Greg Brooks 🦴

@DarrylTheAuthor @zacbowden His title: Senior Editor at WindowsCentral

The Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 is still the best laptop you can buy for $999. Nothing even comes close.

@Parksidesuz @PeterAttiaMD Lawyers wrote it, and Peter has not taken any actual action.

@PeterAttiaMD I hope what you wrote is true- I idolize (or idolized) you !

The following email is what I sent my team last night. I sent a similar version to my patients, also. *** You’ve put your trust, your credibility, and your hard work into what we have built together, and I take that responsibility seriously. You deserve a complete and honest account of what did and did not happen. I apologize that I did not get this out sooner, but I want to be thorough. The purpose of the DOJ releasing these documents is clear: to identify individuals who participated in criminal activity, enabled it, or witnessed it. I am not in any of those categories, and there is no evidence to the contrary. To be clear: 1. I was not involved in any criminal activity. 2. My interactions with Epstein had nothing to do with his sexual abuse or exploitation of anyone. 3. I was never on his plane, never on his island, and never present at any sex parties. That said, I apologize and regret putting myself in a position where emails, some of them embarrassing, tasteless, and indefensible, are now public, and that is on me. I accept that reality and the humiliation that comes with it. *** I want to start by directly addressing the email thread that I’ve been asked about the most. In June 2015, I sent Epstein an email with the subject line “Got a fresh shipment.” The email contained a photograph of bottles of metformin, a medication I had just received from the pharmacy for my own use. The subject line referred to the picture of the bottles of medication. He replied with the words “me too” and attached a photograph of an adult woman. I responded with crude, tasteless banter. Reading that exchange now is very embarrassing, and I will not defend it. I’m ashamed of myself for everything about this. At the time, I understood this exchange as juvenile, not a reference to anything dark or harmful. At that point in my career, I had little exposure to prominent people, and that level of access was novel to me. Everything about him seemed excessive and exclusive, including the fact that he lived in the largest home in all of Manhattan, owned a Boeing 727, and hosted parties with the most powerful and prominent leaders in business and politics. I treated that access as something to be quiet about rather than discussed freely with others. One line in that exchange, about his life being outrageous and me not being able to tell anyone, is being interpreted as awareness of wrongdoing. That is not how I meant it at all. What I was referring to, poorly and flippantly, was the discretion commanded by those social and professional circles–the idea that you don’t talk about who you meet, the dinners you attend and the power and influence of the people in those settings. What I wrote in that email reads terribly, and I own that. *** I met Epstein in 2014 through a prominent female healthcare leader while I was raising funds for scientific research. At that time, he was widely known in academic and philanthropic circles as a funder of science and moved openly among credible institutions and public figures. Between summer 2014 and spring 2019, I met with him on approximately seven or eight occasions at his New York City home, regarding research studies and to meet others he introduced me to. I never visited his island or ranch, and I never flew on any of his planes. When I was at his home, it was either meeting with him directly, meeting with small groups of scientists, doctors, or business leaders, and once at a dinner in 2015 with a number of guests including prominent heads of state. In retrospect, the presence and credibility of such venerable people in different orbits led me to make assumptions about him that clouded my judgment in ways it shouldn’t have. I was not his doctor, though several times I answered general medical questions and recommended other providers to him. Shortly after we met, I asked him directly about his 2008 conviction. He characterized it as prostitution-related charges. In 2018, I came to learn this was grossly minimized (more on this below). I was incredibly naïve to believe him. I mistook his social acceptance in the eyes of the credible people I saw him with for acceptability, and that was a serious error in my judgment. To be clear, I never witnessed illegal behavior and never saw anyone who appeared underage in his presence. *** In November 2018 I read the Miami Herald investigative article. I was repulsed by what I learned. Nauseated. It marked a clear and irreversible line between what I knew before and what I understood afterward. At that point, I told him directly he needed to accept responsibility for what he did. Hoping to provide the victims from the Herald piece with support, I contacted a residential trauma facility to understand what funding comprehensive care for many victims would require. (Those communications were between me and the facility and were therefore not part of the document release.) I spoke with him and shared that information and insisted that he fund their care, beginning with residential treatment and followed by lifelong therapy. In hindsight, even attempting to facilitate accountability was a mistake and once again reflected just how naïve I was at the time. Once the full scope of his actions was clear, disengagement should have been the only appropriate response. My intent does not change that, and I regret not drawing that boundary immediately. *** Nothing in this letter is meant to minimize the harm suffered by the young women Epstein abused. Their trauma is permanent. I am not asking for a pass from you. I am not asking anyone to ignore the emails or pretend they aren’t ugly. They simply are. The man I am today, roughly ten years later, would not write them and would not associate with Epstein at all. Whatever growth I’ve had over the past decade does not erase the emails I wrote then. I recognize that my actions and words have consequences for the people I care deeply about, including all of you. I regret the cost this has placed on you, and I take responsibility for it. I won’t ask anyone to defend me or explain this on my behalf. If you have questions or concerns, I’ll address them directly with you, my team.

@NielNumiNova @PeterAttiaMD Its just words. No action.

@PeterAttiaMD This is how an adult behaves and serves as an example of taking responsibility

@PeterAttiaMD And now the action following the words? This is just more words about how you supposedly weren't actually involved despite over a thousand cases where you were.

@derekbuckets I am just hoping for DLC with closed, more focused tracks like DS and MK7. Let us trick off the Music track, the inside of the Pinball machine, the Clock gears.

this game goes so hard 🔥

@Jeremybtc @MMatt14 What was the cost they announced?

@MMatt14 Died because they made it cost a pc, not compete with a console

@georgebsocial Maybe they don't want to be associated on a CSAM generating platform full of hate and trolls. Its brand damage.

I've seen some more indie devs leaving X/locking their accounts and going to Bluesky. They claim "engagement". The truth...nearly to an account, they'd let their X accounts wither and they were nothing more than sales/shill accounts. Also pure ideology motivates the move. Every time. Little to no actual attempt to engage followers on X. It's amazing to witness. I think it's an actual business mistake but good luck to them! They will certainly reach their echo chamber on BlueSky but imo, few new fans outside their desired group. #gamedev

@ID_AA_Carmack Why do you want more people on the CSAM platform, John?

It would be nice if some of the Twitter diaspora returned. So many creatives, but also many developers, that generally enriched the experience are no longer active. Those that performatively left and those with a seething hatred of Elon probably won’t be back soon, but a lot of people just disengaged on vague cultural grounds that can be reevaluated. There are probably some technical tweaks to the algorithm that could make them more comfortable. I don’t mind the existence of independent echo chambers that people are happy within. There is only a problem when some echo chambers are allowed and others aren’t. Reach out to lapsed friends!

Yea, the privacy policy of #clicks is crap. Login is required to configure the keyboard, data is collected and associated to you. I should have known not to get my hopes up around this device. @clickskeyboard should provide a way to configure things offline and private.

Got my @clickskeyboard for iPhone17 today and I think fail #1 is out of the box I am met with having to install a fiddly foam strip in it without getting the alignment wrong. Also I should not be forced an account to open the config app.

@RocketLeague Can we get a Switch 2 version? At least unlock the frame rate in quality mode!

@mustafasuleyman Remember when Microsoft ruined the Nokia phones?

Jeez there so many cynics! It cracks me up when I hear people call AI underwhelming. I grew up playing Snake on a Nokia phone! The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me.

@JezCorden @pavandavuluri Investors. They need to juice the ai numbers.

@pavandavuluri Who asked for this bro

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@waleedalrashedd @pavandavuluri Its linux, man. Microsoft is up their own rear and not coming back.

@pavandavuluri Here's a crazy idea, how about mmm.. just give us Windows 7 back ? clean UI, clean icon, a unified control panel, no bloat apps , no ads, just a pure performant os

@derekbuckets That's Tokka and Rahzar's music!

@DiscussingFilm That's Tokka and Rahzar's music!

A ‘JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH’ sequel is reportedly in the works with Gareth Edwards in talks to direct. Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali and Jonathan Bailey are expected to return. (Source: theinsneider.com/p/steven-spiel…)

@pavandavuluri In other words: Windows is for the people who can't leave, and we will milk them for every service charge and data collection scheme we can muster.

We've had the mailbox run over, nearly run over my dog, driving on new pavement, and now driving across lawns because they can't backup straight on a driveway they aren't supposed to be on in the first place.

. @AmazonHelp Back again with driver issues. Delivery drivers are again driving down the driveway which they have been told to stay off of 4 or 5 times now and are turning around by driving a circle in the grass across my and my neighbor's lawn. Can you even control anything.

@Mandelkorn36406 @BottlesTheMole @PlaytonicGames @IGN Doesn't Metroid Prime 4 also run at 120fps?

@BottlesTheMole @KeyboardG @PlaytonicGames @IGN It's a Switch problem. Nintendo makes lame, Lowe performance consoles.

We know everyone has had a lot of questions surrounding Yooka-Replaylee on Nintendo Switch 2. We're excited to have partnered up with @IGN for a first-look at the game on the platform! Check it out! To provide players the best possible looking and seamless version of the game, Yooka-Replaylee will be running at a consistent 30fps on Nintendo Switch 2 both in handheld and docked mode. Due to limited time with the development kits, we're investigating the possibility of implementing a performance mode to follow some time post launch. We've also received a lot of questions regarding a playable demo on Nintendo Switch 2. Unfortunately, this is not something we're able to accommodate pre-launch but are planning to release post-launch. Thank you so much for your patience with us. It's an exciting new platform for all of us and we cannot wait to see people play Yooka-Replaylee on Switch 2! And last but not least, the Nintendo eShop store pages are finally live! Go drop the buddy-duo a wishlist. It helps us a lot! youtube.com/watch?v=QUOTM-…