I hope everybody understands now that this was never about choice.
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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.
Maybe a lot of stuff called AI can be called just another quack pseudoscience snake oil.
Pseudoscience pushing unproven medical remedies and health treatments with no basis also usually has some “maybe in the future” assertion.
PA DEP under Dem Governor Josh Shapiro approves Trump admin official to burn tires to print cryptocurrency.
There is NO other purpose for this power plant whatsoever than to make “alternative” currency. It provides no power to the grid, and exists only to print bitcoin.
Anti-vax bullshit is the same old hat.
There was the same anti-vax propaganda spreading last century. It was overcome. Don’t wait for everybody before speaking up. Chloe Humbert Aug 08, 2023 The polio campaign in the U.S. was successful because of a concerted effort to do a door to door campaign that started before the vaccine was even available. The idea that […]
By law all sorts of things aren’t supposed to happen.
“By law, Social Security cannot be touched in the budget reconciliation process.”
Wait until MAGA finds out that Trump’s campaign strategy was Spanish language political ads.
The New Republic – Marin Scotten / May 14, 2025 MAGA Has Total Meltdown Over House Republican Post in Spanish The far-right is freaking out over an X post in Spanish from House Republicans. Not holding my breath for a Spanish speaker FAFO moment. BNN Bloomberg – Trump, Harris Fight for Latino Voters With 724% […]
Maybe let’s rethink the “great filter” theory (that supposedly explains the Fermi Paradox).
I heard the “great filter” referenced twice in one day, once on PBS Space Time and again on Conspirituality Podcast. And I wish people would understand that this is a concept come up by an economist…
The “Genius Act” is financial corruption.
The pseudoscience eugenics apparent in the idea that crypto tycoon profiteering is a sign of genius is horrendous. The New Republic – Jeff Hauser / May 16, 2025 Are Some Dems About to Cave to Crypto? It Wouldn’t Be the First Time As the Senate considers a GOP-backed stablecoin bill, it’s a good time to […]
Company towns, network states, freedom cities…
The tech tycoons plan to take public land and remove democracy. Everyone needs to get up to speed on this.
Trump met with leader of the Proud Boys at his home in Florida.
The New Republic – Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling May 5, 2025 Trump Reportedly Told January 6 Militant and Hate Leader “I Love You” Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and his mother met with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. “He called me and my Mother over while we were at dinner and said he was sorry for […]
We all need to get up to speed on what AI really is AND what it ISN’T.
“What we have right now are self-driving cars that are monitored remotely in Mexico and get confused if you put an orange cone on their hood.” – Emily Bender on the podcast Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast, AGI: “Imminent”, “Inevitable”, and Inane, 2025.04.21 We need to pull back the curtain for everyone on the […]
Elon Musk’s “temporary” (but actually permanent) AI power burner ruining the air in Memphis.
These data center power plants exist for no other purpose than to power the AI, or just cryptocurrency like in the case of Panther Creek in Pennsylvania.
Are the masked bandits in plain clothes that refuse to show badges even actual trained law enforcement hired through civil service?
Sheriffs are deputizing random citizens they know. Then ICE is deputizing sheriff’s deputies.
RFKJr connected anti-vaxxers have been profiteering from the Texas measles outbreak.
WIRED – By David Gilbert Apr 17, 2025 11:35 AM Anti-Vaxxers Are Grifting Off the Measles Outbreak—and Claim a Bioweapon Caused It Activists affiliated with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are selling a “measles treatment and prevention protocol” for hundreds of dollars, including supplements supposedly formulated by AI. Anti-vaccine activists with close ties to US health […]
Speaking up about losing history.
TIME – May 13, 2025 7:00 AM ET – Why I’m Resigning from Positions at the National Science Foundation and Library of Congress by Alondra Nelson Since January 2025, scientists and librarians, program officers and policy analysts at the National Science Foundation, the Library of Congress, and other federal offices and agencies have focused on […]