Caitlin’s Alias

The economy is collective scarcity management, and the measure of its success is the aggregate stress experienced by its participants; a failed economic system is one in which most participants are stressed over scarcity when there is plenty. That a few are very well-served is irrelevant to success.

US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.

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Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

The House Continuing Resolution budget “adjustments” for NIH are drastic. Here are some examples:

I can't think of a faster way to undermine the country than simultaneously firing government workers, cutting scientific research, rolling back protections on public health & environment, & cutting essential services. It's like the US was defeated in war and is being occupied by a hostile enemy.

Very excited to see how many more academic institutions decide, futilely and pathetically, to comply in advance with fascism in order to “protect fiduciary interests”.

A square canvas. Only the top corner is filled with Harings distinctive figures, rendered in Lavender, the rest is blank.

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
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Onion?

Buy nothing sell nothing groups are great for this

Noting: still up on RePORT

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Thanks to the students taking a stand for immigrant rights.

Best grant writing advice I ever received:

"Write your proposal as if someone from a completely different field will search through it looking for 100 banned words"

Add Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to the list

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Gotta be careful they don’t “gero” you.

"Bluesky is awesome now, for how long?" I mean, look, all things change and end, we will all die, earth will be uninhabitable in a billion years, then the sun will expand and destroy the planet, and the universe will die a slow death of proton decay. But BEFORE THAT, let's make this place fun, okay?

Seriously

Does it have to be repealed/revised by voters, or is there an enforcement amendment the electeds could do?

I really enjoy it. So soapy. I keep thinking how these glam foreign intervention type shows are really losing their gloss, though. They were never believable or accurate, but in the new chapter of unqualified destroyers in charge… the idea of a competent ambassador struggling with morality? Le sigh.

Thanks for your voice.