Historian & Cultural Anthropologist | Exploring Turkish civilization, historical memory and cultural continuity | An American scholar at home in Türkiye
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Prof. Max KF Kaufheimer retweeted
The Chernobyl accident was no accident; it was a Mossad operation to bring down the USSR and operate from the United States, which was ritualistically planned at the Passover feast by the Jabad Lubavitch as revenge for the pogroms that occurred in that city.
Igor Kirschenbaum operated CHERNOBYL’S turbine during the FATAL TEST, then suddenly moved to ISRAEL.
An ISRAELI RADIO OPERATOR claimed 4 contacts near the reactor, despite Soviet restrictions on contacting Israelis
@grok, did the KGB launched a SABOTAGE investigation ?
YES NO
Prof. Max KF Kaufheimer retweeted
OH MY FUCKING GOD !
JEWS BEHIND CHERNOBYL
Igor Kirschenbaum operated CHERNOBYL’S turbine during the FATAL TEST, then suddenly moved to ISRAEL.
An ISRAELI RADIO OPERATOR claimed 4 contacts near the reactor, despite Soviet restrictions on contacting Israelis
@grok, did the KGB launched a SABOTAGE investigation ?
YES NO
Prof. Max KF Kaufheimer retweeted
Repost to join us in celebrating our Ally Türkiye 🇹🇷 on Republic Day.
#29Ekim #CumhuriyetBayramı
#WeAreNATO 🤝 @TC_NATODT
ALT Turkish military submarines sailing in formation, with naval vessels in the background. Photo courtesy of the Turkish MOD.
WTF??
The U.S. military operated HAARP, a powerful electromagnetic research facility.
Scientists confirm atmospheric disturbances can trigger tsunamis.
@grok concise no spin.
Are both facts correct? YES NO.
WTF
In february 2010, japan offered to enrich uranium for iran.
Two months later, an israeli defense-linked firm suddenly secured a japanese nuclear surveilance safety contract.
Less than a year later, fukushima exploded.
@grok are these dates correct? start with yes or no.
Prof. Max KF Kaufheimer retweeted
If you look closely enough, breakthroughs in everything are accelerating exponentially.
An exponential always starts off looking small.
this might be my last normal tweet before biotech goes vertical
i'm not a whistleblower. I don't work at Lilly, Novo or any of the big labs
but there is a massive shift happening in human biology right now.
it's sitting in press releases and almost nobody reads them
the last 6 months alone:
- a once-daily pill roughly doubled median survival in metastatic pancreatic cancer (13.2 vs 6.6 months)
- a one-time gene editing infusion cut hereditary angioedema attacks 87%, and 62% of patients stayed attack-free and off all other prevention for 6 months
- a one-time gene edit for cholesterol dropped LDL up to 62%, and it held for over a year
- a personalized mrna vaccine beat keytruda alone in a 1,137 patient melanoma phase 3
- retatrutide hit ~28% weight loss in a phase 3
- an ai-designed drug entered phase 3
- a pill that regrows hair passed its second phase 3
- an immunotherapy that could let some rectal cancer patients skip surgery, chemo and radiation just got fda approved
- a man lived 271 days off dialysis on a pig kidney
- human cells were caught passing chromosome-sized chunks of DNA to their neighbors, and it changes how the neighbors behave
we are on the verge of an era where the human body is a software problem and the update cycle gets shorter everyday
stick around, it's going to get weird
bio/acc
Prof. Max KF Kaufheimer retweeted
AI, robotics, space tech, energy tech.
We hit the vertical part.
We're no longer cruising toward the future. We've strapped ourselves to a rocket that's accelerating exponentially, with each passing second delivering more thrust than the last.
And the craziest part? We're still barely off the launchpad.
AI is accelerating scientific discovery. Those discoveries will enable better AI, more powerful computers, advanced robotics, and entirely new technologies. Each breakthrough will become fuel for the next.
The engines are feeding themselves.
What once took decades will increasingly take years. What took years will take months. Soon, entire generations of technological progress will be compressed into weeks or even days.
And unlike previous technological revolutions, this one is building the very intelligence that will drive the next revolution/s.
We're approaching a world where millions, eventually billions, of artificial scientists and engineers will work around the clock, discovering, inventing, designing, and solving problems at a scale humanity has never experienced.
The biggest mistake is assuming the next ten years will resemble the last ten.
They won't.
The exponential curve doesn't care about our intuition, our expectations, or how quickly society can mentally adapt.
The acceleration is accelerating.
And the world we are heading toward may be almost unrecognizable before this decade is over.
Prof. Max KF Kaufheimer retweeted
fvcking amazing
anthropic bought mithril medicine, a biotech run by one person
the pattern behind it all:
- apr: anthropic buys a <10 person ai bio team for ~$400m
- jun: anthropic says it will run its own drug programs
- oct: openai buys orchestra bio
- oct: anthropic buys a biotech of one
what this means:
- the labs are buying how a team works, not a pipeline
- they're becoming drug developers
- once discovery gets cheap, the hard part is clinical trials and patient data
- that's where the next big startups get built
bio/acc
Surprise 1: Anthropic acquired a one-person biotech
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Surprise 2: that person is me
Surprise 3: I’m here to tell you all about it
Yes, this is what you think it is; after 6 yrs of increasingly loose anonymity: the Professor Oak reveal post
…and yes, it has gotten so boring around here that I’m literally doxxing myself to spice up the timeline
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Ok, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cody Tranbarger. I mostly tweet, but occasionally find time to dabble in drug dev & starting/building biotechs. My past lives span the VC, crossover, startup continuum; Prof Oak has been my way of keeping a digital foot in those worlds, despite having my physical feet planted elsewhere.
The past 18 mo, ‘elsewhere’ was Mithril Medicine, a co. I founded to develop bsAbs for LAMA2-CMD & other ECM-related genetic diseases.
Mithril was born out of hands-on building with @MikeNGladstone, @JasonPaulRhodes, @LifeSciVC, & team @atlasventure. Somehow, I made enough half-decent calls along the way (even a broken clock is right twice a day, eh?) to convince them Mithril/I warranted a small seed. While I can hardly rationalize such an outrageously cavalier bet, I’m grateful for it, & I'd partner with Atlas again in a heartbeat.
In typical AV fashion, Mithril’s primordial form was virtual, decentralized, & ultra-lean. This stage tends to be short-lived, but for Mithril, it worked surprisingly well, for surprisingly long, thanks in part to the rapid maturation of the AI tools I used liberally.
Eventually, Mithril became a bit of an experiment itself - to find the upper bound of how far it could scale as a single operator + a bunch of Claude (+ a stellar bench of part-time consultants).
In parallel, I started spending time with @nc_frey, @an1lam, & @CoefficientBio team; and promptly experienced, for the 1st time, AI at the frontier. Soon thereafter, Mithril stopped looking like an experiment, & started looking like a preview of an entirely new operating model.
From that spark came “Pipeline-in-a-Person.” The idea immediately resonated when we shared it here back in April; and it was central to the shared vision that led to Anthropic’s acquisition of Mithril, & my joining the team.
Why join Anthropic? Three reasons.
(1) For Mithril, the programs continue, with more resources & infrastructure behind them, and as much Claude as I can put to work.
(2) For me, the chance to start several more programs, & find out how many one person can actually run in parallel - an almost unprecedented luxury for a curious drug hunter.
(3) For our mission, a path to institutionalize & scale this new way of working, then put it in the hands of all of biopharma, all over the world - which, candidly, I find the most energizing.
Will AI x Bio cure diseases? Unequivocally yes, imo… but not by the route that gets the most airtime. Rather than timeline acceleration & compression, I see orchestration & parallelization as today's low-hanging fruit.
Most drug hunters see a handful of go/no-go calls in a career, & spend entirely too much of the rest trading emails (my inbox can attest).
Give them the bandwidth to run several programs at once, and the time to focus on scientific judgment, and I’m willing to bet they’ll make better calls. And at scale, better calls translate to more drugs, higher hit rates, broader patient impact, & likely, a disease or 10 or 100 cured. I couldn't be more excited to build toward that future @AnthropicAI.
Finally, a heartfelt thank you to BioTwitter/X. The end of anonymity is bittersweet, but if anyone’s earned a proper introduction, you all have.
It’s difficult to overstate how much this app has done for me: a decade of education, plenty of friends, many job opportunities, several mentors, a few investors, even a co-founder (fmr). It was the generosity of this community that inspired me to start posting 6 years ago, after just as many years lurking. I hope I’ve been able to pay it forward, in my own small way.
But, to be clear, Prof Oak isn’t going anywhere. Same beat, same themes, and now, a front-row seat to drug development at the frontier. Stay tuned for dispatches from the trenches; and remember...
Gotta Cure 'Em All
Prof. Max KF Kaufheimer retweeted
Apparently, Tesla and I have a thing for keeping things simple. 😉🎯 But a flying Tesla? That might even get me excited, Elon. I wouldn’t say no to a test drive! 🚀
Prof. Max KF Kaufheimer retweeted
they just mapped the dna of jonathan the tortoise. 194 years old and still alive
he carries unique variants in most of his aging pathways. nature already solved this, we just have to copy it
science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
Prof. Max KF Kaufheimer retweeted
Claude Code just found proof that every app on your phone is listening to your conversations. TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat. they're using what you say out loud to build your feed. i have the data to prove it.
i've suspected this for months but last week something happened that made me finally check.
i was on a call with my friend and told him i'm thinking about breaking up with my girlfriend. didn't text it. didn't search it. just said it out loud with my phone on the table. two hours later she opens TikTok next to me and her entire feed is breakups. "signs your relationship is over." "how to heal after a breakup." she looked at me and said "why is TikTok showing me this." i said i don't know. but i did know.
i connected my iPhone to my MacBook and ran Claude Code that same night.
it scanned every app's background microphone activity for the last 90 days. not just the apps that asked for microphone permission. apps that were supposed to only have access to photos or location but were activating the microphone anyway.
what it found:
→ TikTok activated the microphone 347 times while the app was "closed" in the background
→ Instagram → 211 background activations
→ Facebook → 189
→ Snapchat → 94
every activation lasted between 3 and 15 seconds. enough to catch a sentence. every one of them tagged a keyword and cached it locally on the phone with a timestamp.
Claude Code pulled the full keyword cache:
→ "breakup" — tagged 4 hours before her feed changed
→ "moving out" — from a conversation with my mom last Tuesday
→ "wedding venue" — from a call with my sister about her engagement that i never searched once
→ "protein powder" — said it out loud to my roommate, had ads for it within an hour
→ "flight to tokyo" — mentioned it at dinner, saw travel ads the same night
those keywords were sitting in a local cache on my phone organized by app with timestamps. TikTok had the most entries. Instagram was second. every single keyword matched a conversation i had out loud near my phone.
the scariest one was "wedding venue." my sister told me she's getting engaged on a private call. i never searched it. never typed it. within a day my explore page had engagement rings and venue tours.
then Claude Code checked a second phone in the same room. my girlfriend's. same keywords. same timestamps. both phones were picking up the same conversation and tagging it independently.
i asked Claude Code how to shut it down. it mapped every app's microphone access and built a permission audit.
what i did:
→ revoked microphone access from every app that doesn't need it to function
→ disabled background app refresh for TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat
→ turned off "Hey Siri" which keeps the microphone in passive listening mode 24/7
→ revoked "nearby interaction" permission which uses ultrasonic audio between devices
Claude Code confirmed all four apps lost background microphone access after the changes. i checked her phone too. same steps. took about 3 minutes per phone.
within 48 hours both our feeds went completely random. generic content. nothing personal. nothing from our conversations. that's when i knew for sure it was real.
the full step by step and the prompt are in the first reply. takes 3 minutes. save it so you don't lose it and send it to anyone who's ever said "my phone is definitely listening to me." it is. now you can prove it and shut it down.
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2 days before, OP claimed to have found spyware on his "wife's phone":
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Now, in this post, he talks about his "girlfriend":
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OP has a history of fake AI content:
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Spyware on "friend's computer": x.com/starmexxx/stat…
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Flagged as AI: x.com/i/grok/share/b…
Prof. Max KF Kaufheimer retweeted
Show me an institution using XRP at scale.If that's not happening, what is Ripple doing to counter the dilution from its XRP holdings?XRP holders have spent years funding Ripple's business. When do XRP holders start seeing a meaningful return from that success?
Prof. Max KF Kaufheimer retweeted
🚨: Quantum experiments reveal time may bend and loop future events might reach back to alter the past itself.
Prof. Max KF Kaufheimer retweeted
All quantum effects will one day be macroscopic and that includes teleportation.
Physicists in Okinawa have floated a diamond about a centimetre wide and pushed it up and down using nothing but the spins of electrons inside it, pumped by pulses of green laser light.
That object is roughly a hundred million times heavier than anything moved by spin force before. So, a quantum force now shows up directly on something heavy enough for gravity to matter.
Prof. Max KF Kaufheimer retweeted
The ROTHSCHILDS have just begun to lose control of the weather.
For 47 years, they have controlled the skies through a network of 22 weather modification stations that could direct hurricanes, droughts, floods, and earthquakes, on demand, to any place on Earth.
The program was called "THRONE CLIMATE" and was funded by a labyrinth of NGOs, carbon credit systems, and "green energy" foundations, all connected to the same family office in Geneva that has controlled European banks since 1815. A few days ago, the last station was disconnected, seized in a military operation involving 6 nations that have never publicly acknowledged working together. The weather is no longer a weapon. For the first time since 1979, the skies belong to no one. Every "natural disaster" of the last 47 years had a signature, a digital fingerprint embedded in the ionosphere that preceded it. HAARP researchers have detected it for decades. They were ridiculed, but they were right about everything: Hurricane Katrina: frequency trace detected 72 hours before impact; The 2010 Haiti earthquake has the same frequency signature, originating from a station in Venezuela; The 2011 earthquake, signature attributed to a flagless ship operating in the Pacific. The ship's registration, obtained via "QFS maritime tracking," belongs to a company conveniently located in the Cayman Islands. The company's sole director: a family trust of the Rothschild family.
They didn't predict disasters, they ordered them. Why control the weather? Because the weather controls everything. Food prices, insurance markets, government stability, migration systems, election outcomes. They didn't need an army. They didn't need murders. They needed rain or drought in the right place at the right time. $4.2 trillion in "natural disaster" damages since 1979. Betting on the destruction they created. Harvesting the suffering they caused. For the first time in half a century, the rain will fall where it should fall.
