Earl Burns
earlburns.bsky.social
Earl Burns
@earlburns.bsky.social
I really like Greg Kinnear, so I'll definitely check it out!
Every few years I'll learn that there's a show called, like, "Baggage" where Greg Kinnear plays a TSA supervisor with a troubled past, and that my parents have watched 150 episodes of it.
March 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Did you catch Gavin Newsom's interview with the Grand Moff Tarkin? Lots of common ground on droid rights.
March 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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“Somebody has to stay to help clean up the mess that they’re most likely going to make,” a public health advisor on infectious diseases at the CDC said. “If you want to get rid of me, you’re basically going to drag me kicking and screaming out of here.”
‘Health Security Is At Risk’: Inside the Purge of HHS
Employees are grappling with buyout offers as public health crises mount. “Somebody has to stay to help clean up the mess that they’re most likely going to make,” one said.
www.motherjones.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Perhaps the most depressing part about the last couple of months is that every awful shitty thing that’s happening to this country is self-induced. People asked for this. None of it had to happen.
March 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Great! A couple of questions:

1) Why not consider a cooperative-type structure?
2) Would you ever think about adding a participative, open peer-review overlay?
Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n
Homepage - openRxiv
openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.
openrxiv.org
March 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM