@joewright
WORK: doctor for people experiencing homelessness. (Opinions my own.) #medsky // WRITING: Research affiliate, DUSP @MIT—for a history of “Mass/Cass” #urbanplanning // HOME: housing advocate @ town meeting https://www.joewrightmd.com SIGNAL: joewright.72
I've been listening to an audiobook about airships (zeppelins, dirigibles, or blimps, depending on locale), and how they NEVER really worked, but governments had invested so much in them that they were determined to MAKE them work, wasting fortunes & years & lives
This post is not about airships
do you get travel points or miles from that credit card? if so then each book is basically a double journey of discovery
why would you stop your journey
I don’t know s**t about Dubai, but your idea that it’s implausible that people are recruited and tricked into slavery by being enticed to somewhere from which they can’t escape is just…
I don’t think too many people in the Black community are looking to Flynn and Murphy for cues to be honest…
I have an enduring and to some degree inexplicable affection for this optimistic, pissed-off, and detailed podcast about decarbonization. David teaching me the nerdy details of this stuff helps make my hopes and my anger more specific and more real—and thus more manageable. Hence I subscribe.
And I think that’s supposed to be David not Dave so basically I just stanned and stumbled at the same time
came here to say this
Yeah, hate to be right so very soon on this one, but see my thread below on why I felt confident that this is what he would do.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/n...
“Maybe that is all any bravery is, a stronger fear of not being brave.” — Audre Lorde, ZAMI
I’d say that it’s not the left that’s scared of new technology! it is the understanding and embrace of new things that makes us worry about who owns and controls new things, and for what purpose
all kinds of decarbonization and electrification technologies and the list is long; medical imaging advances of many types including a revolution in bedside ultrasound; so many uses of large scale computing for data science of many kinds
those plus utility scale battery storage, monoclonal antibodies, checkpoint inhibitors, GLP-1s, antiviral medications of all kinds but especially HIV and Hep C meds, alternative meats, the pre-AI internet, digital mapping, GIS analysis of many types, long acting contraception
strange but true: you don't have to fight the 2028 primary on here yet if you don't want to
CPCS, the #Massachusetts public defender agency, has called on the attorney general's office to appoint an independent investigator to investigate the 2025 death of Shacoby Kenny, who died after being beaten by corrections officers at the South Bay jail in #Boston.
Best meet-cute in American literature
“I don’t know why Puerto Ricans don’t just do what I think is obviously the right thing to do for Puerto Rico” is a question that contains its own answer
Yes exactly because of Bad Bunny’s performance apparently it’s time for another round of non Puerto Rican left-liberal white people to announce their strongly held ahistorical opinions about Puerto Rico’s governance
to be clear I do not currently have a hobby but these seem like good ones
woodworking PLUS learning to sail in a manageable body of water www.cwb.org
One key lesson of this time is that for anyone to accomplish something politically, there is no substitute for showing up somewhere or somehow, and doing something. “Something” can be a lot of different kinds of things!
JAMA Network Open:
Why Are Opioid Deaths Declining?
Roundup of current evidence: Chinese regulation of precursors is leading to a decline in potency; total number of users is declining
Share one of your favorite lines from a sci-fi movie
Share one of your favorite lines from a sci-fi movie
“Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.”
Africa to 1800, Africa 1800-present (2 semester class)
Anthropology of Dance
Architecture of the Suburbs
Third World Cinemas and the West
Workers’ Autobiographies of 19th Century Europe
a notably menschy media hit
NOTED SNOW DAY EXPERT
Sending extra love and warmth to homeless street outreach workers + mutual aid folks busting their butts to make sure folks stay safe ahead of the snow.
Nobody should live or die outside in the richest country in the world.
We need housing, not handcuffs.
Not an expert in Marxism but I don’t think this was the kind of exploitation that most concerned Marx
this thread is actually brilliant, she’s just like, I get with rich people, how else am I gonna get out of poverty, so now I want you r/Marxism people to validate this from a political theory point of view and sign me off as ok for the revolution
r/Marxism: it’s wrong to exploit people
