Jung Choi "I dissent!"

In the early Twitter days science types would show up and post when they had a new paper. Wonderful! But real talk y'all: papers take ages to write. So, post about other people's stuff! You read a paper and it was cool! Or you had a question! Or it tied to this other thing! Tag the authors!

Science folks, one thing about bluesky is there's way less 2 way interaction between people, especially on science posts, than there was on old Twitter. I'm not sure why that is, but it's something I'm keen to encourage. I'd love to hear your thoughts 🧪

I became a naturalized US citizen at the age of 16. We drove up from Gaithersburg to the courthouse in Baltimore, where I swore allegiance to the US of A along with about 100 others. I voted for Carter in 1976 and have voted D in every election. Not voting feels like a violation of my oath.

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NIH-sponsored trial of nasal COVID-19 vaccine openswww.nih.gov Candidate vaccine could provide enhanced breadth of protection against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants.

Nasal vaccine: Researchers are enrolling volunteers for a Phase I clinical trial of a #Covid nasal vax. Adult volunteers are being sought for study sites nationwide. The candidate vax is expected to have enhanced protection against a range of emerging #SARSCoV2 variants www.nih.gov/news-events/...

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Sarah J. Jackson

(1/?) “It would be naïve to depend on the Supreme Court to defend the rights of poor people, women, people of color, dissenters of all kinds. Those rights only come alive when citizens organize, protest, demonstrate, strike, boycott, rebel, and violate the law in order to uphold justice.”

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The People v. Donald Trump | Dame Magazinewww.damemagazine.com There is a pathway for Democrats to maintain power: Treat the GOP presidential candidate like the criminal he is and bring the courtroom to the campaign.

I wrote this before the Imperial Court issued its diktats, but I could see what was coming. If we want January 6th recognized for the crime it is, if we want to punish the perpetrator of that crime, we need our best to make the case against him. www.damemagazine.com/2024/05/07/t...

"As [Harris] breaks down the weak defenses of the January 6th Insurrection, she can build upon her boss’s restraint, discipline, deference, and adherence to the rule of law—and, tacitly, her own."

Here in Georgia thecurrentga.org/2024/07/01/b...

Bolstered by new Georgia law, woman challenges around 900 voter registrations in Chatham County - The Currentthecurrentga.org A woman has challenged the validity of nearly 900 voters after Georgia Lawmakers pass a law changing the way voters' registration can be challenged.

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Andrew D Thaler

Can we stop calling the six "conservative" justices? They are anything but. Rightfully call them "GOP" justices or "right'wing activist" justices.

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Indivisible

And that’s just what we know from media investigations. The Supreme Court of today is fully an arm of the Republican Party, and the only remedy in our hands is an electoral defeat for that party. All the alarm bells are ringing. The time is now.

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To reiterate what @kenwhite.bsky.social has been saying for a long time... the courts are not going to get us out of this mess. We have to do it at the ballot box.

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FDA’s testing of raw milk finds H5N1 bird flu in half of samples but confirms flash pasteurization kills virus | CNNcnn.it New test results released by the US Food and Drug Administration on Friday found that bird flu virus is making its way from dairy farms and into milk processing plants but also confirmed that the comm...

Half the samples of bulk raw milk headed for pasteurization in states with bird flu in diary herds tested positive. 👏25% of those samples contained infectious virus👏 Flash pasteurization fully destroys viral infectivity. Raw milk needs to end yesterday.

New test results released by the FDA found that bird flu virus is making its way from dairy farms and into milk processing plants but also confirmed that the commonly used flash pasteurization method fully neutralizes the virus.

What to do about Joe Biden? I will pound the pavement and knock on doors to support the Dem candidate, who happens to be Joe Biden. We all need to get behind and push in the same direction. All this talk about replacing Joe seems counter-productive at this point.

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How Does Bird Flu Spread in Cows? Experiment Yields Some ‘Good News.’nyti.ms Scientists say that findings from a small experiment lend hope the outbreak among dairy cattle can potentially be contained.

In new experiments, scientists have given bird flu to cows and watched what happens. The results indicate the virus isn't spreading in droplets infecting airways. For those worried about the evolution of a new pandemic, that's good news--for now. Here's my story. 🧪 Gift link: nyti.ms/3RNOYhX

Where are all the comments about Trump obviously showing that he's not grounded in reality? That he's a mean, petty tyrant? A vigorous, mean, petty tyrant divorced from reality?

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— not just by fossil energy interests but also by scientists, economists, journalists, politicians, and sometimes even activists, all of whom sincerely intend to advance climate solutions. That’s because these terms and the ideas they convey are appropriated... [continued in next reply]

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But what gives fossil fuel propaganda its power over climate politics is that it’s repeated, in echoes and fragments and sometimes in its entirety, by people on both sides of the supposedly partisan climate change divide — [continued in next reply]

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You can now read an excerpt of my book, *The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda & How to Fight It* in @tnr.bsky.social! Here's the gist.👇 And my book offers powerful new ways to talk about the #ClimateCrisis that will help create transformative change. 1/3

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... extracting, twisting, and deploying words to entrap advocates into unwittingly normalizing fossil fuel disinformation. This dynamic turns fossil fuel propaganda into a bipartisan consensus, portraying it as common sense. [done]

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... from language produced over the decades by these groups themselves. Fossil energy interests have mined the language of climate science, economics, and technology for material they can use to spread denial ... [continued in next reply]

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11 steps to keep Meta from stealing your data to train AIdeborahcopaken.substack.com You only have until June 26, 2024 to say no to Meta taking your personal photos and words and using them to train their generative AI. Here are step-by-step directions for opting out.

'You only have until June 26, 2024 to say no to Meta taking your personal photos and words and using them to train their generative AI. Here are step-by-step directions for opting out.' Link: deborahcopaken.substack.com/p/11-steps-t... #Privacy #Meta #Facebook

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A U.S. Army veteran, deported almost 20 years ago, finds homewapo.st After President Biden took office, his administration created a program that allows deported veterans to apply to return to the United States for humanitarian reasons.

If there were one piece of advice which I would give to a young person that I think is applicable to every career (and other parts of life) it would be: You have to say what you want, out loud. No one can see inside your head. If you want to do a job or get into an area, you need to say so.

"Since the program began, 120 deported veterans have returned to the United States, according to the Department of Homeland Security." wapo.st/4eC5lrK

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Exodus 34 (ESV)www.biblegateway.com Moses Makes New Tablets - The LORD said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words

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A surprising thing about the Bible is that the commandments Moses chisels on stone tablets are not “The Ten Commandments” but a different set of commandments that are like: • Observe Passover • Don’t marry Hittites • Don’t cook young goats in goat’s milk. www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...

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www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/o...

Happy birthday to #botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher & mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, 1st Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a doctorate in science & 1st woman or person of colour to become a full prof 🐡🧪👩🏻‍🔬#histsci 🧵1/n

Opinion | What My Cancer Surgery Taught Me About Immigrationwww.nytimes.com Glenn Kramon discusses the coincidences that led him to realize how critical immigration was to his recent cancer battle.

Cephalopods are amazing; some are tasty, too!

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Some reduce the 2024 campaign to a contest between two old men, but it's a choice of two slates of federal appointees who'll impact your life in a million ways. Biden has staffed executive agencies with excellent choices who are doing good work. Trump will empower an army of Stephen Millers.

Under current law, you really couldn’t do much better than Biden’s FTC and NRLB. New Deal shit.

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World’s oldest termite mounds discovered in South Africa – and they’ve been storing precious carbon for thousands of yearstheconversation.com There is growing evidence that termites have a substantial, but still poorly understood, role in the carbon cycle.

Remarkable South Africa termite landscape is tens of thousands of years old: “Namaqualand’s heuweltjies, it turns out, are the world’s oldest inhabited termite mounds. Some date as far back as between 34,000 and 13,000 years.” @TC_Africa theconversation.com/worlds-oldes...

As I read the paper, I kept thinking about how this applies to Trump. How much of what Trump spouts are lies (intentional deceit) and how much are bullshit (reckless disregard for truth)?

Stay for the title - "ChatGPT is Bullshit" - stay for the fact that the authors are right.

ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technologylink.springer.com Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persist...

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