David C. Murphy

love da Pope

One of Trump’s greatest Houdini tricks is disappearing himself from the COVID19 vaccine story.

Saw The Naked Gun. Enjoyable but didn’t quite live up to the hype.

Visigoths let the Romans off pretty light as far as sacking armies go, certainly left Rome with having done less damage than RFK alone will do

In the end, the Candy Crushed them

I miss when republics declined because of lead pipes or something. instead my culture got digital access to the entirety of human knowledge and went immediately insane

MAHA is a death cult built on grift and sick children.

It's Time to Wind Down

by Marc Andreessen

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.

This act to cancel this is one of the great evils of our time

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

What, to carrier pigeons?

Ohio reporter’s notebook searched by Secret Service at Vance fundraiser Erin Glynn, a reporter for The Cincinnati Enquirer, had her reporting notebook searched by Secret Service agents during a security …

Secret Service agents searched and read through Cincinnati Enquirer reporter @eringlynn.bsky.social’s notebook, which included unpublished work product, during a security screening ahead of an event with Vice President @jd-vance-1.bsky.social in Lima, Ohio, on June 24.

Hey boss, I, um, need to stay focused too please.

More Israelis Question Morality of War in Gaza As the hunger crisis worsens, more people—including prominent public figures—are calling for an end to the almost two-year-old war.

www.wsj.com/world/middle...

OMG Thomas Keller has a new burger place in Napa Valley! $14 burgers! Friday Happy Hour with Pliny the Elder!

www.sfgate.com/food/article...

despicable

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LOL, top of Reddit today

a man says it is cellular peptide cake ALT: a man says it is cellular peptide cake

Ring ring. Cellular Peptide Cake!

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

If Cloudflare's analysis is correct -- and I've no reason to doubt it -- this is shameful behavior from Perplexity blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-i...

Cheers to you!

Gotta take my successes and congrats where I find them

Tweet from DHS. Image: Uncle Sam rolling up his sleeves, in fighting posture, staring off toward an unseen enemy. Bald eagle in background. Stylized red/white/blue background. Text: "DEFEND YOUR COUNTRY. AMERICA NEEDS YOU. JOIN ICE NOW"

Yet again, worth asking: just how ominous is it when government agencies repurpose wartime propaganda to militarize opinion against migrants and recruit new hires to a masked, secret police force? Seems bad.

A 39% tariff on a Swiss watch has got to hurt

But hey one can always buy a Trump watch instead. I’m sure they’re just as luxurious and a status symbol and I’m sure they’re made in the USA right. Right?

Bird Flu May Be Airborne on Dairy Farms, Scientists Report

The bird flu virus that has beset dairy farms since early last year may be spreading through the air in so-called milking parlors and through contaminated wastewater
(Gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/h...

The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away -By T. Friedman

“Of all the terrible things Trump has said & done as president the most dangerous one just happened on Friday. Trump ordered our trusted gov office of economic statistics to become as big a liar as he is”

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...

Once again, my fellow nerds, I am begging you to remember that giving into bullies only guarantees they'll be back.

You've got to punch Biff Tannen in the face, McFly, or he'll rule over you forever.

The Rise of Silicon Valley’s Techno-Religion

And then peek inside the Rationalist church of AI: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/t...