Should it side with the president, the Supreme Court could supercharge Trump’s effort to assert absolute control over agencies that regulate the economy, the stock market, federal campaign finance and communications. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

New article inspired by the recent hoopla surrounding Karen Hao's book (re: water use). I argue that "no one should look to the EA community as exemplifying good habits of epistemic and moral conduct." Here's why: www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/how-effect...

"When I mentioned some of these threats [...] someone I’ll call “Tim” contacted me to say that I should take them seriously [...] Why? Because Tim had attended an “AI safety” workshop in Berkeley in which violence was discussed as a strategy for ensuring that humanity attains its cosmic potential."

NEW: My Udemy course 'Propaganda & Disinformation for Beginners' has helped students in 26 countries worldwide strengthen their armour against disinformation since it launched 2 years ago. Techniques Cambridge Analytica used to secretly profile millions have become a vastly profitable industry.. /1

This isn't Hiroshima in 1945. This isn't Dresden in 1945. This is Vovchansk, Ukraine — December 2025. Days before Christmas. A European town in 2025 looks like cities erased in World War II. Not because of a natural disaster. Not because of an accident.👇

I can't believe I'm saying this again, but this happened in 1.0 as well. You can be shocked, but you also must realize that this was always the modus operandi.

2018. It didn’t break the top fold then. Do better now.

The destruction of scientific education and industry in the US deeply saddens me. I am a scientist by nature. I grew up at a time when that was valued globally. I had so many personal benefits from the US scientific ecosystem. It's devastating to watch it disappear. May the world learn quickly.

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

I don’t know details of this system or company but this type of naval drone is exactly what is needed right now! Good development. www.eweek.com/news/greysha...

What about Europe? It is mentioned quite a bit, with one primary focus: European identity and the alleged elites and minority governments that restrict core liberties and democratic processes. This is extremely close to JD Vance’s Munich speech.

This is spot on. The tech broligarchs, especially the so-called PayPal Mafia, have naively squandered something irreplaceable. And their role in shaping Project 2025, and now the National Security Strategy, completed the destruction of that soft power for generations to come.

ICYMI: My latest, on how Big Tech has gone from Big Hope to a combination of Big Oil and Big Tobacco… and why that damages American soft power in the world.

I think it’s funny they dropped it at like 10:00 on a Thursday night, shows how much they care (they don’t)

A whopping 65% of Germans say Germany is acting too cautiously in asserting its interests towards the United States.

No single human, at any point in history, has ever had so much of the world unite in ridicule. An utter tragedy of man. (📸 AP)

The US National Security Strategy released overnight has shocked Europeans. In truth, its plans for Europe are just a reiteration of what the State Department already publicly posted back in May. But Europeans have not wanted to listen.

The thought process of Temu ACIP is that of conspiratorial groupthink. They have no evidence of harm with HepB vaccines, which they take to be evidence of a cover-up. This is likely because, with the exception of 3 members, they do not understand epidemiology, but they all think they do.

Not explicitly saying in the headline that 1. The newly appointed committee with a long history of anti-vaccine views, and 2. That this change is going against the scientific evidence Is journalistic malpractice

And that’s why we didn’t get any details about Cole’s activity between 12/19 and 1/5 in the affidavit or the press conference.

There will be many who claim this is about "free speech," but it's not—it's about X and Musk's shady business practices: -meaningless blue checks w no real verification -a lack of ad transparency -not providing data access for researchers ...all req'd under DSA. www.euractiv.com/news/eu-slap...

Another review of the safety of aluminum as an adjuvant (an ingredient that helps the immune systems respond to the vaccine) from @enirenberg.bsky.social et al. Nice set of conclusion & recommendations for clinicians too. publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...

they are totally untethered from any world. they aren't in touch w the people, they don't do politics, they don't understand business or econ, they have zero understanding of science or med, most don't have regular contact with young people. they are floating in an ether of their own fatuousness.

Congress keeps talking about funding biotechnology to compete with China. I haven't seen this covered in the news, but the BIOTech Caucus is narrowly focused on Synthetic Biology and manufacturing (of various molecules?). W a strong biosecurity focus too. Moves R&D to DOD and DOC from NIH, NSF.

“There is a risk that the focus on the second strike and specifically the talk of ‘war crimes’ feeds into the administration’s false wartime framing and veils the fact that the entire boat-strikes campaign is murder, full stop.”

Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...

Trump ended USAID and the result is a rise in child morality for the first time this century. Pro life 🙄

Nothing to see here... Oh wait - everything to see here!

US national security strategy. Something sure is unrecognisable here, but it’s not Europe. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Billionaire Andrej Babis to become Czech PM on December 9

Naturally, but the GOP and their MAGA fluffers on social media will have nothing to say about this, and Mike Johnson will pretend not to see this story until 2029. Trump Jr-backed startup gets $600 million dollar government deal.

It was only a matter of time before Kushner was back on the “diplomatic” scene.

Can’t wait until they also rule that California’s map to counter Texas is illegal. 🙄

The Enrobed Wizards on the 9 Member Super-Legislature have once again Burned the Entrails of Democracy and passed judgement according to the "Law" and "Constitution"

To simplify: We don't call historical geocentrism (earth at the center of the universe) pseudoscience. That's just where science was at the time. People who believe in geocentrism *now* however are pushing pseudoscience.

🇺🇸❗️The proposal the Americans brought to Moscow contained issues that the Ukrainians did not approve of being discussed. Today's meeting between the Ukrainian delegation, Witkoff, and Kushner in Miami will be a briefing from the Americans, — FT citing Ukrainian officials.

This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.

Mornin. ☕️ ICYMI: I got copies of letters from nearly 20 of Trump's ballroom donors, sent to a senator asking for specifics on how much they gave, who asked them to give, if they made deals, etc. Most ignored the Qs and bragged about their philanthropy. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Wow, Adm. Holsey didn't leave of his own accord, Hegseth pushed him out. What looked like the SOCOM head resigning rather than do war crimes now looks like SecDef canning him to facilitate war crimes. Congress should have him testify, and would've already if war-crime-sympathetic GOP didn't run it.

Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵

They are beating people who maybe once had a broken taillight and sending them to foreign slave prisons while freeing the worst fraudsters and every corrupt pol. The juxtaposition is so stark and appalling.

I wrote an Opinion piece for @thelancet.com about James Watson. It's not an obituary - Georgina Ferry did that for them - but offers some thoughts on the problematic aspects of Watson's history. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

"There were few people better placed to know why notions of race-based differences in intelligence have no scientific foundation; to sustain his beliefs in the face of that demanded not just ignorance but active denial." @philipcball.bsky.social in @thelancet.com

Is the #EU quietly weakening the very institution meant to defend the European interest? @alemanno.bsky.social warns of a “Dogeization” of #Europe - a hollowing of the Commission that could reshape the Union’s future. Read more: thegoodlobby.eu/the-dogeizat...

The folks at @defendpublichealth.bsky.social bring you this week’s Whopper of the Week. It’s the 21st century but RFK Jr wants to take us back to the 19th. Yes. Really. Forget Pasteur. Forget Koch. Forget germ theory. We’re back to miasma and terrain theory. The dude is bonkers.

During an interesting discussion yesterday with @philosophyshepherd.bsky.social and our Representations Group (www.tcd.ie/Neuroscience...), I mentioned the idea of thinking of our motor systems as embodying a generative model of possible movements. Some members objected...

Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

NIH clears the way to make grant funding more political, corrupt and personalistic. Bravo Bhattacharya. www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...

A lot of this is about protecting a venture capital-owned colony in Honduras -- Thiel, Andreessen, Lonsdale, Balaji Srinivasan are all behind it. Honduras has been trying to get them out but looks like Trump is to the rescue. www.vcinfodocs.com/prospera-the... That's the Network State!

This is my last post in the 'metaphors for AI' trilogy. I never thought there was so much to say about it all. But this is it for now! Comments welcome. #AI #metaphor makingsciencepublic.com/2025/11/28/o...