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Bay Area physicist and wanna-be composer. I think I'm learning Japanese.
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This is reasonable. And I thought it for many years. But Jennifer Allen's work on vaccine misinformation changed my mind. Headlines often misinform people because 1) most people don't click through and read stories, 2) misleading headlines don't get misinformation flags from social media companies.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Cat smarts

submitted 6 days ago • 239 comments

The best way we can honor our veterans for their service and sacrifice is by keeping our promise to take care of them when they get home. If the Republican budget passes the Senate, so many of our veterans won’t get the benefits they’ve earned. It’s an absolute disgrace.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

This classic shallow argument runs cover for real ways that the response to the Covid pandemic has been all out class warfare, and is the perfect example of lazy, superficial “class analysis” that ignores the basic material conditions which actually define class under capitalism.

submitted 83 days ago • 17 comments

I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/

submitted 9 days ago • 70 comments

Says he has the right to be "hyperbolically mean" to people who should just take it, with his replies disabled.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Once again:

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

Anecdotage, on DC journalism culture: W/o exception, DC pol/journo families I've known, w child or relative going into (a) police (b) military (c) emergency-service (d) Peace Corps (e) teaching (f) local news (g) something similar ... ... have been been admired and congratulated, not reverse.

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments