lol I knew about the Wikipedia editor with 90,000+ edits, almost exclusively fixing the phrase "comprised of", but what I did not know about was his 5,300-word essay on why he's done that for 15 years it's all Woodstock's fault

it's happened again. everyone at the cocktail party is talking about their favorite absurd/esoteric incidents again and you aren't conversant in any of them. thank god you have this thread of absurd/esoteric incidents handy We’ll start with one some might call basic. I call it foundational. Dylatov Pass incident: Nine Soviet hikers enter the pass, all run from their camps, freezing to death in the night, fleeing… something. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_P…

The US/CDC apparently has 10s of thousands of Jynneos monkey/smallpox vaccines, knows it has been spreading among men who have sex with men, and... does not appear to be really delivering those vaccines. Just two cities are offering the vax to MSM, and they don't have enough. :) I have spent like 2 hours trying to figure out why these vaccines are not being deployed in major cities for MSM etc. Haven't we known about this disease and the spread among MSM for weeks? The lack of info in news media and from CDC is obscene. What I know so far is:

One area where Chinese has English just squarely beat is technical terminology. none of that abstruse dead language roots bullshit. "Tachycardia"? Screw you, it should be called Heartbeat-Too-Fast. "Hypothermia"? You mean Lost-Heat-Illness. "Diabetes" is a personal favorite: 糖尿病 Sugar-Urine-Disease. Maybe slightly misleading at first glance but still more informative than "diabetes"

Fascinating to watch young gay Republicans grapple with the SCOTUS decision. Most (well, some) understand the threat the repudiation of the right to privacy poses to gay rights. The coping mechanism seems to just be transphobia ("oh so now Dems know what a women is, haha!!") The gamble of gay Republicans is that enough transphobia can jettison the T from LGBT and appease social conservatives. The leopards will eat their faces because those queers are different and a threat, unlike me!

In addition to being awful, it's a transparently bad strategy.

counter hot take, indiscriminate mass murder of civilians is unacceptable regardless of the perpetrator

https://twitter.com/fawfulfan/status/1517549390222737409

Imperial Japan's horrific war crimes and savage treatment of its colonial subjects do not transmute onto e.g. the thousands of children vaporized by the atomic bombs, or worse, severely maimed and killed by radiation poisoning

Alright, I promise this is the last time I tweet about my voluntary contraction of dysentery. Compiling it all into a thread for future reference. Some minor corrections to note as well, already sprinkled throughout Day 0:

https://twitter.com/wokeglobaltimes/status/1510768591012085768?s=20&t=CdNoFmfTO8De3YtoRreGyA

Am I the only one slightly bewildered by Politico's decision to run with this? Like, it's before he was elected. It is hilarious given that he portrays himself as a tough guy/good Christian man, but there are like a dozen other actual scandals of his that seem more relevant here

https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1517613997364637696

On the other hand what goes around comes around I guess lol newsweek.com/nancy-pelosi-d…

Ajit Pai is really funny. you have to screw up bad to be a memorable chairman of the FCC. no one outside of very niche regulatory and telecoms circles should have any idea who he is but he is now known more broadly as they guy who helped make phone calls basically unusable Another cool thing about that ghoul of a technocrat: he played a pivotal role in killing Obama-era regulations against prison phonecall price gouging, which is why inmates could be charged exorbitant sums (>$20/min!) to talk to their loved ones. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Dysentery Diaries, Day 8: A beautiful day to be a quarantined convalescent in Baltimore. Everyone has started antibiotics (I just finished mine, because I was a trailblazer who got very sick very early; I’m a competitive man). This will be my last regular entry 🥲 OSINT/geospatial intelligence dorks who follow me from before all of this: don't you dare try to pinpoint the office and floor I'm on, please be normal, I beg of you

Dysentery Diaries, Day 7: My bowel movements are slowly getting more normal (still not completely normal tho) and my fever is gone 🎊🍾🥂😍

Tomorrow those of us who haven’t already will start ciprofloxacin. 4/16 of us have been mostly/totally asymptomatic. Very happy for those four. Definitely not bitter or resentful at all. In the slightest. I will NOT try to jump them after we get released back into the wild for some of their dysentery money.

Dysentery Diaries, Day 6: Feeling *much* better than I was 24 hours ago. Difficult to describe how miserable I felt, but thankfully, I have enough stupid little memes saved on my phone to help give you an idea To reiterate, all of us received two injections, one each in February and March, before this inpatient stay. Half of those were placebos, but no one except a small number of uninvolved staff/statisticians knows who got what for now.

Dysentery Diaries, Day 5, approx. 02:45

I’ll give you one guess as to why I’m awake at nearly 3 in the morning. Damnit. Woken up by what I can only describe as a feeling of funny business in my gut. Cramps. Slight chills. Stool sample normal, at least visually.

I have a gut feeling (literally) that this disease is gonna kick my ass today 🥴🎊🔜💩🥂🍾💯

going back to sleep

good morning! day 4 of dysentery camp, almost a full 24 hours since we were ✨challenged✨. Not gonna comment on other individuals of course but I will say generally we all seem fine so far. Apparently there's a bit of a race UMd's Center for Vaccine Development & Institut Pasteur, which is developing another shigella vaccine. The monetary compensation and philanthropic feelings have faded as motivating factors for me

my primary concern is now beating the French

Good morning, today is dysentery day. We can’t ingest anything for 90 minutes before the shigella bacteria smoothie. If my mama didn’t raise me better, I’d be making a lot of Last Supper in Jerusalem jokes about my breakfast right now, and they would be very funny. It has become abundantly clear that the nurses are reading my tweets, which means the one who drew my blood the other day may have seen this and now have some questions. kill me

https://twitter.com/wokeglobaltimes/status/1511189293385105409?s=20&t=wiFP56HLmAp04lNEqS9Fyg

running thread of the clinical vaccine trial experience (the dysentery diaries, if you will) for my own amusement and posterity for reference

https://twitter.com/wokeglobaltimes/status/1510768591012085768?s=21&t=ENQmIveXPNXmkMoFoYMNQw

I'm well into my little project compiling data on intern pay in the (US) foreign policy field. Here are the worst organizations (so far!).

Many maintain nominal commitments to diversity while shutting out low-income students, and many also pay executives nearly 7 figures! First up, @AsiaSociety. It's New York City branch wants interns to work full-time, for free, preferably with knowledge of an Asian language. Meanwhile, its most recent nonprofit filings show it paid executives Kevin Rudd and (now former) @JosetteSheeran nearly $1 million each!

it's tacky to admit it but I absolutely love being a total cop on Wikipedia sometimes.

oh, your PR firm is pissed this article details a well-covered scandal? no, you can't remove it. who am I? I am a 20something with wifi, and as far as you're concerned, the god of this article relatedly: no, professor, I do not care what your h-index is, Wikipedia is not your résumé and we are not going to list every single book, article, and op-ed you have ever published. we do not even do that for Noam Chomsky or John fucking Rawls, get over yourself

The war in Ukraine has really underscored how the foreign policy of significant chunks of the left is based on anti-Americanism rather than coherent anti-imperialism America has done awful, criminal things globally but many have fallen into a very shallow “that means the problem is only America,” a worldview that completely collapses in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

let's talk about why the authorship is actually a really important aspect to me, a layperson who is without a doubt not anywhere near as knowledgable about the science of virology etc.

https://twitter.com/Rossana38510044/status/1399731967013396487

I've read your paper, and several others! But I am not a biologist. I am a dumb social sciences major. I do not have the tools or capacity to fully grasp the arguments either you or your detractors make. You understand this; it's why you make threads of findings in simpler terms.

so I've realized almost every single one of the named authors in this increasingly influential lab leak paper is demonstrably batshit Kevin McCairn is... well