Unbelievable. You'd think the Confederate states couldn't become worse than they already are, but they somehow can.

This gave me chills. Watch.

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it’s “not time for war powers act”

White House Will Host Day-Long Prayer Festival to Promote America’s Christian Origins Leaders of church and state are coming together to "rededicate our country as One Nation to God" people.com/white-house-...

All day prayer festival at the White House, a.k.a. The Quentin Tarantino Film Festival. Praise be! www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

Latest hit by John Roberts and The Supremes: "I fought the law, and the law's gone".

The present is always caused by the past. Going back to the way things were in the past will most likely lead to the same outcome.

Worth considering if “Bluesky has no influence because it’s smaller and most users are on the same half of the political spectrum” has it backwards. I’m raising this to kick around, not necessarily making the case, but… What, exactly, did Bluesky types influence as a result of old Twitter? 1/x

Both the UK and the EU are considering policy reforms that would slow the EV transition, just as it accelerates globally. Sometimes things are not counterintuitive, they are just dumb. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...

Se on #pandemiaPerjantai ja uudet @thlfi.bsky.social #SARS-CoV2 #jätevesi datat. Päivitetyt kaaviot, olkaa hyvät ! Epidemia kokolailla ohi. Nuo, joissa käyrä katkeaa kesken ovat alle mittausrajan. Toivottavasti jatkuu.

I can to some extent understand those ordinary people who joined Nazis or fascists or communists in the turbulent years of the 1930s. Back then, not even their enemies realised the extent of horrors those ideologies could unleash. But people living today have no excuses. They should know.

How it started vs. How it's going #Hallitus #Velkaantuminen #Politiikka

Velkajarru on talouden lattia, ja sitten on velkakatto, ja sitten on ara-lainoilla pystytetyt velkaseinät. Näin rakentuu velkahytti joka on velkalaivassa. Joka on tulessa ja törmäämässä jäävuoreen! Kaikki pelastusveneisiin! (hinta alkaen 100 000€)

A lawless regime in which the government treats the public budget as their pocket money.

All day prayer? I guess they are going to show all Tarantino's movies.

Trump Appoints Horse As Acting CDC Director, Expects Smooth Senate Confirmation

Odds ratios have so many problems that they should simply be banned. Relative Risks all the way

To me, the clear and correct statement is that Elon Musk's acquisition and complete retooling of Twitter has been a net negative, and a big reason for that is that he algorithmically upweighted speech he likes and downweighted speech he doesn't like.

this is very clearly and directly genocidal: "Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group" is explicitly listed as a genocidal act in the 1948 convention, and Russia's intent to destroy Ukrainians as a people has been made clear over and over again

US democracy: you can choose anybody to be your elected representative, as long as they are a white Repubkican.

One again, I ask - without trying to be overly alarmist - what anyone has seen since January 2025 to make them believe the 2026/28 elections will be free, fair, & democratic by any meaningful definitions of the words.

Yes, there will be elections. No, they will not be free & fair. No, the Democrats winning them will not vindicate the claims of those who told us we were overly alarmist when we said the elections were not going to be free & fair.

UPDATE: The @who.int is advising all who contact MV Hondius ship evacuees to wear respirator masks (n95 or FFP2/3 equivalent). This is amazing and I hope this is extended to advice to all HCWs when seeing undifferentiated unwell respiratory viruses www.who.int/publications...

Good explanation why reducing taxes on fossil fuels doesn't have an effect on prices when there's a supply deficit.

The pseudo-scientific (quack) psychologization of patients is a disease that should be eradicated from the health care systems. The patients affected are overwhelmingly women, although men may also fall victim to it.

“A French woman who tested positive for hantavirus after she was evacuated from a cruise ship reported symptoms to doctors onboard but was told it was probably just anxiety.”

Just happened to be listening an audiobook that touched on the causes of the extremely bloody 1918 Finnish Civil War. When the moderates seemed to make no headway, the control of the social democratic party passed to the revolutionary radicals. That was a massive, massive mistake.

A helluva thing to be even discussing... Naive me, in my optimistic youth I thought the 21st Century would be better. Instead we have an Orange Mussolini; a rogue state called Israel; and war in Europe. Damn.

One outbreak of concern and the entire “sane” side of the public health immediately resorted back to the paternalism of telling us not to worry, this isn’t another COVID, etc. They didn’t learn a thing. We didn’t appoint them to be our therapists or parents. Provide info, don’t dictate how to feel.

This is a fantastic little experiment in testing the null. The author generated a data set, made copies of it, and labeled different copies with different country labels. He then asked copilot to analyze the data and it produced all kinds of claims of difference.

"Based on the dataset you shared, US and UK responses differ mainly in tone, intensity, and wording style, even though they express similar emotional states" New post on what happened when I got Copilot to do some data analysis: kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...

Brilliant study. Used the exact same texts & only substituted country of origin. And AI categorized & revealed differences among countries … with exactly the SAME DATA. FFS AI is dumb

She is a relic of a bygone age who neither understands nor seems to really much care about fighting authoritarianism in the actual current moment of 🇺🇸 politics in which we live

Tie helvettiin on päällystetty sopeutuksilla.

Huomenta. Suomessa on lähdetty Kreikan sopeutustielle ilman Kreikan kriisitietä - se on Suomen tie!

The US Republicans practice politics the far right way.

I find that folks who criticize Dem messaging as “out of touch” never say what GOP messaging is “in touch” with. Why? In 8 days they’ve managed to redistrict several states to remove Black political representation. They know exactly what GOP messages are in touch with, but don’t want to admit it.

I was sometimes puzzled how many parts of 1930s Europe could descend so quickly into fascism. Now I know. I wish I didn't.

"For this focus group, conducted shortly before a sustained green glow began emanating from the station’s superlaser array, we spoke with residents who said they had backed Emperor Palpatine but now felt conflicted."

Best film adaptation of The Odyssey, wrong answers only

(1) See? Our assumption was right that this virus isn't anything new. (2) Oops! It turns out we were wrong to assume this virus wasn't anything new. Being able to say (1) 99 times doesn't balance out having to say (2) once. That massive asymmetry is why the precautionary principle exists.

People that say “it won’t spread because it hasn’t spread before” had better be saying “because we also are doing all the hard work that endemic regions do to keep us safe”. Partying hard with fingers in ears is not going to give the same results.

A few updates on whether the risk is for sure low and restricted to people on the ship. www.npr.org/2026/05/07/n...

My reference for Roberts used to be Franz von Papen, one of the idiots who brought Hitler to power, thinking they will be the masters behind the scenes. Now I think he's more in the Franz Gürtner, Otto Thierack category.

I cannot think of anything more American than Americans claiming that bad things are un-American, even for stuff that happened all the time throughout the US history.

For any new outbreak there is a lot of daylight between "Panic! It's COVID 2.0!" and "Nothing to worry about". 1) There's never a time to panic. 2) Mass panic is very improbable (didn't even happen with COVID -- unless you count hoarding toilet paper) 3) Minimizing infectious disease causes harm.

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties. The Supreme chutzpah of these people. It’s almost unbelievable.

“Let’s contain & research this potential pathogen to make sure it doesn’t cause harm” became “Oh, what the hell let’s let this pathogen rip throughout society and tell everyone it’s mild.” It’s like if the Joker ran public health. (And this was before RFK Jr.!) #COVID