I keep craving very specific book experiences and can’t find anything to satisfy them. So I guess I have to write them myself.

I am so tired of literally everything.

They think they're being clever eugenicists by saying that people with "underlying health issues" don't matter, but >75% of U.S. adults have a chronic condition (including 60% of age 18–34). So what they're really saying is "nobody matters, it's okay if everybody dies from inadequate regulation."

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

I'm not going to be relitigating COVID lockdowns or mask mandates. Both were necessary measures that saved lives. If you cannot accept the curtailing of even the minor of freedoms in the name of public safety, you have demonstrated that you do not give a solitary fuck about the rest of us.

I am so tired of literally everything.

My experience is of every American COVID-19 mitigation effort being obviously insufficient, and ended far too soon. To see people now argue that they somehow were too much, going too far? Not anti-vax or MAGA people, but folks just out here on Bluesky? It staggers me.

If you believe this, and I hope you do, there is nothing stopping you from continuing to protect your vulnerable neighbors by wearing masks in crowded and indoor spaces, especially necessary spaces like healthcare facilities, grocery stores, and public transportation. Absolutely nothing.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 3d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

It’s not just Flock.

A Private Surveillance Network Built on Tow Trucks Has Scanned 9 Billion License Plates. California Courts Just Said That's Fine

Somewhere in California right now, a tow truck is rolling down a residential street, and a camera bolted to its bumper is quietly photographing every license plate it passes. Each image gets a timesta...

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Here at the end of Disability Pride Month, I say: not just disability pride. Also disability wrath, disability grief, disability defiance. And moreover: disability ease, disability safety, disability leadership, disability joy, disability creativity, disability liberation, and disability justice.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

For writers worried that they won't be able to "prove" their work isn't Spicy Autocomplete--worry not. You thought about every choice and will be able to talk about those choices easily and clearly. Folks who used the slop machine didn't make choices and won't have anything to say about why

They specifically want books before 2022 because they are uncorrupted by AI. They need books that have not been poisoned by the poison they are making. It's just like pre-war steel. They invented cultural radiation.

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

The actual harsh truth about MAHA is that it is an anti-vaxx, anti-science, pro-diarrhea conspiracy movement. It cloaks its arguments in abstractions about "big pharma" and "free speech" to generate *the exact op-ed The Atlantic keeps publishing*. Movements like this need to be fought, not placated.

Here at the end of Disability Pride Month, I say: not just disability pride. Also disability wrath, disability grief, disability defiance. And moreover: disability ease, disability safety, disability leadership, disability joy, disability creativity, disability liberation, and disability justice.

There’s an even more sinister angle to Johnny Depp’s ongoing “comeback” tour as the new Scrooge—it’s a Paramount production and part of a slate of Ellison-backed conservative cultural takeover attempts. It’s angled around MeToo rejection and the manosphere. spitfirenews.com/p/johnny-dep...

Johnny Depp's 'comeback' is billionaire manosphere marketing

Plus, why smart glasses can't escape the 'pervert' label.

spitfirenews.com

I don’t think I’ve felt true happiness since the Scholastic Book Fair in elementary school.

Police arrested a teacher for clapping during a city council meeting last week. They went to the meeting of Emporia, Kansas City Commission to speak out against a proposed hyperscale data center that would sit on 1,000 acres of rural land. @mjgault.bsky.social reports www.404media.co/person-oppos...

Here's the unspoken thing: the livability of the planet in my middle age depends on a rapid shift in American politics that simply may not happen, and it will be especially unreachable if we do the same concessions to dark money funded doubtmongering on the climate side as we're debating with MAHA

People who think Emily Wilson is being mean have clearly never presented a paper at an academic conference

Damn, the food borne illnesses are lining up ALL of the Allstars this summer! Cyclo in greens, salmonella in eggs, Listeria in soft cheese, e coli in frozen blueberries (and lakes), and now the grandaddy, botulism. The botulism is a B2B product, so sold to coffee houses in New York and New Jersey.

3,000 gallons of cold brew recalled for risk of deadly toxin

Brooklyn Roasting Company recalled more than 3,000 gallons of its Pasteurized Cold Brew Concentrate.

usatoday.com

Acknowledging nuance and seeking space for complexity is one of my favorite risky hobbies, too.

Clean air, clean water, healthcare, education, housing, bodily autonomy. These are basic rights. Not radical demands. Not impossibilities.

This 👇🏽 is terrific news! Now we need to replicate this across all of Ontario and Canada!!

A Major Win for Indoor Air Quality: Toronto's Board of Health Moves to Adopt Stronger Ventilation Standards

The Ontario Society of Professional Engineers celebrates a major win for indoor air quality with stronger ventilation standards in Toronto.

ospe.on.ca

Me after I reject AI, get left behind, and embrace the work of real writers and real artists who have helped me dream up the life I really want since I was a little kid:

Me after I reject AI, get left behind, and embrace the work of real writers and real artists who have helped me dream up the life I really want since I was a little kid:

Clean air, clean water, healthcare, education, housing, bodily autonomy. These are basic rights. Not radical demands. Not impossibilities.

Good and delightfully weird news: Gambler 500, an event that’s “Mad Max meets the Sierra Club,” is getting people to clean up public land in bizarre, customized, junky cars. One of the cars had a dragon head that breathed real flames. They’ve cleaned up FIVE MILLION POUNDS of trash so far.

The Gambler 500: Junky old cars race to be king of trash clean up

Welcome to The Gambler 500, an annual trash pickup event where amateur trash collectors compete for the biggest trash haul on national forest land in central Oregon driving customized vehicles they ha...

kuow.org

Good and delightfully weird news: Gambler 500, an event that’s “Mad Max meets the Sierra Club,” is getting people to clean up public land in bizarre, customized, junky cars. One of the cars had a dragon head that breathed real flames. They’ve cleaned up FIVE MILLION POUNDS of trash so far.

The Gambler 500: Junky old cars race to be king of trash clean up

Welcome to The Gambler 500, an annual trash pickup event where amateur trash collectors compete for the biggest trash haul on national forest land in central Oregon driving customized vehicles they ha...

kuow.org

Purely anecdotal, but I used to get a cough each winter that would last months - since replacing our gas stove with induction several years ago, my lungs have stayed clear. I'm delighted but not entirely surprised by results of this study. We should not be burning gas in our homes (or anywhere).

Sammy Roth@sammyroth.bsky.social · 2w ago

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...