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messaging my wife a link containing proof of her husband cheating on her from an anonymous instagram account and then when she clicks on it texting her to let her know she failed the family phishing test and she has to retake my cybersecurity course
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Twenty-five years ago, a woman stood in the hole an airliner had punched through the North Tower and waved for a hundred minutes.
She is in dozens of photographs and several video clips. People have been arguing about her for a quarter century. Her name, almost certainly, was Edna Cintrón.
She was 46. She worked as an assistant billing administrator at Marsh & McLennan, on the 97th floor.
Flight 11 hit that building at 8:46 and tore open floors 93 through 99. It went through her company. Marsh lost 295 employees and 63 consultants that morning, more than any other firm in the North Tower.
Minutes after the impact, people on the street and photographers on rooftops started noticing movement in the gash itself. A woman had made it to the torn edge of the floor slab, where the aluminum had peeled the wall open and there was outside air. She was leaning against a piece of the ruined exterior column, and she was waving her right arm.
She kept doing it.
Here is the part that is hard to sit with. Nobody was coming. All three stairwells in the North Tower were severed at impact. The roof doors were locked and the smoke made a helicopter landing impossible. Not one person at or above the 92nd floor of that building survived, 1,355 people in total, and that was already true at 8:46, before she ever reached the opening.
She had no way of knowing that. So she stood there in the wind, 1,300 feet up, and signaled for help to a city that could see her perfectly and could not reach her.
Witnesses and footage put her still there, still waving, until roughly ten seconds before the tower came down at 10:28.
She was never formally identified. Her remains were never recovered, and the identification rests on video and photographic analysis and on the people who knew her recognizing her. Her husband William believed it was her. They had been through a lot together, including a period without a home, and she had carried him through his drinking.
So the honest way to say it is this. We are nearly certain who she was, and we are completely certain what she did, which was refuse to stop asking for help for a hundred minutes on the worst morning in American history.
Her name was Edna Cintrón.
jason hemming retweeted
Yes, Trump pocketed 9/11 cash even though his 40 Wall Street building in Lower Manhattan suffered ZERO damage. Other sleazy building owners did it too. He told a reporter the place wasn't hit, then stuck his hand out anyway.
What's truly disgusting is what the serial lying conman did next. He publicly pledged $10,000 to the Twin Towers Fund after Howard Stern's drive. New York City's comptroller later found no record of that donation in the year after the attacks. He grabbed the reimbursement. He stiffed the pledge. First in line when the government was writing checks. Nowhere to be found when he was supposed to write one. This is the duplicitous piece of shit Trump has been for his entire adult life.
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You shouldn’t fault most of the jury for following Massachusetts law in the Lindsay Clancy trial. However, the trial also highlighted the exceptionally high burden on the prosecution in Massachusetts when it comes to the insanity defense, which is worth discussing.
Massachusetts law (rejected by the vast majority of jurisdictions and by the federal courts) requires the prosecution not only to prove the elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt, but also to prove the defendant’s sanity beyond a reasonable doubt, once the defense has properly raised the issue.
You might argue that if the whole purpose of imposing such a high burden on the prosecution to prove the elements of the crime is to avoid sending an innocent person to prison, then the same logic should apply to sanity, since the law (whether you like it or not) recognizes insanity as a defense.
But that ignores the role of presumptions. A major reason we require such a high burden on the prosecution to prove the elements of a crime is that everyone enjoys a presumption of innocence. Because that presumption is so deeply rooted, the prosecution must prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt to overcome it.
When it comes to sanity, however, the presumption remains (I hope) that a person is sane. Therefore, there is a compelling argument that the party seeking to overcome that presumption, the defense, should bear the burden of proof at least by the preponderance of the evidence (more likely than not.)
jason hemming retweeted
go fuck yourself @sama
claiming that you solved navier stokes because 10000 agents ran in circles for 88hours on a multimillion dollar gpu cluster to formalize in lean a blowup case under controlled external forcing is pure scientific vulgarity the clay mathematics institute millennium prize does not ask m whether you can artificially force a singularity in a fluid by injecting an ad hoc smooth external forcing term f(x,t) to twist the vortex until it breaks the real problem questions the fundamental stability and global smooth existence for 3dimensional incompressible euler & navier stokes equations under natural conservation laws and viscous dissipation alone using a mathematical loophole on forced equations to parade a century old victory is a major conceptual scam Altman
technically & epistemologically what you present as an agi breakthrough is nothing more than bruteforce combinatorial autoformalization the ai did not understand fluid mechanics it simply navigated a continuous search space previously mapped out and constrained by the monumental work of human mathematicians like tristan buckmaster/ levent alpöge / diego córdoba or tarek elgindi coordinating 10000 agents to check the logical consistency of a 100 page proof via lean is a software engineering feat and computational parallelization triumph not an intrinsic scientific discovery it is the victory of the compute bulldozer over abstract human intuition repackaged for the public as a higher mathematical consciousness
to this theoretical imposture you add a disgusting ethical and industrial cynicism taking advantage of private codex sessions and informal preprints from academic researchers to siphon their research leads and then trying to redact or erase the contribution of levent alpöge under the pretext that he works at rival anthropic is intellectual serfdom openai behaves like a feudal lord of silicon appropriating the cognitive subsistence of independent scholars threatening their careers behind closed doors if they protest and turning community academic labor into a privatized pressrelease
this entire staged event serves a desperate financial agenda in a pre ipo panic facing the slowdown of scaling laws and growing investor skepticism over the profitability of foundational models openai needs to manufacture an artificial sputnik moment claiming to solve a millennium prize without immediately submitting the proof to traditional peer review means using the prestige of fundamental mathematics as cheap marketing fuel to inflate a delusional valuation!!!
real science is not a clout chase on social media or a compute spike spent to rob the clay mathematics institute it is a quest for elegance physical truth and universal rigor to decode reality true artificial intelligence will not emerge from hostile corporate takeover of academic work hidden behind computational bruteforce but from architectures capable of generating new conceptual paradigms by masquerading constrained formalization as the collapse of physics greatest mysteries you did not solve navier stokes you only proved how far silicon valley will go to prostitute scientific integrity for capitalist spectacle
We’re sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, one of the deepest problems at the frontier of mathematics.
The proof was produced by a group of agents, using an OpenAI next-generation model significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra.
The problem concerns whether the description of smooth three-dimensional fluid motion modeled by the Navier-Stokes equations can break down. It has remained unresolved for roughly 90 years.
jason hemming retweeted
Fellow program directors: what research do you consider meaningful when reviewing fellowship applications? At what point do you stop counting posters & non-first author papers and start weighting other factors: board scores, awards, volunteerism, and high-quality LORs that speak to clinical knowledge and the ability to take care of patients. Curious where others draw the line.
jason hemming retweeted
We could watch this nutmeg from Columbus's Taha Habroune over and over again 😮💨
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Los brasileños han podido hacer el mejor resumen posible de la final del Mundial 😭
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• March 2025: Taylor Farms contributes $1 million to Make America Great Again Inc., days after the FDA delays the Food Traceability Rule.
• The FDA informs Taylor Farms that one of its iceberg lettuce products tested positive for cyclospora, prompting a voluntary recall.
• During the cyclospora outbreak: The New York Times reports Taylor Farms hires a former Trump White House official.
• Last week: Taylor Farms executives meet with White House and FDA officials, where the company challenges aspects of the government's outbreak conclusions, according to the New York Times.
• Now: Taylor Farms says the FDA apologized, calling the positive test a false positive and stating no Taylor Farms product has tested positive for cyclospora.
jason hemming retweeted
For all of the new soccer fans in America that need an EPL team to support…..
Let this decide for you ⬇️
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NEW in @Nature: This is now the largest Cyclospora outbreak in US history. But CDC's parasite surveillance team was slashed from 11 people to 3 last year.
Joel Barratt, who ran the team, worries the CDC doesn't have the staffing to stop the outbreak quickly.
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BREAKING: President Trump has earned more than $1 billion from his cryptocurrency ventures, according to his personal financial disclosure released on Tuesday.
Read more: abcnews.link/KBLVW5S
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Dr. Oz on stage with Dean Cain talks about how great the crowd is at the Great American State Fair... so @hicharliecotton pans his camera to reveal quite the opposite.
😬 Donald Trump says the Great American State Fair is "packed," but photos show otherwise...
See more: tmz.com/2026/06/29/trump-sta…
jason hemming retweeted
The “collusion of anonymity” is a phenomenon in medicine where lots of specialists are involved in a patient’s care but no single person is responsible for making sure the patient improves overall. Common source of bad outcomes identified at M&Ms.
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"History forgets fast" is funny b/c the MRI history actually makes the Drs' point. Tech bros have been quoting this post for 3 days like it's some eternal "gotcha".
Lauterbur's paper was initially rejected b/c the images were fuzzy. Then the idea was developed, tested, engineered & eventually made clinically useful with active physician participation. That's not a story about ignoring criticism; It's actually a story about surviving it.
Even before Lauterbur, Dr Damadian, a Medical Dr who's regarded as the "Father of MRI" by some scientists, faced brutal gatekeeping. When he dropped his foundational paper, he was instantly flamed by the era's tech ecosystem (physicists & researchers) & blackballed by legacy hardware giants like GE & Siemens.
Drs weren't being Luddites, they were reacting to unproven data in real time, exactly like the academics & tech predecessors of the time.
The resistance wasn't some glitch, it was the system demanding proof as it should have. MRI didn't change medicine by avoiding the critics & attacking the Drs every medical tech will REQUIRE for safe clinical adaptation, it changed medicine by proving them wrong.
That is the bit being skipped. Early rejection does not automatically make every new claim visionary.
Sometimes the weird idea becomes an MRI. Sometimes it becomes Theranos. Sometimes it becomes a wellness/spa product that mostly creates incidental findings & anxious people with beautifully "written" reports.
Medicine is one of the most technology-heavy fields on earth. We put cameras into joints, catheters into coronary arteries, coils into aneurysms, wrap magnets around entire human bodies, robots into theatres &AI into radiology workflows way before other fields caught up.
The idea that doctors are naturally anti-tech is just nonsense.
The fight is with the shortcut. Medicine adopts tech very quickly when it proves itself. X-ray, CT, laparoscopy, stents, robotic surgery, A.I. reconstruction, none of these entered medicine b/c Drs were sitting around scared of the future. They entered b/c the tools answered REAL clinical questions, survived testing, found a pathway & became useful to patients beyond the beautifully made demos directed by Christopher Nolan.
So if Midjourney's scanner becomes useful, Drs will use it. They happily will. The issue is this strange demand that clinicians should clap & dance before the thing has earned its place, as if every criticism is some childhood fear & every launch video is a prophecy that deserves reverence.
For every MRI story, there's a Theranos story somewhere reminding everyone why medicine asks annoying questions before patients become the true-crime fodder in a future Netflix documentary.
