Matthew Ocko
Venture capitalist (@DCVC). Technologist. Husband-ist. Dad-ist. Friend-ist. Real wood fires, evenings w/ good food, wine & friends, & neat sci-fi. ♥ != endorse
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PALESTINIAN JIHAD (exclusive interviews of terrorists)
The Palestinian Authority is spending a great part of its budget to give stipends to terrorists jailed in Israel. The more Jews they kill, the more money they get.…
Tiny biotechs fear ‘nuclear winter’ from Pelosi drug pricing bill
Washington hasn’t considered how small biotech companies will fare under Pelosi’s drug pricing bill — but CEOs predict a devastating effect on investment.
There’s Growing Evidence That the Universe Is Connected by Giant Structures — VICE
Scientists are finding that galaxies can move with each other across huge distances, and against the predictions of basic cosmological models. The reason why could change everything we think we know about the universe.
Matthew Ocko
Synched up quasars! 🤯😮
Amazing astrophysics on large scale structures *coordinating* galaxy movements across many tens of millions to *billions* of light years (outside basic gravitational influence!)
apple.news/AF9L6ZiZ8RiG_o…
(Courtesy of dark matter, cc @Astropartigirl 😉)
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AI Copernicus ‘discovers’ that Earth orbits the Sun
A neural network that teaches itself the laws of physics could help to solve quantum-mechanics mysteries.
Matthew Ocko
“AI Copernicus ‘discovers’ that Earth orbits the Sun”
go.nature.com/32GLeTh
Very cool work - extracting uniform laws from reams of raw data. In the same way DNN computer vision sees things that humans cannot (eg ultra small defects), “DeepPhysics” may “see” new physical laws
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Chemical & Engineering News Names Frontier Medicines One of its 10 Chemistry Start-Ups to Watch
/PRNewswire/ -- Frontier Medicines announced today that Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), published by the American Chemical Society (ACS), selected the...
Power lines may mess with honeybees’ behavior and ability to learn
Under power lines, honeybees might suffer neurological effects from exposure to electromagnetic fields.
I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score. Now You Can, Too.
Little-known companies are amassing your data — like food orders and Airbnb messages — and selling the analysis to clients. Here’s how to get a copy of what they have on you.
Matthew Ocko
“I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score. Now You Can Get Yours, Too. - The New York Times”
nyti.ms/2PMqgiO
Worth understanding how much of your consumer privacy has been violated, and how it may be being used against you
13h
Twitter Video Downloader - Download twitter videos & GIF Online
Twitter video downloader is an online tool to download twitter videos & GIF which are embedded in tweets. Save any video from twitter. It's free, fast & easy to use.
Ebola vaccine approved in Europe, in landmark moment for global health
The European Commission granted marketing authorization to Merck’s vaccine, giving the world for the first time an approved vaccine against Ebola.
A revolution that moved faster than Twitter
In 1989, there was no text messaging or Twitter. But that didn't stop resistance members from quickly spreading the word
Survey
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Want to nudge @twitter & @jack to take responsibility for malicious #deepfake content? Instead of just ineffectually labeling it?
Take this survey (h/t @sarahintampa & @techcrunch)
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¿Qué pasa en Bolivia? ¿Hubo golpe de estado?
Por Pablo Solón in english 1) Evo Morales hubiera terminado su tercer mandato el 22 de enero del 2020 con gran popularidad y con la posibilidad de presentarse, e incluso ganar, las elecciones del 2…
Why America isn’t equipped for the new rules of war
“They’re all doing it: Russia, China, Iran … They’re all fighting these things called shadow wars, and they’re very effective,” says an ex-paratrooper and academic.
How Russia Meddles Abroad for Profit: Cash, Trolls and a Cult Leader
Madagascar has little obvious strategic value for the Kremlin or the global balance of power. But Russians were there during an election, offering bribes, spreading disinformation and recruiting an apocalyptic cult leader.
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Matthew Ocko
“Facebook Staff Lamented `Unethical' Practices But Were Rebuffed - Bloomberg”
bloom.bg/36T98OM
Read the article, and the huge document cache, and draw your own conclusions
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Fort Worth veteran, 96, fought Nazis in World War II, then designed military planes
Clarence Hart, 96, was 21 when he shipped to Normandy with other men to free oppressed and imprisoned citizens in France and Germany. He also had a nearly 40-year career designing military planes for General Dynamics.
Turkey's president says all he wants is same powers as Hitler
In a world first, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan uses Hitler's Germany as a positive role model for his constitutional reforms
Kaiser Permanente Chairman, CEO Bernard Tyson dies
The chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente has unexpectedly died, according to Kaiser officials.