JaneZ
@janez27.bsky.social
Community advocate, fan of native plants, and potter.
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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New macro-empirical research finds that every dollar invested in non-defense public R&D yields $1.40–$2.10 in economic output, and since World War II, government funding has driven roughly 20% of U.S. productivity.
Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually
Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself
www.forbes.com
May 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
New macro-empirical research finds that every dollar invested in non-defense public R&D yields $1.40–$2.10 in economic output, and since World War II, government funding has driven roughly 20% of U.S. productivity.
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The GOP’s reconciliation bill is one of the worst environmental bills I’ve ever seen.
It guts public input, silences tribal and community voices, slashes environmental protections, and hands sacred and public lands to the lowest bidder with no accountability.
It guts public input, silences tribal and community voices, slashes environmental protections, and hands sacred and public lands to the lowest bidder with no accountability.
May 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The GOP’s reconciliation bill is one of the worst environmental bills I’ve ever seen.
It guts public input, silences tribal and community voices, slashes environmental protections, and hands sacred and public lands to the lowest bidder with no accountability.
It guts public input, silences tribal and community voices, slashes environmental protections, and hands sacred and public lands to the lowest bidder with no accountability.
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I found this super helpful. And deeply saddening, but really helpful and actionable
New at Can We Still Govern: An anonymous NIH employee maps out the GOP budget gameplan to permanently gut our most important science agency.
Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster
An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do
donmoynihan.substack.com
April 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I found this super helpful. And deeply saddening, but really helpful and actionable
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are disrupting a breakthrough cancer treatment so they can fund tax cuts for billionaires.
Tell your friends.
Tell your friends.
NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.
A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are disrupting a breakthrough cancer treatment so they can fund tax cuts for billionaires.
Tell your friends.
Tell your friends.
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With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
March 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
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House Republicans have released their budget plan, and in order to pay for massive tax cuts for the wealthy, they are planning to slash funding for Medicaid and food stamps.
House GOP Reveals Plan to Devastate Medicaid and Food Stamp Programs
House Republicans have a released a budget plan that would take a wrecking ball to the welfare programs used by millions of Americans.
newrepublic.com
February 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
House Republicans have released their budget plan, and in order to pay for massive tax cuts for the wealthy, they are planning to slash funding for Medicaid and food stamps.
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Sounds... efficient? "There are no more civil servants now than there were in the late 1960s, even as the population they serve has grown by two-thirds." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Civil Servants Are Not America’s Enemies
Trump wants to bring back the spoils system of the 19th century.
www.theatlantic.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Sounds... efficient? "There are no more civil servants now than there were in the late 1960s, even as the population they serve has grown by two-thirds." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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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.
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.
Direct Economic Contributions
NIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation.
www.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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.
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.
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Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania has indirect rate of 70%, but they probably didn’t want to list that atop Harvard because defunding a children’s hospital might be perceived as problematic.
This is devastating
This is devastating
These overhead rates are negotiated. Lowering it unilaterally to 15% is another way to destroy science in the US. Can’t wait to see what’s next.
February 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania has indirect rate of 70%, but they probably didn’t want to list that atop Harvard because defunding a children’s hospital might be perceived as problematic.
This is devastating
This is devastating
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*credit card* debt? he’s carrying more than a million in fucking *credit card debt*?!? that’s even fucking stupider than at least 50 fucking percent of every other stupid and dangerous thing he believes, that’s “would be broke 5 years after winning the lottery” stupid
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is in the running to serve as health and human services secretary, revealed he was carrying up to $1.2 million in credit card debt in recent financial disclosures, per CNBC.
February 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
*credit card* debt? he’s carrying more than a million in fucking *credit card debt*?!? that’s even fucking stupider than at least 50 fucking percent of every other stupid and dangerous thing he believes, that’s “would be broke 5 years after winning the lottery” stupid
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“Efforts by Trump officials to control the publication have stalled the release of three studies about bird flu for weeks, as the virus continues spreading through wild birds, poultry farms and cows around the country.” www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...
Trump officials exerting unprecedented control over CDC scientific journal
"The MMWR has lost its autonomy," one health official told CBS News.
www.cbsnews.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
“Efforts by Trump officials to control the publication have stalled the release of three studies about bird flu for weeks, as the virus continues spreading through wild birds, poultry farms and cows around the country.” www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...
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How many Americans rely on Medicaid or CHIP in *your* Congressional District? PLEASE SHARE THIS EVERYWHERE. ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL INFORMATION. CHARLES GABA IS AMAZING!
🚨 How many Americans rely on Medicaid or CHIP in *your* Congressional District? #HandsOffOurMedicaid
#Alabama: 952,000 (19% of total pop)
#Alaska: 250,000 (34% of total pop)
#Arizona: 1.96 million (26% of total pop)
#Arkansas: 821,000 (27% of total pop)
acasignups.net/25/01/29/how...
#Alabama: 952,000 (19% of total pop)
#Alaska: 250,000 (34% of total pop)
#Arizona: 1.96 million (26% of total pop)
#Arkansas: 821,000 (27% of total pop)
acasignups.net/25/01/29/how...
February 8, 2025 at 12:39 AM
How many Americans rely on Medicaid or CHIP in *your* Congressional District? PLEASE SHARE THIS EVERYWHERE. ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL INFORMATION. CHARLES GABA IS AMAZING!
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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Today: On how all the normalizing is about (in part) fear of facing the grief & loss that this moment demands.
But people have been up against harder, and faced it down.
This is new terrain, but we can do this.
It's time for you to become the leader you seek.
We must figure this out together.
But people have been up against harder, and faced it down.
This is new terrain, but we can do this.
It's time for you to become the leader you seek.
We must figure this out together.
Feel. Then Do.
our work in this new era
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Today: On how all the normalizing is about (in part) fear of facing the grief & loss that this moment demands.
But people have been up against harder, and faced it down.
This is new terrain, but we can do this.
It's time for you to become the leader you seek.
We must figure this out together.
But people have been up against harder, and faced it down.
This is new terrain, but we can do this.
It's time for you to become the leader you seek.
We must figure this out together.
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The assault on NIH is a test for how the national media covers the Trump admin: Trump is shutting down medical research!
That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?
That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?
January 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The assault on NIH is a test for how the national media covers the Trump admin: Trump is shutting down medical research!
That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?
That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?
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Especially if you have a republican representative, remind them that every dollar that goes to NIH nearly doubles in economic impact,
And that many patents (profitable discoveries) come from NIH funding
www.nih.gov/about-nih/wh...
And that many patents (profitable discoveries) come from NIH funding
www.nih.gov/about-nih/wh...
Direct Economic Contributions
NIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation.
www.nih.gov
January 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Especially if you have a republican representative, remind them that every dollar that goes to NIH nearly doubles in economic impact,
And that many patents (profitable discoveries) come from NIH funding
www.nih.gov/about-nih/wh...
And that many patents (profitable discoveries) come from NIH funding
www.nih.gov/about-nih/wh...
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Scientific advancements aside, this is economically irresponsible
Every $1 spent by NIH generates $2.46
For example, in 2023, $47B in NIH spending generated ~$93B
Halting NIH spending will LOSE the US a lot of money (and talent)
Every $1 spent by NIH generates $2.46
For example, in 2023, $47B in NIH spending generated ~$93B
Halting NIH spending will LOSE the US a lot of money (and talent)
January 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Scientific advancements aside, this is economically irresponsible
Every $1 spent by NIH generates $2.46
For example, in 2023, $47B in NIH spending generated ~$93B
Halting NIH spending will LOSE the US a lot of money (and talent)
Every $1 spent by NIH generates $2.46
For example, in 2023, $47B in NIH spending generated ~$93B
Halting NIH spending will LOSE the US a lot of money (and talent)
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I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org
January 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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Joint statement from the International Association of Chiefs of Police and Fraternal Order of Police on Jan. 6 Pardons. Read and share it with others.
January 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Joint statement from the International Association of Chiefs of Police and Fraternal Order of Police on Jan. 6 Pardons. Read and share it with others.
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“The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which, um, advises the government on Medicare payments, estimates that last year Medicare Advantage cost taxpayers $83 billion (!) more than those enrolled would have cost under traditional Medicare.”
Medicare is more than half privatized, and it's costing taxpayers a lot of money open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Medicare Versus the Insurance Industry: A Privatization-Driven Arms Race
Forty years of gaming the system
open.substack.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
“The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which, um, advises the government on Medicare payments, estimates that last year Medicare Advantage cost taxpayers $83 billion (!) more than those enrolled would have cost under traditional Medicare.”
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The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.
December 19, 2024 at 10:22 PM
The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.