It’s especially wild because the more firms he does this to, (1) the weaker his legal arguments, of a specific threat from one firm, become; and (2) the more diluted the threat gets when more and more firms can allege class treatment and form a united defense
leaving the cruelty aside for just a minute it's absolutely humiliating to imagine being my age or older and getting excited because you think you've been given permission to say a bad word. what are you gonna do next, ride your tricycle past the end of the block
it’s me, the america first guy, making sure china knows its place in the world by ceding all the international organizations that america set up to maintain its hegemony
Within a day after Graham and McLellan downloaded the sequence for SARS-CoV-2, they had designed the modified proteins. The key accelerating factor was that they already knew how to alter the spike proteins of other coronaviruses. On January 13th, they turned their scheme over to Moderna, for manufacturing. Six weeks later, Moderna began shipping vials of vaccine for clinical trials. The development process was “an all-time record,” Graham told me. Typically, it takes years, if not decades, to go from formulating a vaccine to making a product ready to be tested: the process privileges safety and cost over speed. Graham had to make several crucial decisions while designing the vaccine, including where to start encoding the spike-protein sequence on the messenger RNA. Making bad choices could render the vaccine less effective—or worthless. He solicited advice from colleagues. Everyone said that the final decisions were up to him—nobody had more experience in designing vaccines. He made his choices. Then, after Moderna had already begun the manufacturing process, the company sent back some preliminary data that made him fear he’d botched the job. Graham panicked. Given his usual composure, Cynthia, his wife, was alarmed. “It was a crisis of confidence that I just never see in him,” she said. So much depended on the prompt development of a safe and effective vaccine. Graham’s lab was off to a fast start. If his vaccine worked, millions of lives might be spared. If it failed or was delayed, it would be Graham’s fault. After the vaccine was tested in animals, it became clear that Graham’s design choices had been sound. The first human trial began on March 16th. A week later, Moderna began scaling up production to a million doses per month.
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let's remember that it was an NIH scientist who designed the core of the Moderna Covid vaccine *over a single weekend*
Yes, we’re hiring another historian! Remote within US only, unfortunately (I do not make the rules). And Mark is correct that we’re interested in hearing from History PhDs!
They did it. They did the funniest thing ever.
Extraordinarily good news: Crystal Mason, the Texas woman who was sentenced to five years in prison in Texas for voting while on probation, was acquitted today!
**Job Posting Alert** (non-academic)
Open Secrets, the premiere, research-oriented non-profit organization for tracking money in politics, is searching for an Executive Director. DMs open. I'm on the BOD.
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Bluesky once they add DMs
Under CEO Linda Yaccarino, X (formerly known as Twitter) has been placing ads for brands like The New York Times Co.'s The Athletic, MLB, the Atlanta Falcons, Sports Illustrated, USA Today, Amazon, and Office Depot on a verified pro-Adolf Hitler account that encourages antisemitic harassment
Line graph time series of 2023's daily global sea ice extent in red shading compared to each year from 1979 to 2022 using shades of purple to white for each line. There is substantial interannual and daily variability. Seasonal cycles are visible.
Oh look, it's me, interrupting your evening with another outrageous climate graph.
Higher resolution available at https://zacklabe.com/global-sea-ice-extent-conc/ 🧪
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Big genius business moves only
HuffPost report by Christopher Mathias that found rising right-wing star Richard Hanania used a pseudonym to post on white supremacist sites.
Alert showing Elon Musk following Richard Hanania just days later.
Elon Musk heard this guy just get outed as a racist who posted on white supremacist websites and decided to follow him
There is no actual definition of democracy compatible with voter suppression of this magnitude
It’s also so that even the applicants don’t necessarily know what agency they’ve applied for/who is adjudicating their clearance until they’re approved.
Hot labor summer is heating up nicely:
BREAKING: The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) has called a strike authorization vote for 1,500 workers who power Broadway and touring shows.
If the union members vote yes a strike could start as soon as Friday morning.
i'm not irony-poisoned i have the exact right amount of irony for my body type
Garbage newspaper wouldn’t call CIA torture torture but
