Paul Rosenberg

I remain firmly convinced that Kustov's trolling on Bluesky to cross post to X about how he was just being the noble truth teller to his luddite colleagues about the utility of AI and how he was martyred for it, was all to attract the attention of someone like Tan.

I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14 How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research

This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi.

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This happened a month ago. Imagine if Clinton, Obama or Biden had arrested and charged journalists with doing journalism. But the msm just went along with this. This is how Germany ended up with Hitler.

fun fact: it's common these days, post publication of James Q. Whitman's oft-cited work, that the Nazis modeled their regime in part off of the example of the US. but the first half of Whitman's "Hitler's American Model" focuses on the US as a “global leader in racist immigration law”

Not to mention, once the Iran War is over, it will be the 10 millionth war Trump has ended!

Sure, Jan. This is why you guys are pushing the SAVE the GOP Act.

It’s refreshing and unusual for professional Democrats to fight so hard for their own self interest.

#bothsides do it... differently.

Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story Bettors are using death threats to try to get The Times of Israel's military correspondent to change his report on a missile impact in central Israel. This is his alarming account

Polymarket gamblers are threatening the life of the Times of Israel military correspondent and demanding he withdraw reporting of a Iranian ballistic missile impact in Israel:

These betting markets pose a threat not only to journalists who refuse to comply with bettors' demands, but also to democracy, from journalists who alter what they report in response to bettors' promise to share a portion of the winnings.

“flowers bloom no matter war or peace”

🧵'I don’t know what the endgame is from these messages....

But spamming seemingly informed and good faith questions of scientists serves as a DDOS attack on the field.'

Why fight one illegal war when you can fight two?

Sad news. Paul Ehrlich (the population guy) -- dead at age 93. Survived by his wife Anne, also a conservation biologist.

two thoughts: (a) these people are utter lunatics, and (b) in my oval office cartoons moving forward, RFK is always gonna be shirtless.

Just arrived at an analogy for the book that I think works: Imagining the world without the current institutions of the global order is akin to imagining urban life without traffic lights. The impossibility of living without them means that they would have to be reinvented.

The Politics of Personal Experience | Writing a History of Munchausen How should a historian with personal experience of their topics write about them? Exploring the author’s own experiences with Munchausen Syndrome and Munchausen

Oh my god it is actually out - like actually now. Over a week early! They snuck it out without telling me! lol.

Well, here it is people, and you can download the whole thing for free - thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social

Fill your boots: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

How long before Americans wake up to the fact that when Trump claimed he would “end the war on Day One” what he intended was to force Ukraine to surrender.
It was never going to be about peace or protecting sovereign democracies.

Today @skennedy2504.myatproto.social talks about how despite using the rhetoric of “rights” the parental rights crowd is engaged in a larger authoritarian project

Throwing women in prison for being pregnant.

Iran war an 'abject lesson' on fossil fuel dependence, UN climate chief says It underscores the case for governments to wean their economies off oil and gas.

UN Climate Chief Simon Stiell: “Fossil fuel dependency is ripping away national ​security and sovereignty and replacing it with subservience and rising costs…" (8/x)

#cleanenergyisnationalsecurity

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Historian here one of my favorite philosophers has died. His last book updated his public sphere theory for our times. As always prescient in diagnosing global authoritarianism today.

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened.

And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

He was super active on the Firefly message board for years after the show ended, primarily ime to convert people to his Islamophobic neo-con bullshit

He also lost his shit with @jkass99.bsky.social when he pointed out Baldwin had never actually served in the military.

I still remember when Adam Baldwin threatened to beat up Wil Wheaton at ECCC, many years ago. Baldwin is a POS that deserves to never work again.

Majority of Americans Continue to Say Abortion Should Be Legal in All or Most Cases | Pew Research Center A 60% majority of U.S. adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. This share is down slightly from the last few years.

Nearly four years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a majority of Americans continue to say abortion should be legal in all or most cases (60%).

Pourquois?? 🤦🏻‍♀️