Geoff Berner

This is literally just straight-up corruption, but the WSJ isn't about to make that clear to readers.

Partial screenshot of the article's webpage from https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.09.707564v1

Direct link to the preprint article mentioned in the post above:

Persistent SARS-CoV-2 Spike is Associated with Localized Immune Dysregulation in Long COVID Gut Biopsies (Mar 12, 2026)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

[ FREE PDF available ]

[COVID minimization]

I've been reflecting a bit more on the idea that COVID-aware communities are "cult-like" over the past couple of days. as someone who both helps run a COVID-cautious space, and who's often been openly critical of certain aspects of COVID-cautious spaces - specifically for […]

It's a bad time for leaders to be shifting clocks to permanent daylight time which will make this worse & also less sleep = lowered immunity & more susceptibility to viral illness

Sleep loss in a warming world - Nature Sustainability High temperatures disrupt sleep worldwide, with disproportionate impacts on older adults, women and populations in lower-income countries. A study uses climate change simulations to project future glo...

New paper: As global temperatures rise, data is emerging that heat disrupts sleep globally with disproportionate impacts on older adults, women & lower income countries

#EpiSky

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"It seems, though, that the FBI didn’t read beyond the cover of what it calls my “booklet. That was the description of my review-in-zine-form when it appeared in an itemized receipt for seized property, alongside cellphones, computers, weapons, and other bits of technology — for the sole reason […]

Big news from #arXiv:
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678/chief-executive-officer

1. It's becoming an independent #nonprofit organization.
2. It's leaving #CornellU and moving to NYC.
3. It's hiring a CEO, with a salary in the range of $300k.

#Preprints #ScholComm

Now That It’s His Job to Control Measles, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Suddenly Expects People to Trust Everyone & Everything He Spent 6 Years Attacking With Dr. Jay Bhattacharya in power, the headlines now read "Americans Trust Fauci Over RFK Jr. and Career Scientists Over Trump Officials."

Another brilliant piece by @joho.bsky.social, where he points out that after Jay Bhattacharya spent half a decade attacking public health, he’s decided now that actually, maybe we do need it.

I can’t even tell you how much this article captures my thoughts on the situation.

AMERICAN OLIGARCHY 🇺🇸: “”300 billionaires and their immediate family members donated more than $3 billion — 19 percent of all contributions — in federal elections in 2024, either directly or through political action committees.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

"AI, like war, is a hyper-masculine fantasy of God-like power. But it’s nothing of the sort: it’s just a story, a myth, that’s being imposed on us by a self-interested cohort of unaccountable men succoured by a pliant and incurious press.

Forget Andrew Tate, this is the real manosphere. One […]

Opinion: Consequences of B.C.'s shift to permanent daylight saving time need to be fully considered For the sake of our health and well-being, and particularly that of our children, the shift should be thoughtfully reconsidered

A pediatric neurologist at B.C. Children's Hospital says we need to reconsider shift to permanent daylight savings time due to risks for children's health and safety

vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

So here's how Ford is undermining access to information in Ontario. Federally, Carney is doing it by cutting funding to Library age Archives Canada and pushing AI-based redaction systems. None of this is acceptable.

Library and Archives planning deep cuts to access to information team, document shows Cuts will put at risk ability to comply with access and privacy laws, department acknowledged in a document

www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Amid U.S. redaction scandal, Carney government developing AI systems to black out sensitive documents At least three government departments are developing AI tools to help with redaction, but experts say the tech could "be a nightmare.”

ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

Top civil servant boomeranged between government and Tony Blair Institute: Exclusive: Tech firms such as TBI are embedding staff in government, sparking fears AI policy is being ‘outsourced’ […]

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Repentance & Repair with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg YouTube video by QuoirCast Network

I COMMITTED ACTS OF PODCASTING

and you can see them

Was feeling discouraged about not making much progress in the fight to shift Covid policy 6 yrs in, but then a
family member called to say they put a HEPA filter in their office because of me

They were tired of being sick & knew there had to be a better way.

It's the small things ☺️

Ontario fast-tracks mine despite Grassy Narrows First Nation’s concerns | The Narwhal Grassy Narrows First Nation has challenged a water permit for Kinross Gold’s Great Bear project, as well as the Ontario Mining Act

Ontario fast-tracks mine despite Grassy Narrows First Nation’s concerns | The Narwhal

https://thenarwhal.ca/grassy-narrows-ontario-mine-permit/

#onpoli

Bloomberg says Russia is providing Iran with satellite imagery and drone targeting intelligence to strike US forces in the region.
#AureFreePress #News #Geopolitics

@Free_Press

bryan newbold (vacation mode) @bnewbold.net: this was most likely a misconfiguration on the bsky relay side. we have various rate-limits at the relay. the general limits for the eurosky PDS are high, but an "events per hour" limit was probably triggered. looking in to better monitoring and limit config to prevent similar problems RT Eurosky Social @eurosky.social - 9h Apologies everyone, we know there was an issue with posts and reactions for 60-90 minutes. Everything was being saved on the PDS so no data was lost. It seems we lost connection to the Bluesky downstream app, we're investigating the reason.

Took just days for Bluesky & Eurosky to prove that Europeans on Eurosky remain at the mercy of US Bluesky with no digital sovereignty for Europeans offered.

#eurosky #bluesky #digitalsovereignty

“Investors” accounted for 30.2% of home purchases in 2025, nearly double their share at the start of the #pandemic, according to data from Cotality. A report from Realtor.com found the change wasn’t because of a surge of investor activity, but rather a pullback from traditional buyers who could […]

“The timing couldn’t be worse”

Tennessee farmers have been squeezed by Trump’s trade war - now they’re getting hit by his Iran War 🧑‍🌾

notes on the creative process stuff I've figured out over 3 1/2 decades of writing

During these days of pain and fury, having an outlet is crucially important. For some of us, it's creative work.

I thought this might be a good time to share some things that I've figured out over the last– oh, thirty-five years of doing this:

Putin Helps His Friend Orbán

The Kremlin has launched a disinformation campaign aimed at helping PM Orbán get re-elected next month.

Putin's administration has endorsed a plan by Russian consultancy Social Design Agency, which involves flooding social media […]

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B.C.’s switch to permanent DST adds to the ‘perfect storm’ for poorer adolescent sleep and mental health The adoption of permanent DST in B.C. raises significant concerns about social jetlag and long-term health impacts, especially for young people.

B.C.'s switch to permanent DST adds to the ‘perfect storm’ for poorer adolescent sleep and mental health

@davidebybc.bsky.social not too late to reverse this policy that will worsen kids' mental health

theconversation.com/b-c-s-switch...

Excerpt from Conversation Canada piece on harms of pDST for adolescents: The experiment with permanent DST is likely to have significant effects over time. Evidence suggests negative effects on adolescents' sleep and well-being. Researchers, health-care providers, policymakers and the public will need to work together to monitor the sleep duration, mood, health behaviours, and other intended and unintended consequences of the transition to permanent DST for adolescents. Funded research examining changes at the population level is important to provide evidence about the effects of permanent DST for adolescents living in British Columbia.

We will enter a population level experiment using our kids again. How much public funding will have to be spent studying this mistake? @savestandard.bsky.social

Normalcy bias ... is a cognitive bias which leads people to disbelieve or minimize threat.

The normalcy bias causes many people to prepare inadequately for natural disasters, market crashes, and calamities caused by human error. About 80% of people reportedly display normalcy bias during a […]

A.I. Isn't People How many Reddit posts does it take to learn to read?

A.I. Isn't People

https://www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-people

<- We know EXACTLY how LLMs work. It is not that complicated. You can express it in 200 lines.

They absolutely, canonically, by definition, are not aware. They cannot think. This is not controversial or hard.

#ThomsonReuters employees were alarmed to learn that #ICE was paying the company $22.8 million for "software to pull public and private information about individuals, and to track license plates." More than 200 employees signed an internal letter asking management "not [to] renew the ICE […]

WASHINGTON: Despite republicans’ best efforts, including a 24 hour filibuster-style debate — “the state house approved a levy on incomes over $1 million… pays for free breakfast & lunch for k-12 students…”

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