Ed elli a me: «Questo misero modo tegnon l’anime triste di coloro che visser sanza ’nfamia e sanza lodo. And he to me: "This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived without infamy or praise.
My quote of the day
Dante Alighieri
The source of the saying:
“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis”
"We" have LLMs that can analyze 50 peer-reviewed studies and spit out a coherent 1,000 word report & scientists who can genetically engineer a T cell to express multiple highly targeted receptors. But "we" can't make a colonoscopy prep that doesn't taste like sucralose-laced warmed spit?! FFS
“I am shocked and appalled,” one NCI scientist said. “We are moving funds away from so much promising research in order to do a preclinical study based on nonscientific ideas. It’s absurd.”
In no functioning country is this allowed.
A line graph of estimated AIDS-related deaths from 2025 through 2040 in 55 PEPFAR-supported countries. The Y axis is estimated number of deaths and ranges from 200,000 to 2 million. The X axis is years and ranges from 2010 to 2040. There is a black line labeled “historical trend” from 2010 to 2025 showing a decrease in deaths from 1.2 million to ~420,000. Then in 2025 the black line splits into three scenarios: 1) a dashed green line showing deaths if USAID were to increase, 2) a dashed blue line showing deaths if USAID remained at 2024 levels, and 3) a dashed red line showing deaths if USAID stopped and was not replaced. In scenario 1 (funding increased) deaths continue to decrease from ~420,000 to 200,000. In scenario 2 (funding stays the same) deaths stay the same at 420,000. In scenario 3 (funding cut and not replaced) deaths increase from ~420,000 to 1.7 million.
A Lancet preprint estimates that if US funding is cut and not replaced, from 2025-2040 there will be 15.2 mil add'l AIDS deaths, 2.2 mil add'l TB deaths, 7.9 mil add'l child deaths from other causes, and 40-55 mil add'l unplanned pregnancies.
@altusaid.altgov.info
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DOJ official Todd Blanche promised to dump his crypto holdings no later than 90 days after his Senate confirmation in March.
But about a month into the job — before divesting — he ordered an end to investigations into crypto companies.
By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social @shaw.al
That's embarrassing for the refs. That should have been 17-7 #ECU, now 13-10 #Pitt. I always want my team to win, but not like that.
Yes, please. And asap, if you don't mind.
Fantastic work by the Kremlin PR team.
The RFK, jr effect.
I'd say it's too much of a buyout but this is downright terrible basketball. Something has to be done.
A nasal nanomedicine has demonstrated effective delivery of immune-activating therapy to the brain in mice, offering a less invasive approach to treating glioblastoma tumors. doi.org/hbb644
The run coincided with a stretch where there was too much dribbling and lack of movement, too reminiscent of last year during that stretch. That said, think I saw more back door cuts in that half than the entire season last year
If you need dating guidance from ChatGPT, perhaps just get a blowup doll and call it a night...
I fear what we may be witnessing right now is that private/corporate ownership of the media has now become fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
from the other place. Three years ago...
Folks better remember what insurance companies were doing to women who were diagnosed with breast cancer, prior to the Affordable Care Act.
This is what Republicans are supporting. If you’re in a red Congressional District, call your House Rep. #Florida
More than any other publication @propublica.org is rising to this moment. So many legacy newspapers still cower in equivocation and shy away from simply reporting the facts in their terrible details. Bravo @charlesornstein.bsky.social and the team. They make history. Support @propublica.org today.
GOOD NEWS! For the first time ever, Huntington's disease has been successfully treated. A groundbreaking new miRNA treatment, AMT-130, slowed the progression of the disease by 75%. These results are likely to support the first approval of a genetic treatment for the rare neurodegenerative condition.
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.
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His decision making is among the worst I've ever seen. Dumb da dumb dumb was written just for him
There is no understanding the hate and ignorance of the Old Confederacy.
THEY WILL NEVER CHANGE.
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Thanks very much for sharing!
In A Few Words essay by Alan Finkelstein, PhD:
Giving Grace
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Um, I was told that tariffs would bring the American manufacturing back
Oh come on @thomasjrennie.bsky.social! Muniz gets the ball & performs a football move. Chalobah dives in late. So you're penalizing Muniz for beating the defender to the ball and making a difficult football move and rewarding Chalobah for poor defending?! Leave the bad takes to Alexi Lalas.
