Kristin Pearson
@kmpearson.bsky.social
Attorney. Fan of hiking, facts, football (and other sports too!), democracy, and cookies. Hook ‘Em. 🇺🇦 #NAFO
I graduated med school in 2014. I was taught-and saw-how hard melanoma was to treat, like a death sentence Since then, new treatments have made it possible for people w/ the most advanced melanoma, like Jimmy Carter, to live to 100! We are killing ourselves by letting them destroy American science
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 7d agoA cancer vaccine succeeded in a clinical trial in preventing the recurrence of melanoma, a result experts say is a breakthrough for mRNA-based treatments. Trials for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and other diseases' vaccines are also underway.
Fall of the Rebel Angels, by Charles Le Brun, before 1685
i believe that Florida is capable of hitting 200 penalty yards tonight
Vital piece here from Martin McNair, father of Jordan McNair, and @traumacode.bsky.social on the dangers of heat for athletes and the need to be able to execute an emergency response plan—something Maryland and Arizona St completely failed, to devastating effect. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
My son’s death during a college football workout was preventable. Lessons must be learned
Arizona State hockey player Matthew Mayich is fighting for his life after collapsing during practice. Tragedies like this can be avoided
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ken paxton asked texas for a list of everyone who changed the sex on their driver's license. james talarico said sports should be "safe and fair." the best thing for trans rights this year is beating paxton: www.thenewtranssexual.com/p/the-best-t...
The Best Thing for Trans Rights This Year Is Beating Ken Paxton
One candidate softened a sentence. The other one is making lists.
thenewtranssexual.com
That all said, the idea that you get autonomous hacking computers is not entirely frivolous, but it doesn't look like Anthropic or OpenAI models somehow "escaping" onto regular computers and running there. The risk isn't zero because there are other more realistic ways you could get there
This is a good example of how you need quite a lot of detail of how these systems *actually* work to understand what the risks are, and how over-indexing on sci-fi can lead you a bit astray on what the future looks like
brasidas@brasidas.bsky.social · 2w agoAnthropic's models run on terabytes of VRAM. It's not going to "just copy itself to other computers."
Ted Cruz interrupted during ESPN appearance by fired-up crowd chanting, "TED, YOU SUCK!"
Air to Ground Message: PLAN TO STAY SOUTH AND WORK THE BACKSIDE Area: Austin, TX, USA Type: Boeing 737-800 A: #aa64bb46dae F: #f9dcc2af61b
My cousin’s shirt took me a second. He said “it’s great because anyone who would be offended by it couldn’t understand it anyway.”
James Talarico is planning to counterprogram Trump’s GOP midterms convention in Dallas with a focus on affordability. The idea: host a statewide food drive to offer a contrast with Republicans coming to town and highlight the high cost of groceries, according to plans shared first with us.
How Talarico is countering Trump's midterms convention
The Texas Democratic Senate candidate is hosting a statewide food drive to highlight the high cost of groceries, according to plans shared first with POLITICO.
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The NYT lost the Pulitzer for their transphobic podcast series with Azeen Ghorayshi to Pablo Torre and his reporting on the Clippers. They're salty about it so of course they're not going to properly credit him.
We’re talking here about Col. Josh Gaspard, who parachuted into Bashur during the 2003 invasion as a 2LT, then a year in Afg, then company command in surge-era Iraq. His Columbia degrees aren’t even in the “woke” social sciences, they’re in industrial engineering and engineering management systems.
Jason "Red5" Lyall@jaylyall.bsky.social · 3w agoWell, that can't be good for LeTHaLitY
bsky.app/profile/pbum... www.texastribune.org/2026/08/31/t...
Texas hospitals to lose $27 million in Medicaid funding daily
Starting Sept. 1, the Trump administration will withhold about $9.8 billion in extra annual funding that helps hospitals cover the difference between Medicaid payments and the actual cost of services.
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Philip Bump@pbump.com · last yr.Spoke with someone who works with a public hospital system. His assessment of the effects of the GOP spending bill: “I think this is going to be a very apparent catastrophe, very quickly.”
It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.
Hansi Lo Wang (he/him)@hansilowang.bsky.social · 4w agoSCOOP: After the Census Bureau issued a highly unusual report tied to a President Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau’s parent agency, the Commerce Department, cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy, @npr.org has learned www.npr.org/2026/08/31/n...
Jesus Christ: UC Berkeley international students will no longer be allowed to complete internships or co-ops for course credit unless they form an “integral part of an established curriculum,” following repeated threats from ICE. This is going to send shockwaves across SF and Silicon Valley
Lynda Lopez@lyndab08.bsky.social · last mo.“The Berkeley International Office announced Wednesday that it will pause international students’ applications for Course Credit Curricular Practical Training “for the foreseeable future.”
Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.
So sure, USAID was a tool of US soft power and political influence, and also, I sometimes get the sense that people saying this don’t quite comprehend the torrent of death, horror, and pain that is currently unfolding from the genuinely evil decision to suddenly destroy it.
With everyone obsessing over a handful of DSA candidates, the broader trend that might be getting missed across the country is that lots of Dem primary voters seem to have decided it is time for a new generation of younger nominees in lots of places.
wait so we don't know how he got back into real air force one at landing so you're telling me there could be an even funnier story lying around
NEW: We’ve spent a year tracking ICE’s massive expansion of detention for people with years-long ties to the U.S. It has strained courts, wrecked lives and been widely deemed illegal. Our report, based on interviews with judges, detainees and attorneys: www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Sometimes I imagine the administration spinning a big wheel like on The Price Is Right each morning, waiting to see what provision of the Constitution they should violate today
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2mo ago* U.S. HHS SECRETARY SAYS CMS IS PAUSING MEDICAID PAYMENTS TO CALIFORNIA AND MINNESOTA @reuters.com
dawg the brazilians are calling it asfaltos unidos in the QTs we're getting cooked
Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️@arif.bsky.social · 2mo agothis shot is so bleak lmao
