Jonathan Jarry

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

One more effort to politicize federal grantmaking.
*Grants must by approved by a political appointee, working with OMB.
*"Discretionary awards must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities."
*Cannot "promote anti-American values"
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

A recurring theme is the loss of institutional authority and the rise of "invisible rulers": not literal hidden puppet-masters, but the distributed, often unseen forces-platform incentives, crowd behavior, narrative entrepreneurs-that determine what ideas gain traction. The book also discusses how institutions can adapt, the role of transparency, and the risks when participatory media is exploited by bad actors. If you'd like, I can give you a chapter-by-chapter breakdown so you can see exactly how it develops its argument. Sure Here's a chapter-by-chapter breakdown of Invisible Rulers so you can see how the argument unfolds:

= ChatGPT 5 > l • • What model are you I'm running on GPT-4o, OpenAl's multimodal model that can handle text and images. You're getting the text-only side of it right now, but it's the same underlying model that can also process visuals when needed.

First time using ChatGPT5. It knew the concept from my book I asked it to write a few paragraphs about. Lovely nuanced prose. Knew the source.

Then asked if I wanted more info about the book…and hallucinated chapters that don’t exist. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Not being able to pick a model is a dealbreaker.

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YouTube video by McGill Office for Science and Society The Mercola Tapes: The “psychic” behind the world’s richest anti-vaxxer

I emailed them five hours ago and have yet to hear back, so I feel it's fair game to post this on Bluesky.

If you want to know why you should not interview Mercola about anything in 2025, see my video.

youtu.be/QRps3VQ-0BE?...

At the top of the article, a banner explaining why you can trust @cnet.com:

"Our wellness advice is expert-vetted. Our top picks are based on our editors’ independent research, analysis, and hands-on testing. If you buy through our links, we may get a commission."

Mercola, a known peddler of pseudoscience who takes advice from a medium and ChatGPT, is also credited as "a board-certified family medicine osteopathic physician." He hasn't seen patients in decades and is definitely not an expert.

Want to Avoid Microplastics in Food? We Found the 8 Most Common Foods That Contain Microplastics You're ingesting microplastics from bottled water, seafood, rice, sugar, and more.

So, @cnet.com published an article on microplastics (because they have a "wellness" section now... OK), and who's the quoted expert?

"A family physician"... namely Joe Mercola.

www.cnet.com/health/nutri...

With improvement, he was able to report that he had recently noticed new-onset facial acne and cherry angiomas, fatigue, insomnia, subtle ataxia, and polydipsia, further suggesting bromism. He also shared that, after reading about the negative effects that sodium chloride, or table salt, has on one's health, he was surprised that he could only find literature related to reducing sodium from one's diet. Inspired by his history of studying nutrition in college, he decided to conduct a personal experiment to eliminate chloride from his diet. For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT, in which he had read that chloride can be swapped with bromide, though likely for other purposes, such as cleaning. Gradually, over the course of a 3-week admission, his chloride and anion gap normalized and psychotic symptoms improved. He was tapered off risperidone before discharge and remained stable off medication at a check-in 2 weeks after discharge. His bromide level ultimately was 1700 mg/L (21 mmol/L; reference range, 0.9 to 7.3 mg/L).

Wild case of ChatGPT almost killing a guy by telling him to substitute sodium bromine for table salt (sodium chloride) #medsky www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

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From this month's edition of The Onion.

That's why they need Superman to come and boost their morale!

'The editors always told me they considered The Fact Checker a public service, so there were no traffic goals to meet, allowing me to explore obscure topics at times. But my articles were often among the most read on the Post website.'

Why I left The Washington Post “Democracy Dies in Darkness” — but what if the lights are going out from within?

'That quest earned me a one-hour meeting in April 2024 with Will Lewis, the then-new publisher of The Post. During our discussion, he asked me: “What should The Post do to appeal more to Fox News viewers?”'

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Congratulations!

I hear there's a massive backorder on Pfizer's woke mind virus. Too many healthcare providers jabbing random peeps on the street.

You guys will have to switch over to Moderna's ASAP.

I was there. I took a selfie. My friends are just out of frame.

Salvatore Sincere (Robin Williams) as he and his students carry Snuffy (Pancake Portobello Johnson), recently martyred for free speech, through the quad. "it was in the crawlspace" - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times "He was their inspiration. Not the teacher. The possum"

Dead Possum Society (1989)

what

This week's article for @mcgilloss.bsky.social is simultaneously very funny and really sad.

There's such an unmet burden of suffering in the world that people are desperate enough to believe anything.

::looks off camera::

Oh no, they've spotted me. I've said too much.

"Next week, on The Joe Rogan Experience..."

Screenshot from Wikipedia's Editorial Team assessing the quality and priority of Montreal-related pages. This popped up on a Google search result for my name.

According to the Wikipedia minions, I'm a very low-class person.

R.F.K. Jr. Cancels mRNA Vaccine Research

Completely horrifying.👇 Anti-science monster.

RFK Jr. Cancels mRNA Vaccine Research www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Reality: Vaccine...
- saved millions of lives
- < hospitalization
- < long COVID
- > pregnancy outcomes
- < healthcare costs
- promising platform for other diseases!
- etc, etc!!!

"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."

cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy

I completely forgot to post this here, but I have returned to @ctvnewsmontreal.bsky.social. I was just on to discuss the alleged increased risk of a specific kind of blindness with Ozempic/Wegovy.

I'll be back sporadically to discuss topical stories!

This is Murphy. She shared a father-dogter dance with her human on his wedding day. Couldn't let the bride and groom get ALL the attention. 14/10 (IG: murphythelady & castanedafilms_)

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Nearly 100,000 ChatGPT Conversations Were Searchable on Google A researcher has scraped a much larger dataset of indexed ChatGPT conversations, exposing contracts and intimate conversations.

People had to consent to it, but still:

"Alleged texts of non-disclosure agreements, discussions of confidential contracts, people trying to use ChatGPT to understand their relationship issues, and lots of people asking ChatGPT to write LinkedIn posts."

www.404media.co/nearly-100-0...

Frequencies, man.

There is something deeply ironic when people who sell a hunk of plastic meant to cure everything and bring about wellness ask you to please remove your article critical of said device from Google search results because it's causing them emotional distress.

In case you're curious, the "intermediate" list I was shown includes slippers.

Yeah. That's what I really need in case of an emergency. Fancy slippers.

🙄

A fake photo of Trump and three other people in suits standing next to a futuristic-looking MRI machine with a ring of purple light.

"We are releasing these wonderful, wonderful beds--very, very beautiful beds--to all Americans to treat horrible, horrible things. Made in American with beautiful alien technology."

What I'm writing about this week.