https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/health/kennedy-vaccines-gavi.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare “Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon who led global health work in the Biden administration, called Mr. Kennedy’s remarks “stunning and calamitous.” #RFJK #GAVI… (1/2)

It's 1991, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

It's 2003, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

It's 2025, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

Incredible.

My takeaway: Satellite launches are undoing the recovery of the ozone layer that should be happening now that CFCs are banned. And this study doesn't even take into account metal deposition from reentries, which might be even worse!

When I teach climate change in my astro classes, I always give the recovery of the ozone layer as an example of how countries can work together to fix a giant problem (Montreal Protocol). I guess satellite companies are now destroying that too.

The US now has no vaccine advisory committee, no CDC director, and an anti-vaxxer as Health Secretary.

163.625 MHz: Often cited as a Nationwide primary channel for some federal law enforcement.
163.700 MHz, 163.725 MHz, 163.775 MHz: Tactical channels.
168.5875 MHz: Another common tactical channel.
171.250 MHz (R) / 162.9125 MHz (T): A repeater pair used by ICE.

There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.

-- Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica

Just in case you didn’t know …

A century-old draft card, a railroad no one remembered, and handwriting that nearly fooled us. Thanks to some teamwork between genealogist and AI, we uncovered the true story of Harry Lee Williams's railroad career, from the Big Four to the New York Central. A fascinating reminder that even a scribble can carry history. https://jameshoward.us/2025/06/03/the-railroad-was-there-all-along

🛤️ #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #WWIRecords #RailroadHistory #BigFourRailroad

@fabio @stevel @Lazarou This is what I've been trying to do with my research program at my home lab, on a much smaller scale.

The day job is my "primary business" and some fraction of the profits from that is reinvested in whatever I feel like researching. Some of it dead-ends (crazy distributed build system with "makefiles" written in compiled C++), others end up being much more broadly useful (ngscopeclient)

My employer, after 7 months of work, fired me overnight. Because I would be too "finicky" about code quality and security risks, which would better suit "a bank or cybersecurity company".

So I'm again #lookingForJob, either at #Montpellier (France) or #fullRemote. I am a #fullStack #developer with almost 10 years of experience on #php, #symfony, #html, #css, #javascript (#jquery and I'm also learning #vue). I am fluent in English, both written and spoken.

#FediHire

(Reuters) - Pediatric infectious disease expert Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos of the US CDC resigns as co-leader of a working group that advises outside experts on COVID vaccines and is leaving the agency. reut.rs/4ksJLZt

Just over a day left on this auction! If you're local to Seattle and in the market for office furniture or older hardware (Apple, A/V, Guitar Hero, or otherwise), be sure to check it out!

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@erininthemorning.com @moira I love visiting Missoula!!

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Symbolically, on this day 29 years ago — 1 June 1996 — Ukraine handed over its last nuclear weapon to russia under the Budapest Memorandum. In return, russia pledged to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and borders. Russia got the nukes. Ukraine got “security guarantees." Remember?

Is anyone else having problems selling their CWC tickets vis Ticketmaster? My listing was pulled down and Ticketmaster shows that resale ability is turned off. #SoundersFC #ticketmaster #fifacwc

The {ragnar} #RStats 📦 for doing RAG (retrieval augmented generation) with R has been submitted to CRAN 🎉 https://ragnar.tidyverse.org/news/index.html

In other #GenAI R news: the new {kuzco} #RStats 📦 for computer vision works with local #LLMs in R for classification, recognition, sentiment, text extraction and alt-text generation. https://posit.co/blog/kuzco-computer-vision-with-llms-in-r/

Happy to see #R #GenAI activity heating up

@georgetakei Sadly the US will be rounding them up next 😢