Daniel Dvorkin @medigoth@qoto.org
Bioinformaticist / biostatistician, veteran medic and infantryman, armchair paleontologist, occasional science fiction author, vaccinated liberal patriot.
Joined Oct 2022
Yeah, maybe they should have been "alarmed" a couple of weeks ago. That would have done a lot more good.
I know that if we want to have any chance of salvaging the country from this ongoing train wreck, we're going to need to work with a lot of people who have buyer's remorse. And saying "we told you so" isn't going to be productive. But for the moment, I'm just going to indulge myself in a little snark:
WE FUCKING TOLD YOU SO.
@Wileymiller Well that's ... disturbingly appropriate.
Daniel Dvorkin
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@RickiTarr You should get this "Welcome To #Adulthood Starter Pack" on your 18th birthday, and the congratulatory message should absolutely include this vital wisdom.
@ampersine Immediately after taking office, Biden should have started a program of de-Trumpification throughout the federal government. His failure to do so is IMO a big part of the reason for the mess we're in now.
@mike You monster!
@mike By using open source office software, you're actually stealing potential revenue from Microsoft, so sorry, we're going to have to pull your paper.
@mike Well, that's fairly horrifying.
@sheilasmall Yeah, it's epic trolling. I think I see Musk's hand in this.
Seen in the wild: "Luckily all our #environmental laws are older than 18 years, so Rep. #Gaetz shouldn't have much interest in them."
Read the whole thread. This is serious. For better or worse (I think we can definitely say "worse" now) #Twitter used to a major way #science news propagated across the internet. Even after #Musk took it over, a lot of people who should have known better kept relying on it. Now we're seeing the consequences of that.
We can't rely on *any* one platform to get our messages out, not even #Mastodon. Post here, on #Bluesky, even on #Facebook while it's still not a *complete* shithole, and on any other platform you think might have a chance of reaching a decent-sized audience.
This applies to science and #politics and everything else, but I think with science it's particularly critical. #Xitter and other right-wing platforms are going to be pushing even more #misinformation than they already are. For #scientists to keep speaking up is one of the best ways to fight back.
I maintain(ed) large series of large lists on Xitter I used as news feeds. I checked the science -themed list (~500 accounts). It's very quiet. Her...
@realTuckFrumper Pretty much as expected. 😐
@Dhmspector Idiocracy looks like sheer genius compared to this shit.
@vivtek And the instant they get a degree, they automatically look down their noses at God-fearing salt-of-the-Earth working folks. Like a law of nature.
Ferocious and brilliant. I really don't know how much #election post-mortems matter at this point. But if you think they do, read this one.
@DemocracyMattersALot Of course. We're just a bunch of suckers and losers, after all.
I hate that I have to agree with this. But I do.
This will be remembered as the election where a majority of Americans stopped even pretending to pay lip service to their country's ideals.
Bioinformaticist / biostatistician, veteran medic and infantryman, armchair paleontologist, occasional science fiction author, vaccinated liberal patriot.
Joined Oct 2022
