The ethical and legal damage will be with us forever but it’s the raging incompetence that will strike first, within the next few days.

There are a hundred more important things to say, and I tried to say some of them in my essay for "Thinking About...", but: invading a country for oil is also just atavistic at this point. Even if it worked, which it won’t, it still wouldn’t work.

What it knows is that you’ve asked it to write an apology. Whether that apology is *deserved* or even *rational* it has absolutely no interest in. When you say “Grok apologized” you are saying “That greeting card sure feels bad about your grandma dying.”

“Brazilian researchers found that covid-19 triggered a sharp rise in T cell exhaustion and cellular ageing…the strongest effects were seen in CD8+ T cells, which suppress latent viruses such as EBV and VZV. These effects were seen even after mild infections.” www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Last year I was asked you give a lecture at Kirby Institute at the University of NSW (Prif. Raina McIntyre's Group). I was the warm-up act for David Tuller from Berkley I spoke for 30 minutes on the "Costs of doing nothing" My slides already need updating 😬

Everything has vessels www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/27...

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/

Excellent commentary. Thanks for the Sci Amer reference! @panaccindex.bsky.social One gift of the pandemic was meeting such an interesting and diverse community of people. One other gift was getting an editorial in SA - I grew up reading it and marvelling.

I'm #oneofthetwo that Jon Stewart from @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social mocked for still wearing a mask in public places in 2025. I guess he's never heard of immunocompromised people like me... or disabled people like my wife... or people with #LongCovid... or people who simply care about others...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

Claiming it required learning is a nice bit of revisionist history that casts cdc and others in the more positive light of ignorant but trying. CAN/CSA Z94.4-18 specified respiratory protection against bioaerosols before 2018. THIS ISN’T NEW AND SURPRISING INFO. www.wired.com/story/the-te...

☝️ what he said. The goal for those of us who've been paying attention is absolutely *not* to just put the other team of high priests back in control of the same old public health cargo cult. If the structural problems with public health are not fixed, we'll have to replace it from the ground up.

Absolutely infuriating. And revising the narrative means there’s no possibility of any learning…as that requires an admission of being wrong. So the next time around we will have exactly the same experience. Millions will die and be disabled, and we’ll wring our hands repeating ‘we didn’t know’.

This is the primary paper Rob has also shown us some seriously good science in our WHN Long Cövid Group... Sitting with the grownups is a great privilege 😊 www.cell.com/trends/endoc...

The 1934 Wells paper is from here: academic.oup.com/aje/article/...

The negligent, outdated beliefs of medicine's management class (everywhere; from the UK inquiry here) contrasted with well-understood science from 👉1934👈. If you got sick after being told that COVID falls to the ground within 3 feet and N95/FFP2/FFP3 respirators aren't needed, 👉it was their fault.👈

The people that blew the calls on COVID - laid out below, with extensive citations - are the same people who are getting paid enormous amounts of our money to keep the public educated about how to prepare for H5N1. But they can't do that without admitting their mistakes - so they'll let people die.

Tomorrow Never Suffers Acid Reflux

WTF is this? I did not write or submit this paper. Are journals now run entirely by AIs who hallucinate entire publications? Knowledge Of Pregnant Women About The Benefits Of Pregnancy Books In Ottawa | International Journal of Health Engineering and Technology share.google/ArcgxhUDfSY9...

When I wrote about Gisele Pelicot, men screamed “not all men!” They refused to face the fact that it’s a lot of men & we don’t know who the bad ones are until it’s too late A woman in Britain was raped & drugged by husband & multiple other men for 13 years “Not all men” isn’t good enough anymore

🚨 Holy s**t. I just went and manually pulled the annual flu totals in Canada. Almost like something happened to make us less able to fight off the flu. @nicktsergas.ca @spichaksimon.bsky.social @tryangregory.bsky.social @barryhunt008.bsky.social @jvipondmd.bsky.social @drgorfinkel.bsky.social

According to Mattha, if our previous paper was problematic to the zero-covid committee, this work would validate them. Why was this paper ignored? Why? This needs to be addressed. t.co/Glg0p61m22

In Radonovich et al 2019, subjects were only instructed to wear masks or respirators when within six feet of patients. This totally ignores small-aerosol transmission, which is a key part of the argument why respirators would work better. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... (10/n)

Airborne disease transmission is complicated, and the implementation of impactful mitigation strategies requires us to understand every aspect of this process. When widely circulated newspapers publish misinformation about what the literature is showing, the public is disserved.

WOW: The DOJ has DELETED an image from its release of the Epstein files that shows photos of Trump in a drawer. Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump. Now, it’s gone.

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

Pretty clear cause and effect, right back at the beginning of 2020. COVID is airborne. Stop that with N95s and good ventilation, and you stop transmission, even without vaccines. This is Public Health's elective, Dunning-Kruger pandemic. Link to the full story: globalnews.ca/news/6945991...

And here are the money quotes. The usual gibberish from public health (Dr. Arruda was the province's Public Health Director) about how it's probably the fault of the workers. Funny how it's always that and not public health's incompetence. And then read that last line.

The military was brought it, and because unlike IPAC they are not complete idiots and have an understanding of how to protect against biological hazards, they wore the proper PPE (and the nurses were allowed to have N95s as well now) - and someone checked the ventilation.

I honestly expected more from a FIFA Peace Prize recipient

A huge step, in Canada

New game: "Outbreak BINGO", using the list of screwups identified by the SARS Commission in SARS-CoV-1 that were repeated in SARS-CoV-2. Summaries (full details at the link - NB this is *despite* a lot of self-serving testimony from those responsible): wayback.archive-it.org/17275/202203...

"When we talk about the vulgarization of America, the coarsening of the American mind — we can use this [Trump] as exhibit A, B and C. It teaches people to approach politics and culture and one another in horrific ways." The Make America Gawd Awful movement.

Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

📽️ WATCH: After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, which led to 18 million hens being killed and a spike in egg prices, the Department of Agriculture didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne. But ProPublica did. @natlash.bsky.social breaks it down: propub.li/4iVcYfD

“Because whenever gov needs a distraction they dust off the same script. Cue the ominous music. Pretend bail is broken. Pretend courts are pushovers. Pretend complexity can be fixed w/slogans. It is political comfort food for people who should know better.” www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/opinion...

Yes, BC is rolling out a program: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202... Unfortunately, zero programs for hospitals & schools … unless the patients and kids move to the chicken barns 🤪 A step in the right direction … but BC public health IPAC is archaic.

I don’t know who created the videos in this short thread, but it’s a stunning example of the questionable truthfulness of the information #ChatGPT & others are giving out. People tend to believe what #AI is imparting with very little questioning. Look at the starting 2 images, then watch the clips

...left to our own devices we would make DIY corsi Rosenthal water filters & be mocked by our raw water colleagues who insist that annual gastro is not too high a price for drinking out of the same celebratory cup

Tonight, I’m published in MSNBC—sorry, MS Now. In this piece, I explain how the right-wing war on COVID mitigation measures and politicization of science led us to this moment. www.ms.now/opinion/fda-...

Imagine if, every winter, water treatment stopped for 4months & people drank dirty water & overwhelmed our hospitals with vomiting & diarrhea. >65 & <5 most likely to die Imagine if the govt just called it "gastro season" & reminded people to vomit in their elbows #Influenza

www.news-medical.net/news/2025121... Anyone recall how many years ago I said C19 appeared to be reactivating TB? They’ve picked up on the concept.

Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud. Read our full investigation here 👇

"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...