Favorites June 13th 2022

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

The lack of investment in next-gen vaccines, along with things like better ventilation, is aggravating. My semi-hot take is that both COVID hawks and doves associate COVID prevention with personal sacrifice and overlook win-win solutions that don't involve much sacrifice.

Eric Topol @EricTopol

"These kinds of vaccines could buy us long-lasting protection against infections and disease. When combined together, our armamentarium for fighting Covid is growing" On the potential of nasal and pan-β-coronavirus vaccines https://t.co/UhoGKQdBFO by @deeptabhattacha @nytopinion

We shouldn't be looking for fights, we should be looking for wins.

Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh

How much can you learn from a still photograph

Joseph Cox @josephfcox

Texas police are refusing to release the bodycam footage of the Uvlade school shooting to Motherboard because they claim it could be used by other shooters to determine "weaknesses" in cop response to crimes. Asked state Attorney General to block release https://t.co/uh6vPxOeFb

There were a lot of takes on this little tidbit of news, but I thought this was the funniest.

Turner Novak 🍌🧢 @TurnerNovak

this is the most insane account on TikTok

Once it's possible for a human to do this, I suspect this process is automatable.

Will Manidis @WillManidis

Freeport, one of the largest US plants exporting liquefied natural gas, exploded on Wednesday. Freeport represents a critical piece of infrastructure in Europe's divestment from Russian oil. Yet this story is almost no where in the mainsteam news, so let's dig in.

There's a bit more detail if you click through for the full thread, but the key item is that Natural Gas prices shot up 30% in the UK immediately afterwards.

Ryan Grim @ryangrim

The destructive capacity of the new culture inside progressive organizations is so great, it feels almost deliberate, according to some. New story here: theintercept.com/2022/06/13/pro…

Hopefully this is a bit of a wake-up call, we really need things functioning better as we get into the midterms.