Links for September 2025
25 countries suspend postal services to US over tariffs: UN. “Trump administration said late last month that it will abolish a tax exemption on small packages entering the United States from August 29.” But incompetently: “several critical processes relating to the designation of ‘qualified parties’ and mechanisms for duty collection and remittance remain undefined,”
“Trump is every single stereotype of a loathsome shitheel from the last one hundred years of popular culture, all at once—the ignorant blowhard at the end of the bar, the entitled silver spoon trust fund asshole, the clueless boss who does nothing but create crises for his employees to clean up, the lecherous old man, the vapid self-important celebrity, the penny pinching miser who stiffs the honest working man, the oily corrupt politician, the cowardly bully, the draft-dodging faux-patriot, the scumbag crook who gets off on a technicality. He’s almost literally every repugnant trope from generations of literature, movies, and TV shows.”, link.
Jessica Knurick, PhD, RDN on RFJ Jr.’s anti-vax campaign
Republican corruption, this time a double: border czar Tom Homan taking a bribe and top Trump admin officials covering it up. “In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration.” link
Cambridge Debate Coach Reveals How She Humiliated Charlie Kirk
Exactly How Charlie Kirk got SCHOOLED by a Cambridge Student
Game: KASANE IRO. “stack tiles to create the right colors”
Game/toy: Hypertiles
Dry needling, Science-Based Medicine, Trigger Point Doubts
Oral polyphenol-based microbeads with synergistic demulsification and fat locking for obesity treatment. “An edible PmFL microbead for obesity treatment via polyphenol-based nanoengineering, showing dual capture and sequestration functions for 9 kinds of dietary fat derivatives (fats and free fatty acids) in the gastrointestinal tract, thereby lowering weight gain.”
California Refineries Close as Gasoline Demand Slips into Permanent Decline
Global Prevalence of Long COVID, Its Subtypes, and Risk Factors: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. 36% of people with COVID-19 develop long COVID. Long COVID-19 looks to be a substantial risk going forward given that about 5% of the Us population is getting COVID-19 every year, with 400k-500k hospitalized. It is not clear what the average duration of long COVID is, likely a few months.
Reality undermines the right’s push to censor speech after Kirk killing. by Oliver Willis
Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability. Viktor H. Ahlqvist, PhD; Hugo Sjöqvist, MSc; Christina Dalman, MD, PhD; Håkan Karlsson, PhD; Olof Stephansson, MD, PhD; Stefan Johansson, MD, PhD; Cecilia Magnusson, MD, PhD; Renee M. Gardner, PhD; Brian K. Lee, PhD. JAMA. April 9, 2024. DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.3172
The Automata Blog
Figures in the fourth dimension : mechanical movement for puppets and automata by Ellen Rixford
Anna’s Archive — books
Z-Library
Disinfect seeds: one-part bleach with 19-parts water for a bleach solution, or 3% hydrogen peroxide.
“Love Of Shopping” Is Not A Gene: Problems With Darwinian Psychology. (2004) by Anne Innis Dagg. Dortorow blog.
Framework laptops, replaceable components.