But how will they know how to talk to spirits?

Published April 24, 2020

If you buy ads on Facebook, you can choose the interests of the people you target — you might only want cat lovers, or people over 30, or recent car buyers. Now Facebook says it will remove one category from that list: pseudoscience*. That’s right: You will no longer be able to target your ads to people who believe in crystal power, alien abductions, or the healing benefits of Lysol in your veins. (“Conspiracy theory” was also removed as an option.) Shame, that.

* Fun fact: Users don’t put themselves in those categories. Facebook’s algorithms do.

• I make the toolbox, then … bupkis

  I'm very good, I've found, at creating systems and workflows. Not so much actually using them. Read more… →

• What’re you lookin’ at?

  I think one of the big downsides to virtual meetings, big or small, is the inability to make eye contact.… Read more… →

• No, there’s no evidence supporting ivermectin

  Virtually the entire evidence in favor of ivermectin came from a single debunked study — so saying "Well, the jury is out" is a crock. Read more… →

• No, it’s not an error

  Here is the current CDC map showing "Level of Community Transmission of COVID-19, by State/Territory" — I think it speaks for itself. Read more… →

• Maybe the next mission

  If the Marines really are out there "protecting democracy" like the NFL says, you would think they'd be deployed to Texas. Read more… →

• DEA threats, insurer shenanigans, feds signal march-in, and more December 8, 2023
• Foolish optimists, Lilly’s GLP-1 entry, the better way to treat Lyme, and more December 7, 2023
• Muppets talk addiction, the right B12 timing, longevity drug for Rover, and more December 6, 2023