whoever needs to hear this: the US gets dengue cases regularly! it's a good reason to avoid mosquito bites amap (+be aware if u do get bitten) there's been ~1400 cases scattered all over the country so far this year not to mention it's common MANY other places US folx travel

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 1h ago

Virginia health officials have confirmed the state’s first known case of locally acquired dengue fever

@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.

Be cool if companies stopped trying to reinvent physiognomy every few years.

‘It confirmed my flaws’: women are paying for face scans that score beauty and suggest excessive procedures

‘Looksmaxxing’ culture has led to the rise of facial analysis services – but experts warn they aren’t backed by science and can be harmful to users

theguardian.com

I saw the biggest dog I've ever seen in my life at the vet this morning. His name was Ground Round and he was a Tibetan Mastiff and his paws were the size of a lion's.

Walmart Just Recalled Popular Pantry Item Due to Salmonella Contamination. "Bettergoods Pistachio Nut Butter sold in 19 states is recalled due to potential Salmonella contamination." www.eatingwell.com/walmart-reca...

Walmart Just Recalled Popular Pantry Item Due to Salmonella Contamination

Walmart recalls Bettergoods Pistachio Nut Butter sold in 19 states over Salmonella contamination. Learn which states are affected.

eatingwell.com

Detroit Free Press calls the race just now www.freep.com/story/news/p...

Michigan primary election updates: El-Sayed defeats Stevens in close, contentious U.S. Senate race

All eyes are on Michigan during the Aug. 4 primary election, including the Democratic primary for an open U.S. Senate seat. Follow our updates.

freep.com

By serving the minds of U.S. kids up on a platter, Weingarten reminds me of Samantha Power who wrote THE book on genocide but when she was in a role to do something about it under Biden, she did nothing. Hard for me to believe that she doesn't see that AI's cognitive impact is threat to democracy.

'Why Fascists Fear Teachers' explores how attacks on education undermine democracy

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, talks about her new book "Why Fascists Fear Teachers."

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Citizen.Coping@propcazhpm.bsky.social · 3y ago

I still have the book Samantha Power wrote, "A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide". She had so much to say about U.S.'s role in Rwanda. After her entrée into halls of power, she's silent. Haven't heard nann peep from her since Oct 7th. She should re-read her own book and resign.

It’s really important to understand that the criminal legal system in the U.S. already produced the infrastructure to make ICE possible. If we ever rid ourselves of ICE the way to make it harder to revive it will be destroying and defunding the institutions it has borrowed so much from

The Marshall Project@themarshallproject.org · 3h ago

Adapting to public pushback, the Trump administration is pivoting to expand immigration detention bedspace nationwide.

The youth claim to hate capitalism yet they purchase goods and services in order to survive ahaha and I am very Fortune Magazine

Literally a rounding error for them

Andrew J Douglas@ajdouglas.bsky.social · 4h ago

There’s no way to spin this. “Big yech”—actually a nice typo (slip?) in the article—was able to buy off the leadership of the nation’s second largest teacher’s union for a paltry $12.5 million.

supporting educators' otj safety as their union leader during a pandemic: never a moral imperative pushing educators to embrace tech that abhors education +is a tool to remove opportunities/resources from all humanity, as their union leader: moral imperative yay! 🤮🫠

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h ago

“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

thenerve.news

Happy riverboat brawl day to all who celebrate! Today is the 3rd anniversary of the Montgomery Alabama river boat brawl! Also, Nathaniel Alexander, a Black man, patented the folding chair we use today in 1911

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Bojangles sweet tea is the truth, they don't give a fuck if your foot fall off in the parking lot after that first sip

Again… Big Tech has been doing human experimentation for decades now with no IRB oversight or ethical evaluation of the “studies”. No academic doing experiments like this could have ever gotten away with this kind of activity.

Jason Leopold@jasonleopold.bsky.social · 17h ago

BOMBSHELL story by Olivia Carville @bloomberg.com Internal Report Shows TikTok Kept Safety Feature From Millions A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement NO PAYWALL www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

this is inexcusable ignorance. i know i know we barely allocate any resources for healthcare as it is (in contrast to needs) but we need continuing [m]ed like a mf

Jessica Ellis@baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 19h ago

I just saw an infectious disease doctor liken wearing a mask in 2026 to “wearing two condoms to prevent HIV” which has got to be one of the wildest, most irresponsible takes I’ve ever heard. First of all - Wearing one condom does protect you from HIV, as a well-fit respirator does from COVID!

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

I've literally published bylines in your magazine and I am here, on sosh meeds, very publicly struggling.

New York Magazine@nymag.com · 21h ago

On social media, a broad consensus is that you can’t admit to struggle — at least not while you’re struggling. Doing so represents a failure so profound it’s almost existential. How did it become mandatory to demonstrate perpetual growth and progress online?

fuckery afoot (pun incidental) 🧵

jentrification@jentrification.com · 22h ago

y'all gotta start clocking where y'all city clerks put polling locations. i am waiting on a friend at a location where the area is notorious for not having parking spaces (street or lot) and this is the place that they want people to vote at ?

☕️black AND extra strong 🍞medium 🥩not since 1987 but i like my plant versions crispy edged

president, the sons of john the revelator@upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 22h ago

☕️🍞🥩 - 3's all the way down

The Homestead Act opened 46 mil. acres of fed. land in AL, AK, FL, LA, & MS. African Americans were granted priority access until 1/1/1867. Yet a lack of agricultural resources, poor quality land, & persecution by whites made it difficult for African Americans to take advantage. Learn more: ⬇️

June 21, 1866: Southern Homestead Act

The Southern Homestead Act of 1866 was signed, providing land to the formerly enslaved, lands which had been stolen from the Native American inhabitants.

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I can confirm this would be extremely bad. Sanction and isolate Israel now.

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 22h ago

Really bad www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

the already-labyrinthine process of getting customer 'service' about things u bought or just *trying to* buy is now a hauntedhouse hallway where chatbots randomly pop out to yell cheery compliments or passive aggressive chidings, +when u get pushed out the exit exactly nothing has been accomplished

Exactly. This is where theory is so helpful as a lens. (This is adding to not contradicting OP) So if you have a critical feminist lens, you understand that these are both the same project of marginalizing women and maintaining a binary that (white, cis, straight, wealthy) men are in charge of.

Dag.@3fecta.bsky.social · yesterday

12 year old girls get genital inspections "for their safety" while wife beaters get endorsed for re-election. This whole protecting women and girls thing is a bit confusing.

The Democrats have been to the right of Reagan on this my whole life and at this point I don't feel like they've ever seriously had the will to help people who won't benefit their stock portfolio. I was legit distressed to see every state & national Dem run on I TOO CAN BE TOUGH ON THE BORDER in '24

Salon.com@salon.com · yesterday

The lack of focus on the president’s deportations on the campaign trail is a strategic and moral error.

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Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong - Dream A Little Dream Of Me (Audio)

YouTube video by EllaFitzgeraldVEVO

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Albumism@albumism.com · yesterday

Remembering Louis Armstrong today, born 125 years ago on August 4, 1901 | Explore his musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/LArmstrongHBD

"taxpayers would be subsidizing a service they may never use" congratulations hunty u now understand how taxes work

Olivia reads the verge interview so you don't have to! It's... not great.

Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again@kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 2d ago

Okay, so Verge is very intentionally rage baiting folks by specifically taking a clip out that sounds like the CEO wants to add nazis. Someone else said it was really about sports. I'm reading through the touch edited transcript verge offers below their post to see which.

it's amazing how ppl don't know this like you can just correct course, stop making problems for yourself

rom comrade@savasavasava.myatproto.social · 2d ago

it’s just really easy to not be an ass and if someone says hey you’re being kind of an ass it’s also really easy to say oh shit sorry I’m gonna be less of an ass now thanks dude