Isaac S. Loftus

Low key one of the worst anbuses of power ever? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development The Department of Health and Human Services plans to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.

FFS:

RFK Jr. announced "that $500 million worth of vaccine development projects, all using mRNA technology, will be halted."

In his statement, RFK Jr. said "we're moving beyond the limitations of mRNA and investing in better solutions."

Antivaxxers continue to despise and lie about mRNA tech.

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

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Team: I’m thrilled to report that Worlds Turned Upside Down has surpassed 100,000 downloads on the strength of 17 episodes. I’ll have a full slate of thanks once I return from the Emerald Isle next week, but for now, thanks for listening!

what is the most unique museum u have visited
for me possibly the ramen museum

Ngl socal has a bad rap. It’s pretty awesome

Congratulations! This is amazing news

Some exciting news. So excited to write about JQA with Basic Books, with JQDA by my side, naturally.

Beyond the painting, the post itself is a white supremacist dogwhistle.

Two capital h’s. 14 words total.

Those kids were planking 150 years before planking

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This is terrible framing. It didn’t admit anything. The causal relationship between what it says and the effects aren’t something LLMs process

Went through this with a cat earlier this year. Elderly cat passed away. He was a ton of work to take care of at the end but I miss him waking me up in the middle of the night

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Thank you so much!

I have some friends doing the same later this year. Do you have a link?

I wrote about Grok going "MechaHitler" over at X, and the need to view LLMs correctly: as remarkably powerful plausibility engines.

Their AGI marketing and the strong inclination to project human qualities to anything that can speak is misleading us.

NYT gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...

This is definitely something institutions should be taking into consideration

I’m confused…wasn’t most of the discussion about the story about the NYT framing and decision to publish itself?

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It’s like that every episode

The foundation of our society cannot be the generosity of the ultra wealthy

“Independence day is canceled because of fear of secret police raids” is really a level of on the nose political symbolism you just can’t make up.

Mamdani must explain his tweet from 1740 BC claiming that Ea-nāṣir had "high quality copper"

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