@vjpsyverson.bsky.social
Paleontologist, teacher, parent, biophile, UU, intellectual omnivore. Topics: natural history, nerd stuff, surviving the culture war. Tenuous professor at UC Davis. Allergic to puns. (protogynous, he/they/Þei; Dr.) 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
“Just because [climate change is] not being talked about in the media doesn’t mean that it suddenly disappeared or it’s been wiped out of [the American people’s] memory banks,” says Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication:
"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is."
It’s not wrong. #UrbanTruth
Happy Tyrant Stabbing Day for all who celebrate.
Billions which Includes manipulating via media as a means to an end.
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If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
We are living in a hellaciously busy cycle of weather news (never mind overall news), but this one seemingly arrived out of left field. Half a million acres burned in just two days.
Why is animal print almost exclusively big cat patterns when these creatures exist?
I think about this a lot.
I know some disagree but someone like Stephen Fry changing his mind and doing a complete 180 after supporting She Who Must Not Be Named, is a good thing and is evidence that attitudes are changing.
it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online
I'm not saying this is not bad. But what this is, is a wish list. It's a very important thing for us to read, because it's a list of regulatory options that the people that want us gone think exist for getting us gone, and those are things to keep an eye on. But it's not an FDA proposal.
I will go to a physical fucking bank and trade these in if someone gives me one
stop ruining money
If any of us needed a reminder about why we should not start to rely on LLM’s, this is it.
They want to own your mind, and ration it back in a drip.
So it’s looking like @gavinnewsom.bsky.social / @governor.ca.gov & his admin deliberately sabotaged California’s Mask Ban on ICE.
They snuck a provision in at the last minute, superfluously excluding state police from that law, which is why a federal judge struck it down, ruling it discriminatory.
In keeping with the ancient Greek theme: operation Lyric Oracle. Because it’s being directed by completely unpredictable pronouncements that are more about metaphors and images than about literal meaning.
and that, right there, is how i think about genAI: not so much about the slop it extrudes, not even exactly about the harm to the people plagiarized from to make it, but that it's a trap for people with questions. an intellectual tar baby. a Screwfly Solution for communication instead of sex.
Begging these people to read my paper on how we should be evaluating evidence in a way that makes actual sense.
If any news outlets are covering this and want to talk to a trans Genomics PhD who specialized in human genetics and the evolution of sex, please reach out to me
This is complete nonsense scientifically. It's fascist eugenics, not biology
Setting a horrifying precedent for genocide
one difference: this time, lead author jonathan cohler is identified by his affiliation with MIT, where as best i can tell he works as a clarinetist: mta.mit.edu/emerson-harr...
just a normal clarinetist with a section on climate change denial on his wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonatha...
as i have said to anyone who has spoken to me for more than five minutes in the last few weeks: this is it
lol i assumed it was some kind of frat thing
One of the things that really trips a lot of analysts, including ones with real skin in the game, is that they refuse - absolutely refuse - to accept how stupid Trump very obviously is. He has no knowledge of anything, is incapable of learning, and only remembers the last thing to happen to him.
This is amazing.
When the government kills a crucial report, independent scientists decide to write it anyway and release it outside of government channels.
That’s science serving society, even when our political leaders don’t.
![screenshot from Autonomy News:
However, as QueerDoc’s attorney Paula Ramer pointed out, it’s perfectly legal for medical providers to prescribe drugs "off-label”—meaning for uses or at doses not specifically approved by the FDA. The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act regulates how manufacturers can label and advertise medications, not how medical providers prescribe them to patients.
In response to a question from Judge Richard Paez, a Bill Clinton employee, the DOJ’s Welch claimed gender-affirming care providers like QueerDoc could be committing “conspiracy [with manufacturers] to engage in this kind of off-label promotion.”
Off-label prescriptions are incredibly common, with different studies finding that anywhere from 21 percent to nearly one-third of all prescriptions are off-label. FDA approval is expensive and complicated, and manufacturers don’t often spend the millions of dollars required for supplemental approvals when their drug is already on the market.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4fdfjfnhhyeo4hsmoxpeazsg/bafkreigvuwggdbyqkkftx3uasemtbquux7rg7qqqlu4e3krd72v5eqcpl4)
A DOJ attorney claimed puberty blockers and hormones may be “misbranded” when used for trans people's healthcare and providers may be engaging in “conspiracy [with manufacturers] to engage in this kind of off-label promotion.”
Flashing light for off-label meds
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raise your hand if you know the answer
Really importantly - THIS 1000 page 'evidence' review, does not dignify a detailed response.
I will NOT be preparing a detailed analysis of every wrong step taken.
We need to instead state openly & clearly that this fraud is abusive and beneath contempt. That we reject it.
This could be your dream job!
PhD in ecology, and English and Japanese language skills required... working for POKEMON!!!
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the best analysis money can buy and they’re all getting circles run around them by “orange man bad”
Larissa, a therapist from D.C., recently spent 12 hours in a jail cell with five other people. There was no running water, since the sink wasn’t working. They were all fed once: a baloney sandwich per person.
She was there for her trans patients. They're being hurt by this administration, she said.
I've sworn off it myself but y'all have a good time now ok