Wade Catt
@wade-from-indiana.bsky.social
MD/PhD student. Interested in medical sociology, social movement studies, science and technology studies, and political economy. Views are my own.
What could go wrong?
October 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
What could go wrong?
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Freed flotilla activist David Adler is live with Zeteo right now:
EXCLUSIVE: Flotilla Activist David Adler LIVE Hours After Being Released From Israeli Prison
YouTube video by Zeteo
www.youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Freed flotilla activist David Adler is live with Zeteo right now:
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““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+
Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+
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Trump launches AI program to deny #Medicare services
PreAuthorization
www.rawstory.com/trump-launch...
PreAuthorization
www.rawstory.com/trump-launch...
Trump launches AI program to deny Medicare services
Taking a page from the private insurance industry’s playbook, the Trump administration will launch a program next year to find out how much money an artificial intelligence algorithm could save the fe...
www.rawstory.com
September 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Trump launches AI program to deny #Medicare services
PreAuthorization
www.rawstory.com/trump-launch...
PreAuthorization
www.rawstory.com/trump-launch...
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📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child.
RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua
RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua
September 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child.
RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua
RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua
As RFK Jr. promotes a new initiative to find the causes of autism, ProPublica found that he has taken aim at research trying to do just that.
“We need to stop trusting the experts,” he said.
“We need to stop trusting the experts,” he said.
RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.
While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals,...
www.propublica.org
August 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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🔥 Wildfire smoke is deadlier than thought
A study of 32 European countries found wildfire PM2.5 raises mortality more than other sources, with deaths underestimated by 93%.
🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#SciComm #ClimateCrisis #Wildfires #AirQuality 🧪
A study of 32 European countries found wildfire PM2.5 raises mortality more than other sources, with deaths underestimated by 93%.
🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#SciComm #ClimateCrisis #Wildfires #AirQuality 🧪
Quantifying the short-term mortality effects of wildfire smoke in Europe: a multicountry epidemiological study in 654 contiguous regions
Associations with all-cause and cause-specific mortality were larger for fire-related
compared with non-fire-related PM2·5. Assuming wildfire PM2·5 has the same effect
as total PM2·5 substantially und...
www.thelancet.com
August 21, 2025 at 4:53 AM
🔥 Wildfire smoke is deadlier than thought
A study of 32 European countries found wildfire PM2.5 raises mortality more than other sources, with deaths underestimated by 93%.
🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#SciComm #ClimateCrisis #Wildfires #AirQuality 🧪
A study of 32 European countries found wildfire PM2.5 raises mortality more than other sources, with deaths underestimated by 93%.
🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#SciComm #ClimateCrisis #Wildfires #AirQuality 🧪
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Sunk-cost fallacy and cheating students are the only things keeping AI in business at this point.
Just look at how usage of ChatGPT plummets as soon as the semester ends.
Just look at how usage of ChatGPT plummets as soon as the semester ends.
August 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Sunk-cost fallacy and cheating students are the only things keeping AI in business at this point.
Just look at how usage of ChatGPT plummets as soon as the semester ends.
Just look at how usage of ChatGPT plummets as soon as the semester ends.
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if you use AI to write my obit, I'm going to haunt your ass. you will never get a good night's sleep again. fortune.com/2025/07/29/w...
Wesley LePatner, a 44-year-old Blackstone executive who oversaw its $53 billion real-estate investment fund, was killed in Manhattan's mass shooting
"We cannot properly express the grief we feel upon the sudden and tragic loss of Wesley," the LePatner family told Fortune, adding she was a "driven and extraordinarily talented professional and colle...
fortune.com
July 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
if you use AI to write my obit, I'm going to haunt your ass. you will never get a good night's sleep again. fortune.com/2025/07/29/w...
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The first privately developed U.S. nuclear enrichment facility is going to be built in Paducah, Kentucky at the site of a former nuclear fuel plant.
The US government is now allowing a private citizen to enrich uranium, aka nuclear bombs.
That private citizen is "destroy humanity" Peter Thiel.
The US government is now allowing a private citizen to enrich uranium, aka nuclear bombs.
That private citizen is "destroy humanity" Peter Thiel.
Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah
A California-based company with ties to billionaire investor and Trump ally Peter Thiel announced plans Friday to build America’s first U.S.-owned, privately developed facility to enrich uranium in fa...
www.wkms.org
July 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
The first privately developed U.S. nuclear enrichment facility is going to be built in Paducah, Kentucky at the site of a former nuclear fuel plant.
The US government is now allowing a private citizen to enrich uranium, aka nuclear bombs.
That private citizen is "destroy humanity" Peter Thiel.
The US government is now allowing a private citizen to enrich uranium, aka nuclear bombs.
That private citizen is "destroy humanity" Peter Thiel.
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People need to go to prison for these stories.
July 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
People need to go to prison for these stories.
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As we witness the Abrego Garcia case heat up, let's remember the other humans that have been sent to U.S. taxpayer funded concentration camp CECOT.
This report on mass graves located there shows we already have death camps.
Please read and share.
#CECOT
www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/...
This report on mass graves located there shows we already have death camps.
Please read and share.
#CECOT
www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/...
Mass Grave Complex (MGC) identification and analysis of Grave Site Candidates (GSC) #1 & #2 at CECOT.
Textbook case of a very poorly hidden genocide site.I am a former mass grave complex and genocide site investigator with real-world experience. My expertise is in analyzing satellite and spy plane ima...
www.lemkininstitute.com
July 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
As we witness the Abrego Garcia case heat up, let's remember the other humans that have been sent to U.S. taxpayer funded concentration camp CECOT.
This report on mass graves located there shows we already have death camps.
Please read and share.
#CECOT
www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/...
This report on mass graves located there shows we already have death camps.
Please read and share.
#CECOT
www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/...
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It's the best method for keeping democracy dead.
UPDATE: The Indiana legislature announced that, across the state's public universities, it will immediately eliminate 75 programs, suspend/teach-out 101, and force 232 to consolidate or be eliminated. Not surprisingly, these closures disproportionately affect arts, humanities, and social science.
July 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
It's the best method for keeping democracy dead.
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State Senator Mallory McMorrow just perfectly explained how Donald Trump’s big, beautiful bill is the largest transfer of wealth from the lower class to the wealthiest 1%. This is exactly the message that all Americans need to hear right now.
#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #KillTheBill #SaveMedicare #Medicaid
#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #KillTheBill #SaveMedicare #Medicaid
June 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
State Senator Mallory McMorrow just perfectly explained how Donald Trump’s big, beautiful bill is the largest transfer of wealth from the lower class to the wealthiest 1%. This is exactly the message that all Americans need to hear right now.
#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #KillTheBill #SaveMedicare #Medicaid
#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #KillTheBill #SaveMedicare #Medicaid
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
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AI is being used to justify firing workers at major tech companies, leaving those that remain to pick up the pieces.
AI code is being shoveled into crucial Google products, replacing trainers at TikTok, and worse.
This, in tech workers' own words, is how AI is killing jobs in Silicon Valley.
AI code is being shoveled into crucial Google products, replacing trainers at TikTok, and worse.
This, in tech workers' own words, is how AI is killing jobs in Silicon Valley.
AI Killed My Job: Tech workers
Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
AI is being used to justify firing workers at major tech companies, leaving those that remain to pick up the pieces.
AI code is being shoveled into crucial Google products, replacing trainers at TikTok, and worse.
This, in tech workers' own words, is how AI is killing jobs in Silicon Valley.
AI code is being shoveled into crucial Google products, replacing trainers at TikTok, and worse.
This, in tech workers' own words, is how AI is killing jobs in Silicon Valley.
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You thought the dot com bubble where people raised millions on PPT slides was ridiculous? Welcome to the age of unbridled AI Hype where Sutskever gets $2B to promise not to release "superintelligence" & Murati gets $2 BILLION to...?
Sure. Its definitely not a bubble.
techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/m...
Sure. Its definitely not a bubble.
techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/m...
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuation | TechCrunch
Thinking Machines Lab, the secretive AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati, has closed a $2 billion seed round at a $10 billion valuation.
techcrunch.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
You thought the dot com bubble where people raised millions on PPT slides was ridiculous? Welcome to the age of unbridled AI Hype where Sutskever gets $2B to promise not to release "superintelligence" & Murati gets $2 BILLION to...?
Sure. Its definitely not a bubble.
techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/m...
Sure. Its definitely not a bubble.
techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/m...
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"Getting involved in this war would be folly on a monumental scale," @mattduss.bsky.social and @sohrabahmari.bsky.social write. wapo.st/4lb5jKB
Opinion | Trump is in danger of repeating Bush’s Middle East mistakes
A U.S. strike on Iran could easily spiral into another forever war that Americans on both the left and right broadly oppose.
wapo.st
June 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
"Getting involved in this war would be folly on a monumental scale," @mattduss.bsky.social and @sohrabahmari.bsky.social write. wapo.st/4lb5jKB
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Pope Leo condemns US bombing Iran
June 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Pope Leo condemns US bombing Iran
If only Noam Chomsky and Ed Herman would have written a book predicting this media behavior 37 years ago that we could have learned from!
CNN’s Van Jones urges “progressives” to “get on board” with bombing Iran:
“I think progressives underestimate how dangerous Iran is. Iran is not a normal country,” he said on air.
Jones did not share whether he considers Israel—an apartheid state currently committing genocide—a “normal country.”
“I think progressives underestimate how dangerous Iran is. Iran is not a normal country,” he said on air.
Jones did not share whether he considers Israel—an apartheid state currently committing genocide—a “normal country.”
June 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
If only Noam Chomsky and Ed Herman would have written a book predicting this media behavior 37 years ago that we could have learned from!
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Interesting: Pretty broad and bipartisan support for negotiating with Iran in new YouGov poll
June 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Interesting: Pretty broad and bipartisan support for negotiating with Iran in new YouGov poll
I had the incredible privilege of introducing and participating in a fireside chat with Dr. Hotez for the IU MSTP! It is difficult to think of a more crucial physician-scientist voice to hear from right now
June 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I had the incredible privilege of introducing and participating in a fireside chat with Dr. Hotez for the IU MSTP! It is difficult to think of a more crucial physician-scientist voice to hear from right now
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What amuses me is that Gavin Newsome could have probably ridden this shit all the way to the White House if he’d kept his yap close about trans girls in sports. Now no matter what he does in response to this Trump manufactured crisis, all I’ll ever think is “you raised a kid who likes Charlie Kirk.”
June 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
What amuses me is that Gavin Newsome could have probably ridden this shit all the way to the White House if he’d kept his yap close about trans girls in sports. Now no matter what he does in response to this Trump manufactured crisis, all I’ll ever think is “you raised a kid who likes Charlie Kirk.”
closer to 50% in rural areas
Medicaid covers 41% of the births in the United States.
Destroying Medicaid means children and families will needlessly suffer.
Destroying Medicaid means children and families will needlessly suffer.
June 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
closer to 50% in rural areas