@orzelc I don’t agree that AI will do much but there is a question to be asked about what to invest in. Billions on a collider means billions not spent on other research. Maybe a good idea anyway, but worth thinking.
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TheWorldExplained
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Science, nature and more — without clickbait! On a mission to highlight and challenge clickbait and nonsense on 𝕏.
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In all the long history of human civilization, nobody has done more to first develop and then piss away a reputation as a Really Smart Guy.
Kekius Maximus@Kekius_Sage
🚨 Elon Musk says physics has stagnated and AI could overtake scientific research. He says progress has relied on expensive hardware like colliders and telescopes, that slows discovery.
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@PMArslanagic The funny thing is that you think you’re pro vax, but you are actually doing the greatest damage to vaccination programmes. if that’s really your goal, then you are accomplishing it, though I won’t applaud that goal.
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In The Spectator today, I say that parents who do not vaccinate their children are imposing significant costs on the rest of us and should experience consequences for their choices.
Losing thousands of pounds worth of entitlements every year (like subsidised childcare) will sharpen some parents’ minds and lead them to conclude that they should book the jabs for their child after all.
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@MikeLevin The problem is, does a judge get to decide such things? In the UK many of us would have said a politician called Jeremy Corbyn was unqualified to be Prime Minister, but would we let a judge ban him from being PM?
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RFK Jr. isn’t a skeptic asking hard questions. He’s a con man dismantling the vaccine system that kept your kids safe for generations.
Babies are back in ICUs with diseases that should be extinct.
A federal judge called his appointees “distinctly unqualified.”
This isn’t medical freedom, it’s straight up negligence.
propublica.org/article/rfk-jr…
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@MauritzPreller Hyperbole on both sides is unhelpful. The truth is unexciting. Vaccines have side effects. Covid had already spread to many so the benefit of vaccination to them was probably very low though possibility of side effects was low too but present. It was wrong to force vaccination.
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That’s a lot of claims that don’t align with the evidence.
Covid vaccines were tested in large randomized trials and then monitored across hundreds of millions of people globally. Known risks, like myocarditis in specific groups were identified, quantified, and openly studied.
If this were “the most harmful product ever,” we would see clear, consistent signals in all-cause mortality and health systems tied to vaccination campaigns. This is not evident anywhere.
What we do see is that vaccines reduced severe covid outcomes, especially before widespread immunity.
By contrast, large, well-conducted reviews have not found meaningful benefit for ivermectin in covid. Promoting ineffective treatments while discouraging interventions that reduce severe disease isn’t harmless and it risks worse outcomes.
If we’re going to use language like “crimes against humanity,” it should be applied carefully and based on evidence. Undermining effective measures while promoting ones that don’t work has real-world consequences too.
Mary Talley Bowden MD@MaryBowdenMD
More gaslighting from the establishment. It’s not a “vaccine.” It was created by the military and foisted on civilians like guinea pigs. I’ve never seen such harm from any other product on the market. It should have been pulled a long ago. Those who don’t speak out are guilty of crimes against humanity.
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@IsabellaMWeber The old Twitter was before AI so it’s unrealistic to think it would have been immune. Unfortunately social media in general struggles with algorithms and people gaming them. I’m sure people blame Elon but it happens on all social media out of his control too
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In this crisis I miss the old Twitter (and I didn’t think I’d say that one day). There is no other place that replaced it and this place is full with fascist trolls and AI edited posts optimized to go viral.
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@lukas_ohl A bunch of people in charge of the university give out places which gets the student loans and as a reward the university gets higher student numbers and fees and the people in charge get bonuses knowing it’s all fake. The managers have committed fraud?
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@1WorldExplained The first isn’t corruption (it’s just fraud), but the second is closer. It’s a very British corruption: not one corrupt person, but many individuals all turning a blind eye to blatant abuses of the system because their jobs depend on it. (See also: Rotherham etc.)
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Britain doesn’t have corruption per se; but we have a professional upper-middle class of lawyers & consultants who make work for each other, leeching off the state in a manner that makes the Motability fakers look like amateurs.
AnglofuturistParty@FuturistPartyGB
When I was at university a Nigerian on my engineering course told a joke about corruption I adapt it for the present: So a Pakistani engineer, a Nigerian engineer and an English lawyer go to visit each others country after graduating. Nigerian visits the Pakistani guy. Says "You did well for your self, expensive car, huge house you were a bit of a waster at university, how come you did so well for yourself?" Pakistani guy rubs his hands together and says "I went into the Civil Service, see that bridge over there... 20%" Few years later Pakistani guy visits the Nigerian guy. Says "Wow you are doing even better than me you have a fleet of cars, a mansion, security your own jet, your were an even bigger waster than me how come you are so rich" Nigerian guy rubs his hands together and says "I went into politics. See that bridge over there... 40%" Another year passes they both go back to England and visit the English guy. He has a lovely property and expensive car as well. They both say "You were the biggest slacker of all of us how come your are so rich?" English guy points and says "I stayed in Law, See that bridge over there?" Nigerian guy says "No"
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@93vintagejones If only we could spend all that money even on the exact same people doing useful things with their time.
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Many people are saying what a chronic waste of money this is, but think how many surveyors, engineers and project managers were kept busy. The point of government infrastructure projects isn't to build things, but to provide a form of white-collar welfare.
LBC@LBC
Stonehenge tunnel officially scrapped - after more than £179,000,000 spent on plan lbc.co.uk/article/stoneh…
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@Microinteracti1 Wow are there fighter jets without hot engines????
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The F-35 was supposed to be unkillable. That was the whole point.
Lockheed Martin spent thirty years and four hundred billion dollars, the most expensive weapons programme in human history, building an aircraft that the enemy simply could not see. Not on radar. Not on infrared. Not on anything. The F-35 was not just a fighter jet. It was a theological statement. America’s way of saying: we have moved beyond the reach of your missiles, your sensors, and your prayers.
Iran apparently didn’t get the memo.
Somewhere over Iranian airspace on March 19, 2026, an IRST system, infrared search and track, the kind of sensor your grandmother could probably explain, looked up, found the F-35, and locked on. Not because Iranian engineers are geniuses. Because the F-35, it turns out, is extremely hot. All that engine. All that thrust. All that carefully sculpted stealth geometry, and the bloody thing glows like a kettle.
The heat signature data Iran now holds is not just embarrassing. It is a gift that keeps giving. To Moscow. To Beijing. To every procurement ministry on the planet that has been quietly wondering whether to spend the money on systems designed to kill this aircraft. The answer, as of this week, is yes.
And here is the bit that should really worry the Pentagon. You can patch software. You can redesign coatings. You cannot reprogramme a pilot’s brain. Every F-35 driver who takes off from here on knows, actually knows, that someone down there might be able to see them. That changes everything about how they fly. Caution replaces aggression. Hesitation replaces instinct.
Four hundred billion dollars. And in the end, it was done in by a heat sensor.
Tremendous.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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@BenGrahamUK Absolutely no one and it will happen again and it’s happening right now all over the country. Whenever people wonder, why is there no money for anything, the answer is partly that everything we have is wasted.
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The A303 Stonehenge tunnel has been scrapped after years of planning.
£180 million. Gone.
Not a single mile built.
Not a single benefit delivered.
Just taxpayer money burned.
Who is actually held accountable for this?
GB News@GBNEWS
Stonehenge tunnel scrapped by Labour despite £180MILLION being spent - 'Huge blow' gbnews.com/lifestyle/cars…
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@KUdissenter But otherwise they might have to spend money on research and teaching! The horror!
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Why are so many UK VCs seemingly obsessed with spending £millions on giant vanity projects? Kingston currently has a VC that wants to have a giant new 'legacy' building. No wonder HE is in dire straits.😡
21group@21percentgroup
Who broke Nottingham University, Vol 3? Vice Chancellor Shearer West presided over property expansion & vanity projects that have caused near-bankruptcy And the landing spot? Vice Chancellorship of Leeds Uni It's important to know when to skip out nottinghampost.com/news/nottingha…
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@LopaLeach @timeshighered Risks? It demonstrably already is.
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UK academia risks becoming a two-tier workforce timeshighereducation.com/depth/uk-acade… via @timeshighered
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@DarrigoMelanie How much did democrats raise and spend in the last US election round?
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The maximum an individual can legally donate to a candidate in an election is $3300.
Elon donated $277M to Trump in 2024 because of loopholes rich people use to buy elections.
If you care about election integrity — overturn Citizens United so our elections aren’t auctions.
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@DrSamuelBHume Why would it have an effect? What is the hypothesised mechanism?
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Trials of oral semaglutide in early-stage symptomatic Alzheimer’s just published
Two big, well-designed trials, and unfortunately, absolutely no effect:
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@MauritzPreller Riiight. So you believe that no lives could have been saved if the newer treatments had been rolled out earlier? That is, you believe that everyone on a ventilator would have died regardless, and the other treatments you note could not have saved them, had they been used instead?
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@1WorldExplained The ventilators did not kill people. The disease from the virus did.
Isn't that exactly what I said.
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The “ventilators killed patients” narrative persists for the same reason as many others I've been highlighting here. It exploits a complete lack of understanding of critical care.
Ventilators weren’t causing death.
They were used in patients already in severe respiratory failure. Many of whom would not survive without intervention.
Early in the pandemic, mortality was high because the disease was severe, protocols were evolving, and clinicians were dealing with an entirely new pathology under pressure.
Blaming the intervention instead of the underlying condition is basic cause and effect failure.
As evidence improved, ventilation strategies changed and outcomes improved with them. That’s how medicine works.
Rewriting that history as “doctors killed patients” isn’t analysis. It’s ignorance dressed up as accusation.
Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry.@naomirwolf
“Was COVID just mismanagement—or worse?”
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@MauritzPreller Your original post was challenging the idea that ‘ventilators killed people’, yet that is sadly true. It was often the incorrect treatment, though people didn’t know at the time. As your articles show. Do you dispute any of that?
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@1WorldExplained Did you notice the date of the article?
Did I not just share an article?
Also, did you miss the points I made in my post including?
As evidence improved, ventilation strategies changed and outcomes improved with them. That’s how medicine works.
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@MauritzPreller That article says that intubation had inferior outcomes. That is exactly what people have tried to tell you. Best practice evolves. First it was intubation and ventilators, then it was realised this was often bad. Admitting that fact is not a bad thing.
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@1WorldExplained South Africa lead with this in July of 2020. 1/2
spotlightnsp.co.za/2020/07/02/cov…
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@David__Osland And what would ordinary people do when all the wealth creators have given up because there can be no reward for success?
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Polanski's call for a wealth tax would be immensely damaging to ordinary working people. Especially ordinary working people with £10m or more in the bank.
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@siimland Wait, didn’t any of them have that magic thyroid condition that stopped them losing weight?
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The craziest study ever - The Minnesota Starvation Experiment
32 young men were put on a 40% calorie-restricted diet for 6 months, while staying physically very active
They lost 25% of their body weight by the end of it
Here's what this study contributed to longevity research
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