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i have 2.5M followers across all social media. statistically, there's a good chance one of you works at in AI. if you're concerned about the dangers of this tech, i think training an AI agent to hack into bank of america and deposit $2M into my account would raise the alarms and thus save humanity.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 4h

"Because policy shapes health, research on policy is health research." Great article from some giants in the fields of public health, social epidemiology, and health policy research: www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

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Policy Research At The National Institutes Of Health: An Imperative In Peril | Health Affairs Forefront

Understanding the health consequences of policy is not peripheral to NIH’s mission. It is central to it.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 2h

I'm old enough to remember smoking on airplanes as a child. I hated it but they made you do it.

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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 2h

they’re also doing a deconflicted webinar

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4h

this would be an incredible film if you started it with all the normal serial killer hunting tropes

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 10h

This is getting the kid glove treatment a little bit because it's an entertainment venue, but if the president can unilaterally shutter government entities we're an authoritarian state. Full stop.

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 10h

If this is the precedent, what's to stop the president from shutting down the EPA when it turns him down for a permit? The FDA when it shuts down one of his restaurants for not being up to code? The FCC when it fairly declares a Democrat won an election?

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah so if a president liquidates a government entity created in legislaiton passed by Congress & funded by congressional appropriations that's super-duper unconstitutional. In normal times he'd be impeached by close of business that day.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 10h

every five or so years this happens in Chicago, a strange and likely haunted city where hundreds of millions are paid out to the victims of police violence and then the police get more money again in what one can only assume is the consequence of some pact with the devil

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Erek Majka @erekmajka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Really love getting a little AI summary that gets cutoff so I have to open the text or email or whatever it is anyway. It’s awesome living in the future

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

I have tried to explain to people many times that the reason we don’t have the expanded child tax credit is that Joe Manchin really did believe poor people would spend it on drugs that was a (terrible) deeply held personal belief, not a lobbyist thing

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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 11h

based on my limited color printing that seems right although as a general printer skeptic I am a little impressed by the color printer -- it's not photos but it's better than what I expect

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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 11h

the BIL's BIL is of course another degree away, as he's MrsAware's BIL's BIL

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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 11h

im pretty close with MrsAware's sisters, we refer to their spouses as my BILs there are some times where more extended relations are involved, like my SIL's MIL or my BIL's BIL

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 12h

Pausing an unpopular during an election is usually more effective when you don't explicitly tell voters you're only pausing the unpopular war because there's an election.

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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 12h

"why would I deceive you?"

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 15h

This is made explicit in the rationale in the budget for the Center for Renewing America, which is almost exactly in line with the president's budget request for FY26. (Some shifting in FY27, though NSF remains the same ~55% cut.)

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 15h

OMB's focus on NIH and NSF, which has confused a lot of folks, pretty much boils down to stopping money going to universities.

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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 12h

we dont print a ton of color, have heard good things from people who do, including paying for the ink subscription

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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 12h

we recently got a Brother (HL-L3220CDW) and am pretty happy with it tbh we dont use it a ton but so far so good

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 14h

And thou mayest aske thyself, 'How do Ich werke thys?' And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!'

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

a few years ago, references to Simon of Trent or Leo Frank trutherism were a sign that someone was an intensely Christian and/or Neo-Nazi right-wing antisemite but now formerly-normal lefty politics influencers who stayed on Twitter casually reply to Mamdani with 15th century blood libel posts

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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 13h

" It's a very—potentially really could be good for medical."

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Clay Jones @clayjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Though not unheard of, spontaneous splenic rupture without a risk factor in a newborn is freakishly rare. So at the end of the day, no we can’t say with any degree of certainty that measles killed that baby. But come on. That’s a pretty big coincidence otherwise.

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Clay Jones @clayjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In regions, like the US, where measles was eliminated, small epidemics almost always involve unimmunized children not mothers. This phenomenon of increasing vaccine refusal and return to endemic measles in the past two decades here means we are having more nonimmune mothers. So…

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Scott Myers @smyers20.bsky.social · 14h

It's sad that we even have to be talking about it. Congenital measles doesn't have to be a thing.

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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 13h

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17h

The way the Cornell victim is being publicly disbelieved by a lot of journalists, officials, and online posters is also a warning shot to every other victim not to dare to actually pursue a case against your rapist lest you suffer the same fate. It’s a means of protecting the status quo

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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 13h

this is why I don't dye my hair

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Sarah Rose @thesarahrose.bsky.social · 14h

On Medicaid because freelance writer, this year during renewal thought “oh thank God I’m legally blind otherwise navigating this would be so hard”

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 14h

What isn't surprising: work requirements are reducing coverage because of paperwork burdens What is surprising: apparently The Pitt had a storyline that demonstrated the difficulty of navigating Medicaid redeterminations

“Hopefully we’ll be back on Medicaid by then.”

“How’d you lose it?”

“They sent a redetermination letter to our old apartment. It didn’t get forwarded.”

“And you haven’t been able to get it back since?”

“I’ve been trying for months. To get re-enrolled, you need tax returns, pay stubs… I cut hair. My income fluctuates.”

– The Pitt, Season 2, Episode 13

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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 01/10/2026

some pop music is good, actually, and some great

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 01/10/2026

I’m sorry I have something in both my eyes

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just got an email from a former student who took my class a decade ago, asking me for the reading list because she enjoyed the course so much and wants to revisit the texts. And she *apologized* for making the request. Are you kidding me?

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Sad Old Man Crying

ALT: Sad Old Man Crying

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

I read a couple hundred death penalty cases for a case once and I think you’d all be shocked at how often this happens. The death penalty is one of the cruelest things in our system, an obvious violation of the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment clause, but we just love to kill.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"The average SNAP benefit across the U.S. is about $6.25 per person per day, or roughly $190 per month, according to FRAC. That isn't enough to cover a typical meal in about 99% of U.S. counties, according to a 2025 analysis from the nonpartisan Urban Institute."

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is truly amazing—RFK Jr openly, gladly, joyfully telling people that under his leadership of the US health system, actual public health expertise, training, & experience is no longer needed. All that’s needed to lead the US health agencies is a past history of being a right wing blogger!

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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 30/09/2026

perhaps the funniest part of this is the beardo special operator is an archetype that I would have thought he loved

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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 30/09/2026

recently I was reading a med paper from the early 80s and it made me appreciate the often annoying reporting guidelines a lot of journals have, there were just numbers all over the place with insufficient context, it was a mess!

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