Kevin Brown

Lactose intolerance is real though

Yes I started SwiftOnSecurity during daily rehabilitation in a stroke treatment center on leave from my job.

My life story is here with a bunch of pictures. It has twists, like kidnapping and a year in exile. (okay that's a bit dramatic but not wrong)
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getting frustrated with my Pictionary partner bc im furiously drawing a skull and he won't say "3"

The impact of the PEPFAR funding freeze on HIV deaths and infections: a mathematical modelling study of seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa The sudden cessation of PEPFAR funding likely results in tens of thousands of HIV deaths and new infections. These losses of life and health should compel the United States government to rapidly and f...

Projected deaths from cessation of USAID PEPFAR funding
www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
a 90-day freeze is expected to result in ~60,000 excess deaths

Imagine asking an alien to guess which of these two politicians America’s overtly performative Christians lined up behind

Chartbook 370: Is a "Treasury market unwind" in progress? Wednesday morning and the overnight fin-fi panic. (Part 2) A specter is stalking global financial markets.

Good explainer by Adam Tooze. Also scary, though he says he does not know what's up, and is not predicting.

adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

The NYT “Is Birthright Citizenship REALLY Constitutional???” op-ed is the conservative legal movement in a nutshell: “Sure, the law is X, but what if it weren’t”-style academic backfill for conservative policy advocacy. Dogshit writing, fantasyland analysis, embarrassing for everyone involved.

Imagine, after all of this, being the poor loser who has to file the motion to dismiss, your name being shit forever.

So You Bent the Knee and Were Banished Anyway: A Guide for Mainstream Media

Leadership of now defunct Circulo Health could probably help answer that - anecdotally at least. From what I saw there is deep skepticism/fear that the human expert can be replaced.

From a ‘deranged’ provocateur to IBM’s failed AI superproject: the controversial story of how data has transformed healthcare To understand the potential for machine learning to transform medicine, we must go back to the controversial origins of data use in healthcare

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Damn and now Drake is going to have to pay a 25 percent tariff on that beef?

Sharing @eff.org surveillance self-defense guide for you and your communities. We have PDF printouts to take with you as well as tailored guides for protesting, seeking abortions, LGBTQ youth, journalists, and other specific scenarios.
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Give not this rotten orange to your friend

vampire expert here again. if you're cold, they're cold. invite them in

"Trump waited to make sure that Bezos did what he said he was going to do, and then met with the Blue Origin people," he said on Saturday. "Which tells us that there was an actual deal made, meaning that Bezos communicated, or through his people, communicated directly with Trump, and they set up this quid pro quo."

WaPo veteran Robert Kagan, who just resigned, says the timing of Bezos killing the paper’s endorsement and Trump’s meeting with Blue Origin is too big a coincidence to ignore; Bezos and Trump struck some kind of deal.

www.thedailybeast.com/ex-washingto...

Life persists Ana Marie Cox on survival

@anamariecox.bsky.social with a must read, no paywall, at Flaming Hydra.

freakin breathtaking

flaminghydra.com/issue-158/

i used to steal pint glasses from bars and now i only steal tiny spoons and forks from restaurants, it's called growth and you, too, can achieve it

Rich Lowry Trump Can Win on Character

What the absolute fuck are we doing here

THE MEDIA: Harris has no policies!

HARRIS: Here are all of my policies.

THE MEDIA: Harris has too many policies!

The Washington Post fact checker gives the same energy as a man on the day you realize it’s best to just break up.

Hackers may have stolen the Social Security numbers of every American. How to protect yourself

I don’t know man maybe they can just give us a new one instead of making all 300 million of us read an article

Kind of ironic that TikTok is where legitimate discussion of Project 2025 is happening while the New York Times is where you go for weird screeching bullshit

Just staring at my law degree wondering why I spent six figures on something that turns out to be “just vibes!!!!!”

Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

Yes and emails on Sunday too

exciting to know that in an hour or so americans will learn whether or not we’re ruled by a god emperor

The less important Krassenstein babbling about Martin Shkreli and Baron Trump aged 18 teaming up to scam people with a meme coin

Feel like this sentence contains the worst collection of words assembled in the English language