oh wow that had never occurred to me about the phrase. glad i saw this!

Pay for actual repro journalism by people who know what they are doing, have been on this beat for a very long time, take ethics seriously, and practice responsible reporting that prioritizes accuracy and informativeness over clicks.

Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.

No Kings 3 What's Next Toolkit Sustained Action Between & Beyond No Kings Use this Toolkit + Facilitation Guide to Plan Your “What’s Next After No Kings?” Organizing Meeting WE. DID. THAT. Because of you, millions of people across...

We're asking you to keep the No Kings energy going with house meetings of your local community — friends, neighbors, and folks newly activated. There's a lot to do between now and the midterms, and it's vital that we grow the portion of the population engaged in sustained action against the regime.

This planet — with all its troubles — is worth caring for.

That should be our single purpose, as a species: To be stewards of this magnificent world, ensuring it thrives long into the future.

By that I mean at this point the adult population has experienced multiple highly distinct variants already, whereas children have a limited repertoire even if vaccinated, and the gap in the breadth of that experience has widened - considerably I think? - since JN.1

The virology here is very interesting but do we have a sense of how significant the 'preferential' effect is compared to, e.g, other HCoVs (or am I wrong that they also occur more frequently in children?)

B/c rel to prior SC2 waves, would immunology not be a (mostly) sufficient explanation?

A graph titled “the public health success of the measles vaccine” that shows the number of measles cases in the United States plummeting after the vaccine was introduced in 1963

I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”

It’s the whole secret to our success, and we’re throwing it away.

Decision-makers are more impulsive on smartphones than on computers As the use of smartphones becomes increasingly pervasive, the question arises as to whether the smartphone platform induces different choices than the…

Don't know if there was any follow-on critique of this but there was a study about how shoppers are more impulsive on mobile - it def tracks for me and has made me more hesitant about it. Makes sense though that mobile checkout has become so frictionless

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San Diego woman says her credit card information was stolen while she was in ICE custody Hanne Engan, whom ICE arrested at her green card appointment, said her diabetes quickly escalated while at Otay Mesa Detention Center due to medical negligence. Written by Kate Morrissey, Edited...

This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...

one thing a whole lot of us struggle with at times is feeling isolated and depressed and like not enough people care about what’s going on and I really cannot emphasize enough that going to a no kings protest helps this feeling a lot

there are so! many! people! who hate all of this shit

“If offered the opportunity to participate in a relaunched A.C.I.P., I will respectfully decline,” Dr. Malone said in a text message… “Hundreds of hours of uncompensated labor, incredible hate from many quarters, hostile press, internal bickering, weaponized leaking… I have better things to do.”

Springsteen will sing Saturday at No Kings rally in St. Paul He’ll offer “Streets of Minneapolis” before he opens his tour Tuesday, March 31, at Target Center.

No Kings, One Boss www.startribune.com/bruce-spring...

Digital painting of a low contrast ocean landscape at sunset. A seagull flies into the distant sky.

I haven't painted a low contrast landscape in a while, and I'm really happy with this!
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daily drawing 2366

#landscapeart #digitalart

Happy map 100,000 moments of human happiness, mapped

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play with your food

This is a WIN for science.

RFK Jr’s overhaul of vaccine recommendations has been BLOCKED by a federal court. The ACIP committee cannot meet as planned this week, since its membership has been invalidated, and ALL votes made by those advisers in the last year have also been invalidated.

This whole administration continues to be an object lesson in the catastrophic folly of letting unserious people have authority over serious things

A teen girl's harrowing journey with measles highlights how serious the virus can be for the immunocompromised Makayla Skjerva, a North Dakota 14-year-old, contracted measles after being exposed at school in February. Makayla, who is immunocompromised, fell seriously ill.

A teen girl with immunocompromise got infected with measles and became severely ill. She was fully vaccinated, but the vaccines didn’t take because of her immunocompromise. This makes me so sad and angry. abcnews.com/Health/teen-...

Don’t know how common it is but I keep seeing stories of international adoptees facing immigration action b/c of paperwork errors by adoptive parents or agencies from when they were brought to the U.S. and it really shows how hard the bureaucracy of migration is to navigate even for people from here

Person online: Normalize self-care.

Statistician: Ok, the average amount of self-care is now zero.

the worst part is we actually made good progress on a lot of the right lessons (given congressional resource constraints) and then it all got blown to hell by the worst people you know

“Wu said the funding will assist with various needs such as purchasing diapers, providing second language education and offering legal services for immigrants.”

I saw this and made a thread, caveats that my only qualification is prior long-standing interest in the topic. In short I think your instincts are correct and I try to get at why

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- I don’t really have the qualifications to discuss this (actually other than being worried and fixated on this topic for a long time) but maybe some who do can hop in :) It just did not sit well to look this up and see, predominantly panic-spreading

- in conclusion, an issue can be serious without trumpeting bombastic numbers to try to motivate people, and asserting claims that facially don’t comport with reality sows confusion at best

- there are hazards in drawing conclusions from mining electronic health record data only, which is well-trodden ground but better for others to comment on

- for a paper whose purpose is ostensibly to help with identifying readiness needs, it seems strangely unconcerned both with characterizing or even acknowledging the relevance of characterizing the extent of *current* serious ongoing issues, and with the nature & extent of *current* risk

- risk has declined significantly over the years; the authors barely acknowledge this and the “limitations” discussion seems to focus mainly on the ways their numerator could be even higher (because, e.g, the data ends in 2024 and it’s now 2026)