In the first weeks of the administration, I wrote a number of pieces on the shuttering of PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System), a decades-old data collection and analysis program at CDC tracking infant and maternal health from pregnancy through childbirth and postpartum. It’s a critical source of data across time, affluence, demographic groups, etc. It was shuttered, as I eventually learned, because of the President’s “DEI” executive order. Various of the questions didn’t pass muster under the White House’s standards of what counted as DEI. It wasn’t clear if the shuttering was in effect permanent or whether the program might come back after undergoing some kind of DEI cleanse. Then a couple weeks ago I learned that it was in the process of being resurrected. Some questions were stripped out, but not as many as feared. It also seemed like some data from the disruption period might not be recoverable. There was a lot of work in terms of new IRB reviews and things like that. But it seemed on the way to coming back. Today all CDC employees who worked at PRAMS were terminated (RIF’d). So while there hasn’t been any official announcement that the program is permanently shuttered, all the people who ran it are out as of today.

Evil bullshit

Jesus fucking Christ is everyone a complete idi- . . . oh.

Yes. Yes everyone is a complete idiot.

Shit.

This may be why I hated math.

It’s odd they’d use a courtroom artist for just a regular news story

Remember WeWork? It’s the ultimate example of putting tech-coloured lipstick on a pig.

Daaaaaaamn

That’s re-victimization. People do people stuff, like using social networks.

Giving one’s real name and real information to a social network who is intending to track everything one does or says and the people one does or says it with is idiocy and it has never not been.

People do people stuff like not listening to people who have constantly been telling them not to push the button.

People stuff also includes continuing to use these horror networks for years after knowing full well they shouldn’t.

In July 2022, Twitter confirmed that someone had exploited the vulnerability before it could be fixed. “After reviewing a sample of the data offered for sale, we confirmed that a malicious party had taken advantage of the problem before it was addressed,” Twitter stated at the time.

lol

Well he seems like a kind and personable fellow.

Vegetarian Gang, peacefully represent

Those who resort to violence to undermine our state and nation must be held accountable

Indeed. And yet here we are.

“The one thing we hope that maybe she takes back with her is that the people are mad.”

Aw that’s cute. As if they even pretend to give a shit.

Anyone can do it; few have the stomach or moral flexibility.

Half the “article” is X quotes.

Who can tell me what the painfully obvious problem with that is.

The avalanche of incidents seemingly started after President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January.

Are you fucking serious, Newsweek? “Seemingly”??! You’re not even going to stretch your neck out to identify the most obvious fucking element in the entire story.

Christ these corporate news sewers are pathetic.

Stewart/Burr 28

So the ridiculously overvalued pump-and-dump paid for the real assets that he then destroyed but will bail out with the magical cauldron of venture capital so everything’s just fine.

Can’t see any problems here.

Remember when people thought Elmo knew anything?

Seig!

Also using russia to get elected - believe it or not - illegal.