Eva von Schaper
@vschpr.bsky.social
Writer, reader, #journalist. Ex-@bloomberg #science and #health reporter. Hosted a #podcast about #disinformation. Now interested in anything #neurodiversity.
Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid being mistaken for chat bots. www.wired.com/story/more-t...
More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’
Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid being mistaken for chat bots.
wired.com
Do we still believe in “the American Dream”? “We’re taught to believe that hard work insures a good outcome, even as the stepping stones to a secure life grow harder to find,” Hua Hsu writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/x3VMu4
The Curious Career of “the American Dream”
How a phrase coined during the Depression became a national creed, a global brand, and a vessel for disillusionment.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
Forty years ago, two liberal professors published a "provocative" book about immigration that sold poorly and got terrible reviews. It also inadvertently handed Trump the legal argument he's using to attack birthright citizenship. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Liberal Scholars Who Influenced Trump’s Attack on Birthright Citizenship
The President’s executive order took inspiration from an esoteric legal argument from 1985, by two Yale professors. They have some regrets.
newyorker.com
If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper? by Larry Summers
"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die." --Dick Cheney probably
CHOTINER: So Harry, you're the butcher at the Busytown Supermarket? HARRY: That's right. CHOTINER: You sell pork at your store? HARRY: Certainly, We sell the best pork ever! CHOTINER: Seems your customers agree, but I couldn't help but notice, you're also a pig, right? HARRY: Yes.
The British spelling of diarrhoea is so much grosser than the already stupidly spelled American diarrhea. Get that "o" out of there man.
Travis Kelce Gets Cold Feet After Listening To New Taylor Swift Album https://theonion.com/travis-kelce-gets-cold-feet-after-listening-to-new-taylor-swift-album/
What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.
Emerald Fennell Assures Fans ‘Wuthering Heights’ Will Be Faithful Adaptation Of ‘Twilight’ https://theonion.com/emerald-fennell-assures-fans-wuthering-heights-will-be-faithful-adaptation-of-twilight/
CDC committee members, some of whom are vaccine skeptics, are likely to recommend restricting the use of hepatitis B shots at birth or delaying them. The vaccine is credited by public health experts with nearly eliminating maternal transmission of the disease in the U.S.
RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Committee Likely to Target Hepatitis B Shot for Newborns
Committee members, some of whom are vaccine skeptics, are likely to recommend restricting the use of the shots at birth or delaying them until later in childhood.
nyti.ms
I’ve been having a few too many conversations like this. Them: Hi Kate, how are things with your work, with the world? Me: the university is under attack, democratic norms being broken in half, so, pretty bad. Them: But everything is going to come back and be okay after the midterms. Me: Uhh, no.
It is an extraordinary loss of intellectual expertise that the American people invested millions in developing Every scientist who earns a graduate degree in the US is the product of an investment by the public This is like setting money on fire
Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · last yr.4,000 NASA workers are leaving through deferred resignation. "The cuts amount to an estimated 20% of NASA's workforce" www.npr.org/2025/07/26/n...
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
How did 3M’s “forever chemicals” end up in all of us? Inside the story of the corporate scientists who discovered—then helped to conceal—the dangers of its chemicals.
How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals
The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling them.
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Today is the day! After eight long years, They Poisoned the World, is out. The book interweaves the moving story of a small town on the frontlines of an epic global crisis with a deep investigation of one the most brazen cover-ups in corporate history. 1/
MAGA Voter Assumed Trump Would Only Deport People On List She Mailed To White House
MAGA Voter Assumed Trump Would Only Deport People On List She Mailed To White House
SAN DIEGO—Shocked by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids affecting her very own community, local 43-year-old Jillian Beamer told reporters Monday she had assumed President Donald Trump would...
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it's a lot of drama because *someone* didn't get into Harvard
A US federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s move to bar Harvard University from enrolling foreign students, hours after the college sued the government over the policy.
Judge blocks Trump administration from barring Harvard’s enrollment of international students
The university sued the Trump administration, arguing that its move violated the First Amendment.
semafor.com
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, posted photos on Sunday of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a contaminated Washington creek where swimming is not allowed because it is used for sewer runoff.
RFK Jr. Swims in Washington Creek That Flows With Sewage and Bacteria
nytimes.com
Reading is a privilege that many have died for. Don’t take it for granted
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
