Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Manifest destiny.

"Many children faced beatings, malnutrition, hard labor and other forms of neglect and abuse. Some never returned to their families. Hundreds are known to have died, a toll expected to grow as research continues."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/30/us/native-american-boarding-schools.html

'Treatment of chronically infected mice with either αPD-1 or αPD-L1 antibody not only increased effector cell differentiation from the virus-specific stem-like CD8 T cells but also increased their proliferation so their numbers were maintained'

#Immunology #Immunotherapy

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.adg0539

"(...) Xerox PARC, the storied Palo Alto research lab credited with pioneering many aspects of contemporary computing. Its most famous creation is the Alto, a personal computer system introduced in 1973 that featured a mouse and a graphical user interface with icons, windows, and folders. Xerox famously never managed to monetize it, but the Alto’s influence was immense; within a decade Apple was selling machines that looked a lot like it."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/09/21/better-faster-stronger-the-philosopher-of-palo-alto/

Vin Mariani, the 19th-Century Cocaine-Infused Wine, Imbibed and Endorsed by Presidents, Popes https://www.openculture.com/2023/09/vin-mariani-the-19th-century-cocaine-infused-wine-imbibed-and-endorsed-by-presidents-popes-writers.html

2/2

... and many others who sided with Hitler.

He used their connections & influence to spread the lies that let Austria be subsumed while the UK & USA did nothing, just like Putin, Musk, & Koch does in Ukraine today.

"The Ambassador" shows how rich antisemites in critical government roles furthered a fascist movement. Kennedy Sr. in the court of St. James was the exact right person in the job for fascist foreign rulers bent on world war. So like Mike Flynn in a tenure in the Trump admin.

@juglugs

Nazis co-opted elites early in their rise. Just like today.

Susan Ronald's books show how early the aristocracy & moneyed racists joined Hitler's fascist movement.

"A Dangerous Woman" is about Florence Gould & others like her who whitewashed a Nazi past with fake philanthropy, a collaborator so like Uihlein, Diane Hendricks & Ronald Lauder of today.

"Hitler's Aristocrats" is about the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, Lady Nancy Astor, Charles Lindbergh, & the Mitfords...

1/2

"When you study the Holocaust on an academic level, you learn two things: First, yes, however bad you thought the Nazis were, they were worse. And second, they were totally average, ordinary people. The second point is key. It's why historians are warning us now about Republicans."

And I think that today's Nazis in the USA and UK are further to the right than Hitler was at this stage of his rise. The Germans didn't just march in and start gassing Jews on Day 1.

"New York is home to six species of Chiroptera that overwinter in the state; the animals cope with the cold by hibernating, usually underground, in caves or abandoned mine shafts. Dangling from the ceiling by their toes, the bats descend into a state of torpor so complete it resembles suspended animation. Because they don’t move, hibernating bats are easy to census."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/09/21/spored-to-death-blight-fungi-and-the-coming-pandemic/

"Multivalent antigen display is strongly associated with higher antibody titers and therefore likely has a direct influence on the interaction with B cells. Yet, mechanistic studies in vivo of how antigen valency affects the B cell response are very limited."
#Immunology

https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(23)00367-9

"One group was not strongly represented in the streets of Chicago: African Americans. They knew firsthand how well the city police deserved their reputation for brutality. When Daley spoke of the police adopting a “shoot to kill” approach to disorder, their experience taught that he was not kidding."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/09/21/seeing-was-not-believing-when-the-news-broke-hendershot/

"My cohort was the most diverse in the history of my program, yet many faculty members weren’t used to being around people from various backgrounds. I received many comments questioning my place in the program, my future in science given that no one in my family has a PhD, and my legal status in the country."

https://elifesciences.org/articles/92403

Oh look, Leonard Leo and Ginny Thomas reportedly were leveraging Citizens United even before the decision came out to build a network of dark money group to lobby the Courts in support of right wing movement and getting richer. Yet another story on courts and right wing cesspool of corruption. #uspol https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/10/ginni-thomas-leonard-leo-citizens-united-00108082

Via NYCSouthpaw:

As the Citizens United decision was being written at the Supreme Court, #GinniThomas, #LeonardLeo, #HarlanCrow and #CletaMitchell were laying the groundwork for a dark money empire. #SCOTUS https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/10/ginni-thomas-leonard-leo-citizens-united-00108082

Musk's aid to Russia via Starlink has cost lives in Ukraine and will cost more in Africa.
“Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars,” Musk told Isaacson. “It was so people can watch Netflix and chill and get online for school and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/september-9-2023?r=63j6s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#X #Twitter #ElonMusk #Ukraine #Russia #Starlink

What’s your take on the “Are mental disorders brain disorders?” debate?

@awaisaftab and I summarize our positions here:

https://awaisaftab.substack.com/p/advancing-neuroscientific-understanding

Curious to hear your thoughts as well. Is the whole thing largely overblown? (My take). But/and once we set aside the obvious, what interesting questions remain? Top down causation? Insight into what is going wrong? Something else entirely?

The Dutch government spends some €37.5 billion ($40.5 billion) every year in subsidies to industries that use fossil fuels.

The fossil fuel industry has politicians and police on their side. That’s what needs to change.

#fossilfuel #corruption #climatechange #netherlands #protest ✊

https://apnews.com/article/f7e19f0f9745c851a470be4de0f9bb2f

Why Does Flying Suck so Much? | Robert Reich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTzaMXXelew&ab_channel=RobertReich

@futurebird This transformation of libraries is happening at public schools in Houston. The state has taken over HISD schools. Of course, the targeted schools have students who are predominantly Hispanic and African American. All in the name of "reform."

This transformation going on elsewhere as well?

Phoenix has set another heat record by hitting 110 degrees on 54 days this year : NPR

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/10/1198669796/phoenix-sets-another-heat-record