Progress in cancer treatment is incredible. Here's a new pancreatic cancer treatment that is *tripling* survival rates after a year compared to chemotherapy.

John Mullahy@johnmullahy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wow

dawg the brazilians are calling it asfaltos unidos in the QTs we're getting cooked

Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️@arif.bsky.social · 3w ago

this shot is so bleak lmao

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts

This is incredible and one of those things that reminds me a better world is possible. But I also need you to know that the dek reads, “The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.”

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · last mo.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

The HPV vaccine outcome epi just keeps getting better and better. From England, a 100% mortality reduction in the most recent female adult cohort (20-24yo) that had proper high coverage at ~12yo. Still one of the greatest ID AND oncology successes ever observed. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Cervical cancer mortality trends following HPV vaccination in England, 2001–24: an analysis of population-based mortality data

Our findings provide the first robust national-level evidence, albeit observational, that high HPV vaccination coverage is associated with a substantial reduction in cervical cancer deaths. This is sh...

thelancet.com

David Hockney, one of the most popular and influential artists of the past century, has died aged 88. ft.trib.al/hgdDXAf

“The moment I first sold pictures, I felt rich. .. I didn’t have much money but I did what I wanted. .. You are a rich man if you do the things you want to do.” #RIP www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/a...

'We have a simple message for the Environmental Agency... come and do your job or we WILL do it for you' 😆 Peak EA that, having abandoned this river, it's prosecuting those taking action to recover it. Yet hasn't prosecuted any illegal sewage dumping 🤔 All the power; none of the responsibility.

Why these litter pickers are breaking the law to clean up a London river

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

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Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework

Patrick Wyman@patrickwyman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You know who isn't getting radicalized? Guys who do ships in a bottle. Embrace model-building and avoid the pitfalls of right-wing extremism

50s test pilots: not very woke, as a rule

TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...

How much of Thermo Fisher’s antibody data has been manipulated?

We’ve documented more than 100 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog

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Large quasi monopolies you cannot avoid using linear algebra to make all management decisions with questionable underlying data, finally the Soviet Union is able to be reborn.

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 3mo ago

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

“by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated.” This has always been the case and this shouldn’t even need to be stated. Yet here we are.

Mark Riedl@markriedl.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ArXiV has a new LLM policy (Screenshots with alt text so you don’t have to click through to the other place and see all the stupid responses)

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦@helenbranswell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I find this unsettling: A new study in #Lancet shows that the number of faux citations in scientific articles is on the rise, and #AI is likely to blame. @aniloza.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/l...

What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

I do think it sums up “the weird way the Internet shapes politics unnoticed” that “some chants that people should knock off but are mostly an ignorable part of an in-person march” are given more explanatory power than “the website that is full of antisemitism of every stripe that MPs hang out on”.

Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If the government wants to tackle the "online breeding ground of antisemitism" why on earth are Keir Starmer, the government and @heidialexander.bsky.social still posting on X? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

Very interesting new study finding that *even in large European cities*, in most places it is easier to access opportunities by car than by public transport arxiv.org/pdf/2604.01019 The exceptions are Paris, Zurich and the innermost parts of Milan and Barcelona

Absolutely inarguable that we are in a new historical epoch of the relationship between objective metrics and sentiment metrics

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 4mo ago

back on my bullshit (vaugeposting predicted consumer sentiment charts)

My scorching hot take on this (at least in the uk) is that a bunch of more public-sector-ish jobs: teaching, universities, media, civil servant had been relatively downwards mobile in this time and it’s actually falling inequality that is making people mad.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hard not to feel a little smug watching Pearkes get pilloried for saying this. Guess what, the left is almost uniquely psychotic on this topic! They’ll absolutely assassinate your reputation for years on end if you dare try to insist on following empirical data on it.

this whole mamdani thing is an ongoing masterclass in galaxy-brain political communications

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 4mo ago

The hungry red panda at the Prospect Park Zoo? Adorable. The HungryPanda delivery app scamming small businesses? Not adorable. So they will be paying $580,000 back. We'll keep pursuing companies that take advantage of New Yorkers, and we'll keep asking if we can pet a red panda just for a second.

Corporate profits: all-time high. Consumer sentiment: all-time low. This is one reason why both can be true: (via MetLife)

I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5. My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.

Why do our second-tier cities underperform? Why do we have fewer trams in the UK? I try my best to give an answer to these two interconnected questions. chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/to-grow-th...

To grow the economy we need more trams, and fewer kebabs

Britain’s second-tier cities are being held back by a simple problem, too many people still cannot get across them quickly enough to reach the jobs, customers and opportunities that drive growth.

chriscurtismk.substack.com

This thread is shocking in the best possible way.

Ashwin Varma@ashwinvarma97.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Here are a couple of examples. Lung cancer survival rates for EGFR+ mutated Lung cancer.

People come up with complicated reasons why art/music scenes are less vibrant now but it is like 90% just this

Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I get bummed out regularly that kids can’t just come in from the country with a few hundred dollars and a dirtbag dream and rent the third or fourth shittiest hole of their lives and make a go of it

I feel like the surrender of the global electric vehicle market to China is one of those things that will, with a couple of decades of hindsight, be vastly consequential. Scaling benefits, technology development, supply chains... A lot of incumbents that depend on export markets will be screwed.

The Economist@economist.com · 4mo ago

An island of American motoring in Central Asia is changing fast