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lol that's quite the caption https://gothamist.com/news/staten-islands-lost-city-of-wild-beaches-is-a-spiritual-refuge-for-new-yorkers

Staten Island's 'lost city' of wild beaches is a spiritual refuge for New Yorkers
Many of the borough's beaches are secluded and lack lifeguards. For many visitors, that’s key to their appeal.

Das #Rezept des Tages:
Die #Kürbiszeit ist eine gute Gelegenheit für einen herzhaften #Nudelauflauf mit Hokkaido-Kürbis. 🎃🍝

Nudelauflauf mit Hokkaido-Kürbis
Auch Kürbis passt zu einem Nudelauflauf. Besonders beliebt ist bei mir der Hokkaido-Kürbis, weil man ihn einfach mit Schale verarbeiten kann. Man braucht ihn eigentlich nur waschen und schadhafte Stellen abschneiden....

By “accusing powerful people of doing things in secret for their own benefit, against the common good,”
RFK Jr is trafficking in conspiracy theories,
according to Joseph E. Uscinski, a political scientist at the University of Miami who studies the phenomenon.
Having a top government official contradicting science is
“a serious, serious problem,”
Professor Uscinkski said,
“because the hope is that,
in a free society,
you develop expertise and me…

RFK Jr., Rejecting Vaccine Data, Fuels Distrust of Public Health Agencies
By promoting suspicions about the institutions he oversees, critics say Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is jeopardizing public health. He says he is pursuing transparency.

TL;DR:
Observational study found DTP correlated to higher short term (~2y) death rates in children.
1. The original study was small (n=1000) and methodologically weak.
2. An attempt to reproduce the study failed to show any corelation.
3. It was 40 years ago, using the old DTP vax which has been redesigned/reformulated extensively.
That man would have people dying of lockjaw to weed out the weak.

Why experts are concerned about the vaccine study cited by RFK Jr.
RFK Jr. stunned the global health world when he said the U.S. would halt funding the group that helps provide vaccines to many low-income countries. The study he cited is seen by others as dubious.

There was a time when, if you were lucky enough to get a piece of software stable and working well, it continued to be stable and work well.
Now we have relentless updates, whose problems are exemplified by an overnight update of my Mac to OS X 15.6 doing a factory reset of the settings of many of my programs.
Let's not even go into the behavioral changes that get pushed that invalidate all your muscle memory in order to boost some product manager's performance review.
I like stability, but it's just another casualty of this endless churn.

I've got a half-memory of a saxophone-heavy quintet visiting my rural high school's music class, parading in playing their instruments, wearing colourful Middle Eastern-influenced robes and headwear. In retrospect they *must* have been the Shuffle Demons[1], and I would have known who they were ("Spadina Bus" had been big a year or two earlier and was among my favourite songs [and still is]), but I don't remember *specifically* that they were the Shuffle Demons.
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Das #Leckerli zum Probieren:
Im Herbst gibt es haufenweise #Kürbisse und daraus lässt sich allerlei kochen und backen. Wie wäre es einmal mit #Kürbiskeksen? 🎃 Dafür benötigt man e…

Kürbiskekse
Aus Hokkaido-Kürbis kann man nicht nur ein leckeres Kürbis-Pilz-Curry oder eine Hokkaido-Kürbissuppe kochen sondern auch Kekse backen.

I recently got around to installing an OS on my home server, and setting up an Ansible playbook to manage the basic config.
mDNS is working, so I can access it at server.local on my network.
What’s next? Many ideas, but I think setting up docker and using it to run @… is on the short list.
Would be lovely to have a second copy of my git repos at ho…

Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) immunizations chief
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis said Sunday that
he’s concerned with the direction the agency is going and worried about public health going forward.
Daskalakis, who served as director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases,
submitted his resignation from the CDC on Wednesday in protest following the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) removing CDC Director Susan Mona…

Former CDC immunizations chief: ‘I only see harm coming’ with RFK Jr. leading HHS
Daskalakis is concerned with HHS's direction and the effect on public health.

Ezra Klein recently asked Kate Shaw, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, what powers the recent Supreme Court decisions seem to grant Trump that Barack Obama or Joe Biden just didn’t think they had when they were president.
Here’s what she said:
“Refuse to spend money appropriated by Congress.
Remove heads of independent agencies protected by statute from summary firing.
Fire civil servants without cause. Dismantle federal agencies.
Call up the N…

Opinion | Stop Funding Trump’s Takeover
Democrats aren’t powerless, and they don’t have to enable autocracy.