Sean Rafferty

A very good Watson obit here, written, though obviously not published, years before he died.

It’s never been easier to be a conspiracy theorist A mix of technology and politics has given an unprecedented boost to once-fringe ideas—but they are pretty much the same fantasies that have been spreading for hundreds of years.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...

That is me exactly as well.

Love this quote 💯

Ways to resist fascism. Drawing of a megaphone : once you have properly identified fascist rhetoric, don’t let it go unchallenged. Speak up when you witness attempts to normalize it. Picture of a book titled "resist". Knowledge is power. Learn, read, discuss about fascism and the ways fascist discourses can permeate culture and find its way in everuday conversations. Picture of someone doing a roman salute. Many hands are pointing at him. Laugh at fascists and their ideas. Take every opportunity to subject them to ridicule. The power people give them largely stems from sentimentaalinen of fear and inevitability, but they are all incompetent, insecure cowards. Picture of a button press. Most importantly, get involved in your community. Find roles for yourself and others. You might not topple a fascist government today, but you can find purpose and strength to live to fight another day.

Ways to resist fascism

Nothing’s stopping me besides me.

Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable | Radboud University Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes ...

‘There will never be enough computing power to create AGI using machine learning that can do the same [as human cognition], because we’d run out of natural resources long before we'd even get close,’
— @olivia.science

www.ru.nl/en/research/...

“Vote purple: we’re just so embarrassed”

Got x2 vaxed yesterday (flu and covid), woke up at 7 am with a sore arm and did laundry. Trust the science. Vaccines cause clean clothes.

The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans Diverse forms of Homo coexisted during the Middle Pleistocene. Whether these fossil humans represent different species or clades is debated. The ~1-million-year-old Yunxian 2 fossil from China is impo...

The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

These fools are going to kill a lot of people.

You’ll have to chew off the arm.

This will likely be the pattern, vaccines available in blue states only. Some dems will likely be smug about that, but I suggest they consider sick and dead kids in red states first.

So, Pre-Crime? And what exact is meant by “Israeli grade ontology”?

Fox News Guest Sparks Outrage With Dystopian Solution For Preventing Mass Shootings

Anything except gun control.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines The chaos at the CDC in the wake of last week's firing of its Director and the resignations of four senior officials is fallout from the latest skirmish in RFK Jr.'s war against vaccines. Make no mist

The chaos at the CDC in the wake of last week’s firing of its Director and the resignations of four senior officials is fallout from the latest skirmish in RFK Jr.’s war against vaccines. Make no mistake, RFK Jr. is working hard to take away your vaccines, if he can. Here’s a progress report.

“Wellness has come to represent a wonderland free from constraints of scientific scrutiny. The industry flows with pseudoscience & to say it’s lucrative would be an understatement…The term has morphed into dollar signs, drawing us into a never-ending cycle of treating problems we didn’t know we had”

Also, right-wing domestic terrorism far outnumbers left-wing. Don't let the right-wingers control the message.

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That’s so much worse than just being a mindless stooge.

Spot on!

Crisis within CDC is spilling into real world, experts say "I’ve never heard as many colleagues saying things like 'CDC is dead’ as I have today," an agency employee told STAT.

someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

This is a great read.

#scicomm.

🦝

That was the working title of my last book (but the editor talked me out of it).

Good for her, and for Boston.

Humans think — AI, not so much. Science explains why our brains aren't just fancy computers New research is revealing how specialized neurons give our brains an edge artificial intelligence can only dream of

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www.salon.com/2025/04/25/h...

6 and 11 are pretty tough tho. 4 is probably the most meaningful to me personally.

I’ve read his Book of Five Rings. Some of these are useful.

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter: body horror and vampires in the wild west Drew Rowsome is a writer, editor, musician and pop culture enthusiast

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter: body horror and vampires in the wild west drewrowsome.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-... #horror #literature #indigenous #vampire #StephenGrahamJones @sgj.bsky.social

This is what playing offense looks like: With ZERO fucks to give, Gavin Newsom is not taking any of the pedophile president's fascistic authoritarian bullshit. 🙌💪👏👊👇