If you need me today, I'm doing the fucking news.

“Good luck to all” is just …

Health in all design ... www.fastcompany.com/91377661/why...

As they say, I will just leave this… here. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Tremor?

Earthquake bluesky

apropos of nothing, here's the wine list at Mar A Lago lagomar.com/wp-content/u...

*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.

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.

The Great American Enshitification begins

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!

A really good assessment of how Bryan Johnson is chasing the wrong metrics, by Gregory Katz gregorykatz.substack.com/p/bryan-john...

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...

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.

An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in recorded history in the United States.

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.

I think MJ had it exactly backwards cuz Prince had better songs

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

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.

Ride in Peace, Jimmy Carter #RIPJimmyCarter

such a great example of how transportation decisions (auto trends in particular) affect human health (in a bad way)

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]

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In 2025, we will be as far from the year 2000… as 1975. That makes my Gen X heart break.

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...