Maximilien "Mjolnir tosser" Guerrero

Still on Wormer's "double secret probation"! Personal vendetta against logical fallacies. Believer in virtuous malice. Copenhagen interpretation is probable.

[Maximilien "Mjolnir tosser" Guerrero @Praetorian27]

1/2 I have started a Substack blog. It will be mostly about politics, but also include discussions on #philosophy, #history, and #science. It is meant as a long form analysis; not brain farts as this page currently is. It will be open access and free. https://t.co/qavREOKAJq

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

Around the world, we are witnessing disaster capitalism on steroids. It’s no longer just the security-adjacent industries but whole swathes of the corporate sector thriving on increasingly frequent emergencies.

@NaomiAKlein saw this coming in Shock Doctrine — a huge inspiration for my own book, How China Escaped Shock Therapy. “What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism,” she wrote, “with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon as the law catches up.”

Klein and @astradisastra’s End Times Fascism charts the connection between this zombie stage of capitalism and fascism.

Their work is a huge inspiration for Anti-fascist Economics. Couldn’t be more moved to stumble upon this endorsement.

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

One of the upshots of the Economist’s attack on Daron Acemoglu is that the key dividing line is not about methodology. You can literally be the most decorated mainstream economist but if you land on the “wrong” side, you are ousted.

The key dividing line is whose side you are on: workers or big business.

[Sam Haselby @samhaselby]

Almost 20 years ago, Robert Darnton, who was then head of the Harvard libraries, organized other university libraries to decline Google's request to digitize their books because they refused to guarantee public access in perpetuity. He was prescient.

[Levy Institute @LevyEcon]

Levy Scholar, James Galbraith, explains why the $40 trillion federal debt may not be as unsustainable as it sounds.

#NationalDebt #FederalDebt #economics

https://t.co/KK3nUg4kiH

[Francesca Fiorentini @franifio]

Did Hasan Piker meet with Jared Kushner? No that was Hakeem Jeffries.

Did Hasan Piker platform Steve Bannon on his show? No that was Gavin Newsom.

Democratic leadership is unserious about stopping fascism. They know it and now with week 40 of Hasan Piker distraction, we know it

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

Now is the moment to stand with Stephanie Kelton the same way economists stood with @DAcemogluMIT.

As a heterodox economist, you’re too often treated as a free-for-all.
Mainstream economists and journalists happily take your ideas when they help make sense of the world—often without attribution. And when convenient, they misconstrue those same ideas in ways that attempt to make you look ridiculous.
No amount of explanation seems to change this.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Chris Van Hollen is thus far the only 2028 contender in the Senate calling for the Trump admin to free a 20-year-old American from Israeli detention.

No Gallego, Booker, Kelly, Murphy, Ossoff, Slotkin, or Warnock.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

A new approach to a cancer treatment vaccine
1. Make universal induced pluripotent stem cells into dendritic cells
2. Dress them up with patient's tumor antigens from the membrane of cancer cells that merge with dendritic cells
3. Unleash these cells on T cells to kill tumor
https://t.co/UVFri5xPGq

[Pitchfork Economics @PitchforkEcon]

Franchising is sold as small business ownership. @brian_callaci says it’s also one of corporate America’s most powerful legal tricks: control the work, push risk downward, and keep responsibility at arm’s length.

New this week on Pitchfork Economics
🎧 ➡️https://t.co/kesX7q4c5o

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

NEW from me: @BernieSanders is Dems’ version of Goldwater — like Goldwater’s ‘64 race, Bernie’s 2016 race ignited a movement to change his party.

Corporate Dems are trying to stop his uprising because they fear ending up like the old GOP establishment — thrown out & irrelevant.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Israel has said that paper kites flown by Palestinian children will be treated as weapons of war.

Read that again.

This is the reality of genocide: the total destruction of innocence, freedom and joy.

End all military cooperation with Israel, now.

[Ed Markey @EdMarkey]

We don't just need a democratic majority in the Senate. We need a PROGRESSIVE majority.

From Maine to Minnesota to Michigan to Massachusetts, we will fight, and we will win.

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

The warning signs of a weakening scientific system appear long before the consequences reach our everyday lives.

Dr. Gretchen Goldman, CEO of @UCSUSA, breaks down three warning signs we are experiencing right now.

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

The Montreal City Council is set to debate a controversial motion Monday calling on the Canadian city to suspend all institutional ties with the Israeli government.

Avi Lewis, a leading Jewish Canadian politician and head of the progressive New Democratic Party, says it’s a reflection of widespread outrage among Canadians over Israel’s actions across the Middle East.

https://t.co/VmuUe2cDW9

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

Jared Kushner uses his ties to the White House to make business deals with autocrats and extract money from world conflicts in Iran, Gaza, and Ukraine. There's no good reason why Hakeem Jeffries should work with him. https://t.co/IsipGHFDer

[Niko McCarty. @NikoMcCarty]

It is possible to image cells (using ultrasound) as they move through the body. This could transform medicine.

Consider a pharmaceutical company that wants to test whether an engineered immune cell, such as those used for CAR-T therapy, can detect and destroy cancer cells. At least six types of CAR-T cells have already passed through clinical trials and earned FDA approval. But during these clinical trials, only a handful of indicators are measured: the number of cells infused into the body, the size of the tumor over time, and some blood marker proxies for the immune system’s activity. Just about everything happening inside the body itself—the number of cells that make it to a tumor, the time it takes for them to reach that tumor, or the route by which they get there—is a mystery. But now there is a technology that enables us to *actually* figure out where those CAR-T cells moved through the body.

The secret is gas vesicles, or little protein shells that trap gas, rather than liquids or solids. If you engineer cells to express these gas vesicles, then they will show up very strongly on ultrasound scans (because everything else in the body is liquid; so the air acts as a contrast agent.)

In one paper, Mikhail Shapiro’s group at Caltech did exactly this. They used a lentivirus to put “acoustic reporter genes” (aka gas vesicles) into T cells, injected those T-cells into mice with cancer, and then watched “their function inside opaque living organs.” Brilliant.

(The image below is an E. coli bacterium with these gas vesicles.)

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

She’s a doctor. She suffered a heart attack.

But she’s Palestinian and wrote something on social media Apartheid Israel didn’t like ….

So now she’s being tortured & starved in the most well-documented network of rape dungeons on earth, operated by Israel.

[Yuen Yuen Ang @yuenyuenang]

Acemoglu / AJR argues that economic growth requires “non-extractive” institutions. I agree.

Thus, the puzzle isn’t China - but the rise of the West

How did the West prosper despite extractive institutions?

https://t.co/P4pmn0q0hM

[Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria]

The V-Dem Institute’s latest Democracy Report has downgraded the US from a liberal democracy to an electoral democracy. Why is American democracy in decline? My conversation with Nobel Prize-winning economist @DAcemogluMIT, who has a diagnosis and a prescription in his new book, “What Happened to Liberal Democracy?”

[Francesca Fiorentini @franifio]

Disqualifying for leadership disqualifying for the Democratic Party