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My quote of the day
Atifete Jahjaga
Atifete Jahjaga
October 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
My quote of the day
Atifete Jahjaga
Atifete Jahjaga
Reposted by Francesco Dalla Ricca
Reposted by Francesco Dalla Ricca
![Comic. PERSON 1 to person with white hat: I finished all the gen-ed back in 2010, and I’m up to the 400-level courses in most departments. But now one of my advisors is saying I “can’t have more than 20 majors” and “need to graduate next year.” It’s outrageous! [caption] My university is making it really hard to finish a 100% all achievements speedrun.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreigl6eeo62a2vwfi5hsaakrhvcqhoh7zpjgqslpteem2vfdmtxh4si@jpeg)
October 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
It is obvious that this absolute power becomes despotic once it has lost its connection with a higher power than itself.
-Hannah Arendt, On Revolution
-Hannah Arendt, On Revolution
September 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
It is obvious that this absolute power becomes despotic once it has lost its connection with a higher power than itself.
-Hannah Arendt, On Revolution
-Hannah Arendt, On Revolution
Ideas cannot digest reality.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
-Jean-Paul Sartre
September 20, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Ideas cannot digest reality.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
-Jean-Paul Sartre
Officials of the modern state ar, by necessity, at least one step removed from the society they are charged with governing. They assess the life of their society by a series of typifications that are always some distance from the full reality these abstractions are meant to capture.
September 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Officials of the modern state ar, by necessity, at least one step removed from the society they are charged with governing. They assess the life of their society by a series of typifications that are always some distance from the full reality these abstractions are meant to capture.
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Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
The state’s elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids.
www.theatlantic.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
The fact that I'm not allowed to step on this painting feels antithetical to Yoko's intentions
August 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The fact that I'm not allowed to step on this painting feels antithetical to Yoko's intentions
I'm not a fan of their art
August 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I'm not a fan of their art
This 'pursuit of happiness'... holds that men are entitled to 'the ghastly privilege of pursuing a phantom and embracing a delusion'.
Hannah Arendt, On Revolution
Quoting Howard Mumford Jones
Hannah Arendt, On Revolution
Quoting Howard Mumford Jones
August 29, 2025 at 8:51 AM
This 'pursuit of happiness'... holds that men are entitled to 'the ghastly privilege of pursuing a phantom and embracing a delusion'.
Hannah Arendt, On Revolution
Quoting Howard Mumford Jones
Hannah Arendt, On Revolution
Quoting Howard Mumford Jones
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NIH scientists say that mRNA vaccines have saved untold thousands of lives. A heroin addled nepo baby whose brain was partially eaten by a worm says mRNA vaccines are worthless and even dangerous. For busy medical patients, it can be hard to know who to trust.
August 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
NIH scientists say that mRNA vaccines have saved untold thousands of lives. A heroin addled nepo baby whose brain was partially eaten by a worm says mRNA vaccines are worthless and even dangerous. For busy medical patients, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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I think all the time that this is the "science reform" we need to be having. Discrimination in science probably costs us more in scientific insight and scientists' well-being than anything else. AND these toxic patterns are not independent of fraud because toxic cultures create fraud pressures
We've been waiting for this report from NSF for many months — results of a survey on sexual harassment at US Antarctic stations. The numbers aren't good, but at least this problem is out in the open & starting to be tackled. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Sexual harassment is rife at US Antarctic research bases, fresh survey finds
More than two-thirds of people polled had witnessed sexual harassment or assault on the ice.
www.nature.com
August 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I think all the time that this is the "science reform" we need to be having. Discrimination in science probably costs us more in scientific insight and scientists' well-being than anything else. AND these toxic patterns are not independent of fraud because toxic cultures create fraud pressures
Apparently Ulysses Grant's bullies called him "Useless Grant" boy howdy children haven't changed in their capacity for evil
July 27, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Apparently Ulysses Grant's bullies called him "Useless Grant" boy howdy children haven't changed in their capacity for evil
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![Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreic4f56ywseq7bqc7zza3y76pxyzn5c5htebrior6jdbrfszhuiquy@jpeg)
July 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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'They took shrapnel from my heart' – the magnets saving lives in Ukraine.
The pen-sized magnetic extractors are powerful enough to lift a sledgehammer.
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www.bbc.com/news/article...
The pen-sized magnetic extractors are powerful enough to lift a sledgehammer.
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www.bbc.com/news/article...
"They took shrapnel out of my heart" - a life saved by Ukrainian ingenuity
A magnetic extractor is changing the face of front-line medicine in Ukraine.
www.bbc.com
July 2, 2025 at 6:33 AM
'They took shrapnel from my heart' – the magnets saving lives in Ukraine.
The pen-sized magnetic extractors are powerful enough to lift a sledgehammer.
🧪💣🧲🇺🇦
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The pen-sized magnetic extractors are powerful enough to lift a sledgehammer.
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www.bbc.com/news/article...
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But one thing SCOTUS did make clear is that its ruling doesn’t have to be final. Congress has a say in the scope of the courts’ equitable powers - i.e., a judge’s authority to craft remedies in a case. It should step in to reestablish the constitutional balance. /fin
June 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
But one thing SCOTUS did make clear is that its ruling doesn’t have to be final. Congress has a say in the scope of the courts’ equitable powers - i.e., a judge’s authority to craft remedies in a case. It should step in to reestablish the constitutional balance. /fin
Between the centuries of misery and disorder there are others when societies come to rest when the human race seems to draw breath. In actual fact, such times are more apparent than real...
June 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Between the centuries of misery and disorder there are others when societies come to rest when the human race seems to draw breath. In actual fact, such times are more apparent than real...
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AI, peer review and the human activity of science
AI, peer review and the human activity of science
When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.
www.nature.com
June 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
AI, peer review and the human activity of science
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Kuldorff is now going to present on the MMRV vaccine. The slides have not been posted. CDC has a briefing doc:
www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
MMRV was shown to have a slightly increased risk of febrile seizures compared to separate MMR + varicella vaccines in a VSD rapid cycle analysis.
www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
MMRV was shown to have a slightly increased risk of febrile seizures compared to separate MMR + varicella vaccines in a VSD rapid cycle analysis.
June 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Kuldorff is now going to present on the MMRV vaccine. The slides have not been posted. CDC has a briefing doc:
www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
MMRV was shown to have a slightly increased risk of febrile seizures compared to separate MMR + varicella vaccines in a VSD rapid cycle analysis.
www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
MMRV was shown to have a slightly increased risk of febrile seizures compared to separate MMR + varicella vaccines in a VSD rapid cycle analysis.
They needed no facts, no information; they had a "theory", and all data that did not fit were denied or ignored.
-Hannah Arendt, On Lying and Politics, 1971
-Hannah Arendt, On Lying and Politics, 1971
June 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
They needed no facts, no information; they had a "theory", and all data that did not fit were denied or ignored.
-Hannah Arendt, On Lying and Politics, 1971
-Hannah Arendt, On Lying and Politics, 1971
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Governmental centralization acquires immense power when joined to administrative centralization. In this way, it accustoms men completely and continuously to disregard their own wishes and to obey, not only for once and upon one point but in every respect and at all times.
June 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Governmental centralization acquires immense power when joined to administrative centralization. In this way, it accustoms men completely and continuously to disregard their own wishes and to obey, not only for once and upon one point but in every respect and at all times.
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It's a raging cicada party out there. They waited 17 years for this!
June 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
It's a raging cicada party out there. They waited 17 years for this!
One way of lessening the action of authority lies not in stripping society of some of its rights or in paralyzing its efforts but in distributing the exercise of power in several hands, in multiplying the number of civil servants to whom just enough power is granted to perform what is asked of them.
June 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
One way of lessening the action of authority lies not in stripping society of some of its rights or in paralyzing its efforts but in distributing the exercise of power in several hands, in multiplying the number of civil servants to whom just enough power is granted to perform what is asked of them.
From the article:
Some groups that see nuclear power as a cleaner alternative to fossil fuels also offered praise. The call to reconsider the LNT model and other safety standards is a positive step toward reforming NRC’s “overly risk-averse culture, structure, and regulations”
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Some groups that see nuclear power as a cleaner alternative to fossil fuels also offered praise. The call to reconsider the LNT model and other safety standards is a positive step toward reforming NRC’s “overly risk-averse culture, structure, and regulations”
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To boost nuclear power, Trump orders controversial rewrite of radiation safety rules | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
To boost nuclear power, Trump orders controversial rewrite of radiation safety rules
Researchers have long debated the risks posed by low levels of ionizing radiation
www.science.org
May 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
From the article:
Some groups that see nuclear power as a cleaner alternative to fossil fuels also offered praise. The call to reconsider the LNT model and other safety standards is a positive step toward reforming NRC’s “overly risk-averse culture, structure, and regulations”
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Some groups that see nuclear power as a cleaner alternative to fossil fuels also offered praise. The call to reconsider the LNT model and other safety standards is a positive step toward reforming NRC’s “overly risk-averse culture, structure, and regulations”
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