Bear with me if you can as I attempt to use HPV vaccines to demonstrate why many can’t see the danger of RFK Jr. TLDR: Disease prevention takes time and discipline. Not discipline of an individual, but the ability to invest in public health when the benefits may not be immediately clear.

Fascinating read. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

I find it disappointing that the coding agents will put off harder tasks to work on simpler ones. That makes perfect sense for a person learning how it works and limits risk. For a coding agent with the memory of a goldfish, it doesn't really do any good.

Just gonna assume he’s dissing Drake.

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

Caught the Aurora Borealis in northwest Ohio during a break in the clouds.

Maybe kings aren't so bad. Could we get one to kick our Epstein guy out of his house?

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Seems a little crazy that all of these AI chip and datacenter deals are being sized by the power they consume. While the transparency is interesting, it feels like "I'm going to use 6 billion watts to allow people to create fake videos" is a little too direct for people to get behind these things.

If you'd asked me which celebrity would posthumously unveil a list of people she wanted fired into the sun, I would not have guessed Jane Goodall

Good overview from 1945 on how to recognize fascism.

I think Pope Leo contributes necessary nuance to the conversation. However, I keep seeing (well meaning) people defend (bad faith) rebuttals to his comments by saying that “Jesus stopped a death penalty” in John 8 and… that is not what happened. Walk with me real quick. 1/13

It seems like for a lot of people who call themselves Christians online, the things that they pejoratively label as “progressive” or “woke” are simply anything that looks like the love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, & self-control of Jesus.

When you try to predict about the impact of AI tools on software engineering - a great analogy I heard from @simonwillison.net is to look at the impact of smartphones (+ the amazing cameras they have) on filmmaking. Noticed that those able to shoot pro films using a smartphone are... pros?

Florida Man at it again. I guess we should start staying away from Florida. And if you are antivax, I suggest you just move there and stop taking advantage of the herd immunity that the rest of us provide. The rest of us would like to live without preventable disease.

"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading." Isaac Asimov

Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.

Nice pepper harvest this year. Plenty still on the plant for fresh eating.

This is a good explanation of AI coding. And it starts to define one reason why people may like or dislike it.

Commentary: Ohio’s potential for annual offshore wind power production is higher than the state’s current annual electricity consumption ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/31/g...

Definition of a small town: I just walked past and waved at a girl who is probably 5 years old trying to catch a cat in an Amazon box at the local grain mill. And just smiled and thought how funny it would be if she caught a cat.

ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It 🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-hall...

Mennonite Church Hires Coldplay to Help Spot the Sinners www.ungerreview.com/mennonite-ch...

This whole thing

Yes, I did sound the alarm on agentic AI's privacy threat, and rightly so. observer.com/2025/07/sign...

It’s so frustrating that there is this illusion that we are all 49%/49% right now. Us versus them, good versus bad, and it’s all because of the BS that is the electoral system. It’s very likely 70% versus 30% and we’re just not seeing representative government.There’s just no common sense right now

GOOD NEWS! A SINGLE infusion of a stem cell-based treatment, VX-880, may have CURED a small group of patients with the most SEVERE form of Type 1 Diabetes. 10 out of 12 patients have remained insulin-INDEPENDENT for OVER a year and the other two patients now need much LOWER doses of insulin. 🧪🧵⬇️

Who would Jesus bomb? No one. Let’s try that.

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

OK. So this is the coolest thing you'll read this week. Or possibly this year.

I once said this to someone* from a strategic think tank and they said, "That would make fighting a war virtually impossible." "You can see that that's a good thing, right?" said my companion. --- * The army officers present supported my point.

"Newman’s defense of broad, active and serious learning offered an appealing counterpoint to Nazi ideology, which sought not only to deprive individuals of their civil rights but also to crush their inner lives and capacity to form meaningful relationships through terror and fear." 1/2

Good thread

Anabaptist/Mennonite game plan: “True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute, it serves those that harm it, it binds up that which is wounded, it has become all things to all creatures.” Menno Simons

Will Larson (@lethain.com) recently wrapped up an *incredible* streak of posts on engineering strategy on his blog, lethain.com. Strategy is hard, much harder than it looks. Especially since, much like design and management, when done well, it looks easy. Easy and obvious.

Everything is a conspiracy if you don’t know how anything works.

Trump credits himself for rebooting manufacturing, but manufacturing construction actually turned around years ago. To boost semiconductor production, Congress made historic investments in advanced manufacturing and education - SIGNED BY BIDEN IN AUGUST 2022. fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TLMFG...

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I couldn't sleep.. So I started reading interdimensional U.S. news. The Buttigieg admin is rolling out Universal Basic income to everyone. And continuing the Gore administration's landmark climate initiatives, our carbon footprint is closing in on zero!

If they could stop making things 'great', I'd appreciate it.

A movie you've watched more than 6 times, using only GIFs

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

IMAGINE IT: It's a gross PSA from Imagination Station that can hopefully save your skin (or at least flesh) in the wintertime... we're using pig tongues to show why that triple-dog-dare on a cold pole isn't the best of ideas. 👅🥶 www.13abc.com/video/2025/0...