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Kennedy Says 'Charlatans' Are No Reason to Block Unproven Stem Cell Treatments (Christina Jewett/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/health/kennedy-stem-cells-experimental-treatments.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p147#a250605p147

Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday announced that the government’s emergency preparedness agency ❌ will no longer fund work on messenger RNA vaccines,
🆘delivering a crippling blow to the country’s capacity to develop vaccines during the next pandemic or public health emergency.

Kennedy said the "Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority", better known as BARDA,
was terminating 22 grants supporting development of mRNA vaccines
because “…

Health secretary RFK Jr. shuts door on U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research
Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news that RFK Jr. has shut the door in U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research.

Jeg er i Birmingham for at blive optaget til en podcast i morgen. Efter en lang periode med lidt vel rigeligt arbejde satsede jeg på lidt afslapning på turen. Værelset på Conference Aston Hotel (det hedder det! RækkefŸlgen er ulogisk, don’t shoot me) er gammelt og småt, og her var rigeligt varmt da jeg ankom.
Men nu har jeg fået indrettet mig! Vinduerne er på klem, indergardinet samlet med en knude (!), og så har jeg fået room service! Tre forretter og ikke andet, haha 😅

Logging in here or the first time in a while to wish @… a very heartily fuck you for inviting a racist to give a keynote at #RailsConf.
What a way to sully your legacy and that of the conference, putting a bad taste in everyone's mouth.
There's a German expression for this—a "Griff ins Klo" (reaching into the toilet and pulling something out).
I hope y'all step on Lego bricks daily.

Hey, folks who understand alt text and limited vision accessibility:
I have need to write alt text for the diagram below. The alt text needs to be comprehensible to somebody who is encountering this kind of diagram for the ••very first time••. I could describe the images using the relevant jargon, but that would only serve people who already know the thing this activity is teaching them!
Any suggestions for how I could write good alt text for something like this? Is it possible? (The horizontal black bars are minus signs, i.e. subtraction. This is clear from context in the text, but probably not clear in the image.)
PLEASE NOTE: I am looking for people with ••relevant accessibility expertise••, not just random best shots from people who (like me) don’t really know much about this kind of problem.

A few thoughts I had after a conversation with a friend. What are you - as a professional - even saying when openly using ChatGPT for your decision-making?
https://tante.cc/2025/07/06/so-what-are-you-saying/

So what are you saying?
I had a conversation with a friend who described sitting in a workshop where clients and the people they hired were working on problems. As you do. Happens in every consultingy kind of job. But what has totally become normalized is for the people hired, the “experts” to use ChatGPT and similar services to come […]

"All the tech oligarchs and business titans who’ve thrown in with Trump, apparently deciding that strongman politics are good for business, should think carefully about that post; in it, you can see the transition to a new kind of American regime.""
'Think carefully': How a single Trump threat should have cronies panicking - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-musk-2672324238/?cx_testId=4&cx_testVariant=cx_undefined&cx_artPos=1&cx_experienceId=EXC93HV4HK4I&cx_experienceActionId=showRecommendationsJ2A0SJUMQX4T24#cxrecs_s

TTC new CEO took the bus from Kennedy to Scarborough Town Center to do his press conference.
Like Andy Byford, an actual CEO that uses transit. Refreshing (the bar is low). Cautiously optimistic.
https://www.

People hired for their skill are openly using ChatGPT and I wondered, what the long term strategy is?
(Original title: So what are you saying?)
https://tante.cc/2025/07/06/so-what-are-you-saying/

So what are you saying?
I had a conversation with a friend who described sitting in a workshop where clients and the people they hired were working on problems. As you do. Happens in every consultingy kind of job. But what has totally become normalized is for the people hired, the “experts” to use ChatGPT and similar services to come […]

'When the road disappears into uncertainty, divergent thinkers and polymaths become indispensable. They see new trails where others see only trees. They reframe the problem, question inherited assumptions and bring together knowledge from across various disciplines. In times of systemic shocks, it’s not expertise in one field that saves us but the ability to connect the dots across many. This is the kind of competence needed now because everything is linked and disruption moves fast. '