This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

In this issue: An example of the value of theory informed qualitative analysis to emergency medicine - Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine -

Thanks to the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine for singling out our team's (trainee-led!) paper on caring for patients with opioid use disorder in during COVID as a strong example of theory-guided qualitative research. 🧪

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The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden's Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

Using facial recognition tech, the Knicks surveilled a trans woman, tracking her every move out of fear she'd show up on MSG's tv broadcast

And they can do it to any "enemy" of Jim Dolan, who's built his own deep state. From @noahshachtman.bsky.social & me @wired.com www.wired.com/story/madiso...

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Democrats planning to run in November’s midterm elections have been advised not to antagonise pro-AI campaign groups that have amassed more than $300mn to fight for the industry’s priorities. The warnings by top party consultants, corroborated by people close to four different campaigns and party strategists speaking on the condition of anonymity, come despite internal polling for Democrats showing widespread public support for tougher AI rules.

They're calling it the best democracy ever.

www.ft.com/content/7529...

Between the "male loneliness" beat and the "passport bro" beat, there sure is a lot of ink being spent on pieces of shit who can't find friends or dates because they're sentient piles of hot wet trash

1) Influential right-wing figures say "they're the enemy, hate them" using lies, cherry-picks, and exaggerations

2) Followers believe them, get increasingly riled up

3) "The people don't trust the institutions, it's the institutions' fault"

4) Repeat 1

Worked on elections, higher ed, and more.

Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity Demands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth.

calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

BC Health Experts Say the Province Has Solutions to the Toxic Drug Crisis. 10 Years In, Policies Still Ignore The Evidence. “We have this bizarre dichotomy where everybody agrees that this is a health issue, but the majority of the resources…goes to law enforcement.”

Two events this week in Victoria marked the 10 year anniversary of the public health emergency of the #toxicdrugcrisis in BC — one inside the Legislature building and one outside.

I went to both, and found experts on either side of the wall saying the same things:

pressprogress.ca/bc-health-ex...

Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.

'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

Vancouver pals! I'm going to be presenting at this event in support of @briarpatchmag.bsky.social next weekend!

April 18 from 4:30-8:30 at Vines Arts Society.

It's drop-in by donation and a bunch of other rad local folks will be reading and speaking throughout. 🌾✨

www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...

Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.

Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities

www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

Find something in your life that makes you as happy as Gavin throwing out homeless peoples stuff

I was actually quite wrong about this. Trump managed to choose humiliation *AND* escalation.

Glo has even compiled an Indigenous Harm Reduction Library Database on Notion, so if you do harm reduction work, it is crucial to know the roots of these efforts! 👀

Those of us in public health don't just have to become better storytellers, we need go out into our communities and co-create a better future for all of us. The story of public health in the 21st century should be one embedded in communities that need us most. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back

Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Here is a take for you Bluesky.

Having the perspective that science isn’t political is a privilege.

The louder you say it, the more obvious it is you can’t put yourself in the shoes of folks who know science and politics are indelibly intertwined.

I’ve said this before but I truly think that reading shit you’re not ready for is how you learn to sit with discomfort. By forbidding the next generation from pushing their boundaries, you’re doing them an immense disservice

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent.

To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

Postdoc in Epidemiology - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Public Health - Department of Epidemiology, Aarhus University

🤓There's an open 2 yr postdoc position in my group
🏘️ On interactions between area-level socioeconomic position and environmental factors in weight trajectories in children
📈 Using multilevel models; applying the target trial framework
📆 Apply before April 7th!
international.au.dk/about/profil...

Bless whoever is parked outside our house loudly playing Warren G's Regulate.

An underrated addendum to the Bowling Alone story is that North America's largest bowling operator (Bowlero) is a publicly traded company whose business model involves buying mom and pop alleys, shutting down the leagues, and trying to attract casual, higher paying, one-off players.

As political pressure mounts, medical school accreditor drops requirement to teach about health equity The leading medical school accreditation body in the U.S. has removed language from its standards requiring schools to teach about health inequities

"The leading medical school accreditation body in the U.S. has removed language from its standards that had required schools it validates to teach about health inequities."

Shame. We don't live in a vacuum. All physicians should understand the structural forces that impact their patients' health.