I write often about how private equity is destroying US healthcare. Lina Khan is a rare person who has used her position in power to fight back against private equity’s hold on the US economy. Very excited to see what she does in New York.
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Starting a new chapter at the University of Regina, in the land of the living skies 🇨🇦
Feeling lucky to have gotten a job that can hold all parts of my research and practice. I love both art and computer science, and I especially love that I don't have to choose between them 🧪
“The Trump administration is, for the first time in history, substantially intervening inside NIH to bring it under political control,” according to a senior NIH official who spoke on condition of anonymity. My latest.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
When a company files for bankruptcy, all lawsuits against it are automatically frozen. What does this mean when 1000s of people have filed personal injury claims against that company? My first special investigation for The Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
“B10-PR1NT” is a collection of 3D-printed biodegradable forms made from local bio-waste. The artists create vessels, birdhouses, and plant pots inspired by natural forms. The project highlights regenerative design and circular processes in art and science.
tinyurl.com/mr9me346
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29.04.2025 19:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This electronic instrument creates a duet from two heartbeats! My collaborator Emily Graber and I will demo it at ISEA2025 next month.
29.04.2025 19:07 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
The new issue of The HTML Review is here!
Twelve pieces of poetry, fiction, essays, and experiments, all of which use and explore the world wide web as medium.
The table of contents as always designed by my brilliant co-editor Shelby
thehtml.review/04/
When asked about trans rights and gender affirming care, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said that healthcare is fundamental without exceptions 🏳️⚧️
10.04.2025 13:30 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Three of my besties! So glad @greennoise.bsky.social is here to capture them 😻
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"Nobody will ever know how many women have been harmed or died because of abortion bans preventing appropriate medical care.”
Lifesaving treatment is being denied, delayed, or never discussed as an option in states with abortion bans
by @skirchy.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The circumstances that led me to write this piece are awful. That said, there is something extra satisfying about being a neurodivergent writer interviewing other neurodivergent people about the issues that affect them. 🩵
20.03.2025 15:29 — 👍 67 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 0
“[Private equity investors] don’t announce that they’ve acquired something. They often keep the old name of the firm. They’re like a brain virus or a cancer inside the body of this new firm. It doesn’t announce itself until it gets very late,” —Martin Kenney
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
RFK Jr. wants you to think that pharmaceuticals and psychedelic medicine are somehow at odds with one another. It's a false choice. The most popular psychedelic medication available is manufactured by big pharma. Read more here:
little-big-world.ghost.io/what-am-i-do...
Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do.
Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.
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If I were Canadian PM I would immediately:
1. Create a new $15B science fund
2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada
3. Immediate permanent residency
4. Citizenship after 2 years
Overnight a science superpower
One big problem with AI LLMs is that they don't know what they don't know. If the only publicly available information about a shady company comes from that shady company's own website, the LLM will simply spit out the website's favorite PR talking points no matter what you ask it.
30.01.2025 19:26 — 👍 40 🔁 6 💬 6 📌 0
It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.
Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.
Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
hot take: it's not "no code" if you have to write a yml file 🧪
24.01.2025 00:13 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Noise cancelling earplugs but for smells.
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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers
Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
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one red and one white box. the red box has question marks going in, squares and circles coming out. the white box has question marks going in, open and closed circles coming out.
working on some illustrations of quantum mechanics
18.01.2025 23:52 — 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0Thank you to everyone who replied to my survey about ADHD and food! I now have enough responses to share the results and I'm going to start putting together recipes based on them! View the thread below for some of what I've found.
18.01.2025 23:35 — 👍 104 🔁 10 💬 6 📌 0VC backed coffee chains Blue Bottle and La Colombe eventually were purchased by huge corporations (Nestle and Chobani, respectively.) Do you think their coffee is still as good? 🧪
11.01.2025 01:12 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0
The images appear to show search results on a platform for the terms "Trans" and "Transgender" under different tabs such as "Top" or "Recent." Both searches result in "No results" being displayed, indicating that no content or profiles matching these terms were found or are being displayed in the respective sections. If you need further assistance or analysis regarding these images, let me know!
The images appear to show search results on a platform for the terms "Trans" and "Transgender" under different tabs such as "Top" or "Recent." Both searches result in "No results" being displayed, indicating that no content or profiles matching these terms were found or are being displayed in the respective sections. If you need further assistance or analysis regarding these images, let me know!
Meta is now completely censoring searches for the terms "trans" and "transgender" etc. on Threads.
So much for free speech and free expression.
Software engineers of the world, I beg you.
Stop disabling copy and paste in password fields.
Sincerely,
Someone with non-human memorable 20+ character passwords generated by a password manager.
It am so thrilled to be a part of the Critical Coding Cookbook! This is an excellent resource for intersectional feminist approaches to teaching and learning code. 🧪
07.01.2025 18:40 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0*whispers* I thought there was already a free tier of Copilot
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