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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻

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I got plenty o' nuttin', and nuttin's plenty for me. epistemic crisis is getting me down 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 слава україні! People who post interesting things but limit engagement get muted. It's *social* media, after all.

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Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 5d ago

Much as I love the News Agents their discussion on Covid was ill-informed and misleading. christinapagel.substack.com/p/we-are-lea...

We are learning the wrong lesson from Covid school closures

A response to yesterday's News Agents podcast...

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The News Agents@thenewsagents.co.uk · 5d ago

“I’m glad we live in a country that is deferential to expertise - but at times in the pandemic, that did go too far.” “I’m not sure school closures were a price worth paying.” Lewis on how ‘legitimate questions’ have emerged - and should be asked - about how we handled Covid.

Dan Mitchell@danmitchell.bsky.social · 4d ago

Much of the criticism aimed at food companies ends up helping them. Railing against high-fructose corn syrup led not to healthier food, but to companies using "made with real sugar" as an ad slogan. The problem with GMOs has nothing to do with whether the modification is harmful to health: it's not.

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 6d ago

There is no evidence for a lab leak. There is no evidence of a coverup of a thing that never happened. Asserting that it has been proven doesn't make it so. It hasn't even been substantiated, let alone proven.

Ernie Piper@whoisernie.bsky.social · 7d ago

Zeynep Tufekci is still completely insane over the lab leak idea. "There is a conspiracy to cover this up" is not evidence for "covid was a bioweapon that escaped from a lab". It could also be evidence for my theory, "please stop talking about this stupid idea"

Seth L. Sanders@nabalkattu.bsky.social · last wk.

Film criticism aside, Emily Wilson's review of the Odyssey concerned me because it misrepresents Late Bronze Age history and reinforces an old Eurocentric pattern of dismissing the experiences--and reality--of ancient peoples other than the Greeks.

Nolan’s other major addition to Homer’s narrative is the repeated reference to threats to ‘our civilisation’ from ‘the sea peoples’ – a now debunked 19th-century theory about maritime tribes who were thought to have attacked Egypt around 1200 BCE and to have also been responsible for the roughly coeval collapse of Mycenaean Greek culture. ‘Our civilisation is under attack,’ Penelope wails. Odysseus comforts her by saying that ‘Bronze Age civilisation’, including literacy, will rise again from the ashes. The current consensus, as Nolan clearly knows, is that there was no such thing as ‘the sea peoples’, and that the Greek-speaking world’s shift away from the more centralised, literate palace culture of the Mycenaeans in the 11th century BCE towards the fragmented social formations of the early Greek Iron Age was caused by a range of factors, including climate change, earthquakes and internal unrest. Nolan uses these competing historical theories to create a characteristic narrative twist about the identity of ‘the sea peoples’, which I will not spoil, though you can probably guess it.
Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey single-handedly blocked the "wonder drug" thalidomide (US, FDA, 1960) & saved American children from severe birth defects. The first woman to earn a PhD in pharmacology, she used her expertise & immense courage to defy intense industry pressure. #WomenInSTEM (1/2)

A classic black-and-white portrait photograph of Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914–2015), the pioneering Canadian-American pharmacologist and FDA medical officer renowned for blocking thalidomide's approval in the United States. She is shown in a formal head-and-shoulders pose against a plain studio background, gazing directly at the camera with a calm, intelligent, and resolute expression. Her dark hair is neatly styled in soft waves, parted on the side, and she wears a simple dark blazer or jacket over a white collared blouse, embodying professionalism, quiet determination, and the courage that defined her career as a trailblazer in drug safety regulation and women's contributions to science and public health.
Michael Paulauski♨️@mike10010100.com · 2w ago

Decided to pull the data on this "Beshear is weak for not replacing McConnell" outrage spike. Scraped ~5.5k interactions to see if it's an op or internet brainrot. Turns out... yeah, the numbers are deeply artificial. https://bsky.app/profile/proptermalone.bsky.social/post/3mrdfeqi4g22z

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 2w ago

sorta coming to the conclusion that the McConnell shit directed at Beshear is just an op to kneecap him for 2028

🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻@plentynuff.bsky.social · 3w ago

I have a smidgen of sympathy for those who are upset by speaking ill of the dead because this usually originates in a sense of compassion for the living left behind. But I have no patience at all with minimising a lifetime of political scapegoating of groups of people as "political differences."