Austen Rachlis
@austenr.bsky.social
Writer: Hacker Mom, various podcasts for Wondery. Director/Producer: Naughty Books, streaming on Sundance Now, Kanopy, Tubi & more. Also available VOD. She/her
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Experimental philosophy
August 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Experimental philosophy
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Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return
July 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return
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maybe there's still some good left in this world after all
July 28, 2025 at 2:46 AM
maybe there's still some good left in this world after all
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Never forget today, when, on this day in 1988, Zero Cool crashed 1,507 systems in one day.
August 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Never forget today, when, on this day in 1988, Zero Cool crashed 1,507 systems in one day.
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He resigned the governor’s office in disgrace and currently holds no office.
Where is he going to propose this little law? A Panera on Long Island?
Where is he going to propose this little law? A Panera on Long Island?
August 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
He resigned the governor’s office in disgrace and currently holds no office.
Where is he going to propose this little law? A Panera on Long Island?
Where is he going to propose this little law? A Panera on Long Island?
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Chris Cuomo posting a deepfake of AOC the same week that Jim Acosta “interviews” a deepfake of a school shooting victim are both harbingers of how traditional media power players will help usher in the worst of the AI slop era
August 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Chris Cuomo posting a deepfake of AOC the same week that Jim Acosta “interviews” a deepfake of a school shooting victim are both harbingers of how traditional media power players will help usher in the worst of the AI slop era
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I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
WHAT, WHAT, WHAT ARE WE DOING!!!
“Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...
“Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...
Health secretary RFK Jr. shuts door on U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research
Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news that RFK Jr. has shut the door in U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research.
www.statnews.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
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RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
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Generational public health sabotage
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
August 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Generational public health sabotage
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I… will never forgive y’all.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I… will never forgive y’all.
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Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals.
What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.
Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.
zurl.co/YBGNy
What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.
Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.
zurl.co/YBGNy
‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines
Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall
zurl.co
July 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals.
What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.
Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.
zurl.co/YBGNy
What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.
Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.
zurl.co/YBGNy
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NYC is serious danger of ruining a fine tradition of only choosing the worst mayor
June 25, 2025 at 2:31 AM
NYC is serious danger of ruining a fine tradition of only choosing the worst mayor
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Here's your periodic reminder that political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.
June 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Here's your periodic reminder that political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.
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Voters want somebody who's got that dog in them. They see that in Trump, old & stupid as he is. They will never see it in the kind of candidate James Carville thinks ought to win.
fun fact: if you can’t beat 33-year old “Zohran Mamdani” on first-round primary votes Donald Trump is going to eat you alive. these people have been wrong about everything and it’s brought our country to the brink of ruin. time for someone else to lead the fight
June 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Voters want somebody who's got that dog in them. They see that in Trump, old & stupid as he is. They will never see it in the kind of candidate James Carville thinks ought to win.
Finally catching up with The Pitt and was thrilled when they did a storyline around the Freedom House Ambulance Service. Wrote one of my favorite podcast scripts I've written about Freedom House:
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The Modern Ambulance
Podcast Episode · American Innovations · S22 E1 · 42m
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April 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Finally catching up with The Pitt and was thrilled when they did a storyline around the Freedom House Ambulance Service. Wrote one of my favorite podcast scripts I've written about Freedom House:
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My most recent Business Wars!
The latest season of Business Wars from #Wondery that I sound designed started this week! Check out the competition between Spanx and Skims:
Business Wars - Season 106: Spanx vs Skims
In 1998, a young office equipment sales rep named Sara Blakely can’t find anything to wear under a pair of tight fitting white...
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March 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
My most recent Business Wars!
My very first episode of Business Wars!
For reference to the last hat tip. I crew up in raisin country and @austenr.bsky.social wrote this awesome and insane Business Wars podcast on The Raisin Cartels. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
March 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
My very first episode of Business Wars!
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DO YOU NEED A MEASLES BOOSTER?
Measles outbreaks in parts of Texas and New Mexico are raising deeply serious concerns about the rapid spread of the highly contagious virus. Measles is, in fact, one of the world’s most contagious diseases.
Please, carefully read the gift article below…
Measles outbreaks in parts of Texas and New Mexico are raising deeply serious concerns about the rapid spread of the highly contagious virus. Measles is, in fact, one of the world’s most contagious diseases.
Please, carefully read the gift article below…
February 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
DO YOU NEED A MEASLES BOOSTER?
Measles outbreaks in parts of Texas and New Mexico are raising deeply serious concerns about the rapid spread of the highly contagious virus. Measles is, in fact, one of the world’s most contagious diseases.
Please, carefully read the gift article below…
Measles outbreaks in parts of Texas and New Mexico are raising deeply serious concerns about the rapid spread of the highly contagious virus. Measles is, in fact, one of the world’s most contagious diseases.
Please, carefully read the gift article below…
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Alabama: Medicaid
Alaska : DenaliCare
Arizona: Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS)
Arkansas: Health Care
California: Medi-Cal
Colorado: Health First Colorado
Connecticut: HuskyHealth, Husky C (for aged, blind or disabled persons)
Delaware: Diamond State Health Plan (Plus)
Alaska : DenaliCare
Arizona: Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS)
Arkansas: Health Care
California: Medi-Cal
Colorado: Health First Colorado
Connecticut: HuskyHealth, Husky C (for aged, blind or disabled persons)
Delaware: Diamond State Health Plan (Plus)
February 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Alabama: Medicaid
Alaska : DenaliCare
Arizona: Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS)
Arkansas: Health Care
California: Medi-Cal
Colorado: Health First Colorado
Connecticut: HuskyHealth, Husky C (for aged, blind or disabled persons)
Delaware: Diamond State Health Plan (Plus)
Alaska : DenaliCare
Arizona: Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS)
Arkansas: Health Care
California: Medi-Cal
Colorado: Health First Colorado
Connecticut: HuskyHealth, Husky C (for aged, blind or disabled persons)
Delaware: Diamond State Health Plan (Plus)
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Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:
February 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:
This is incredible news and I wish I could be happy about it instead of furious that funding for research like this is getting cut off.
THIS IS HUGE! A cancer vaccine developed by Yale University and DFCI shows MAJOR promise. Results of an early-phase trial reveal ALL patients with ADVANCED stage kidney cancer had successful anti-cancer immune responses AND have remained CANCER-FREE approximately THREE years after treatment. 🧪🧵⬇️
February 27, 2025 at 4:34 AM
This is incredible news and I wish I could be happy about it instead of furious that funding for research like this is getting cut off.
Guess we'll be engaging in some vaccine tourism this year. WTAF.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots
The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Guess we'll be engaging in some vaccine tourism this year. WTAF.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
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Gift link because soo few people subscribe to local papers, and the impact of the Musk/Trump cuts is worth everybody knowing about.
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Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off
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February 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Gift link because soo few people subscribe to local papers, and the impact of the Musk/Trump cuts is worth everybody knowing about.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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These people are complete and utter ghouls.
NEW: The N.I.H. will cut about $4 Billion from federal research grants that support cancer, virus and heart disease research.
#Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
#Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets
Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
These people are complete and utter ghouls.
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is it woke to want to end cancer?
NEW: The N.I.H. will cut about $4 Billion from federal research grants that support cancer, virus and heart disease research.
#Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
#Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets
Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:15 AM
is it woke to want to end cancer?