DSG

So many pharma commercials seem to be about uncommon diseases. Hard to imagine that many MDs learn about them thru patients who see these commercials...

Google search is still getting worse. Smh

60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed – study Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds

60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed. Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ok I misread this maybe.. You're talking about maintaining an academic profile?

Klay Thompson only has six double-doubles in his *career*

#NBAsky

Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissal Sang Hea Kil is first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to the protests

So at SJSU, one professor assaulted a student and faced a temporary suspension, and Dr. Sang Hea Kil attends campus protests and gets fired?

There is no justification for this. SJSU is a unionized public university. These are battles we really can't concede.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is a quote from the article summing up both studies in Technology Review: "A multi-university team of researchers has found that chatting with a politically biased AI model was more effective than political advertisements at nudging both Democrats and Republicans to support presidential candidates of the opposing party. The chatbots swayed opinions by citing facts and evidence, but they were not always accurate—in fact, the researchers found, the most persuasive models said the most untrue things."

Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...

"The very fact that a place like [the u.s.] can exist appalls most of mankind. This country is the world's slop jar. America's very existence offends me"

- The late Jamil Al-Amin, written as H. Rap Brown

💀

Des was arrested and accused of moving anarchist zines from one place to another and needs our help.

"11 Reasons I’m Still Wearing a Mask in 2025” - a zine by @violetbfox.bsky.social violetbfox.info/11reasons/

Bootleg Rehab: Still Laundering Black Rage | Black Agenda Report DEI isn’t dead—it was never alive to begin with. A corporate pacification project dressed as progress, it launders Black rage into diversity statements while police budgets grow and material condition...

"DEI isn’t dead—it was never alive to begin with. A corporate pacification project dressed as progress, it launders Black rage into diversity statements while police budgets grow and material conditions collapse."
www.blackagendareport.com/bootleg-reha...

I'm in the minority here, but my decades-old strategy of buying MP3 albums continues to serve me well

We can’t have anything better if we’re gonna pretend the democrats are better.

Notes on Archival War Orisanmi Burton describes his approach to writing his new book through a methodological approach he developed called archival war.

Orisanmi Burton on "archival war" www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/6...

U.S. job cuts have reach 1.17 million this year, the most since 2020.

Israel is still bombing Gaza

The press isn't covering it as much but it's still happening

Hot take🔥: You do not have to be anyone special to wear a respirator mask to protect yourself and others from airborne diseases. You can just put one on your face. Boom. 😷

#MedSky

You might have kept your job… but if you didn’t wear a properly fitted respirator for every minute you were in the building while sick…

You might have sparked outbreaks and killed patients.

This is not ok.

I'm wearing a white drager n95 mask.

Still masking because we are still surviving a pandemic #😷 #MaskUp

This is *ALWAYS* the result.

Poverty and homelessness are choices, made not by the individuals suffering each, but by the society who keeps electing people who refuse to put a stop to it.

We KNOW what policies work.

It is a CHOICE to not enact them.

opinion headline: Actually, today's food price are a bargain

Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post are at it again.

"Bunny Reading Book | Cozy Book Themed Watercolor Illustration" Tote Bag for Sale by AngelaMarieArt This simple and sweet watercolor drawing of a bunny engrossed in his book would be ideal for the reader in your life (or for yourself!). As someone with a background in the book industry, I am a bit o...

If you have any readers on your holiday shopping list, they might be in need of a bag to tote their gifted books around in. May I suggest this one from my shop? 😉

The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...

Interesting investigation into a dodgy Elsevier journal -- with the additional nugget that the CEO of Elsevier's parent company made more than €15 million in total compensation last year.

english.elpais.com/science-tech...

A photo of me in a scarf, coat, and Flo Mask. I am on a public path in a wooded area.

PSA from your neighborhood artist:
As with any objective truth, covid is what it is, whether it's "believed in" or not. It will continue to spread, causing illness, long-term health issues, & death, regardless of belief in its capabilities & existence. Masks are an acknowledgment of this hard truth.

Sailor Mars shopping-cart surfing with the caption: if you see someone stealing food, no you didn't.

Hey.

I bought your art (on a postcard) out of solidarity with another covid aware person!

You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...

Also, avoiding am@zon, w@lmart, etc. is a self-imposed tax that the masses can't afford

He needs to stay away from boys too