Dana Howard

The Billionaire Oligarchs and Corporations Profiting from ICE’s Deportation Machine - Little Sis A primer on the billionaire barons and corporate profiteers enabling ICE's deportation apparatus

LittleSis have dropped a new report and data visualization about the billionaires and corporations profiting from the deportation industrial complex:

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C'mon, Ohio! Speak up!

I love me some smoked fish and lox. BUT if it is a good bagel place nothing beats: toasted sesame with butter.

The quote-skeets are truly delightful to read. Everyone recalling a moment in college in which they experienced true inspiration, rolled with it, and impressed themselves with what their minds came up with. so many wonderful memories of learning what you are capable of.

I was working on the story and he just came out and said it

This is why I’m not doing age verification for any of these social media apps. i will sacrifice DM functionality on Bluesky.

I have helpfully explained what the hell is happening with abortion pills—the latest generic, the FDA review promised by RFK, the multiple state and federal lawsuits. Let me hold your hand on @thecut.com:

Scientists Just Reversed Alzheimer’s in Mice. Could They Do It in Humans? Instead of targeting neurons, the researchers specifically sought to repair a critical part of the brain that keeps disease-inducing toxins out.

Scientists Just Reversed Alzheimer’s in Mice. Could They Do It in Humans? gizmodo.com/scientists-j...

A kinda related story: My grandfather played the lotto every week and the morning after a draw he and his buds would go to the convenience store where they bought tickets and check their numbers together over coffee. Then word came that someone had bought the winning ticket from that store. 1/

Charlie Kirk bill sparks debate over teaching impact of Christianity in Ohio schools An Ohio bill, the “Charlie Kirk Heritage Act,” would require teaching Christianity’s influence on U.S. history, sparking church-state debate.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A debate is unfolding inside the Ohio Statehouse over a proposed bill known as "The Charlie Kirk Heritage Act," which aims to incorporate teachings on the positive impacts of Christianity in Ohio's schools.
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clears throat:

ADF once again attacks the studies as having biased sampling. There isn't a single study affirming LGBTQ people's experiences that the right wouldn't attack, because they KNOW the "perfect randomized study" they demand that tests *obviously* harmful effects could never ethically be conducted.

Colorado's lawyer lays out how ludicrous it would be to try to do some kind of randomized study ON CHILDREN to prove conversion therapy is harmful. We already know enough to know that there's no way such research could be performed ethically, and we know plenty enough without it.

Oral argument for Chiles v. Salazar, challenging Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors is set to begin

Me & @turban.bsky.social talked about the implications of the case in @jamapediatrics.com

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Hey fellow Brown alums, have you signed this yet? standstrongbrown.org/reject-trump...

Also some of the background navy service personnel seem to be clapping plenty about no longer being ”politically correct” at other parts of the speech so 🙃

Here is a clip of what he said just before: www.instagram.com/reel/DPcSIPb...

someone more electronically adept please post the contextual clip, you can find it here: www.instagram.com/reel/DPcSIPb...

Anyway, someone more electronically adept please post the contextual clip, you can find it here: www.instagram.com/reel/DPcSIPb...

It plays into authoritarian messaging when we post military brass clapping for pay raises (even if they should refrain from doing so) and implicate that they are clapping for the extermination of political opposition.

But *also* people have to be careful about reposting this clip out of context. Authoritarians *want* you to believe that the military backs them up.

note that the cadets were clapping in response to what he said JUST before this clip. I was curious what that was and looked it up, turns out he had just said he supports an across the board pay raise for military. that is what they were clapping about. And then he pivots to this.

That being said, military should not be politicized and that is why navy cadets should refrain from clapping in the background regardless of what is said.

note that the cadets were clapping in response to what he said JUST before this clip. I was curious what that was and looked it up, turns out he had just said he supports an across the board pay raise for military. that is what they were clapping about.

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint

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Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, former Director of NIAID, is Fired by Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy in Retaliation for Filing Whistleblower Complaint with the Office of Special Counsel

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Columbus City Council candidates Tiara Ross and Jesse Vogel spar over transparency, ethical issues The German Village Society hosted a Columbus City Council candidate forum and largely asked about topics close to home. The District 7 candidates used the topics to explain how they'd govern different...

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One of the loudest bells tolling for social science right now is that the decade of abundant data on humans is coming to a close. Whether you work on digital trace or surveys, LLM pollution is a serious problem, even while the wide roll out of LLMs creates an urgent need for social science.

This is true. In AI mode no reponses to question "Does Trump show signs of dementia" but long analysis if you ask "Does Biden show signs of dementia"

So whole AI thing is now Orwell-level of corruption and monopoly abuse just three years into its public explosive introduction.