Maia Szalavitz

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

light therapy and cat face?

yeah, I don't see any plausibility in Epstein blackmailing a teen with nude pictures... his having them could be a crime depending on her age, so how would it even work? & why would a rich guy bother with such a petty sum that would invite scrutiny? makes zero sense.

i thought it really weird that it was news that she didn't lie about where she was from and what her mom did. why would she lie about those things even if she was lying about the accusations? I want to see justice & support survivors, but it has to be done rigorously for that to happen.

it's nice that someone did deep historical research on this particular instance, but it's true of all recreational drug prohibitions. data about what the drugs actually do rarely has any effect on these laws...

New analysis shows ideology, not science, drove the global prohibition of psychedelics Archival records reveal that the 1971 global ban on psychedelics was fueled by Cold War politics and media sensationalism, not medical science. This historical analysis suggests international drug laws should be updated to reflect actual scientific evidence.

New analysis shows ideology, not science, drove the global prohibition of psychedelics

Stop 👏 having 👏 unrealistic 👏 body 👏 standards 👏 for 👏 camels 👏

New paper inspired by @nanopharmnc.bsky.social
Xylazine's k-opioid agonist activity is not shared with other FDA-approved alpha2-adrenergic agonists

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Text: "For a split second I thought something had gone terribly, biblically wrong with my cat" Picture has a cat lying in front of a pillow that has a deer head on it (could be an elk?) but the way the cat is positioned it looks like the cat has the deer/elk's head.

Happy Saturday / #Caturday!

why on earth did they choose that name? I guess someone thought it was cute like POTUS and SCOTUS but NOT US is a terrible brand!!!

And also,

That ship did get unstuck.

yeah, that's why I only use it to transcribe interviews I do myself so I know what was actually said and can check it. It often leaves out "not" so if you aren't careful, you'll quote someone saying opposite of what they meant. but better than just handwritten notes which was my earlier method.

A Pox on Fools by Thomas Levenson: 9798217155002 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books An urgent and profound history of vaccine skepticism, seeking to understand how our three most common fears about vaccines hardened into a lethal ideology—from a leading science writer Since the...

Self promotion alert!

My book A Pox on Fools, comes out on 5/26 (UK) & 6/9 (US).

It's a history of vax opposition, tracing RFK Jr.'s anti-vax grift back to once-somewhat plausible fears. Its goal: to help readers debunk his BS for any persuadables they know.

Preorders are a book's best friend!

why don't more buildings have entry weasels

Your LLM needs a grandmother A response to Acemoglu, Kong, and Ozdaglar

Human evolution built one candidate stabilizer against knowledge collapse. Guess who? hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/your-llm-n...

We interrupt your regularly scheduled doomscrolling for this "release the wieners!" timeline cleanse.

#DoomscrollingBreak

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

This is a nice contrast to all the awful behavior confirmed through the Epstein files. Proud of @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social & @seanmcarroll.bsky.social for picking up on the sexism & charlatanism right away.

How have crime rates in the United States changed over the last 50 years? Both violent and property crime are far below their 1990s peak, but some crimes see periodic rises.

Looking at the 2024 crime figures, it's absolutely insane how Trump, tech billionaires, and centrist pundits fooled everyone into thinking Biden had turned the U.S. into some Hobbesian hellscape.

50-year lows for violent crime, armed robbery, property crime. Second-lowest homicide rate.

two lynx point siamese kittens, lynx and spike.

Thank you, Chris Murphy! Keep shouting keep truth spreading keep fighting to stop the killing

An illustration of five black and white cats against a dark green checked background. There is a large yellow speech bubble above the cats, with the words "solidarity makes the empire tremble" in black

By Monica Trinidad:

justseeds.org/product/soli...

Thanks to everyone who helped my brief ode to the opposition to Trump 2 go micro-viral.

I added a note about how Minnesotans still need our support in a mutual aid pitch, a key aspect of the growing movement against this regime. Please give if you can: www.standwithminnesota.com

Florida Department of Health cuts millions of dollars in funds from HIV and AIDS drug program Starting Sunday, the state will cut its subsidies for the AIDS ​Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), and funds will only be available for people at or below 130% of the federal poverty level, a drop from 4...

They are literally killing people.

What the US did to people around the world in killing USAID, Florida is doing to Floridians.

This is abominable.

www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...

Glen Preece, The Black Cat Café, oil on birch panel, n.d.

#caturday

“if you won’t let us use your product to spy on Americans and kill without supervision we will single-handedly destroy your business by fiat” is the single most authoritarian anti-business action I can ever remember any administration taking

Here's one we baked already www.programmablemutter.com/p/who-loses-...

so, what happens to intersex people?

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

What stands out to me is treating productive capacity as a political variable(!)

Moving from 500 to 1,400 shovelers at $30/hr is a real foray into capacity expansion organized around a clear public standard, instead of letting the “how do we pay for it?” frame set the ceiling in advance.

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