iran being able to tell the US to fuck off and the US not being able to do anything about it does feel like one of those historically important milestones. near the conclusion of the chapter on western imperialism in the middle east, hopefully

semantic drift of "nepo baby" becoming "any rich child" is going to drive me cuckoo bananas crazy. we had the words "rich kid" already

the words "Koyaanisqatsi: Free with ads" are really doing something in my head. nothing particularly good, I think. but it's happening

halimede karn or something

🌞🌕🔆🌙

Holy shit. My NIH K award currently supports a clinical trial. This will no longer be allowed for future K awards.

Jack Iwashyna@iwashyna.bsky.social · 19h ago

When their definition of “gold standard RCT” is “no RCT at all” grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

good to see this reported out. “How she handles this will be a litmus test for how her tenure goes as a CDC director"

New CDC director faces first major test before she even begins work

cidrap.umn.edu

public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 3d ago

in fact, i'd argue the primary political purpose of this vaccine executive order and press conference is to explicitly and publicly undermine the CDC director in her first week on the job

btw I got the woke 2 mug and it fucking rules

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 18h ago

A great way to support the site, the artists we work with and your own human body is to buy something from the Aftermath Store. We've got t-shirts! aftermath-shop.fourthwall.com/

What a racket. You could get DSA members to do this for like $2 a post

Jared Holt@jaredlholt.bsky.social · 20h ago

The "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.

want to stick this 1963 photo of an old Korean man in traditional garb having the time of his life on the merry-go-round on everything: book, magazine, blog, poster. so good. "동심' by 신현국

“…we introduce the concept of glosslighting: the practice of using technically redefined terms to evoke intuitive—often anthropomorphic or misleading—associations while preserving plausible deniability through restricted technical definitions.”

i love to interact with the community on @aftermath.site's discord

nice try. you can’t make me interpret that post. that’s a trap. once i understand and truly process it, the knowledge contained within will spread through my consciousness like a poison until a new self bursts free, fully formed

Building on this, Bluesky is the largest social media source of reader donations and membership signups for @thexylom.com. We have received exactly zero dollars from Threads users. I suspect Zuck's algorithm deliberately suppresses institutions such as independent investigative news outlets

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 22h ago

And for at least a bit of real world data, Bluesky continues to be the largest single source of traffic (after search) to @techdirt.com. I don't think Threads has ever shown up in any list of referrers. Ever.

If you think you were a token in academia, just wait until you figure out why you are on the anti-woke beat at The Atlantic.

Wirecutter has an article about how the acquisition of gelato brand Talenti (by Unilever) slowly ruined the quality of the result product. but the main thing that struck *me* w/ the article was its unintended commentary on the 2016 acquisition of Wirecutter by NYT & its subsequent enshittification.

Okay I couldn't stop figuring how this would have worked until I drew it out, so here's how I think the Trump Cart works. The Trojan Horse for our times.

logging into bluesky

If I had to make a list of the one hundred best characters of all time, it would be a challenge, really difficult. If I had to make a list of the TEN best characters of all time, it would be SO hard, I'd have to work on that for DAYS. But if I had to pick ONE best character ever, that's easy, BMO

the past: "dont pirate that software, it might put malware on your computer" now: "that software is good but the official version essentially comes bundled with malware so make sure to pirate it"

Colored some juniper sketches yippie! #fom #juniper #fieldsofmistria

“The central drama of the modern world is innovation against suffering, and we have made incredible progress so far. But we are doing far worse than we could. Millions still suffer from untreatable diseases, because of bottlenecks that we could fix.”

Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · 2d ago

BIG NEW piece by me. A few years ago, if you asked me to summarize my entire worldview in one article, I would’ve said it was too broad and too difficult. But this year, I decided to do it.

INCREDIBLY STRESSED OUT BY THE FACT THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO RUN THE LITERAL ORIGINAL ANDREW WAKEFIELD PLAYBOOK RN

bsky.app/profile/koth... Boomhauer: "Man, we're in deep gengoroh dang tagame right now. Dang ol' house of the brutes, boy. Talkin' bout kinniku..otoko" Hank: "we get, boomhauer, you're a regular chip kidd but save it for later" Bill: "I had a fundoshi once...my neighbor kept burning it on accident"

KOTH Screens@kothscreens.bsky.social · 5d ago

this would make it impossible to evaluate any government program that is a proposed *fix* to a health issue. people's big critique of disparities research was that it supposedly wasn't solutions focused enough. well now, you cant study the solutions.

Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW: The NIH is quietly restricting funding for research that evaluates how public policy impacts human health. According to internal documents I obtained, the agency no longer considers policymakers "mission relevant" — a massive shift for the biomedical funder. My latest for @nature.com:

it's maddening. and not only this, renewables are now the cheapest form of electricity AND fossil fuels have suffered repeated severe price shocks AND EVs are now price competitive with gas cars

Stephen Judkins@stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's kind of crazy how large a swathe of the American intelligentsia have just decided to completely ignore climate change at the exact time when climate change is having serious material impacts on America