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"It is the same origin point — the same research, technology, and investment — that leads us to the moon or to dead schoolchildren, slain at our hands. The final decision about war or peace may be made by our leaders, but ultimately it is our responsibility..." My latest for @rollingstone.com

There’s a reason biohacking aligns with MAHA, which is built on the idea that you completely control your health. To MAHA, if you are sick it’s somehow your fault for not doing the right things, eating the right diet, etc. It’s health as a manifestation of virtue and disease as lack of virtue.

Elon Musk had DOGE defund USAID, the largest humanitarian organization in the world, causing HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of deaths from starvation and disease - and Trump GLEEFULLY approved it. It’s the single most evil act in US history. Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

People don’t wanna put two and two together with what he did to usaid and him putting up those maps of global birthrates and saying white people are being replaced

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

@pauloffit.bsky.social is a total badass

The rhetorical shuffle that happens when you define people AS ideology is crucial to selling the project, I would note.

9/11

“The human capacity to injure other people is very great precisely because our capacity to imagine other people is very small”

@vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social’s 2016 publication, “Nothing Ever Dies,” continues to be prescient a decade later. Same as it ever was. Here’s just one of myriad examples.

Doing the hard “menial” work is how you change your thinking and grow as an expert.

“My response to the current moment is to tell the truth about it as best I can and as best I know.”

“Mountains Beyond Mountains” radicalized me on what is possible in health care.

if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com

What a privilege it was to be an undergrad in Dr. Nyholm’s lab!

Something about the dystopian prospect of an unthinking bot giving unthinking feedback to barely-thinking students about how to be even more perfectly unthinking really brought into sharp relief for me how much of my own standard approach was designed to create a facsimile of a “course experience."

the amount of good ms. rachel puts out into the world is immeasurable. she is so much closer to something divine than many men who claim to be holy.

This is incredibly irresponsible journalism. You cannot write this headline without acknowledging all the times Elon Musk has promised to pay for things, then didn't. Let's take a stroll down memory lane. 🧵

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Read books! Buy them from your indie bookshop! Support your public library! Divest from Amazon! Attend a local bookish event! Fight book bans! Talk about your favorite books! Help young readers access books! Think critically! Thank a bookseller and librarian!

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I don’t choose that word lightly. The idea that an entire field of medicine, as well as numerous academic journals, systematically suppressed evidence that gender-affirming care doesn’t work is a conspiracy theory. Meanwhile, none of these people can provide a shred of evidence for their core claim

Crazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...

the stink of gender resentment coming off Silicon Valley has been obvious for a while. these men hate women because they hate being told no.

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What stands out to me is the arrogance. The surefootedness that this was the correct thing to do despite no experience in government. The presumption that they were entitled to use their own uninformed judgement to cut funds to things that they don’t personally value www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

just one more imperial war bro. just one more imperial war i swear. One more imperial war will fix it and display our inherent superiority over lesser peoples once and for all bsky.app/profile/mfor...

I am about halfway through @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social‘s, “Nothing Ever Dies” which is about the ethics of remembering and forgetting and importantly here, how memories influence identity and understanding. I am just dying inside from this exchange.

Frame: he's making america healthy again Negation: no he's not he's failing at health Kirby:

Absolute trash. The author did not speak to a single medical professional and the article does not contain a shred of evidence that effeminate gay boys are being bamboozled into thinking they're trans. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Calling it “investing in biotech” when rich freaks buy junk (or buy other people’s blood) cause they want to be immortal and don’t care to learn anything is a disservice to human language

Not the biggest point but like, how are you going to score well on an in-class test if you used ai to complete homework and not learn the material

It cannot be stressed enough how these Republicans don’t see government jobs as jobs at all. They see them as titles, no-show gigs where they can do whatever they want. That’s why they hated the people in those jobs before, they thought it was a scam because they don’t believe in doing the work.

My quote of the day Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality. Linus Pauling

What does Singal even think he's saying here? Para 1: It is naive to trust experts Para 2: It's a real problem that American's don't trust experts This is just a hot dog suit meme. What terrible writing. And editing. The editor should have sent this back to him and told him this didn't make sense

Incredible how much they selectively ignore their standards and practices when it’s time to pick on trans people. And as much as Singal sucks, it’s the mid- and senior-level editors at the Times who keep platforming anti-trans voices.

It’s giving middle passage

anyway time for me to re-up my view that when you make claims like that as a journalist you should be able to answer the simple question “who said this and why do they matter?”

“MAHA says don’t change the system, change yourself. Purify your body. Deny your kid vaccines. Blame the sick for their sickness. It’s magical thinking for the carceral state.”

People are angry, and that anger is real. But MAHA redirects it away from the structural forces that create this crisis towards conspiracy and scapegoating.

“You can’t judge people for trying to fundraise from a convicted pedophile” yes you can idiot. I’m doing it right now with my big powerful scientist brain. It’s literally part of my lab rules

It really was a wildly successful political project to re-define “elitism” as “listening to professors and researchers” and not “agreeing with whatever drug addled wealthy lunatic perverts say”

Do not accept bad faith arguments and liars. Learn to eat the frame and bring the conversation back to reality. Be like Kirby.

Corporations are extracting billions from America’s safety net and their payday is about to be supercharged by new rules. I lay out how programs like Medicaid have become vulnerable to corporate capture and what we need to build to stop it. @lpeblog.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/the-mea...

In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."

Great #SciComm here from Unbiased Scipod on vaccines and their schedules 🧪 www.instagram.com/p/Ch7OEF_OBsa