Jason Clark

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

I imagine it would be different if I was listening to a play, but books are generally not written as plays, and audiobook narrators are so skilled at their craft that I miss them when listening to an ensemble performance.

Since we are being anecdotal- if by “ensemble” you mean “full cast” like a radio play- I thought I would love them, but I’ve never enjoyed one. I prefer a single narrator, male or female according to the protagonist, or split by main character like Sanderson’s Stormlight archive.

I’m in

The idea that the combined MMR is dangerous but separately the vaccines are fine was created out of whole cloth by Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor who had a patent on a non-combined version of the MMR. We've known his research was bunk for almost 30 years.

A full color ad - from the 70s or possibly early 80s - for computers from Southwest Technical Products Corporation. The ad features terminals, a disk drive unit, and a printer all mounted in or on wooden furniture in a grassy field. Text in the bottom right corner reads, “Circle 233 on Inquiry card.”

When was the last time you circled a number on an inquiry card?

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A print ad from the late 70s for a computer vendor called Delta Products offering a selection of mini computers, terminals, and printers.

I don’t usually do the whole RETVRN thing but this one kicked me right in the tech-nerd nostalgia solar-plexus.

We can afford $900 billion in tax cuts for billion-dollar corporations, but not healthcare.

We can afford to give the richest 1% tax breaks larger than most people’s paychecks, but not cancer research.

Funny how that works.

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We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

I don't think enough people realize that the Republican budget will make healthcare more expensive for millions of people—not just those on Medicaid.

If you get your healthcare through the Affordable Care Act, your bills will skyrocket.

All to give billionaires tax breaks.

I don't understand how dem leaders look at a senator being tackled at a noem briefing and say, "we need answers." You have the answers. You need to do something.

Martin Kulldorff & @MartinKu...•9/10/23 S.•• "One of the most disturbing images of the Covid-19 pandemic was when a teacher .. forced a mask on a crying toddler .. In some ways, the U.S. government.. treated all of us like toddlers, compelling us to endure draconian Covid measures" - @HRaleighspeaks

RFK Jr’s ACIP pick, Martin Kulldorff, said one of the most disturbing images from the pandemic was a toddler crying about having to wear a mask. I see toddlers cry about everything all the time, and I found it far more disturbing to see refrigerator trucks full of body bags outside of the hospitals…

They keep talking about punishing protestors as if this country wasn’t FOUNDED BY PROTESTERS WHO ENSHRINED THE RIGHT TO PROTEST, I AM SO TIRED OF HOW STUPID THINGS HAVE BECOME

Well this is awkward

“‘There’s been an intelligence community chatbot that’s been deployed across the enterprise,’ Gabbard said, according to MeriTalk. ‘Opening up and making it possible for us to use AI applications in the top secret clouds has been a game changer.’”
I’m sorry, they…WHAT?!

Screen Shot of a Lock Screen notification from the MLB Sports app on iOS showing Philadelphia at Pittsburgh with a 0-0 score. The scorebug uses the Philly and Pittsburgh logos which are both stylized capital P’s, so the effect is “P 0 0 P”.

NBC Sports Philly might have forsaken our beloved P00P scorebug, but the MLB app still has our back. If you squint.

This was literally MINUTES after Yeager had told the story of (and showed us a video about) a man who was trapped in an elevator in an NYC skyscraper for an entire weekend.

New York has a higher per-capita income, a lower crime rate and a functional insurance system.

Found this today on YouTube, loved it. So much influence on later tools too. vi, sed, grep and I’m sure others I’m not thinking of.

THIS

1. When people lose their healthcare, the costs for people who still have healthcare go up
2. Many hospitals rely on patients with medicaid. Big cuts to medicaid close hospitals
3. Higher medical costs mean people have less money for other things, hurting/ruining UNRELATED small businesses

My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.

seriously though why DON’T the biggest accounts use alt text?

This whole thread is absolute gold and should be required reading for anyone who complains about taxes, the postal service, or “government waste.”

Right wing idiots wanted this place run like a business instead of a service, and this is what it cost you: carriers pushing their bodies to the brink of collapse and sometimes beyond, so they don't get harassed by micromanagers who want you to account for every time you stop for 60 seconds

We have a 50% turnover rate inside 90 days. You can't refuse to pay people a living wage and then be surprised when they keep quitting, forcing you to rely on an older and older workforce to literally shoulder the labor shortfalls, and then again be surprised when people's bodies break down

2) USPS workers comp claims are as high as they are because we are increasingly reliant on an aging workforce that is pressed into longer and longer hours with increasingly unsafe work conditions.