Jesse Zaneveld

Ezra Klein's interview with Philippe Sands is very good overall.

But I want to reiterate that the ICJ has never said that the definition of genocide requires a "single intent."

Nor does the ICJ's standard of proof preclude a finding of genocide in cases of plural intent.

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Tell the FTC: Hands Off Gender-Affirming Care | A4TE The FTC has opened a 60-day public comment portal—and your action and your story are urgently needed. This is a critical opportunity to submit your public comments in support of gender-affirming care ...

The Federal Trade Commission has launched an attack on doctors with transgender patients as part of the Trump administration's effort to discredit our essential health care.

The FTC is accepting public comments now — take action with our partners @transequality.bsky.social.

“And their last recommendation is to remove Robert F Kennedy Jr, secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), from office, calling his removal “the single most important step toward improving the health of Americans”

We're not in theoretical "they could come after sfw queer content LATER" territory anymore. It is being used to come after sfw queer content NOW.

Spread this around, send the article to any and every news outlet/content creator you can think of. The alarms need to be sounded

And KEEP CALLING

Buried in the regime's political takeover letter of the Smithsonian is the worst bit. Unlike exhibits, which are non-destructive towards primary materials, temporary in nature, and reversible, the foundational collections are irreplacable. They want to be able to throw stuff out.

The glacial lake outburst flood at Mendenhall is still just beginning and waters are already higher than last year's damaging peak. Depending on how quickly the lake drains, it could unfortunately be a record flood for Juneau. I hope residents have had the support they need to prepare and evacuate.

Nearly 500 rounds recovered from CDC campus after gunman attack: Officials The suspected gunman who attacked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's campus on Friday may have fired many hundred rounds, law enforcement said on Tuesday.

500 shots. This could have been a massacre. The shooter wanted a massacre.
It's time for RFK Jr. to resign. He has incited this violence for years with his anti-science, anti-vaccine, anti-public health rhetoric.
abcnews.go.com/US/suspected...

So. The numbers speak to the MASSIVE success of a technology with a demonstrated safety profile that has saved millions of lives. Logic dictates an education campaign with the facts on public display. Yet you do your best to sink the technology altogether. This is not about public health.
Bullshit.

CDC union calls on Trump officials to condemn vaccine misinformation - UPI.com The union representing thousands of workers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is calling on the Trump administration to condemn vaccine disinformation.

"Early reports indicate the gunman was motivated by vaccine disinformation, which continues to pose a dangerous threat to public health and safety. An unequivocal stance in condemning vaccine disinformation is required by leadership such as Secretary Kennedy."
www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...

Opinion | Jay Bhattacharya: Why the NIH is pivoting away from mRNA vaccines As a vaccine for broad public use, mRNA technology has failed to earn the public’s trust.

I cannot emphasize enough that the playbook being used against mRNA vaccines (and vaccines in general) is IDENTICAL to the playbook used to restrict voting rights after the 2020 election: actively sow public distrust, then cite the distrust you sowed as an independent reason for your desired policy

Fuck You, Make Me really needs to move to become the centerpiece of resistance to this stupid timeline.

(* This is in terms of practicality. Policy-wise, .

Generative video in particular is an environmental calamity;

for-profit AI companies should, at minimum, have to pay creatives;

& group harassment of women with image generation (e.g. on X using Grok) is uniquely horrifying.

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I agree smaller prompts are more useful*. For example:

Useful:

Give me 3 simple examples that demonstrate [insert syntax you are learning here]

Predict edge cases where [code I wrote] might fail, not already covered by [existing tests I wrote]

Extremely bad:

Calculate k-mers for this genome

The U.S. House candidates who moved the needle in 2024 Announcing our new measure of candidate quality, the Wins Above Replacement Probability (WARP)

Today Strength In Numbers published an open-source estimate of candidate quality in U.S. House elections. We estimate a traditional WAR number using a predictive model with effects for legislators, and introduce a new metric, WARP, which captures probabilities: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/and-the-mo...

Live Updates: Trump Orders National Guard to Washington, D.C., and Takeover of City’s Police

This is an authoritarian takeover, plain and simple. Trump is grabbing power like a dictator, and he won’t stop with DC — your state or city will be next.

DC deserves autonomy and statehood. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

8yo is now reading to two younger cousins over for the morning, all snuggled up on the couch.

Nothing makes you feel better as a parent than kids showing care and patience with younger kids and animals.

Deploying military troops to seize control of our nation's capital is sickening.

It is more terrifying because of the lies used as a pretext.

Violent crime in our capital is the lowest it has been in THIRTY YEARS, according to the US Dept. of Justice. www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

Myself and @chrischirp.bsky.social write about the systematic way RFK Jr is eroding vaccine access by attacking the US vaccine infrastructure: gutting oversight committees, sowing doubt re settled science, politicising ingredient safety, limiting access to vaccines and halting funding for research.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Such a fun project & massive team effort. We sampled tree cores my 1st yr of grad school then took a year to figure out how to grind wood… ! But we were amazed to find such a complex & unexpected ecosystem inside trees. And we’ve just scratched the surface! We explored 150 trees— 3 trillion to go!

My faith in humanity restored today by regular Egyptians -without anyone's permission- releasing plastic bottles into the sea with small amounts of food and little handwritten notes in them, reaching some Palestinians being starved by Israel just across the border.

Another horrific series of press rights abuses tonight at hands of LAPD.

Initial reports are 4 journalists injured (several bleeding), 3 cameras broken, 5 put in zip ties.

All in defiance of state law, a judge's order, and chief's signed order.

LAPD can't police itself. Maybe the judge will.

Case in point:

apnews.com/article/wome...

It is striking the extent to which 'good faith' has recently mostly amounted to willfuly ignoring evidence.

Because it's right there: horror upon horror openly sought by some, supported by many, & quietly tolerated by the entire public infrastructure of the right from Susan Collins on over.

Library folks & supporters: IMLS is on the chopping block again. Raise some hell. 📚

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New executive order puts all grants under political control All new funding on hold until Trump administration can cancel any previously funded grants.

New ArsTechnica story about the new steaming pile of Executive Order...

arstechnica.com/science/2025...

‘Horrific’: report reveals abuse of pregnant women and children at US Ice facilities Report from senator Jon Ossoff’s office found 510 credible reports of human rights abuses since Trump’s inauguration

New report reveals human rights abuses in US detention camps, including:

-a 10-year-old US citizen child recovering from brain surgery denied follow-up medical care

-a 4-year-old child suffering from metastatic cancer deported w/o ability to consult a doctor

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Sugarcane burning is a plague on these Black Floridians “I like to call it 'structured' racism.”

Today I learned that when sugarcane farmers burn their fields, a “black snow” falls for months on communities downwind. Under FL law, burns are prohibited when the wind is blowing into wealthy, white neighborhoods. They’re only allowed when it’s blowing into poor, majority black areas.

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