Michael Reilly

It's official. Nearly 7 million people. Today is the single largest day of protest in American history. Americans from all corners of the country are standing up and saying #NoKings. This is what peaceful, patriotic protest looks like.

strong Bay to Breakers vibes

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

Extremely bad news if true (and unlikely this reporter would run with it if not). The MMWR has been the earliest warning bell for outbreaks since it announced the first US cases, in 1981, of what was later identified as AIDS.

This will be a grievous shock to what remains of US public health.

Very excited to have cryptographer @matthewdgreen.bsky.social joining us!

Crypto's Mainstream. What About Crypto Media? - A Media Operator Times are booming for the crypto industry. Bitcoin is trading at around $112,000, close to its all-time high, and crypto companies are…

Very nice piece on the new wave of crypto media operators out in (appropriately) @amediaoperator.com Thanks to @karivmcmahon.bsky.social for taking a look at this space and featuring @projectglitch.bsky.social —much more to come! www.amediaoperator.com/analysis/cry...

All those folks who were like “pulling Colbert was just a business decision bc late night shows aren’t profitable; nothing to do with politics” still going with that argument?

Congenital rubella syndrome and autism spectrum disorder prevented by rubella vaccination--United States, 2001-2010 - PubMed We estimate that rubella vaccination prevented substantial numbers of CRS and ASD cases in the United States from 2001 through 2010. These findings provide additional incentive to maintain high measle...

MMR vaccines do not cause autism (see my 🧵 of studies)

At the same time, one potential cause of autism is rubella, which is *prevented* by MMR vaccines.

Which means...vaccines may actually help prevent autism.

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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21592401/

Very confusing sign on EPA building in DC today. Still allowed to go posting stuff like this in public??

use a special color for the degens who haven’t put their napkins on their laps.

Mixed ideology actors are often lethal when they act, but they are dangerous for another reason: They allow anyone looking at them to identify them as whoever you don't like. And it is that belief which will only beget more violence.

that’s a hell of an Argument

waiting for the doc I am just tickled by this image of my own skull staring at me

Interesting and makes sense—cars with their windows rolled up are basically little greenhouses.

People who think of themselves as longtermists need to remember this. Technology is cool but chemistry is life.

WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

Reminds me of the time a slop factory rewrote an FT piece of my own but replaced words with synonyms throughout. "told the Financial Times" became "told Monetary Happenings"

Braaak stochastic parrot want more capital to buy GPU clusters braaak!

the level of heartlessness is just staggering

super interesting

Tesla Robotaxi Keeps Changing Subject To White Genocide

Tesla Robotaxi Keeps Changing Subject To White Genocide

China's Clean Energy Boom Could Win the Race to Power the Future (Gift Article) Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Meanwhile, in China:

The US is falling behind the curve on solar power – a key energy source of the 21st century. We are losing our edge to China on the technology that we originally invented.

Now Senate republicans want to take out our solar industry at the knees in their "Big Beautiful Bill":

Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn Breaching threshold would ramp up catastrophic weather events, further increasing human suffering

We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.

New York Times: ICE Imposes New Rules on Congressional Visits The policy specifies that ICE field offices are not subject to an existing federal law that allows members of Congress to make unannounced oversight visits to immigration facilities that “detain or otherwise house aliens.”

To be really clear: The reason members of Congress can't just walk right in is because of the guns. Armed DHS personnel won't allow entry. In other words, DHS is using armed force to *break* laws.

Democrats need to wrap their minds around that. Accept that the frog is boiled.

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Thanks to Mitch, now every time I get on an escalator, I rejoice knowing that they can never break.

Billions from Nvidia’s “sovereign AI” deal with Saudi Arabia business could tamper effects of export controls Nvidia will provide “several hundred thousand” GPUs to the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund company Humain. Analysts estimate the deal to...

Humain (owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund) has trained and released its own LLM called “ALLAM” trained “from scratch” on Arabic and English text.

When I asked ALLAM about Jamal Khashoggi it responded:

“I'm sorry, but I can't discuss that topic.”

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