Alzheimer’s is just one visible example. There are hundreds of fields across biomedical research where the same thing happens: dominant narratives persist for years or decades because everyone understands that challenging them - or criticizing the people who control career

It's nice to see that there are still some political fights that do not fracture along the same boring lines.

BREAKING: Delayed property tax collections have forced emergency lending into Chicago’s pension funds in order to avoid asset sales. The Chicago firefighters’ pension fund did not have the cash on hand to pay *current retirees.* This is what insolvency looks like. And it’s

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In the old seal you see a cross with wings. This is the crest of the father of Texas Stephen F Austin. The cross a nod to his family’s historic role in the crusades, the wings a nod to St. Austin. Behind the crest the state capitol, nodding to the city of Austin’s status in

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The WSJ today finds there are 6 figure white collar jobs all over the Sunday classifieds, and recommend applying because you can email the hiring manager directly- They don’t even realize yet these are all PERM ads for jobs companies are trying to hide from American workers!

The median age at death for people with cystic fibrosis went from 29 in 2008 to 72 today. Incredible breakthroughs, new drugs (Trikafta) turn it into a manageable condition with a normal lifespan. If started in adolescence, life expectancy is 82.5.

This story deserves to be better known outside of China. The 18 signatories of the Xiaogang document were unsung heroes of legalism - freeing themselves from oppression not by violent revolt but by designing a new system of incentives to which to subject themselves. (1/n)

Link only appears after the computer has been plugged into the network.

AP: Federal authorities have charged three small-town Louisiana police chiefs with taking hundreds of $5,000 bribes over nearly a decade in exchange for filing false police reports that would allow noncitizens to apply for visas that let certain crime victims stay in the U.S.

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people ask how i stay attuned to what tech actually does… the emotions it triggers, the ways it shapes lives, the subtle effects or unexpected magici it delivers. the answer’s simple. i read. not whitepapers. not founder threads. this. stuff like this. posts like this are where

Today I learned that Africa's epidemic of sports betting is absolutely insanely huge and DWARFS the American issue.

This is insane

I saw an episode of “Black Mirror” called “Be Right Back” shortly before my husband died in 2015. In it, Martha loses her boyfriend Ash in a car crash and she signs up for an AI-fueled service that recreates him, at first chatting with a bot, then stepping up to a humanoid robot.

Have gotten comments from gen z questioning the point of the American greeting ritual. I used to feel the same way in my first service jobs. I thought it was "fake," performative, extractive, "emotional labor" (though we didn't have that phrase). Here's how I changed my mind

“Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request.”

This is too complex for X, but… I wanted to quantify in dollars how much Chinese companies are under-declaring their imports to the US/benefiting from duty-free imports via de minimis. So I took the Chinese data for US exports and compared that to the US data for China + Hong

SHOTS FIRED IN LEXINGTON COMMON! THE REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN! An unknown ſoldier of either Britiſh or rebel origin has fired his muſket toward the oppoſing line, and now fire is ringing out all over. It is war with England!!