Shane O'Mara

USAID cuts may cause over 14 million additional deaths by 2030, study says Deep funding cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development and its potential dismantling could result in more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The ...

I regularly post updates on this story because it's an atrocity on an incomprehensible scale but people don't really talk about it
www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Screenshot of letter. Full text linked in reply.

Screenshot of letter. Full text linked in reply.

Screenshot of letter. Full text linked in reply.

Visitors to our country should not face a digital shakedown. @wyden.senate.gov and I are calling on CBP to reverse its invasive proposal to collect five years of social media history from travelers from trusted partner nations.

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

“Staff members at the United States’s premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages, according to e-mails Nature has obtained.”

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Two-speed Europe, coalitions of the willing, core Europe - all different labels currently circling in the debate for same idea that way forward is no longer at EU27.

But the how is important, and I think different people understand different things by the concept.

Quick thread on legal options:

I suspect they want this appealed to the high court, overturned, and then it's not their fault if it proceeds...

indeed. and parnell sq is not exactly shall we say entrancing to begin with. RCSI were able to build srugical and other facilities on Stephen's Green, and enhanced the place dramatically. their new buildings really upped the place.

and then people wonder why there are no houses or a shortage of hospital beds

My daughter has just sent me this … should I be worried?

Antivaxxer trigger warning: even more evidence suggesting shingles vax is extremely effective at reducing incident dementia: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
See also www.brainpizza.com/p/beyond-mag... where i summarise other recent evidence
#vaccineswork #vaccine #dementia #neuroskyence

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Province of castalia is not entirely different to gormenghast

I reread hesse glass bead game just before it. I'd give that a blast too

Wyb, am halfway thru 1st one... have put it down for a little while bc it becomes suffocating, but it is worth it

Surely there can't be any rain left

Count to one hundred. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog reflecting on a frenetic fortnight of domestic and international news, the state of the reset, the significance of the latest calls for 'proper Brexit', and the anger suffusing our politics: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/02/coun...

I cheated. I should've said what said this? Google Gemini did in conversation and a useless integration in Gmail that is making consider moving to protonmail or similar.
It's not wrong. But it is reflecting back what I just said to it.
So no, no insight here.

​who said this in conversation about useless ai integrations polluting everything?
"The "shake out" is going to be hilarious because it will reveal that these tools were built for a user that doesn't exist: the person who wants to be an expert without doing the work."

it'd be nice to see it nan'd - maybe an oily garlic cheesy nan

A growing body of evidence identifies political polarization as a risk factor adversely shaping public health outcomes. Our new paper explains how this relationship can be understood through theories of group processes and behavioral decision-making.
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Trump at Davos: How Democracies Lose - and Recover - Their Minds Why the Alliance Can’t Run on Courage—and What Cognitive Repair Looks Like Part One – the Cognitive Republic response to the past week What a week. I joked to a friend…

you might like my take here: there is plenty we can do - steady.page/en/cognitive...

Trump at Davos: How Democracies Lose - and Recover - Their Minds Why the Alliance Can’t Run on Courage—and What Cognitive Repair Looks Like Part One – the Cognitive Republic response to the past week What a week. I joked to a friend…

Trump at Davos: How Democracies Lose - and Recover - Their Minds (latest post) -
What Cognitive Repair Looks Like.
steady.page/en/cognitive...

There is a way forward. There is no way back.

#trump #cognitiverepublic #politics #davos #democracy #nato #atlanticalliance #europe #eu

Trump at Davos: How Democracies Lose - and Recover - Their Minds Why the Alliance Can’t Run on Courage—and What Cognitive Repair Looks Like Part One – the Cognitive Republic response to the past week What a week. I joked to a friend…

Trump at Davos: How Democracies Lose - and Recover - Their Minds (latest post) -
What Cognitive Repair Looks Like.
steady.page/en/cognitive...

There is a way forward. There is no way back.

#trump #cognitiverepublic #politics #davos #democracy #nato #atlanticalliance #europe #eu

Lesson here...

Another death in Minnesota The significance of the killing of Alex Pretti

NEW

Another death in Minnesota

The significance of the killing of Alex Pretti

By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Cancer might protect against Alzheimer’s — this protein helps explain why A molecule produced by cancer cells can shield the brain from Alzheimer’s disease in mice.

Cancer might protect against Alzheimer’s — this protein helps explain why
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
biology is bizarre and amazing

Yes. Amazing stuff.

Bad thought: will Carney's speech give a fillup to the CANZUK freaks?

Thanks Donald, Europe will take it from here The continent must strive to disentangle itself from the US

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