It's just a sports ban.
It's just a bathroom ban.
It's just a healthcare for kids ban.
It's just a military service ban.
It's just a federal jobs ban.
It's just a university housing ban.
It's just a passport & visa ban.
It's just one Constitutional right.
It's just your status as free citizens.

This sounds going viral here’s the original Sinéad O’Connor performance

one of my most steadfast beliefs is that you can let a review talk you into
something but you should never let a review talk you out of something. sometimes i’m sure they’re trying to do one or the other but genuinely *un*sure which.

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

hey panera can we have the lemonade that kills us again

It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.

I am extremely lucky to live without any major physical or mental health issues and even my few small brushes with the cruelty of our health care system have been enough to radicalize me against any candidate who doesn't support universal health care

Please look up the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 to understand that the CDC not selecting strains for next year’s vaccines sets the stage for a public health calamity that will, without doubt and at bare minimum, catastrophically and directly impact people you know. This is a five alarm fire.

So there’s lots of CRAZY stuff going on, which makes seemingly CRAZY reports seem more plausible. It would be great if we all still take a breath and double-check to make sure things are real, so everyone can focus on the real stuff.

I will now go and immediately not follow my own suggestion.

honestly this would be one of the better case scenarios (the best case would be a solar flare that destroys every social media data center and also electrocutes the executives of each company to death)

DHS has terminated the memberships of everyone on its advisory committees.

This includes several cyber committees, like CISA's advisory panel and the Cyber Safety Review Board, which was investigating Salt Typhoon.

That review is "dead," person familiar says.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

New from me for @rollingstone.com this morning, an hour ahead of the planned start time for Trump’s second inauguration.

I have nothing else polite to say.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

once again thinking about this passage from David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish

"As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat." –Ellen Perry Berkeley

Time for another what-is-AI thread, because there’s a lot of confusion, seeded on purpose by shitty vulture capitalists trying to sell stuff.

AI is a legit branch of computer science with a LOT of different approaches & addressing MANY different types of problems.

EVERY. WORD. OF. THIS.

It's trite, but "be the change you want to see" is true

Shut the fuck up about Twitter already, move on, and just share things you find interesting and/or important and interact with cool people

The latter is the real secret, if you're not cool I'm not giving you any of my time, fuck off

"A person who merely refuses to learn what can be known is not a skeptic, but rather an ignoramus; a person who raises questions but does not seek their answers is not a skeptic, but a bullshitter." defector.com/what-the-fuc...