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Kiwi Bioethicist living in Naarm with partner, two kitties, and a massive to-read pile. "You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time." (Davis) #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #StopTheGenocide
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
My entire life the systematic murder and incarceration of Black people has been a daily norm that just runs in the background of American life and has been perpetuated by every major institution and publication and when you talk to or about Black folks you need to take into account that context
A good deal of the argument that AI can produce publishable research is based on the fact that bad research already gets published. Hallucinations don’t matter, they say, because academics sometimes cite things they haven’t read. Guys, you aren’t making the argument you think you are.
People really do not want to talk about the reality of the Covid pandemic being a test we failed in regards to eugenics and Necro politics being normalized and centralized as facets of governmental response to everything from climate, pandemics to war.
This shift was a direct shift towards fascism
David Lynch saying ‘One day, the sadness will end. But I don’t think today’s the day.’
guys I’m literally ten days into Lent, and this is the SECOND person on the list who appears to have died after experiencing seizures in ICE custody when they’d never had seizures before
so many cases where ICE never releases an official cause of death. what tf is happening behind closed doors
The US is especially not now the world's moral leader, & it never has been. This is the ruse behind its imperialism, it has the patent on freedom & democracy to shove on everybody whether they like it or not. Before this evil clown ruled us, it was still stolen land & fueled by antiblack terror.
Our baby has been alive for two deadly, illegal campaigns by the U.S. to remove a foreign leader. She’s 7 weeks old.
Concierge medicine as horror show. This story is so upsetting, not least because many of the doctors mentioned are still practicing & so far have not been held accountable for their unethical & likely also criminal activities.
“So there is not a legal fix here. We need a political fix. Our politics is broken &the fact that the Presidents, not just this President, but multiple presidents have gotten much more comfortable using violence around the world on very flimsy legal pretexts is a reflection of that broken politics.”
As our leaders rush to express their support once again for the crimes happening in the Middle East - its worth remembering that democracy is not just the ability to vote, but the condition that representatives elected act on the will of the people. When was the last time you felt represented?
DTC microbiome testing = um, crap. 💩
Can you trust the results from gut microbiome tests? Nope. www.sciencenews.org/article/resu...
From study: "...results reveal major discrepancies, both within and across the different service providers."
What the actual fuck @harvard.edu
21 minutes ago Farnaz Fassihi The attacks have come on a Saturday morning, the first day of the week in Iran, with millions of people at work and children in school. Residents in Tehran described scenes of panic and chaos.
Tehran is a city of nine million people, with 17 million in the larger metropolitan area.
Saturday is the first day of the week for Iranians.
Millions of people are at work, and children are in school.
Reminder that now, when you use ChatGPT, you’ll be directly contributing to the deaths of anyone the US military kills not just those being poisoned by their data centers
Three weeks ago I spent a few days in one of our global dark sky sanctuaries in Rakiura Stewart Island New Zealand. Never has deep time felt so real or so close.
But every now and then one of Elon's dumbfuck satellites would interrupt the eternal rhythms of the stars. Let's not let it get worse.
Bunch of absolute whallopers on ITV Central news complaining that young men feel like there’s no place for them in society any more. What they mean is men are having tantrums because they aren’t treated as inherently superior to women any more. They’re angry at the loss of undeserved privilege.
This is cool as hell: An app designed to ping people about nearby smartglasses.
Also cool: The creator was inspired by @404media.co coverage, a great illustration of why their journalism is so essential. This kind of work is funded by paid subscribers so become one of those if you can.
“We know that a man is not a thing and is not to be placed at the mercy of things. We know that air and water belong to all mankind and not merely to industrialists. We know that a baby does not come into the world merely to be the instrument of someone else's profit.” —James Baldwin
Of course it's the people of color again having to say things... the white Democrats in that room are sitting on their hands.
So, entirely as expected, the Democrats decided against any kind of coordinated protest against Trump‘s State of the Union Address. Because everyone knows that you must absolutely never show a united front when fighting an existential threat to your democracy & way of life. They are so bad at this.
Fuck decorum. Decorum is the weapon of the enemy, and we do not use it.
I think two things can be true at once. You can acknowledge that neurodivergence and mental illness deserves grace, while also acknowledging that you are not obligated to accept hurtful treatment. As a neurodivergent and mentally ill person, I understand that I don’t get a free pass to hurt people.
One of the kind of fucked up parts of the ICE occupation here is that a lot of folks want to believe it’s over, and the media seems to tell us it’s over, but folks on the ground are still seeing tons of activity and vulnerable people are still (rightfully) terrified to go outside. We can’t stop yet.
Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion.
It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make.
(Published May 2025)
What about all the trees burned, rivers flooded and species lost thanks to every random billionaire's dick-measuring competition of snake-oil ideas?
Altman is implying people that unnecessary because they "cost" energy. He is grooming his audience for eugenics. Don't fall for this trash-heap.
when the creators of Idiocracy set out to imagine the dumbest possible future, even they didn’t anticipate that there would be this much Kid Rock
I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
On January 10, 2026, while driving back to work after getting lunch with his father and cousin, a car quickly passed O., sped up, then stopped in front of him. (Id. ¶ 3.) A few men in civilian clothes stepped out of the car and asked for his identification. (Id.) The men threatened O.—if he did not get out of the car, they would force him out. (Id.) O. exited the car and was told he was under arrest. (Id.) The men handcuffed him and did not allow him to bring his phone. (Id.) O. felt like he was being kidnapped. (Id.) The men detained O., his father, and his cousin, taking them all to Whipple. (Id. ¶ 4.) At Whipple, there was “food scattered on the floor, the floor was sticky with mud, and everything stuck to your shoes.” (Id. ¶ 5.) The space was so cramped that sometimes there was no space to sit on the floor. (Id.)
The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...