Bookmarking for next union grievance so I don’t spend half an hour obsessively trying to hack my own redactions to make sure they worked.

Going to have to check the NORAD tracker before the extended family Christmas Eve party so we don’t accidentally show several 2-6 year olds an AI video of Santa kidnapping people apparently.

If you’re at a school that still has a path to unionization, it is the most important thing you can do right now in your immediate environment. In our union system, we undid tens of millions of dollars in grant cuts when the university refused to act. In non-union systems, this will only get worse:

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

I see a lot of broken YouTube embeds in people's posts. Uploading the 60 minutes clip to US-based social media or storage services that aren't end-to-end encrypted is not going to work. Here is a Proton Drive mirror, it has finished processing so you can stream it. drive.proton.me/urls/GS30AS8...

Plenty of people who stay will take a 100% pay cut, and some might be prosecuted because of their field of study. Like most things, Bhattacharya didn’t really think this witty comeback through.

Except that we won’t. The social Darwinism and eugenics are a huge part of MAHA. After all, a key idea behind the antivax movement is that vaccine-preventable diseases can’t harm you if you’re healthy and that if you’re not healthy it’s your fault.

I'm not a naval vessel understander, but this looks like plenty of ships we already have in San Diego, just with Trump's face and Roblox aesthetics.

He did everything 100% "correctly". His path through the immigration system was: - Waited in Mexico. - Present at San Ysidro PoE at time of asylum appointment. - Immediately detained. - In custody 6 months. - Deported to CECOT. The only way he could've avoided this was not even try.

There's an archive link in the replies that currently works. Here's a reupload to Proton Drive: drive.proton.me/urls/GS30AS8...

If you're prescribed an epi-pen for food allergies, make sure you always have it with you. The sesame mess over the last few years shows that food manufacturers will abuse any leniency they're given or perceive they've been given.

“I just want everyone to be kind to each other.” An advocate who offered a window on the experience of living with brain cancer dies at 43. Beautifully written piece by Drew Joseph for @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/a...

So it is going to be the standard now that stories don't get reported without the regime implicitly providing consent via comment.

“Weiss knows who signs her checks. The Ellisons know who approves their mergers. Trump knows that complaining publicly about coverage sends a message. The system doesn’t need a conspiracy to function. It just needs everyone to understand what’s good for business.”

Trump and DOGE gutted US science: Scientists from a variety of fields researching anything from chemical hazards, drug addiction, pollution, LBTQ health care & paediatric brain disease report how grants were withdrawn and and they struggle to support students, staff and research 🧪

The new leader of SANDAG, formerly of Caltrans, announced recently that "the era of big ideas is over" and unironically expected to be universally praised for it. And San Diego area politicians have indeed been praising him for it.

Thought I had after recent San Diego urban/suburban wildfires: MTS always has extra operators at depots in Kearny Mesa, Downtown, El Cajon, and Chula Vista, and buses on standby at transit centers. You could have capacity for carrying several 100 people w/in 20min anywhere - unless there’s gridlock.

Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses

It sounds like Waymo failed to program the vehicles to switch to stop sign mode in the event of a failed light? Every human driver has to learn this rule, and I don’t understand how the California DMV can possibly justify licensing any “driver” including an algorithm that doesn’t know this

This is how every conservative man under 30 thinks.

It’s a misunderstanding of the technology, and laziness. You could give a chatbot a bibliography of papers you’ve read and tell it to write a paper using them as sources. There’s a good chance it’ll fabricate sources anyway because it’s simulating text, not evaluating task-specific logic.

It’s obvious that Waymo collects data on safety only in the most simple and predictable driving environments if, after all this time in operation, it’s only now clear that they don’t know how to navigate a malfunctioning traffic signal.

In this analogy, everyone needs to get at least a slice, the people who don’t get a slice don’t get to come ask for one next year. And every year, fewer people get to come back. The regime is doing this to make sure the damage they’re doing lasts for decades after they’re gone.

Looks like we’ve found the next rightwing movement that liberal media thinks is ripe to be concern-trolled into reality.

Also, Stabell Benn has repeatedly supported RFK Jr, the world’s most dangerous & extreme anti-vaxx activist & kooky conspiracy theorist. For example, she said: “I think he can be a catalyst for opening the Pandora's box that says we actually don't know everything worth knowing about vaccines.”

The money budgeted for the military during the current fiscal year would be enough to fund San Diego MTS (the country's 13th largest transit agency) at current service levels for the next 2,250 years.

They’re also being attributed to me and then cited in emails to me expressing interest in my work and asking for research experience. Undergrads: I wish this went without saying, but don’t do this.

Almost happened again. This time from a stoplight. Truck in inner like decided to make a right turn as soon as the light changed. Pickup drivers: You are not the biggest thing on the road. Stop doing this or make sure you go to the dentist regularly because the coroner will need those records.

I believe this is an underrated factor in American anti-urbanism: the fact that college is the time and place most of us experience walkable urbanism makes it very easy to think of walkable urbanism as a thing you "graduate from" as you grow up and mature

One of the more contradictory parts of American culture is that colleges are socially idyllic places where people form lifelong relationships and make their best memories and that it’s so hard to meet people as an adult [after college] - but that building more places like it would destroy society.

These look like iPhone default photo app edits.

When a majority of riders across all incomes are saying the service is important enough to them that they’d rather pay more than lose it, Board members who don’t want a fare increase need to do something other than grandstand their way into service cuts.

Robert Kennedy Jr. must be impeached and removed along with the likes of Jay Bhattacharya, Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, and Tracy Beth Høeg. It’s life or death. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI. After finding the document in the trove, I called her. She broke down in tears. “I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

RFK Jr.’s handpicked anti-vaccine staff at HHS have apparently decided that the CDC will no longer recommend most childhood vaccines. They will encourage parents to discuss it with doctors instead. This is going to kill babies, and it will cause the most harm among the most vulnerable.

For what it's worth, this is pretty much how a public records act request usually goes. You wait months or maybe years and when they feel like they can't stall anymore, they send you a heavily redacted bad-faith response.

Sounds like they were expecting to see something that wasn't there. And, whatever it is, it's worth a Democrat and a Republican saying the "i" word together in public as soon as they CTRL+F'd for it and didn't find it.

Politicized by who, Robert? The RFK Jr orbiters who won't outright own what they're doing are the worst. Made their millions from speaking fees and supplement sales and are now trying to whining because their infinite grift is going to end now that it has real world consequences.

If the regime is removed in 2032, a reconstituted public health agency will need to make pediatric liver cancer research a priority. The countdown to a wave of those cases in a decade or so starts as soon as this policy goes into effect.

This is a focus group of Gen Z Republicans in the United States of America. Now. They get their news only from social media/podcasts, and they express warm sympathy for Adolf Hitler and for (Nazi) Nick Fuentes. Fascism will destroy their future. www.city-journal.org/article/manh...

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/h... Switching to the Danish vaccine schedule in 🇺🇸 would be insanity. (1) The US, unlike Denmark, does not have universal healthcare, and (2) the Danish vaccine schedule is very poor (e.g., no chickenpox & rota vax. I vividly remember having those as a kid in 🇩🇰. Just 👎).

This is not the first time RFK Jr or his fellow anti-vax travelers conducted a study they knew would harm or kill children in low-income countries. It is a dehumanizing, colonialist model of manufacturing evidence: sacrificing foreign kids for political pseudoscience. www.notus.org/health-scien...

Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.

I woke up that morning and I thought something plastic was burning in my apartment. I lived 10 miles away from the harbor. Some of San Diego's most disadvantaged neighborhoods are barely a mile away. Not enthusiastic about the longterm health outcomes of even more ship fires.

They lie about everything that happens here.

JUST IN: Feds move to dismiss criminal case against Mexican citizen charged with using truck to ram immigration agents during August op in San Diego. 'Additional investigation has caused the U.S. to re-evaluate prosecution in this matter.' Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

With how many documents and different people working on this there were and how much general incompetence in the regime there is, I think it's a statistical certainty that at least one of these somewhere in there is a still-editable black rectangle.

This a perfect example of how we need to talk to the press and the public. No getting lost in our own jargon or trying to avoid making "political" statements. - this is neocolonialist violence and we have a professional obligation to say so as directly as the scientists interviewed here did.