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Martha Crawford

@whatashrinkthinks.com

focused on dreams, mysticism, mortality, community resilience and the psychologies/theologies of liberation Crone, Quaker-ish, She/Her whatashrinkthinks.com collectivedreaming.org

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Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 6h ago

Eclampsia is deadly. The ONLY treatment is terminating the pregnancy/delivering the baby. Tierra Walker developed eclampsia before her fetus was viable … so she was left to die (and the fetus died too). Why? Because of the Texas abortion ban. This should be considered murder.

headfallsoff@headfallsoff.com · 3h ago

people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent

Bruce Arthur@brucearthur.bsky.social · 8h ago

I wrote about it at the time: as after the Spanish Flu, there was an almost immediate amnesia. But yes, in terms of the apocalypse, people need a better understanding of how localized widespread damage can be. In civil wars, things can feel normal a few blocks from the fighting. In disasters, too.

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 8h ago

the experience of COVID really drove this home for me. It wans't the apocalypse, life went on, but a million people died and there were enormous social costs, some of which continue to this day and then when it was done most people were like "let's never think about that again"

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dzaiuo-vrdeui.eurosky.social@dzaiuo-vrdeui.eurosky.social · 9h ago

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Carly@nautiluscarly.bsky.social · 4d ago

I've given birth via C-section. A week later, my health deteriorated from surgical complications & infections. I urgently need support for medical treatment, milk, & essential supplies for my baby. Any help could save our lives. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 ✅Molly Shah chuffed.org/project/save-a-mother-and-fetus-in-gaza

A small baby in a hospital bed
Ryan@radicalbyte.bsky.social · yesterday

They didn't "decide not to stop". They had no monitoring at all. They were driving with their eyes shut. I'm a senior level IT pro and it's hard to put in words how negligent they are. They would run a nuclear power plant with no monitoring and no cooling.

Jesse Felder@jessefelder.com · yesterday

‘People built the test, removed restraints, defined the objective, left a route open and decided not to stop what was happening. Calling the result “rogue AI” does more than sensationalize it. It allows those human decisions to disappear quietly from the story.’ www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Opinion | The Hugging Face Hack Wasn’t What It Was Cracked Up to Be

Forget the ‘hive mind’ of AI agents ‘going rogue.’ They did what humans programmed them to do.

wsj.com

Martha Crawford@whatashrinkthinks.com · 24h ago

Moral inversion. When the institutions do the opposite of what they were founded to do. When destruction is a value.

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · yesterday

“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation… Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · yesterday

“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation… Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”

RFK Jr. Assures Vaccine Skeptics They Have a ‘Friend at the White House’

The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”

nytimes.com

Adam Rogers@jetjocko.bsky.social · yesterday

Not to be blindingly obvious about it, but, "don't say you agree with your constituents about the tech industry because the tech industry guys are rich and they'll get mad" is no way to run a democracy.

Stephanie Baker@stephabaker.bsky.social · yesterday

Covid in 98% of airport air samples. A reminder that you can wear an n95 when you travel, even if you don’t wear one all the time, and why wouldn’t you want to avoid getting sick while you’re on a trip?

Dick Zoutman@dickzoutman.bsky.social · yesterday

VERY important paper! This study detected SARS-CoV-2 in the air of common areas of 4 big US airports. SARS-CoV-2 detected in 98% of samples through the year. Influenza A was found during flu season. That’s why you want to wear an N95 respirator in an airport! And all indoor public spaces all year!

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · yesterday

One of BBM's most egregious practices has been its use of fake writers to byline content, a practice it's employed for years in its quest to scale. These fabricated writers have included made-up domain experts, fake journalists, and fake essayists publishing emotional first-person anecdotes.

Over the past few years, BBM has pioneered a remarkably cynical business model. First it buys online publications that have established themselves as offering a distinctive type of journalism, like coverage of space travel, parenting advice, or business news. Then it floods their websites with dizzying torrents of AI-generated content — many thousands of articles per month, by our count — in a bid to soak up as many readers as possible via Google and other platforms. There are signs that this strategy has been extraordinarily successful, with BBM boasting in 2025 that its network of sites had surpassed 50 million page views per month. It’s difficult to verify a site’s traffic without access to its internal data, but the analytics service Similarweb corroborates the claim that BBM is pulling in vast audiences, estimating that over the past year its network of publications has attracted an average of 64.7 million visitors per month. According to a recent ranking, that would make it one of the 30 most trafficked English-language media enterprises on the web, with a total digital readership substantially higher than that of NPR, narrowly besting CBS News and Forbes, and just slightly behind the Washington Post. A media organization like NPR or WaPo, though, employs hundreds or even thousands of journalists to gather and report news. BBM, as far as we can tell, has cut itself down to a skeleton crew of about a dozen employees, including its three founding brothers. To operate such a sprawling empire with such a tiny staff, former insiders told us, BBM uses AI to crank out content at a scale so immense that it’s difficult to comprehend.Along the way, BBM has indulged in breathtaking acts of dishonesty — often in ways that seem specifically devised to manipulate platforms owned by Google, where Ahrefs data suggests that it sources the preponderance of its traffic. (Last year, BBM wrote in a press release that its enormous audience was “driven by organic reach through Google Discover and search.”) One of BBM’s many unscrupulous practices, insiders confirmed to us, is that it has often invented entire fake personas for nonexistent writers — we found more than 50 spread across its dozens of sites — and published content under their names without revealing to readers that they weren’t real people. In many cases, BBM has even outfitted these fictional writers with impressive-sounding bogus credentials as it uses their bylines to churn out AI-generated material.
Martha Crawford@whatashrinkthinks.com · yesterday

I make continuity errors about my own life all the time. I can’t cannot count or remember numbers and I have no idea is something was 3 or 10 years ago. So if anyone wants to scour anything I write for a gotcha like this you’ll find PLENTY.

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · yesterday

What we quickly found though was that Marlene and her fake colleagues were making chaotic (and unintentionally funny) continuity errors about their own lives. Many of them, Marlene included, frequently forgot their ages:

In a bit of unintentional comedy, these AI-generated essayists have often bungled their own biographical details, resulting in bizarre continuity errors. Remember that essay above, where Martin claimed she’d retired at age 66? In a different piece, she wrote that she’d stopped working at 64. In another, she said it was 61. Martin’s age is similarly inconsistent. In January of this year, she wrote that she was 68 years old. By February, she claimed she was “69 with two bad knees” — which would be possible if she’d had a birthday, except that by March she’d turned 71. By April, Martin was aging backwards, stating in a depressive essay about her loss of identity after the death of her beloved spouse — “my husband died and the caregiving that had consumed seven years ended overnight,” she lamented — that she was only 70.