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Wade Catt

@wade-from-indiana.bsky.social

MD/PhD student. Interested in medical sociology, social movement studies, science and technology studies, and political economy. Views are my own.

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What could go wrong?

19.10.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
EXCLUSIVE: Flotilla Activist David Adler LIVE Hours After Being Released From Israeli Prison
YouTube video by Zeteo EXCLUSIVE: Flotilla Activist David Adler LIVE Hours After Being Released From Israeli Prison

Freed flotilla activist David Adler is live with Zeteo right now:

07.10.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 342    πŸ” 93    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4
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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

β€œβ€œThey dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinΓ‡elik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

04.10.2025 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 6431    πŸ” 3897    πŸ’¬ 217    πŸ“Œ 530
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Trump launches AI program to deny Medicare services Taking a page from the private insurance industry’s playbook, the Trump administration will launch a program next year to find out how much money an artificial intelligence algorithm could save the fe...

Trump launches AI program to deny #Medicare services

PreAuthorization

www.rawstory.com/trump-launch...

28.09.2025 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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πŸ“½οΈ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child.

RFK Jr. cut her entire division β€” yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua

21.09.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3042    πŸ” 1559    πŸ’¬ 96    πŸ“Œ 89

they need to wake tf up!

08.09.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

a roundabout way to undermine teachers unions and public education

08.09.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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25.08.2025 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Quantifying the short-term mortality effects of wildfire smoke in Europe: a multicountry epidemiological study in 654 contiguous regions Associations with all-cause and cause-specific mortality were larger for fire-related compared with non-fire-related PM2Β·5. Assuming wildfire PM2Β·5 has the same effect as total PM2Β·5 substantially und...

πŸ”₯ Wildfire smoke is deadlier than thought

A study of 32 European countries found wildfire PM2.5 raises mortality more than other sources, with deaths underestimated by 93%.

πŸ”— www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#SciComm #ClimateCrisis #Wildfires #AirQuality πŸ§ͺ

21.08.2025 04:53 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

Hey Paris, have you ever gone/considered going to the All In Summit? I feel like it might be interesting this year considering some of the AI hype is [seemingly] breaking

20.08.2025 02:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mississippi NOW!

18.08.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sunk-cost fallacy and cheating students are the only things keeping AI in business at this point.

Just look at how usage of ChatGPT plummets as soon as the semester ends.

07.08.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1537    πŸ” 508    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 71

Will you be at the ASA this week? The theme is "Reimagining the future of work" 😢

03.08.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wesley LePatner, a 44-year-old Blackstone executive who oversaw its $53 billion real-estate investment fund, was killed in Manhattan's mass shooting "We cannot properly express the grief we feel upon the sudden and tragic loss of Wesley," the LePatner family told Fortune, adding she was a "driven and extraordinarily talented professional and colle...

if you use AI to write my obit, I'm going to haunt your ass. you will never get a good night's sleep again. fortune.com/2025/07/29/w...

30.07.2025 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 538    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 26
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Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah A California-based company with ties to billionaire investor and Trump ally Peter Thiel announced plans Friday to build America’s first U.S.-owned, privately developed facility to enrich uranium in fa...

The first privately developed U.S. nuclear enrichment facility is going to be built in Paducah, Kentucky at the site of a former nuclear fuel plant.

The US government is now allowing a private citizen to enrich uranium, aka nuclear bombs.

That private citizen is "destroy humanity" Peter Thiel.

26.07.2025 02:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1769    πŸ” 1084    πŸ’¬ 147    πŸ“Œ 596

People need to go to prison for these stories.

19.07.2025 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4755    πŸ” 1511    πŸ’¬ 93    πŸ“Œ 44
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Mass Grave Complex (MGC) identification and analysis of Grave Site Candidates (GSC) #1 & #2 at CECOT. Textbook case of a very poorly hidden genocide site.I am a former mass grave complex and genocide site investigator with real-world experience. My expertise is in analyzing satellite and spy plane ima...

As we witness the Abrego Garcia case heat up, let's remember the other humans that have been sent to U.S. taxpayer funded concentration camp CECOT.

This report on mass graves located there shows we already have death camps.

Please read and share.

#CECOT

www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/...

12.07.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 9

Are they really getting rid of the states biggest social work program at IUI?? This seems political and not just due to grad numbers. Maybe in advance of gutting Medicaid their saying we just wont need social workers anymore

01.07.2025 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's the best method for keeping democracy dead.

01.07.2025 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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State Senator Mallory McMorrow just perfectly explained how Donald Trump’s big, beautiful bill is the largest transfer of wealth from the lower class to the wealthiest 1%. This is exactly the message that all Americans need to hear right now.
#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #KillTheBill #SaveMedicare #Medicaid

30.06.2025 12:23 β€” πŸ‘ 158    πŸ” 84    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

26.06.2025 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 11092    πŸ” 4445    πŸ’¬ 205    πŸ“Œ 737
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AI Killed My Job: Tech workers Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs.

AI is being used to justify firing workers at major tech companies, leaving those that remain to pick up the pieces.

AI code is being shoveled into crucial Google products, replacing trainers at TikTok, and worse.

This, in tech workers' own words, is how AI is killing jobs in Silicon Valley.

26.06.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1108    πŸ” 427    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 52
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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuation | TechCrunch Thinking Machines Lab, the secretive AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati, has closed a $2 billion seed round at a $10 billion valuation.

You thought the dot com bubble where people raised millions on PPT slides was ridiculous? Welcome to the age of unbridled AI Hype where Sutskever gets $2B to promise not to release "superintelligence" & Murati gets $2 BILLION to...?

Sure. Its definitely not a bubble.

techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/m...

25.06.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 198    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 5
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Opinion | Trump is in danger of repeating Bush’s Middle East mistakes A U.S. strike on Iran could easily spiral into another forever war that Americans on both the left and right broadly oppose.

"Getting involved in this war would be folly on a monumental scale," @mattduss.bsky.social and @sohrabahmari.bsky.social write. wapo.st/4lb5jKB

21.06.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pope Leo condemns US bombing Iran

23.06.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 9921    πŸ” 2596    πŸ’¬ 165    πŸ“Œ 132

If only Noam Chomsky and Ed Herman would have written a book predicting this media behavior 37 years ago that we could have learned from!

22.06.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

lapdogs of the empire at it again

22.06.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Interesting: Pretty broad and bipartisan support for negotiating with Iran in new YouGov poll

19.06.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 120    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 4
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Alaska just issued its first-ever heat advisory. Here’s why. For the first time, the state known for glaciers, dogsledding and northern lights issued a heat advisory, with Fairbanks pushing the mid-80s.

This seems bad

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

16.06.2025 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 709    πŸ” 163    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 8

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