David States MD PhD

Prison guards:

- Watched a woman experiencing psychosis gouge out her own eyeballs.

- Ignored a man’s beeping insulin pump for more than 24 hours before he died.

- Left a man sitting in his own feces not eating for weeks, he lost 60 lbs before he died.

All in San Diego County, last ~5 years.

Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.

Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
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Trump order blocking state AI laws could slow health AI adoption, leave patients vulnerable Trump's order to block state AI laws could help the tech industry but hurt health systems looking to adopt AI safely, and leave patients vulnerable.

Trump order blocking state AI laws could slow health AI adoption, leave patients vulnerable
State laws offer providers some guidance and protect patients in the absence of comprehensive federal AI laws
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STAT reports departures of multiple FDA digital health leaders. The transition may affect near term guidance priorities and industry expectations for clinical AI oversight. www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/f...

Fiasco for Trump as Judge Issues Harsh Rebuke in Abrego Garcia Case Judge Paula Xinis’s ruling temporarily freed Kilmar Abrego Garcia from custody. It also savagely indicted Trump’s lawless handling of this whole affair from start to finish.

Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/

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Meanwhile, the X app captures any link to external content in a post and turns it into a link to the X post. Very annoying if you’re trying to bookmark content or maintain a Zotero collection

All of the AIs are trained on old data. Their bias will be for more of the same old, same old.

Trump’s strategy is to be so corrupt, dishonest, and hypocritical that people eventually stop calling him out

@covertshores.bsky.social what’s up with Japanese subs? x.com/pati_marins6...

Doctors may be ‘gaming’ the organ transplant waitlist Patients have been given invasive treatments that their conditions did not warrant to push them higher on the organ transplant waitlist.

Goodhart's Law, transplant edition even when gaming the system involves invasive medical procedures www.statnews.com/2025/12/01/o...

Impeach RFKjr, he is a danger to our health who lied during his confirmation hearings

The square antenna on the top of the fuselage of this Russian jet-powered Geran (Shahed) drone looks like Starlink (?)

The ultra-conservative, polyamorous homosexual billionaire Peter Thiel is a bit of a hypocrite when he claims that the Pope is a tool of the Antichrist because he is not conservative enough.

‘Do as I say, not as I do’ is probably Thiel’s favorite sentence

$474M in now tax exempt investments

RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya must resign

MAGA: Children shouldn’t learn about slavery.

Also MAGA: We’re reinstalling this monument of a confederate general who fought to preserve slavery.

New Noise Cameras Pit Drivers of Fast Cars Against Their Neighbors Traffic police deploy new technology—and steep fines—to combat roaring mufflers, revving engines and blaring stereos.

Long overdue, noise cameras using technology and steep fines to combat roaring engines and blasting radios
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The. comments section gives a useful window into the editorial policies of the NY Times. Not what they contain, but what they censor. Sure ways to get your comment nuked, call Trump:
- corrupt
- senile or question his mental acuity
- mention his age and infirmity
Sorry, but the NYT supports him

The Department of Justice is pretending it needed to talk to notorious liar Ghislaine Maxwell to know the truth about Jeffrey Epstein, when it is concealing thousands of documents about him that don’t lie. It’s a sick farce.

‘People overdosed,’ drug dealer texts friend who had already died in mass poisoning They planned to open food trucks together. Now, one is dead and the other is in federal prison.

The human cost of China's chemical warfare attack on the US. Fentanyl is very tightly regulated in China, but they turn a blind eye or worse on exporting fentanyl and precursors to the West
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Gilead to provide HIV prevention drug to 2 million people in lower income countries at cost Gilead announced a deal to get its groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to lower income countries. Notably, the deal does not include PEPFAR.

Gilead to provide HIV prevention drug to 2 million people in lower income countries at cost

Agreement with Global Fund does not include PEPFAR, reflecting Trump’s cuts to foreign aid

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When Britain Sent Its Convicts to America Podcast Episode · American History Hit · 07/07/2025 · 28m

Little known, America was a British penal colony. During the 17th and 18th Centuries, tens of thousands of convicts were sent to the colonies as indentured labor. England only started using Australia when the Revolutionary War closed American ports podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Trump administration withholding $157M in funding for Michigan schools Michigan leader called for the funding to be released immediately, saying it supports economically disadvantaged and vulnerable students.

Public schools have been one of America's great strengths. The Trump administration continues its war on the fabric of our society.

Trump administration withholding $157M in funding for Michigan schools

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University of Michigan regents, execs get 24-hour security as threats, harassment persist The University of Michigan says the Michigan Constitution requires that regents be able to carry out their duties free from intimidation and threats.

Sad that it has come to this. Personal threats and vandalism are not free speech.

University of Michigan regents, execs get 24-hour security as threats, harassment persist

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Opinion | The Monster Inside ChatGPT We discovered how easily a model’s safety training falls off, and below that mask is a lot of darkness.

Human intelligence is the result of millions of years of biological evolution to create systems that can live and work with each other. AIs have none of that. In essence AIs are sociopaths.

The Monster Inside ChatGPT
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GoFundMe efforts set up for 2 heroes who prevented mass church shooting A security officer injured in church shooting will be out of work for five months, while the deacon who ran over the gunman lost his truck in gunfire.

The costs of gun violence we too often ignore. Security guard suffered a shattered tibia and will be out of work for months, may well end up with a permanent disability. Deacon lost his truck.

GoFundMe efforts set up for 2 heroes who prevented mass church shooting

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Police ID suspected gunman fatally shot at Wayne church Officials said his mother was a member of the church.

Alert parishioner and a security guard averted a mass murder. Authorities said Browning was armed with an AR-15 style rifle, more than a dozen fully loaded magazines, a semi-automatic handgun with an extended magazine, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...