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Cartoon by successpictures.
March 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Cartoon by successpictures.
"What worries us is [sic] the insufficient safety precautions the researchers took when studying this coronavirus."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/o...
Opinion | Recent Virus Research Should Raise Alarm
Research with pandemic potential needs the utmost precautions.
www.nytimes.com
March 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"What worries us is [sic] the insufficient safety precautions the researchers took when studying this coronavirus."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/o...
Imagine being bookended in a short period of time by the Treaty of Versailles and Nazism. Serious national trauma.
March 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Imagine being bookended in a short period of time by the Treaty of Versailles and Nazism. Serious national trauma.
Looks like Northern Oceania may have awakened western Eurasia.
March 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Looks like Northern Oceania may have awakened western Eurasia.
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The alternative? We let disordered discourse continue its takeover of institutions, eroding democracy from within. If truth is no longer relevant to power, then power will belong to those who control the most compelling narrative - whether it’s real or not.
March 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The alternative? We let disordered discourse continue its takeover of institutions, eroding democracy from within. If truth is no longer relevant to power, then power will belong to those who control the most compelling narrative - whether it’s real or not.
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democracy demands a public resistant to manipulations. but large-scale consumer capitalism demands a public susceptible to manipulations, that can be shaped to demand all that is supplied. hmm.
🧵 Yesterday I shared my views on how disordered discourse has captured the US state and the risk of that happening elsewhere, but I don’t want to leave you hanging without proposing a solution.
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
March 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
democracy demands a public resistant to manipulations. but large-scale consumer capitalism demands a public susceptible to manipulations, that can be shaped to demand all that is supplied. hmm.
PSA: piling on people who claim to have post-sars-COVID-19 vaccine issues is not "believing in science." Be kind.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
news.yale.edu/2025/02/19/i...
You can hold the high ground in the risk-benefit debate without being an asshole.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
news.yale.edu/2025/02/19/i...
You can hold the high ground in the risk-benefit debate without being an asshole.
Clinical and Diagnostic Features of Post-Acute COVID-19 Vaccination Syndrome (PACVS)
Post-acute COVID-19 vaccination syndrome (PACVS) is a chronic disease triggered by SARS-CoV-2 vaccination (estimated prevalence 0.02%). PACVS is discriminated from the normal post-vaccination state by...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
March 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
PSA: piling on people who claim to have post-sars-COVID-19 vaccine issues is not "believing in science." Be kind.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
news.yale.edu/2025/02/19/i...
You can hold the high ground in the risk-benefit debate without being an asshole.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
news.yale.edu/2025/02/19/i...
You can hold the high ground in the risk-benefit debate without being an asshole.
Oh, look, data:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
The Baader–Meinhof Phenomenon Explained - Scribbr
www.scribbr.com/research-bia...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
The Baader–Meinhof Phenomenon Explained - Scribbr
www.scribbr.com/research-bia...
Sudden Cardiac Arrest Among Young Athletes Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This cohort study compares the prevalence of sudden cardiac arrest or death among young athletes in the 3 years before vs the first 3 years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
jamanetwork.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Oh, look, data:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
The Baader–Meinhof Phenomenon Explained - Scribbr
www.scribbr.com/research-bia...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
The Baader–Meinhof Phenomenon Explained - Scribbr
www.scribbr.com/research-bia...
"I think I was a bit too polite in this essay, treating the ideas as something other than the sophisticated window-dressing for raw power ambitions they have increasingly proven to be."
open.substack.com/pub/tracingw...
open.substack.com/pub/tracingw...
The View From Neoreaction
Explaining Curtis Yarvin's old writing
open.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
"I think I was a bit too polite in this essay, treating the ideas as something other than the sophisticated window-dressing for raw power ambitions they have increasingly proven to be."
open.substack.com/pub/tracingw...
open.substack.com/pub/tracingw...
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BREAKING
The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial.
The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial.
BREAKING: SEC halts fraud prosecution of Chinese national who sent Trump millions
In December, Popular Information reported that Chinese crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun purchased $30 million in crypto tokens from World Liberty Financial (WLF), a new venture backed by President Donal...
popular.info
February 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
BREAKING
The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial.
The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial.
@atwilliams.bsky.social Any thoughts about these kinds of cuts in context of what you wrote some time back (IIRC) re prevailing financial flows having to feed into *something* domestically, such as higher ed, R&D, healthcare, etc?
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NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory on X: "Due to a reduction in staff, NOAA GLERL's communications services will be taking an indefinite hiatus. Please follow @ciglr_um to stay updated on GLERL and CIGLR's collective Great Lakes science." / X
Due to a reduction in staff, NOAA GLERL's communications services will be taking an indefinite hiatus. Please follow @ciglr_um to stay updated on GLERL and CIGLR's collective Great Lakes science.
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February 28, 2025 at 12:53 AM
@atwilliams.bsky.social Any thoughts about these kinds of cuts in context of what you wrote some time back (IIRC) re prevailing financial flows having to feed into *something* domestically, such as higher ed, R&D, healthcare, etc?
x.com/NOAA_GLERL/s...
x.com/NOAA_GLERL/s...
Suspect this will end in similar fashion to previous episodes, unfortunately, despite the current round of self-congratulations. Brad Setser recently did some work that supports.
open.substack.com/pub/nakedkey...
open.substack.com/pub/nakedkey...
Milei's Psycho Shock Therapy
Javier Milei was elected president of Argentina last November, and was inaugurated later in December, facing an ongoing and long-standing economic crisis that Milei claims was caused by the Peronist “...
open.substack.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Suspect this will end in similar fashion to previous episodes, unfortunately, despite the current round of self-congratulations. Brad Setser recently did some work that supports.
open.substack.com/pub/nakedkey...
open.substack.com/pub/nakedkey...
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Have a sip.
You don't know what you're missing.
You don't know what you're missing.
February 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Have a sip.
You don't know what you're missing.
You don't know what you're missing.
Also good: "To me reading this legislation is like admiring the architecture of a beautiful building that is designed exactly how you’d want to design it if your goal was to collapse it upon its occupants at a precise date in the future."
"The key to bullshit is it sounds good to the uninitiated"
February 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Also good: "To me reading this legislation is like admiring the architecture of a beautiful building that is designed exactly how you’d want to design it if your goal was to collapse it upon its occupants at a precise date in the future."
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NEW: The Trump admin is eliminating entire federal offices that were already working to make the government more efficient. I spoke with a Minnesota data scientist who until recently worked for one of them. minnesotareformer.com/2025/02/26/t...
This OPM data scientist was making government more efficient. Trump is firing people like him. • Minnesota Reformer
Ben Jaques-Leslie is a data scientist with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management based in St. Paul who worked on internal programs to make the agency more efficient and transparent. He took the Trum...
minnesotareformer.com
February 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
NEW: The Trump admin is eliminating entire federal offices that were already working to make the government more efficient. I spoke with a Minnesota data scientist who until recently worked for one of them. minnesotareformer.com/2025/02/26/t...
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It took me longer than I hoped to finish but I'm really happy about the outcome: My big picture piece about Musk and Trump visiting Fort Knox. The headline tells you what you need to know but its also a very accurate summary of every step of my argument
www.crisesnotes.com/a-scam-built...
www.crisesnotes.com/a-scam-built...
A Scam Built Atop an Accounting Gimmick Wrapped in Bullshit: Why Visiting Fort Knox Is Not About Selling Gold but is About Buying Bitcoin
Notes on the Crises pivoted on February 1st into around the clock coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025. Today is Day Twenty Two
Read Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Par...
www.crisesnotes.com
February 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
It took me longer than I hoped to finish but I'm really happy about the outcome: My big picture piece about Musk and Trump visiting Fort Knox. The headline tells you what you need to know but its also a very accurate summary of every step of my argument
www.crisesnotes.com/a-scam-built...
www.crisesnotes.com/a-scam-built...
"It's important to understand that “improper” is in the eye of the beholder, and the danger of operational access to the payments system is precisely that there are very little safeguards for its improper use or manipulation."
www.crisesnotes.com/elon-musk-wa...
www.crisesnotes.com/elon-musk-wa...
Elon Musk Wants to Get Operational Control of the Treasury’s Payment System. This Could Not Possibly Be More Dangerous
Until Further Notice: Comprehensive coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025
www.crisesnotes.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"It's important to understand that “improper” is in the eye of the beholder, and the danger of operational access to the payments system is precisely that there are very little safeguards for its improper use or manipulation."
www.crisesnotes.com/elon-musk-wa...
www.crisesnotes.com/elon-musk-wa...
Energy East Pipeline
YouTube video by Danielle Smith
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February 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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An arrest warrant has been issued for a New York doctor indicted on Friday by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing abortion pills online to a pregnant minor in the Deep South state, which has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the country.
apnews.com/article/abor...
apnews.com/article/abor...
Arrest warrant issued for New York doctor indicted in Louisiana for prescribing abortion pill
An arrest warrant has been issued for a New York doctor indicted by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online to a pregnant minor. Dr.
apnews.com
February 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
An arrest warrant has been issued for a New York doctor indicted on Friday by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing abortion pills online to a pregnant minor in the Deep South state, which has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the country.
apnews.com/article/abor...
apnews.com/article/abor...
Looking forward to when DOGE pivots to executive compensation. From He/Himmler to IL Doce.
February 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Looking forward to when DOGE pivots to executive compensation. From He/Himmler to IL Doce.
Relevant:
foreignpolicy.com/live/trump-t...
foreignpolicy.com/live/trump-t...
Trump’s Tariff Wars
As the second Trump administration rolls out its priorities, one thing is clear: Tariffs are an underlying foreign-policy principle of the “Trump doctrine.” Negotiating over Colombian deportees? Tarif...
foreignpolicy.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Relevant:
foreignpolicy.com/live/trump-t...
foreignpolicy.com/live/trump-t...
Also possible they mistakenly fight the last war, much like fiscal and monetary policies did in 2021. An error in either direction won't be good for credibility. Luckily, institutional trust is at all-time hig....oh, no...
3) Finally, there's a risk of being wrong twice in the same direction. You can't unsee the 2021 transitory error. If the Fed judges that tariff price hikes will (also) be a one-off and they're not, there's risk for a bigger hit to credibility. www.wsj.com/economy/cent...
Fed’s Tariffs Response Hinges on Where Americans Think Prices Are Headed
A trade war that raises prices would be much more complicated for the central bank than it was during Trump’s first term.
www.wsj.com
January 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Also possible they mistakenly fight the last war, much like fiscal and monetary policies did in 2021. An error in either direction won't be good for credibility. Luckily, institutional trust is at all-time hig....oh, no...