@doctorambient

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ζητητικός. Computational #math #stats #psych #socialsci and (sometimes) #neuro guy at a large Midwest (US) university.

Research scientist and science communications/education proponent. Interested in why people believe weird things and why conspiracy theories propagate so easily. (Also in the stuff listed at the top, obviously.)

Often #satire, intentionally or not.

I like weird stuff and weird ideas, but I *don't* believe what you believe. Mostly.

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There are two ways to process #trauma: become trapped by it or process it enough to see it in others.

#art

RE: https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/116340778960304908

Turns out the loudest voices demanding you scan your ID to use AI are funded by… OpenAI. And Sam Altman just happens to own an age-verification company. Funny how that works. Reject state-mandated digital papers. #NoAgeVerification #PrivacyOverControl #NoKosa

Oligarchs like Musk never lose. The power of trillions of dollars overwhelms systems of governance, buying the corruptible, and laying waste to legal or political barriers in its way. America did this to the world.

https://flipboard.com/@independent/news-a3lhl24rz/-/a-Gzn3LhRwSPms-2EP9kMS1Q%3Aa%3A1855170754-%2F0

#America #ElonMusk #oligarchy

Well, that was a fucking ride.

What you hated at 10 you should try again at 40.

#lifeprinciples #taste #tastes #rulesforliving #food

"At the [AMA]’s annual meeting this week, members of the group’s House of Delegates are sending a clear message to their leaders: Call out Kennedy, even if it costs us in the pocketbook. That message was stated most clearly in the election of Sandra Fryhofer, an internist from Atlanta and uncompromising Kennedy critic, as AMA president-elect."

#medicine #politics #americanmedicalassociation

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/10/ama-doctors-physicians-rfk-vaccines-00957489

America’s doctors just voted for war with RFK Jr.

The American Medical Association has sought a working relationship with the health secretary. Members saw moral compromise.

Politico

Imagine sitting on a trillion dollars and deciding the best use of your time was stirring up hatred and violence.

If you spent $1 million a day…you would still need 2700 years to spend your fortune.

You could solve world hunger…that would cost less than 1% of global military spending:

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/11/1166397

$93 billion a year.

But getting poor people to riot and destroy other poor people’s homes and infrastructure must tickle some inhumane part of #Musk’s brain.

Ending world hunger costs less than 1% of military spending

Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — well under one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to UN estimates.

UN News
America’s doctors just voted for war with RFK Jr.

The American Medical Association has sought a working relationship with the health secretary. Members saw moral compromise.

Politico