One thing I learned after going through training w/my dog is that when I encounter medical providers who are good -- the nurse with the light touch doing the draw; the specialist who treats u like a human with warmth -- I tell them I appreciate them, like giving them little treats for good behavior!

I would expand this in one way, and it is that even if u are not a coder, etc, but are code adjacent and understand system design, you can now be a coder without knowing how to write any code (ew). The solution u personally want for a userbase of 1? You can make it.

Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · 10h ago

was discussing with a fellow traveler today -- but programmers, coders, developers are having an *entirely* different experience of LLM-based products and services than the rest of us, especially the plagiarized plebeians among us (writers, reporters).

It seems pretty problematic that the experience we're having with LLMs is diverging so sharply depending on what you're using it for. My husband (software engineer) recently told a coworker that my experience attempting to use LLMs for research was terrible and the coworker was shocked.

Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · 10h ago

was discussing with a fellow traveler today -- but programmers, coders, developers are having an *entirely* different experience of LLM-based products and services than the rest of us, especially the plagiarized plebeians among us (writers, reporters).

🧵💯

Suzan Eraslan@saturnexalted.bsky.social · 10h ago

The comparisons of AI to the early internet are absolutely deranged-- nothing about the environment or the experience or the stated goals is at all comparable. The internet was going to bring us closer; AI is nakedly extractive, the most parasitic and cancerous capitalism.

"RFK Jr. is wrong. Peru had the highest COVID-19 death rate, not the U.S." 🔸Peru had the highest COVID-19 death rate per capita from January 2020 to March 2023 with 665.84 deaths per 100,000. The U.S. rate was nearly half at 341.11 per 100,000 people, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Peru had the highest COVID-19 death rate, not the U.S.

During a CNN interview, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the U.S. had the highest death rate from COVID-19. Peru’s was higher.

politifact.com

Thats because the lab leak virus is totally mild and there’s no problem with contracting it over and over.

Julia Métraux@juliametraux.bsky.social · yesterday

And these lab leak folks never talk about Office of Long Covid being shut down by the Trump admin. Shows how unserious they are re Covid.

oh my god no it does not. Canada has maha type cranks. The UK does. Japan does, Germany does, Sweden does, India does, France does IT'S NOT ABOUT THE MATERIAL CONDITIONS OF THE SYSTEM, WHICH YES ARE BROKEN MAHA IS A EUGENICS MOVEMENT NOTHING TO DO WITH THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

The women now in their 40s are the first generation born into a reality where they were allowed to have their own credit cards and bank accounts without a husband or father cosigning.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · yesterday

So this is basically one of the entry points to becoming a reactionary

The Spokane fire conspiracy theories are almost identical to the Altadena fire conspiracy theories. These people have no understand of how fire works, how science works, or why some things burn. I'm writing a book chapter about it, but the people who need to read it don't read books.

LorennaCleary.bsky.social@lorennacleary.bsky.social · yesterday

The internet is filled with really dumb people who right now think the fires in Spokane WA were fake because the houses burned but trees didn’t. What they’re forgetting is that dead, thin, dry wood burns. Wet, dense, living wood is harder to burn. Old living pine and house vs fire: house loses.

The Dupers Delight smile, no less.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

The conversation about AI in health stuff is always about the risks of patients using AI. I'm more worried about possibilities like every appointment gets inspected by an insurance company in detail so that if a patient uses the slightly wrong words about something their care is denied.

there are definitely downsides to the nuclear block but the reason I keep coming back to it as necessary and good is that it completely ruined the whole MAGA engagement model to the point that they prefer to mock us from the nazi bar rather than come here to troll us directly

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

In a twist of fate, since having an infection during pregnancy raises the potential of having a child with autism by 37%, by making pregnant women fear vaccines, the “vaccines cause autism” crowd is actually creating the conditions for more autism. www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/lar...

Large study links maternal infection to autism risk

Having an infection during pregnancy significantly raises the risk of having a child with autism, finds the largest epidemiological study to date to examine the link.

thetransmitter.org

Cant believe we're making dysentery great again.

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 2d ago

It’s only 2 people, and they’ll say they had preexisting conditions (checks article) yup www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/h...

US automakers will be back asking for yet another public bailout in a few years. One of many depressingly predictable recurring cycles in US politics.

The American E.V. Has Been Crushed. Will It Take the U.S. Auto Industry With It?

The largest U.S. automakers have backed away from electric vehicles, even as global sales are booming. The decision may make them obsolete.

nytimes.com

yeah he sees himself as being in a negotiation with Iran but at war with Minnesota

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 3d ago

Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol

The people talking abt COVID like its a thing thats not happening today think they are different than the people who deny it ever happened at all, but they are actually the same.

Jenka@jenka.bsky.social · 4d ago

TO-DAY Long COVID is the #1 chronic illness among American children not that anyone who gets off on fetishizing the children of the past would care.

Important reminder from May 2, 2020:

if you hated covid "lockdowns" try long covid

most of us were, at best, temporarily quarantined. some of us still are because too many people didn't want to be inconvenienced any longer

It's crazy to think about how celebrated his ex wife would have been on her wedding day. And how every woman who figured out who this guy was within a few months and got "you know, I'm just too busy right now" to date him anymore never got a celebration.

Even TODAY, I am STILL learning to use being patronized / underestimated by a man as an intel gathering opportunity. Your girl typed out a whole long explanation of her process in response, thought, what the fuck am I doing? Deleted the whole thing and just typed, "Sure, tell me more."

In happier news, it turns out that blueberries grown beneath solar panels turn out sweeter! 🫐 (via @billmckibben.bsky.social)

In Massachusetts, a solar farm was raised nine feet above blueberry fields, and its shade is changing how the fruit grows and tastes

In Massachusetts, a solar farm was raised nine feet above some blueberry fields, and its shade is changing how the fruit grows and even how it tastes.

ecoportal.net

I've posted before about how if you can't type it looks like magic and makes AI seem much more impressive than it really is.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 4d ago

I wonder if students today would be less likely to lean on AI for writing assignments if schools had made sure they could touch-type (at least 60wpm) before having them submit all their assignments online. 1/🧵

Alexander Skarsgard is collecting everyone’s kink movies like pokemon

I yell about this all the time. My kids were in the third grade when Covid moved school to Chromebooks. The school has never taught them to type and yet most work is now typed. And also their handwriting is stunted.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 4d ago

I wonder if students today would be less likely to lean on AI for writing assignments if schools had made sure they could touch-type (at least 60wpm) before having them submit all their assignments online. 1/🧵

Damn... 300% higher yields for peppers 200% for tomatoes. 65% lower water use for jalapenos. #agsky #agrivoltaics ,🌱🌞🔌..

hoergen@hoergen.bsky.social · 4d ago

*American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity* #Erneuerbare #Renewable #Solar #Photovoltaik energiesmedia.com/solar-panels…

It’s always odd to me when I get asked if I am wearing a mask because I am sick. In my experience, these days most people wearing a mask are doing so to prevent themselves getting sick, and most people who are sick don’t wear a mask at all.

TO-DAY Long COVID is the #1 chronic illness among American children not that anyone who gets off on fetishizing the children of the past would care.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 5d ago

There are working class and vulnerable kids who will never have the life they should have had because of school closures. Let’s address that too, shall we?

i'm sorry what the fuck. gillibrand attends a church which teaches that COVID was God's punishment for permitting gay marriage?

Jonathan Larsen@jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW: Corporate media zero in signs of antisemitism on the left. Meanwhile, one of Rep. Haley Stevens's most powerful backers in her Senate race attends a Bible study that teaches that the Jews killed Jesus...