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Brandon Whitcher
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Statistician, craft beer fanatic, medical image analysis, early-phase drug development, data scientist, R/Python programmer
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 13h
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says most white-collar work "will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months.”

If that’s true, it’s an economic earthquake.

We need a moratorium on new AI data centers to make sure AI works for workers, not just billionaires.

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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 23h
“My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. They are restless and seek relief.”
— Jessie Jackson www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...
Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Leader Who Sought the Presidency, Dies at 84
www.nytimes.com

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NPR @npr.org · 1d
Duvall appeared in over 90 films over the course of his career, imbuing stock Hollywood types — cowboys, cops, soldiers — with a nuanced sense of vulnerability. n.pr/4rUDvwW
Actor Robert Duvall has died — he brought a compassionate center to edgy hard roles
Duvall appeared in over 90 films over the course of his career, imbuing stock Hollywood types — cowboys, cops, soldiers — with a nuanced sense of vulnerability.
n.pr

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 1d
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning!"
RIP Robert Duvall

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d
Is Ted Cruz a pair of $800 Ferragamo boat shoes? Because Tucker Carlson OWNED him

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d
The Winter Olympics is a dazzling spectacle – but on the ground in Italy the mood is darker | Jamie Mackay
The Winter Olympics is a dazzling spectacle – but on the ground in Italy the mood is darker | Jamie Mackay
The Games could have showcased Milan’s abundant culture and architecture. Instead it has filled the city with gaudy pavilions and gentrification, says writer and translator Jamie Mackay
www.theguardian.com

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 5d
Jim Ratcliffe has issued a statement saying he's very sorry if people don’t like the fact that he’s a racist twat.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d
Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong
Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong
For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?
www.theguardian.com

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 6d
An Olympian mildly criticizes the U.S.? Un-American. Trump calls America "disgusting"? All good!

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 8d
Great news. MPs should also pay attention to our campaigns:

● Remove the 26 bishops

Religious office should not grant automatic voting rights in a parliamentary democracy.

● Scrap parliamentary prayers

Attending prayers should not to provide speaking advantages🧵
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Lords reform to be tackled by new group of MPs. After the observer raised the alarm, a new group aims to address filibustering and how to strip disgraced peers of their titles more quickly

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Brandon Whitcher @whitcher.bsky.social · 15d
In this study, we segment the heart, aorta, and vena cava from abdominal MRI scans using deep learning. We generate six image-derived phenotypes: heart volume, four aortic and one vena cava cross-sectional areas, from 44,541 UK Biobank participants…

www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Cardiovascular measures from abdominal MRI provide insights into abdominal vessel genetic architecture - Communications Medicine
Basty and Sorokin et al. use deep learning to analyze abdominal MRI from 44,541 UK Biobank participants. They define six cardiovascular traits linked to aneurysm and broader cardiovascular risk, with ...
www.nature.com

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 16d
ICE is no longer an immigration enforcement agency. It has become Trump’s domestic army.

If my “conservative” colleagues truly believe in small government, they should join us in demanding an end to masked federal agents terrorizing communities across this country.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19d
Trump Asks Nicki Minaj To Explain Eating Ass https://theonion.com/trump-asks-nicki-minaj-to-explain-eating-ass/
Trump Asks Nicki Minaj To Explain Eating Ass

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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 21d
Here is a cartoon about the heatwave and are we allowed to blame anyone for it. Also Gina Rinehart's turtle. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s getting hotter thanks to climate change. Seriously though what will it take? | First Dog on the Moon
What if we started holding the government accountable
www.theguardian.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21d
REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 24d
This is an actual post from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: Praising ICE after Alex Pretti was killed, blaming the Democratic leadership of Minnesota, and writing that ICE is greater/better than Minnesota.

He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.
Pete Hegseth praises ICE while demeaning the people of Minnesota

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · Jan 13
President Trump is rapidly moving this country toward authoritarianism.

Part of that is creating the myth of the “Great Leader” by naming public buildings after himself—something dictators have done.

Today I introduced a bill with @vanhollen.senate.gov & @alsobrooks.senate.gov to stop it.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Jan 12
Donald Trump called me today.

It's long past time to deliver lower costs for working people.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · Jan 8
Don’t ask Trump why we need Greenland, we just do

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · Jan 8
After viewing the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota- he then proceeds to lie about EVERYTHING in it, aside from the fact that it is, indeed, "a horrible thing to watch."

#25thAmendmentNOW

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Jan 8
American families are getting flattened under sky-high costs for just about everything — groceries, rent, health care.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump's focused on making his gold-encrusted ballroom even taller.
Trump plans to make his ballroom addition as tall as the White House itself
The president’s architect disclosed the change as federal review panels begin a fast-track review of the $400 million project.
www.washingtonpost.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · Jan 8
DHS Warns Any Action By Americans Will Be Treated As Domestic Terrorism https://theonion.com/dhs-warns-any-action-by-americans-will-be-treated-as-domestic-terrorism/
DHS Warns Any Action By Americans Will Be Treated As Domestic Terrorism

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Jan 6
Don't let this Jan 6th point get lost:

Jack Smith testified to Congress he had "proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election."

In other words, he could prove in court that Trump attempted a coup.

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · Jan 4
This chart shows the total number of Stack Overflow questions asked each month. As you can see, AI summaries in Google and AI coding tools have nearly killed the site. It is only a matter of time before the site shuts down completely. The golden age of independent web is over.
This result shows s the total number of Stack Overflow questions asked each month. THE SQL query is https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph: ``` SELECT DATEFROMPARTS(YEAR(CreationDate), MONTH(CreationDate), 1) AS [Month], COUNT(*) AS [Questions] FROM Posts WHERE PostTypeId = 1 GROUP BY DATEFROMPARTS(YEAR(CreationDate), MONTH(CreationDate), 1) ORDER BY [Month] ASC ```

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · Dec 29
Since 1975, $79 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1% — a 1% that now owns more wealth than the bottom 93%.

We can respect innovation & entrepreneurship, but we cannot respect the extraordinary greed that now exists.

We need a wealth tax.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Dec 27
US capitalism casts millions of citizens aside, yet Badenoch and Farage still laud it | Phillip Inman
US capitalism casts millions of citizens aside, yet Badenoch and Farage still laud it | Phillip Inman
Rightwing parties want to follow in US’s footsteps of minimal government intervention, but at what cost?
www.theguardian.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Dec 27
South Park called it, and it’s hilarious.

One of the creators purchased the Trump Kennedy Center URL address before the name was even changed because they know Trump’s narcissism is in the driver’s seat.

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NPR @npr.org · Dec 25
Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history.
We caught up with one of the kids who sang on 'A Charlie Brown Christmas.' He's 72 now
Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history.
n.pr

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · Dec 24
Articles on net zero used to always explain the scientific background. But not anymore.
We analysed 73,000 articles and found the UK media is divorcing ‘climate change’ from net zero
Articles on net zero used to always explain the scientific background. But not anymore.
tcnv.link

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Dec 22
Big tech companies like Amazon and Meta may be passing the costs of building and operating their data centers on to YOU.

That’s right. You could be bankrolling the electricity costs of trillion-dollar tech companies.

I'm launching an investigation.