Echo

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.

well a broken clock twice a day etc etc

Imagine sitting around a table dreaming about bootlicking

Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.

(seeing the president wandering around on the roof while the economy adds 3 jobs per month amid weekly pedophilia revelations) time to sign a billion dollar settlement with this man

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.

The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

Oof I strained my intercostal muscles in aerial rope last night 🥴 I'm in worse shape than I thought

Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.

One thing that doing creative work teaches you is that ideas are worth nothing. Anybody can have an idea. In a writers room you have to come up with a hundred ideas a day, and most of those don’t make the page. It’s the work of making something that gives it value. The patina of humanity.

Do not pay the danegeld

I cannot describe how fucking happy it makes me seeing journalists just pointing out that they're lying. Once again, if you're calling, bringing up these articles as why you're calling is a VERY good idea.

Why are they lying? Why are they refusing to process legal transactions?

Hey Americans, if this passes you'll be uploading your ID to every social media and website to access it.

A faculty member finally clocked that I was emailing them at 6am pacific. We'll see how long before they put two and two together 🤫

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

It's now a 'little' more:

143 people burned alive in a Tesla
(And I'm running behind)

PS: Nissan Leaf, on the road since 2009: zero burned alive
(Best sold EV model worldwide on 1-1-2020)

Someone is settling in nicely!

2004/5 ish? I got it freshman year of high school so my parents could keep track of me with my extra curriculars

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

Running theory is so they didn't have to CGI her hair in the anti gravity scene

College towns are company towns, y’all — and that isn’t just true of flagships and Ivys and such.

I will happily accept a sugar daddy if anyone wants to just throw money at me to make my problems go away tho

My financial anxiety continues to be helped by spending time with my budget 🙃

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

This thread (and the multiple quotes) remind me of something: it is a lot harder to build something than it is to break it down.

There is no “Democratic Stephen Miller” because turning off a hundred switches takes one person, but turning on one hundred programs is going to take thousands.

Remember that the main business model of “private tech companies” has metastasized into collecting and stealing mountains of personal data so they can resell it without ethical constraints.

No one behind this cares about good health outcomes.

Welcome to Jurassic Pork 🦕🥟🦖
#Delicious #Dinosaur #Dumplings

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Don't be wringing your hands about what's lost when you have the chance to save it.

Absolutely deranged to think spending 96 percent of your time doing activities with like minded folks you enjoy being around is some sort of failed life lmao

LeGuin wrote about the desire for 'unassailable safety' as one of the deep roots of evil, and I think about that a lot.

Snoozy boy