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Still get excited by the first real snow of the year. The subsequent ones, maybe not so much.

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Congo outbreak identified: "The mystery has finally been solved. It's a case of severe malaria in the form of a respiratory illness... and weakened by malnutrition." www.reuters.com/world/africa...

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Me: Dr. Salk your vaccine will save so many children! Salk: Well thank God Me: Of course they will grow up Salk: Well I hope so Me: And get old Salk: I guess? Me: And eventually vote for lunatics who will try to stop your vaccine Salk: what now Me: And leave NATO Salk: shit

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An interesting Wikipedia rabbit hole is the controversy surrounding smallpox inoculation when it first came to Boston in the 1720s. Still having the same debates 300 years later.

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I read the first post in this thread about mirror life, thought “they can’t mean…”, and then clicked the link. Yep, that’s exactly what they mean. Bioengineering reversed-chirality microbes. Vaughn’s piece is a necessary if frightening read.

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Until recently I was more concerned with AI gaining exceptional abilities and taking over the world; now I'm more worried it will stay mediocre but still come to dominate us by eroding our critical thinking skills.

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In middle school, it's considered uncool to wear a winter coat. I'm not sure where this mentality comes from, but a lot of people never outgrow it.

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This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

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🧵 On the day Remco Evenepoel was knocked off his bike by a postal worker and broke multiple bones, the Belgian Postal Group's stock price dropped 2% to a new all-time low... 📉 @escapecollective.bsky.social

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In my research of 17th century letters and diaries one thing that I find striking is for any illness, even minor ailment, they do not take it for granted you'll recover. They might think it's probable and at some point consider you out of danger. Today, it's the opposite, it's so striking 1/2

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As the article’s first line makes clear, AI is a technology that thrives on and deepens austerity and it demands coalitions of students, faculty, and staff to resist and refuse its institutionalization.

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I just had the sloppiest bowl of chili served to me by a woman who went straight from serving to bedazzling the t-shirt she was going to wear to her birthday trip to the shooting range with her mom. WISCONSIN!!!

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"Infected people had flu-like symptoms including high fever and severe headaches..." www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

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East Wisconsin Avenue - Milwaukee Wisconsin 2024.

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I'm not sure how widely this is recognized outside of the education world, but with the advent of AI, take-home graded writing assignments are effectively dead. I think the societal consequences could be quite profound.

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The HPV vaccine can be given as early as age 9, and vaccine efficacy is actually better in younger kids. Get it now if you can. My kid who turns 9 in 2025 will receive it ASAP, unless the new administration decides to mess with vaccine access.

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Another reminder to not amplify misinformation. Block and move on. Sub-post (is that a thing?) if necessary #medsky

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got banned for life from the TaleSpin forums for suggesting that Baloo in TaleSpin is NOT the same bear as Baloo in The Jungle Book. People were screaming at me to shut the fuck up even though I provided EVIDENCE

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The HPV vaccine has been recommended in the US since 2006. New study out today shows that cervical cancer deaths in young women in the years that followed have plummeted, decreasing 15% per year from 2013-2015. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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We don't know where this is headed, but now's a good time to pick up a box of N95s. We know from last time, by the time you know you need them, it will be too late.

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1/ Influenza wastewater activity levels are currently low across the US, aside from conspicuous areas in CA where #H5N1 is spreading in dairy cows. A deeper dive into the Wastewater Scan data paints a very concerning picture and should add to our sense of urgency.

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Post your favorite non-alcoholic (holiday) beverage!

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How cooked are we as a society that raw milk is becoming popular specifically because people are mad that they were told not to drink it so they don’t get avian flu

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Damn and now Drake is going to have to pay a 25 percent tariff on that beef?

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alternate timeline where instead of reading to children on 9/11, george bush was in the middle of filming hot ones

submitted 163 days ago • 203 comments

Milwaukee, 2024

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Iron homeostasis is today's topic in my nutrition class. Super cool and underappreciated area of physiology.

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"Blue zones, supposed havens of longevity, have become a global brand. But skeptics think they rest on shaky science" www.science.org/content/arti....

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These are some of the most useful moderation lists. I recommend going to @skysentry.bsky.social and subscribing to them

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this is ridiculous, bluesky isn't new

submitted 165 days ago • 4 comments

The Good Land

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my guess is that this is the result of Gen Z being relatively naive and full of aspiration, but I’m also ready to believe that their brains are fried

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This is the most important chart published in America this week. (By @dylanlscott.bsky.social)

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It's a nice idea that science should be apolitical, essentially calling balls and strikes, but doesn't work out that way when one team is arguing that the plate isn't real and the ball is giving off 5G waves.

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Still there. T-shirt here: milwaukeemerch.com/collections/...

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