Jacqueline Antonovich

“I don’t want clever conversation” “I want you just the way you are” 👀👀👀🤔🤔🤔

The Conversations Doctors Are Having About Vaccination Now Pediatricians’ advice on vaccination hasn’t changed. What happens when the government’s does?

A landmark study published in The Lancet found that global immunization efforts have saved an estimated 154 million lives over the past 50 years—which is equivalent to six lives every minute. Measles vaccination alone accounted for about 60% of the total lives saved.

The thing I don’t get about teaching students AI:

Teaching people how to use AI = a weekend seminar?

Teaching people how to use critical thinking skills = liberal arts education.

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I don’t think there is a day that goes by that I am not reminded of an old teacher’s admonition: “If the only history that interests you is the history that makes you feel good about yourself, you are not interested in history; you’re interested in propaganda.”

*war

(and yes about the Spanish Flu thing. Spain was not in the way and had no censorship on it)

There is a lot of disagreement on where it originated, but yes, many historians believe it originated in Kansas.

Throw in AI propaganda and we are in for a whole new level of chaos.

Black Panther Party’s Illinois history recognized with heritage trail The Black Panther Party Heritage Trail in Illinois marks 13 locations in Chicago where it the political group made history.

I like this type of public history project. We need more. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/02/b... [gift link]

Anyway, you can't erase the truth of things and people will notice. But when you can't even trust the math and the "official story," it breeds more chaos and conspiracy theories.

When I teach the 1918 flu, we read about how much of the news on the flu was censored due to WWI (Newspapers were scared of the Sedition Act). And yet, everyday people could see the death and chaos around them.

People could believe nothing they were being told, so they feared everything.

Saw a bumper sticker for Maine Public Radio with the NPR logo redone as “N P Ah” and I’ve gotta give it to you, Maine, that’s pretty good.

If Mounk and Fukuyama are all in, I’m pretty comfortable taking the AI denialist side.

Is this “the end of” thinking?

If you ever wanted to know if you were on the right side of an argument or not…

Francis Fukuyama Follow @frankfukuyama.bsk... The Peculiar Persistence of the Al Denialists open.substack.com/pub/ yaschamo... The Peculiar Persistence of the Al Denialists The history of the world will be split into a pre-Al and a post-Al era. Too many...

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The influencers have discovered okra

Oh? I am shocked.

I could not agree more!

I wish I had known about the liberal arts as I pursued my degrees in biology. A liberal arts education generates well-rounded, creative, and knowledgeable scientists (and doctors, politicians, etc). It's also why I love my job: I learn so much from my colleagues & students.

This Town IS Big Enough for the Both of Us! Author of a history of rickets book reviews history of a different rickets book

It's not yet time to launch _The Journal of Rickets History_, but it's nice to have at least one other book on the topic. I've posted my H-Sci-Med-Tech review of that book on my blog page.
🗃️ #histmed #hist
chrisinnermostthoughts.substack.com/p/this-town-...

Do you have a bad reaction to it? I cut it back quite a bit too (to no avail) but I have yet to touch it with my bare hands.

Why are child vaccination rates the lowest they have been in more than a decade? The World Health Organisation sets a 95% target for routine childhood vaccinations to ensure herd immunity and protect the vulnerable who cannot have immunisations themselves - but uptake in England h...

Weird how herd immunity is desirable if attained through massive sickness and death but not so desirable if achieved through safe and effective vaccines

Perfect example! People say Virginia Creeper is invasive all the time! When in fact, it's just aggressive.

An invasive plant by definition is both aggressive AND non-native.

(Not all non-natives are aggressive and not all natives are non-aggressive)

Gardening pedantry bot: using invasive when you mean aggressive.

Being a woman in the U.S. in 2025 is being a second-class citizen with no bodily autonomy and no pay equity and spending 10 years writing an essay about how casually men destroy women’s lives and not one day later, some fucker publishes a piece about how men not getting laid is a crisis

Masculinity reproduces itself through failure. The inability to be “man enough” becomes the condition for proving masculinity over and over again through domination and aggression.

I actually think it’s a good thing that there are people who devote their working lives to studying something that may only be of interest to a small number of people, who get on here with great excitement and say “I nerded the heck out of this for three years, I’m proud of me, read my article!”

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.