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RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117073466693048693

Liza is a good person to follow, anyway, but this thread is super interesting. This deregulation and malignant revisionary history that RFK Jr is playing is absolutely, necessarily, going to kill people.

And you know he's never going to acknowledge, take responsibility, or feel any consequences for his actions. This is textbook "social murder".

BREAKING: Trump is overriding decades of vaccine science with a new executive order pushing his own made-up childhood vaccine schedule.

He’s not a doctor. He’s not a vaccine scientist. He doesn’t have the expertise to override decades of medical research.

This is reckless.

https://apnews.com/article/vaccine-research-autism-trump-kennedy-rfk-d10f81f221c4ae9f5b2f83dd0ee98b29 #press

"Some of its assumptions belong firmly to the medieval Norse world, but much of its advice remains recognizable."
https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/10-sayings-from-odin-medieval-norse-wisdom-from-the-havamal/

It is the year 2026 of the common era. My work laptop is a 24-core beast with 32 logical processors, 64GB of RAM and a fast NVMe 1TB SSD.

Given that, why the fuck is everything on my work PC running so slow that it feels like I'm back in the 1990s?

(This is a post about Windows, corporate IT management, and the wisdom - or otherwise - of storing everything in the cloud...)

#CorporateLife

Important: Trump’s executive order is NOT legislation. Though the executive order promotes more misinformation about vaccines, nothing has changed about the availability of childhood vaccines. For evidence-based guidance, please follow and share American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations.

#WordWeavers 9: What's the smallest detail you've researched for a story? 2/2

I now have a better answer. Recently, it was the correct spelling of "Holy Moly." Which I had written as "Holy Moley."

#NMWW #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 11 Do you feel like a different person when you're doing your creative work?

No. I don't write in any kind of altered state.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#WordWeavers 11: Which shelved project are you itching to get back to?

None; the only project that currently itches is my WIP and something I haven't started. A mini series about Coco from the Witch Hat manga/anime.

#NMWW #NMPrompts

"USA Today Co. isn’t the only media company to enlist Palantir’s services."
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/americas-largest-newspaper-chain-usa-today-co-partners-with-palantir-to-analyze-audience-data/

...I'm sure THIS will end well.

NEARLY 3,000 ADULTS. 90 U.S. SITES. ~50% LOWER RISK.

A new randomized trial found Long COVID diagnoses at 6 months were 0.56% with metformin vs 1.17% with placebo.

Crucially, this REPLICATES a prior randomized trial showing a similar reduction.

Metformin: Cheap. Global. Decades of use.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-metformin-acute-covid-infection-clinician.html?utm_source=smartnews&utm_medium=app&fbclid=IwdGRleASZEfhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeMAYpTq2IskWHegmUTW3L6SA3h15Mb0L-Lc4S0X-O7QdMbXHNl6_Ijt1qqrU_aem_8_ZtosWA3u_nipRcgspv8Q#google_vignette #press

#ScribesAndMakers 11/08: Do you feel like a different person when you're doing your creative work?

What? No! And this is *not* aimed against anybody who does, but I've been around for long enough, almost 30 years, to think this is as uncreative a statement as are the infamous 'X wanted to write since they were a child' (which has become so common in bios in magazines I almost consider that sentence a red flag) and 'Y has been painting/drawing since they could hold a pen.'

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ht @krismicinski@twitter.com for a speech by Adm. Hopper herself where she talks about what she built

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800025.1198341

here's page 10:

Hell with it. I’m gonna turn the oven on and make some coq au vin.

It’ll give me an excuse to open the vin, at least.

@itwasntme223 *If you see a guillotine and immediately assume it’s for you, maybe you should reconsider some life choices.*

Exactly my first thought.

@ai6yr Oh yeah. I got a couple of their albums. Didn't think anybody remembered Brasil 66.

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