Jonathan Gilligan

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"National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act" signed on July 2, 2024 (this is not mentioned in the NYT reporting)

Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.

Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.

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We're psyched about Chemistry today! Inspired by his favorite athletes, Dr. Steven Townsend applied his drive to become a renowned chemist. He’s here to talk about his work, dream of joining the National Academy of Sciences, and why he seeks the hardest path forward. Join us on @wpln.bsky.social.

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Courtney Milan

Yes, as through this world I've wandered I've seen lots of funny men Some will rob you with a six-gun And some with a fountain pen And as through your life you travel Yes, as through your life you roam You won't never see an outlaw Drive a family from their home Woody Guthrie

There's been far too much attention on the debate & too little on the months leading up to the debate. During those months, Trump has consistently led Biden in polls. The issue isn't whether Biden's old or what pundits write. It's why his campaign can't move public opinion in his favor.

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#Metoo ruined lives: the women’s. For the summer issue of Bookforum, I wrote about Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir “One Way Back,” the aftermath of disclosure, and what it means to be a public survivor when storytelling has proven futile. www.bookforum.com/culture/disp...

Disposable Heroeswww.bookforum.com Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir captures the hazards of “coming forward” – Moira Donegan

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Asawin Suebsaeng

For most of its history, America hasn’t been a democracy, by any meaningful definition of the term! This isn’t some It Can’t Happen Here shit, in a way, it’s already happened. It just may not have directly affected you.

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🏳️‍⚧️ The Josie Zone

The attempt to get radical leftists to engage with politics as it is lived is actually mostly a struggle to get them to not prefer a glorious suicide over a frustrated life

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Accelerationism is just nihilism masquerading as idealism

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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

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Put this on the front page for a month. It’s that serious and that dangerous.

A second American Revolution, this one aimed at unwinding democracy in favor of a monarchy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The target of the right’s ‘revolution’ is pluralistic democracy itselfwww.washingtonpost.com The president of the Heritage Foundation said, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin

Saleem was a lifelong collaborator, mentor, colleague, friend. I’ve known him since 1997. The keynote lecture I delivered at the Royal Geographical Society this past week has video clips of interviews with him (and others). Video of my lecture & the panel discussion afterwards is here:

Voices from the Global South - RGSwww.rgs.org Explore diverse perspectives on the climate crisis, emphasising the significance of incorporating insights from academic, policy, and indigenous advocacy groups.

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"In 2023, Google’s carbon intensity climbed to 11.4 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per million dollars of revenue. That’s up 101% since 2019, and up nearly 25% since 2022." Microsoft's "increased by 20% since 2022."

Google just released numbers on AI and emissions — and they aren’t good | Latitude Mediawww.latitudemedia.com And as the artificial intelligence arms race wages on, the company expects emissions to keep going up.

So much for Full Self Walking™

ok I'm not mad about software for bicycles anymore, now I'm mad about software for shoes

Thinking about how upset that RBG was about Democrats in the Senate voting against John Roberts's confirmation. news.uchicago.edu/podcasts/big...

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I think what makes this difficult to discuss with any kind of rigor is that Biden staying in is bad and Biden dropping out is also bad! There are no good options available so we’re all flailing to figure out which bad thing is gonna be like 15% better than the worse thing

Outside of letting Kamala take the reins, I don’t see an option beside keeping Biden in. Running a cut rate primary right now would be a disaster. And I’m saying this as someone who reeeeaaaally doesn’t want to vote for Biden but probably will because *gestures at everything*.

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Public two-day NIH symposium - Exploring the many dimensions of sex and gender in the genomics era: Clarifying complexities in light of social and genomic advances. Looks like a great lineup (well, yes. It includes me, but the others are really terrific). #QueerSTEM www.genome.gov/event-calend...

Exploring the many dimensions of sex and gender in the genomics erawww.genome.gov A public two-day National Institutes of Health (NIH) symposium that brings together experts from the biological and social sciences to clarify and contextualize – but not resolve - the complexities ar...

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Everybody freaking out about extrajudicial killings is going to lose it when they find out about the existence of cops.

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This is one of the most dystopian signs I've ever seen. Republicans are quickly turning this country into an unrecognizable freakshow.

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it's important to not give into despair, and instead to look at the upside: for the next four months it is entirely legal to bribe the president to send seal team six into the supreme court building with official orders to do the funniest possible thing, as long as you pay him after the deed is done

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"It marks the second incident in two months involving a Tesla’s near miss-with a train while utilising its driver assistance system." You can tell Tesla is close to "solving self-driving" because they are down to the tough edge cases like *checks notes* trains nz.news.yahoo.com/tesla-autopi...

Tesla autopilot appears to veer electric vehicle onto train track it mistook for roadnz.news.yahoo.com Local police urged drivers to remain ‘vigilant while using Tesla's autopilot feature,’ noting that it ‘can fail’

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Supreme Court gives Joe Biden the legal OK to assassinate Donald Trump

Supreme Court Gives Joe Biden The Legal OK To Assassinate Donald Trumpwww.huffpost.com Something is wrong “when dissenting justices warn that the majority may have just legalized murder by one individual,” said legal expert Norm Eisen.

This is a short, clear, and insightful paper about the perils, hopes, and (especially) hype around applications of CRISPR therapy to trans folx. Well worth reading..

New publication with my best title yet! Using CRISPR gene editing as an anchor, I offer reflections on high-tech conversion practices, high-tech medical transition, and the ethics of hype. Link to the paper: www.florenceashley.com/uploads/1/2/...

AI is not the only thing ripping off artists. The Louvre copied the 2017 participatory dance piece, "Museum Workout" by Monica Bill Barnes and Robbie Saenz de Viteri, and neither paid the original choreographers nor gave them credit. www.monicabillbarnes.com/blog/museum-...

Is Imitation A Form Of Flattery? — MONICA BILL BARNES & COMPANYwww.monicabillbarnes.com

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Don Moynihan

In 1981 Ann Gorsuch said, "The EPA will defer to Chevron" and in 1984 SCOTUS said, "The courts will defer to EPA's deference to Chevron." But Dems took over EPA, and Neil G. whined, "EPA isn't deferring to Chevron the way mommy used to," so his court bros took pity and killed deference to EPA.

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Gillian Branstetter

I like naming non-pathologized benefits trans kids get from this care. Less about decreasing depression/anxiety/suicidality; more about building friendships, healthier family relationships, more focus in school, more ambition, planning for their future. All of which is true!

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A point I've started using lately is the fact so many families I speak to are leaving the only homes their kids have ever known to ensure their trans kid can maintain access to hormones or blockers. Do you really think they're doing that for anything short of essential for their child's well-being?

SCOTUS overturning Chevron is getting lots of attention, but I expect SEC v. Jarkesy will have a more destructive effect on regulation. If it takes a jury trial every time the EPA fines a polluter, every time OSHA fines an employer for an unsafe workplace, etc., regulation will be strangled.

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On the same morning, the Court said: 1) We should not presume to know more than small town mayors regarding complex, technical questions like whether to arrest people for being poor. 2) I don't see why a "PhD" in "nuclear physics" should have any latitude to implement ambiguous energy rules.

"If opinions had titles, a good candidate for today's would be Hubris Squared" --- Loper Bright v. Raimondo No 22-451 (slip op.) (June 28, 2024) at 3 (Kagan, J., dissenting, on the obliteration of Chevron).

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We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.