Kelly Hills, MPH

I got in late last night. First thing this morning, I saw cars following an ice vehicle down the street, honking at it.

Later, we didn't drive more than three blocks before we found people defending a childcare facility. (The idea that people have to defend a childcare facility... let that sink in)

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Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

Meanwhile, I’d suggest students at Texas A&M—especially those who intend to pursue graduate degrees in the humanities or social sciences—start working to transfer to institutes of higher education outside of Texas.

Might be a good time to poach faculty, too, if you can convince your uni to hire.

*taps mic*
I think this works?

I’m supposed to be more social, more HIRE ME, more boggy, more 2013 me…

…but instead I’m going to fuck off to Iceland for a bit. I’ll try that other stuff later. Or something.

Sigh. I mean, the obvious answer is that we need to teach everyone how LLMs work — and for healthcare, it needs to be wrapped into CME.

People really don’t understand that it’s not “smarter Google.”

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Putin, Xi, and Me: Bioethics in the New World Order : The Hastings Center for Bioethics Bioethics has been a key beneficiary, even an exemplary product of the post-World War II international order, which is now undergoing an accelerated dissolution.

“Just about every nook and cranny of medical science has achieved a global bioethics presence. And this doesn’t even include what I call bioethics-adjacent institutions and conventions, like those for biological and chemical weapons and intellectual property.” -@jonathanmoreno.bsky.social

Happy book birthday, @jonathanmoreno.bsky.social! It was a pleasure and an honor to have a small hand in bringing Absolutely Essential: Bioethics and the Rules-Based International Order to print.

For those of you interested in bioethics, esp bioethics & history, this is a must-read.

Whenever I hear [person] wants "to inform the public so that society as a whole can participate in drawing ethical lines, rather than leaving profound decisions to a small group of bioethics experts," I look around & wonder if that person has really paid attention to society as a whole, lately.

FCC chair talks 'consequences' for 'The View' after Joy Behar's Donald Trump criticism FCC chair Brendan Carr talked 'consequences' for 'The View' after the White House criticized Joy Behar for saying Donald Trump was jealous of Barack Obama's looks: 'We need a course-correction.'

That was fast. The FCC chair admits Colbert was fired to appease Trump. “Brendan Carr told Fox News that networks will "run into issues like [Stephen] Colbert" if they don't check bias and continue to "run a partisan circus."” (All because Behr criticized T-Diddy.)

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Will Skydance Cancel ‘The Daily Show’? Jon Stewart Weighs In On Future Of Late-Night Series "I’ve been kicked out of shittier establishments than that. We’ll land on our feet," the comedian said.

And it certainly looks like Stewart expects to be next.
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The Paramount comics, Colbert and Stewart, are sharp critics of the '60 Minutes' deal Stephen Colbert returned from vacation loaded for bear. The CBS late-night comic referred to the settlement between his parent company, Paramount Global, and President Donald Trump over a “60 Minutes”...

But no, no, I’m sure this isn’t at all related.
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YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Stephen Colbert Announces The Cancellation Of “The Late Show”

I see CBS/Paramount has decided to kowtow to dictators.
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Will Skydance Cancel ‘The Daily Show’? Jon Stewart Weighs In On Future Of Late-Night Series "I’ve been kicked out of shittier establishments than that. We’ll land on our feet," the comedian said.

And it certainly looks like Stewart expects to be next.
deadline.com/2025/07/the-...

The Paramount comics, Colbert and Stewart, are sharp critics of the '60 Minutes' deal Stephen Colbert returned from vacation loaded for bear. The CBS late-night comic referred to the settlement between his parent company, Paramount Global, and President Donald Trump over a “60 Minutes”...

But no, no, I’m sure this isn’t at all related.
apnews.com/article/colb...

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Stephen Colbert Announces The Cancellation Of “The Late Show”

I see CBS/Paramount has decided to kowtow to dictators.
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Oh lovely. My big thing is that my craft room became a separate bedroom for our cat w behavioral problems. So even getting supplies out feels like it’s killing creativity. I should probably just keep my travel palette out and stop whinging. 😉

That sounds lovely. I’ve been working on incredibly fiddle little bits of crochet, and I think I might follow suit and just do loose watercolor flowers this afternoon.

Ryan is right. Most of the time, the classroom is either asking questions because they don’t understand the reading, or looking blankly at the teacher because they didn’t do the reading.

Even if you put instructions for a Molotov in the middle of your syllabus, most students would miss it.

It's how they've approached female constituents and some minority groups for years. I guess they're just... broadening it?

idk how you’d frame it, that’s for the pros, but i think there’s probably an avenue for “you’re not my fucking father” messaging for dems next year, because this is incredibly weird and unpleasant and inappropriate

Propaganda is the thing this administration does best and they don’t even do it well

Yeah this is the thing I'm told me and all my students need to uncritically embrace so they can get a job after college

You know, every time I dip back into CRISPR, I am reminded that Charpentier and Doudna received a Nobel prize and Feng Zhang didn’t, and I just SMILE.

(I'll post what I'm working on when it's done - it's a video about KJ Muldoon.)

It's pretty much the last place I expected a Phoenix Guards reference, but now I wanna go read his story. ...and dig yours out and reread them. (Now that I have that thing called "time" again.) I wonder how long a full re-read would take... 🤔

Now that the new Superman is upon us, don't forget to remind folks (repeatedly, if your family is anything like mine) that not only was Superman an immigrant, he was a refugee who illegally crossed borders to end up in the United States.

Silver Flame – Keith Baker’s Blog

When you discover your favorite game world designer (@keith-baker.com) referencing your favorite author (@stevenbrust.bsky.social), you decide you are having a very good day and you shut the internet down. (AKA go back to Hero Forge to build a Silver Flame ranger.)

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