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Ezra Abrams

@ezraabrams.bsky.social
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Retired PhD molecular biology/biotech

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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 1h
nerdy nit picky PhDs of blue sky how do you know you have never contracted covid ? the gold std is to look in your blood for antibodies to proteins not in the vaccine almost as good is weekly PCR of nasal swabs which did you do PS: we have known since 2020 that most cases are asymptomatic
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 4h
blockin the words hegseth execution squad honestly, who ever you are, you don't need to add another post, we have enough thanks
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 4h
aside from appealing to your donors, does ICE out now actually mean anything ? sounds like performative fundraising BS to me
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 6h
you can google that pretty easy, the size of US & Isreali populations and death tolls on 9/11 and Oct7th really basic stuff dude
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 6h
sorry - how can median income be 4.6% above inflation when costs are >> 4.6% ? I must be missing something obvious
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 6h
The "new historians" - Israelis - showed that your narrative is largely false In the war of partition, the IDF or proto IDF forced out most of the palestinians in Israel
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 6h
frogpile consider how the US reacted after 9/11, when about 2,000 people died would the rxn have been different if the death toll were 200 ? if the death toll were 20,000 ? right ?
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 6h
Let me try this consider the rxn of the US to 9/11, when about 2,000 people died would the rxn of the US had been different if "only" 200 died ? or if 20,000 died ? I think the answer is yes
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 12h
fair point
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 12h
Adjusted for population size, the death toll on Oct 7 was (!) about 15x larger then 9/11 so I find this act by Mamdani highly offensive
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 12h
not be in the heart of a major city
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 12h
fun I live near Boston, and walking around the city came on this odd building, totally surrounded with a fence that clearly said KEEP OUT and then I learn that it is the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa... a BL4 lab more or less in the heart of Boston and just me, I'm a wimp, BL4 facilities should
en.wikipedia.org
National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories - Wikipedia
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 12h
must be a lot of organism specific stuff you need
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 12h
yes, exactly: but maybe the Russian facility has certain expertise/equipment/ reagents for certain work, and maybe Porton and the 9 facilities in the US are unsuited to that work that is at least possible, right ? after all, for each particular organism, there * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosafe...
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Biosafety level - Wikipedia
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 13h
C as someone who has admired you since early ACA days: it isn't clear that what Trump said, or even if he did what he said (ha) is illegal yours, with respect electionlawblog.org/2026/trumps-...
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Trump's (Hard to Believe) Pledge to Give Every American Adult $5,000 If Republicans Win Control of House and Senate is Almost Certainly Protected by the First Amendment Against Bribery or Vote Buying ...
At last night’s Republican midterm convention in Dallas, Donald Trump told viewers: “If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, both of them, I will issue a divi...
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 14h
typical social media bullshit what doctors ? and are they a tiny minority of fringe wierdos ?
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 14h
this is so illiterate far as I know, a maj of white women are, consistently, republican voters
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 14h
this post appears to be a lie lynching is horrible, but truth is important to read here, he was lynched over a debt of $12 (about 300 dollars, adjsuted for inflation) crrjarchive.org/incidents/824
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Killing of Jesse Lee Bonds in Tennessee in 1939 | The Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 14h
nit picky reply guys of bluesky Campbells soup, like almost all canned soup, has truly unhealthy levels of sodium (salt)
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 14h
no this is exactly wrong the 1st thing women do when they get money is to stop having so many babies (roughly, more or less)
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 14h
@smbdemocracy.bsky.social yes, I can help facilities suitable for safe testing of ultra dangerous pathogens (BL4) are very rare It is quit possible that the Russian facility is setup to do certain animal pathogen tests that can't be done anywhere else ok ???
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 14h
Talarico is dead meat stop wasting money on the texas fucking beto tarpit ?
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 14h
not sure at all this fits, but this company www.rapidmicrobio.com? makes a highly automated highly accurate camera/incubator thing that measures growth of bacteria very will it might be able to measure dozens of plates, hundreds, of plaque/plate, with very hi precision :)
rapidmicrobio.com
Rapid Micro Biosystems | Automated Quality Control Microbiology
Growth Direct® System automated microbial detection for quality control (QC) microbiology testing: environmental monitoring, water & bioburden testing.
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 14h
Possible assignment for students: is having a job with a high salary good or bad or important or unimportant if good/important, is trying to graduate in a program that ruthlessly fails students who don't measre up worth the effort ?
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 14h
Suppose democrats take control of both houses of congress after the midterms which is a higher priority: Impeaching Trump Budget, ie Cut funding for ICE and restore funding for healthcare/science
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 14h
I have been following you since your kids were little on twitter this is probably th worst post you have ever done even assuming the underlying thing is true, so what
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the first fail in this post is that he pronoun "this" has no obvious antecedent but I guess if you aren't hip enough to know the antecedent is AI, you don't matter the 2nd fail is "software can't improve, a lot . ." the 3rd is that actually AI really does work for a lot of things
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I don't know which is worse: tht the op by @nothoodlum.bsky.social is mathematically illiterate or that none of you noticed The US Fed Budget is on the order of 6,000 billion dollars !! 3 or even 33B is peanuts @grategatsby.bsky.social @middlerageiserror.bsky.social @baileygvt.bsky.social
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The reason AI is so bad at philosophy is because it’s been trained on all the articles in philosophy journals
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
WHERE IS ICELAND :)
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
a quick google suggests that the "sex tape" is a rumor what did happen is that he and his then GF/Fiancee exchanged racy emails, which is not, IMO, anyone's elses business unless he used some dedicated secure device
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
it isn't that this is wrong, but rather that it represents a small minority, and that isn't quite clear www.ipsos.com/en-us/mdvipi...
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
circa 1340, people on social media complaining about how the mainstream news sources mis characterize the black death
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
one imagines Ashley 40,000 years ago: Fire - we are supposed to eat meat raw, this fire thing is just an attempt by clan leaders to consolidate power
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
feels like we should really emphasize that AI has a lot of promise to help make better drugs to fight cancer right ???
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"everyone .. " ah, yes we all live in a bubble there are people, everyone in their circle really thing D Trump is a smart guy doing a good job
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
one will often hear the view that american companies produce crappy products cause the CEO is more interested in the stock price and quarterly profits then in anything else this may be true, but in the 1950s and 1960s, american cars were utter shit
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
this is such tired BS almost everyone I know is using AI in one way or another
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
reminds me of the VCR home exercise tape "buns of steel" which, of course, in that era, was followed by "buns of titanium" and the Jane Fonda quote: it [ fanny ] can be big so long as it is high and round
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Farmers and Truckers voted for this I feel sorry for them, but until they apolgoize, not that sorry
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm sorry, but in reality this idea is just such obvious bullshit under what law can this be done ? totally bollocks
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I was born in 1954, & when I was a kid, the conventional wisdom was that your brand new car lost 30% of its value the moment you drove it off the dealers lot and if a guy (always a guy) got 200K from his car, he was a local celeb, written up in the local paper ie "Chris, a NASA engineer. . . "
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
surely this list is some sort of joke ? or a male sexist fantasy ? Zelig as the one woody allen film ? aside from the over rated akira kurosawa almost no asian directors ?
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I saw Last Tango in Paris back in 1974 and walked out as even back then, as a college student it seemed rapey and what do you know ? it was www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
bbc.com
'It was really wrong': How Last Tango in Paris's infamous explicit scene undid its female star
New film Being Maria explores the life of Maria Schneider and her mistreatment in one of the most notorious, explicit scenes in cinema history.
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
piss off honestly, if a user says "I prefer program A to program B" how can anyone argue with what a user prefers ? and of course "half your screen" is just utter bullshit
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
J sorry for to many posts :) but here is the story I was talking about earlier, when does it make sense to ditch your ICE vehicle but of course grain of salt needed :) www.npr.org/2026/06/01/n...
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'At what point does it make sense to ditch a gas car for an electric vehicle?'
"At what point does it make sense to ditch a gas car for an EV?" NPR listener Guadalupe Higuera of Phoenix asked this question and worked with Climate Desk reporter Jeff Brady to answer it.
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
now we have all the STEM prizes and again not one woman this year
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
this appears to be BS, cause polling has the race as very tight of course, there are about 1,400,000 people in Maine, so you can always get a good juicy quote about anything; heck I bet you could find some prochoice gay women who are Collins supporters
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I have been thinking of starting a campaign here in the state of MA for a law that parking fees are based on length of vehicle or maybe you pay an extra yearly tax, based on size and weight
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Ezra Abrams @ezraabrams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
another year without even one woman ????? wtf ???
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