Because the liars are out lying again— I wrote this from Paterson NJ in April 2020

‘Anybody who says they’re not scared during this is lying to you.’ A day in the life of paramedics in a pandemic | CNN

The man lay unconscious in the back of the ambulance, parked in front of the nursing home on the Passaic River. Another life slipping away before the paramedics of Paterson, N.J. For these health care...

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But they will be

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup@rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

just remembering the reality of what happened in 2020/2021 is an act of resistance. you’re not alone.

I am in NYC. There were two overflow morgues within blocks of my apartment. I used to have to walk past one every day when walking my dog. The ambulances suddenly seemed to go quiet--because when they got to people, sometimes they were already gone. I saw people coming out in body bags too often.

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

Episode 4 of @2dollarcreature.bsky.social - in where we hear a bit more from Cove’s “passenger.” And she has ✨opinions✨ about this crew. #MonsterOfTheWeek #TTRPG #podcast #AP

AltHaven@althaven.bsky.social · 6d ago

The trio(?) explore the canals of Seurat, and meet a monster. Episode 4 of @2dollarcreature.bsky.social's season 4 campaign is out not wherever you get your pods or right here: https://2creaturefeature.transistor.fm/episodes/s4-ep-4-every-rose-has-its-thorn

This is similar to a big part of my job—not scheduling meetings, but press releases & emails for a complex org. I’m good at it bc I have 18 years of context. Training someone to do even the barest basics takes a year+ of explaining history, urgency, personality, etc factors for every judgment call.

Katherine Thibodeaux @thibodek.bsky.social · 4d ago

And scheduling, which I was also garbage at, is another thing people assume 'AI' can "just do" because you just need to find the next open spot on a calendar. WRONG. No one has any open spots. And some meetings need to happen NOW and some can be in a month. Some meetings can be scheduled over...

Then they have all the transcripts (and the ai token bill) but no sensemaking. so they make another app — a layer that will make sense of all the useless transcripts. But of course sensemaking isnt just pattern spotting. It’s interpretation. AI cannot do either because AI cannot be curious

So a masculinist understanding of notetaking would think a transcription app is the same as taking notes. That’s why they think an AI transcript is a time-saver. They think the notes are the thinking because when a human takes the notes, it is.

The trio(?) explore the canals of Seurat, and meet a monster. Episode 4 of @2dollarcreature.bsky.social's season 4 campaign is out not wherever you get your pods or right here: https://2creaturefeature.transistor.fm/episodes/s4-ep-4-every-rose-has-its-thorn

The sandwich debate is trivial. But other debates about how to socially construct brute facts are more consequential, because people have constructed consequences for those constructions. Eg, debates about ADHD criteria matter because laws use the label to determine access to meds, accommodations.

And the reason people socially construct brute facts is that those constructions allow us to coordinate action. If we don't have units of measure, we can't easily give each other directions. If we don't have labels for symptom clusters like ADHD, we can't easily develop treatments or policies.

Stephen Wild@stephenjwild.bsky.social · 6d ago

Something can be both a brute fact and a social construct. The distance between points A and B? Brute fact. Unit of measurement to describe the distance (cm, inches, rods, parsecs)? Social construction. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors

“It belies that idea that any of this is about public safety because now two people are dead and three young girls are without parents for the rest of their lives.”

Adam Sawyer@adamjst.bsky.social · last wk.

“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...

Please take a moment out of your day to marvel at the balletic poise, calm elegance and graceful athleticism of the panda.

Remembering Silas Soule, born OTD in 1838. American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, military officer, and hero for disobeying orders to participate in Sand Creek Massacre and then giving evidence against his commander. Murdered 1865. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_S...

By popular demand, I have turned my 'if i am dead, look here' list into a fillable template: (Almost) everything someone wrapping up your estate needs to know about finances, how to access your accounts, and other fun things. www.realsesmith.com/the-list

I admire our government's new commitment to honesty.

I bet everyone who has ever been cast as Wickham initially showed up to read for Darcy.

Massie is _exactly correct_ and US corporate media have decided this is a taboo subject.

Not only is ICE back at airports, they are making workers help them, even tricking them into helping. The unions need to take action and support their members. Posted this a week ago.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2w ago

Last year, TSA began sharing passenger manifests with ICE, and ICE began arresting people at airports. After some initial arrests led to backlash, ICE pulled back a bit. But with the pressure on from the White House right now, we're seeing a lot more arrests at airports recently.

in my personal opinion, the answer is always too much, and I’ll tell you why: because they are not mentally placing THEMSELVES in their image of hell we all know what a Christian who is afraid they’ve sinned and are going to hell looks like, and it ain’t this. it looks like other forms of trauma

I go by Rob@papashot.bsky.social · 2w ago

Do these monks worry too much or too little about Hell, in your estimation

Conversations with the 9yo DM: 9yo DM: <plays dead> Which Hamlet character am I? Me: I don’t know. 9yo DM: All of them.

Calibration Nobel xkcd.com/3275/

uh oh I’m emotional about the 72nd St. Q train mosaics again

From a cultural knowledge institution perspective: This is crafts, this is handwriting, this is tech, this is working at the knowledge institution itself. Cannot tell you how many times I’ve bumped into “oh Rhonda was the one who handled X” and Rhonda retired without telling us how to carry on.

Kari Dru@karidru.bsky.social · 2w ago

Knowledge is fragile. It's important to learn what you can but it's also really important to make sure to tell somebody else.

The first episode of our new ✨magic & fantasy filled✨ season is out! Here's a little taste of our weirdos (complimentary) as they get to know each other. I'm sure this will all work out fine. 🫠 #ttrpg #MonsterOfTheWeek

AltHaven@althaven.bsky.social · last mo.

In the seaside city of Seurat, things are stirring... Hear what the waves will turn up in Season 4 of @2dollarcreature.bsky.social, out now on your favorite platform or right here: https://2creaturefeature.transistor.fm/episodes/s4-ep-1-the-houses-of-seurat

At this point in time, if the only thing you can do looking at this administration is to make fat jokes, which is something that 6-year-olds are adept at, I have to wonder what's wrong with your brain that that's your best material. Try harder.

Writers

Pretty cool and dramatic NASA animation showing the long-range transport of 2026 Canadian wildfire smoke.