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#TeensInAi #YouthVsCOVID19 #EthicalHack

[Springbored @SpringboredLabs]

@moneymaryx then life will continue unfair and unjust, and we watch it go by, knowing we chose to do naught - but rest in our laurels because that's what life taught

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[calvin westra @filet_o_calvin]

rats will avoid actions
that hurt others
even if it earns them a treat

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

JUST IN: 🇪🇸🇮🇱 Spain cancels $820,000,000 arms contract with Israel.

[MikeD @mjdaly57]

It’s possible to check the political and personal donations for everyone on that list bar one and that is Ellie Reeves. She has been the MP for Lewisham West/Penge since 2017 yet there is absolutely no published record of the political donations she’s received in the last eight years: nothing. Nothing on the various Register of Interests websites and nothing on the @ElectoralCommUK website. This does seem strange to say the least. She’s one of the most powerful individuals in The Labour Party:

Chair of The Labour Party
Minister Without Portfolio
Privy Council member
Chair of Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC)

So who funded Ellie Reeves’ election campaign in 2017? In 2019? And in 2024? Who has funded her rise to such a prominent position in The Labour Party? Why has this information been removed from public scrutiny?

[Springbored @SpringboredLabs]

In 1978, there was a study in the USA comparing the happiness of Lottery winners to accident victims who were paraplegic or quadriplegic.

The study found that, on average, happiness for the victims was slightly higher at 3.48 out of 5 as opposed to 3.33 for the Lottery winners.

[Ben Southwood @bswud]

- A woman raped to death recovering from a stroke on an NHS ward
- Expected to make full recovery
- Nobody reported or noticed any of the massive blood loss in her bed after the rape (for 48 hours)
- She died from blood loss
- All the evidence destroyed

https://t.co/pGMHZJ2NRR

[Town Woman @sAri2BotherU]

It’s an indictment of desirability in our society. She’s not asking for ppl to call or consider her beautiful, she’s asking us to examine the dehumanization of those who are on the margins of desirability

[Town Woman @sAri2BotherU]

I think her point is flying over a lot of people’s heads as far as how we treat ppl who we deem “not beautiful” or not conventionally attractive. You don’t have to be beautiful to be deserving of basic human decency and respect

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[DrDemetre @dr_demetre]

My resignation letter from CDC.

Dear Dr. Houry,

I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business.   I am happy to stay on for two weeks to provide transition, if requested.

This decision has not come easily, as I deeply value the work that the CDC does in safeguarding public health and am proud of my contributions to that critical mission. However, after much contemplation and reflection on recent developments and perspectives brought to light by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., I find that the views he and his staff have shared challenge my ability to continue in my current role at the agency and in the service of the health of the American people. Enough is enough.

While I hold immense respect for the institution and my colleagues, I believe that it is imperative to align my professional responsibilities to my system of ethics and my understanding of the science of infectious disease, immunology, and my promise to serve the American people.  This step is necessary to ensure that I can contribute effectively in a capacity that allows me to remain true to my principles.

I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.  The recent change in the adult and children’s immunization schedule threaten the lives of the youngest Americans and pregnant people.   The data analyses that supported this decision have never been shared with CDC despite my respectful requests to HHS and other leadership.  This lack of meaningful engagement was further compounded by a “frequently asked questions” document written to support the Secretary’s directive that was circulated by HHS without input from CDC subject matter experts and that cited studies that did not support the conclusions that were attributed to these authors.  Having worked in local and national public health for years, I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people.

It is untenable to serve in an organization that is not afforded the opportunity to discuss decisions of scientific and public health importance released under the moniker of CDC.  The lack of communication by HHS and other CDC political leadership that culminates in social media posts announcing major policy changes without prior notice demonstrate a disregard of normal communication channels and common sense.  Having to retrofit analyses and policy actions to match inadequately thought-out announcements in poorly scripted videos or page long X posts should not be how organizations responsible for the health of people should function.  Some examples include the announcement of the change in the COVID-19 recommendations for children and pregnant people, the firing of scientists from ACIP by X post and an op-ed rather than direct communication with these valuable experts, the announcement of new ACIP members by X before onboarding and vetting have completed, and the release of term of reference for an ACIP workgroup that ignored all feedback from career staff at CDC.

The recent term of reference for the COVID vaccine work group created by this ACIP puts people of dubious intent and more dubious scientific rigor in charge of recommending vaccine policy to a director hamstrung and sidelined by an authoritarian leader.   Their desire to please a political base will result in death and disability of vulnerable children and adults.  Their base should be the people they serve not a political voting bloc.

I have always been first to challenge scientific and public health dogma in my career and was excited by the opportunity to do so again.  I was optimistic that there would be an opportunity to brief the Secretary about key topics such as measles, avian influenza, and the highly coordinated approach to the respiratory virus season.  Such briefings would allow exchange of ideas and a shared path to support the vision of “Making America Healthy Again.”  We are seven months into the new administration, and no CDC subject matter expert from my Center has ever briefed the Secretary.  I am not sure who the Secretary is listening to, but it is quite certainly not to us.  Unvetted and conflicted outside organizations seem to be the sources HHS use over the gold standard science of CDC and other reputable sources.  At a hearing, Secretary Kennedy said that Americans should not take medical advice from him.  To the contrary, an appropriately briefed and inquisitive Secretary should be a source of health information for the people he serves. As it stands now, I must agree with him, that he should not be considered a source of accurate information.

The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines favoring natural infection and unproven remedies will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer.  I believe in nutrition and exercise.  I believe in making our food supply healthier, and I also believe in using vaccines to prevent death and disability.  Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated and is derivative of a legacy that good medicine and science should continue to shun.

The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning.  My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so.  I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud.   I am resigning because of the cowardice of a leader that cannot admit that HIS and his minions’ words over decades created an environment where violence like this can occur.  I reject his and his colleagues’ thoughts and prayers, and advise they direct those to people that they have not actively harmed.

For decades, I have been a trusted voice for the LGBTQ community when it comes to critical health topics.  I must also cite the recklessness of the administration in their efforts to erase transgender populations, cease critical domestic and international HIV programming, and terminate key research to support equity as part of my decision.

Public health is not merely about the health of the individual, but it is about the health of the community, the nation, the world. The nation’s health security is at risk and is in the hands of people focusing on ideological self-interest.

I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for the opportunities for growth, learning, and collaboration that I have been afforded during my time at the CDC. It has been a privilege to work alongside such dedicated professionals who are committed to improving the health and well-being of communities across the nation even when under attack from within both physically and psychologically.

Thank you once again for the support and guidance I have received from you and previous CDC leadership throughout my tenure. I wish the CDC continued success in its vital mission and that HHS reverse its dangerous course to dismantle public health as a practice and as an institution.  If they continue the current path, they risk our personal well-being and the security of the United States.

Sincerely,

Demetre C. Daskalakis MD MPH (he/his/him)

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[PaulShilly @shillcock_paul]

@jimthegiant It’s the horrible political culture we have now in this country

If it benefits corporations, it’s practical and sensible

If it benefits people, it’s crank communism and unaffordable

[Flaps OHoolahan @FlapsO_Hoolahan]

So everyone one of you today make a post first thing this morning on inheritance tax

Showing entirely why you’ve asap went berserk feigned outrage about brown people relentlessly

Phase 1 get working classes angry
Phase 2 start telling them it’s a disgrace rich people pay tax and free healthcare, benefits and pensions are stealing

This of populism. This is how Trump dropped huge amounts of tax in the top 0.3%, cut veterans jobs and struck 30 million from having Medicaid leaving them to die if they get ill

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Hi @zarahsultana
Coventry City Council (your constituency) has just signed a £500k AI contract with Palantir (running 2025–2030), and was set up by Keir Starmer's Govt in June 2025.
Given Palantir’s record (surveillance, ICE, Gaza), many of us in Coventry & beyond are really worried. I know you’ve always stood up for human rights, and that’s why I support the new party you’re building with Jeremy Corbyn.
Your constituents' personal data, including yours, will be in Palantir's hands.
This feels like exactly the kind of issue where your voice could make a real difference, holding power to account locally while connecting it to the global struggle for justice.
Palantir isn’t just another tech supplier: it builds surveillance platforms, powers ICE deportations, and provides software used in drone targeting systems linked to civilian deaths in Gaza.
This deal follows 23 Tory-awarded Palantir contracts, and now Starmer’s government is continuing down the same path, embedding a company with a deeply troubling human rights record into UK public institutions (NHS, police, MoD… and now Coventry City Council).
Given your long record of speaking out for Palestine, against surveillance, and for democratic accountability, and now your call for public involvement in shaping a new party with Jeremy Corbyn, will you commit to challenging Palantir’s presence in Coventry?
Residents deserve to know:
How was this contract awarded?
Why Palantir, despite its record?
What safeguards (if any) exist to stop our data being used for harmful ends?
This is exactly the kind of issue, local, global, and moral that could show how your movement offers a genuine alternative.

[Springbored @SpringboredLabs]

@audhdteen @Rexkinsm @historyinmemes There's a lot of censorship on this app already, and there's a lot more coming soon.

Obfuscating bad / trigger words may become the new normal.

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Source: https://t.co/7yqO8jFdNK

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Aboriginal men in chains at Wydnham prison in Australia c 1901. This full-frame photo, published in the book Nyibayarri: Kimberley tracker (1995), shows boys on the left.

[Evolve Politics @evolvepolitics]

The Minister for Homelessness is a landlord - and she just evicted her tenants, tried to charge them >£2,000 in illegal fees, then re-listed the property weeks later for £700 more.

The same Minister who claims to fight for renters’ rights.

You couldn’t make it up.

🧵

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@CatholicCat8 @gaulicsmith