Hey Cier-i! Hmm?

they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade

It’s World Statistics Day! 📊

We join institutions worldwide to celebrate this year’s theme “Quality statistics and data for everyone”. Statistics underpin all of our work. We’re committed to safeguarding their quality and providing trustworthy data for public debate.

I'm not familiar with the technical aspects of AWS, but I'm not particularly inclined to trust an American megacorporation. I also don't understand, if the issue is us-east-1, why it's causing issues in the EU. I didn't think the system was so centralized; I didn't realize that Signal could go down.

That's the real story here. Lol

Reuters headlines reporting outages at AWS

The perils of running large parts of the global economy on infrastructure controlled by a handful of big U.S. companies, part 3743

#Firefox is saved! p. 128 - bit.ly/466E6Co

"So, for now, Google will be permitted to pay distributors for default placement." However: "The court is thus prepared to revisit a payment ban (or a lesser remedy) if competition is not substantially restored through the remedies the court does impose."

That was my takeaway. Praise be! 😭

I think this was not designed, for the most part, with the current userbase in mind. I think they are using this to rope in new users.

Since Staten Island is already 78% in, I'm hoping Mamdani can hold his lead!

CFPB Workers holding protest signs reading "CFPB fights for you", "CFPB Protects Americans from Fraud", "CFPB Empowering Educating Consumers"

SBPC‬ & CFA: By shuttering the CFPB:

“President Trump and his allies are taking nearly $20 BILLION OWED TO FAMILIES and giving it back to Wall Street, Big Tech, and corporate scammers.”

protectborrowers.org/wp-content/u...

Tell your Senators to protect the CFPB: 5calls.org/issue/hr1-on...

Regulators Approve a Twice-Yearly Shot to Prevent H.I.V. Infection

Today, the FDA approved lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injection that's nearly 100% effective at preventing HIV infection...but its rollout is threatened by Trump's cuts to global health programs. Many public health advocates now fear lenacapavir won't reach the people who need it most.

bit.ly/4kTBJsS

The National Science Foundation Is Being Dismantled. What The Economy Needs Is More Investment In Research, Not Less The economic consequences of restricting scientific inquiry on this scale could be far-reaching.

"There is nothing wasteful or elitist about public investment in science. On the contrary, it is one of the most reliable drivers of shared prosperity—benefiting not just institutions or industries, but society as a whole. Now is the time to expand that commitment, not withdraw from it."

Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz prison President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island that has been closed for more than 60 years.

Is friggin' Eastern State Penitentiary @easternstate.bsky.social up next?! This guy lives in a TV show. I feel like there is no real strategic benefit. Just wants the headline and drama of reopening a famous prison.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

AP headline: “USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry”

RFK Jr. wants you talking about red dye #40 so you don't pay attention to this.

If MAHA really cared about health, they wouldn't be pushing tax cuts and deregulation for the industries making us sicker.

And they definitely wouldn't gut Medicaid to give billionaires tax breaks.

Decrypting the molecular basis of cellular drug phenotypes by dose-resolved expression proteomics - Nature Biotechnology Proteome-wide measurements of dose–response curves for 144 drugs reveal drug mechanisms of action.

Proteome-wide measurements of dose–response curves for 144 drugs reveal drug mechanisms of action go.nature.com/4a9lMs8
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I don't think this is always true, but when paired with political inaction, it often is.

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

Contribution of NIH funding to new drug approvals 2010–2016 | PNAS This work examines the contribution of NIH funding to published research associated with 210 new molecular entities (NMEs) approved by the Food and...

From 2010 to 2016, #NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA.

"The analysis shows that >90% of this funding represents basic research related to the biological targets for drug action.
Reduced research funding would slow the pipeline for treating morbid disease."

bit.ly/429dVZO

YouTube video by ContraPoints CONSPIRACY | contrapoints

new video
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Spiders play chicken by daring each other to dangle over our mouths at night.

Defenestration, but we throw them out The Overton Window.

Trump is scared. Let's take advantage.

Look at this ad.

Republican billionaires are literally running ads on Twitter about how Trump is not killing cancer research, because they're scared Americans will find Trump is killing cancer research — and cancer treatment.

h/t @jimsaksa.com

New survey data out from Navigator research shows the profound public concern and anger over the cuts in the Musk wilding spree. Unsurprisingly, voters are more concerned than almost anything by Trump and Musk shutting down cancer cure research (and research into cures for other diseases) in the U.S. 71% of independents says they're concerned or very concerned about it. 65% percent of voters over all. It's also something they've heard the least about. Here's the raw data for the poll and a powerpoint. And here's the chart on Elon and the billionaires. "Dangerous," "Power-Hungry," "Corrupt," and "Self-Serving" Are Best Descriptors of Musk and Other Billionaires' Actions Independents see them most as "dangerous," the job he is doing ao say they da greedy Oligarchic. American and inexpariEnced est lower across the body approve of * and "inexperienced" test lower across the board. Which of the following words or phrases best describes the actions of Elon Musk and the other billionaires working with the Trump administration? 2024 Trump Voters* Dem Rep Not-Strong Approvers Strong Approvers Dangerous 134% Power-hungry 134 Corrupt 131 Self-serving Greedy 129 MAGA Unaccountable Unelected 119 illegal Right-wing extremist Out-of-touch 115 114 Inexperienced Un-American IK Oligarchic Ik For more info, visit navigatorresearch.org n

ICYMI (especially if you work in Democratic politics):

Cutting cancer research is one of the things Americans are most worried about.

And one of the things they’ve heard the least about. According to polls from @navigatorsurvey.bsky.social:
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And not just 99%. Also investment from the NIH to the tune of $187 billion over just 9 years.

Really, we could at least make a reasonable attempt at not making more enemies. 🙄

Seems like Hegseth's Stand Down Our Defenses Against Russia order should be getting a bit more attention.

‘The Substance’ Review: An Indecent Disclosure Demi Moore stars in an absurdly gory tale of an aging actress who discovers a deadly cure for obscurity.

"Most of us see ourselves only through the eyes of others, through the stories we think they make up about us from the glimpses they get of our lives. 'I do not exist,' the narrator writes near the end of the book. 'There exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.'"

nyti.ms/41lMLOT

Why do we trust this Twitter user? Searching on Twitter, I'm not seeing any other depiction of this leaflet except for this photo. Has this been authenticated?

YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal The CFPB Won $21B for Consumers. Why Does Trump Want to Close It? | WSJ

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNhF...

When even the Wall Street Journal is defending the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), you know the Trump administration is WAAAYYY out of line. @wsj.com, @savecfpb.bsky.social, @nteu335.bsky.social