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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 09/09/2026

I feel like every amazing announcement about AI besides its ability to screw with other computer systems is always followed by “it stole from a person actually”. Like when they built that AI sepsis model that just noticed when nurses started documenting vital signs more frequently.

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 04/08/2026

Oh my god. Are you telling me another moral panic about the children was baseless?

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 16/07/2026

Our world cup bingo. Center square in the last seconds of the game for the horizontal win was the crying british child with tears streaking his face paint. Literally every game the camerman has found a crying kid. It’s kinda messed up.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This story is 🤯 Andrea Shaw’s twin toddlers died—she blamed vaccines & collaborated with RFK Jr’s extreme anti-vaxx activist group CHD She was lead plaintiff in a case in which CHD sued AAP claiming that advocating for vaccines is racketeering 👀 Shaw has now been indicted for murdering her kids

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 07/07/2026

The US team is toast. Mixed feelings. On the one hand the red card call was BS. On the other it was gross to have a president lean on a sports competition. A win would have been sullied anyway. Now I can root for Norway and the Terminator.

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 04/07/2026

That might be the most amazing goal I’ve seen. Capo Verde is at risk of the biggest upset in years.

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 27/06/2026

My favorite St Louis bar, The Royale, has a new cocktail, “the Reflecting Pool”. You can get it with a side of bubbly to help clear it up.

An aviator cocktail with peeling blue painted blueberry spirulina sides and a green algae color reminiscent of the same samed National Monument.

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 21/06/2026

This is why we need the humanities more than ever. David Lay Williams tells us what the Platonic dialogue "Gorgias" can teach us about trillionaires. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/o...

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Opinion | Elon Musk Confirms Ancient Concerns About the Superrich

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 18/06/2026

Nothing has ever gone wrong after signing a treaty in Versailles.

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 17/06/2026

In an amazing lapse of infosec, Thiel’s secret society got leaked. Amazing job here by the reporter and needless to say, no one on this list can be trusted. Association with Thiel is basically announcing your desire to be a future lord/noble in his Technofeudalist state.

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 16/06/2026

If he were elected the supreme leader of Iran the Dems would celebrate his departure and new job. He lost this because he completely capitulated and had to give them half a billion of our tax dollars to reopen the strait.

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 13/06/2026

I hate this kit we look like barber poles.

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

"...Congress had authorized $300 million ...[in 2025 & 2026] ... Kennedy decided to hold up distribution of all the money to Gavi. ...because of Kennedy’s short-sighted decision, “600,000 children will ultimately die from not receiving vaccines.”" truthout.org/articles/us-... via @truthout.org

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US Turnaround on International Vaccines Comes Too Late for Hundreds of Thousands

The State Department finally overruled RFK Jr.’s defunding of a group that vaccinates 60 percent of children globally.

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 09/06/2026

Good news friends! Our colleagues at a number of elite institutions have decided to update the Harper's Letter. This time in a moral panic of grievances about the left being, your guessed it, mean to them in higher ed. www.chronicle.com/article/has-...

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Has the Left Ruined the Humanities?

A group of well-known scholars convened by two prominent campus leaders studied the question and found “a deterioration in scholarly standards” across several disciplines.

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 04/06/2026

Now that Elon has blamed his politics on his trans daughter I say we stop using pictures of him and instead substitute Saturn eating his children as the man has reached Greek myth levels of hubris, gluttony, greed and bad parenting.

The Goya painting of Saturn devouring his children.

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 01/06/2026

I think there must be enough degenerate gamblers that don’t smoke that a nonsmoking Vegas casino would be a major draw. Why are we hosting medical conferences in these buildings full of second hand smoke? It’s bananas. Blew my nose this morning and my snot is black. Indoor smoking is so gross.

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 01/06/2026

Ayatollah Mamdani strikes again with more Shakira law.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Oliver Darcy got the audio of the heated 60 Minutes meeting where Scott Pelley dressed Nick Bilton down! "You know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock." www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

"Bari loves this institution," Bilton told staffers at one point during the highly contentious meeting. "She loves '60 Minutes.'"

"She's murdering '60 Minutes,'" Pelley countered. "She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it—and she's doing exactly that."

This story is based on audio of the meeting obtained by Status. A CBS News spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment, but Pelley's stunning series of remarks left staffers on the newsmagazine wondering if he will resign.

In the meeting, Pelley pointed out that Weiss has "no qualifications for her job" and told Bilton "you have slender qualifications for this job." Pelley, the former anchor of "CBS Evening News," noted that the changes Weiss has made to that program "have been catastrophic."

"So why should we expect any of this is going to be any better?" Pelley asked Bilton.

Bilton tried to move the meeting along, but Pelley pressed on, challenging the new executive producer’s references in interviews to “60 Minutes” creator Don Hewitt’s vision for the program as he outlined his plans.

"I have another question," the veteran journalist said. "Did you at any point work with Don Hewitt, telling everybody about what Don Hewitt thought, and what his inspiration was? I worked for Don Hewitt from 1999 to 2004 and Lesley Stahl probably worked with him for 30 years. Just wondering how you have such deep insight?"

Bilton replied that he was simply quoting Hewitt’s own words from past interviews and asked Pelley whether he had any other questions. Pelley said that he did.

"I have many questions," Pelley responded. "What was wrong with Sharyn Alfonsi?"

As Bilton started to say he would "defer," Pelley interrupted: "This is not the crowd to dodge."

Bilton insisted he was not dodging.

"Nobody talked to you about that?" Pelley continued, pressing him on the firing. "They're taking one of your correspondents away and nobody mentioned to you what was wrong with Sharyn?"

Bilton acknowledged that he "had conversations with people."

"And what came out of those conversations?" Pelley asked. "They are private conversations?"

Bilton reiterated that he "did not fire" Alfonsi or Vega. Pelley pointed out that Bilton had nonetheless discussed the matter with others. Charles Forelle, a top Weiss deputy and managing editor of CBS News, interjected, telling Pelley that he was being "rude."

"This is not actually productive," Forelle said. "This is not an interview."

"It's working for me," Pelley replied.

"Anybody came into our house—this is '60 Minutes,'" Pelley added. "I guess you wandered in expecting to read a statement off?"

Pelley then asked Bilton "what was wrong with" Draggan Mihailovich, the executive editor of "60 Minutes" who was fired on Thursday.

Bilton again said that he did not fire Mihailovich. Forelle one more told Pelley that he was being "rude."

Pelley did not let up, however. The veteran newsman told Bilton and Forelle that the way management handled the firings was "cruel." Forelle—yet again—responded by calling Pelley "rude."

"I'm not being rude," Pelley shot back. "I have some pretty—you know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock. Sending Draggan Mihailovich to HR to get fired, because nobody could look him in the eye. Not talking about Tanya's contract. Not talking about Sharyn Alfonsi's contract. Not talking about Cecilia Vega's contract. Just calling them up and telling they were fired. That's rude. This is a conversation. That is rude, and you were part of that."

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 30/05/2026

I know most people on here hate thinking about this stuff but one should seriously review your retirement distributions to avoid this catastrophe. They want you to eat the trillion dollar valuation of a company that *doesn’t make money*. You are Elon’s exit liquidity. www.reddit.com/r/ETFs/s/6J4...

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From the ETFs community on Reddit: That’s right… Put it in your bag….

Explore this post and more from the ETFs community

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 30/05/2026

Nature never ceases to amaze. Homing pigeons use magnetic liver macrophages to navigate on overcast days. Deplete their macrophages, they get lost! The Immune system, the liver and the brain all in communication somehow. Bizarre but fascinating. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Homing pigeon navigation relies on superparamagnetic macrophages under overcast conditions

Birds use a variety of navigational strategies, including the geomagnetic field, especially when other cues are not available, such as under overcast or nocturnal conditions. Magnetite particles in th...

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 29/05/2026

I think as science communicatiors we’re not doing a good job in the moment. Where are the skeptics boldly going out and saying the bubble being built around space exploration is not ever going to happen? Even Neil Degrasse Tyson, despite pointing out the stupidity, is kinda going along with it.

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 29/05/2026

People look down on the degenerates at Wall Street Bets but I can’t help loving them a little bit. They’ve been going around posting everywhere that SPCE is spaceX hoping people don’t do their research. It’s not. It’s Virgin Galactic - a defunct penny. This is hilarious

Screenshot of Virgin Galatics price getting pumped by the apes at WSB. And yes, it’s actually going up.

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 28/05/2026

To be fair to Biden, we all feelmlike we’re having a stroke when we hear that guy talk. Imagine debating him. Do I smell toast? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

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Jill Biden’s Reaction to Biden’s 2024 Debate: ‘He’s Having a Stroke’

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 28/05/2026

This is really neat. Remember Hep B is still endemic in many places around the world, and even though the vaccine is fantastic, there are millions requiring effective treatment for chronic hep B. Another drug to use in combination will likely allow for higher cure rates as with hep C.

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 27/05/2026

Bsky should talk more business sections and stock offerings because I swear it’s the best true crime reading you’ll find. This spaceX IPO is wild. Their filing is as goofy as WeWork’s was and they can’t even report a PE for the company to justify a ratio which is running a 93x revenue right now.

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 27/05/2026

Space X has released its public filing for IPO and it's the most embarassing document since WeWork's S-1. They've got negative revenue and soon, if you don't move your retirement instruments out of indexes, you are going to be their exit liquidity. www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXBets...

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From the SpaceXBets community on Reddit: They've lost $37billion and have $29B in long term debt

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 26/05/2026

Honestly one of the most trash articles I've read from NYT in a while. If you make it to college not realizing you aren't the only person in the world, it's not the job of higher education to explain to you this is wrong. This was your parents job. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/o...

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Opinion | A Cattle Ranch Is Doing What the Ivy League Can’t

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 26/05/2026

I really think it needs to be bigger news that Korea’s largest employer just agreed to cost share a minority (15% net) profits with employees and those employees - all of them - are getting bonuses of $340,000 this year and yearly for the foreseeable future. Korea is going to rip.

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 22/05/2026

Completely ignored by our media is that South Korean companies like SK Hynix and Samsung (at threat of a strike) have started paying their workers bonuses to spread the wealth from the chip manufacturing bonanza - on the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars per worker.

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 19/05/2026

So this 1.776 "settlement" is in fact, not a settlement, and the judge said there is no settlement. The case was essentially dropped once the judge made noises that the mango couldn't sue an agency he controls. Thus this "deal" is a naked raid on the treasury. www.reddit.com/r/law/commen...

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From the law community on Reddit: Media reporting this payment to Trump as a settlement. Judges dismissal says there is no settlement of record.

Posted by Amentet - 1,101 votes and 69 comments

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Dr Susan Oliver (PhD) @drsusanoliver.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Sorry antiaxxers, a new systematic review of 59 studies showed no association between aluminium adjuvanted vaccines and serious or long term health outcomes, such as asthma, autism spectrum disorders, or other chronic conditions. www.bmj.com/content/393/...

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/05/2026

The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 11/04/2026

Ok. What dumb shit is he going to do this weekend?

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 06/04/2026

So. Should we take bets? Is it TACO? Or is it psycho? He stands alone. We have no allies at this point except an unreliable co-instigator. Iran isn’t giving him an easy out - they simultaneously call his bluffs while outing lies. They seem to be forcing it to a head. I think it will be TACO.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

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Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 01/04/2026

Found this excellent article from 2024 in Current Affairs on why the Atlantic is so terrible. It does the hard work of explaining, at length, why the magazine isn't worth reading. When they cover the positives? Ed Yong, that's it. And he left. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-wor...

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The Worst Magazine In America

The Atlantic poses as a magazine of ideas, but its writers get away with terrible arguments. Its ascendance is a sign of the dire state of American intellectual life.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

“Flawed” is generous. Bhattacharya has been using credentials to push a harmful, anti-scientific agenda since at least 2020. The mentioned study violated legal & ethical standards, has results that were off by multiple orders of magnitude, and he used it to advocate for mass infection w/o mitigation

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 22/03/2026

Begging everyone for the millionth time, please don’t just read your slides to us. We are generally a literate audience in science.

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MarkH @markhoofnagle.medsky.social · 11/03/2026

This is objectively hilarious. The president's dementia has regressed him to acting like little more than a carny guessing badly at people's shoe sizes, ordering them cheap shoes in the wrong size, then the little lickspittles won't dare wearing actual nice shoes or ones that fit.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/03/2026

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports

Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

My new piece about glyphosate and why it's probably fine for your health unless you're spraying the stuff in which case the data is mixed. Also, RFK Jr. got attacked by all of his friends and it was very funny to me. slate.com/technology/2...

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Our Food System Depends On It. RFK Jr.’s Followers Hate It—and It Has Been Linked to Cancer.

I’m an epidemiologist. Here’s what the research says.

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