Jon Kelvey

I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible

I've long suspected one of the major driving forces here comes from parents with wildly unrealistic dreams/demands to live their own sports fantasies vicariously through their children. Easier to blame trans athletes - even better if you kid has never competed with one — than face reality.

Once you repeat it enough to make it sticky, then even his supposedly donating his salary to the construction works. "Trump is donating his salary to build 'Epstein Ballroom,'" is a far better response than trying to explain how he won't follow through and it won't make much difference if he did.

Hey, look at that! A chance to connect those focus group "kitchen table issues" Dems can't seem to let go of with the broader issue of unchecked corruption at the top of government! I would really like to be be able to hold my breath and know I will breath again here...

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

Federal mRNA funding cut is 'most dangerous public health decision' ever, expert says Many public health experts and scientists say they are stunned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for future vaccine develop...

The only somewhat comparable thing I can think of is when Congress in 1822 voted to repeal the Vaccine Act that James Madison signed in 1813. Smallpox continued to kill Americans for another 100 years long after an effective vaccine was discovered.

But this is worse.

One way you can tell Hayao Miyazaki is one of the all-time greats is by observing how he begins Princess Mononoke with a woman riding a wolf screeching to a halt right in front of the camera, then saying, "What's up? I'm Princess Jennifer Mononoke," so you know exactly where you stand right away.

We figured out to *cure cancer* (ref: last year’s pancreatic cancer trials) and the Trump administration decided “nah.” That a society could reject a cure for cancer is astounding.

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

mRNA vaccine development is a God send of technological progress and RFK Jr. is a murderous grifting conspiracy believing monster.

The Five-Year MAGA plan will, officially, glorious, eclipsed only by the next five-year plan — even if we're eating pet food and then our pets to get by.

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

The problem here is that a random Bluesky poster with 5 fake diseases can become the face of the Democratic Party while the actual president can say he's mad that Jeffrey Epstein stole his sex slave and he wants Barack Obama executed and people shrug.

Agreed on what the actual ****.

This is reflected of a pretty fundamental failure to understand what historians do, because LLMs do basically none of my job and are completely incapable of most of it.

But they have the ears of the people that write the checks, so this is real bad news. 1/

One lukewarm comfort is many of the companies pushing this tech for all the wrong reasons will also become victim of this. The entire PMC is at the precipice of a social reproduction crisis. The question is whether enough of a market for quality will exist to allow non-adopters to survive & win.

I've met a disturbingly high number of people (as in, 2 for certain), who plainly thought Earthquakes and weather were the same thing, or same type of thing.

Forget the Murder Hornets, here's the Tritium Wasps...

Plus, since AI slop is ruining search, humans have the advantage of being able to pick up the phone or drive to an address and get first hand information from other humans.

As I detailed in WHITE FLIGHT, segregationists in Atlanta absolutely loved public services -- buses and trolleys, parks and pools, golf courses and tennis courts, etc. -- right until they were forced to desegregate and "stolen" from them. They abandoned them and built up private alternatives.

With Emil Bove's appointment to the Third Circuit, we finally have some Nosferatu representation on the federal bench.

Feel like a lot of people are running for office believing that you can win an election by trying not to offend anyone, when you should really just believe in things and try to persuade people that you’re correct.

the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

Consider the almost certain reality that many stories like this are taking place right this very instant due to the recklessly expanded, veiled, and empowered immigration/national police working to fulfill Miller's fever dreams.

Opinion | The Elite Panic at the Heart of Liberal Attacks on Mamdani

“ @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s detractors don’t care about his race; they care about clawing back a century of civil rights and the multicultural liberal democracy that liberalism aspired to build. Conservatives are being honest about that. A lot of liberals are not.”— @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Trump is considering pardoning Maxwell for a crime she committed. And the crime she committed — not allegedly, but according to a conviction in a court of law — is child sex trafficking.

This is a case where "leading questions" are actually going to help provide the sought after objectivity news operations allege to seek. This question will be asked a lot, and it should always be phrased as "Are you considering pardoning convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell."

A M E R I C A

Just two weeks ago, things were looking somewhat, maybe, more positive for the News as word broke that Hearst, the media company with a giant footprint in Texas as owner of the Austin American-Statesman, Houston Chronicle, San Antonio ExpressNews and Beaumont Enterprise, among others, was offering $14 per share for Dallas News Corp. (Full disclosure: I worked for the San Antonio paper many, many years ago, and my wife is a former copy editor for the Morning News.) The Morning News wrote that Hearst's offer "was 319% more than the July 9 closing price of $4.39. That puts the value of the company, Texas' oldest continually operating company, at $74.9 million." Then word broke Thursday that Alden, owner of The Chicago Tribune, Boston Herald and San Jose Mercury News, among many others, was offering $16.50 per share, or "roughly $88 million," according to The New York Times. We spoke with Joshua Benton, founder and former director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard and a former News reporter, about the competition and who we should root for. It wasn't even close. Alden Global Capital's "entire business model is wrecking newspapers and just sucking the blood out of them till they die," he said. Whoa, don't hold back, Josh.

If you call me to talk about Alden Global Capital, I will not hold back.

www.dallasobserver.com/news/vulture...

if you had money and wanted to make a really really great publication you could pick up so may incredibly talented reporters, writers, and analysts right now

America's pundit sickness in one sentence: "The question for Mamdaniism is not just whether it will play in Park Slope or Prospect Lefferts Gardens—it’s whether it will play in Plano." THAT IS CATEGORICALLY THE OPPOSITE OF THE QUESTION, HE'S RUNNING FOR MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY, NOT PLANO