He can do a perpetual damage control tour for the next 30 years, but it doesn’t change the fact that he’s trying to build the panopticon.

Berger is now down TWENTY-THREE votes in his reelection bid in North Carolina, worsening from his 2-vote deficit, with provisionals now counted. www.wral.com/news/nccapit...

Thursday! Join us for a webinar to learn what you should know about measles in 2026 & get answers to your questions, featuring @dukehealth.bsky.social Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Cam Wolfe. Submit questions: tinyurl.com/MeaslesQuestions312, & register: tinyurl.com/MeaslesWebinar312

The director of public health and the superintendent of public schools here in Durham, NC, are not messing about “In the event of an exposure & your child does not have the appropriate vaccination documentation on file, it will result in the student’s removal from school for 21 days.”

Reports from whom is a really important question here.

Congrats to @ncaaup.bsky.social & all who fought against this surveillance policy that would've allowed admin to hijack microphones in the classroom for secret recordings. This move would've chilled classroom discussion & suppressed students' willingness to ask questions & take intellectual risks.

This is a particular kind of anti-fatness that shows up on the left: the "hold corporations accountable for creating fat people" stuff. Yes absolutely, corporate accountability across the board, within & beyond food industries. Just stop mobilizing animus against fat people to make your point.

Was having a convo with @bachynski.bsky.social & we decided that it's of upmost importance to start gathering the oral histories of those who lived through the time before polio vaccines, measles vaccines, etc. They can provide important perspectives and they will not be with us for too much longer

Even as antivaccine and disinformation is spreading in the west, it is wonderful to see India’s efforts to eliminate cervical cancer through vaccination timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-...

This recent RCT of an "AI stethoscope" claims the technology "shows promise" for diagnosing cardiovascular conditions. It does not. It is a textbook example of the risks of conducting unprincipled 'per protocol analyses'. Once again, peer review at a major medical journal has failed. 🧵 1/

The unethical study planned in Guinea Bissau is officially halted by Guinean authorities. "Study was halted in response to criticism from researchers and members of the US Congress. “It’s not going to happen, period" said the Foreign Minister. A win for advocacy! www.cidrap.umn.edu/hepatitis/gu...

Breaking — Planned ICE concentration camp near Nashville canceled!!!!

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

Heads up NC, details still lacking, but this sure has the appearance of a data center purchase.

when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten 1/n www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Guinea-Bissau "terminated a contentious hepatitis B vaccine trial bankrolled by the Trump administration following a sharp ethical rebuke from the WHO, which warned the study risked causing irreversible harm to newborns" "It's not going to happen, period," said Foreign Minister Joao Bernardo Vieira

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

“Nobody outside the scientific community seemed to realize what was happening. Friends and family had all tried to reassure her…that she just needed to hang in there until the midterms, or the next presidential election. She found it exhausting to explain how irreversible the damage actually was.”

“it’s possible for bad actors to access someone’s AI agent through any of its processes connected to the public facing internet, and that it’s trivial to create a supply chain attack through a site where people share and download popular instructions for these AI agents”

per report, DHS is aiming to complete construction on the camps in november. that’s plenty of time to stop or delay them indefinitely, but we need to be clear-eyed about the timeline here—and why a cautious response from our elected leaders isn’t acceptable.

The last part abt how measles disrupts immunity vs other infections is, imo, underappreciated (& mechanism was recently clarified). It's part of why measles vaccination was seen to help beyond just reducing measles complications - not getting measles reduces severity of subsequent infections too.

Another example of why I hate so much the folks who tell us this stuff is inevitable. It doesn’t have to be this way! Often when communities see the stakes, they reject ubiquitous surveillance.

“Now, rather than largely ignoring the actual operations of one agency, he can largely ignore the actual operations of two.” "It seems the one qualification for this job is rubber-stamping RFK Jr’s agenda." "I wonder if Jay will now do twice as many podcasts." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Any LLM product in the EHR can inject garbage into the medical record. First, you massively increase volume and reduce information density via automated documentation. Then you need summarization to wade through it all. When errors inevitably slip through, they’re untraceable to the next reader.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

agreed—i love my PCP and still felt pressured to say yes. while i didn’t really think there’d be an issue, the tool ended up capturing a mental health comment i did NOT want on my non-psychiatric medical record/notes. normally she would know not to write it down. but AI is not intelligent

Today, Defend Public Health filed our second amicus brief in the lawsuit against RFK Jr. and his HHS for their harmful changes to vaccine recommendations. Shout out to our fearless legal leaders @weparmet.bsky.social, @doritreiss.bsky.social, and the DPH members who helped with the brief.

I missed this comment before, and in case the ring/flock divorce suggests to you that ring is any less evil, consider the prospect of ring or ring users getting to decide who has “dementia” and then uploading them to their digital dragnet.

This is EXACTLY right RFK Jr and the MDs and PhDs he hired to follow his orders—Drs Prasad, Bhattacharya, Høeg, Kulldorff, Oz, & Makary—have been hugely successful at rapidly dismantling the US vaccine system & at discouraging vaccine R&D (including mRNA vaccine R&D)

Many babies can receive an MMR vaccine as early as 6 months old if they will be traveling internationally or live in or will travel to a community with an active measles outbreak. Talk to your doctor about vaccination if your baby is 6 months old or older. www.healthychildren.org/english/heal...

Helpful explainer here to circulate as measles hits the triangle

“They are refusing to review a new vaccine with a more flexible technology, while creating a real risk we will not have traditional vaccines for next year," @doritreiss.bsky.social said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NEW: The AMA and a leading public health research group focused on vaccines are teaming up to create a parallel system to review vaccine safety and effectiveness. 
The CDC’s vaccine review process has “effectively collapsed” under RFKJr. My story. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

It's actually remarkably easy to not ever use ChatGPT.

Again- when lots of measles circulates, more fully vaccinated people get measles. This is a problem for all of us

Terrific read... Another example showing why, if you don't already follow @drjenndowd.bsky.social, you should...

This panopticon bullshit is fascist in both intent and effect.

Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

Bhattacharya says he is against lockdowns in theory, but here's what's happening under his "leadership." www.wbtv.com/2026/01/27/h...

"It's less harmful to me to make sure that they can do the things without the AI than to try and push the AI into my classroom knowing that, at least for some of them, it's going to mean that they don't get to acquire the skills that they need." This this this this this this this this this this 🙏

I love how @heymrsbond.com’s approach helps students value their individual voices and the process of learning. Making outlines and drafts part of the assignment supports a value system where creative and cognitive learning processes are the focus. AI productivity hacks are beside the point.

Communication and monitoring efforts focused on breakthrough infections are critical to avoid a potential positive feedback loop between increasing breakthrough infections, growing vaccine hesitancy, and declining vaccine coverage. www.goodmorningamerica.com/wellness/sto...

In other words, we would expect to see more breakthrough infections in much of the country if vaccine coverage declines further. bsky.app/profile/dimi...

It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can

14/ We eliminated polio by treating vaccination as a collective responsibility grounded in evidence and solidarity not as a consumer preference. Suggesting that polio vaccination should be optional ignores history, ignores biology, ignores ethics, and ignores the children who will pay the price. FIN

Inhumane and incredibly short-sighted. These meds keep people healthy and protect their partners and communities. This is a death sentence for people who can’t afford the meds ($20k plus per year) and will lead to more infections, more drastically altered lives, and more need for assistance.

While you’re preparing your food and water for the upcoming winter weather, be sure to also prepare your carbon monoxide detectors! Carbon monoxide deaths increase during winter storms as people turn to gas appliances to heat their homes, so be sure to have detectors, and heat your homes safely!

People don't understand just how terribly bad this is going to be (and already is). Right now the people I talk to about this have the reaction of "yeah, can't believe these anti-vaccine parents, they're just nuts. Glad me and my kids are vaccinated" 1/6