Getting what’s convenient (and legal) for yourself is the way to go. There are no silver bullets available anyhow. You still need a multi-layered strategy. There’s no a la carte option if you want to, or need to, avoid covid. I have heard that people are contemplating or suggesting switching to pet covid tests just […]
Month: May 2025
CDC ACIP doctor already explained the problem with “shared decision making” on vaccine recommendations.
And I quoted this in my CDC ACIP public comment.
Netflix takes Sesame Street as spoils of the defunding of public broadcasting.
Good gravy don’t buy into the “privatization will save us from authoritarianism” narrative.
The headline we should be seeing: Two cryptocurrency selling regimes in the Americas join together to leave world health behind and form their own bs wellness organization.
Unfortunately the media isn’t doing a great job with this one.
I don’t trust Paul Offit.
I wouldn’t recommend looking to Paul Offit for leadership on vaccines, because what the Trump administration is doing he was lobbying for in the Biden administration all along. This is from a thread I posted on social media after becoming concerned that people might think this is the guy to lead up championing vaccine access. If you […]
Pennsylvania American Water seems a little nervous.
I’m seeing PA American Water commercials on youtube making claims about how safe and reliable they are. You know it’s bad and they’re probably feeling some heat. There must be a lot of people writing letters like I have about the fees, the slow processing of payments, the dirty water without notice, and the pollution of our local river.
Cryptocurrency isn’t all it’s cracked up to be in fact, but one guy is getting some bribes.
Cryptocurrency! Crime is legal — but the actual dollars aren’t showing up 24th May 2025 – by David Gerard (video) The crypto industry was hoping the President of the United States personally endorsing crypto would finally be the starter’s pistol for a new crypto bubble! But nobody new is getting into crypto. Except so they […]
Shadowbanning is happening and communities are definitely messed with on social media.
This is not just about shitposting. Do not rely on one platform for communicating with people who you would like to stay in touch with. Will Sam Altman and His AI Kill Us All? The Bulwark May 23, 2025 Karen Hao: “she consistently felt like she was being shadowbanned and when I talked with um researchers […]
Why did the Trump administration rendition Burmese and Vietnamese immigrants to South Sudan.
Are people still using the term “constitutional crisis” or did the fancy people abandon that phrase now?
All that the Trump regime intends is chaos, including in space and planetary sciences.
Slashing science budgets are causing chaos and waste taxpayer investment.
Weirdo anti-vax infectious disease denier wonders why people who get vaccinated don’t want hugs from her.
Anti-vaxxers often say that they simply don’t want to be compelled to get vaccinated, which is also anti-vax, because vaccines work best with large uptake. But then they clearly want to stop other people getting vaccinated…
Alligators knock doors in Florida.
This is going to put a damper on getting better politicians elected in Florida. Too close for comfort: Gators seen scratching and knocking on front doors of 3 Florida homes WSVN-TV May 12, 2025 Maybe I’m cynical but I can’t help suspect this is a PR planted story as covert marketing for doorbell cameras because […]
Comparing “AI companions” to “traditional relationships” is bunk PR.
To frame this as “non-traditional” relationship is wrong, because it’s not a relationship, because it’s an LLM chatbot.
AI is shoddy, and it’s used as a shadowbanning assist.
I decided to read this book “Empire of AI” after an interview with the author Karen Hao on the Better Offline podcast, which covers the technical and financial no there there of AI. And in this interview by Tim Miller at the Bulwark with Karen Hao, they talk about environmental impacts, but I think this […]
Free market capitalist Republicans… oh wait – they want to deny your choice of dental health too.
I hope everybody understands now that this was never about choice.
Nothing efficient about blockchain, so when someone invokes the blockchain to defend crypto, it’s also a trick.
Cryptocurrency is bad, and it’s not bad despite “the blockchain” but also because of the blockchain, which is actually not some great newfangled thing after all.
Marty Makary was copying Stephen Miller and saying America voted for this.
I’ve seen a lot of people on social media mad that Marty Makary said, “America doesn’t want covid boosters” and of course this doesn’t mean Americans don’t want covid boosters. He said “America doesn’t want covid boosters”. Important distinction.
Wow. FDA VRBPAC meeting public comments. Not great. More people need to step up.
Don’t Wait For Everybody – Episode 024
Yes, calling and writing your elected representatives makes a difference.
And no, don’t bother calling politicians if you’re not a verifiable constituent they represent. I keep going over this because I continually people saying they’re doing activism, and then telling people to make anonymous calls, or send emails to some official in another state, and that’s just not going to do anything. I’ve explained the […]
AI therapy doesn’t exist because it misses the point of therapy, which is a relationship.
Chatbot therapy is a good way to make yourself a sitting duck for political abuse of psychiatry.
Romania’s Trumpian candidate lost the election.
Pro-EU Dan beats Trumpist Simion in Romania’s closely watched vote | DW News May 19, 2025 The pro-European Union mayor of Bucharest has won the Romanian presidential election. Nicusor Dan defeated a hard-right nationalist opponent who modeled his campaign on that of Donald Trump. Of course in keeping with being openly Trumpian, he’s refusing to […]
Do voters really want right-wing Dem representatives?
It’s troubling to regularly hear about people who talk to Dem politicians and Dem operatives who are seemingly completely out of step with the Dem base entirely.