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Truth Socialってなかなかバカにできないというか怖いな〜と思うのは、あれ使ってる人って毎日"Truth"という名前のアプリを開いて、Truth（旧Twitterでいうtweet）を読んでるんですよね。

そこでTrumpが日々発出するTruthを読んで、それをReTruth（旧Twitterでいうリツイート）するわけ。トランプが発信する内容は常にtruthになる。

一般語彙としてのtruthとSNSサービス内の技術用語としてのtruthが一緒になって、"truth"という概念のインテグリティが破壊されてしまっている。

Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."

Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever:

www.404media.co/nih-archives...

Exclusive: NIH to cut grants for COVID research, documents reveal Studies on climate change and South Africa are also on the latest list of grants to be terminated, according to updated documents obtained by Nature.

Yesterday when I talked to @maxkozlov.bsky.social about this, I wondered which of my NIH-funded colleagues would have their grants cut.

All of them. Research on pandemic viruses has now ground to a screeching halt in the US.

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

US Measles Cases Grow by 25% in One Week, as Total Reaches 378 US measles cases grew by 25% in a week to reach 378 this year, adding to an outbreak that has already outpaced last year’s total.

US measles cases jumped 25% in one week, and Texas' count is now above 300. @jessicanix.bsky.social has more >

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Avian flu: Robert F. Kennedy Jr, United States Secretary of Health, proposes to fight the virus by letting it circulate 🤦‍♀️

U.S. blocks Canadian access to iconic Stanstead border-straddling library https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7489528 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43434925)

Gemma models are great. I tested a few small models that I could run locally over the summer (which sounds like a lifetime away). Gemma was the friendliest and the least confused among the small models. I’ve got great hopes for this one.

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.

This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

Not enough to cut funding. Now a list of over 20 health and life science topics that cannot be published by National Cancer Institute scientists without "oversight" (i.e. censorship).

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

Ending virology and vaccine research is far more dangerous than virology and vaccine research itself.

We can mitigate risks in the lab, but we can’t mitigate the catastrophic risk of being unprepared and defenseless against emerging viruses.

CDC Information, Datasets Disappear From US Agency’s Websites Key information and datasets have vanished from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s websites, alarming epidemiologists, other scientists and concerned American citizens.

Key information and datasets have vanished from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s websites, alarming epidemiologists, other scientists and concerned American citizens.

Tesla sues EU over tariffs on electric vehicles from China Decision marks latest confrontation between Elon Musk and Brussels

Tesla sues EU over tariffs on electric vehicles from China www.ft.com/content/178a...

When people ask about the image generator they should use, I point them at Google’s ImageFX for Imagen 3.

Midjourney is better for art, Recraft is better for workflows, etc. but Imagen 3 is just the easiest to use and most likely to produce what you want the first time. labs.google/fx/tools/ima...

Today is Martin Luther King’s day. What an irony.

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Still probably one of the best pieces ever written about the people who do go Nazi and what that looks like. This is from the 1940s but every time I read it the more I appreciate the game Dorothy Thompson played. 

New Year morning

📢 Sky Follower Bridge Version 1.4.0 is here! (Chrome only)

You can import lists directly from X to Bluesky! 🚀

Try this experimental feature and share your thoughts! Thanks to dftflowers for their contributions.

www.sky-follower-bridge.dev
#SkyFollowerBridge

Rather than restricting data to only the richest and most powerful (as reddit, facebook, and twitter do), bsky makes it available to everyone.

Personally, I think that's a good thing.

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Dog owners have 40% less dementia risk, while cats have little impact: Japan study
mainichi.jp/english/arti...

Sunrise above Delhi fog.

Burning sky

A bug’s life. Chilling on a rock.

Autumn sky.

Your regular reminder that pandemics are social problems, which cannot be solved by the products of biomedical research if the social infrastructure necessary for delivering said products is in fucking tatters.

Cat coming through a 📺

Oh no

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Stanford’s yearly budget is about a half or my home country’s yearly budget.

Stanford: $8 bn
Slovenia 🇸🇮: $ 17 bn

Stanford: 17k students + 17k staff
Slovenia 🇸🇮: 2 mio people