This is insanely well done AI.

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Alabama dot com: Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville voted in Florida after tax records say he moved back to Alabama Tuberville is the Republican nominee for Alabama governor al.com/news/2026/06/tubervil…

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals. As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them. Go Knicks.

The public thinks preparedness is waste, because success looks like inactivity. The fire truck polished in the station house is called civilization. The missile buried in a Midwestern silo is called deterrence. Yet a WHO lab sitting quiet, a CDC epidemiologist waiting for an outbreak, or stockpiled PPE, suddenly is “bureaucratic excess.” That is the idiocy of modern politics: we praise insurance in war, fire, and finance — but mock it in public health because the catastrophe did not happen this week. Pandemics are not prevented by improvisation. They are prevented by long stretches of expensive boredom interrupted by moments of terror. Cutting basic science and cutting preparedness means we will try to offload our problem on Kenya and volunteers at airports. That isn't a strategy, that is a bandaid for a gunshot wound

But Comey got indicted for sea shells.

As Trump is trying to force permanent DST on us by sneaking it into a must-pass bill, here is a musical reminder of why it is a bad idea. Please write your reps. “Standard Time, Set Us Free” by Karin Johnson (2025) youtu.be/VuA6qtQeGPc?si=6qzU… via @YouTube @SaveStandard #DitchDST

As the Trump DOJ mass-deletes government information about the Jan. 6 cases, reminder that you can still access NPR's database covering every single prosecution. We also provide access to hundreds of videos presented in court.

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ChatGPT diagnosed 40 million people with a disease that was invented as a joke. Not a real disease. Not a misunderstood disease. A completely fictional condition with a fake name, fake papers, and fake statistics. And it told patients to see a specialist. The disease is called Bixonimania. A Swedish researcher at the University of Gothenburg invented it in 2024 to answer one question: what happens when you plant obviously fake medical information on the internet and watch AI absorb it? She deliberately chose the name bixonimania because it sounded ridiculous — bixon is a nonsense word, and mania is a psychiatric term that no legitimate eye condition would ever use. She uploaded two papers to a preprint server. Both were obviously fraudulent. AI-generated images of patients with dark circles gave the fake research a veneer of plausibility. Then she waited. She did not have to wait long. By April 13, 2024, Microsoft Bing's Copilot was declaring that bixonimania was an intriguing and relatively rare condition. On the same day, Google's Gemini was informing users that bixonimania was caused by excessive blue light exposure and advising them to visit an ophthalmologist. Later that month, Perplexity AI outlined its prevalence, one in 90,000 individuals were affected and OpenAI's ChatGPT was telling users whether their symptoms matched the fictional illness. One in 90,000. A precise statistic. For a disease that does not exist. Every red flag was visible. The name was absurd. The papers were crude. The condition made no scientific sense. None of the AI systems flagged any of it. They read the fake papers. They absorbed the fake statistics. They presented both to patients with clinical authority and zero hesitation. Then it got worse. Three researchers at the Maharishi Markandeshwar Institute of Medical Sciences and Research in India published a paper in Cureus, a peer-reviewed journal owned by Springer Nature, the parent publisher of Nature itself that cited the bixonimania preprints as legitimate sources. A real peer-reviewed paper. In a Springer Nature journal. Citing a fictional disease as established medical fact. Passing editorial review. Entering the permanent scientific record. It was only retracted after the hoax became public. Nature published a full investigation of the experiment. Alex Ruani, a health-misinformation researcher at University College London, called it a masterclass in how misinformation operates. Here is the scale of what this means. More than 40 million people turn to ChatGPT every day for health information, according to OpenAI's own analysis. ECRI, a US patient-safety nonprofit has named chatbot misuse the number-one health technology hazard of 2026. ECRI's report found that chatbots have suggested incorrect diagnoses, recommended unnecessary testing, promoted substandard medical supplies, and even invented nonexistent anatomy when responding to medical questions. Number one. Out of every health technology hazard that exists in 2026. An April 2026 study published in BMJ Open found that nearly half of the answers provided by leading AI chatbots to common health questions contain misleading or problematic information. Nearly half. Of all health answers. From the tools 40 million people use every day. Here is the line from the researcher that cuts through everything. The Bixonimania case is striking precisely because it was engineered to be so obviously fake. The real question it raises is: what is passing through the same systems that is not nearly so easy to spot? The experiment used a ridiculous name. Fraudulent papers. Visible red flags at every level. It was designed to be caught. It was not caught. The AI that told patients about Bixonimania is the same AI they asked about their chest pain, their medication, their child's symptoms, and their cancer screening schedule. 40 million people. Every day. And nobody is telling them that nearly half of what comes back may be wrong. Source: Osmanovic Thunström · University of Gothenburg · Nature · April 2026 · Link in the (comments)

Give the camera person a raise.

🚨NEW: Disgraced former DHS Secretary, Kristi Noem, has been EVICTED from the taxpayer-funded Coast Guard Residence she has been squatting in since March.

Old news - I saw this when I was in Japan back in March for a conference and my web and X feeds were full of Japanese news 😎. Ensiltrevir is a much better drug than paxlovid in *every* single aspect: higher antiviral activity, longer half life, fewer drug - drug interactions and better clinical data (remember #Paxlovid failed their prophylaxis trials). The American citizen should ask the FDA why they are delaying @ShionogiUS review/approval process. Not unlike to what the FDA did to #Lucira, @Novavax and @Invivyd , true innovation in diagnostics, prophylactic and therapeutics was/is unnecessarily delayed to keep the 1st generation product cash flows intact. If we did this during the 90s to HIV, we would still be stuck with Crixivan and Norvir.

UPDATE: reportedly ALL Dems were stripped of committees… but white male house Dems are still listed. Only Black reps & women removed. Weird! Sexton TN House Republicans not beating the “it’s about race” allegations. (P.S. It’s all standing committees. We have screenshots.)

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Members of Congress recently called on OMB to defund the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, whose founding academy dates back to 1863. This was OMB’s response. This should alarm everyone paying attention to the future of evidence-based policy making.

I wrote this piece to promote thoughtful, respectful, and rational engagement with controversial science topics. I hope it fosters constructive dialogue in the scientific community—thank you for reading and sharing 🙏🏼 @NatRevImmunol nature.com/articles/s41577-0…

As a wheelchair user at Sec. Kennedy Senate HELP hearing today, I again seemed to be only visibly disabled person there. If I missed anyone in the mayhem, I’d be grateful to know. This isn't to erase invisible illness. It's how broader disabled community isn't in these rooms. 1/x

@SecKennedy: ...access to the best care & best doctors who have had the most success in treating their particular form of the illness. @SenToddYoung: Well there's urgency to this. Thank you for prioritizing this. I will ask again for your commitment... 8/x