By programmer-journalist A.J. Fish. TracingVRL is the software-journalism project tracing the antivaxx infodemic going ViRaL. TracingVRL.substack.com
Paulina Borsook is back!
TracingVRLTalk of the #AI "bubble" popping any minute has so far omitted the role certain venture capital cliques have played in its postponement. Pauline Borsook edges toward it @13:38 here www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcme... "entrepreneurs I know ... can't get any money unless it's for AI"
When England's antivaxx news outlet The Daily Sceptic amplifed Ohio anti-immigrant narratives, I dedicated a TracingCOVID/TracingVRL newsletter to the topic. ... And up turned Elon Musk among multiple anti-immigrant media artifact tracings #Haitians #TPS tracingvrl.substack.com/p/why-is-eng...
Why is England’s Antivaxx News Outlet Amplifying Ohio Anti-immigrant Narratives?#84 Also: How a president’s character could affect respiratory transmission of mpoxtracingvrl.substack.comTracingVRLThey were all I could think about last night. tracingvrl.substack.com/i/150083084/... Trump & Vance, Katie & Stephen Miller, have announced the harassment and/or worse of Haitian migrants as their future sources of temporary confidence and false superiority. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Once again, the entirety of the media has reported on a major lawsuit as having been filed when it was not filed. Some lawyer just sent around the *unfiled* complaint with no court stamp and said "yep, it's a new lawsuit" and the credulous morons who make up most of the media went "yip yip yip"...
Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for UniversitiesMichael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.www.nytimes.com
"Just fact check and verify what the 'ai' puts out, you'll be fine." (libraries gone; textbooks gone; web search gone; personal libraries logistically impossible; no time in newly abbreviated deadlines for verification) "OK. How?"
caseyabramsI can't imagine what it would be like to grow up now, without the context that allows you to sense if things are false and do further research.
A few weeks ago I shared my view that prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket should be made illegal. Today it was announced that Kalshi is now taking bets on FDA drug approvals and clinical trial outcomes. These markets are metastasizing and nothing good can come of it.
Kalshi to allow bets on clinical trials, FDA decisionsPrediction market platform Kalshi will start taking bets on the outcomes of clinical trials and FDA regulatory reviews, it said on Thursday, making drug-development odds public for the first time.www.reuters.com