I like to imagine the alternate universe where all is the same, but for a government effort to engineer a weather machine that slightly perturbs the Redwood City climate, knocking it down from top billing in the climatological survey, and the slogan of the city is "climate worse by government curse"

whoever came up with "climate best by government test" as the Redwood City slogan should have gotten to be us poet laureate

Had a great time at CODE@MIT this weekend, and wanted to highlight a few (of the many) cool talks!

Glad to find you on Bluesky :-) I hope you're doing wonderfully!

There is continuity in the turtle interest--I wrote an essay in senior year about Marianne Moore: www.listsofnote.com/p/utopian-tu...

My latest rabbit related interest is hare snails as an icon illustrating "festina lente"

Omg! Related rad variant I saw in the airport, is a kids' suitcase with a scooter attached. Maybe the general lesson is they should start making adult versions of kids suitcases

Food Safety — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

We have more on how the administration is gutting food safety programs and making foodborne illnesses more likely on our explainer: unbreaking.org/issues/food-...

someone needs to invent a roller suitcase that turns into a chair when you pull up the handle

Data Security — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

Since day one, the Trump administration has recklessly exploited Americans’ sensitive data in efforts to deport immigrants, restrict access to critical benefits and services, and gut the federal workforce. Here’s what we’ve learned so far: unbreaking.org/issues/data-...

i think cuomo did well considering he couldn’t campaign while the sun was up

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2. w is a big wrong: consider a set W' = W-{w} \cup {w*}. By inductive hypothesis, it could not be that W', which is of size n+1, fixed any wrongs. But since big wrongs are always wrong, committing w could not fix W' and again n+2 wrongs do not make n+1 rights.

Qed

1. w is a little wrong: there are at least 2 little wrongs in W (since w was maximally wrong). Combining them into one macro-wrong m, let W' = W - {w, w'} \cup {w*}. |W'|=n so by i.h., m does not fix it. But as W' and m = W and w* then w* could not fix W either, so n+2 wrongs don't fix n+1 wrongs.

suppose that n+1 wrongs does not ever fix n wrongs. consider any set of n+1 wrongs W and any additional n+2th wrong w*. Order W by wrongness and pick max w\in W. It is well known there is a threshold of wrongness at which a wrong graduates from a "little" to a "big" wrong. So consider two cases:

A graphic that reads Free Rümeysa Öztürk with a photo of her.

This week, my Somerville constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted in broad daylight by DHS officials and sent to Louisiana to be locked in a detention center. She has not been charged with any crime.

Some folks have asked, given recent news, “how do I show my friends/family the impact of NSF?” We have some easy Fact Sheets for you! Here’s a brief thread about this website: new.nsf.gov/about/fact-s... which hosts a ton of useful one-pagers.

Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

This article--on the systematic dismantling of the NIH, NSF, and CDC--is a must-read not only for researchers and clinicians but for anyone who has ever gotten a vaccine, taken medication, read the results of a research study, or gotten tested for Covid, flu, or STIs.
www.science.org/content/blog...

Trans people in US federal prisons face brutal crackdown under Trump order Advocates report harassment and loss of gender-affirming care as trans women face transfers to men’s prisons

I've collected accounts from trans folks inside US prisons facing Trump's brutal crackdown: trans women rounded up + placed in solitary before transfer to men's prisons; canceled medical appointments + loss of vital healthcare; vicious taunting

"You're going to be a man," one guard told trans women

Trump officials pause health agencies’ communications, citing review The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial information to health-care providers.

New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH.

No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts.

And no indication how long the pause will last.

With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.

New coronavirus vaccines are now approved. Here’s what to know. The mRNA coronavirus vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna tailored for the KP.2 variant could be available within a week.

Breaking news: The FDA approves updated coronavirus vaccines targeting new variants.

Everyone 6 months and older should receive one, the CDC recommends.

a supermarket that only sells soup called a soupermarket

I co-wrote an article that just came out in Medical Humanities!

It uses text mining to examine how "vagina" is wrongly used to signify the vulva and the entire female genitalia. Access it for free here: bit.ly/Mh-vulva