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Shared by @Granneman and 31 others.
Zhi Zhu 🕸️ (@ZhiZhu) · Dec 10
🔁 @dangillmor:

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has posted one of his most important pieces, in which he brings historical context to the ascendance -- and profound malignity -- of the ultra-wealthy who are on the verge of destroying us. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/w

#pitchforks

Chris Petrilli (@petrillic) · Dec 10
🔁 @dangillmor:

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has posted one of his most important pieces, in which he brings historical context to the ascendance -- and profound malignity -- of the ultra-wealthy who are on the verge of destroying us. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/w

#pitchforks

Trendy Toots (@trendytoots) · Dec 10
🔁 @dangillmor:

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has posted one of his most important pieces, in which he brings historical context to the ascendance -- and profound malignity -- of the ultra-wealthy who are on the verge of destroying us. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/w

#pitchforks

BobDevney (@BobDevney) · Dec 10
🔁 @dangillmor:

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has posted one of his most important pieces, in which he brings historical context to the ascendance -- and profound malignity -- of the ultra-wealthy who are on the verge of destroying us. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/w

#pitchforks

AnneTheWriter (@AnneTheWriter1) · Dec 10
🔁 @dangillmor:

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has posted one of his most important pieces, in which he brings historical context to the ascendance -- and profound malignity -- of the ultra-wealthy who are on the verge of destroying us. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/w

#pitchforks

Paul_IPv6 (@paul_ipv6) · Dec 10
🔁 @dangillmor:

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has posted one of his most important pieces, in which he brings historical context to the ascendance -- and profound malignity -- of the ultra-wealthy who are on the verge of destroying us. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/w

#pitchforks

wsm (@weldon) · Dec 10
🔁 @dangillmor:

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has posted one of his most important pieces, in which he brings historical context to the ascendance -- and profound malignity -- of the ultra-wealthy who are on the verge of destroying us. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/w

#pitchforks

Marion Grau (@marion_grau) · Dec 10
🔁 @dangillmor:

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has posted one of his most important pieces, in which he brings historical context to the ascendance -- and profound malignity -- of the ultra-wealthy who are on the verge of destroying us. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/w

#pitchforks

Worth reading
Shared by @WeirdWriter and 122 others.
jaz :twt: :wales_flag: (@jaz) · Dec 10
🔁 @mayintoronto:

I need you to stop scrolling and read the most human piece of writing I've read in a very, very long time.

sightlessscribbles.com/the-col

Thanks, @WeirdWriter.

Edit: If you feel like you got a lot out of this piece, I'm sure Rob would definitely appreciate some subscribers to his newsletter and tips/a paid subscription if you can afford it! It's not easy making a living as a writer.

sightlessscribbles.com/support/

FoolishOwl (@foolishowl) · Dec 10
🔁 @artemis:

I am weeping. This essay broke my heart but also gave me real hope.

Keep being human. Keep loving human things. That's where the joy & delight is.

"The Colonization of Confidence" by Robert Kingett

sightlessscribbles.com/the-col

James Ravenscroft (@jamesravey) · Dec 10
🔁 @adam:

This piece by @WeirdWriter is *really* good. Set aside 30 minutes and dive in when you can.

LLM ubiquity is ushering us into a sort of warped inverse renaissance, to the detriment of those of us who still value real words written by real people.

sightlessscribbles.com/the-col

Eugen Rochko (@Gargron) · Dec 10
🔁 @PepperTheVixen:

I just read The Colonization of Confidence by @WeirdWriter and you should too.
I've talked about hating the tools that subvert cognition and creativity. This piece puts into words those concepts by telling you a story. It's raw. It's messy and emotional. It's human. It's something LLMs could never do and it's beautiful. sightlessscribbles.com/the-col

Shannon Prickett (@Binder) · Dec 10
🔁 @matthew:

This is a great essay. As someone who experiments with generative tools, the "passable, plausible banality" is something I'm constantly pushing back against.

"The words hang in the air like dead flies. They are perfectly grammatical. They are perfectly structured. And they are completely, utterly stripped of everything that is Leo. A silver bell? A warm hug? It is the language of a Hallmark card Leo would never write written by a sociopath."

sightlessscribbles.com/the-col

#amWriting #writingLife

Guillotines for a better world (@pikesley) · Dec 09
🔁 @FediThing:

This is a really excellent non-fiction piece by @WeirdWriter about a writing group with a tech bro:

sightlessscribbles.com/the-col

It is a distilled essence of the social and cultural damage AI/LLM is causing, how AI promoters are cynically destroying people's confidence in their own humanity, while simultaneously trying to ridicule and other people who point out that AI is bullshit. (And this isn't even mentioning the environmental consequences.)

#AI #LLM

Festive Yule Roy Pardee 🇺🇸 (@rpardee) · Dec 10
🔁 @PepperTheVixen:

I just read The Colonization of Confidence by @WeirdWriter and you should too.
I've talked about hating the tools that subvert cognition and creativity. This piece puts into words those concepts by telling you a story. It's raw. It's messy and emotional. It's human. It's something LLMs could never do and it's beautiful. sightlessscribbles.com/the-col

Robert W. Gehl (@rwg) · Dec 10

hat tip to @mayintoronto for alerting me to @WeirdWriter's essay. I had to post about it, too.

"I hate LLMs. My hatred knows no bounds. I love the small web, the clean web. I hate tech bloat.

And LLMs are the ultimate bloat."

This bit of writing could not have come at a better time for me. Thank you, Rob!

sightlessscribbles.com/the-col

Worth reading

Matt Gurney: 'We will never fucking trust you again'

readtheline.ca · Dec 08

Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum.

Shared by @SharonCrockett and 62 others.
hypebot (@hypebot) · Dec 10
🔁 @SKleefeld:

"America has blown 80 years of accumulated goodwill & trust among its allies, our American moderator was told… America’s recent actions have destroyed the ability of any ally to continue to have faith in America to act even within its own strategic self-interest, let alone that of any ally.

The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.

Because 'we will never fucking trust you again.'

The Americans at the table seemed somewhat startled by the heat of that pronouncement."

Anyone startled by that pronouncement is insanely optimistic or incredibly naive. The damage DJT did during his first term would take decades to fix; the damage he's done since is absolutely irreparable. And while you might think that's awful or unjust, they only need to 'never' trust us again for maybe five years. Because there won't be a United States of America beyond that. DJT is running the country like any business that's been bought & is being sold for parts.

readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurney-w

Josh :everything_bagel: (@josh0) · Dec 10
🔁 @SKleefeld:

"America has blown 80 years of accumulated goodwill & trust among its allies, our American moderator was told… America’s recent actions have destroyed the ability of any ally to continue to have faith in America to act even within its own strategic self-interest, let alone that of any ally.

The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.

Because 'we will never fucking trust you again.'

The Americans at the table seemed somewhat startled by the heat of that pronouncement."

Anyone startled by that pronouncement is insanely optimistic or incredibly naive. The damage DJT did during his first term would take decades to fix; the damage he's done since is absolutely irreparable. And while you might think that's awful or unjust, they only need to 'never' trust us again for maybe five years. Because there won't be a United States of America beyond that. DJT is running the country like any business that's been bought & is being sold for parts.

readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurney-w

BenderIsGreat34 (@andymoose) · Dec 09
🔁 @letoams:

“America has blown 80 years of accumulated goodwill and trust among its allies, our American moderator was told. A rock-steady assumption of allied defence and security planning for literally generations has been that America would act in its own interests, sure, but that those interests would be rational, and would still generally value the institutions that America itself worked so hard to build after the Second World War. America’s recent actions have destroyed the ability of any ally to continue to have faith in America to act even within its own strategic self-interest, let alone that of any ally.

The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.

Because “we will never fucking trust you again.”
readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurney-w

65dBnoise (@65dBnoise) · Dec 10
🔁 @SKleefeld:

"America has blown 80 years of accumulated goodwill & trust among its allies, our American moderator was told… America’s recent actions have destroyed the ability of any ally to continue to have faith in America to act even within its own strategic self-interest, let alone that of any ally.

The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.

Because 'we will never fucking trust you again.'

The Americans at the table seemed somewhat startled by the heat of that pronouncement."

Anyone startled by that pronouncement is insanely optimistic or incredibly naive. The damage DJT did during his first term would take decades to fix; the damage he's done since is absolutely irreparable. And while you might think that's awful or unjust, they only need to 'never' trust us again for maybe five years. Because there won't be a United States of America beyond that. DJT is running the country like any business that's been bought & is being sold for parts.

readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurney-w

Rev Nathan Ⓥ↔️🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱 (@revndm) · Dec 10
🔁 @SKleefeld:

"America has blown 80 years of accumulated goodwill & trust among its allies, our American moderator was told… America’s recent actions have destroyed the ability of any ally to continue to have faith in America to act even within its own strategic self-interest, let alone that of any ally.

The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.

Because 'we will never fucking trust you again.'

The Americans at the table seemed somewhat startled by the heat of that pronouncement."

Anyone startled by that pronouncement is insanely optimistic or incredibly naive. The damage DJT did during his first term would take decades to fix; the damage he's done since is absolutely irreparable. And while you might think that's awful or unjust, they only need to 'never' trust us again for maybe five years. Because there won't be a United States of America beyond that. DJT is running the country like any business that's been bought & is being sold for parts.

readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurney-w

Janeishly (@janeishly) · Dec 10
🔁 @SKleefeld:

"America has blown 80 years of accumulated goodwill & trust among its allies, our American moderator was told… America’s recent actions have destroyed the ability of any ally to continue to have faith in America to act even within its own strategic self-interest, let alone that of any ally.

The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.

Because 'we will never fucking trust you again.'

The Americans at the table seemed somewhat startled by the heat of that pronouncement."

Anyone startled by that pronouncement is insanely optimistic or incredibly naive. The damage DJT did during his first term would take decades to fix; the damage he's done since is absolutely irreparable. And while you might think that's awful or unjust, they only need to 'never' trust us again for maybe five years. Because there won't be a United States of America beyond that. DJT is running the country like any business that's been bought & is being sold for parts.

readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurney-w

M.S. Bellows, Jr. (@msbellows) · Dec 10
🔁 @letoams:

“America has blown 80 years of accumulated goodwill and trust among its allies, our American moderator was told. A rock-steady assumption of allied defence and security planning for literally generations has been that America would act in its own interests, sure, but that those interests would be rational, and would still generally value the institutions that America itself worked so hard to build after the Second World War. America’s recent actions have destroyed the ability of any ally to continue to have faith in America to act even within its own strategic self-interest, let alone that of any ally.

The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.

Because “we will never fucking trust you again.”
readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurney-w

Kim Possible :kimoji_fire: (@kimlockhartga) · Dec 10
🔁 @letoams:

“America has blown 80 years of accumulated goodwill and trust among its allies, our American moderator was told. A rock-steady assumption of allied defence and security planning for literally generations has been that America would act in its own interests, sure, but that those interests would be rational, and would still generally value the institutions that America itself worked so hard to build after the Second World War. America’s recent actions have destroyed the ability of any ally to continue to have faith in America to act even within its own strategic self-interest, let alone that of any ally.

The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.

Because “we will never fucking trust you again.”
readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurney-w

RealGene ☣️ (@RealGene) · Dec 10
🔁 @letoams:

“America has blown 80 years of accumulated goodwill and trust among its allies, our American moderator was told. A rock-steady assumption of allied defence and security planning for literally generations has been that America would act in its own interests, sure, but that those interests would be rational, and would still generally value the institutions that America itself worked so hard to build after the Second World War. America’s recent actions have destroyed the ability of any ally to continue to have faith in America to act even within its own strategic self-interest, let alone that of any ally.

The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.

Because “we will never fucking trust you again.”
readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurney-w

🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 (@grumpybozo) · Dec 09
🔁 @letoams:

“America has blown 80 years of accumulated goodwill and trust among its allies, our American moderator was told. A rock-steady assumption of allied defence and security planning for literally generations has been that America would act in its own interests, sure, but that those interests would be rational, and would still generally value the institutions that America itself worked so hard to build after the Second World War. America’s recent actions have destroyed the ability of any ally to continue to have faith in America to act even within its own strategic self-interest, let alone that of any ally.

The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.

Because “we will never fucking trust you again.”
readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurney-w

Why RSS matters

werd.io · Dec 09

The future of the web depends on simple, open standards.

Shared by @tekguru and 44 others.
Cory Dransfeldt :demi: (@cory) · Dec 09

🔗 Why RSS matters via @ben #Tech #Mastodon #Rss

Yesterday morning, I woke up and checked my news app while still in bed. The headlines from ProPublica, The New York Times, and The Guardian loaded instantly: a curated stream of stories updated overnight. I scrolled through, tapped on a few pieces, then switched over to my podcast app to queue up something for my morning gym session. I queued up three new episodes: one from Search Engine, the...

werd.io/why-rss-matters/

GENKI (@nibushibu) · Dec 09
🔁 @glecharles:

"If we want an internet where publishers retain autonomy and readers retain agency, we need to treat #RSS not as legacy plumbing but as strategic infrastructure." @ben

I've been using Inoreader for about a year and am pretty happy with it, while @surf is an intriguing option for blending social feeds and I'd love to be able to add regular RSS feeds, too. (EDIT: You can!)

Not having an RSS feed active is like making Instagram your website. Stop it!

#SocialReboot

werd.io/why-rss-matters/

Jon Sterling (@jonmsterling) · Dec 10
🔁 @davew:

Ben Werdmuller wrote a new perspective on RSS. It's great, just what we need. RSS is of the web, and is the simplest most obvious way to get all the twitter-like systems connected.

werd.io/why-rss-matters/

petes_bread_eqn_xls (@petes_bread_eqn_xls) · Dec 10
🔁 @ben:

For decades, RSS has been a workhorse that connects systems on the timely web and ensures that publishers can syndicate and grow their reach. Here's why it matters more than ever. werd.io/why-rss-matters/

Stefan Fuertinger (@sfuertinger) · Dec 10
🔁 @ben:

For decades, RSS has been a workhorse that connects systems on the timely web and ensures that publishers can syndicate and grow their reach. Here's why it matters more than ever. werd.io/why-rss-matters/

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (@rysiek) · Dec 09
🔁 @ben:

For decades, RSS has been a workhorse that connects systems on the timely web and ensures that publishers can syndicate and grow their reach. Here's why it matters more than ever. werd.io/why-rss-matters/

Michael Hanscom (@djwudi) · Dec 09
🔁 @ben:

For decades, RSS has been a workhorse that connects systems on the timely web and ensures that publishers can syndicate and grow their reach. Here's why it matters more than ever. werd.io/why-rss-matters/

Meet Pebble Index 01 - External Memory For Your Brain

repebble.com · Dec 09

Meet Pebble Index 01 - External Memory For Your Brain

Shared by @emory and 19 others.
George Baily (@georgebaily) · Dec 10
🔁 @obrhoff:

„No charging: The battery lasts for up to years of average use. After the end of its life, send your ring back to us for recycling."

We are throwing it away for you, is the new sustainability.
#pebble #sustainability

repebble.com/blog/meet-pebble-

Justin Ferrell (@developerjustin) · Dec 09

Woah, this looks sick as hell!

#Pebble announced a new smart device and it's not a watch! It's a ring and all it does is capture audio. No cloud service, no server-side AI (it does do local transcription, totally offline) and the trigger is a physical hardware button.

repebble.com/blog/meet-pebble-

After the Bubble

tbray.org · Dec 09

The GenAI bubble is going to pop. Everyone knows that. To me, the urgent and interesting questions are how widespread the damage will be and what the hangover will feel like. On that basis, I was going to post a link on Mastodon to Paul Krugman’s Talking With Paul Kedrosky. It’s great, but wh...

Shared by @publicvoit and 15 others.
glyn (@underlap) · Dec 10
🔁 @timbray:

1/2 In which I cover a couple of the weird/scary aspects of the #genAI bubble and try to get a feel what the post-bubble hangover will feel like. Tl;dr: Not like the dot-com bust. tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

Chris Ford :tw: (@cford) · Dec 09
🔁 @timbray:

1/2 In which I cover a couple of the weird/scary aspects of the #genAI bubble and try to get a feel what the post-bubble hangover will feel like. Tl;dr: Not like the dot-com bust. tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

Charles Choi 최 민수 (@kickingvegas) · Dec 09
🔁 @timbray:

1/2 In which I cover a couple of the weird/scary aspects of the #genAI bubble and try to get a feel what the post-bubble hangover will feel like. Tl;dr: Not like the dot-com bust. tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

Zef Hemel (@zef) · Dec 09
🔁 @timbray:

1/2 In which I cover a couple of the weird/scary aspects of the #genAI bubble and try to get a feel what the post-bubble hangover will feel like. Tl;dr: Not like the dot-com bust. tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

Aaron (@hosford42) · Dec 09
🔁 @timbray:

1/2 In which I cover a couple of the weird/scary aspects of the #genAI bubble and try to get a feel what the post-bubble hangover will feel like. Tl;dr: Not like the dot-com bust. tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

Philip Brewer (@philipbrewer) · Dec 09
🔁 @timbray:

1/2 In which I cover a couple of the weird/scary aspects of the #genAI bubble and try to get a feel what the post-bubble hangover will feel like. Tl;dr: Not like the dot-com bust. tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

Bryce Wray (@BryceWrayTX) · Dec 09
🔁 @timbray:

1/2 In which I cover a couple of the weird/scary aspects of the #genAI bubble and try to get a feel what the post-bubble hangover will feel like. Tl;dr: Not like the dot-com bust. tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

Mick 🇨🇦 (@mick) · Dec 09
🔁 @timbray:

1/2 In which I cover a couple of the weird/scary aspects of the #genAI bubble and try to get a feel what the post-bubble hangover will feel like. Tl;dr: Not like the dot-com bust. tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

Man made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, discovery in Suffolk suggests

theguardian.com · Dec 10

Groundbreaking find makes compelling case that humans were lighting fires much earlier than originally believed

Shared by @BrianSmith950 and 12 others.
Brian Smith (@BrianSmith950) · Dec 10
🔁 @markmccaughrean:

Hmm. While the title of this story is formally right, it's a bit misleading.

It might better read "Neanderthals figured out how to make & use fire long before we did".

That is, Neanderthals are indeed classified as human, because they're in the genus Homo, but I suspect most readers likely conflate "human" with our species, Homo sapiens.

Then again, most of us carry a few % of Neanderthal DNA, so ... 🤷‍♂️

Interesting story & discovery though – worth a read 👍

theguardian.com/science/2025/d

DoomsdaysCW (@DoomsdaysCW) · Dec 10
🔁 @RadicalAnthro:

Here's Chris Stringer...
'So early Neanderthals were making fire in Britain about 400,000 years ago,” said Prof Chris Stringer, of the Natural History Museum and part of the team behind the findings. “Of course, our species was evolving in Africa, while these people were living in Britain and Europe. We guess that our species, too, would have had this knowledge, but we don’t actually have the evidence of it.”
theguardian.com/science/2025/d

Wen (@Wen) · Dec 10
🔁 @patrickhadfield:

'“The implications are enormous,” said Dr Rob Davis, a Palaeolithic archaeologist at the British Museum, who co-led the investigation. “The ability to create and control fire is one of the most important turning points in human history with practical and social benefits that changed human evolution.”'

"Humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, discovery in Suffolk suggests."

theguardian.com/science/2025/d

yuhasz01 (@yuhasz01) · Dec 10
🔁 @patrickhadfield:

'“The implications are enormous,” said Dr Rob Davis, a Palaeolithic archaeologist at the British Museum, who co-led the investigation. “The ability to create and control fire is one of the most important turning points in human history with practical and social benefits that changed human evolution.”'

"Humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, discovery in Suffolk suggests."

theguardian.com/science/2025/d

Eye (@grb090423) · Dec 10
🔁 @markmccaughrean:

Hmm. While the title of this story is formally right, it's a bit misleading.

It might better read "Neanderthals figured out how to make & use fire long before we did".

That is, Neanderthals are indeed classified as human, because they're in the genus Homo, but I suspect most readers likely conflate "human" with our species, Homo sapiens.

Then again, most of us carry a few % of Neanderthal DNA, so ... 🤷‍♂️

Interesting story & discovery though – worth a read 👍

theguardian.com/science/2025/d

Shared by @adrianco and 8 others.
Dave Sanderson 🇨🇦🍁 (@Sanderde) · Dec 10
🔁 @climatenewsnow:

The rest of the world is lapping the U.S. in the EV race.

EVs made up 25% of global car sales in 2025. In the U.S., they only made up 10%. #ClimateChange

yaleclimateconnections.org/202

Mastodon Migration (@mastodonmigration) · Dec 10
🔁 @CelloMomOnCars:

"The global and American trajectories in this key clean energy technology are turning in different directions. And with most other countries racing to adopt EVs as a more efficient, cost-effective, and cleaner mode of transportation, China’s growing dominance of this technology may help that country become the next global economic superpower."

yaleclimateconnections.org/202

Witchzilla (@msbw) · Dec 10
🔁 @climatenewsnow:

The rest of the world is lapping the U.S. in the EV race.

EVs made up 25% of global car sales in 2025. In the U.S., they only made up 10%. #ClimateChange

yaleclimateconnections.org/202

Adrian Cockcroft (@adrianco) · Dec 11
🔁 @CelloMomOnCars:

"The global and American trajectories in this key clean energy technology are turning in different directions. And with most other countries racing to adopt EVs as a more efficient, cost-effective, and cleaner mode of transportation, China’s growing dominance of this technology may help that country become the next global economic superpower."

yaleclimateconnections.org/202

Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦 (@dgoldsmith) · Dec 10
🔁 @CelloMomOnCars:

"The global and American trajectories in this key clean energy technology are turning in different directions. And with most other countries racing to adopt EVs as a more efficient, cost-effective, and cleaner mode of transportation, China’s growing dominance of this technology may help that country become the next global economic superpower."

yaleclimateconnections.org/202

Marion Grau (@marion_grau) · Dec 10
🔁 @climatenewsnow:

The rest of the world is lapping the U.S. in the EV race.

EVs made up 25% of global car sales in 2025. In the U.S., they only made up 10%. #ClimateChange

yaleclimateconnections.org/202

Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water

wired.com · Dec 10

New ideas about chronic illness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously.

Shared by @kittyface83 and 23 others.
Nonya "Lethal Precision" Bidniss :CIAverified: 🇺🇸 (@Nonya_Bidniss) · Dec 10
🔁 @BE:

I want to add onto what this article talks about in regards to funding going towards genetics. It's not just Parkinson's. There's a lot of "Before we do something radical like clean air and water we should spend the rest of our lives making sure it's not something else" in research funding. It's one of the big reasons I eventually went out on my own in my former career as a chemist, and what we found over and over was that your health is largely dictated by what you ingest. And, sadly, you ingest a lot of things you don't want to.

At this point, particularly in the US, no one else is going to clean your water for you, so you'd better be doing it yourself.

wired.com/story/scientists-tho

icy (@otterly_icy) · Dec 10
🔁 @mmalc:

“I think TCE [trichlorethylene] is the most important cause of Parkinson’s in the US,” says Ray Dorsey, the Parkinson’s expert at the University of Rochester.

wired.com/story/scientists-tho

"In Silicon Valley, where TCE was integral to the manufacturing of early transistors, a necklace of underground plumes have been identified along Highway 101 from Palo Alto to San Jose. Santa Clara County has more toxic Superfund sites, at 23, than any other county"

#SFBayArea
#SiliconValley
#Parkinsons

tekphloyd (@tekphloyd) · Dec 10
🔁 @mmalc:

“I think TCE [trichlorethylene] is the most important cause of Parkinson’s in the US,” says Ray Dorsey, the Parkinson’s expert at the University of Rochester.

wired.com/story/scientists-tho

"In Silicon Valley, where TCE was integral to the manufacturing of early transistors, a necklace of underground plumes have been identified along Highway 101 from Palo Alto to San Jose. Santa Clara County has more toxic Superfund sites, at 23, than any other county"

#SFBayArea
#SiliconValley
#Parkinsons

RealGene ☣️ (@RealGene) · Dec 10
🔁 @BE:

I want to add onto what this article talks about in regards to funding going towards genetics. It's not just Parkinson's. There's a lot of "Before we do something radical like clean air and water we should spend the rest of our lives making sure it's not something else" in research funding. It's one of the big reasons I eventually went out on my own in my former career as a chemist, and what we found over and over was that your health is largely dictated by what you ingest. And, sadly, you ingest a lot of things you don't want to.

At this point, particularly in the US, no one else is going to clean your water for you, so you'd better be doing it yourself.

wired.com/story/scientists-tho

Sheldon (@sysop408) · Dec 10
🔁 @mmalc:

“I think TCE [trichlorethylene] is the most important cause of Parkinson’s in the US,” says Ray Dorsey, the Parkinson’s expert at the University of Rochester.

wired.com/story/scientists-tho

"In Silicon Valley, where TCE was integral to the manufacturing of early transistors, a necklace of underground plumes have been identified along Highway 101 from Palo Alto to San Jose. Santa Clara County has more toxic Superfund sites, at 23, than any other county"

#SFBayArea
#SiliconValley
#Parkinsons

kittyface83 (@kittyface83) · Dec 10
🔁 @susankayequinn:

someday my decades-long conviction that the chemical soup we live in is gonna shorten everyone's lives (some more than others) is gonna be an accepted fact of science

meanwhile...
"Nearly every scientist interviewed for this story does a few simple things. They filter their water, they run an air purifier, they don’t microwave plastic...opt for fragrance-free products, avoid eating out of plastic when they can, and buy organic produce."

wired.com/story/scientists-tho

StillIRise1963 (@StillIRise1963) · Dec 10
🔁 @susankayequinn:

someday my decades-long conviction that the chemical soup we live in is gonna shorten everyone's lives (some more than others) is gonna be an accepted fact of science

meanwhile...
"Nearly every scientist interviewed for this story does a few simple things. They filter their water, they run an air purifier, they don’t microwave plastic...opt for fragrance-free products, avoid eating out of plastic when they can, and buy organic produce."

wired.com/story/scientists-tho

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