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🧵I've spent this year writing for the The New Republic about how a group of Silicon Valley billionaires has gone WEIRD. Now their weirdness is mating up with Trump's MAGA weirdness in the 2024 election. Here's a few things to understand about these guys.

5. Most newspaper analyses suggest that these tech authoritarians guys just want lower taxes and friendly regulations, but that's only part of the story. They have developed their own weird sci-fi influenced tech authoritarian IDEOLOGY. It overlaps with MAGA in multiple ways.

This isn’t vote shaming. It’s stating a fact. Harris losing will not move the party further left. It will not “teach them a lesson.” I understand why some people feel they can’t vote for her but reckon with the harm electing Trump will cause & don’t pretend her losing will help

Our schools are failing children. Some parents, mostly the rich ones, have the time and confidence to speak out about it. Then people go "oh it's a whiny privileged people problem". No. Your schools are also failing the children whose parents don't know how to speak out.

Harris’s game changing proposal to allow Medicare to pay for at home heath aides for the elderly received almost no media coverage.

“To say that the moves from Bezos and Soon-Shiong are acts of cowardliness would be a tremendous understatement, given their roles as the stewards of cherished news institutions and the fact they are amongst the most powerful people in society…” search.app/6MoyCUPfLfnwvf…

CORRECTION: The auditor's office has clarified that anyone who dropped off ballots after 11 a.m. SATURDAY needs to contact the auditor's office.

This is great! NIAID News have launched a collection of public domain illustrations (currently 550 individual icons) bioart.niaid.nih.gov

UPDATE: Ballot box fires in Vancouver, WA and Portland are connected, police say seattletimes.com/seattle-news/l…

Recognizing the women scientists who laid the groundwork for recent #AI The Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Physics —Helen Berman, who started the Protein Data Bank, used for #AlphaFold (Demis Hassabis and John Jumper) nature.com/articles/d4158… —Fei-Fei Li who built ImageNet, foundation

Trump’s only policy plan is to turn the entire US government over to: -the richest oligarch on earth, so he can make massive cuts and reduce taxes and regulations on himself -a deranged conspiracy theorist who wants to abolish vaccines in favor of quack remedies

Imagine being in an ER, inches away from lifesaving care, and being told, “Sorry, you’re not near enough to death for me to help. I might get sent to jail.” That’s exactly what Trump abortion bans do. Vote for Kamala Harris and a Dem ticket down the line to avoid that nightmare

Important.

I want to try something new at #ASHG24 this year: I'm going to block some time on Friday afternoon to meet with any trainees who would be interested to chat on any topic.

George Lucas on the politics in 'Attack of the Clones' (2002) “‘How do you give away a democracy to end up with a tyrant?’ They give it away—there’s no coup, there’s no rebellion. They vote it in, which is what happens in real life”

Trump says BANNING vaccines is on the table??? Not getting rid of vaccine mandates, actually BANNING the vaccines themselves for diseases like polio and measles? That is batshit crazy.

If you’re still deciding between voting for Kamala Harris or Jill Stein, please take a moment to watch. I made this video with Palestinian American and political activist Rania Batrice. We understand being conflicted but wanted to share our perspective.

From Lily Greenberg Call and me on why we voted for Harris despite her commitment to arming Israel: inthesetimes.com/article/trump-…

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