Pfizer just announced that its Lyme disease vaccine reduced the number of tick-borne infections by over 70% in a phase 3 trial.
Warning: GSK pulled a Lyme vaccine in 2002 despite studies showing it posed no serious safety risks.
Any new Lyme vaccine is going to be a huge target for antivaxxers.
The same con artist who managed to bankrupt a casino where "the house always wins" just bankrupted the United States of America.
Everything Trump Touches Dies (ETTD) including empires, economies, and countries.
https://fortune.com/2026/03/23/us-government-insolvent-fiscal-crisis-fix/
There are always signs and portents about all sorts of things, some are distant and vague, some are close and sharp
Here we have a radioactive red blaring klaxon saying "the #USA is a country in decline":
"The #Trump administration announced it will pay nearly $1 billion to French #energy giant #TotalEnergies in exchange for the company abandoning plans to build offshore #windfarms in the Atlantic Ocean and instead pursue #fossilfuel projects in the #US"
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/23/climate/trump-totalenergies-offshore-wind-cancellation
The Trump administration announced it will pay nearly $1 billion to French energy giant TotalEnergies in exchange for the company abandoning plans to build offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean and instead pursue fossil fuel projects in the US.
I’d rather live next to wind turbines and solar panels.
https://apnews.com/article/refinery-explosion-texas-coast-60ecf6d9a70a2f1d5494fb8e38a84c4a
Officials say a large explosion at an oil refinery near the Texas coast has shot plumes of smoke into the air and forced nearby residents to shelter in place. Mayor Charlotte M. Moses says no one was injured in the explosion at the Valero refinery in Port Arthur. The explosion comes amid a spike in gas prices driven by uncertainty over the global oil supply because of the Iran war. Valero's website says the refinery has about 770 employees and can process about 435,000 barrels of oil per day. The plant refines heavy sour crude oil into gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.
Heads-up for published authors:
The deadline to join the Anthropic class-action copyright settlement is March 30. If you have published a book, you may be eligible to receive ~$1,500 per book, so it’s worth your time to check it out.
I had been putting it off and finally completed my forms last week.
Learn more at the Authors Guild: https://authorsguild.org/advocacy/artificial-intelligence/what-authors-need-to-know-about-the-anthropic-settlement/
Start the process: https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/
Updated February 18, 2026 IMPORTANT: The Claims Deadline Is March 30 Background Bartz v. Anthropic is one of the major copyright lawsuits brought by authors against an AI company for using books without permission to train large language models. It […]
There is a Fediverse alternative to Substack called Ghost. It allows you to host blogs and newsletters in a very similar way to Substack, but it has much less problematic management and you can host your own Ghost-powered site if you want to.
Lots more info about Ghost in the guide at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/ghost-blogs-and-newsletters-on-the-fediverse
Would also highly recommend the article by @molly0xfff which outlines the advantages of Ghost over Substack:
➡️ https://www.citationneeded.news/substack-to-self-hosted-ghost
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