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People laughed a few days ago when @jamellebouie.net said we might not have flu shots next year, but:

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Atta boy @jtsphd.bsky.social

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We’re witnessing a Brexit-level instance of completely unnecessary economic destruction. A country that’s not hit by any shock, but simply chooses policy self-harm.

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bird flu is festering in dairy cattle, and unlike with chickens, there is no federal program to contain it. instead of creating one Trump is gutting the USDA and CDC, specifically its disease control programs www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/o...

submitted 8 days ago • 25 comments

“Data” is one of those boundary objects that separates sharp, thoughtful people from credulous quants and useful idiots. The more time you spend with data, the more you are confronted with its inescapably contingent, incomplete, and mediated nature.

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Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 6 days ago • 678 comments

It's strikingly similar to the white supremacy campaigns in Reconstruction North Carolina, as described by Gregory Downs in Declarations of Independence (p.192), where Black employment in government jobs was framed as prima facie evidence of anti-white discrimination.

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all of central Brooklyn is playing a game of Egg The Cybertruck with this one guy who keeps street parking in the hood

submitted 7 days ago • 432 comments

Beyond the obvious, the trouble with all of this crap is that it presumes the state per se is not an interested party. You have a right to informed consent, of course, but the state's interest in preventing public health catastrophe inarguably outweighs or, at least, mediates that in certain cases!

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More and more people are saying this

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Back on my hobby horse: Don’t use the phrase “taxpayer dollars” to make claims upon collective resources. Not only does it reproduce facile ideas about gov finance, it also reifies the reactionary notion that the taxpayer is the proper subject of the state. The word you’re looking for is “public”.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

The most basic fact about a contract is that you can’t unilaterally rescind it; you can only unilaterally breach it. The Feds signed off on their part of the congestion pricing process. They don’t have unilateral authority to “rescind” anything.

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By the end of his voyage home, Odysseus had BY FAR the most cost effective fleet in Greece, saving an undoubtedly grateful Ithaca enormous amounts of money.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

silicon valley is going to destroy america

submitted 12 days ago • 628 comments

"Do I need to call Elon?” one DOGE member barked at a federal security official while demanding access to sensitive information at one agency this month, a source familiar with the exchange tells Rolling Stone." Come on, man, you’re being bullied by twerps.

submitted 14 days ago • 213 comments

It is a profound shame that the most boring people on the planet have drained the revolutionary vitality out of liberal thought to use it as a cudgel to wield against college students that annoy them.

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

Farmer-Labor Party when

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One of the things I deeply resent about the present moment is having to explain to normal people in my life what Gamergate was.

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Bureaucracy, famously not important in war

submitted 17 days ago • 734 comments

Our collective addiction to reasoning by analogy will surely kill us all. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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congratulations to Karl Marx and his ideas for limiting Kansas City to 49 total rushing yards over four quarters of dialectical exchange

submitted 18 days ago • 23 comments

Let’s be clear about something that maybe the wider public will get. Not only will this destroy research but it will also lead to huge tuition increases. Your kids’ college is about to get a lot more expensive.

submitted 20 days ago • 86 comments

It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...

submitted 21 days ago • 168 comments

“Meritorious” seems to be taking a similar semiotic path to “criminal” in that it is increasingly deployed not as a descriptor relative to some exogenous standard (e.g. the law), but as an inborn and essential characteristic possessed by some groups and not by others.

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Invitation to a collective project! What, for you, is the promise of cultural geography? Vickie Zhang and I are seeking responses to the prompt (1-1000 words) by the end of February. They will be compiled, and made freely available in a publication (with DOI & ISBN). Details 👇

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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 24 days ago • 1328 comments

I absolutely cannot wait for the Making Crime Illegal Act of 2025.

submitted 24 days ago • 91 comments

seeing takes about the aid institutions and their role in imperialism. correct. If someone said "investor-owned hospitals exploit the vulnerable to benefit shareholders" I'd nod. If their followup was "and that's why I'm turning off your mom's dialysis machine" I'd...have some followup questions

submitted 25 days ago • 25 comments