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if it won’t do what’s right to keep its own people safe at work, how can you trust it to tell you how to protect yourself at yours, and to demand better of your government?

i loved my job. and i still i believe in the public broadcaster.

but you can’t compromise with COVID.

or the truth.

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...

This is terrible

Vaccinations to prevent cervical cancer have plummeted in Britain

www.economist.com/britain/2025...

To be blunter about it, the opinion pages of the New York Times are precisely one of the places where we have been failed.

If the NYT Editorial Board wants to talk about complacency, they should start by looking in a mirror.

Even this warning is mealy-mouthed and flawed.

DHS document states ICE will NOT let people decline from being scanned by its new facial recognition app - Mobile Fortify.

It is used to verify one’s identity and immigration status. However, the face photos taken will be stored for 15 years, regardless of your immigration status.

I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.

NEW: Whether you measure it by number of supporters, fundraising ability, or by the size of its militant groups, the white nationalist movement in Canada has never been larger or more of a threat.

If the Carney government deploys generative AI -- a product that by design cannot be trusted to provide reliable information -- to answer Canadians' tax question, it should be required to forgive the taxes of anyone who follows any incorrect answers.

Melissa now up to 175mph sustained winds (150kt), with a central pressure of 906mb.

That's among the 10 or 12 strongest hurricanes ever measured in the Atlantic basin, back to 1851. Regardless of whether they made landfall.

Melissa is likely to make landfall in Jamaica at near-peak strength.