“How else can we explain human survival to date? We mostly work cooperatively and we are often concerned with helping others. This is reflected in the world in small and big ways. We have to train our brains to notice.” @prisonculture.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

“No fire and brimstone speech can turn back the clock on what digital media has done to how we talk to one another, how we consume news and how much outrage now shapes a million versions of personalized reality.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/o...

Cholera >> clean water
Spanish Flu >> steam radiators
HIV/AIDS >> gloves in healthcare
SARS-CoV-2 >> clean air

“Don’t be fooled by some social-media revisionist historians who would have us believe that COVID-19 was “mild”—it was one of the most lethal infectious disease outbreaks in human history, ranking only behind the 1918 Spanish Flu & the Bubonic Plague” via Time time.com/7266503/covi...

Tech Billionaires are the New Welfare Queens medium.com/@profgallowa...

In defending the NIH's new policy of capping indirect costs at 15% in its research grants, the guidance offered points to private foundations' practice in support.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings.

But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

Wield your platforms of power, wherever you may.

“Progressive philanthropy lacks good strategy, so too many of our organizations are hollow—and that left us unable to prevent a second Trump term.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Life is short. Do something offline today. @edyong209.bsky.social's rules from his 2024 XOXO talk continue to be good guidance (Photo by Matthew Lyon):

It’s getting better and better and worse and worse, faster and faster.

First Bluesky.