Good god, I knew Mr Beast sucked, but this is some shit.

The CDC staff are thorough and scientifically meticulous. If they said the data on Covid vaccine efficacy was ready to publish in MMWR, it was solid. Bhattacharya is a hack and a stain on medicine and public health 🤦🏻‍♂️

Anyone who mocks Ocasio-Cortez for being a bartender - rather than seeing those skills are a significant part of her arsenal - is the sort of person who's never in their life gotten a free drink.

People with preexisting conditions also don’t deserve to die

“The results suggest that the govt’s investment in the 988 rollout has translated into ‘a measurable reduction of deaths,’ said Dr. Vishal Patel…one of the authors of the study…. He added, ‘The implication of that is that sustained funding for this program matters’.”🧪🛟

Vaccines are safe and effective, whether you believe it or not. Many, like the COVID-19 vaccine, save lives. #MedSky 🧪

RFK Jr. just lied again, saying: “The flu shot is an intervention that is often ineffective. It has a 20% efficacy rate. There are studies that show that getting a flu shot actually increases the chance of a non-flu infection”. This man is a menace.

He's a liar and a killer. I don't know what else to tell people, he's a rich eugenicist, he wants as many poor people as possible to die in the name of 'health.' He's a genuinely and uniquely malign figure in American life and his appointment was an act of violence

Everything this administration does could actually be considered “capricious” - Fuck them

It should come as no surprise that this administration is just saying, "Fuck you" to veterans. This is really good reporting on the effects of DOGE cuts in Massachusetts.

Complete agreement with this POV - worth a full read

$900 for the cheap seats. I’m a lifelong fan and made the decision not to go even though it’s my dream to see a World Cup match. Everything about this World Cup feels gross.

Is someone going to tell him that the flu killed more US troops in WWI than any battle did (and that war had chemical weapons so horrific that they were banned afterwards)?

as american as apple pie

The AI bubble is like the dotcom bubble: It’s not that the Internet was some useless passing fad; it’s that a lot of money got poured into absolute horseshit before people started figuring out where the actual value was.

I'll simply say again that for Shlaes to resurface in The Economist at this moment is an indicator of an ambient concern that Rooseveltian policies and politics are increasingly likely. The thing about the New Deal is, it was *immensely popular.* That's terrifying to certain people

This piece is incredibly important. Read the whole thing.

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally. It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

Just one of the best videos you’ll ever see anywhere

It's also worth being clear about who's doing the arguing. Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren't philosophy floating in space, they're the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it's advocating.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

This is a valid point: whenever you see this sort of high-pressure sales tactic turned on a technology, you can be CERTAIN that it's a fake—actually useful new tech sells itself! And don't underestimate the effectiveness of FOMO as a tool in the hands of a con artist.

Paging Mr. Herman. Mr. Herman, you have a telephone call at the front desk.

This really sucks. Opposed by pretty much everyone up there, including sovereign tribes, and the two MN Senators, but the $$ pillages our natural environment.

The yearly WebAIM report is out and the overall accessibility state of the web is getting worse again. "Home pages with ARIA present had significantly more errors (59.1 on average) than pages without ARIA (42 on average)" Man, this makes me sad. https://webaim.org/proje...

These freaks spent too much time thinking that Catholics were in their side and are now confused

The Senate’s final vote on repealing the ban on mining near the Boundary Waters has been scheduled for Thursday morning. Sen. Tina Smith is expected to continue speaking then.

Again, this story isn’t going away!!!

DOGE turbocharged the deficit. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...

Accessibility isn’t a cost.

entire feed is mad about USAID, no one talking about putting it back

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

More than *70* orgs are warning Meta that integrating facial recognition into smart glasses is a terrible, dangerous idea. Five years from now, when the consequences are abundantly clear and prevalent, people will point at this warning (as has happened with Meta and Big Tech, time and time again):

Weapons spending produces less than half as many jobs as investing in health care or public education, according to research by Heidi Garrett-Peltier. Still, when Dems had control of the House under Biden in 2021, they flooded the Pentagon w/ record $$. The majority of Dems voted against a 10% cut.

The wealthiest 1% own 50% of stocks and the top 10% own 87%, per Federal Reserve. The bottom 50% of Americans owns only 1%, but we hear about the stock market constantly in media (even NPR and MS NOW). Seems like we could hear more about the opportunity costs of not providing universal health care.

Part of the reason we are here is the Trump administration has sought to destroy both immigration and good STEM and academic jobs, which do a lot to create innovation and future good, stable jobs. Creating good honest work for young people means rebuilding public funding for many things

Again, tech companies open embrace of authoritarianism and the fact that every new product is a more invasive spy device than the last one are not coincidences.

I absolutely agree with this- so many great songs, and not just the Beegees. The Gap Band, Chic, The Brothers Johnson, Sister Sledge. It was anti-black, anti-queer. “Disco sucks” is shorthand for all the slurs people started being unable to say around this time.

Let’s go Pios!! What a team. Fun to follow this year.

I cleaned these up a bit to bring out some of the weird Space Glitch details. Very complicated patterns. Paging Dan Flashes.

Artemis shows what can be accomplished. The future we should build is the one based on science and cooperation. Not division and violence. 🧪

Space stuff is cool. We should do somewhat less war stuff and somewhat more space stuff. Artemis II is $4bn per launch, roughly the cost of 2-4 days of War in Iran. What if we did not do War in Iran, but instead did cool space stuff?

This is what science can bring: smart people dreaming big and working alongside each other to see what's out there - together. There's just SO much that can get done this way. I wish everything worked like this - politics in particular. We can do better. THIS is what better looks like.

Let’s toast those astronauts. Then let’s wake up tomorrow and remind every American of what we all stand to lose to this regime. 🧪🔭

Things that work: giant rocket, very precise math, orbital mechanics, cameras, iPhones Things that don’t work: Microsoft Outlook, toilets, sat phones

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

how much money does the marine corps lose

Public health experts have been begging news outlets to stop using needle shots because a quarter of Americans have needlephobia and will avoid getting vaccinated because of it and these images feed into it... and yet we (as an industry) still keep using them