Madam, I have a secret to reveal.
23.07.2025 22:04
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Madam, I have a secret to reveal.
A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
At no point in this study did I use AI. This includes the literature review, logical organization, writing, analysis, and proofreading. I do not cite any studies that use AI, to the extent that it is possible to know.
Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language.
Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.
Brilliant. 10/10. No notes.
A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes.
This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .
The season of Renge Tsutsuji has arrived in Japan.
Delicate crimson blossoms grace the forest, enchanting all who pass by.
Summer is here — and on clear mornings, a gentle mist rises through the trees, softly lit by the warm sunlight.
It seems this month will be a busy one.
Incredible fail by a smart reporter. Truly. This data has gotten a lot of coverage this week. cc @gregsargent.bsky.social
Conservative protests are always treated as an organic cry of anger that manifests the distress of the unjustly ignored American heartland; protests from the center-left are always written off as noise from inside the bubble.
10 years of obsession about what Trump supporters think & care about has warped our understanding of their size & popularity: Trump is historically unpopular, pro-democracy supporters far outnumber the object of Corporate Media’s love. Time to hear more from majority of US.
I fought fascism in 1945! At 102, I am doing it again!
Sign of the day…
Best image of the day:
The miasma theory is not "outdated," it's fucking nonsense. It thought people got chlamydia from rotten air. The "germ theory" isn't "widely accepted," it's proven scientific fact, and it's the only thing that allowed humanity to advance and cure diseases. Otherwise, great headline.
The cost of Trump’s birthday parade put into perspective at Philly’s #NoKings, created with @indivisiblephl.bsky.social.
[Exit King.]
Commentary: Older Adults Without Family Caregivers Need Better Access to Medicaid Support Services. #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Put this on a billboard.
Out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com: Cuts to NIH funding will impact the economy and employment nationwide. We visualize these losses and advocate for a theory-driven approach to communicating local, self-relevant impact. w/ @joshuasweitz.bsky.social + SCIMaP team:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
And opens by citing Kafka!
Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet.
h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
open chart, keep scrolling down
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican...
Cartoon of Trump saying “I told you we can make big spending cuts!” to a pregnant woman, labeled “waste,” a child labeled “fraud,” and an elder woman with a walker labeled “abuse”
Louise Walter, Division Chief of UCSF Geriatrics, receiving the Hal Luft Mentoring Award. Hal Luft, Joanne Spetz and Abigail, stand in the wings
Delighted to see @lwaltermd.bsky.social receive the Hal Luft Mentoring Award at @ucsf-ihps.bsky.social #HSR Symposia today. She’s describing building a culture of mentoring in @ucsfgeriatrics.bsky.social, which has certainly made my career possible
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
They lie in view
I join >1900 members of US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine signing this letter, as individuals, decrying the present thoughtless assault on science, which is against our national interests. docs.google.com/document/d/1... Our health, wealth, and security depend on science.
ABC News: "An unthinkable breach of national security."
CBS News: "An unthinkable breach of national security."
MSNBC: "An unthinkable breach of national security."
CNN: "An unthinkable breach of national security."
Fox News: "We've all texted the wrong person before."
White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.
There are numerous folktales about magicians who seek advice from mechanical heads who possess all the world’s knowledge, but often give the magicians bad advice that leads them to ruin, and if more people read the old stories we wouldn’t keep making the same dumb mistakes.
Trump, Musk, Vance, Vought, etc are systematically destroying:
1. Scientific research in the United States.
2. The talent pipeline for this research.
3. The university system itself.
4. The careers of thousands of people like Dr. Minor
For what? Politics? Resentment? Thiel? Putin?
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Great to be part of this project, led by Dr. Meredith Bock (of @remohealth.bsky.social) and Dr. Lauren Hunt!
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