policy. #ADASciSessions medpagetoday.com/special-report…