Lisa Kearns
@lisakearns.bsky.social
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Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists
Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
www.404media.co
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
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Hugely important academic paper repository arXiv says it will no longer accept Computer Science papers that are still under review due to the wave of AI-generated ones it has received. This will radically change preprint and open access scientific research
www.404media.co/arxiv-change...
www.404media.co/arxiv-change...
arXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated 'Research' Papers
Cornell University’s academic paper repository will no longer accept Computer Science papers still under review.
www.404media.co
November 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Hugely important academic paper repository arXiv says it will no longer accept Computer Science papers that are still under review due to the wave of AI-generated ones it has received. This will radically change preprint and open access scientific research
www.404media.co/arxiv-change...
www.404media.co/arxiv-change...
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I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is jmetraux@motherjones.com and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.
October 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is jmetraux@motherjones.com and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.
"As we learn to co-exist and co-evolve with AI, science fiction like M3GAN 2.0 can be a useful way to portray complex ethical, legal, and social issues for AI ethicists and the public to ponder." by Ambria Williams, @kellieowens.bsky.social, and me. blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethi...
M3GAN 2.0: A Case Study in AI Ethics and Policy - Journal of Medical Ethics blog
By Ambria Williams, Lisa Kearns, and Kellie Owens This piece contains spoilers for the films “M3GAN” and “M3GAN 2.0”. Imagine a science fiction horror movie with an ethicist as the protagonist. As imp...
blogs.bmj.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
"As we learn to co-exist and co-evolve with AI, science fiction like M3GAN 2.0 can be a useful way to portray complex ethical, legal, and social issues for AI ethicists and the public to ponder." by Ambria Williams, @kellieowens.bsky.social, and me. blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethi...
NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c... via @statnews.com
NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication
Two institutions are coming together to create an alternative to the CDC’s vaunted Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
www.statnews.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c... via @statnews.com
Starving Children Screaming for Food as U.S. Aid Cuts Unleash Devastation and Death www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
Starving Children Screaming for Food as U.S. Aid Cuts Unleash Devastation and Death
A look at the outcome of Trump's dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development
www.medpagetoday.com
October 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Starving Children Screaming for Food as U.S. Aid Cuts Unleash Devastation and Death www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
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Henry J Farrell: "It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble."
Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.
www.nytimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Henry J Farrell: "It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble."
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Another week, the GOP's shutdown continues. No surrender. Stand firm on protecting public health, healthcare and research. Write to your Senators now. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell Democrats to Stand Up for Public Health in the Budget
With negotiations on a short-term continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government open past September 30th at a standstill, Defend Public Health believes that House and Senate Democrats MUST play ha...
actionnetwork.org
October 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Another week, the GOP's shutdown continues. No surrender. Stand firm on protecting public health, healthcare and research. Write to your Senators now. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
My co-author Gianna Gordon and I argue "the enormous inequity in this specific justice concern sufficient to regard the UDN’s current operating model as ethically indefensible" journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/udn-...
Is the UDN N-of-1 Enterprise Ethically Justifiable?
A national consortium of clinicians and researchers hope to accurately diagnose patients with rare diseases.
journalofethics.ama-assn.org
October 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
My co-author Gianna Gordon and I argue "the enormous inequity in this specific justice concern sufficient to regard the UDN’s current operating model as ethically indefensible" journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/udn-...
"[T]he step was taken due to the Republican administration’s belief the money was based on unconstitutional diversity, equity and inclusion principles...[and] is likely meant to target…Chuck Schumer of New York, whom the White House is blaming for the shutdown."
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Trump administration puts on hold $18 billion in funding for New York City infrastructure projects
President Donald Trump's administration said Wednesday it was putting a hold on roughly $18 billion to fund a new rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River between New York City and New Jersey and the city...
www.yahoo.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
"[T]he step was taken due to the Republican administration’s belief the money was based on unconstitutional diversity, equity and inclusion principles...[and] is likely meant to target…Chuck Schumer of New York, whom the White House is blaming for the shutdown."
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Democrats Should Use the Impending Government Shutdown to Force RFK Jr.'s Resignation.
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open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Democrats Should Use the Impending Government Shutdown to Force RFK Jr.'s Resignation.
An impending government shutdown presents an opportunity. This is the best way to leverage that.
open.substack.com
September 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Democrats Should Use the Impending Government Shutdown to Force RFK Jr.'s Resignation.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
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This ought to be engraved somewhere.
September 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This ought to be engraved somewhere.
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-Perkins Coie (+ other firm that didn't back down).
-Harvard (after momentary false start)
-"Lower" fed judiciary. (Not Roger Taney "supreme" court.)
-Local grand juries.
-Govs like Pritzker and Newsom
-WSJ and NYT, when sued.
-Millions of protestors
-Now Jimmy Kimmel.
Our tapestry of resistance.
-Harvard (after momentary false start)
-"Lower" fed judiciary. (Not Roger Taney "supreme" court.)
-Local grand juries.
-Govs like Pritzker and Newsom
-WSJ and NYT, when sued.
-Millions of protestors
-Now Jimmy Kimmel.
Our tapestry of resistance.
September 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
-Perkins Coie (+ other firm that didn't back down).
-Harvard (after momentary false start)
-"Lower" fed judiciary. (Not Roger Taney "supreme" court.)
-Local grand juries.
-Govs like Pritzker and Newsom
-WSJ and NYT, when sued.
-Millions of protestors
-Now Jimmy Kimmel.
Our tapestry of resistance.
-Harvard (after momentary false start)
-"Lower" fed judiciary. (Not Roger Taney "supreme" court.)
-Local grand juries.
-Govs like Pritzker and Newsom
-WSJ and NYT, when sued.
-Millions of protestors
-Now Jimmy Kimmel.
Our tapestry of resistance.
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Sum: pseudoscience, lies, and fearmongering nonsense.
Those with a science background - Makary, Bhattacharya, Oz, etc - MUST know this is harmful BS. They MUST know they are enabling authoritarian BS.
Integrity black hole.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Those with a science background - Makary, Bhattacharya, Oz, etc - MUST know this is harmful BS. They MUST know they are enabling authoritarian BS.
Integrity black hole.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump attacks Tylenol as officials unveil highly contentious conclusions on autism
President says acetaminophen – also known as paracetamol - increases risk when taken by pregnant women, assertion contradicted by research
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Sum: pseudoscience, lies, and fearmongering nonsense.
Those with a science background - Makary, Bhattacharya, Oz, etc - MUST know this is harmful BS. They MUST know they are enabling authoritarian BS.
Integrity black hole.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Those with a science background - Makary, Bhattacharya, Oz, etc - MUST know this is harmful BS. They MUST know they are enabling authoritarian BS.
Integrity black hole.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#ABC advertisers to target for supporting censorship and capitulation: stopmediabiasnow.com/abc-advertis...
ABC Advertisers - Stop Media Bias Now
stopmediabiasnow.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
#ABC advertisers to target for supporting censorship and capitulation: stopmediabiasnow.com/abc-advertis...
Real actions to take to fight #ABC (#AlwaysBeCensoring).
The FCC threatened ABC's license. #Nexstar and #Sinclair pulled the show from 60+ stations. Disney folded instantly.
This is why a media monopoly is BAD
We don't have to accept this.
#Defend1A
#JimmyKimmel
cmarmitage.substack.com/p/the-kimmel...
This is why a media monopoly is BAD
We don't have to accept this.
#Defend1A
#JimmyKimmel
cmarmitage.substack.com/p/the-kimmel...
September 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Real actions to take to fight #ABC (#AlwaysBeCensoring).
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
It's the Ethics, Stupid by @artcap.bsky.social www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
Opinion | It's the Ethics, Stupid
Bad ethics is at the rotten core of MAHA vaccine policy
www.medpagetoday.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
It's the Ethics, Stupid by @artcap.bsky.social www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
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“The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of ‘corrosive ideology.’”
Trump officials order removal of photograph of enslaved man’s scars
The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”
wapo.st
September 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
“The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of ‘corrosive ideology.’”
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WaPo gets to decide who speaks on its opinion page. And I get to say they can't pretend they're for "personal liberties" when they join a coordinated state effort to repress the voices of people who don't speak the way Trump wants in response to a newsworthy event. Support @karenattiah.bsky.social
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
WaPo gets to decide who speaks on its opinion page. And I get to say they can't pretend they're for "personal liberties" when they join a coordinated state effort to repress the voices of people who don't speak the way Trump wants in response to a newsworthy event. Support @karenattiah.bsky.social
To summarize: putting homeless people to death.
This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for.
But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem
But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
To summarize: putting homeless people to death.
"If Kennedy does not resign, if science funding is not restored, and if the government continues to place critical public health functions in the hands of the willfully ignorant, physicians need to act."
www.statnews.com/2025/09/12/r... via @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2025/09/12/r... via @statnews.com
If RFK Jr. doesn’t resign, physicians should join a limited strike
If Kennedy doesn’t resign, physicians should join a limited strike. Desperate diseases call for desperate measures.
www.statnews.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"If Kennedy does not resign, if science funding is not restored, and if the government continues to place critical public health functions in the hands of the willfully ignorant, physicians need to act."
www.statnews.com/2025/09/12/r... via @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2025/09/12/r... via @statnews.com
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RFK Jr. has said anyone can get a COVID booster if they want one. HE IS LYING. He has created conditions that make it difficult for people to get immunized. States are stepping in; he is creating chaos. Impeach. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
‘The chaos is the point’: tumult as Covid vaccine boosters deployed under RFK Jr
People attempting to obtain vaccine report major hurdles amid new limitations brought in by Trump health secretary
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
RFK Jr. has said anyone can get a COVID booster if they want one. HE IS LYING. He has created conditions that make it difficult for people to get immunized. States are stepping in; he is creating chaos. Impeach. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
