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@waltfrench.bsky.social

Retired from investing; not retired from scientific-type software exploration. Also enjoying being Grandpa

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I tweeted this out... *last decade*.

Go back and look at your copy of Proof of Conspiracy (Macmillan, 2019) to see how what is happening today came to pass.

28.02.2026 19:12 — 👍 524    🔁 212    💬 12    📌 9

Trump’s grabbing the medallion and putting it on signifies that he, not FIFA is the power. Just as Napoleon didn’t want to share power with the Church

“Napoleon turned and removed his laurel wreath and crowned himself and then crowned the kneeling Josephine …”

28.02.2026 17:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
28.02.2026 15:04 — 👍 8728    🔁 1762    💬 127    📌 113

War is the answer!

What was the question again?

28.02.2026 17:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Assemble the Board of Peace - I'm starting a war".

28.02.2026 08:28 — 👍 14522    🔁 3272    💬 415    📌 123
Screen capture of 2 replies to me. First is “Fair point let’s dive into something more meaningful. What specific changes or actions do you think would make a real impact in addressing the issues at hand?”

Screen capture of 2 replies to me. First is “Fair point let’s dive into something more meaningful. What specific changes or actions do you think would make a real impact in addressing the issues at hand?”

I haven’t seen much of this zero-involvement posting on BlueSky so I’m tempted to write it off as AI slop

But TBH, all the AI slop I see is about 10 times more engaging than whatever this is

28.02.2026 17:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Save doubly! People shouldn’t eat more than ONE OR TWO quarter-pounders’ worth a week. People who like beef will be cutting back on it a bunch if they take his suggestion*

* NOT advice. RFKJr does NOT give advice bc he’d be sued off the planet if he claimed he was saying anything people oughta do

27.02.2026 22:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The ☞right☜ to vote was important in WW2 when we 🇺🇸 needed everyone’s patriotism. Yet it took 22yrs for that right to be put into the Constitution

Today, MAGA wants to OVERTURN the Constitution & demand citizens buy an ID many don’t otherwise need, JUST in order to vote

MAGA is ANTI-American

27.02.2026 22:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

…even simple fraud

An honest Surgeon General would say Science hasn’t yet 100% ID’d autism’s cause but parents should vaccinate their kids, not be panicked by dogma & lies

😏Maybe that sort of integrity can’t get you nominated; anybody Trump puts up will promise to do his😖bidding, not Americans’

27.02.2026 20:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Clip from POLITICO about the Means hearing:

“One of hearing’s tensest moments came when Cassidy, a liver doctor, grilled Means on whether she thinks vaccines are tied to rising autism rates. Means didn’t rule out a link.
‘We do not know what, as a medical community, causes autism,’ Means said, adding that ‘we should not leave any stones unturned’.”

Clip from POLITICO about the Means hearing: “One of hearing’s tensest moments came when Cassidy, a liver doctor, grilled Means on whether she thinks vaccines are tied to rising autism rates. Means didn’t rule out a link. ‘We do not know what, as a medical community, causes autism,’ Means said, adding that ‘we should not leave any stones unturned’.”

…from the Surgeon General

She ignores how genetic and pre-natal factor-based models predict something like an 8-fold higher risk of autism

A positive link to vaccines has repeatedly NOT been found in MANY high-volume trials; claims of links are based on low-quality stats, tendentious assumptions…

27.02.2026 20:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Opinion | I Grew Up Unvaccinated. Now I’m an Immunologist.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/o... [🎁] shows why Dr Means is the WRONG person to be our Surgeon General

Means’s weasel-worded testimony—not denouncing, not even distancing herself from RFKJr’s fear-mongering—shows she can’t be trusted to give us the truth that we deserve and have come to expect…

27.02.2026 20:05 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Clip from Krugman article, highlighting “Source: Author’s imagination”

Clip from Krugman article, highlighting “Source: Author’s imagination”

“When my mind changes, I change the facts. What do you do, sir?”

Keynes joking aside, an interesting, if wonky story

open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

26.02.2026 20:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just heard a “debate” betw Paul Offit & Dr Mike about engaging w misinfo on public forums

Dr Mike said his practice used to have a policy to fire clients (w 60?-day notice) who didn’t vaccinate their kids

And now regrets losing the chance to engage/relate to folks who didn’t get it right away

FYI

26.02.2026 01:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

But if the President declares it’s his job to fuck everyone, SCOTUS has declared we gotta let this slide—unlike his victims, he’s untouchable

25.02.2026 22:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Almost as if this administration’s minions are shielding criminals who assault women

Amirite, only Congress could compel Trump’s minions to testify under oath, as to which of the so-called law-enforcement officers were involved? Or could individuals file FOIA requests for bodycam footage, etc?

24.02.2026 22:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Boy that’s weird

www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

24.02.2026 20:11 — 👍 2477    🔁 1012    💬 107    📌 59

What if the precursor to use was associated with “I [have|don’t have] a clear path to a successful life,” kids like me are discriminated against” or other quite rational worldviews that’d lead some kids to spiral downwards?

Love to see “intention to treat” adjustments to expand on this work

24.02.2026 04:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I found the study well-designed and thoughtful

All the more reason to heed the caveats, especially the risk of reverse causality or other confounders that might lead adolescents to heavy use, and not lock in on the association per se

The socioeconomic effects of demographics especially troubled me

24.02.2026 04:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Screen capture of Spelling Bee denying the word ANOMIA

Screen capture of Spelling Bee denying the word ANOMIA

Anomia: an impairment of Spelling Bee™ 🐝 (the NYT’s vocabulary/memory game) marked by difficulty or inability in finding the proper word and especially the name of objects

23.02.2026 15:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

22.02.2026 14:43 — 👍 13926    🔁 2514    💬 107    📌 136
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Anomia: a kind of aphasia in which Spelling Bee is unable to recognize the names of words in not-terribly-uncommon use

22.02.2026 07:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I’m not following the #Olympics much but am delighted to see the sportsmanship on display

(East Bay’s Alysa Liu being applauded by the silver & bronze winners)🥳😂

21.02.2026 23:28 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

My alter ego account?

20.02.2026 18:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

and if you say it, explain why you personally are alive to do so.

20.02.2026 18:03 — 👍 70    🔁 3    💬 5    📌 0

With apologies to Paul Simon,

“Area man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest”

20.02.2026 18:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm a law guy, not a politics knower, but "Trump illegally taxed/stole $175 billion from Americans" seems like good messaging.

20.02.2026 15:31 — 👍 1923    🔁 459    💬 28    📌 23
Screen capture of headline that the EPA has greenlit coal-burning plants to spew mercury—a “potent neurotoxin”—and other harmful metals

Screen capture of headline that the EPA has greenlit coal-burning plants to spew mercury—a “potent neurotoxin”—and other harmful metals

MAHA accedes to 🇺🇸 being exposed to a “potent neurotoxin” that RFKJr once made his name by opposing

If RFKJr had a microgram of integrity, he’d resign from this corrupt, exploitative admin

Hahahaha😒

That ship sailed when he doubled down on the lie that a preservative in some vaccines causes autism

20.02.2026 18:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Bhattacharya is different: a resentful malcontent☑️. But ☞installed/exploited☜ by Trump to do DJT’s dirty work

AFAICT, his Magnum Opus GBD, supposedly prioritized treatment for the vulnerable—but only resulted in deprecated care for everyone: no aid for nursing homes etc for masks, ventilators, etc

19.02.2026 19:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Clip from twitter: in 2016 I tweeted, “2013: Trump mocks 2-years-dead Steve Jobs for his widow having a life. Musta had lousy negotiators…a REAL guy takes control over women!”
…in response to Trump, back in 2013 tweeting, “So, let’s get this right. Steve Jobs dies and leaves his wife everything-billions of dollars. Now his wife has a boyfriend (lover). Oh Steve!”

Clip from twitter: in 2016 I tweeted, “2013: Trump mocks 2-years-dead Steve Jobs for his widow having a life. Musta had lousy negotiators…a REAL guy takes control over women!” …in response to Trump, back in 2013 tweeting, “So, let’s get this right. Steve Jobs dies and leaves his wife everything-billions of dollars. Now his wife has a boyfriend (lover). Oh Steve!”

Nearly a decade ago, I noted how Trump, fishing for misogynists and other malcontents (here, Men’s Rights types who hate alimony and the sense they owe anything to women they ‘relate’ to) spewed hate even before he declared he was running

Both the sociopathy and urge for power is fundamental to him

19.02.2026 19:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0