Dylan MacKay

This is the lie at the center of the "demographic crisis" framing. In the US, per worker productivity has tripled since the 1960s. But instead of increasing compensation or various forms of dependent care, this **enormous** new surplus goes to private profits, asset inflation, and rent extraction...

if your perspective is being challenged by the rantings and ravings of bari weiss then you might just be fucking stupid i’m sorry you had to find out this way

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I understand why people *want* the police to intervene--normies are like, 'I thought cops are supposed to arrest people doing crimes, ICE is right there doing crimes, go do your thing'

but police organizations take nearly every opportunity to be like, 'oh you misunderstood what our thing is'

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

You mean to tell me that a neoliberal is being a fascist collaborator?!? 😮

Who could have seen that coming?

Hint: EVERYONE

An ICE agent in Portland, OR, targeted a frog-suited protester’s air intake valve with pepper spray — a tactic that medical experts say could have been life-threatening.

People needn't worry about our former Premier here, one of her big scandals was failing to disclose her part in a $31 million dollar property deal apparently because she sort of forgot about it

I meant to say epidemiology studies here not trials

I'll say it we definitely don't need anymore nutritional epidemiology trials looking at non-nutritive sweeteners, we need good long clinical trials (but honestly we have way more pressing and better ways to spend the research dollars if you really want to think about it)

I know lots of people who do nutritional epidemiology probably don't want to hear this, but maybe pump the breaks on the whole field, because it is such a mess. Especially now that "AI" can whip up a paper from an available data set in minutes

Isn't it more likely there is something about these sugar or non-sugar sweetened beverage drinkers that is driving the majority of this risk? Because calories seem to only add up to 10% difference in risk, maybe it is other ingredients, or more likely shared other exposures that are co-linear

Also why is the jump here that the non-nutritive sweeteners are the reason for the increased risk (via hand wavy guy microbiome mechanisms) when the risk between sugar and non-sugar sweetened beverages is almost the same

"Our study shows that low- or non-sugar-sweetened beverages were actually linked to a higher risk of (fatty liver disease), even at modest intake levels such as a single can per day,” Liu said.

Please do not say "actually linked" when you are trying to translate an association based on nutritional epidemiology

Both Diet And Sugary Drinks Increase Fatty Liver Disease Risk, Study Says TUESDAY, Oct. 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — People could be at higher risk of fatty liver disease from both sugary sodas and diet drinks, a new study says.In fact,

Can we please stop with these kinds of studies and this kind of language and these kind of stories. 24-hour dietary recalls (and really all our methods for dietary intake used in epidemiology) need to be used cautiously and humbly, recognizing the huge limitations
www.healthday.com/health-news/...

Premature closure is close tie to analysis- paralysis and therapeutic inertia as cause for bad medical decision making. In an attempt to address the last two , AI deployment in the medical space will exacerbate the former as no one will take a few moments to fact check the AI.

When papers are the currency for promotion and "methods" are viewed as a hindrance by so many scientists, people churning out pointless surveys of fake participants will "outperform" scientists doing trials, ethnography, etc. LLMs will further erode this - why even pretend to read widely?

Two 17 year old girls were brutally murdered in New Jersey when a truck ran them over going 70mph.

17 year old Vincent Battiloro is charged with first degree murder.

The suspected motive? One of the girls declined his advances.

He couldn’t handle hearing the word “no” 🧵

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Phenomenally good thread.

2 years into the war, these figures illustrate the scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza | CBC News For two years, Palestinians across the Gaza Strip have faced unrelenting bombardment, mass hunger and recurring displacement as Israeli fighting continues in the desolate territory.

Over the last couple of years, Palestinians across the Gaza Strip have faced unrelenting bombardment, mass hunger and recurring displacement as Israeli fighting continues in the territory. www.cbc.ca/news/world/g...

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Friendly reminder that it didn’t all begin on 7 October 2023.

It began with the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the Nakba since 1948, the Six-Day War of 1967, the full blockade of Gaza since 2007, and so much more.

The genocide in Palestine is the culmination of racism and settler colonialism.

Exactly!!

Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe

The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Perfect cartoon.

I for one would rock the retro robes if they were up for sale

Oregon's stubborn resistance to Texas National Guard troops invading reflects the elitist and closed-minded belief that the people of Portland have nothing to learn from the people of Texas

--Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times

If you automatically assume that anything any media outlet reports is a lie if a cop is the source you’re likely to be far better informed than someone who automatically assumes it’s all true.