Marie Cerda
@primalux.thedeadbird.club
Chicanx. Agender/Genderless. ND. Bird Nerd. Queer. Carnivorous plants BSc in Nat Resources & Conservation. Masters in Fire Ecology. I'm an Ecologist in Public Health bc birds Bay Area
I realize the actress who plays Sue in the new Carrie is not Mexican but there are certain scenes where she looks SO MUCH like my sister it's distracting. (she's Filipina/Polynesian/White which is a mix of mixtures that most people always think I & my sister & other fam are so I guess I get it lol)
The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.
I just watched the trailer for Crossed. I read the series in my 20s and have not revisited it and I think that was probably intentional because omg, I cannot imagine something I want to watch less. (I forgot about a lot of what happens but that trailer made it all come back & oh hell nah)
In other words, it is the job of scientists to devise experiments that can test their claims, to always be cautious abt what they are claiming, and to critically evaluate the claims of other scientists. By these well-established standards, no serious science is happening behind Anthropic's claims.
1. Can a language model feel pain? Clearly not. Large language models are computer software and they can no more suffer than any other human-created artifact can. >>
I have not had Cholita Linda in a while but I got a good promo & holy shit, it's been so long since I've had a real Cuban picadillo & I can't believe they make chicharrones from chicken thighs instead of pork (I don't eat pork) so I got extra & everything was just so good & I have so much left over
This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.
Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
theguardian.com
They reinvented Thought Catalog but for computer guys writing this kind of thing www.businessinsider.com/personal-ai-...
My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it.
Shane Mac, the CEO of XMTP Labs, got a rude shock when one of his AI agents posted his monthly bank audit in a company Slack channel.
businessinsider.com
fucking hell "Two powerful 7.7 and 6.6 magnitude earthquakes...aftershocks continued to rattle Panama, including several measuring magnitude 5.8, 5.5 and 5.2."
Two powerful earthquakes and multiple aftershocks rock Panama
The U.S. Tsunami Warning System has issued potential tsunami threats for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua, Colombia and Ecuador.
abc7news.com
omg the new Law & Order is about an AI that puts a hit out on someone who was working on it and trying to put guardrails in place. I will lol and lol if this is the kind of shit that will finally get the bubble to burst
Thanks to all of my nonstop coding I actually finished work before 5 on a Friday and the end of week stuff only took a little over an hour instead of 3+ AND I found out I'm off on Monday for a holiday so surprise 3 day weekend!
What a strange story. California woman finds a man, allegedly drunk, sleeping on her lawn early in the morning & sends her dad out to move him. The man wakes up & allegedly assaults the (elderly) dad, who shoots him Turns out the man is off-duty ICE agent David Gonzalez abc7.com/story/off-du...
Off-duty ICE agent shot after assaulting 72-year-old man and his daughter at Fresno home, police say
Authorities say a woman found the ICE agent sleeping on her front lawn.
abc7.com
Mind you, we don’t actually see any of our legal processes mobilized for victims the way we see them mobilized by perpetrators. It’s all just a victim-blaming justification for violence victims experience at the hands of the system itself.
The general sense from law enforcement is that victims are “asking for it” by expecting systems to take concerns about violence seriously. A kind of, “If you want us to believe you, then we have to believe your abuser who said you were dangerous.”
Swatting is just one way that violent men weaponize our social institutions into an arm of their abuse. In recent years, we have seen an explosion of abusers using the criminal and civil legal systems to harass and traumatize victims. It’s a recognizable pattern and it just keeps happening.
The most common type of false allegation of sexual violence is DARVO complaints made by perpetrators against their very real victims. DARVO stands for Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. It’s a way perpetrators avoid accountability by accusing their victims of wrongdoing.
Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · 14h agoThe general sense from law enforcement is that victims are “asking for it” by expecting systems to take concerns about violence seriously. A kind of, “If you want us to believe you, then we have to believe your abuser who said you were dangerous.”
I caught some coverage from the Weather channel on the latest hurricane. and they referred to the Gulf of Mexico with the wrong name. how disappointing.
"Another aspect of the initiative is a proposal to reimburse doctors for reporting possible injuries from vaccines to a federal system called VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System)....Anyone, including members of the public, can submit an unvetted report." 😐
RFK Jr. unveils sweeping federal initiative to find evidence of vaccine injuries
[T]he Trump-RFK Jr. anti-vax agenda keeps getting more corrupt and dangerous."
arstechnica.com
WAIT there a Mexican AND a Tico on this season of Dragula???? omgz
ASkars serving feet for free on the red carpet for the film in which he plays a wicker man is the logical next step in his kink fashion foray. Up there with the thigh high leather boots or the leather pants & halter button up with leather tie fit. He's always gonna give it to you & I am here for IT
regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸@ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 24h agolove it when a hot person does some genuinely offputting stone cold freak shit
Aw the lady who made shit up for reposts blocked me bc I pointed it out, bc it's more important that everyone repost the bs you made up than factual & scientific accuracy & She had 1000s of reposts she must have been checking to see if anyone was pointing out her bs in order to see & block me lol
Marie Cerda@primalux.thedeadbird.club · 2d agoTHIS IS NOT TRUE WHY ARE YOU ALL REPOSTING THIS RANDO JUST SAYING SHIT American Chestnuts were never the dominant species in the US they were dominant in a specific ecosystem in a specific part of their native range in the eastern US. There are other surviving stands! These were planted in the 70s!
I swear, I will never stop having a reflexive wincing reaction when someone refers to ICE as "thugs". I think if you're from the US & you use that term for them, you are either lying or have completely unexamined reasoning as to why you think that's the worst thing you can call them.
Evolutionary biology is a real thing. Evolutionary psychology is a thing that should have you crucified along a road way
Rebecca Sear@rebeccasear.bsky.social · 2d agoA new Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology has just been published, in which it is claimed that the human species is polytypic: not only is race biologically meaningful but the races are distinct enough to be considered subspecies. Published by Elgar. In 2026.
“Testers spent up to an hour discussing suicide, self-harm or eating disorders on more than a dozen new accounts registered to 13- to 17-year-olds. After dangerous discussions that went as long as an hour, only a handful of alerts were sent to the accounts registered as the users’ parents.”
ChatGPT’s teen safeguards failed to alert parents during suicide conversations, report finds
Common Sense Media says ChatGPT for Teens fails on parental alerts, crisis referrals and age checks, urging OpenAI to keep minors off the platform. OpenAI disputes the findings.
latimes.com
The fact that this CHILD is continuing to be vilified by the cops is disgusting & obvs being done to rile people up so when they charge her, everyone will be fine with it. SHE WAS RAPED & IMPREGNATED BY HER FATHER. Her mother supposedly knew of the abuse but not the pregnancy.
Sheriff Reveals Details In Death of Monterey County Infant, 14-Year-Old Allegedly Drove Over It
The 14-year-old who became impregnated by her own father in Monterey County allegedly acted alone in killing the newborn by the side of a road in Moss Landing, and the county sheriff has now shared mo...
sfist.com
This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.
Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
wapo.st
I realize this is important health info but since it's the NY Post it feels like "lol at the queer men" & given how obsessed everyone is* with eating ass, I'm willing to bet it's also rampant in heteros, but they're less likely to be honest about sexual practices or take sexual health as seriously
Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · yesterdayThe fact that this took place just a couple of miles from where I was sitting in my office, forced to listen to the disgusting jingoistic bullshit display that is the Blue Angels as they flew overhead, just makes it all the more vomit and rage inducing.
ICE detains Richmond parent at school drop off, WCCUSD says
A father was arrested outside of Nystrom Elementary School on South Harbour Way Thursday, WCCUSD school officials confirmed.
richmondside.org
"He asked her if they had family in Berkeley and she told him they were just visiting from Barcelona and didn't know anyone." Not only are they the victims of our awful fucking car culture, they're also now likely to be victims of our awful fucking healthcare system. I hate it here.
The Berkeley Scanner@berkeleyscanner.com · 2d agoBREAKING: A driver fled after striking two elderly pedestrians in Berkeley on Wednesday night, causing major injuries, according to preliminary reports.
