Public health leaders are out of their depth - as usual. Ebola, like COVID, is a science problem. We cannot afford to keep handing authority to cosplayers who think clinical training alone entitles them to grab control, manipulate data to hide their incompetence, and gamble with global health.

ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris. With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further degrade the web itself.

Funny how the all the people ransacking the Capitol on January 6 were liberals, plants, and ANTIFA—until there was money to be made from it.

‘While some cling to the promise of an AI “revolution,” the cost of adoption is proving a stubborn bottleneck. These developments also suggest that the economics of replacing human labor with AI may be more complicated than some early forecasts originally implied.’ fortune.com/2026/05/22/m...

Acute stress makes it difficult to link memories of past events with fresh information, a study1 suggests. The results help to explain why people struggle to show insight under pressure. go.nature.com/4dA96yd

Dear Democrats: get on the data center issue asap. The American people are already there. They don’t want their communities polluted so Zuckerberg can power an ai chatbot that convinces their kids to commit suicide.

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

GOP Vice Chair Blake Moore: "Our Republican priority will always be to put government ahead of Americans." They do not care about you.

This is another edit of last night's (20th May 2026) sunset with Venus far left above the trees, the Moon high on the right and Jupiter above. Google Pixel 8a camera (and app for editing).

"Doctors who dismiss symptoms of autoimmune diseases as psychiatric or psychosomatic can cause lasting harm, a University of Cambridge study has warned. More than 80% of patients reported that having their symptoms dismissed as psychiatric...

However appalled you are by this, it’s not enough. It’s a frank statement that Trump and Trumpists are above the law and need not even plausible excuses to loot your tax dollars. It’s a total failure of our civic institutions.

Incredibly moving and beautiful interview from the one and only Emilia Clarke So wonderful to hear her speaking so openly on so many topics including acquired brain injury, #EDS, joint hypermobility spectrum disorders and #MCAS. 🙏🙏 youtu.be/zSUqrOAMMDU

feeding auditory hallucinations to a person in active AI-induced psychosis

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With ongoing hantavirus and Ebola outbreaks, this paper is worth (re)reading. When someone coughs, sings, talks or breathes they produce aerosols from their respiratory fluids - along with whatever pathogens are in those fluids. COVID screwups have committed PH/IPC leaders to covering that up.

Remember Trump praising the “fat drugs”? Well, he’s personally invested in the company that makes those drugs, and his policies are helping that company enormously. https://kffhealthnews.org/health-industry/trump-stock-trades-eli-lilly-glp-1-weight-loss-drugs-invest-ethics-disclosures/

An auditor for the Ontario, Canada government found that AI agents tasked with turning doctor/patient conversations into structured notes routinely hallucinated false treatments, replaced drug names with entirely different drugs, and missed crucial information

This has been especially difficult for the disabled and chronically ill in a world full of Covid. The betrayal by abled friends that won’t make accommodations or simply stopped reaching out has been devastating across the whole community.

Failing to roll mitigations for airborne transmission is growing long Covid cases and marginalising Clinically vulnerable people and sufferers.

Was about to get in the car to go to Costco and this little fellow caught my eye. Just hanging out in the hedges.

Between this announcement from the WHO about ebola and hantavirus, the World Cup is going to be LIT next month. 🙃😷

"“It’s possible that we’re starting to see the consequences of severe and sudden cuts to global health programs that have eroded surveillance and allowed deadly viruses to spread undetected...” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/w...

Bundibugyo ebolavirus outbreak in the DRC and Uganda has been declared a PHEIC by the WHO. The highest alert lever it has. This requires swift a and multinational response. Estimated death count is already 80! No vaccine, no rapid diagnostic tests. www.science.org/content/arti...

When the usual minimizers claim it's unreasonable to express any level of concern over the potential trajectory of p2p hantavirus transmission because the "experts" have got it covered, just show them this.

I submitted an article to a patient experience journal yesterday. Hoping to hear whether I'll be published over the next few weeks!

Doctors who "know everything about everything" are our medical gurus. Discussed here.

"Perhaps the biggest lesson here is that the broader medical community failed to reign in its own bad actors. To say that there were warning signs MAHA doctors is like calling the Grand Canyon a pothole. Their risks were glaring and obvious." My latest of the fall of Marty Makary at the FDA.

There’s a glaring historical inaccuracy in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film of The Odyssey: they didn’t have cameras back then. Theatres should have a blank screen and an old man reading out the script

🎧 It's launch day! 🚀 Our VERY FIRST EPISODE of "Paper Trail" is now live. You can listen at the link below or subscribe in all the normal podcast places: www.propublica.org/podcast/what...

The hantavirus outbreak has raised two major concerns for Dr. Paul Sax (@paulsaxmd.bsky.social) — and neither is directly related to the outbreak itself. Read the latest from Dr. Sax in NEJM Voices, a new clinician blog featuring essays grounded in real-world practice: https://nej.md/4uIwAIi

I am so sorry, ma’am, but we lost your son. Surgery was going fine but we decided to let RFK Jr. futz around a little on his insides with a robot. He was eating squash at the time.

I shouldn't be surprised that the racists-in-charge got to the 6 Principles of Trauma-Informed Care at SAMHSA. They removed the 6th one, respecting cultural, historical, and gender issues. The site was updated in February, and some of the other resources I came here for are gone as well.

The hantavirus outbreak isn't just about hantavirus. It's public health and IPC showing us that they have learned nothing from their mismanagement of COVID. Regardless of where hantavirus falls on the spectrum from "pandemic" to "dry run for the next pandemic", that is unacceptably sloppy.

MIN: Do you know how much new energy China put online last year? BURGUM: Intermittent or base load? M: 543 GW. How much was renewable? 434 GW. B: But only when the sun is shining M: Meanwhile, the US put up 53 GW of new energy last year - less than 10% of China. You're harming our natl security

The instant I finish work anymore

It is critical that patient priorities be reflected in #longCOVID trial design and selection, alongside transdisciplinary subject matter expertise and mechanistic understanding. The view of clinical research as exclusive turf reserved for clinicians makes it about medical politics more than science.

Not only am I having a shit day thanks to AI-loaded garbage digital marketing platforms, my mom just called to tell me one of her dogs died. I just can't today. RIP Cooper. You were one of the chillest dogs I've ever met. 💔

New in PN: This is a crisis of democracy. What will Dems do about it? "Perhaps you’re uncomfortable with one or more of these proposals. That’s fine. At this point, the details are less important than preparing for a new approach to politics, procedures, and governing."

I'm working on an article for a medical journal about trauma-informed care and women's health, and this is right on the money when it comes to the culture in healthcare settings that I'm discussing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL0D...

No, I blame the global leadership of public health and infection control for wasting an enormous number of lives with their Dunning-Kruger arrogance and denial of aerosol transmission - and I blame their sycophants for trying to rewrite history and pretend it away, sacrificing lives to save face.

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Pulled this old cannabis tincture out of the fridge to add a few drops to my tea and had to lol...BLUESKY. Would be amazing merch 😅

"Paywalled" is the word you're looking for. They didn't turn it off. The only thing that changed is X now explicitly makes money off CSAM.

I'm still waiting for "We got a lot of things very wrong about COVID, and we understand that this has badly damaged trust. We have learned important lessons and are doing things differently now. For example, this time we're implementing the precautionary principle and taking airborne precautions."

Carl warned us

This is despicable and also not unique in anyway. Eugenics language around COVID has been pervasive since the start. It was very literally the Biden CDC position. No party is exempt from societal loathing of disabled and chronically ill people and the celebration of our deaths.