Adrienne Matei notes what we sometimes miss about RFKJr's attack on public health, science, and research:

"From prescribing spiritual warfare to demonizing health experts, RFK Jr’s health empire has become a dangerous vehicle for a Christian nationalist worldview."

#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/03/christofascism-rfk-jr-health

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116496411504697248

I HATE TO BE THAT GUY but even as this paints the security in a bad light… do we know if this wasn't aislopped?

we don’t.

and that's the point of #AI : it’s a complete rejection of The Social Contract on how we agree on the truth.

we need the #infosec community to help us create new, defensive fact checking protocols. the oligarchy wants to own reality, and define the truth. pushback on giving them the benefit of the doubt.

Y’ALL DID AND WE LOST THE RIGHT TO ABORTIONS, AND VOTING RIGHTS

Vultures eat anthrax, botulism, rabies, & cholera for breakfast.

Their stomach acid is among the most corrosive in the animal kingdom, with a pH around 1, low enough to dissolve the bones, hide, & pathogens of dead animals that would kill almost anything else.

A vulture eating a diseased carcass isn't a vector for disease, it's the end of the line. The disease chain ends in the vulture's gut, & that's pretty hardcore.

When vulture populations crashed in India in the 1990s, rotting livestock carcasses sat where vultures used to clean them.

Feral dogs and rats took over the cleanup, both of which actually do spread rabies. Researchers later linked the vulture collapse to roughly 500,000 deaths in India over the following decade.

The same collapse is now underway in sub-Saharan Africa. 6 of 11 African vulture species are threatened with extinction, primarily from poisoned poaching baits.

The animals nobody finds cute are doing more public health work than most of the species we actively protect.
#Birds

If you want to piss me off, it's easy: just breezily assert that our tech regulation problems are the result of the fast pace of technological change racing ahead of the plodding speed of governmental action:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/22/uber-for-nurses/#go-meta

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/30/something-must-be-done/#there-ive-done-something

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Saw this great policy from an employer and wanted to share it with y'all to also enjoy.

"We aim to be an ethical employer, with a 1:4 ratio between our highest and our lowest paid staff."

https://www.quaker.org.uk/our-organisation/give-time/jobs/jobs

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind."

No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are excluded. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But "AI" is just accumulation by a few powerful.

So No. It's not collective but extractive, not knowledge but data, not humankind but the hegemonic western view. Everything in that statement is wrong.