@johngordon
Retired MD. “Avid” cyclist, CrossFit. Familiar with cognitive disability. Curious. TrueName John Faughnan (not the actor). Intergalactic Antifa Coordinator. Not as normal as I may seem. Also mastodon - https://appdot.net/@jgordon
Them: So this is the list of people that needed a WBC count for [disbelief tone] routine monitoring?
Me: Yep. Every two weeks you went over to the clinic for a blood draw. If your count was too low, sorry champ, you're on book research and writing until you next blood draw is good.
Them: [boggle]
I think it’s dawning on Trump/his court that while MAHA might have been a beneficial electoral addition in 2024, it’s a perpetual motion machine generating wedge issues that unite democrats and split republicans
Trump CO2 management is undeniably aggressive, probably illegal, but likely effective.
the commodities and futures trading commission's enforcement office in chicago has no lawyers now?
can anyone who follows this more closely clarify if this is as bad as i think it is
Jason Leopold: The investigation, which grew out of a longstanding probe into organized crime, was conducted by a secretive intelligence and law enforcement unit of the DEA and a transnational crime-fighting task force.
the Nazis so disliked the practice of humanitarian rescue sometimes practiced by the Kriegsmarine that they *explicitly banned it*
For the record.
Tipper Gore was perhaps not entirely wrong
Ask Ethan: Do signals degrade as they travel through space?
Light and gravitational waves redshift, sure, as they travel through the expanding Universe.
But do those signals degrade and deteriorate, and if so, what do we lose?
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #physics #astro
IN MICE
GPT-5.4 (xhigh) narrowly missed the top spot held by Gemini 3.1 Pro on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
But GPT-5.4 generated 120M tokens on the benchmarks, at 72 tokens/s, which cost $2950. Gemini used just 57M, at 100 tokens/s, and cost $892.
Advantage: Kremlin. Washington is temporarily easing sanctions on Russian oil sales to India to address potential supply shortages and reduce the impact of the surge in global crude prices in the wake of US and Israeli attacks on Iran. Explain this, please. www.ft.com/content/f513...
If you want to take your mind off awful politics and look at awful science stuff instead, this is a good read: www.sciencedetective.org/scientific-d...
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
I knew working on suicide research was going to be heavy.
But what's actually starting to get to me is reading all of these chatbot suicide laws and legislative proposals that call for measures that have been shown to exacerbate crisis.
www.governor.ny.gov/sites/defaul...
“You’re a U.S. senator!”
Bernie stops Noem’s replacement from literally trying to fight someone👇🏽
This should go great
It would not work for anyone else
“$220 million border security ad blitz that she featured prominently in. Noem said Trump green-lit the campaign.”
Trump memory not agreeing.
Cutting off immigrant labor is something different though. That is a pure GOP move that both responds to rural cultural anxiety and destroys what remains of rural economies.
It seems likely to accelerate rural decline and urban migration.
This is how the USSR fell.
Didn’t seem too bad … ok a bit sick … dead.
We are so much like Russia
That means this batch includes people who were in captivity for literally four years.
The voting patterns are more about the slow agonizing death of rural communities than about farm economics. Neither party can help rural America but the GOP can at least inflict harm on the evil cities. Better than nothing.
Under the bus she goes. To general applause.
Anyone who hasn't read this fanfic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the man who administers The Lottery from the Shirley Jackson short story, you should definitely read it!
archiveofourown.org/works/733964...
As the <checks notes> drone interceptor discourse handily demonstrates, having a highly battlefield experienced and armed to the teeth Ukrainian state as part of the EU / closely integrated into Europe is a bit of a game changer for perceptions of European military capability…
It’s still a good guide about the role of teaching. Part of the story was the ai made human teachers more valued.
I read Vinge’s “Fast Times at Fairmount High” novella about 25y ago. I knew about this bit.
AppStore comments are awful for every app. Lack of anonymity appears to have little effect.
Yup--I just listened to the hearing, and the Judge took the parties by surprise by indicating he'd issue such a judgment. USG counsel asked for some time to brief the merits and the judge responded: "There are no merits." [3]
