Matias
A better world is possible
- cuts to NIH are making it more likely we'll never develop new antibiotics again get ready for a world without surgery, or a scrape becoming life threatening
- some good news at last!
- 🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs (D) was sworn in Tuesday after a six-month legal battle against Republican Judge Jefferson Griffin, who sought to overturn the results of the 2024 election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- What’s up with all foods now being “high protein?” Do people really think they’re not getting enough protein unless their pancakes are filled with it
- Public health secretary that doesn’t believe in public health
- I think one of the skeleton keys to understanding Elon, Big Yud, Sam Altcoin, etc., is that they appear to genuinely believe that "intelligence" is more important than eg the laws of physics, because if you're smart enough you'll discover new laws of physics that allow you to break the current ones.
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- Public health agency that doesn’t believe in public health
- Starting a political party just against scams
- ANDOR? you can just write OR
- 24th should be muni/bike/walking only
- Bad idea
- I don’t understand why no one in congress has proposed amending The Federal Reserve act to include the following addition among the mandates “Reducing the federal debt-to-GDP ratio to sustainable levels.” Keep inflation and employment the same , just add to the equation #econsky
- Good bio ML follow
- Chicago poster pope
- Chicago poster pope
- Chicago pope
- People have been able to cheat their way through a STEM degree for decades, this is a known major problem, and only with the advent of AI has this even been noticed by the humanities, who have decided to melt down and reinvent the wheel instead of just asking their peers how they cope with it.
- Agree but you still had in-person exams you couldn’t use wolfram alpha on
- Didn’t know this subplot
- the cranks are in control
- Reminder that all weather stations and apps are just repackaging National Weather Service data and predictions. It’s all the federal government there isn’t a private weather system. Accuweather could never finance it
- More people work in science funded by NIH than do coal. It’s a giant field that the current administration and Musk are illegally turning off in just a few months
- Jay is overseeing the dismantling of American science. He owns this
- A fascinating interview with Bhattacharya, who seems in denial of the fact that he’s now the Medical Establishment, and he owns everything that’s happening now. “Don’t blame me” is the theme. www.science.org/content/arti...
- Wish more of ML in bio would move here
- Twitter’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research. Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover www.timeshighereducation.com/news/xs-domi...
- pyramid schemes really destroy everything they touch
- Cool opportunity
- Teapot domed
- I joined the team from The Daily this week to have a conversation on just how the Trump family is playing in the crypto world, taking actions that create explicit conflicts of interest unlike anything in modern US history. Here's the episode: The Crypto President www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/p...
- The new flu/covid combo vaccine is now delayed for no good reason
- Relatable
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- What is this building?
- profoundly bad science. profoundly bad leadership.
- Not my tragedies becoming farces!
- Teapot domed
- Getting word they’re replacing Medicare with an Amazing Race style challenge
- Solidarity is the only way to win. You can’t cut a deal just for yourself - they’ll renege on it at any point
- IBM (1934)
- This is so dumb
- You know they don’t actually care about deficits because the easiest way to solve that is raising taxes to what they were 20 years ago. Like in living memory of many cats
- Not in my name
- We must raise taxes for the top
- Santiago is basically what LA could be like if it was allowed to become a city
- read the tea leaves however you want but this doesn’t sound like the tone of someone who wants to back down on tariffs to me
- The late night infomercial tone is beautiful
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- Oh yeah that does look like it could be that nice blue
- All it would take to start rolling this back is 4 GOP reps working with Dems. Just 4 - wish any of them had a lick of ambition
- Quick someone calculate how much a sequencing run will cost with 104% tariffs on china I actually don’t know what the Illumina supply chain looks like tbh
- Okay from some digging their biggest manufacturing sites are San Diego and Singapore but can’t find anything on the in suppliers
- on their*
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- And bus only lanes on Fillmore
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- The cartridges aren’t?
- Oh fuck
- Man I should have bought a new phone
- Why do they resign and not be forced out?
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- Nina is awesome!
