No I'm not going on twitter. But I'm curious to know when the crypto guys start screaming for a bailout.
This is interesting. A clear prediction from Battacharya: that *more* children will be vaccinated against childhood diseases after his changes to the vaccine schedule.
Interesting because like VaxView will show the changes starting in a matter of months; effects on prevalence can take years.
Bhattacharya cited no studies, no analysis, except his belief that vaccination rates will go up as they paradoxically remove vaccines from the childhood schedule.
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Pinching myself once again that Roberts, Kavanaugh and co have ruled explicitly that having violent stops of citizens to demand papers by masked government thugs is absolutely in keeping with the US Constitution.
www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...
U.S. citizen injured by federal agents in Salem who demanded to see “papers,” union says - Salem Reporter
A home care worker and union worker was pulled from her car and injured by federal agents Thursday according to a statement by SEIU 503. To comment on this story, use the form at the end of the repor...
One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office.
Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.
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Cowardly liar. Yes of course he’s seen it, it’s his job. He just doesn’t want to talk about it.
Few people more deserving of contempt than Senator Bill Cassidy, who knew exactly what he was doing when he nominated RFK and convinced his colleagues to do so too. Now too cowardly to own it.
Bill Cassidy when I asked about Robert F. Kennedy Jr nominating a bunch of anti-vaxxers to IACC: "I have not personally seen this so let me look at it first."
On RFK Jr going back on his word on the vaccine schedule: Again, it's something that we'll be addressing to the HELP Committee
From a thermodynamic point of view, I know that an electric heater cannot be consuming any more or less energy than a computer network that does billions of calculations, runs a large language model, and as a by-product gives out that same amount of heat. But can I still find it extraordinary.
Office heating is broken, so starting to develop a civilisation-threatening artificial general intelligence just to generate a little warmth.
Is there an actual engineering argument for data centres in space? Radiating heat out into a vacuum, lifting enormous amounts of chips into orbit, power supply beyond solar, exposure to high-energy bit-flipping radiation ... all seem hard. Is there a compelling advantage that someone's worked out?
Epstein taking an easily-recognised position on international affairs here.
And we're done for the season.
Given we now have an outbreak of measles reported in ICE's prison for children in Texas, I think we can expect the line to revert to its former growth rate *at least*.
With added horror.
www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...US measles cases. As trailed, the fast-expanding South Carolina situation does seem to have peaked, so now to see whether the national growth also collapses, or whether it reverts to the long-term 6 week-ish doubling pattern. New cases in Utah + Arizona, Florida suggest the latter.
Wondering which of the most horrifying effects of the far-right administration in the US to worry about?
They're running a two-for-one deal today.
www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...
ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections
The measles cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News.
With his goddamn bunny hat.
Well done.
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
I think the duty lawyer at Sky News has just arrived at work.
Just an amazing thing to randomly tweet out.
Pleasing to find that the cutting edge of computing is presented via a command-line interface with visual effects straight out of Ceefax circa 1995.
Ah, been looking for this.
I’ve written this lengthy FT analysis overnight about the multiple multi-thousand pound Epstein payments to Mandelson’s husband
these particular paragraphs are worth reading slowly
www.ft.com/content/608a...AI doom scenarios tend to be presented as overwhelmingly likely from our current technology level. But these scenarios also seem clearly observable from interstellar distance (e.g., using all a star’s energy to support AIs smart enough to implement this). Hugely sharpens Fermi paradox.
US measles cases. As trailed, the fast-expanding South Carolina situation does seem to have peaked, so now to see whether the national growth also collapses, or whether it reverts to the long-term 6 week-ish doubling pattern. New cases in Utah + Arizona, Florida suggest the latter.
Been playing with US measles numbers - correcting the latest CDC figures for historical reporting delays and so on.
Results appear disconcerting. Looks like there's been enough local outbreaks for national 6-week doubling since about August. South Carolina ramping that up to a 2-3 week doubling.
Honestly, I think we should probably tell them.
The 2025-6 mid-range flu wave is fully collapsing now. NHS broadly coping - which is excellent. Midlands Trusts seeing the worst of what pressure there is, but overall enormously better than recent years.
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[quietly] this chart is encouraging … especially the 2026 line; you can see the gradient flattening out even on a linear scale and a cumulative plot … Measles has an r0 of 12+. If it were not being aggressively contained in SC we’d be way off the top of the chart by now.
Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
The latest update - giving a further 89 new cases in South Carolina - is a considerable slowdown, thank goodness. A constant effective R would be pushing well north of 1,500 by now.
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Minneapolis protests doing a lot to restore faith in the American people specifically, and in humanity in general.
So good to see how honest decency sears through even the most desperate propaganda.
