never vote for Republicans under any circumstances

Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is terrifying. Schools in Omaha are giving shock gloves to resource officers to use on students. Let’s not forget a resource officer in Attala County has been accused of sexually assaulting 7 Black students by strip searching them. Don’t give weapons to resource officers.

embarrassing and dangerous to scientists and public health workers.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5h ago

Alina Chan is a discredited crank and it is embarrassing for the Times to publish this

Tagging the untaggable: New study finds the ‘right fit’ for reef manta rays

Tagging the untaggable: New study finds the ‘right fit’ for reef manta rays

SOSF project leader and PhD researcher Rachel Newsome has been testing different methods of attaching biologgers – a kind of animal Fitbit – to reef manta rays to unlock secrets about their movements…

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Yes. The conventional wisdom is that the lab leak has been suppressed when in fact it has been given far more credibility than it deserves. Scientists should explore every possibility but the lay public should know that spillover has a ton of evidence and a leak has none.

Onisillos@onisillos.bsky.social · 3w ago

Given the overwhelming demand (🤥), here are the editorials I've written on covid origins: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... and www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

HFS, 404 Media did the actual journalism that the newspapers and such couldn't be bothered to do. And shockingly (hahahaha) it's Amazon that's destroying rare books to train AI. Pardon me while I search for my shocked face. I'm sure it's here somewhere.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6h ago

New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

gonna defer to Stephen Hawking on this one www.newsweek.com/what-stephen...

There's an old saying, "It no longer exists but we've managed to clone it from some original words and the fragments of other modern words and it wrecked our homes and it's don't shit where you're in amber"

Do you mind if we push our start time back a little bit? I am going to need some more time to stare blankly into this abyss.

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

ysph.yale.edu

The presumption of innocence is only for a criminal court - outside you can presume and believe what you like about people. Dismissing questions about someone’s guilt with “innocent until proven guilty!” is nonsensical, as you are not the judge or jury.

Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 5d ago

What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?

The base budget for the United Nations for 2026 is $3.45 billion USD, which is just over half the annual budget of the NYPD. Almost everything else (except for peacekeeping) is funded entirely through voluntary contributions.

Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 5d ago

What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?

Nailing the mouthfeel on a Star Wars protagonist name must feel like sinking a three pointer.

From The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

The LCARS displays had the best system startup sequence in sci-fi, bar none.

Enterprised Star Trek

Alt: The LCARS start-up sequence for the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-D in Star Trek Picard S3:e9 "Vox."

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Zoe Tunnell ➡️ FlameCon E-09@zoewithasword.bsky.social · 2w ago

The specific aesthetic of the LCAR displays for this era of Star Trek is just so soothing to my brain Yes this IS future computers

Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger 🚨BREAKING 🦠 On Friday, the US CDC arbitrarily shifted higher COVlD levels into lower categories depicted with cooler colors. Much of what was Very High is now "High." What was High is now "Moderate" or "Low." Low is "Very Low."

Whenever I see someone within my field proudly showing off something they did with AI, I have no idea how to react to them. Everything about it always feels weirdly slick and unnaturally vile

The wizard mixes up beverages that taste like tarragon, coconut and a road stretching onward to have with the ex-paladin, who brought egg saucijzenbroodjes from the baker.

If buying isnt owning, piracy isnt stealing.

Gonna keep telling this story. I watched an hour long "How To Write An AI Novel" how to video out of curiosity and I shit you not, 60% of the video was about how to trick Claude into writing something that didn't look like it was AI. If genAI is a tool, it's core audience uses it mostly for fraud.

Chris DeLeon Ⓥ make your own games@chrisdeleon.bsky.social · yesterday

everybody clearly wants Al which is why if anybody is able to tell a business used it their customers will leave

"Privacy uproar" kind of undersells the extent to which damn near everyone in the LGBTQIA2S+ community was like "holy hell this is an absolutely and obviously awful and hazardous idea that is sure to endanger the whole community." But hey at least they cut it out

San Francisco gay bars back off AI-assisted face scanning technology after privacy uproar

Badlands and Toad Hall announced over the weekend that use of the controvresial technology would end for now.

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Buffy was right. The hardest thing you can do in this world is live in it.

I’ll die on the hill that digital purchases shouldn’t be legally allowed to be deleted, removed from user access, etc because at that point that isn’t purchasing a game or product but rather renting it Once you digitally buy a game or media you should get to forever own your copy no matter what

There is no comparison… STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE… tho’ I might stay forever.

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 19h ago

Name which film world you'd step into for a week.

i’d say this goes beyond “he’s bad” and i really nailed it, much to my chagrin the very first time i heard him talk, i knew what he was

Amy Hoy@amyhoy.bsky.social · 2y ago

plz note the date

Thinking about this again

Rob Sheridan@rob-sheridan.com · last mo.

Saw a meme of GenZ baffled by how pre-internet travel worked, and realized we’ve crossed an enshittification threshold where IRL services that once seemed outdated, like travel agents, now seem luxurious: “You meet with a human expert who plans out your whole trip with you” sounds incredible now tbh

It's important to remember and repeat that no, we did *not* reject the Internet en masse and no, it was *not* unpopular. Long distance phone calls costs so much there was practically an underground market for phone cards. OF COURSE we loved the thing that gave us instant free global communication!

Just about every single professional use case for "AI" ends up with people trying to trick people into thinking it isn't "AI." This is not the future.

404 Media@404media.co · yesterday

The PhD reviewers Research Gold lists on its site are AI-generated and don’t exist. Other methodologists it lists are real, but are not aware their identity is being used by Research Gold. www.404media.co/company-offe...

Trump pissed on the graves of a lot of Korean War vets today.

I think the specific thing that makes AI bros so massively unpopular is the confluence of the “we’re going to destroy jobs and the world” marketing push and the fact that the actual technology is tangibly crap.

Micah@rincewind.run · yesterday

AI is certainly unpopular but I think the “fascism! it’s great!” thing has a whole lot to do with this

RFK Jr and Elon Musk competing to see who can kill more babies

ProPublica@propublica.org · 18h ago

Babies were found with dead brain tissue similar to what follows cancer and the kind of bleeding seen after a stroke. Their autopsies all came to the same conclusion: Their deaths could have been prevented with the long-standard vitamin K shot. (Published May)