They removed 7 vaccines from the schedule to "restore confidence in the schedule."
Glad to know we can now count on their full-throated support for what's left of it.
The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials say.
Interesting. Correlation between waning effect & dementia protection does seem to hint at causality...and if that's right I guess we'll see a paper in ~25 years finding less dementia in the varicella-vaccinated cohort, as they get old enough to measure this. Setting calendar reminder for 2050!
A landmark new study in JAMA Pediatrics shows the HPV vaccine is doing exactly what it promised & more. 17yrs after rollout, adolescent vaccination has slashed HPV infxns not only among those vaccinated but also those unvaccinated, showing powerful herd protection.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
I just called. Couldn't be easier.
916-445-2841
You: "I'm a California voter and I'm calling to encourage the governor to sign SB 79."
Staffer: "Ok, I've registered your support, thanks."
If you're a CA voter and you think it should be legal to build homes near mass transit, call today.
That's where you come in: Call Gov. Newsom and tell him to sign SB 79! Get five friends to do the same. Post about and tag him! This is all trivially easy, but it could make a big difference.
916-445-2841
actionnetwork.org/letters/sign...
☎️ ✅ done, appreciate the reminder!
☎️ ✅ done, appreciate the reminder!
Me too. What I want is a collection of physical cards I can flip through. Album cover on the front, track listing on the back. QR or bar code. Wave the card in front of little scanner, album plays. A pantomime of the vinyl experience, but compact and digital.
"He is sitting, standing, and lying down at the same time"
Rainbow over Potrero Hill, seen from Bernal Hill, with downtown skyline on the left.
Semicircular rainbow over San Francisco bay, photographed from Bernal Hill
Evening rainbow walk on Bernal Hill.
Limited edition model, nice.
Occurred to me on a walk: doesn't the argument for NGDP targeting get even stronger if things go well and AI induces a positive productivity shock leading to consistent (but salutary!) deflation? Inflation targeting seems ill-equipped to handle that scenario gracefully.
Closeup of raven on Bernal Hill in San Francisco
Closeup of raven on Bernal Hill in San Francisco
Bernal Hill ravens
🍋, good call, will try.
Oh dear. 😬
But in seriousness, this is one of the advantages of the Instant Pot — very stable!
Garlic to taste. Slurp harder.
Thanks friend. 🙏 It does help!
Yes.
Instant pot with boiling water and steam.
Human head hovering over Instant Pot with dishtowel for cold symptom relief.
Attention sick people (i.e. all of you). Your Instant Pot makes an excellent upper respiratory sauna, perfectly sized for a human skull.
Add 2 cups of water and hit "saute." When boiling, turn off, cover head with dish towel, hover face over pot and inhale deeply for a while.
Here's a prediction: some appellate courts, and eventually the Supreme Court, will twist themselves into pretzels to give the Trump administration the expanded powers they're seeking, precisely to forestall the crisis situation in which their direct orders are ignored.
Just wrote about the UK Apple encryption mess. This is a BIG deal. It doesn't just apply to the UK. It would be an absolute disaster for online privacy and security. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/07/u...
Even modest reforms can make a big difference in people's lives.
I spoke to a Denver resident last week planning to build one for an ailing relative. Before, she would have had to slog through a rezoning process. If her HOA even allowed it.
Now both of those barriers to a new home are gone.
Happy ADUs-are-legal-in-Denver day to all who celebrate!
denverite.com/2024/11/19/d...
The city council voted to legalize them in November to comply with state law HB24-1152, and the new rules took effect today.
A small but meaningful step forward for housing abundance in Colorado. 🎉
It’s widely accepted *that* less expensive housing markets see less homelessness, but this important piece shows *why*: family & friends have more space to spare worksinprogress.co/issue/why-ho...
Why do cheap market rents drive homelessness rates even among people with $0 income?
Well, when the market is affordable, *family & friends* have spare beds!
I use the vacant Baltimore ADU in The Wire to tell this story in outreach meetings
Salim actually digs into the data to prove it 👇
If we want to stick it to the health insurance companies, rather than celebrating the murder of their CEOs, perhaps we might consider advocating repeal of the tax subsidy that diverts oceans of cash in their direction thanks to the unintended side effects of our WWII era wage controls?
A funny thing I’ve noticed is that when left-NIMBY groups get unworkable amendments into land use reform bills, the limited impact of those bills later becomes “proof” that land use reform doesn’t work
Online sports gambling: ruinously addictive, no redeeming social value: 👍🤩
Real money prediction markets: mostly sophisticated traders aggregating diffuse knowledge to produce highly valuable price signals that can inform decision making and public policy: ❌🚨🚓 straight to jail.
It is, simply, true.
