Thomas Goetz
@thgoetz.bsky.social
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sometime journalist someplace
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Cyrus Farivar
10 days ago
My first byline at
@sfstandard.com
: Bay Area cycling community rallies after Alex Pretti’s death
sfstandard.com/2026/01/30/a...
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Bay Area cycling community rallies after Alex Pretti’s death
Rides in San Francisco and Oakland are part of a global tribute to the nurse killed in Minneapolis by federal authorities.
https://sfstandard.com/2026/01/30/alex-pretti-cyclist-nurse-icu-ice-killed-memorial/
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things I miss: in tha 80s punk groups would cover ‘stupid’ 70s songs. eg 1. Replacements: Black diamond (Kiss) 2. Soul Asylum: jukebox Hero (Foreigner) 3. Sonic Youth: Sweet Jane (velvet Underground) 4. Killdozer: Sweet Home Alabama (Tom Petty)
@clarajeffery.bsky.social
@romanmars.bsky.social
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Thank you
@davideagleman.bsky.social
for having me on to talk drugs and Drug Story!
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20 days ago
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Now this is cool: Apple selected Drug Story as a featured New Show! No idea exactly how this happens, but I expect it helps that so many folks have given Drug Story a generous 5 star rating at Apple Podcasts. (HINT, HINT)
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The pros, cons, and controversies of prescription drugs - loved talking with Alexis Madrigal on
@kqedforum.bsky.social
this morning. Take a listen!
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
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‘Drug Story’ Explores the Disease Business one Med at A Time | KQED
Airdate: Tuesday, January 6 at 9 AM In today’s world, it seems there's a remedy for every modern ailment. Anxiety. Diabetes. Heart disease. There’s a pill for that! But what do the drugs we take to ma...
https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101912519/drug-story-explores-the-disease-business-one-med-at-a-time
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Building H
about 1 month ago
For our first newsletter of the year, co-founder
@thgoetz.bsky.social
introduces his new podcast, Drug Story, that explores the state of health in the US and how we got here -- one blockbuster drug at a time:
mailchi.mp/9729a35a1ac4...
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Building H: How to Better Spend $5 Trillion
https://mailchi.mp/9729a35a1ac4/issue-2-18-13058722?e=8002783f15
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One of my fave Gehry buildings was the house he built for himself in the middle of a neighborhood in Santa Monica, CA. Actually, he didn't build it - he bought an old bungalow and added to it until it became... this.
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Did you know that Xanax is name-dropped in rap songs as much as Hennessy, Rolex, or Air Jordans? My new project: DRUG STORY, a podcast about the disease business, one drug at a time. The first episode drops on Tuesday, January 6. check out the trailer here:
www.drugstory.co/p/drug-story...
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Drug Story Trailer
Introducing a new podcast about the disease business, told one drug at a time. First episode: January 6, 2026.
https://www.drugstory.co/p/drug-story-trailer?r=fuomi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
2 months ago
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Pick: in history, Top 10 medications that have been/treated: a) most significant drugs (pro/con) of past 100 years b) most significant conditions of past 100 years c) just a crazy story behind it or the disease? (dropping a sneak preview of something cool this week)
2 months ago
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Building H
3 months ago
With the news on ultraprocessed foods this week, it's worth going back to this excellent explainer, from
@alicecallahan.bsky.social
, on how we got to where we are today:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How America Got Hooked on Ultraprocessed Foods (Gift Article)
They promised convenience and cheap nutrition. But they became one of the greatest health threats of our time.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/16/well/eat/ultraprocessed-food-junk-history.html?rsrc=flt&unlocked_article_code=1.208.9h4H.074bjL-irSJZ&smid=bs-share
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I am super duper excited to read this. Charles Mann is so good at this stuff.
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3 months ago
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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗
3 months ago
Shameless plug: For a year, I've been working on a series about the vast systems that underlie life in most of the world. Built up over generations, these systems are the cathedrals of our time--but all too few of us know anything about them, and they're all at risk of failing. Here's the latest:
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Two Hundred Years to Flatten the Curve
How generations of meddlesome public health campaigns changed everyday life — and made life twice as long as it used to be
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/two-hundred-years-to-flatten-the-curve
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If you need me today, I'm doing the fucking news.
4 months ago
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“Good luck to all” is just …
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5 months ago
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Building H
6 months ago
Health in all design ...
www.fastcompany.com/91377661/why...
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Why urban designers should think like doctors
‘Architectural Epidemiology’ offers a radical prescription for cities: a new design framework that builds health into real estate.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91377661/why-urban-designers-should-think-like-doctors
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As they say, I will just leave this… here.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Ejaculation Frequency and Risk of Prostate Cancer: Updated Results with an Additional Decade of Follow-up
Evidence suggests that ejaculation frequency may be inversely related to the risk of prostate cancer (PCa), a disease for which few modifiable risk fa…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0302283816003778?via%3Dihub
8 months ago
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Tremor?
11 months ago
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Earthquake bluesky
11 months ago
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apropos of nothing, here's the wine list at Mar A Lago
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https://lagomar.com/wp-content/uploads/Wine-List-12.2023.pdf
11 months ago
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*Now* i get it - when people say "do your own research" - they mean once the NIH, CDC, NSF, and other government-funded science all shuts down.
11 months ago
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This is true. My team at iodine did for $1.1m what a previous team had failed to do for $150m for fda. Instead of praise we got rousted.
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11 months ago
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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️🌈 🌁
11 months ago
The Great American Enshitification begins
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if anybody is backing up gov websites, please add
ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc
to the list - a clearinghouse of what works in education policy, hosted by dept. of education. essential documentation of how to teach!
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WWC | Find What Works!
As an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) was created in 2002 to be a central and trusted source of scientific ev...
https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc
12 months ago
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A really good assessment of how Bryan Johnson is chasing the wrong metrics, by Gregory Katz
gregorykatz.substack.com/p/bryan-john...
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Bryan Johnson is the living embodiment of Goodhart's law
Bryan Johnson is an entrepreneur who is trying to use technology to avoid dying.
https://gregorykatz.substack.com/p/bryan-johnson-is-the-living-embodiment
about 1 year ago
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Adam Rogers
about 1 year ago
What I've read so far, the "evidence" is that they can't figure out how else DeepSeek could've done it, which, hrm. Also, *if* someone stole OpenAI's data, call the police, using copyrighted material without paying its creators is a crime, good point.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/28/d...
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David Sacks claims there's 'substantial evidence' that DeepSeek used OpenAI's models to train its own | TechCrunch
David Sacks said there's evidence that DeepSeek 'distilled' knowledge from OpenAI's models, a process that Sacks equated to theft.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/28/david-sacks-claims-theres-substantial-evidence-that-deepseek-used-openais-models-to-train-its-own/
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Anthony Edwards
about 1 year ago
The Columbia River, which drains about 244 billion cubic meters of fresh water into the Pacific Ocean from tributaries in Canada, Washington, Idaho and Oregon, does not connect to Southern California through any man-made channels or natural bodies of water other than the Pacific Ocean.
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President Trump claims he diverted water from PNW to California. Did he?
President Donald Trump said Monday that he ordered the U.S. military to divert water from the Pacific Northwest to Southern California as part of his presidential action of “Putting People over Fis…
https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/president-trump-pnw-water-california-claims-01282025/
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Charles Ornstein
about 1 year ago
An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in recorded history in the United States.
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Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in recorded history
Kansas public health officials say the state's ongoing tuberculosis outbreak is the largest since the CDC started reporting TB cases in the 1950s.
https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/politics/government/2025/01/24/kansas-tuberculosis-outbreak-is-largest-in-recorded-history-in-u-s/77881467007/
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Crazy: in the 1960s, the average American adult smoked more than 4,000 cigarettes a year. That’s half-a-pack a day *on average* for ALL adults.
about 1 year ago
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I think MJ had it exactly backwards cuz Prince had better songs
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about 1 year ago
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Highly recommend “The State of Fire: Why California Burns” - a beautiful, thoughtful and prescient 2024 book by Obi Kaufmann. Amazing charts and watercolors and insights throughout
about 1 year ago
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Story I would love to read: profile of whoever thought of taking steer penises and turning them into dog chew toys. I hope she is very rich now.
about 1 year ago
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Cool Bike Art
about 1 year ago
Ride in Peace, Jimmy Carter
#RIPJimmyCarter
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such a great example of how transportation decisions (auto trends in particular) affect human health (in a bad way)
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about 1 year ago
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for a thing I'm doing, looking for a couple people taking Lipitor/atorvastatin, willing to talk w me about their LDL/HDL numbers, and their Rx, etc. It'll be fun!
[email protected]
about 1 year ago
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Steve Downs
about 1 year ago
If you’re interested in creating a future where everyday life is healthy by design, please join with us at Building H…
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In 2025, we will be as far from the year 2000… as 1975. That makes my Gen X heart break.
about 1 year ago
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CMS proposes that Medicare/Medicaid cover GLP-1s for weight loss. This makes sense for public health - better to avoid waiting till people move to full diabetes - but it could be a very expensive proposition for Trump et al.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/u...
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Obesity Drugs Would Be Covered by Medicare and Medicaid Under Biden Proposal
The proposed rule could give millions of Americans access to the new drugs; it will also put pressure on the incoming Trump administration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/upshot/obesity-drugs-medicare-medicaid.html
about 1 year ago
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