Eric Carroll

We have always been at war with Agrabah.

Dumping Google’s enshittified search for Kagi - Ars Technica Enough is enough: I’ve jettisoned Google in favor of a search engine that doesn’t treat me like a product.

Me too. Get the slop out.

Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi

> sitting in the middle of 2025 with the world burning down around me, a hundred bucks to kick Google to the curb and get better search results feels totally worth it.

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The order of science:

1.) Discover there’s a deadly problem
2.) Work for years to solve it
3.) The problem may not be gone forever, but we’ve won
4.) People forget the deadly problem actually existed
5.) People decide this must mean the science to solve it was a hoax
6.) The deadly problem returns

a person in a yellow shirt is holding a red rifle ALT: a person in a yellow shirt is holding a red rifle

@krissy.bsky.social putting a regex into your display name is such a perfectly targeted nerd snipe.

The mRNA vaccine platform has already been assessed across diverse clinical indications, many with remarkable progress:
—cancer neoantigen vaccines [in patients with refractory disease (e.g. pancreatic)]
—more than 15 infectious diseases
—autoimmune diseases
—rare disease for genome editing

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

"gemba walk" he googled, seething at the PowerPoint currently being inflicted on him

I am so sorry to hear this.

I thought I got a lot of static, but you definately get way more.

Is there any common thread?

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.

kennedy is going to kill a lot of people

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National Command Authority now authorizes shitposting in the EAM channel.

We should have meaningful conversations about LLMs. But we don’t need to accept the premise that they are obligatory and inescapable in every area of life.

WHN Response to Canada's CSA Z94.4-25 Respirator Standard - WHN CSA Z94.4-25 is a draft national standard proposing science-based airborne protection measures, including universal respirator use in healthcare. While broadly welcomed, it has also drawn a petition i...

📢 Canada’s CSA Z94.4-25 standard calls for universal respirators in healthcare—a milestone in airborne protection

Support it with your voice:
✅ Submit public comments (open to all)
🧾 Read WHN’s support + petition response
#CleanAir #HealthcareSafety #N95 #CSA

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I have heard it said
that at this point
to talk of the pandemic
to still take precautions
“is really not normal,”
which is a sad testament
to the ways in which
apathy
has become quite normal.

YouTube video by 123ross456 LFTRs in 5 minutes - Thorium Reactors

#LFTRs in 5 minutes - Thorium Reactors

A short video of Kirk Sorensen taking us through the benefits of #Liquid #Fluoride #Thorium #Reactors, a liquid reactor that runs #not on #uranium, but thorium.

#Nuclear #Energy #Passive #Safety #GHG #CO2 #Climate
#Molten #Salt #Reactors #MSR

Burrowing owl mood...

The sky in my location matches its color on this map

Some stats on Canadian wildfires, the ones some US lawmakers think can be easily controlled.
Acres of forest in Canada: 894 million
Acres burned in 2025: 16.7 million
Fires above historic average: 231%
Fires currently active: 746
Fires out of control: 199
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www.ciffc.ca

I prefer the term "Laser Aficionado"

This might be a wild take, but public spaces (healthcare, transit, grocery stores, pharmacies etc) should be accessible to everyone & no one should have to risk death or disability from a virus by going to one

Physics doesn't care about your ego

The AI age is the "age of no consent" "Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed.

Users hate AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final.

And it needs all of your data to do it.

In the age of no consent, UX exists to normalized complete acquiescence to surveillance: