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What if instead of tearing it down it was turned into the Michelle Obama visitor center with an exhibit on all of the minority workers over the history of the White House?
October 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
What if instead of tearing it down it was turned into the Michelle Obama visitor center with an exhibit on all of the minority workers over the history of the White House?
September 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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As we see ANOTHER huge drop in the cost of curing tuberculosis, I am reminded that 1. drugs are not expensive because they're made of platinum or something, and 2. the fruits of activism are often harvested over many years. Thanks to all the folks who made this happen. www.stoptb.org/news/breakin...
Breaking News: Historical Drop of DR-TB Treatment Cost Below $300 After Third Major Cut in 2025 by Stop TB’s Global Drug Facility | Stop TB Partnership
www.stoptb.org
September 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
As we see ANOTHER huge drop in the cost of curing tuberculosis, I am reminded that 1. drugs are not expensive because they're made of platinum or something, and 2. the fruits of activism are often harvested over many years. Thanks to all the folks who made this happen. www.stoptb.org/news/breakin...
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A proposed new rule would limit international students on F1 or J1 visas to stays in the US of no longer than 4 years. This effectively means that intl. students will no longer come to graduate school here (time to PhD is 5-6 years). You can comment here:
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media
Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...
www.federalregister.gov
September 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
A proposed new rule would limit international students on F1 or J1 visas to stays in the US of no longer than 4 years. This effectively means that intl. students will no longer come to graduate school here (time to PhD is 5-6 years). You can comment here:
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Hi! Do I know anyone in biotech or medical engineering who’d be up to chat with my niece for a writing assignment she has?
September 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Hi! Do I know anyone in biotech or medical engineering who’d be up to chat with my niece for a writing assignment she has?
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"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
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Unsurprising but horrifying. Wherever there are people forced into crowded living conditions, there will be tuberculosis. Wherever people are dehumanized, there will be tuberculosis. prospect.org/health/2025-...
Tuberculosis Spawning in Crowded, Dirty ICE Detention Centers
Doctors and medical researchers expect more outbreaks of infectious disease as the Trump administration crams thousands more people into miserable conditions.
prospect.org
August 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Unsurprising but horrifying. Wherever there are people forced into crowded living conditions, there will be tuberculosis. Wherever people are dehumanized, there will be tuberculosis. prospect.org/health/2025-...
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Terence Tao (@teorth.bsky.social) has written a thread on Mastodon about the impact of the federal grant freeze to UCLA, particularly to his own field of Mathematics. UCLA's IPAM (Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics) could shut down entirely
mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568...
mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568...
Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)
The current administration in the US has, through various funding agencies such as the NSF and NIH, has recently suspended virtually all federal grants to my home university, UCLA (including my own p...
mathstodon.xyz
August 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Terence Tao (@teorth.bsky.social) has written a thread on Mastodon about the impact of the federal grant freeze to UCLA, particularly to his own field of Mathematics. UCLA's IPAM (Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics) could shut down entirely
mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568...
mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568...
@hankgreen.bsky.social
I'm a fan and would like to follow you. But I feel like Mastodon is my internet home. Would you mind bridging your Bluesky account so that I can follow it from Mastodon & limit the number of social media apps I have to use? You opt in by following @ap.brid.gy here on Bluesky.
I'm a fan and would like to follow you. But I feel like Mastodon is my internet home. Would you mind bridging your Bluesky account so that I can follow it from Mastodon & limit the number of social media apps I have to use? You opt in by following @ap.brid.gy here on Bluesky.
August 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
@hankgreen.bsky.social
I'm a fan and would like to follow you. But I feel like Mastodon is my internet home. Would you mind bridging your Bluesky account so that I can follow it from Mastodon & limit the number of social media apps I have to use? You opt in by following @ap.brid.gy here on Bluesky.
I'm a fan and would like to follow you. But I feel like Mastodon is my internet home. Would you mind bridging your Bluesky account so that I can follow it from Mastodon & limit the number of social media apps I have to use? You opt in by following @ap.brid.gy here on Bluesky.
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
Working my way through your books & your podcast, & I'd like to follow you on social media. But I'm mostly on Mastodon.
Could you follow the Bluesky account @ap.brid.gy ? That's how you opt in to having your posts "bridged" so I can follow you from Mastodon!
Working my way through your books & your podcast, & I'd like to follow you on social media. But I'm mostly on Mastodon.
Could you follow the Bluesky account @ap.brid.gy ? That's how you opt in to having your posts "bridged" so I can follow you from Mastodon!
August 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
Working my way through your books & your podcast, & I'd like to follow you on social media. But I'm mostly on Mastodon.
Could you follow the Bluesky account @ap.brid.gy ? That's how you opt in to having your posts "bridged" so I can follow you from Mastodon!
Working my way through your books & your podcast, & I'd like to follow you on social media. But I'm mostly on Mastodon.
Could you follow the Bluesky account @ap.brid.gy ? That's how you opt in to having your posts "bridged" so I can follow you from Mastodon!
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Hypothesis: modern newspaper Opinion sections generate short-term revenue via hate-clicks on Controversial Takes, but those same takes negatively impact long-term subscriber numbers.
Unfortunately, the former is easily measurable via online analytics tools but the latter is much harder to suss out.
Unfortunately, the former is easily measurable via online analytics tools but the latter is much harder to suss out.
Speaking for myself, the reason why WaPo & NYT subscription numbers have gone from 2 -> 0 in the last 8 years is not because I care any less about politics, but because both started publishing anti-trans opinion pieces and treating fascists with kid gloves even in the "actual news" sections.
There'a been a lot of media talk about how "the Resistance is dead" for which the evidence is Dem electeds aren't fighting and cable news and WaPo/NYT subscription numbers are down.
We should not overread into this one result, but consider: those might be the last Resistance's metrics.
We should not overread into this one result, but consider: those might be the last Resistance's metrics.
January 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Hypothesis: modern newspaper Opinion sections generate short-term revenue via hate-clicks on Controversial Takes, but those same takes negatively impact long-term subscriber numbers.
Unfortunately, the former is easily measurable via online analytics tools but the latter is much harder to suss out.
Unfortunately, the former is easily measurable via online analytics tools but the latter is much harder to suss out.
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Also, did you know you can make your BlueSky posts visible to people on Mastodon simply by following @ap.brid.gy ?
No other steps. Just follow that account.
If anyone does it, please let me know by leaving a reply to this post so I can follow you from Mastodon 😊
No other steps. Just follow that account.
If anyone does it, please let me know by leaving a reply to this post so I can follow you from Mastodon 😊
February 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Also, did you know you can make your BlueSky posts visible to people on Mastodon simply by following @ap.brid.gy ?
No other steps. Just follow that account.
If anyone does it, please let me know by leaving a reply to this post so I can follow you from Mastodon 😊
No other steps. Just follow that account.
If anyone does it, please let me know by leaving a reply to this post so I can follow you from Mastodon 😊