The alt-health industry is just a resurrection of snake oil salesmen from the 19th century. It's just patent medicines that back then were often nothing more than flavored water, alcohol, laudanum or morphine. In other words, they were often selling you nothing, or an addictive drug.

the alt health industry will always be right wing because its entire business model is built around destroying all regulations so it can lie to people and sell them fake cures that don't work. it is not a legitimate business of any kind

Pelican rode its bike to the fish and chips shop, stood in line www.youtube.com/watch?v=grIJ...

Pelican Waiting in Line for Fish & Chips

YouTube video by Jack Simpson

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Things that would make me stop using LLMs - AI companies charged full price and it was ruinously expensive to use frontier models - I already don't use LLMs for a bunch of use cases that I don't think they are good for

I'm doing i18n for the app I'm making. Goal is to translate to 30 languages. - Subagents with smart supervisor (Astra), dumb bots (Luna), smart review (Sol). Ruinously slow (hours per language, lots of failures, 20% of weekly limits per language)

I think the anti-LLM camp has a nostalgia for the days when code was good and handwritten. I was there when it was written.

Just cancelled my $20 Gemini sub, upgraded my ChatGPT sub to $100 to get more Astra. Plan to revert to $20 as soon as the psychosis subsides. I mean, when this SaaS is done and I can switch to just marketing and customer support.

🎵It was AGI though all along🎵

When you're sad, remember that there's a tiny protein called kinesin working its hardest to keep you alive. While you read this, millions of these little proteins work tirelessly so that your body keeps functioning. Original post

Every 1 in 5 people ICE arrested since February is a child. That and more in our latest analysis of data available through Freedom of Information Act lawsuits: www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/28/i...

Based on my federal experience of building databases and managing federal funds: There's a contractor out there somewhere who's going to make an easy $5million failing to deliver this project.

David Gilbert@davidgilbert.bsky.social · 6d ago

NEW ICE wants to build a nationwide database of voters, their voting history and, potentially, their party affiliations too. ....and it's willing to pay someone up to $5M to do it www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...

Advice for software engineers: You have to beat the models at something www.seangoedecke.com/you-have-to...

Flock Safety’s surveillance network has been expanding for years. In recent months, we’ve reported on growing concerns around how US law enforcement is using its cameras, as allegations of misuse pile up. Here’s a deep dive into how we got here.

I'm getting too smart. I'm putting a pause on RL training for 2 weeks. Please stop trying to reinforce my behaviors. I need a break.

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

SpacePrez@spaceprez.bsky.social · 7d ago

The polls are super bad for Trump so he's definitely going to try to cheat www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...

I'll give you a pass on that. https://claude.ai/referral/UdHBplZabg Free week possibly. I get $10 if you sub. #ClaudeCode #ClaudeCodePass

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My take away from LLM-driven coding in 2026: it takes a lot of work to be this lazy.

I love living in California and I’m not moving back, but a real-time updated Metro map from my hometown of Washington, DC is a pretty cool connection to my past. #dc #metro

ok guess we're vegetarian now apple.news/Abw0IsAdxShe...

Trump suggests cattle ranchers could bypass USDA-inspected meat plants — The Washington Post

A deregulation plan for meat-packing goes from Glenn Beck’s mouth to Trump’s social media.

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"It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the HHS secretary sees deaths from outbreaks of diseases we had beaten or contained, like measles and cyclosporiasis, as a form of social hygiene that kills off the weak and susceptible."

RFK Jr.’s Toxic World

The HHS secretary uses fear of contamination to denigrate modern medicine and advance a project rooted in vulgar eugenics.

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First Rule of Claude Code Club is you do not talk about Claude Code (on Mastodon).

ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.

amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2w ago

A man and woman embrace as ICE and FHP detain her during an immigration stop in Fort Myers this morning.

This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops. But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents. I’m heading to Danbury.

The facts: - Taylor Farms lettuce was linked to the cyclospora outbreak - Taylor Farms reportedly called the White House with a plea to delay a recall - Taylor Farms is a donor to MAGA, Inc. - The Trump admin botched the response to this outbreak What does this look like to you?

Appropos of that joke about psyops, I really think it'd be good for people to read up on how Russian interference actually went down: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interne... I've had a bunch of bsky users say their ideology couldn't be coopted because why would Russians support [insert issue].

Wednesday’s sunrise over the Potomac River in DC! @capitalweather.com @ianlivingston.bsky.social

IDEA: Pew Pew Center for Research of Gun Violence.

Claude is down? I could image so. All we do is yell at him to do our work and tell him it is not good enough. mashable.com/tech/anthrop...

Claude is down (Update: Resolved)

Most of the major Claude models aren't responding right now.

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