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thosewoofs.bsky.social
Programmer. Parkinsonian American.
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Good lord

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

It's so weird how the party that likes to claim their opponents are radical Maoists or Stalinists are engaging in purges of the military, the Justice Department, & dozens of other federal agencies at a scale that is far far far beyond anything any incoming administration in US history has ever done.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

[email protected], @birchlse.bsky.social, and I have a new piece on animal consciousness at @science.org! We explain how this topic can be studied scientifically, and why current evidence supports a realistic possibility of consciousness in all vertebrates and many invertebrates.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Surviving Fascism: Lessons from Jim Crow. “Accept that this is happening. Denial won’t change the outcome.” [scalawagmagazine.org]

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Scoop --> Trump-Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers at NIH's center for combating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They predict big setbacks to fighting dementias. This cause was once championed by *Republicans.* Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

submitted 4 days ago • 178 comments

Well you really have to take the 60 seconds to listen so you can understand the people Trump has selected for leadership. This the director of Trump’s National Economic Council. WATCH, then READ @jonathanvlast.bsky.social’s brilliant backstory on Hassett. www.thebulwark.com/p/meet-kevin...

submitted 4 days ago • 96 comments

🧵Who is opposing the Trump administration? I analysed 76 actions of the administration since inauguration and then searched for *meaningful* opposition to each. I grouped the types of opposition and considered what we can learn from both them & actions where opposition has been lacking 1/24

submitted 5 days ago • 78 comments

Ted Cruz's office released a database of $2 Billion in "Woke DEI grants at NSF". Turns out to be an Excel spreadsheet, so I downloaded it to see what kinds of "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda" they had turned up.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment