@mattblaze Money on the bet that they’re the same ones saying it’s too late to do anything about the climate …
affect mapping / psychic plumbing (#affectiveneuroscience , #neuroeconomics , #neuroforecasting , #neurophenomics , etc.) [bridged from https://sfba.social/@knutson_brain on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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@mattblaze Money on the bet that they’re the same ones saying it’s too late to do anything about the climate …
Read this op ed from nine former directors of the CDC sounding the alarm on RFK Jr. and how what he's done to the CDC endangers every person in the US. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/opinion/cdc-leaders-kennedy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ik8.jxfq.Y5Q2DZV9ATiw&smid=bs-share
Did you buy a bottle of wine from Tescos in the UK between August and October 2019? Is so, your choice may be one of the 3,649,027 purchases which informs this analysis of cognitive bias in shopping https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-025-00341-2
@denisedwheeler.bsky.social #TrumpAttacksAmericans : voting rights edition
@RonSupportsYou @renewedresistance Dear Congress; He lied. Act accordingly. The American People https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-win-rfk-jr-says-wont-take-away-anybodys-vaccines-rcna178955
@RonSupportsYou @renewedresistance Dear Congress; He lied. Act accordingly. The American People https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-win-rfk-jr-says-wont-take-away-anybodys-vaccines-rcna178955
Sen. Bernie Sanders: "Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign." Sen. Sanders then explains why this resignation is needed […]
@dangrsmind Who did they vote for?
🧵Remember the 3.5% rule: How a small minority can change the world. 3.5% of the US population (of 340 million) is just under 12 million people. The No Kings protests brought out 5 million Americans. So even a couple of months ago, we were nearly half way to the 3.5% benchmark.
@denisedwheeler.bsky.social Too late.
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Time for #PirateScience ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B99nd2iKGOw
Vaccines have one of the highest reward to risk ratios of any medical intervention in human history. This sociopathic conspiracy theorist is literally killing people, causing the deaths by vaccine-preventable diseases of people who could have lived.
@rmblaber1956 @JoePajak@mastodon.online @JoePajak@mstdn.science TL;DR : It’s the guns, dummy.
@stux Also : Watch what they let their kids do…
CDC leaders on why the left: “I resigned because I could not be part of the weaponization of public health and CDC… we should always be questioning - but you shouldn’t have a preconceived idea before you have the data.”
Outside the CDC, people are chanting “USA, not RFK.” They are fed up with having one unqualified person dictate the nation’s health. #USANotRFK
CNN:Climate.gov will re-launch under new URL thanks to a secret team of web ninjas "...A small group of about 10 writers, researchers and web development ninjas are launching an ambitious effort to preserve key climate data that the Trump administration has taken offline, including a landmark […]
@pluralistic nails it: "[Trump] governs solely on vibes, half-remembered wisdom imparted by the last person who spoke to him, and the dying phantoms of old memories as they vanish beneath a thick bark of amyloid plaque." https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/28/strew-deal/
Dr. Monarez’s lawyers, Mark S. Zaid & Abbe Lowell, asserted in a statement earlier Wednesday that Dr. Monarez’s situation was symbolic of larger issues. “It is about the systematic dismantling of #PublicHealth institutions, the silencing of experts, & the dangerous politicization of #science,” […]
@ai6yr ICEholes.
You know how people want raw economic data? As a CSV file. Some folks might want it as an Excel file. Maybe a few as a SQLite file, if it's a really big collection of data. In every case, they want it on a webpage at a stable URL, retrieved by HTTP. That's it. This is very easy.
@denisedwheeler.bsky.social regression model: domestic terrorist = young angry racist white male with automatic weapon
If everyone loves the national parks ("America's best idea), why are we cutting their budget? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS7IJaB5NDc
@briankrebs Up next? Milkshakes!
1. Lay off the National Parks Service staff responsible for trash pickup landscaping in DC parks. 2. Wait a couple months. 3. Call in National Guard to pick up trash and do landscaping in DC parks.
Evanston shuts down license plate cameras, terminates contract with Flock Safety Cutoff follows state official’s audit revealing Flock shared data directly with federal agencies […]
@Nonilex #ModestProposal : Everyone who had been attacked attack back
@caseynewton Move fast and break minds…
@denisedwheeler.bsky.social Counterpoint: How about we withhold his money?
California Proposition 50: Temporary state map redistricting
@denisedwheeler.bsky.social Good night, free market…
Walkable cities boost physical activity... https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/08/walkable-cities-walk-score-daily-movement-steps-research
@russpoldrack.org I'll bet you use less ;)
@russpoldrack.org How much energy + water did it consume?
@denisedwheeler.bsky.social Wrong side. ( #taxwaste )
Is America risking its scientific research edge? TL;DR: Yes (and much more) More below ( #AmericaLast ) https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-legal/us-risking-its-scientific-research-edge
#ModestProposal : Department Of Offense ( acronym : #DOO )
@denisedwheeler.bsky.social Don’t tease me like that…
"The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed," writes Garrett Graff for his Doomsday Scenario newsletter. He […]
@heidilifeldman #TrumpAttacksAmericans : SS edition
@davidho #TrumpAttacksAmericans : Chicago invasion edition
@denisedwheeler.bsky.social #TrumpAttacksAmericans : DC occupation edition ( #taxwaste )
@volts.wtf Crime against the future.
Pro Publica - HHS has lost 20,000+ workers. https://projects.propublica.org/federal-health-worker-cuts-rfk-trump-administration/
@denisedwheeler.bsky.social Did they catch the bad guys yet? ( #taxwaste )
@Nonilex #TrumpAttacksAmericans : clean energy edition
@waldo.net But the Supreme Court in all its wisdom wants to give more power to the demented criminal sociopath…
@Nonilex #metaworry misdirection : emergency declaration editions
Meanwhile, the UK is starting to see the massive advantage of renewables.
I am one of the people in California who voted to pass the non-partisan districting reform that worked well here for many years. But I completely support Gov. Newsom's plan to redistrict California in reaction to what Republicans in Texas did, to steal five more seats for Republicans. I join […]
@thetnholler.bsky.social TIL: Registered voters in Texas: Democrats: 8,133,683 Republicans: 6,601,189 Unaffiliated: 2,750,830 https://independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/tx
@thetnholler.bsky.social TIL: Registered voters in Texas: Democrats: 8,133,683 Republicans: 6,601,189 Unaffiliated: 2,750,830 https://independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/tx
If, like me, you are fighting fascism in the United States, I’m sending you good cheer.
BOYCOTTS WORK. WE ARE STRONG. WE ARE MULTITUDES. Target CEO steps down as company faces weak sales and customer boycott https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/20/target-ceo-steps-down #BrianCornell #Target #BoycottTarget #USPol
Our department is seeking applicants for an Assistant Professor position with a focus on affective science. Please apply and/or pass this along to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
@brenttoderian.bsky.social #TrumpAttacksAmericans : Boston edition
@Nonilex #TrumpAttacksAmericans : DC crime statistics edition …
Here's where I am. "We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs." #AI #LLM […]
After a 13-year immunization campaign, Nepal is declared to have eradicated rubella. https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/08/1165672
@denisedwheeler.bsky.social “I know you are but what am I?”
@denisedwheeler.bsky.social #PutinsPlaybook
"...experimenting is not producing..." -- Ruth Asawa (on deciding not to focus on commercializing her art) (( don't miss her remarkable exhibit at #sfmoma ))
"...experimenting is not producing..." -- Ruth Asawa (on deciding not to focus on commercializing her art) (( don't miss her remarkable exhibit at #sfmoma ))
@thetnholler.bsky.social NO.
Remember when Hitler demanded "land for peace"? That didn't work out so well... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_for_our_time
@denisedwheeler.bsky.social We needed them January 06, 2021. We don't need them August 16, 2025. Guess who was in charge both times?
@denisedwheeler.bsky.social We needed them January 06, 2021. We don't need them August 16, 2025. Guess who was in charge both times?
'It was embarrassing for Americans to welcome a notorious wanted war criminal on their territory. It was humiliating to watch an American president act like a happy puppy upon encountering the dictator of a much poorer, much less important state, treating him as a superior.' 14-day gift read […]
@DemocracyMattersALot Is this a joke?
Should Ukraine accept Russia's proposal or should Russia accept Ukraine's proposal? ( #framing )
@Nonilex What I like most about this is the “if then” clause : If you break the rules, then we break the rules ( potentially applicable much more broadly )
“We will not stand by as #Republicans attempt to rig the #election in their favor & choose their voters,” Julie Merz, executive director of the #DCCC, said. Gov #GavinNewsom said he will ask #California voters to approve new congressional districts in a special election on Nov 4 if Republican […]
In addition to saving owners money, home solar plus batteries can help stabilize the grid... https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/08/13/home-battery-storage-backup-blackouts/
@youranoncentral.bsky.social Insane.
@j12t I was there (along with Joan Baez :))
For those of you outside of the US wondering if everybody is just going along with it. We are not. Here is a data point. https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/new-data-shows-no-kings-was-one-of-the-largest-days-of-protest-in-us-history/
If people are headed towards living over 100, they'd better start voting like it...
Here's our official policy on law enforcement contact. It's a useful reminder that as a faculty member, you're not authorized to give protected information to outside officials, or to evaluate whether a warrant, subpoena, or other request is lawful […]
If someone tries to tell me that #covid19 is over, I will rise from my sick bed and clock them in the medulla...
@TechDesk @arstechnica @JenLucPiquant If only someone could design an architecture that makes us Empathetic, Calm, and Intelligent instead of Mean, Angry, and Dumb…
The people of DC mobilized to warn drivers and people on buses upstream of the checkpoints. They also gathered around the checkpoints, booing the law enforcement officers.
Just a reminder of what ‘civilized’ democracies do when under threat from within…
reposting this story about food and immigrants in the tenderloin (where I live): i know it very well. it's basically little saigon on larkin, little lahore on hyde, and there's been a recent proliferation of excellent yemeni businesses as well and also possibly the largest density of mayan food […]
@waldo.net At this point, lying is pretty much their default policy stance.
@cremevax no ethics board would authorize such a study (and that’s the point)
Borg : Resistance is futile… Sillycon Valley : Here’s 7M in seed and my kids…
@cremevax #naturalexperiment : effects of vaccine removal on childrens’#covid19 deaths
@Nonilex yes, because they weren’t cooking the books…
@Nonilex What’s the emergency?
@Nonilex …for the next two weeks…
"Violent crime is up in Washington, DC" says man who pardoned the largest group in history that committed violent crimes in Washington, DC.
When one seeks to base policy on lies, truth becomes an impediment…
@kenwhite.bsky.social If you think he will control himself, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you…
@knutson_brain @briankrebs
@johncarlosbaez There have been mass protests, they just haven’t received coverage…
Reichstag fire — without the fire…
@briankrebs If they wanted to crack down on crime, they should start with the White House…