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Re:Why I Left Google DeepMind on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @04:23PM (#48926583)
President Trump reveals the US Space Force has CAMERAS that can read the NAME TAG "Mohammad" trying to reach any nuclear dust in Iran

"We say: 'Mohammad something is there with shovels.'"

"We have cameras that can read the badge of the person. 'Mohammed Something.'"

"WE'RE WATCHING. If anybody goes there, THEY GET BLOWN UP."

"Eventually, we'll take it."

They have also admitted they saw the children’s flower chalk drawings too. And they double tapped.

Taylor Lorenz
Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B (WSJ) on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @08:08AM (#48553965)
Using stock.
Re:A whale necropolis has been found on Sunday June 14, 2026 @12:32AM (#48524198)
Did you buy SpaceX stock? Will you buy more and keep buying?
Most of these comments are spot on. We seeded (and continued to fund) the most recently approved Alzheimer's drug on the market about 15 years ago and fought an uphill battle the entire way. The entire industry - other than what seems about a dozen neuroscientists - were fully bought into the plaque scam, and many still are. As I mentioned in a different thread some time ago, the best way to think about plaque is like gravestones in a cemetery. If you remove the gravestones, the dead bodies are still there.

We were introduced to the head of neuroscience at Houston Methodist as part of our due diligence process; his entire career was built upon the removal of plaque from the brain and would not even consider an alternative theory. We ran into this for years. It made funding the trials very difficult. We were totally ignored by all the Alzheimer's charities and orgs (ie Seth Rogan's for example). Only the Michael J. Fox foundation contributed early on.

However, our drug, now known as Zunveyl, was a pro-drug of already on the market Galanatmine, which was the second most commonly prescribed drug in the world for this disease (about $6BN/yr). Our pro-drug almost eliminated the side effects of Galanamine (nausea, vomiting) and enabled us to increase dosage high enough to actually get enough molecules into the brain. It was (is) awesome. Some of our first clinical trials were healthy young adults - they did extremely well. I don't think I can share the actual results but I hope that we (or someone) can fund a study to get approval for "regular people" usage one day given how well this test went. Later tests went just a well but only thanks to the "fast track" program were we able to even get to market.

Even today after being on the market for about a year now, the market uptake is slow due to insurance company approvals. We are getting reorders like crazy but often new patients get denied initially and then doctors have to appeal and then they get approved. This has been taking about 6 months on average and is brutal for people with the disease (and their families). Since getting a drug to patients is actually a (sadly and surprisingly) large sales and marketing expense, the company (Alpha Cognition) is focusing on long-term-care centers for now, but we had always hoped that this would be available much more broadly and much faster. Several of the early investor's parents were alive and afflicted with this disease when we started, but have since passed away. I hope that we can get this out and help others - faster.

The mother company that spun this out is also working on other molecules to try to stop Alzheimer's itself, rather than "only" help with symptoms but as always funding is a challenge. Clinical trials must be done correctly and are thus expensive.

Been living this battle for 15+ years and hoped that this can shed a little light on how things have been.

Correct they don’t. It’s like removing the gravestones from the graveyard.
Re:Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @07:05PM (#47343657)
They own Trello.
Re:Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe? on Friday January 16, 2026 @07:09PM (#46653907)
So on to Linux and RasberryPis?
Re:You Can Just Buy Far-UVC on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @08:24PM (#46626671)
To correct. Far UVC is super safe ;)
Re:You Can Just Buy Far-UVC on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @08:23PM (#46626668)
Sorry I will correct my post. I agree with you. Far UVC super safe
Re:You Can Just Buy Far-UVC on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @06:16PM (#46625393)
Not the same (less safe)
Re:You Can Just Buy Far-UVC on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @05:19PM (#46624570)
This is not UVC - this is Far UVC and is blocked by the outer layer of your eyeball, so it is safe. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10087841/
Re:You Can Just Buy Far-UVC on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @05:19PM (#46624555)
Not the same wavelength as UV. This wavelength is blocked by your skin - and outer layer of your eyeballs!
Re:You Can Just Buy Far-UVC on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @05:18PM (#46624543)
Yes you are - at the air that may be contaminated.
Re:You Can Just Buy Far-UVC on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @05:16PM (#46624517)
OSLUV is fantastic; doing great work.
Fantastically fun when it was released.
Or Covid itself.
Re:Iran Protest Map on Thursday January 08, 2026 @06:25PM (#46547972)
You 5 days ago: “ You are still young so you don't seem to get it yet but history has shown that killing or capturing the leader of a country with outside actors rarely leads to anything good. It usually just leads to more instability.”
Youre taking the bait.
Re:Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros on Friday December 05, 2025 @02:42PM (#46166281)
Best sources to start accumulating? Just ebay?
Re:Drilling Down on Uncle Sam's Proposed TP-Link Ban on Sunday November 09, 2025 @11:25PM (#45872417)
Thank you! Been liking for replacements like this.

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