Star Trek Voyager scene. We see a small, lone shuttlecraft fllying through a cloudy sky. Closed caption reads, "(screaming)"
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Star Trek Voyager scene. We see a small, lone shuttlecraft fllying through a cloudy sky. Closed caption reads, "(screaming)"
In non-everything-is-going-to-hell-news, I will always find it hilarious how so much of the NYC mayoral race coverage was like "Will a Mayor Mamdani nationalize the means of production and institute a dictatorship of the proletariat" and the reality is "We'll make walking down the sidewalk better."
Yeah, exactly. The email job lives at the head of an ancient chain of “I gotta get the fuck outta here”.
Links 3/6/26
Links for you. Science: The Scientists Groveling to Trump Are Kidding Themselves. The government has pulled back from massive cuts to the NIH, but it’s still destroying scientific research. So why are some groups appeasing the president? (excellent) FDA chief Marty Makary says…
As a friend of mine has been putting it, if war is what teaches Americans geography, Donald Trump is what teaches Americans how our government & economy work
One thing re oil prices is it will be interesting to see (for a peculiar definition of interesting) if there’s an effect of the Trump administration’s incompetence. How do you price in an administration that didn’t even appear to realize prices would spike. It’s a weird second-order risk.
The slurs somehow have more agency than the Republicans.
The “NYT actually assigns agency to the people doing the thing” headline challenge remains unwon.
If you truly believed Graham Platner is not antisemitic at all, you would be sending him to synagogues in Maine to speak to Jews and reassure them of that. That is what Mamdani did during the NYC mayoral election. The fact they are not doing that is... telling.
One of my personal litmus tests for emerging politicians is how good is their team? Are the communications tight and unified? No scandals? No weirdos with baggage on the team? Everyone competent, proactive and on message? That speaks volumes about how a politician will actually perform in office.
Before the 2024 election, I kept saying that Trump et alia would break things people didn't realize could be broken and things people didn't even know *existed*, but were important. It's so frustrating.
I really want to know more about these senators who respect Markwayne Mullin. Do they make major household purchasing decisions? Do they dress themselves?
one thing that’s changed in the House (it started with the Tea Party when some real freaks started getting elected) is that there’s less cross-aisle camaraderie because people across the aisle are the kind of people you cross the street to avoid
the Senate needs to learn this lesson
It pisses me off that the movement’s leaders all have their own kids vaccinated but they’re ok with the MAGA rubes’ kids getting sick and dying because this antivaxx nonsense advances their overarching narrative that all neutral sources of information are corrupt.
Plausible. He may lose interest even sooner.
"Business as usual" for SARS-CoV-2, means that it looks like any other virus that jumped from a reservoir, spent a short amount of time in an intermediate host, and then jumped into humans, causing a pandemic immediately after.
1️⃣ No signs of passage
2️⃣ No signs of gain-of-function
3️⃣ It's zoonotic
There's a common misconception that zoonotic viruses require significant adaptation to jump from animals to cause human epidemics.
Not so 👇.
Further, we see clear signs of 1977 flu experiencing cell passage, prior to epidemic.
SARS-CoV-2? Business as usual.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
ICE must be abolished.
ICE detain U.S. Army veteran—a 50 year old woman with major health issues.
20 plus armed agents stormed this residential neighborhood to arrest her at gunpoint.
Her crime? Kate just took part in a peaceful protest—evidently her 5 foot tall stature intimidated these agents.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
That feeling when you owe 53,173,939 refunds, with interest ...
It really is painful how impulsively dumb the president is. All the people who put him back in power should be deported.
the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year
the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter
www.statesman.com/business/art...
I can't get over this, from @jonathankarl.bsky.social. Trump is working the phones to journalists, talking about his war as a "performance."
If you block junior scientists from ensuring that they can afford to live (or start families!) in the exorbitantly expensive areas around their workplaces, only family-subsidized solitary rich kids will be able to pursue careers in research - amidst exponential inflation, increasingly few people.
stonks very angy today.
I'll probably write about this next week, but the willingness to use 'AI' as a justification for bad policy without any accountability is a real problem.
"I want to kill you, but if I can get the robot to say that first, I am absolved of all guilt for your execution."
I think about this all the time. I think we'd be much further along the road to a durable autocratic regime but on the other hand we'd have dodged any number of other cataclysms.
One reason many people hate ‘AI’ is because they instinctively understand that this is how it will be used. (And you should read the whole 🧵)
When Democrats take back the House, this tool needs to be investigated.
12/“I spent five hours creating a justification for why the word the screening tool picked up was a false positive - I was told my judgment was wrong. When I asked to document that my decision was overruled I was told that the decision memo could not include “dissenting language.”
- anonymous NIH PO
