The Precise Nature of the Catastrophe

It was fun being in the RML with you!

A hard one.

I don’t fault TikTok and it’s very strategic fawning. It’s not like they’re helping Trump be elected. The Dems have had 4 years to stand up against the TikTok legislation, but they chose not to in service to Zuckerman and Musk.

Thunderdome?

John Scalzi says (here on Bluesky) that his family’s policy is anyone can have candy who comes to the door since everyone deserves candy on Halloween.

One family took the whole bowl of candy we put out. They tried to take the bowl as well, but it was too heavy.

Greg Abbott is building a wall between Texas and New Mexico.

Update: The best browser A year later, I still prefer Arc to Chrome 👨🏻‍💻

I have Arc, but seldom use it. I think I may need to revisit it.

Worth the Time? A Critical Look at the Value of Twitter for Journals - The Scholarly Kitchen As Twitter/X stumbles once again, it is time to critically analyze what value X brings to journals and whether the effort is justified

“All of this raises the question of what value we are getting from X and possibly other social platforms. If we were to stop posting content, would anyone notice?”

X, formerly Twitter, tests charging new users $1 per year in select markets | TechCrunch X announced today that is starting a new experiment to charge a $1 per year fee for "new unverified" users to interact with posts.

I know. It’s something new every day. But who are these “new users” on what appears to be a dying platform?

US health officials propose using a cheap antibiotic as a 'morning-after pill' against STDs NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials plan to endorse a common antibiotic as a morning-after pill that gay and bisexual men can use to try to avoid some increasingly common sexually transmitted dise...

Good news about DoxyPEP. I got my doctor to give it to me because I’m charming. Now there’s a CDC guideline!

Don’t forget! Today is the day that the Feds turn everyone with a COVID vaccine into a Marburg virus zombie (because Marburg has always causes zombification)! Turn off your phones, and, more importantly, voting machines cause zombification as well, so avoid polling places!

Women pay billions more out of pocket for health care: analysis The so-called “pink tax” on consumer products may extend to women’s health coverage, report’s authors argue.

Bluesky won’t let me post without saying anything, but the headline says it all, really.

Here's the full list of Fierce 50 honorees, leaders, advocates, and companies at the “forefront of driving critical change across healthcare and life sciences.”

Fierce 50: Health Equity honorees Explore More Fierce 50 Categories

Not sure how I feel about this list. Not entirely comfortable with including anyone from Kaiser Permanente, since, let’s be honest: managed care is about limiting care. I’m also not entirely psyched about Mark Cuban. There are no good billionaires.

Rolling Stone cofounder removed from Hall of Fame board after racist and sexist remarks | Boing Boin... Asked by The New York Times this weekend why his book of famous interviews included only interviews with white men, Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner said the reason women weren’t there wa…

Listen to any classic rock station (or, for that matter, alternative stations), and you'll see that both are a retreat from women and people of color, so Wenner is just emblematic of rock music.

New Vaccine Can Completely Reverse Autoimmune Diseases Like Multiple Sclerosis, Type 1 Diabetes, and... Researchers from Pritzker Molecular Engineering, under the guidance of Prof. Jeffrey Hubbell, demonstrated that their compound can eliminate the autoimmune response linked to multiple sclerosis. Resea...

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Researchers at the University of Chicago have developed an “inverse vaccine” that can reverse autoimmune diseases as multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes.

It would halt the autoimmune response where the immune system wrongly attacks healthy tissues.

🧪💉

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Yay! The Motels’ albums have returned to streaming!

Old friends=a pot plant?

CHOP paid its CEO a record $7.7 million in 2021, more than the hospital spent on charity care in thr... With a $5.6 million bonus, Madeline Bell likely received the largest payday ever for a local health system CEO, an Inquirer analysis found.

One cool thing about the world's-most-expensive American healthcare system is how even "nonprofits" can be incredibly lucrative for some people.

But was it wrong?

The trailer mentioned “Buzzfeed” and I was immediately turned off. They went from cool to awful pretty quickly. But I’ll still see the movie.

Opinion | What Obesity Drugs and Antidepressants Have in Common The more misunderstood the health condition, the more we moralize its treatment.

TL;DR: Antidepressants are a legitimate way to deal with a problem. Obesity drugs are, as well, legit ways to deal with a problem. Stop being judgy.

It’s just rushing up on us!

If you sit in a public place, you’re either unhomed or hooking. Which is it, hooker?

No comfort to you, but someone I was hanging out with at Decadence got it, but I continue to test negative. Praise his name.

Looking for friends. My hobbies include:

-putting snakes in my neighbor's mailbox to help him overcome his fear of finding a snake in his mailbox.

-learning Russian so I can write authentic Crime and Punishment fanfic.

-editing Matt Damon's Wikipedia page to state that Matt Damon prevented Y2K.

Opinion | Not Everything We Call Cancer Should Be Called Cancer Calling something cancer can lead to aggressive treatment even if the cancer in question is unlikely to cause problems.

Gift article. Should be readable.

Does he?