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Same person from that hellspace. Grad student Public History. #HistMed. Also, COVID cautious, interested in public health, patient safety, writing, new books, music, random Internet stuff, fluffy animals. Cancer Survivor Class of 2008.

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Wild to watch horserace journalists suggest the most politically suicidal shit and pretend it's savvy. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Seems bad.

Mini-Strokes, Gut Problems: Scientists See Links to an Old Bout of COVID. "Health problems stemming from even mild Covid infections can emerge as many as three years afterward" Study: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Source: archive.md/4iY1M

Today in US Healthcare, I am trying to avoid getting ripped off for a massive insurance premium in a region I will no longer live in by the end of the week. In NorCal, the plan I need costs $706/month. In SoCal, the same plan costs $422. I changed my address, won't give me the SoCal cost.

I think I'm really done with the Hellsite. Most posts I am being shown are blue check bad actors pretending to be liberal. All are screaming in tandem for a new D pres. candidate. I'm curious how many people still there are real.

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Respectfully: If you're on Bluesky right now screaming that Pride Month will be abolished, Trump will be declared king, America is forever ruined: Log off. You are entitled to your feelings, and it's better to let them out than not. But *Do Not Do Death Magic On The Emotional Contagion App.*

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all of this sound and fury can just as easily represent the dying gasps of the republican party as a national institution, if we make it so

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Also, and this is just personal, I’m never forgiving anyone who equivocated about our choices in 2016. Not a single one. I will hate you in life and haunt you in death.

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How Cheech Marin has helped put Riverside on the art map — and brought attention to the work of Chicanx artists. My mini profile for the LA Influentials series in the LA Times: www.latimes.com/la-influenti...

Cheech Marin: Chicano art impresario (yes, that Cheech Marin)www.latimes.com In 2022, the Riverside Art Museum opened the doors to the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, which showcases pieces from Marin's collection.

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Mayor Karen Bass included an InfoWars host and known Islamophobe in her closed-door press conference alongside Jewish leaders in Los Angeles. Mayor Bass made alarming false claims of "antisemitism" and asked the City Attorney to draft a law banning masks at protests. www.cair.com/press_releas...

CAIR-LA Condemns LA Mayor Bass’ Biased Response to Violence at Synagogue Real Estate Event, Inclusion of Known Islamophobe in Press Conference -www.cair.com The Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) today condemned statements made by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass during a recent press conference addressing l...

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We spent $365 to build an AI news site that publishes 50 times a day, plagiarizes directly from our original reporting, uses services like Fiverr and popular WordPress plugins, is SEO optimized for Google and Adsense & breaks the rules of none of them www.404media.co/i-paid-365-6...

I Paid $365.63 to Replace 404 Media With AIwww.404media.co Paying a freelancer on Fiverr to create a plagiarizing ChatGPT-powered news site revealed an industry of middlemen and services trying to game Google Search.

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Let's be clear, when mayors say they want to ban masks for "safety", they couldn't care less about public safety. What the mean is they want to see faces for surveillance purposes. They care about criminalizing your right to protest not your health or safety.

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On this website, we celebrate wins. This is a massive W. Goodbye, Infowars. Enjoy being broke, Alex Jones. apnews.com/article/alex...

Bankruptcy trustee discloses plan to shut down Alex Jones' Infowars and liquidate assetsapnews.com A U.S. bankruptcy court trustee is planning to shut down conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars media platform and liquidate its assets.

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An Arizona man has been indicted on hate crime and firearm charges after prosecutors said he planned to commit a mass shooting targeting Black people at an Atlanta concert as a way of inciting a “race war” before the presidential election.

Man Plotted Mass Shooting in Atlanta to Incite ‘Race War,’ Officials Saywww.nytimes.com Prosecutors said Mark Adams Prieto of Arizona planned to target Black concertgoers at an Atlanta venue. He was indicted on hate crime and firearm charges.

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You ever wonder if, like the anti-vax stuff in Central Asia and the Philippines, the lab leak stuff is at least in part propaganda?

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Deliberately undermining one of the most powerful tools against the threat of global pandemics from novel emerging infectious diseases is not only evil — it’s stunningly shortsighted zero-sum thinking that puts the US population at risk as well. www.reuters.com/investigates...

Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccineswww.reuters.com The covert effort began under Trump and continued into Biden’s presidency, Reuters found. Health experts say it endangered lives for possible geopolitical gain.

Sanborn fire insurance maps are so cool.

“From Fire Hazards to Family Trees” — in @publicdomainrev.bsky.social, Tobiah Black explores the history and afterlife of the Sanborn fire insurance maps, which detail shops, homes, churches, brothels, opium dens and more: publicdomainreview.org/essay/sanbor...

From Fire Hazards to Family Trees: The Sanborn Fire Insurance Mapspublicdomainreview.org Created for US insurance firms during a period of devastating fires across the 19th and 20th centuries, the Sanborn maps blaze with detail — shops, homes, churches, brothels, and opium dens were equal...

A tidbit about having cancer as a young adult: the financial penalties are endless. I stayed in a job 2 years longer than I intended, turned down a great offer that came right after my med leave. About to turn down a job that only offers Kaiser because I refuse to pay $5K/yr for better coverage.

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On the day Dr. Fauci - who dedicated his life to public health, saving millions - is dragged in front of congress and told he belongs in prison, @nytimes.com pushed pseudoscience that served to further degrade trust in science. I wrote 2️⃣ threads to highlight many issue-links in 🧵👇 for easy reading.

When dealing with pseudoscience, the devil is in the detail - in this case, narrowing down a specific "Lab Leak" hypothesis. In Dr. Chan's @nytimes.com OpEd there is, however, a very specific hypothesis for COVID-19 origin. It's a prime example of conspiracism vs empiricism, so let's dive in. 🧵

Yikes on bikes. I finished Adam Higginbotham's new Challenger book this morning. Great timing!

Did the door fall off?

Boeing Starliner launch: Mission called off minutes before liftoffapple.news Boeing called off its Starliner launch attempt that was aiming to carry veteran NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to the International Space Station.

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FTC, DOJ, and HHS Extend Comment Period on Government Inquiry on Impact of Corporate Greed in Health Care Deadline: June 5, 2024 #MedSky

FTC, DOJ, and HHS Extend Comment Period on Cross-Government Inquiry on Impact of Corporate Greed in Health Carewww.ftc.gov The Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division, and the U.S.

That is a dope graphic.

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I didn’t know Bill Walton. But one thing I did know: How it felt to be in that happy place near the stage when the Grateful Dead were really going for it. Bye, Bill - we were all lucky.

The world is less freaky now without Bill Walton in it. May his memory be a blessing.

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The mainstream SCOTUS beat is rotten to its core: days after January 6, 2021, the Alitos were interviewed by a Washington Post reporter on the Supreme Court beat about the upside-down “distress” flag flying at their house—but the paper decided it wasn’t a story and sat on it until today.

Wife of Justice Alito called upside-down flag ‘signal of distress’www.washingtonpost.com In January 2021, Martha-Ann Alito said the flag, a symbol embraced by election deniers, was raised outside her home in response to a neighborhood dispute.

Also the tagline for my late 20s/early 30s sexual adventuring!

"these two people are incredibly horny and it ruined their lives" used to be a whole genre. you'd catch at least three or four of these movies in the theater each year!

Post a *perfect* album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains.

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Wrote about the conservation of one of Keith Haring's lesser-known murals in an Iowa City school library, depicting a book opening up with a colorful array of characters www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/05/03/l...

Little-known mural Keith Haring made for an Iowa school goes on public view for first timewww.theartnewspaper.com Created less than a year before the artist’s death, ‘A Book Full of Fun’ was painstakingly moved to the Stanley Museum of Art while the school undergoes renovation

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No surprise, but here's what the NYC mayor's office thinks of the press (Gwynne Hogan is a fantastic reporter for The City)(tweet now deleted)

I'm going to keep driving my prehistoric 2010 Mazda until the wheels fall off. It has a CD player. It also doesn't track my every fart and sigh.

You'll find that such button toggles (and indeed even traditional door handle pulls on modern vehicles) are logged, locally stored, and often remotely transmitted as metadata associated to the vehicle. Law enforcement use such metadata with increasing frequency - www.techdirt.com/2022/12/05/l...

Law Enforcement Is Extracting Tons Of Data From Vehicle Infotainment Systemswww.techdirt.com For years, cars have collected massive amounts of data. And for years, this data has been extraordinarily leaky. Manufacturers don’t like to discuss how much data gets phoned home from vehicl…

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Cybertruck deliveries halted due to car being a big piece of shit that doesn't work: defector.com/cybertruck-d...

Cybertruck Deliveries Halted Due To Car Being A Big Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Work | Defectordefector.com Tesla, a future case study for securities law classes across America, had to stop delivering Cybertrucks this past weekend. No, not because the hundred-thousand–dollar medium-duty pickup, which is onl...