Ed Sperr

Was he really convinced of all this? Or was it an act? Who can say? It's also hard to say that it matters...

Doctor Who Compared Pandemic Restrictions to Nazi Germany Gains Keys to the Vaccine Vault In the media’s rush to cover the nomination of Casey Means to the position of Surgeon General, one important name was neglected. Means, of course, deserves scrutiny as the co-shepherd of the Make Amer...

So, to call him "fringe" maybe an exaggeration, but the reason he got the gig in the first place was because of his anti-Covid-restriction activism: www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

The *main* problem is that they're nutjobs. But it also doesn't help that they're also utterly unqualified to manage anything....

May a love like this never find me.

a graphic showing the pantone numbers for the two core colors of the toronto blue jays. they are skydome blue (pantone 293) and Stieb Navy (pantone 282)

a hat and canvas tote with the pantone number for Dodger Blue (294 C)

I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.

Guy who talks about "reëntering the political discourse by publicly urging those on the Left to coöperate to reëlect Democratic members of Congress"

The New York Post is owned by Lachlan Murdoch, solely because his daddy bought it and passed it on to him.

And it's backing Andrew Cuomo, a meathead whose whole career in politics stems from his daddy being good at it.

But *Mamdani* is the nepo baby, because his mom was a filmmaker? Sure.

#MedLibs here’s a new job at the Walton School of Medicine in Bentonville AR. Unfortunately I didn’t see a salary, but since it’s the Waltons, ask for TOP DOLLAR!!!

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I think a lot about how senior leadership in academia now is even more focused on running things "like a business" but then want to keep the increasingly under resourced infrastructure and low pay of a nonprofit. You don't get both.

Threat to US vaccines as CDC staff supporting key advisory panel laid off Critics say scientists ‘held hostage’ by RFK Jr as changes mean vaccine development and guidance in peril

I haven't seen this reported elsewhere: The ACIP support staff is "gone."

“It’s like the operating system for the advisory committee is gone,” said @drdemetre.bsky.social. “The hardware is there, the software is there” – but there’s no way to make the system run.
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This implies that there is a medical file someplace that is documenting his MoCA scores over time.

I mean, the way in which *every* thing they claimed about Biden's cognitive capacity (and the way everyone around him was supposedly covering it up) is actually *true* this time...

"i took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, found it difficult, and badly understood what i was being asked to do" is not a great sign

so, i am glad tech outlets are reporting on it, but the kind of person who didn’t understand that an openAI browser would mine and use your browsing data is probably also not going to read an article about it

Mike Johnson has not heard anything about the entire East Wing being demolished and cannot speak to that.

Mike Johnson will now spend another three weeks insisting there’s nothing to this, he can swear her in at any moment, stop asking about it, it’s no big deal, no, I won’t just do it, shut up, that’s why

there are good & worthwhile historical & legal arguments for why the unitary executive is nonsense but to my mind the most straightforward argument is that it makes no logical sense that the president has absolute removal power over the people whose job it is to keep the executive branch accountable

A hotdog and pretzel stand with large hanging bottles of mustard, ketchup, and mayonnaise. The bottoms contain squeeze tubes to dispense the condiments.

I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport.

Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?

But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.

Two More Colleges—Arizona and USC—Reject Trump Trans Bathroom Ban Compact The universities are the latest in a series of institutions that are refusing to comply with Trump's threats to target tarns people.

1. Two more colleges announce they will reject Trump's bribe to institute trans sports and bathroom bans.

Arizona and USC have rejected Trump's "compact," which features crackdowns on immigrants, trans people, and DEI.

They join MIT, Dartmouth, and Virginia.

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Rich the shovel, looking dashing. He has no bad side.

As an example, here is our archives mascot, Rich (short for Richardson Hall Biology and Biochemistry Wing Dedication Shovel).

National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Desirable Characteristics of Data Repositories for Federally Funded Research [pdf] bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/u... #MDLS25

I, for one, am tired of living in a lesser Tom Wolfe novel.

This hits a lot of the notes I've been shouting from the rooftops: the frictionlessness of both producing and consuming slop, and the value of labor as friction that lets us slow down and think. Rather than "unlocking creativity" it's rendering our collective creativity down into a big vat of slop.

This is genuinely gut-wrenching. Anyone associated w this structure knows the endless ranks of people, over the decades, who have treated the structure and surroundings w respect—since they were symbols for traditions of America as a whole

Too apt a metaphor for Trump and US institutions overall

But also, just don't...ever do that? It feels like the flip-side of parasociality, this notion that you should get any kind of say over what someone else talks about.

If someone is a stranger, you have no place doing it. If someone is a close colleague, you *still* probably shouldn't.

Over 1000 terms have been used to describe evidence synthesis: a scoping review Objective To inform the development of an evidence synthesis taxonomy, we aimed to identify and examine all classification systems, typologies or taxonomies that have been proposed for evidence synthe...

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When you feel political cartoonists have been working too hard and deserve something easy as a treat

"Trump started illegally tearing down the White House" is a little on the nose, I have to admit