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I’m amazed. It’s really true: the BA.3.2 COVID lineage is infecting children at a much higher rate than previous lineages. I’m late to this party, but I couldn’t really believe it was true until I did the analysis for myself. 1/

My pithy take on Sam Altman at TED yesterday is that he speaks with the logic of a rapist (of which he has been credibly accused by his sister, Annie.) Summarizing: “You have to accept that this is happening, and try to make the best possible outcome out of it.” Listen yourself.

Sexual predation is rive at OpenAI. Try googling: ’Annie Altman’ ‘OpenAI sex parties’ ‘CodePilot serial strangler’ ‘Hacker House assault minor’

Annie Altman's mum (Connie) hid the will after her father died. Sam colluded in the fraud. From a new court filing: "Annie inquired about the trust several times to Connie after Decedent’s death and was told by Connie and her attorney that no Trust existed. ... These lifelong, chronic ailments require significant ongoing care and therapy and make traditional work difficult. Annie was unable to support herself during this time, had to rely on federal food stamps, and experienced homelessness at times. Connie knew of Annie’s physical and mental distress, as Annie repeatedly informed her of them, but Connie decided to withhold the required support from the Trust. ... Jerold D. Altman’s Trust is a discretionary, needs-based trust. It explicitly directs the trustee to use the Trust’s net income to “provide for their [beneficiaries’] respective health, education, maintenance and support.” Though Connie failed to abide by these explicit directions, Decedent’s intent was clear: the Trust funds should, and, in fact, must be used to support the beneficiaries, including Annie."

The sister of OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman has accused him in a civil lawsuit of sexually abusing and raping her as a child. The alleged abuse at their family home in Clayton, Missouri, began in 1997 – when Annie Altman was three and her brother was 12 – and went on until 2006, according to an amended complaint filed in St Louis federal court on Wednesday. Altman has denied the claim and is countersuing for defamation. He said in a court filing that he had been helping his sister financially but that her case amounted to extortion. Last month, US district judge Zachary Bluestone said Annie Altman's standalone sexual assault and sexual ‌battery claims expired in 2008, but that she could try pursuing her case under Missouri's child sexual abuse statute, which allows some accusers to sue over historic abuses. In a statement posted to X in January, Sam Altman, his mother and two brothers said Annie has “mental health challenges” and “refuses conventional treatment and lashes out at family members who are genuinely trying to help”. A co-founder of OpenAI, the company behind AI chatbot ChatGPT, Sam Altman is worth an estimated $3.3bn (£2.5bn). His company was recently valued at $852bn (£644bn).

Christina Koch was a firefighter at the South Pole at -111°F before she ever applied to be an astronaut. That was maybe the fourth most interesting line on her resume. She grew up in North Carolina, got three degrees from NC State, and her first real job was building deep-space instruments at NASA. Then she left for Antarctica. Spent three and a half years bouncing between the Arctic and Antarctic as a research scientist, including a full winter at the South Pole base. That means going months without sunlight or fresh food, with a crew of about 50 people and no way out until flights resume. While she was down there, she also joined the glacier search-and-rescue team. After coming back, she went to Johns Hopkins and built instruments for two NASA missions (one of them is still orbiting Jupiter right now). She figured out how to start a tiny vacuum pump that NASA designed for a future Mars rover. Johns Hopkins nominated it for their Invention of the Year in 2009. Then she went back to the field. More time in Antarctica and a stretch up in Greenland. A government research station in northern Alaska, near the top of the world. Then she ran another one in American Samoa, near the equator. In 2013, NASA selected her from 6,300 applicants. Eight people got in. Her first space mission was supposed to be a normal rotation on the International Space Station, but NASA extended it. She ended up staying 328 straight days and orbiting Earth 5,248 times, covering about 139 million miles (roughly 291 round trips to the Moon). Up there, she ran over 210 experiments, including tests of cancer drugs in zero gravity and 3D printers that can build structures close to human tissue. Six spacewalks, 42 hours floating outside the station. She learned Russian for the training. She flies supersonic jets. Right now, Koch is on Artemis II, heading for a flyby behind the far side of the Moon. The crew launched on April 1 and is on track to travel about 252,000 miles from Earth, which would break the all-time human distance record of 248,655 miles set by Apollo 13 in 1970. That record has stood for 56 years, and it was set during a disaster that nearly killed the crew. Fred Haise, one of the Apollo 13 astronauts, is 92 now. He told Koch: "I heard you're going to break our record." Nobody had left Earth's neighborhood since December 1972. Koch and her three crewmates are the first in 53 years, and they are coming home at about 25,000 mph. That is faster than any crewed spacecraft has ever come back through the atmosphere.

@sandibachom Mike Flynn's brother now works for Palantir. x.com/MountainsStars…

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump warns Iran has 48 hours to make a deal or open the Strait of Hormuz before "all hell will reign down on them."

UPDATE - At least 4 US aircrafts damaged by Iran - US crew member missing - Iran rejected mtg in Pakistan: WSJ - Iran rejected 48 hr ceasefire: Fars - US striking Tehran - Israeli strikes continue - Kuwait: Iran targeted desalination plant - UNSC to vote on Bahrain res. Day 35

Victor Glover failed an engineering class his sophomore year of college. His dad talked him out of joining the Navy SEALs and told him an engineering degree and pilot wings might make him an astronaut someday. Right now Glover is somewhere between the Earth and the Moon. He grew up in Pomona, California. Played quarterback in high school, wrestled well enough to place sixth at the state championship, won Athlete of the Year. Went to Cal Poly for engineering and played both sports at the college level. He got his Navy wings in 2001 and started flying F/A-18 fighter jets off aircraft carriers. His squadron deployed on the USS John F. Kennedy to fight in Iraq, the carrier’s final deployment ever. Twenty-four combat missions. His commanding officer gave him the callsign “Ike,” short for “I Know Everything.” He became a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base and over his career flew more than 40 types of aircraft, 3,000 hours in the air, everything from a Korean War-era Soviet MiG-15 to the Goodyear blimp. More than 400 landings on a moving carrier deck. He earned three master’s degrees in three years. He once told Cal Poly’s president that the hardest thing he ever chose to do was walk in space. The second hardest was wrestling practice. He applied to NASA in 2009 and got rejected. Applied again in 2013 while working in the U.S. Senate for John McCain. NASA’s head of flight crew operations called him. He missed the call. Frantically dialed back. Eight people got in that year out of more than 6,000 applicants. NASA put him in the pilot seat for the first operational SpaceX Crew Dragon flight in 2020. He spent 168 days on the International Space Station and walked in space four times. Last June he went back to Cal Poly to accept an honorary doctorate. His wife Dionna and their oldest daughter Genesis both walked across the stage at the same ceremony to pick up their own degrees. Three days ago Glover launched from Kennedy Space Center. The crew will fly past the far side of the Moon on Monday and travel about 252,000 miles from home, breaking a distance record that Apollo 13 set fifty-six years ago. They come back at roughly 25,000 mph. He has four daughters. His callsign is still Ike.

MAJOR BREAKING: According to the NYP, Pete Hegseth is “paranoid” about the possibility of getting fired by Trump and that is why he has dismissed several senior generals and other Army personnel.

@envidreamz @kbcaldwell79 Same here in Missouri. We had at least one hospitalization involving H5N1 19 months ago. No source has been given, the general location hasn't been released. And Missouri doesn't test dairy cattle for H5. Oh, and our governor has a dairy farm...

@kbcaldwell79 I can not escape them. They are everywhere here. lol

One of my gym client regulars slides into my DMs. Friendly at first. “Thanks for the protein powder recs. Ordering the BCAA you sent. Thanks.” Then the blade twists in at the end. “I thought you might want to read this.” A MAGA page crowing about Secretary of War Pete Hegseth forcing an Army Chief to step down over an “ignored Covid vaccine injury” that wrecked a soldier’s heart. He knows my story. I told him plainly months ago: I caught Covid hard in 2020. Again in 2021 long before any vaccine ever touched me. The virus tore into my heart muscle while doctors gaslit me for 6 endless years, calling it anxiety, laughing it off, dismissing me as I waited in silent torment for the surgery I finally got. The damage was done and documented by the time I got the shot in January 2023. Yet here comes the link anyway. The casual dismissal. The smug little reminder that my ruined heart, my daily war against crushing fatigue and silent hypoxemia, is somehow fake or my fault. No cancer patient gets cornered with conspiracy screenshots. No one mocks an MS warrior’s wheelchair as a hoax. But Long Covid? We are scum on the bottom of society’s shoe. Open season for endless public torture. I drag myself to class anyway. Smile through the lack of oxygen. Bleed quietly while the world laughs and moves on and blames the vax. It’s slow, relentless torment that never ends and we face it completely alone. Meanwhile, they all keep pushing their anti vax crusade, never once blaming the virus that actually broke us all, and never caring that the shot they demonize is the only lifeline that’s eased my symptoms at all. They are trying to rip away the one thing that finally gave me some ground back. I burn with rage for it. They have tortured me for years, and they won’t stop. I will never be able to befriend or forgive an anti-vaxxer. They have tortured me for over 6 years, and they won’t rest until every vaccine is banned hence ripping away the only lifeline that has eased my symptoms and kept me breathing. That is life or death for me. In other words, they have wished death upon me. And for that, they are forever dead to me.

Can anyone verify this thread?

Anyone still think it's not going to happen...? July/August, November elections "postponed."

JUST IN: Trump’s 2027 budget is out, and it’s a DISASTER for the American people. Here’s what it contains. -Cuts $240 million from the McGovern-Dole Food for Education -Program. -fully eliminates the Job Corps, which provides free education and vocational training for young Americans -A $5 BILLION cut to the National Health Institute, which guts our research into curing deadly diseases -fully eliminates the Food for Peace program -$73 billion cut from housing, education, and climate programs -Cuts the EPA’s budget by HALF -Guts NASA by 23% -Cuts nearly $5 billion from USA -Cuts $354 million from historically Black colleges and universities -Cuts $204.5 million for the Community Development Financial Institutions fund, which stimulates growth in economically disadvantaged communities -Cut $10.7 billion for housing -Cut $8.5 billion for K-12 programs -Cancel $15 billion for clean energy -Cut $2.5 billion for clean drinking water -Eliminate $1.6 billion for youth job training -Cut $3.5 billion from the Labor Department -Eliminate $395 million for senior employment -Eliminate $775 million in food assistance grants -Eliminate the National Endowment for Democracy All to pay for $1.5 TRILLION for the military, including money to build 41 obsolete battleships. This is the most regressive, anti-people, pro-war budget ever proposed. It is a horrifying, deeply evil document that hangs the American people out to dry and funnels all our taxpayer dollars into the pockets of arms dealers and blood profiteers. We cannot allow it to pass." - Occupy Democrats “Donald Trump’s budget is rotten to the core, and Democrats will make sure it never passes,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

Polymarket is allowing users to place bets on the rescue of U.S. pilots shot down over Iran. Disgusting.

@WhiteHouse Holy Week with this guy, really????

Massive corruption exposed on ABC News. A UAE official bought a 500 million dollar secret stake in a Trump company right before getting access to guarded US AI chips. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche desperately tries to deflect. The White House is for sale.

Talk about moving goalposts. This one from MSFT’s Suleyman may well take the cake. “Superintelligence” just went from intelligence beyond all humans to merely “delivering product value”. 🙄

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