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this might be a good time to turn off your video auto play settings too I feel ill this is so awful

As I often say, people behave weirdly at scale. We barely understand any of this! And just like a vaccine can end up failing clinical trials because it causes antibody-dependent enhancement, sometimes you try a thing and it makes stuff worse and you don't know why.

Remember Twitter's old "do you really want to post that?" toxicity detector? I remember hearing they did that on an experimental rule-out basis and didn't think it would have much effect, but it was wildly successful so they rolled it out to everyone with great bemusement.

So absolutely every safety intervention a site does is experimental! We're all just guessing at what might improve things, and sometimes the guess is wrong and it makes things worse. Or sometimes we try things to rule theories out and think it won't help and it does, massively.

I think two words will suffice: Pre-existing conditions.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 14h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

I grew up in the San Gabriel Valley in the 70s/80s. You can see the mountains EVERY DAY now! That's nuts!

Video chats were literally Star Trek science fiction thirty years ago! So were tablet computers!

Emily J@emexastris.bsky.social · 12h ago

The INTERNET. We stream video and games and video chats all day long, WIRELESSLY. That’s insane!

The INTERNET. We stream video and games and video chats all day long, WIRELESSLY. That’s insane!

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 14h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

“Yes, please, let’s go back to the world AIDS was a death sentence, but so was almost every kind of *cancer*. You thought white ppl were stupid before George Floyd? Try to imagine white people before Rodney King. Gay marriage? HAH HAH HAH HAH! Oh, you were serious? HAH HAH HAH HAH!”

In 1986, contracting HIV meant you were going to die, usually slowly, painfully, and alone. Now it's a chronic illness like hypertension. In 1986, gay and lesbian couples couldn't have their relationships legally recognized and had to adopt elaborate legal workarounds.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 14h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

I am not familiar with the riders in the female professional peloton so I keep hearing their names completely incorrectly, like “Puff Pizza”, which is absolutely not that woman’s name, but the graphics are so small I can’t see what it actually is.

Growing up on teenage mutant ninja turtles and then Captain Planet - it’s like, do people think we were hallucinating rivers full of toxic waste? That was happening!

I went through 25 pieces published after the MI cyclospora announcement, and every one of them included the 'underlying conditions' framing. Two put it in the headline, five in a subhead/summary, sixteen by the second paragraph, and the remaining two by the third graf. 🧵

Who Gets to Feel Relieved When Sick People Die? Michigan Reports Two Deaths in Its Cyclospora Outbreak | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland

nb. CDC has added Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania to the list of Cyclospora outbreak states. I continue to urge caution, this o

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Cerrabus@cerrabus.bsky.social · 3d ago

Update: the kittens have arrived home!

Food is so much better, but medicine has improved beyond any of my expectations. Like, most things are a lot better.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 14h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

I think about all the lakes and rivers and waterways in cities that used to be running jokes about toxic sludge and now are swimmable. Also we did kind of fix the whole ozone layer situation. Plus way fewer people smoke cigarettes!

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 14h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

I suppose the ski jumpers had the penis-padding scandal but I will admit that hearing the man commentator say to the woman commentator “I’m going to ask you to talk about [the riders’ breasts]” was definitely a new experience in the women’s #TdF today.

Or you're 19

Felicia Rondo@feliciarondo.com · 14h ago

if you’re honestly asking “what has gotten better in 40+ years, has literally anything gotten better” that’s just depression talking imo

I'd really like if progressive candidates who otherwise talk a really good talk would stop leaning into casual antisemitism, that'd be very cool I'd also like if people paid to talk about progressive candidates would stop saying "antisemitic" when they mean "Muslim" or "not pro-genocide"

similarly both fuck AIPAC and I am very distrustful of almost anyone that rants about AIPAC

It is *ridiculous* how fast you decondition without activity. I’m not even doing enforced bedrest, just majority time on the couch, and in 5 days there’s a noticeable difference in how “sitting at my desk” feels. (Yes I am also sick and highly medicated, that is also part of it)

Four year old searching for a word: "the stories that hurt people's feelings that people tell with skulls" She meant phrenology but for a second I thought she'd secretly attended a goth puppet show or something

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg@theradr.bsky.social · 5d ago

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Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social · 16h ago

Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion

I have eaten too much candy

Once again, the Founders anticipated the possibility of a tyrannical president. What they didn’t anticipate is a majority of the members of Congress choosing subservience—not that they’d all be good people, but most should have egos and ambition, enough to object if someone tried taking their power.

What’s really remarkable about this is how many drugs were developed for pregnant people so they could maintain functionality and slimness throughout pregnancy; Betty better be able to flip pancakes from week 4 to week 40 and fit into her pre-pregnancy dresses before baby Timmy starts teething

Possible TMI: everyone talks about paxlovid mouth (which is very much a thing) but has anyone else had paxlovid *sweat*? I swear I feel like it’s coming out of my pores

30 million people should be reminding the senior Senator for #Texas that Congress can do its job, #ImpeachTrump, and remove him at any time.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

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