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Paul Konstant

@progpk.bsky.social

Retired scientist/ technologist. Diverse interests, few of them mainstream, fewer overlap. I like to follow specialists. Rational, romantic, mystic, cynical, idealist. He/him. 📍València, España

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John Ross@johnrossmd.bsky.social · 7h ago

Retrospective cohort of 2.5 million US kids found NO association between measles vaccination and autism, with an adjusted hazard ratio of 0.97 (99% confidence interval 0.91–1.03). Another negative study to add to the mountain of negative studies that we already have.

Association Between First MMR Vaccination Before... : Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Background:Concerns about potential associations between measles–mumps–rubella (MMR) vaccination and autism persist despite extensive prior research....

ovid.com

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

bloomberg.com

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4h ago

Michael Flynn got paid by the Russian government to do anti-American propaganda, got paid by the Turkish government to conspire to break US laws, and now got paid by the US government for helping cover up a hostile anti-American foreign intelligence operation, ensuring perpetrators got away with it.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 5h ago

🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 4h ago

Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d ago

When disabled people/many people who work on disability/health pointed to the dangers of this kind of framing since COVID, they were usually mocked ("oh you think everything is eugenics") or ignored. But normalising the idea that the deaths of disabled people are desirable/reassuring is dangerous.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

Bruce Little@brucedlittle.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW: Two government watchdog groups have demanded an investigation into whether FCC officials violated ethics requirements by accepting luxury gala tickets from Paramount as it sought federal approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.

FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount

Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...

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Barb McQuade@barbmcquade.bsky.social · 2d ago

Blanche’s appeasement is hollow. Trump still gets immunity from tax audits worth $100 million. And last week’s payout to abortion clinic blocker shows the path to payouts to rewrite history will be individual settlements instead of one designated fund. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

Blanche Gives G.O.P. Senators Written Assurances on Trump’s I.R.S. Deal (Gift Article)

Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general has been held up over concerns about a planned $1.8 billion fund for Trump allies and the president’s immunity from tax scrutiny.

nytimes.com

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 5d ago

Honestly though, the fact that this function exists and was rolled out at all will now make every Google Earth image suspect to me going forward. I can’t imagine I’m the only one who feels this way. Incredibly quick and near-total brand destruction by Google Earth—and for what?

EUvsDisinfo@euvsdisinfo.eu · 4d ago

Predictably, the Kremlin’s disinformation ecosystem wasted no time in baselessly suggesting that the missile that hit Poland was Ukrainian. This claim is false. The investigation carried out by Polish authorities has determined that the missile was a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile.

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RTVE Noticias@rtvenoticias.rtve.es · 4d ago

'Seguros que no cubren lo esperado o el desconocimiento de las normas del país de destino, principales problemas' «Estafas, cancelaciones y pérdida de equipaje: casi la mitad de los jóvenes ha necesitado asistencia de viaje en el extranjero» dozz.es/_bbld7

Estafas, cancelaciones y pérdida de equipaje: casi la mitad de los jóvenes ha necesitado asistencia de viaje en el extranjero

Estafas, cancelaciones y pérdida de equipaje: casi la mitad de los jóvenes ha necesitado asistencia de viaje en el extranjero

dozz.es

John Trant@trantteam.bsky.social · last mo.

New sanctioned (t)rant about AI just dropped. On the limits of Alphafold and my worries about the disaster its use will cause for the literature and early-stage academic drug discovery. Look, they commissioned it. And by commissioned I don't mean I got paid, just invited. Awesome process btw.

The AI Chemist: To be trustworthy, LLMs need to show their work

Good scientists reveal how they do their experiments and report their results; so should any machine-driven research

cen.acs.org

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 5d ago

🤠 youtu.be/BuiEVOSTbN4

Google kills AlphaFold. So much for AI curing cancer

YouTube video by Pivot to AI

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 2mo ago

If you're anti AI & making claims that some of the models under the AI umbrella are ok because they seem to be serving scientific goals, then you fell for a type of hype. One from the 2010s; stats models aren't blessed by their use in science and they can erode our thinking. bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 7d ago

There are only three possible futures: a) everyone in the Trump admin goes to jail, rule of law partially restored; b) Dems retaliate in full, and maybe that's a deterrent; c) neither (a) nor (b), so lawless authoritarianism wins again, and when Republicans regain power they ramp it up even more.

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 7d ago

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Trump has denied most disaster requests from Democratic-led states A graph showing Presidential approval rates for disaster requests from Democratic-led states and Republican-led states Source: POLITICO's E&E News analysis of FEMA records
Breamore Boy@breamoreboy.bsky.social · 7d ago

Some extremely interesting stuff from Byline Times. bylinetimes.com/2026/07/23/p... bylinetimes.com/2026/07/27/h...

‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder's Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures

Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how hi...

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