Mike's right that Santos was on his way to be an "Attack Queer" - Richard Goldstein's term for right wing LGBT people who easily obtain media prominence to attack other LGTB people/communities
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Musafir, a young member of the Taliban, conscripted into the organisation when he was still a child
With no room at the pediatric ICU, or no pediatric ICU A friend is a retired neonatal ICU doctor. It’s a tough gig watching premies struggle for life. Even tougher when she lost one. Tougher still for the parents. Alexander Stockton and Lucy King produced a video diary for the New York Times about how COVID, RSV and flu are hitting young kids especially hard this winter. My connection to RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) is modest but memorable. So when it pops up in the news I notice. This year it’s a tripledemic (Yale Medicine): “What we are seeing is record levels of RSV in young children. Usually, we see a spike in December or January, but it’s earlier this year,” says Scott Roberts, MD, a Yale Medicine infectious diseases specialist. Meanwhile, as of early December, RSV cases reported by Yale were beginning to go down and COVID-19 and flu cases were increasing. A big part of the flu increase, he explains, is our lack of immunity from having not been exposed to the virus for several seasons due to masking and other precautions, many of which have fallen to the wayside.
I think this is a genuine "blame the headline writer not the journalist" case but the widespread journalistic sympathies to the Effective Altruism scam cult keeps tingling my spidey sense.
I just posted these comments on Twitter having watched Sunak speak to the nation on his 'vision':
Thanks largely to the violence meted out by the Israeli government, 2022 was likely the most violent year for the West Bank since 2005. Yet a new hope lies on the horizon in the form of a slew of new, well-disciplined Palestinian resistance groups.
The post For Palestinians, 2022 Was a Year of Renewed Tragedy and New Hope appeared first on MintPress News.
Just because the weather gods are now smiling on Europe does not mean its energy crunch is over.
Após prejuízos de R$ 117 milhões com multas ambientais não recolhidas, Secretaria de Meio Ambiente acelerou andamento de processos.
The post Mato Grosso zerou uma década de multas ambientais após farra das prescrições appeared first on The Intercept.
Stuart Spray reports on the inspiring work being done to restore the UK's seas and coastlines and the bad news threatening to undermine this
It seems reasonable to hope that a successful explanation of wage rigidity would contribute to understanding the extent of the welfare loss associated with unemployment and what can be done to reduce it … Many theories of wage rigidity and unemployment include partial answers to these questions as part of their assumptions, so that the […]
High on Life can trap players inside Applebee's forever (Thanks to Ralph)
On this week’s Lever Time Premium: David speaks with a leading expert in airline history and regulation; and discusses the shadowy power wielded by our country’s largest law firms.
Photos from space show 11,000 beavers are wreaking havoc on the Alaskan tundra as savagely as wildfire (Thanks to Robert Moats)
Cow gets lost in shopping centre, stuck in mud, during 24 hour emergency streak (Thanks to Fabian Marson)
Chaos on Lake Union hot tub boat ends in finger pointing (Thanks to Allen at Division)
More links… If you’re using MTurk to run surveys, you probably should consider an alternative — Florian Cova (Geneva) with an experimental philosophy cautionary tale A private firm is planning on using genetic engineering to de-extinct the woolly mammoth — Andy Lamey (UCSD) has some questions “I had been involved in actions that seemed deeply wrong to me, though perhaps necessary in the conduct of the war, and parts of my soul were at war with each other” — Paul Woodruff (Texas) on how philosophy helped him put his “soul back together” “It is a strange thing… that the more time and pains men have consumed in the study of philosophy, by so much the more they look upon themselves to be ignorant and weak creatures” — George Berkeley is “interviewed” at 3:16AM “Prohibitions aren’t enough. We need a positive moral vision that guides us towards securing a better future.
Not to sound like an old Carson joke setup, but…. It is a mystery just how much of their own BS the hardest right among the Republican House caucus believes. They really, really dislike their own party establishment. That’s something activists on both sides of the aisle can appreciate. What they do about it is something else. Especially with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is now backing Rep. Kevin McCarthy in his failing bid for Speaker. McCarthy failed to secure the votes to win three times on Tuesday. There is more fun to come this afternoon. CNN’s Jake Tapper offered some praise for Greene’s willingness to back the majority of her caucus, while contributor Jonah Goldberg condemned the holdouts (Mediaite): “They’re nihilists,” he said before ripping Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), a leading anti-McCarthy voice. “Most of these guys are performative people. Matt Gaetz is an illiterate.” Dana Bash asked Goldberg if the speakership drama speaks to a broader problem with the Republican Party.
The problem, you see, is extremists on Both Sides.
I think this less true of younger political reporters, generally (though they are often conservative in new exciting ways) but old guard guys like Tom Edsall do truly believe The Squad and The Republican Clown Caucus are precisely the same, and what American truly needs is to have everything go through a bipartisan commission run by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles.
Sian Norris reports from the incel forums on their reaction to the Tik-Tok influencer’s arrest – and the reaction is not what you would expect
This one is for all my students. Never give in. Never give up.
The Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy (BIAP) has been awarded the María de Maeztu Prize by the Spanish government’s Ministry of Science and Innovation. The prize includes official recognition for BIAP as a “unit of excellence” and a €2 million (approximately $2.12 million) grant to support its research over the next five years. BIAP was the only institute in the humanities in Spain to have been awarded a María de Maeztu prize this year. BIAP is comprised of researchers from the University of Barcelona, the University Pompeu Fabra, and the University of Girona, and the project will involve researchers at all three institutions. The research program the prize will support is on the nature and role of evidence. It aims to: 1. explore and systematize the different roles, and scope, assigned to evidence in a variety of well-defined contexts of enquiry, 2. develop a coherent overall conception of the nature of evidence, and of evidential support, across the aforementioned contexts of enquiry, synthesizing the results obtained in pursuit of the first principal research objective, and 3.
The scandal-hit baroness was elevated for years by the party now backtracking over the PPE firm linked to her that won millions in pandemic contracts
Here at Time, we find it incredibly important to update you on any changes, updates, irregularities, and goings on. However, the purpose of this particular letter is celebratory. We would like to formally congratulate you on making it to 2023, which will officially be the final year.
We’ve seen many years over the years: 1789. 105. 1453. 280. 1066. 476. 2020.
Year 33 was particularly influential—not to mention the seemingly endless years before. But now we’ve reached the final year, and we couldn’t be more proud that you’re here for it.
So: what should you expect in the final year? Well, don’t get too excited—99 percent of all years have been forgotten by most everyone except keen historians. Luckily, this year won’t have that problem because there won’t be any more years after this one, and since it will always be this year, nobody will ever manage to forget about it. Isn’t that wonderful?
So, Canada has done two interesting things in the last couple years to deal with the effects of Covid. The first is let in a lot more immigrants:
Canada added more than 431,000 new permanent residents last year, the largest annual increase in its history, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seeks to ease the country’s labor shortages.
The new admissions met the 2022 target set by Trudeau’s government and exceeded the prior year’s record of about 401,000 newcomers, according to a release from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada on Tuesday.