PhD, Statistics. Sex Critical—Trans Rights. Climate Physics. Chess. He/Him/They/Them.
This dovetails with a personal motto / rhetorical device I've used for a while now: is it that the thing cannot be done, or is there just a cumbersome list of steps to take?
Courtney MilanI did not realize it at the time, but the thing she was trying to do was TELL me exactly what I needed to tell her so that she could get a prescription. What I heard was, "you can only get a PA if it does these three things" and what she meant was "tell me these three things so you can get a PA."
There are also other technical details like the FCS insertion being out of phase, which would just be a really weird thing for a researcher to do manually as it requires reimagining several amino acid substitutions instead of just inserting a single base triplet.
Michael HobbesThe furin cleavage site at first seemed to be a unique feature of COVID but has since been discovered in numerous naturally occurring coronaviruses. The reports don't "raise questions," these questions have been answered.
My uncle worked for McKinsey for the usual 2 years or so and has plenty of stories about the consultancy running businesses into the ground. He calls them the smartest group of 25 year olds who have never done a thing in their lives. But those higher up understand the business’ purpose.
sakura christmasUnsurprising that all these cuts being made to #Harvard —from the Office of Student Services to the Writing Center to now the Dudley Co-op—are happening with input from McKinsey, a firm made up of The Second Worst People I knew in college there
It’s all “Unitary Executive Theory” until there’s a military defeat on the table, then it’s bad “options” and “no unity” and “exasperat[ion] there was not a real strategy”. My man, the one with the ideas and strategy was supposed to be YOU. YOU’RE the wanna-be dictator, step up and own it.
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A somewhat more modern analogy would be to ask a defender of slavers as mere participants in a contemporary morally permissive paradigm whether illiterate slaves—far outnumbering the slavers—might’ve had a different opinion.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwòthe written record of antiquity, for reasons I hope are obvious, over represents the blinkered moral perspectives of that day's most powerful people. you should take the care with generalizing from their opinions that you'd want a foreigner to take if a tech CEO was asked about your country's morals
Ben took strides to hide the identity and thereby political views (white supremacy) of one of his sources for a shoddy anti-Mamdani hit piece, and here wants everyone to know that the source of a story holding someone accountable for alleged sexual assault is on the left.
Marisa Kabasthe best diss he could come up with
Flouting Congressional oversight is sadly something which even Democratic presidents engage in. The culture of the Executive is one mired in deception and self-importance.
#StupidSuezThis article also confirms that at least 8 different agencies in the State Department, USAID and other humanitarian departments sent Blinken reports on non-compliance with international law from Israel and Blinken did his absolute best to doctor his report to Congress in order to avoid the obvious.
The gutter racist who wrote to the high court in support of a gutter racist policy pushed by an administration of gutter racists actively carrying out gutter racist attacks on communities complains about being treated with kid gloves, suggests gutter racist admin is right to attack detractors. NA11.
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floofAt the risk of fanning the flames of this: IW appears to believe that harsh criticism of him personally justifies restricting the academic freedom of everyone. If not, I’d like to hear him say that newly minted academics should be free to say he’s trafficking in bigotry.
This is a State-compelled fascistic program and appropriate responses are inclusive of burning down the classrooms they're being taught in.
Nate ODecided to look at the classes taught at West Virginia University ’s Washington Center for Civics, Culture and Statesmanship (the one with one enrolled student) and it turns out it’s teaching classes on the wonders of fascism
Fun bit of satire, gobsmacking contrast between Clarence Thomas (2023) and Clarence Thomas (2026)
Imani GandyClarence Thomas read the same piece of 1866 history one way when it helped kill affirmative action, and the opposite way when it helped block birthright citizenship. Originalism my ass. I wrote a satire about Brad, his clerk who quits over it because he can't take the cognitive dissonance.