A University of Washington study found that school closures were not very cost-effective for fighting COVID deaths. It's puzzling because Long COVID has apparently passed asthma as the most common chronic illness for children -- and I suspect it's under diagnosed.

www.kuow.org/stories/were...

Ernst: "I think it is extremely important that we look at who is funding these protests. We have to get to the bottom of this. It could be the usual suspect -- George Soros."

@rerez.net Hi Shane, I wanted to let you know that I saw you on Amazon when I was shopping. Retro game consoles. They're using your YouTube videos as reviews. I've heard companies using YouTubers without their knowledge so I wanted to make you aware.

Exclusive: Anthropic spent $2.66 billion on Amazon Web Services in the first three quarters of 2025, around 100% of their estimated revenue. Its costs appear to increase with their revenue, showing little path to profitability.
www.wheresyoured.at/costs/

So fuck that, obviously. But at the same time, when we zoom out and stop using labels... A broad working class movement IS going to necessarily include people who haven't deprogrammed all their prejudices.

You and I haven't deprogrammed all of ours! How can we expect more of others than ourselves?

#israel #zionism #ben-gvir #gaza

Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir says Prime Minister Netanyahu must “return to intense fighting” in Gaza to dismantle Hamas.

I realize that all the "we are going to win" inspiration posting codes as aesthetically liberal (being left is being unimpressed) and invites the responses you'd guess from a certain genre of more radical than thou poster but still surprised at the particular condescension strategies people go for