
It seems like the easiest part of creating a fake Swiss scientist persona would be giving him a Swiss name rather than an Anglophone one — Eduard or whatever.

Antonio Regalado @antonioregalado

Text messages reviewed by ProPublica represent the strongest indication yet that members of the Trump family inner circle were involved in financing and organizing the Jan. 6 “Save America” rally, which immediately preceded the Capitol riot.


Getting our outfits ready for the function at the Lincoln Memorial

Andrea McCarren @AndreaMcCarren

Check out this chart and recall back when people were saying urban areas where uniquely vulnerable to Covid
slowboring.com/p/urban-plague


Was gonna write a blog post but instead I think I'll stagger around the streets of the Sunset screaming "Japan has good trains because they allow dense housing so there are lots of people to ride the trains, not because of some magical racial solidarity bullshit" at passers-by

Seems only fair, given that we have plenty of bases near China. But I imagine the people who think that foreign military bases = empire are having a seizure right now.

Michael M. Phillips @MPhillipsWSJ

It's cool that the NIH hasn't updated its Covid-19 treatment guidelines for Fluvoxamine since April when a big study showing large positive results was published in the Lancet in October.



I don’t think the American left is going to get far until it can acknowledge that average living standards in this country are actually very high, and that’s the appropriate context in which to think about specific problems. https://t.co/Ma7JhPZD81

Kate Aronoff @KateAronoff

Personal opinion, but I am glad that Pfizer and Moderna shared their vaccines with the world by inventing and distributing them. I hope we massively increase the production of vaccines to be shared with the world, and incentivize future sharing appropriately.


there is no reason why we can't treat indoor air quality & respiratory diseases with the same sanitation mindset we used on water quality & food safety in the 19th and early 20th century

I wonder who the people who insist that "history is written by the victors" think won the Vietnam War

I know lots of infosec experts believe this but I don't understand what the threat model is supposed to be. Amazon doesn't want to listen to conversations that happen in my living room. Government might force them to but my phone is equally vulnerable there.

Chris Dixon @cdixon