ABrockwell @aebrockwell@qoto.org

Serious Business People in Suits flummoxed as car company run by friendless open neo-nazi who also routinely calls people "retard" on his online Klan forum and works as an unelected, unaccountable lord chancellor to materially destroy the U.S. as an economy and as a republic sees profits drop 71%.

Folks, if someone in the US wants to study a group of people with a a certain condition, they go to an IRB to get permission. They have to decide if the research will use identifiable information. If the data contain identifiers, you essentially always have to get permission from each and every patient, and that permission has to be specific to the exact use of their data.

You don’t “make a registry” of everyone with a disease. Bad people do that. Nazis. Insurance execs. Bad people.

This is who we are now?!

Vaccines are one of the greatest scientific success stories of our time. Vaccination has saved more than 154 million lives in the last 50 years — more than six lives every minute of every year.

Our technical ability to develop vaccines has outpaced our social, political, and financial systems for ensuring their use. Recent moves to strip funding from vaccine-related research are shortsighted and self-harming. As is the use of precious resources to revisit debunked claims of links to autism.

The best vaccine isn’t useful if it is not distributed, or not socially accepted. Vaccine equity and hesitancy remain great challenges. Globalizing antivaccine activism could become our greatest hurdle.

We should not allow misinformation, disinformation, ignorance and defunding to hinder vaccine development, deployment and use.

It is not time to defund, but rather invest in vaccines.

Read our latest editorial in @PLOSBiology: Vaccines work… and do not cause autism

#vaccines #vaccination #immunization #WorldImmunizationWeek #measles #outbreak #vaccinehesitancy

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003143

This is the President of the United States saying in a social media post that not everyone should be given a trial.

That is a violation of the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

Trump should be impeached and removed from office.

It couldn’t be any more straightforward.

Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/larry-david-hitler-dinner.html

The fact that we, as a society, tolerate the lies that LLMs systematically output is quite telling of how used we've become to untruth in the public sphere. We're not even complaining anymore. We take lying for granted. It's immensely sad.

David Tennant is a fucking LEGEND.

I’m not even convinced the net productivity change from LLM coding is •positive• if we’re talking about bringing code all the way to production, much less maintaining it. Maybe this time the silver bullet is real, unlike aaaall the past times, but I sure am skeptical.

Yet…here I really •am• seeing those kinds of many-fold gains, gains that (unlike LLMs!) come with •increased• code reliability and maintainability — and from what?

From the slow, hard engineering work of tool improvement we’ve doing all along:

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The fact that I know more about Katy Perry and Lauren Sánchez’s 11-minute space trip than I do about Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito’s decades-long crime spree shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

Tell me this:

Why does Silicon Valley keep churning out basically mind-control weapons, one after another?

Social Media algorithms were bad enough, but these language models pretending to be Artificial Intelligence are just out of the ballpark!

Their insatiable hunger for data - and not caring about the quality - is basically the largest attack surface for public opinion manipulation ever.

#security #technology #ai

I’m seeing a lot of people making fun of their incompetence for this, but that’s not what this is. This whole regime is a gang of bullies, headed by a bully, and like all bullies, they’re cowards. Stand up to them, and they whimper away. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/business/trump-harvard-letter-mistake.html

Autism isn’t an epidemic. It's not a disease. It’s a natural variation in how people think — which, frankly, is a relief in a world where a lot of people don't think at all.

Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.

That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore.

-A.R.Moxon

"I was just following orders" will not hold up at the Hague.

#ICE #NYPD #SeeYouAtTheHague #US #USA #America #History #Remember

Fascism is when there are documented cases of the KKK mass murdering at least 5000 Black people and terrorizing millions more, but they're still allowed to exist and hold public marches due to "free speech," but Black and brown people are disappeared, deported, and tortured on the mere accusation that they said things the Government doesn't like.

"Here’s the thing: Once you give up the idea that we are all equal before the law and have the right to due process, you have given up the whole game. Once you have replaced the principle of equality before the law with the idea that some people have no rights, you have granted your approval to the idea of an authoritarian government. At that point, all you can do is to hope that the dictator and his henchmen overlook you."

Heather Cox Richardson

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/april-13-2025?r=g7z5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

The silence from literally every elected Republican politician about the destruction of our democracy is deafening.