ATTENTION TO ALL DEM TAX CUT SLOPULISTS

For the last 5 nights, Doris the Large Orange has been napping behind my head on the recliner when usually she naps on the top of a cat tower. 💜

“…the researchers found that opening up to chatbots about personal issues made some people feel not better but worse.”

AI companions may worsen loneliness for vulnerable users

Stanford research finds that users with limited social networks who seek emotional support from AI chatbots experience lower well-being.

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Contact tracers and public health workers are astonishingly good at their jobs and would have excellent careers as PIs if they ever decided to leave the field.

Nurses Chase Cyclospora, Aided by Interviews, Fast-Food Receipts — And the Messy Details - KFF Health News

Yes, they’ve heard all the poop jokes. Public health staffers are painstakingly tracing the sources of this massive outbreak, combing through fast-food orders and lettuce purchases as they listen to p...

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I went to a pottery class Saturday and loved it. It's been probably 30 years since I've been on a wheel. I made one sad thing and one generally ok thing! I can't wait to see what they look like after they get glazed/fired!

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

It's not just Google Maps. AllTrails put genAI into their system last year and it has screwed everything up so badly I would never use it for hiking, purely for safety reasons. Some things require long years of practical, experiential knowledge. Walking in the 'wilderness' is one of those things.

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 3d ago

“We’re so used to using Google Maps in our everyday life that I think when people are starting to get into hiking, they think that probably Google Maps will work for backcountry use as well, and that’s just not the case,” said John Blown, of North Shore Rescue, a team based in British Columbia.”

Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.

To help relieve work stress, don't answer emails on the weekend. Also on weekdays after 5 PM turn off your email. On Mondays, don't log into your email until after noon. Before logging in on Tuesday burn your computer and erase your identity. By Wednesday morning gather supplies and escape into the

New: LinkedIn just introduced a "seems like AI slop" button. That's literally what the button says. The thought leaders are going to have a meltdown www.404media.co/linkedin-int...

LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button

Following 404 Media's reporting on how LinkedIn is full of AI slop, the platform is giving users a chance to report it when they see it.

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Just opened Miro for the first time in a little while to find that it won't let me just draw a diagram, it wants to me to hang out with its little chatbot friend. So I ask it to draw three concentric circles.

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

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The “losing control” narrative creates the loss of control. Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to it, as a way of diffusing responsibility, but the self-perpetuated intelligence myth has them convinced they have no choice.

Anna Mills@annamillsoer.bsky.social · last wk.

"They don't realize the debate inside the companies is if AI will be advancing itself past our control in two years or four." www.pacingthefrontier.com

Mamdani being a certified Bluesky Elder means he has absolutely seen Sensual Alf, Tom Boobadil, and Stalins Yaltitties.

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 9mo ago

This labeller never misses

just became aware of William Howard Taft’s 1908 campaign poster

The thing about federal bureaucracy is that all the institutional knowledge that makes them work invisibly in such as making sure your milk doesn't contain formaldehyde, is stored inside people who would make twice as much money in another job.

Paisley Park (Prince’s house) is hiring a 3D Objects Conservator Interesting job for a cosplayer who works with museums who wants to move to Minnesota! paisleypark.applicantpro.com/jobs/4118642

Ernst thinks it was a waste of time for Dr. Fauci to save lives, since we're all gonna die anyway.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Joni Ernst asks Fauci if it was really his plan to persuade Trump to try to slowing the spread of covid, as though her question is a gotcha and that was a bad course of action

Now is a good reminder that machine learning is a rebranding of statistical learning. Reinforcement learning is something I first came across in control theory. Many ML formulations are from information theory, a much more theoretically grounded discipline that's been around for decades.

Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social · 2w ago

There's a reason why "these are just statistical predictions" hasn't caught on in the discourse, and it's not the tech press. It's that people see them reading and writing and reasoning and scheming and they realize that the stochastic-parrots framing is outdated and inadequate to the moment

I feel like the linden hills farmers market isn't really a farmers market anymore. It's more of a craft fair. I think there were only two or three vendors with produce. The rest was all crafts, hot foods, baked goods, pantry supplies. Which is great, but not when I'm trying to buy local produce.

For many years, people didn’t randomly film others in public—not because we didn’t have the technology, but because the social contract said you didn’t do that. That’s why Meta is going full court press on their PR and celebrity endorsements. They remember how people ran google glass outta town.

Thread. MAHA is a eugenic movement and we should not cede one inch of rhetorical ground to them

rm [-r] lininger@0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 2w ago

The way they intend to Make America Healthy Again is to kill off the unhealthy people who count against that. They have _said_ this. Believe them.

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

I have awful news. Youman Wilder, the Harlem baseball coach who courageously protected his kids from an ICE raid and said he was "willing to die" for them, very tragically, passed away this week Wilder's sister started a fundraiser set up to help with his burial: www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-y...

You love to see it!! 👏🏽🚌 @kenjennings.bsky.social @ricksteves.bsky.social

The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 2w ago

Two big names have joined the campaign to defeat a ballot measure that would repeal Washington state's new "millionaire's tax": @kenjennings.bsky.social & @ricksteves.bsky.social. Steves: “A new tax on fat paychecks like mine was just signed into law in my home state — and I like it.”

We ordered momos and potato curry for dinner yesterday. We had leftover curry and rice, so I cooked up some ground turkey in shawarma spices, added the curry to warm it, and served it over the leftover rice with the leftover momo sauce and mint chutney. So good!

Hear me out: this is even wilder than it looks. Out in the ag world, Taylor Farms was THE instigator for a lot of the big food safety moves for lettuce over the last 20 years. That's a legacy that just should NOT have ended up like this.

public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 2w ago

it does actually sound like taylor farms and the white house teamed up to try and blame taco bell for the outbreak. unprecedented corruption

"the farming conglomerate missed a regulator-imposed deadline to take action. At some point Taylor Farms directly spoke to the White House, and later the FDA and [CDC] were asked to defend their evidence. The back-and-forth ultimately kept the public in the dark an additional 60 hours"

public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · last mo.

the public’s health doesn’t even factor into the equation for these men. it’s entirely incidental to their main goal: corruption and self-enrichment.