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The thing to know about the authors of the post-pandemic consensus (Emily Oster, Stephen Macedo, Frances Lee) -- that we failed at the COVID response because experts are too woke and we weren't nice enough to Martin Kulldorff -- is that it reflects an extremely anti-democratic worldview

I am working on a newsletter piece that is going to be really good but alas, life has been getting increasingly hectic and overwhelming over the last two months, so if I owe you anything -- writing, correspondence, a kind word, a followup -- I sincerely apologize because I am actually struggling lol

have been finding it quite difficult to write anything lately but i have got a short newsletter post coming soon and then a slightly longer one about social murder shortly thereafter. assembling fragments

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

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Taking absolutely no pleasure or joy in writing lately (it feels like pulling teeth honestly) but I wrote about Casey Means buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...

who is allowed to live in the world they want to create

Taking absolutely no pleasure or joy in writing lately (it feels like pulling teeth honestly) but I wrote about Casey Means buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...

Lysenkoist Cybersyn, here we come baby

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Sorry, you can’t have healthcare or supportive housing or anything because 50 billion dollars have been set aside to ensure ample munitions for Operation Vanquished Toddler

only @theworldsgreatestwriter.com has good posts on here

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Here's the thing I want to share, which (ironically given my soapbox about how scrolling makes me depressed) is about how I think screen time and youth mental health have more of a confounding-style relationship www.madinamerica.com/2026/03/scre...

Here's the thing I want to share, which (ironically given my soapbox about how scrolling makes me depressed) is about how I think screen time and youth mental health have more of a confounding-style relationship www.madinamerica.com/2026/03/scre...

good morning folx, i am back just to share some writing i did. i feel a little bit silly for just doing my own work (and not, for example, positioning myself as an iran expert to surf the vicissitudes of the content cycle) but i strongly feel that "the news" is information warfare whose purpose...

This lady gave herself and her husband 300,000 in PPP loans during covid then forgave them

According to relatives, 19-year-old Nasrallah Mohammed Jamal Abu Siam was fired on as he tried to stop Israeli settlers from raiding his village to steal sheep.

Woke 2 no baby goes unvaccinated. Your dumbass modest khaki parents can fucking move to Tajikistan if they don't like it, see if I give a shit

Remember the kidney transplant recipient whom ICE was withholding lifesaving medication from? After two weeks, Javier Abreu-Vasquez is finally out of the dungeon and back with his family in Minnesota. 🙏🏼

Podcaster Occupied Government

i know it's really hard to feel like it right now but the republican party is cooked. charred. cremated. they're done. they put all their eggs in the big boy basket and the big boy cannot stop shitting his pants

i mean he's right but he doesn't know why

starting your inevitable war on the judiciary under the banner of your least popular policy that's most likely to get congressional republicans to side against you

whole supreme court got to go

The Moderna vaccine review kerfuffle was market manipulation. Everything this admin does is market manipulation

Incredible Asian market haul for under $35

One of the most annoying genres of Bluesky reply is someone with a large following who takes something you post as an invitation to talk about themselves or make an example of you but won’t actually engage. On an app where everyone sucks at posting you guys take the cake

if i am ever faculty at a public health school, the first course i am designing and teaching is mandatory writing. just basic composition. scientific/paper writing will come later. it sucks that america is functionally illiterate even at post-grad education levels but we've gotta start somewhere

This is being done intentionally by the Atlantic. They are trying to poison public opinion about health journalism, and Liz Bruenig is helping them

the concept that I struggle the most to explain to clinical investigators is gestational age as a mediator and not a confounder, and that if you adjust for it you're likely to introduce bias. i've tried many ways and it is just not scanning *at all.* does anybody have a successful method?

If you have parents this stupid and you survive to adulthood unscathed physically, you should be legally able to take all their money and put them in a haunted house for their retirement

sorry but this is child abuse!

in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.

ok I started anti-oedipus and I love it. so sorry

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

I also see this as a less ideological version of “left melancholy” as there is an emotional attachment here in addition to the epistemic one

I am not interested at the moment in whether the "epistemic pessimism" belief is right or wrong, but more that it does seem to be coherent belief/model of reality that is under-theorized at the moment despite many people sharing it

think that "epistemic pessimism" is a major and untheorized political ideology issue. many of us subscribe to largely implicit notion of US electorate and media as being beyond redemption

Just got to introduce @nhold.bsky.social to the beautiful concept of banjo night

Man what the FUCK

No hallowed skein of stars can ward, I trow, / Who's once been set his tryst with Trystero

I wonder if there’s a way to check who was short on Moderna when FDA rejected the vaccine and then went long on it in advance of the reconsideration. Seems like it would be a good idea except that the government checking it would find a bunch of its own people.

i am having the most protracted, frustrating, unproductive engagement with an editor right now and i don't know how to tell when to throw in the towel