Andrea
@downing.bsky.social
Co-founder of The Light Collective
www.lightcollective.org
Security Researcher
Health Infosec
Views are my own.
www.lightcollective.org
Security Researcher
Health Infosec
Views are my own.
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We are incredibly grateful for the community we have created - it's time to say goodbye to our regularly scheduled chats. With ❤️, the #BTSM chats co-founder & organizer team @thelizarmy.bsky.social @sabine-nj.bsky.social @mcintose.bsky.social @shawncarey42.bsky.social @stuartselby.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
We are incredibly grateful for the community we have created - it's time to say goodbye to our regularly scheduled chats. With ❤️, the #BTSM chats co-founder & organizer team @thelizarmy.bsky.social @sabine-nj.bsky.social @mcintose.bsky.social @shawncarey42.bsky.social @stuartselby.bsky.social
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And this great article in @statnews.com:
"An advocate who offered a window on the experience of living with brain cancer dies at 43"
www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/a...
"An advocate who offered a window on the experience of living with brain cancer dies at 43"
www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/a...
An advocate who offered a window on the experience of living with brain cancer dies at 43
Adam Hayden, a patient advocate and the subject of an earlier profile in STAT, has died at age 43.
www.statnews.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
And this great article in @statnews.com:
"An advocate who offered a window on the experience of living with brain cancer dies at 43"
www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/a...
"An advocate who offered a window on the experience of living with brain cancer dies at 43"
www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/a...
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Historians will count the children harmed by the US State Department in 2025 as among this administration’s greatest atrocities
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/h...
How Cameroon Fought to Save Its Malaria Program After the U.S. Cut Critical Funding
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Historians will count the children harmed by the US State Department in 2025 as among this administration’s greatest atrocities
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/h...
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👇🏽The Justice Department posted the new documents, totaling about 3,900 files, on its website on Friday.
They can be accessed here, under the section labeled "Epstein Files Transparency Act."
www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-...
They can be accessed here, under the section labeled "Epstein Files Transparency Act."
www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-...
DOJ Disclosures
www.justice.gov
December 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
👇🏽The Justice Department posted the new documents, totaling about 3,900 files, on its website on Friday.
They can be accessed here, under the section labeled "Epstein Files Transparency Act."
www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-...
They can be accessed here, under the section labeled "Epstein Files Transparency Act."
www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-...
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This and the people who become overnight experts to profit from every techno-optimist trend/hype: same STRONG grifter vibes.
May 2026 allow more spaces to listen and learn from technologists, lawyers, activists, and social workers with proven expertise and sideline marketing/PR profit chasers 🤞
May 2026 allow more spaces to listen and learn from technologists, lawyers, activists, and social workers with proven expertise and sideline marketing/PR profit chasers 🤞
So, an agency that wants to run ads for gambling funded Australia’s (terrible, misguided, authoritarian) campaign to ban teens from social media because now the government is abandoning a plan to ban gambling ads citing the age verification law as a rationale www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/12/p...
Teen social media ban lobby group 36 Months funded and co-staffed by firm making gambling ads
The revelation comes as the government is expected to abandon plans for an online gambling ad ban, using the teen social media ban as cover.
www.crikey.com.au
December 15, 2025 at 2:35 AM
This and the people who become overnight experts to profit from every techno-optimist trend/hype: same STRONG grifter vibes.
May 2026 allow more spaces to listen and learn from technologists, lawyers, activists, and social workers with proven expertise and sideline marketing/PR profit chasers 🤞
May 2026 allow more spaces to listen and learn from technologists, lawyers, activists, and social workers with proven expertise and sideline marketing/PR profit chasers 🤞
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Oracle says 57% of its $523B backlog comes from OpenAI, projecting $74B losses by 2028. Nvidia invests $100B, OpenAI commits $300B to Oracle, Oracle buys Nvidia chips, a $610B circular flow. In the dotcom bubble Lucent collapsed at 24% vendor financing; Nvidia’s exposure is 67%.
December 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Oracle says 57% of its $523B backlog comes from OpenAI, projecting $74B losses by 2028. Nvidia invests $100B, OpenAI commits $300B to Oracle, Oracle buys Nvidia chips, a $610B circular flow. In the dotcom bubble Lucent collapsed at 24% vendor financing; Nvidia’s exposure is 67%.
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In the latest Situation Report, we highlight ongoing policy changes regarding Medicaid work requirements, the future of the children’s vaccine schedule, and fewer grants being awarded from the NIH and NSF leading to less research: academyhealth.org/blog/2025-12...
December 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
In the latest Situation Report, we highlight ongoing policy changes regarding Medicaid work requirements, the future of the children’s vaccine schedule, and fewer grants being awarded from the NIH and NSF leading to less research: academyhealth.org/blog/2025-12...
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what if fda focused more on getting publicity for this?
Faulty glucose monitors linked to 7 deaths and more than 700 injuries, FDA warns www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/a...
Faulty glucose monitors linked to 7 deaths and more than 700 injuries, FDA warns
The FDA is warning people to stop using certain types of glucose monitor sensors after Abbott Diabetes Care said their devices were linked to seven deaths and more than 700 injuries.
www.statnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:38 AM
what if fda focused more on getting publicity for this?
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‼️An AI-generated country song just hit #1 on Billboard's country digital sales chart.
The catch? The vocal style belongs to Blanco Brown, a real Black artist who had no idea his sound was being cloned until friends started texting him!!
🎧 Listen in! What do you think?
youtu.be/OU71XDWYeIk?...
The catch? The vocal style belongs to Blanco Brown, a real Black artist who had no idea his sound was being cloned until friends started texting him!!
🎧 Listen in! What do you think?
youtu.be/OU71XDWYeIk?...
Breaking Rust - Walk My Walk (Lyrics)
YouTube video by BangersOnly
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
‼️An AI-generated country song just hit #1 on Billboard's country digital sales chart.
The catch? The vocal style belongs to Blanco Brown, a real Black artist who had no idea his sound was being cloned until friends started texting him!!
🎧 Listen in! What do you think?
youtu.be/OU71XDWYeIk?...
The catch? The vocal style belongs to Blanco Brown, a real Black artist who had no idea his sound was being cloned until friends started texting him!!
🎧 Listen in! What do you think?
youtu.be/OU71XDWYeIk?...
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In the digital era, we've been fighting -- and, for the most part, losing -- many battles about privacy, but none may be more important than the current one for our neural data.
@downing.bsky.social @healthblawg.bsky.social @fredtrotter.bsky.social
kimbellard.medium.com/if-you-could...
@downing.bsky.social @healthblawg.bsky.social @fredtrotter.bsky.social
kimbellard.medium.com/if-you-could...
If You Could Read My Mind — Wait, You Can?
Over the years, one area of tech/health tech I have avoided writing about are brain-computer interfaces (B.C.I.). In part, it was because…
kimbellard.medium.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
In the digital era, we've been fighting -- and, for the most part, losing -- many battles about privacy, but none may be more important than the current one for our neural data.
@downing.bsky.social @healthblawg.bsky.social @fredtrotter.bsky.social
kimbellard.medium.com/if-you-could...
@downing.bsky.social @healthblawg.bsky.social @fredtrotter.bsky.social
kimbellard.medium.com/if-you-could...
Please please let me see the aurora tonight. 🙏
I have wanted to see it my whole life.
I have wanted to see it my whole life.
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Please please let me see the aurora tonight. 🙏
I have wanted to see it my whole life.
I have wanted to see it my whole life.
Hey excuse me it’s #InternationalDogDay.
August 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Hey excuse me it’s #InternationalDogDay.
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Microsoft AI CEO Warns That 'Dangerous' and 'Seemingly Conscious' AI Models could cause people to become disconnected from reality.
www.entrepreneur.com/business-new...
www.entrepreneur.com/business-new...
Microsoft AI CEO: Dangerous, Seemingly Conscious AI Is Close | Entrepreneur
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, 41, warned in a personal essay published earlier this week that AI could one day appear to be conscious, posing a danger to society.
www.entrepreneur.com
August 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Microsoft AI CEO Warns That 'Dangerous' and 'Seemingly Conscious' AI Models could cause people to become disconnected from reality.
www.entrepreneur.com/business-new...
www.entrepreneur.com/business-new...
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I was at the airport a month ago & saw a self-driving wheelchair.
Maybe when all the jobs that people used to do are done by AI, we’ll give everyone UBI & free healthcare.
I wonder if I’ll see it before I’m old enough to be in one of these.
We could do it now.
We could do so much more for people now
Maybe when all the jobs that people used to do are done by AI, we’ll give everyone UBI & free healthcare.
I wonder if I’ll see it before I’m old enough to be in one of these.
We could do it now.
We could do so much more for people now
June 2, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I was at the airport a month ago & saw a self-driving wheelchair.
Maybe when all the jobs that people used to do are done by AI, we’ll give everyone UBI & free healthcare.
I wonder if I’ll see it before I’m old enough to be in one of these.
We could do it now.
We could do so much more for people now
Maybe when all the jobs that people used to do are done by AI, we’ll give everyone UBI & free healthcare.
I wonder if I’ll see it before I’m old enough to be in one of these.
We could do it now.
We could do so much more for people now
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Presenting at #ASCO25 today!
I was expecting to find evidence that oncologists prefer more-lucrative treatments, and was surprised by our results! Clinical benefit matters, drug profit did not.
Cc @dusetzinas.bsky.social
I was expecting to find evidence that oncologists prefer more-lucrative treatments, and was surprised by our results! Clinical benefit matters, drug profit did not.
Cc @dusetzinas.bsky.social
May 31, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Presenting at #ASCO25 today!
I was expecting to find evidence that oncologists prefer more-lucrative treatments, and was surprised by our results! Clinical benefit matters, drug profit did not.
Cc @dusetzinas.bsky.social
I was expecting to find evidence that oncologists prefer more-lucrative treatments, and was surprised by our results! Clinical benefit matters, drug profit did not.
Cc @dusetzinas.bsky.social
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Patients > Profits
THIS abstract at #ASCO25 gives me so much hope!!
Way to go @thewonkologist.bsky.social @ascocancer.bsky.social 👊🏽
THIS abstract at #ASCO25 gives me so much hope!!
Way to go @thewonkologist.bsky.social @ascocancer.bsky.social 👊🏽
Presenting at #ASCO25 today!
I was expecting to find evidence that oncologists prefer more-lucrative treatments, and was surprised by our results! Clinical benefit matters, drug profit did not.
Cc @dusetzinas.bsky.social
I was expecting to find evidence that oncologists prefer more-lucrative treatments, and was surprised by our results! Clinical benefit matters, drug profit did not.
Cc @dusetzinas.bsky.social
June 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Patients > Profits
THIS abstract at #ASCO25 gives me so much hope!!
Way to go @thewonkologist.bsky.social @ascocancer.bsky.social 👊🏽
THIS abstract at #ASCO25 gives me so much hope!!
Way to go @thewonkologist.bsky.social @ascocancer.bsky.social 👊🏽
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"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up"
~Jesse Jackson
~Jesse Jackson
May 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up"
~Jesse Jackson
~Jesse Jackson
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✅ Tell the truth.
Rebuilding trust starts—and ends—with honesty.
When trust is broken, patients need transparency more than anything else: an honest acknowledgment of what went wrong, why it happened, and what will be done to prevent it from happening again.
#HealthXPh #medsky
Rebuilding trust starts—and ends—with honesty.
When trust is broken, patients need transparency more than anything else: an honest acknowledgment of what went wrong, why it happened, and what will be done to prevent it from happening again.
#HealthXPh #medsky
Let's go to T3. #healthxph
I think this is the most difficult question.
I think this is the most difficult question.
May 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
✅ Tell the truth.
Rebuilding trust starts—and ends—with honesty.
When trust is broken, patients need transparency more than anything else: an honest acknowledgment of what went wrong, why it happened, and what will be done to prevent it from happening again.
#HealthXPh #medsky
Rebuilding trust starts—and ends—with honesty.
When trust is broken, patients need transparency more than anything else: an honest acknowledgment of what went wrong, why it happened, and what will be done to prevent it from happening again.
#HealthXPh #medsky
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Reed Jobs, founder & investor, Yosemite
#STATBreakthrough
#STATBreakthrough
May 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Reed Jobs, founder & investor, Yosemite
#STATBreakthrough
#STATBreakthrough