@msnbc.com reporter at the 1:15 mark.
“The chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles sheriff’s department.” #nokings
Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects **82 million** fewer years of life.”
In the US alone.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Nope! More large vehicles to fuck up the roads
Notice how the birdsong is louder than the crowd
Instead, the Army's 250th birthday been hijacked and eclipsed by a megalomaniac. And that genuinely sucks, in ways that maybe hadn't entirely registered until right now. It's not fair
And there's been bravery worth celebrating. There's been heroism and camaraderie in the Army even as our politicians sent us into shit situations for shit reasons
The Army has traditions worth celebrating
We have spent decades fighting garbage wars that leveled countries and killed at least a million. That's on the politicians. People mostly join the Army to escape a bad situation, go to college, and/or because they believe in the goodness of America
I love that a politician can say something like “I believe mice naturally spawn out of grain” and the news will now just treat that as a legitimate line of thought
Moving forward, there are already other - and better and, hey, transparent - initiatives as it comes to sharing critical data: NCBI, of course, which should be used by _all_ tax-payer funded research, but also @pathoplexus.org, which should become the replacement for GISAID - and I'm sure it will.
You might be wondering why we haven't updated outbreak.info for months.
Well, the reason is that GISAID cut our access in January - as they did others. Without telling us.
After a ♾️ back and forth, that is now permanent.
More on that soon - and why GISAID should not be trusted with critical data.
Glad that both sides of the aisle could come together and agree on the Corruption Is Good Act.
NEW: Whistleblower records show that the NIH axed research grants – even after a federal judge blocked the cuts with an injunction.
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i think the biggest public relations coup AI boosters scored was calling it “AI.” people genuinely think it is an intelligence, and that when they query it, it is providing reasoned answers
LLMs don't "experience" their training in the way that a creature does, they don't have"memories" of it. So there's no particular reason to believe what they say about it.
Tweet from Charlie Spiering @charliespiering: "Photos show Mike Waltz literally checking Signal during the cabinet meeting (via Reuters)" UNderneath is a zoomed in picture of a phone with the chats open. You can see chats with Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff, Tulsi Gabbard, JD Vance, someone whose last name ends with "cheidt," and a group chat labeled "NSC Scheduling." You can see You can see that JD Vance's chat has a text saying "I have confirmation from my counterpart it's turned off. He is going to be here..."
Honestly this is just incredible content.
@thelibrariancat.bsky.social
Pretty clearly what happened here is news orgs didn’t hit this very hard 10d ago because they thought the WH was offering some sort of gang intelligence analysis by superimposing text on the man’s tattoos, but that’s not what it was to Trump. bsky.app/profile/esgh...
@drbecky.bsky.social
I have a joke about writing centers, but first I'd like to get a sense of the assignment. Did your instructor provide a rubric or a set of guidelines? Your voice pops in this first paragraph and I can tell just how much you care about writing-based comedy. As a reader--
It’s an awful case in a lot of ways, holding that the Fugitive Slave Act precluded a PA law protecting black residents from being taken out of the state into slavery.
But it established the principle that states and local magistrates don’t have to cooperate with federal law enforcement.
This is a very significant development — for these cases, for the AEA implementation efforts more generally, for Sauer’s credibility at SCOTUS, and for the administration’s legal standing before the courts.
This is my brush. A basket of tortilla chips. This is my paint. A dish of salsa. This is my canvas. A shirt.
Meme of the day
Tweet from David Woodruff @dmwoodruff.bsky.social A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they're going to arrest all camels. Q: But you're foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don't *you* try proving to the NKVD that you're not a camel. Under that: Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.so... 3d If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
Tariffs xkcd.com/3073
Glad to see the Fourth Circuit is reading Professor Vladeck.
The fundamental epistemology of the far-right is "I'm ignorant of this basic fact that is widely known, assume my ignorance means they're trying to hide something from me, and that they're trying to hide this from me means it's all a conspiracy."
And then, to Israel:
"Again and again the students were warned that the Holocaust meant that they must stay in Israel. They were not warned that the Holocaust requires them to strengthen democracy, fight racism, defend minorities and civil rights, and refuse to obey manifestly illegal orders."
Revised National Parks Webpage Describes Harriet Tubman As Human Trafficker
Among cuts at HHS: most of the workers at NIOSH, incl Pittsburgh national lab that approves and ensures continued quality of respirators - N95s + breathing devices for firefighters, miners, people working w chemicals, construction dust. “Nothing is happening to make sure they continue to be safe”
The Onion newspaper from Tuesday 10/22/1929. Top headline reads: "Stock Market Invincible: 'Buy, Buy, Buy' Experts Advise"
theonion.com/october-22-1...
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