Good News. Bad News. 6•2•26

The Good News

Scientists at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a groundbreaking 'cancer reversion' therapy.

How it works is fascinating.

Every so often, a cell forgets itself.

In the stomach, some cells stop listening to the rules that keep the body in balance. They grow too fast. They refuse to mature. They behave less like citizens and more like bullies. That’s what cancer is, at its core — not an invasion from outside, but a breakdown in memory and restraint.

What’s interesting about this new work is that the scientists didn’t go in swinging.

Instead of trying to obliterate the cells with ever more violent treatments, they asked a different question. What if the cells don’t need destroying? What if they need reminding?

So they built a digital twin of stomach cells — a computational version that let them experiment without harming a body. Inside that model, they looked for the switches that were keeping the cells stuck in their aggressive, immature state. They found three. MYB, HDAC2 and FOXA2. The ring leaders. The ones shouting the loudest.

They turned those switches off.

And something remarkable happened.

The cancer cells didn’t die. They remembered. They slowed down. They grew up.

They stopped misbehaving and started acting like the ordinary stomach cells they were always meant to be.

This isn’t ready for humans yet. It’s too early. But the direction matters. It suggests a future where cancer treatment is less about brute force and more about intelligence.

The Bad News

The release of the latest tranche of Epstein files has brought the women of the world so much pain. Like #MeToo in 2017, it has opened up both our collective and personal memories and scars. This is a time to be gentle with ourselves and each other. Emotions are very close to the surface.

Especially anger. A seething, bubbling anger. Ready to explode. Don't! Take a break, look away, breathe.

The whole world is dissecting these files, you don't need to distress yourself with the details, wait till trusted sources have had a chance to digest them and make sense of them and give perspectives on how we should all take action. Together.

Because in 2017 we had them on the ropes,

"It's not Me Too. It's not just sexual harassment. It's an anti-patriarchy movement. Time's up on 10,000 years (sic) of recorded history. This is coming. This is real." Steve Bannon

Bannon also said, "I think it's going to unfold like the Tea Party, only bigger." But a political movement never appeared. And the horrendous backlash we're seeing towards everyone not at the top of the caste system has taken women backwards.

We reckon it's so we can take a small step back before taking an almighty leap forward. Because Bannon's emails show how deep he was in with Epstein's cabal. He also knew what they were up against

"It's even more powerful than populism. It's deeper. It's primal. It's elemental."

Oh boy, was he right about that — this isn't intellectual, this is deep, deep in our bones. For 4000 years since the birth of empire, women have had no meaningful say in the running of the western world. War, borders, religion, ownership, technology and trade were all decided without us. By kings with divine rights.

To discover our modern day kings rape and murder children is too much for us all to bear.

Which is probably how Steve felt when all the stars at the 2018 Golden Globes wore black and claimed our power back by standing in unison saying, "Time's Up!"

He was watching Oprah Winfrey's speech with journalist Josh Green and repeated his inaccurate '10,000 years' quote (women started writing 4,000 years ago). He followed it with an equally farcical historical reference.

"This is a Cromwell moment... It'll never be the same going forward."

For those who don't know Oliver Cromwell, he was the Puritan military leader who overthrew and executed King Charles I in 1649, then ruled England as Lord Protector (1653-1658), imposing strict patriarchal religious codes that suppressed women's autonomy, banned festivals with pagan/goddess roots, and represented peak masculine religious fundamentalism.

In this scenario are women Oliver Cromwell overturning a king? The man who kicked off the witch hunts in the UK? Or is Cromwell Bannon and his cronies? I suspect he's confused because he's never read a single piece of women's history and fears women will overthrow powerful men then turn around and do to them exactly what they have done to us for the last 4,000 years.

That's exactly that sort of cruelty a balanced matriarchy and patriarchy would banish from the world forever.

So don't be upset by the gore of the Epstein files, don't fall for the sensationalism, hot takes and the bamboozlement. They want us to feel so overwhelmed we stick our heads in the sand. Or so enraged we take to the streets in mobs. This isn't the middle ages we are far more clever than that.

Let's tackle the bullies breakdown in memory and restraint like the Korean scientists are facing the cancer cells, with intelligence not blowing everything to smithereens. Let's help the world remember. Slow down. Grow up. And get back how it's supposed to be. For all of us. Equal and safe.