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Pharmaceutical industry computational biologist and Good Judgment Project superforecaster. All comments are my views alone.
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In Washington last year, a traffic crash killed or seriously injured someone every 2.7 hours, but I've never seen a TV news station claim that even a single horrific crash "highlights the dangers" of roadway travel.

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

“The most important intervention in the United States labor market is not unionization or the minimum wage. It is professional licensing,” writes Rebecca Haw Allensworth. The practice “is a bad deal for consumers and workers”:

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Measles: MASSIVELY contagious- 9 in 10 people near a person with measles will be infected and ~20% of people who get it will be hospitalized but also MASSIVELY preventable- 2 doses of the measles vaccine is 97% effective If you are not vaccinated against measles, now is a great time

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

Read it slowly and understand it. 😳🥺 Repost 👇🏾 👇🏾

submitted 15 days ago • 376 comments

If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

submitted 25 days ago • 876 comments

I pass this thing every day and its spindly little fake-cast-iron-ass columns pretending to support a beige Borg Cube make me want to pour a bottle of Whiskey Tango bourbon over Mies van der Rohe's grave. @nickhasthoughts.com

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad. GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE. youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...

submitted 30 days ago • 2234 comments

The first union station in the world, and the most beautiful Would be nice if it had more than three trains per week though

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

A reminder that Los Angeles had its hottest summer in history last year. Southern California has received just 2% of "normal" rainfall during the current "rainy" season. These fires are a direct result of a warming & drying atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels. We are in a climate emergency.

submitted 48 days ago • 184 comments

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