Gross.

"In retrospect, basing the entire global food system on fossil fuels may have been a poor idea." -- @benehrenreich.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/3634...

Dear Jay,

Tax Day is a reminder of America’s unequal tax system. But we can fix it | Zohran Mamdani, Gabriel Zucman and Joseph Stiglitz There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us

hell, yeah, brothers.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-term all-cause mortality.

Large study of the effects of mRNA COVID vaccination impacts in France.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

1/3

Conservative Judges’ Early Hiring Fuels Two-Track Clerkship System at Harvard Law | News | The Harvard Crimson Federal judges — particularly those aligned with the conservative legal movement — are increasingly recruiting Harvard Law School students during their first year, accelerating a clerkship hiring proc...

Fed Soc dirty rushing 1Ls at HLS.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

AAUP | Diversity is much more than woke politics Professor James Holland Jones writes in support of diversity beyond DEI, explaining how vital it is for success in the academic, business and social world.

In the Stanford Daily today.

stanforddaily.com/2026/04/13/a...

Tl;dr Target will send cops to your house weeks later if they *think* you failed to scan an item at self-checkout. Surveillance culture, corporate greed, and police state all in one.

Monsters.

Anthropology is also in a death spiral and AAA is a comically bad professional organization. I ultimately resigned my membership several years ago.

An informal metric I track is the number of press pieces that come from the annual meeting. I've yet to see one since 2009. More on avg from MLA!

Bless you.

I am canonically Gen X and I don’t understand how we can collectively go from rolling our eyes and saying “whatever” to any authority figure to supporting generic Republicans in political contests.

a man in a military uniform is talking to another man in a dark room . ALT: a man in a military uniform is talking to another man in a dark room .

Bruh.

It would seem that Idaho has discovered another of Chesterton's many fences.

a young boy in a yellow shirt is smiling with his eyes closed . ALT: a young boy in a yellow shirt is smiling with his eyes closed .

Yet another example of Harvard cancel culture

Like also-not-demographer Chris Rufo

"But the offensiveness may be a distraction from the destructiveness. A whole sector of mainstream media now functions as spirit mediums attempting to interpret Trump’s actions to try to fit them into the context of competent leadership and coherent and consistent agendas. If there was a coherent agenda, it would be a destructive one, a malevolent one. The newly popular slogan “the purpose of a system is what it does” is useful here, because what this system does is weaken, damage, corrupt and harm. The idea that there’s a coherent agenda driven by Vladimir Putin works in the sense that most of what Trump has done is good for the ageing Russian dictator while also bad for the US."

Oh, and what do you know, there it is. I had only read snippets of the piece on my phone in the gym before.

The Purpose of a System Is What It Does.

Monsters.

Isn't that what we're trying to stop?

(being very generous with the use of "we" here)

I'm beginning to think that the people in charge of this little adventure don't totally know what they're doing.

As part of my efforts to combat the COVID Amnesia Project, let's accurately remember what 3 influential laptop class doctors from Stanford said 6 years ago as COVID overflowed hospitals and morgues.

They won't remind you.

I will.

My latest.

Pointing out that NAS platforming those actively destroying science is a truly terrible idea isn’t “vitriol” or “ang[er]”.

It’s simply pointing out that NAS platforming those actively destroying science is a truly terrible idea. And, to put it mildly, unbelievably disappointing.

Those high-waisted acid-wash jeans he's wearing when he physically assaults the woman (surely her arms were bruised after shooting this video) sure are something. Damn.

Wait. Neal Schon of Journey and Jan Hammer of Miami Vice?

I kept waiting for the first verse to resolve into the Pat Benatar chorus from Hit Me With Your Best Shot.

RFK Jr. pushed cod liver oil as a measles treatment—now Texas children are hospitalized with liver damage. Utah has 583 measles cases. The MMR vaccine is 97% effective. Kennedy runs U.S. public health. Three people died last year. This is the cost of pseudoscience. Scientific research saves lives.

This fills me with dread for the summer.

Fewer women give birth by 30, but most catch up The share of women in the U.S. who are mothers, by age 100% 90 Age 45 80 70 60 50 Age 30 40 1980 2000 2020 Source: Philip Cohen analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. By The New York Times

I'm very glad Claire Cain Miller was able to include my figures in this NYT story: "Women in Their 20s May Not Be Having Babies, but by 45 Most Probably Will," including @karenguzzo.bsky.social, @alisongemmill.bsky.social, and @marthajbailey.bsky.social.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

The electrical revolution is happening - across several domains - faster and further than almost anyone dared predict. And any country that does not embrace it will be left in the fossil age.

It's almost like he was trying to hide something...