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Michio Kaku "number of dead/missing American scientists "cause for natl concern"

https://www.newsweek.com/michio-kaku-dead-missing-scientists-national-concern-11849401
5•fsckboy•1h ago

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fsckboy•1h ago
this list of potential victims is from some of the press about this. there are a bunch of articles about this, I may update the list if it's straightforward [ok, i'm updating, filling in details from https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-investigating-wave-myst... and https://www.newsweek.com/nasa-issues-update-missing-nuclear-...]

Below is a timeline and summary of disappearances and deaths between 2025 and 2026, according to OAN [not sure if some of the update/additions are from OAN]:

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Died: 2022 Amy Eskridge—Scientist reportedly researching anti-gravity technology.

July 30, 2023 - Michael David Hicks—Research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory; worked on the DART Project and Deep Space 1 mission.

July 4, 2024 – Frank Maiwald: The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory researcher died in Los Angeles at age 61, with no cause of death disclosed.

May 4/May 8, 2025 – Anthony Chavez: The former Los Alamos National Laboratory employee vanished.

June 22, 2025 – Monica Reza: Director of Materials Processing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory working on a government‑funded rocket materials project overseen by McCasland [see next entry], this NASA scientist went missing during a hike in the Angeles National Forest, reportedly disappearing just yards from others in her group.

February 27, 2026 – William Neil McCasland: The retired Air Force general left his New Mexico home and has not been seen since. [McCasland also was privy to much UFO data]

June 26, 2025 – Melissa Casias: A Los Alamos administrative assistant disappeared from her residence; her mobile devices had been wiped.

August 28, 2025 - Steven Garcia—Government contractor at the Kansas City National Security Campus in Albuquerque.

December 12, 2025 – Jason Thomas: The Novartis researcher working on cancer treatments went missing, prompting a search that ended when his body was recovered from a lake on March 17, 2026.

December 15, 2025 – Nuno Loureiro: The head of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center was fatally attacked at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. [wasn't that by the disgruntled former classmate of his from 25 yrs ago in Spain? doesn't mean it's not connected but]

February 16, 2026 (August 2025?) – Carl Grillmair: Caltech astrophysicist who worked on NASA’s NEOWISE and NEO Surveyor missions, he was shot on his front porch during the early morning.

Hyprglaze

https://github.com/slastra/hyprglaze
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We train LLMs like dogs, not raise them: RLHF and sycophancy

https://old.reddit.com/r/ControlProblem/comments/1sr0ewp/we_are_training_llms_like_dogs_not_raisi...
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FAA sets records in effort to hire gamers as air traffic controllers

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1•speckx•1m ago•0 comments

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https://theintercept.com/2026/04/21/cia-mexico-deaths-drugs/
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https://statetechmagazine.com/article/2026/04/how-real-time-crime-centers-draw-video-surveillance
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The MACL extended attribute

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/21/the-macl-extended-attribute/
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https://austinpatrick.substack.com/p/what-makes-for-good-research-managers
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1gqq7r8zDo
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Open source Postgres platform with branching

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https://www.limitless.ai/
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https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/14/7/610
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1•rafaelc•8m ago•0 comments

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