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Jason

@jason23.bsky.social

Interests: Climate, biology, astronomy, tech, and music. Not a billionaire.

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Jason@jason23.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In at least a subset of people with long COVID,the body’s immune system launches an autoimmune attack against the patient’s own cells,causing a cascade of symptoms such as fatigue,brain fog,weakness…findings suggest that long COVID may overlap with autoimmune diseases. news.yale.edu/2026/05/28/y...

Yale study links some long COVID patients to autoimmune responses

A new study co-led by Yale scientists reveals that antibodies from some long COVID patients attacked brain and nerve tissues, a finding that could point toward treatments.

news.yale.edu

Danielle Beckman@daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Crucial paper on #NeuroCovid just published! #LongCovid patients with neurocognitive symptoms showed increased antibodies against the nervous system that correlated with several neurological symptoms. Targeting these antibodies might offer therapeutic benefits for some patients.

Paper published on Cell titled: A causal link between autoantibodies and neurological symptoms in long COVID
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A society that runs on this stack doesn't stop holding elections, or debating, or running investigations. The forms stay, but what goes is their capacity to constrain power. The arc bends toward simulation, carried out in the language of defending democracy.

A diagram showing the VDA framework and the Arc of Democracy. At the top, three icons label the essential elements of democracy: Verification (tick), Deliberation (speech bubble), and Accountability (magnifying glass). Arrows descend from each through three horizontal bands representing the arc: Substantial (truth tested, voices included, power constrained), Performative (forms remain but substance is weak, rituals without consequence), and Simulated (appearance maintained but functions inverted: propaganda as verification, polarisation as deliberation, scapegoating as accountability). A vertical arrow on the left marks the arc's direction: improvements, decline, collapse. A column on the right maps counterpublics onto the same three states: functional counterpublics act in a substantial way, hollow counterpublics in a performative way, disordered counterpublics in a simulated way. The bands shift from grey through pink to red as democracy moves toward simulation.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5mo ago

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed

Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape * Middle East crisis – live updates * Iran threatens to attack oil facilties across Gulf after Israeli strikes Thick black smoke was still rising in the sky, soot covered the streets and cars, balconies filled with black gunk, and the toxic air had filled the lungs as Tehran woke up after a night of airstrikes on the city’s oil depots on Sunday. In messages and voice notes sent to the Guardian, people described the situation in their homes and on the streets, some calling it “apocalyptic”. With the sun blotted out, disoriented people in Iran’s capital had to turn on their lights to see through the gloom. Continue reading...

theguardian.com

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 5mo ago

For those who can't bypass the paywall, the Obama administration, CIA determined that a single strike on a single Saudi water desalination plant would require evacuation of Riyadh and collapse its government. The Saudis have beefed up their infrastructure since, but I would rather not find out.

About 100 million people live in the countries belonging to the Gulf Cooperation Council — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman — all now under Iranian attack. Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE are, for all practical purposes, completely dependent on the desalination plants, particularly for metropolises such as Dubai. Saudi Arabia, and especially its capital, Riyadh, also relies heavily on them. Water Desalination in the Middle East Saudi Arabia is home to most of the water desalination plants in the region, where they are key to supply the capital, Riyadh 3 5 7 9M cubic meters per day Sources: Bloomberg Opinion and Nature Under international law, the desalination plants are protected. But I have seen enough Middle Eastern wars to know the weight of the Geneva Conventions when missiles and bombs start flying. And they are: Iran has attacked a power station in Fujairah, UAE that keeps one of the world’s largest desalination plants running. In Kuwait, debris from a drone interception caused a fire in one of the country’s plants. The risk is enormous. Take the Jubail desalination plant, located on the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia. It supplies Riyadh, via a roughly 500-kilometer-long pipeline system, with more than 90% of its drinking water. “Riyadh would have to evacuate within a week if the plant, its pipelines, or associated power infrastructure were seriously damaged or destroyed,” according to a 2008 memo from the US embassy in the kingdom released by Wikileaks. “The current structure of the Saudi government could not exist without the Jubail desalinization plant,” the memo stated. Since the cable became public, the Saudis have reinforced their water network. Other countries have also built up redundancy. Still, all the water plants are equally vulnerable — and all of them are within range of the Iranian missiles. The good news is that water is so strategic — and so human — that any Iranian direct attack on them would be consider…
Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175 Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

AI error or not, Iran school bombing is a permanent stain on America’s soul | Will Bunch

A debate on AI in warfare obscures the truth about an Iran school bombing. U.S. humans are to blame for this war crime.

inquirer.com

Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · 5mo ago

One family is about to control CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok. They’ll buy Warner Brothers with $24 billion from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi. To win over Trump, they canceled Colbert, blocked a 60 Minutes CECOT investigation, and blocked Talarico. Much more will follow. Block this rotten deal.

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Jessica Kant@jessdkant.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Of course isn’t just driving. It’s voting. Working. Travelling. Picking up a package. Applying for credit. Applying for a job. Renting a room. Filling prescriptions. Visiting loved ones in the hospital. Not expired either, but legally invalid.

Chirag Lala@cthelala.bsky.social · last yr.

Yeah I don’t see a universe where this administration can actually cultivate a fossil boom. I easily see one where energy investment generally dries up - causing blowback on all kinds of commercial + industrial activity. To say nothing of consumer pocketbooks.

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · last yr.

To put it another way, it takes the approach of actively penalizing the technologies of the 21st century and subsidizing the technologies of the 19th century. As solar, batteries, and electrification are rapidly adopted by the rest of the world, we are stepping backwards.

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · last yr.

The latest version of the Senate's BBB is a death sentence for US energy leadership and a giant gift to China. It eliminates tax cuts for solar that have been around since 2005, adds a new tax on solar after 2027, and creates a new direct subsidy for coal.

Jason@jason23.bsky.social · last yr.

#ShowYourStripes Day is on June 21. Some share warming stripe graphs to visualise yearly temperature changes. One can see increases over the last 40+ years in Los Angeles. The oceanic graph shows a stronger trend towards warming showing increased heat absorption relative to land. @edhawkins.org

Los Angeles temperature changes over the last 150+ years. A significant warming trend can be seen since approximately 1980.A graph of oceanic sea surface temperature changes for the last 150+ years. A strong shift towards increased temperature measurements can be seen over the last 40-50 years relative to prior measurements.
Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · last yr.

This is what fascism looks like - using a conspiracy theory about a dehumanized outgroup as a pretext for seizing political power and wielding arbitrary authority. What you read about in the history books is happening right here, right now.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Trump declares war on cities “We must expand efforts to detain & deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as LA, Chicago, & NY, where Millions of Illegal Aliens reside. These, & other Cities, are core of the Dem Power Center, where they use Illegal Aliens to expand their Voter Base”

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · last yr.

1. The Trump administration has crippled cancer and Alzheimer's research by imposing a freeze on all government credit cards at NIH. An NIH source with direct knowledge tell Popular Information that scientific research has ground to halt because necessary supplies can no longer be purchased.

Trump credit card freeze crippling cancer and Alzheimer's research

On February 26, President Trump issued an executive order expanding the power of the United States DOGE Service (DOGE), the government initiative controlled by Elon Musk.

popular.info

Nicholas Slayton@nslayton.bsky.social · 2y ago

Also wrote about this same topic last night/published today for the New Republic: newrepublic.com/article/1900...

Los Angeles Has a Housing Crisis. These Fires Will Make It Worse.

The fires raging in Southern California offer a tragic preview of how the climate crisis will exacerbate homelessness.

newrepublic.com

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 2y ago

Great story from @conordougherty.bsky.social about how these fires are going to supercharge Los Angeles' housing crisis. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/b...