jakee

post-dysentery adventures I've become a lot more libertarian on this sort of thing, though I'm sympathetic to the critique of pay being substandard (as the amazon summary for this book alludes to) rather than being per se unethical and unacceptable (as regs in e.g. canada, most of the EU take it)

I don’t see any way in which social media was not a net geopolitical boon for autocracies, yeah. They can flood our information space with industrial scale bullshit, augmenting the already trust-eroding properties of social media and just block the shit at home. It’s extremely bad.

Pursuing Fair and Just Compensation for Research Participants: An Open Letter to the Research Ethics Community Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Ahead of Print, 2025)

"It is high time that the default question shift from 'is this payment too much?' to 'is this enough?' in clinical trials."
A new call to bring sense to IRB approaches to paying research participants. @1daysooner.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I was a hardcore libertarian in high school and am now not one at all, and it'd be inaccurate to say that libertarianism influences the actions I take/beliefs I have today. I reject libertarianism now!

i mean counterpoint, if the community is rejecting him and what he is doing is patently antithetical to textbook effective altruism (which for all its flaws is pretty famously a big fan of medical aid to africa), then is it fair to say it influenced him meaningfully?

The Upcoming PEPFAR Cut Will Kill Millions, Many of Them Children — EA Forum Edit 1/29: Funding is back, baby!  • (This could end up being the most important thing I’ve ever written. Please like and restack it—if you have a bi…

wait how do we know Farritor is an EA? lots of EAs are pretty vocal about their despair over the PEPFAR cuts e.g. Kelsey Piper at Vox, forum posts like this forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/BRqBvk...

“no one will remember who banned TikTok” i’m still mad at Twitter for killing Vine when I was a teen. They’re gonna remember dude

about once a month i experience a brief urge to restart BCT before catching myself and remembering that no, I don't actually want to do that. seeing covers like this is always a trigger :)

!!! (wait were you also in the study??)

The IRS crackdown on rich taxpayers is already raking in millions in back taxes — here's how much One case involved an alleged tax cheat who spent $502,000 on gambling, the IRS says.

The IRS crackdown on rich taxpayers is already raking in millions in back taxes. It has already collected $122 million from 100 of the 1,600 millionaires who were behind on taxes. Next year, the agency is going to start auditing 60 major corporations www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ir...

grim www.slate.com/articles/hea...

Text of Slate article — "First, Ivan Pavlov would sever a dog's esophagus and sew the loose ends to its throat, leaving a pair of adjacent holes that connected, by separate passages, to its mouth and stomach. Then he'd slice through the dog's abdomen, carve a hole in the wall of its stomach, and stitch open another permanent wound."

sorry, Pavlov did fucking what?

obligatory: i don’t represent the study or my employer or my mother who doesn’t like it when I swear etc etc etc

on Tuesday I’m gonna be deliberately infected with Zika virus :)

I’ll also be tweeting about it but honestly will probably be a bit more freewheeling here

because boy do I have some thoughts

we had a housewarming and the cost of admission was agreeing to take home one randomly assigned piece of crap we wanted to get rid if

I added a charity silent auction part where you could pay to choose which item you got instead

“In 1969, Dr Elisabeth Svendsen's decision to buy a donkey named Naughty Face would alter the fate of incalculable numbers of donkeys around the globe in years to come.”

“wow you’re not only a slut but a LYING slut” ☠️

I guess they thought wow this guy put the meds down on the intake form but is still ashamed and conflicted about actually admitting his HIV positive status out loud. poor thing.

it was kinda funny

I had to politely argue with at least two or three MDs about PreP circa 2016. They only knew of the drug as treatment for HIV and it took me pulling up the FDA authorization press release for Truvada to convince them lol

I like that this website does a bad job of showing the original tweet that's being replied to so your timeline just fills up with weird little snippets like "oh great, let's make babies even bigger" or "what about dog owners who need to use the bus?"

1) aww I appreciate it 💕 2) screening is to make sure it’s safe for me too! 3) I’m like 10x less worried about Zika fever than dysentery, it’s very mild for almost all adults — the real danger is for pregnancy since it can cause serious birth defects, which is not a risk for me/Jimmy lol

Raising Cane’s

guess who’s screening in two weeks to get Zika for a clinical trial!! this bitch!!!

wow i love federation and decentralization!!

living in Texas was a lot but I do miss it sometimes. you dont see this in DC

i dont even have 111 thoughts a day

how do people even have over 10,000 posts on this site already

i think that last one was in the midst of when i was feuding with the stalinist taiwanese american rapper from nebraska two years ago lmao

on the other hand there was this too