Covid “wakes up” dormant viruses inside of you. Another possible cause of long covid and another reason to avoid it.

Eric Topol@erictopol.bsky.social · 18m ago

Covid reactivating latent viruses www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Good imagination leads to vivid nightmares even when awake. #zentao

"There’s a real irony buried in all this AI slop: one AI-surveillance company’s search engine is quietly manufacturing an excuse to destroy another AI-surveillance company’s product. If that doesn’t sum up the current state of the AI-obsessed tech industry, nothing will."

jon christian@jonchristian.net · 3h ago

incredible futurism.com/artificial-i...

Out with my neighbors for a National Night Out block party. Good to see so many different folks.

It's past lunchtime but I'm trapped.

This is appalling. Get the National Guard troops out of DC now.

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 23h ago

"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."

English spelling’s absurd. Double the R? E or A nt? Arbitrary. Capricious. #zentao

This review made me think about so much. I may see the movie to deepen my understanding of the review. I think this explains so much about Spielberg movies in general. I've enjoyed them, but it always feels like something is missing.

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · yesterday

My review of Disclosure Day.

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‘Bitchy!’ Finds Jokes Where Many of Us Wouldn’t Dare to Look (Gift Article)

A new compendium of Roberta Gregory’s comics does away with delicacy in the name of feminism.

nytimes.com

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

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extreme income inequality is bad for a lot of reasons but today the one i'm mad at is people having the wealth and power to force me to live inside their delusions

ICE published data on detentions and deportations for the first time since April 9. They arrested 43,138 people in June, setting a miserable new record. (Yes, it’s worse, despite not generating constant headlines.) 2/9 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US immigration agents arrested a record number of people in June, data shows

Guardian analysis shows officers arrested 43,138 people as quiet and steady operations ramp up across the country

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Imagine what we’d have if we spent our resources on what we really need. #zentao

Money for transit instead of "AI"? YES! @annaleen.bsky.social sets it all out in @coyotemedia.org today. www.coyotemedia.org/funding-bay-...

A Modest Proposal for Funding Transit Instead of AI

In the ’60s, the Bay Area almost got a high-speed train from Marin to San Jose. What could happen if we dreamed big again?

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In the aftermath of 9/11, there was an initial tremendous swell of solidarity, generosity, open-mindedness, and in lower Manhattan decentralized organizing to support the workers at Ground Zero. The Bush Administration's first war was not the Global War on Terror. It was on us.

Anyway, if you want to guarantee your political party’s obsolescence, make it something that James Carville is comfortable with.

Historian of abolition here 💯Garrison always called it the slaveholders rebellion, that’s the correct term. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...

Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)

To face our own history, we must be honest about it.

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@aikilizzy.bsky.social and others who are asking: CJ Cherryh has posted on FB that she and Jane are fine and have not had to evacuate from the Spokane fires, though they remain prepared. The wind has died down, but there is a lot of terrible destruction in the area.

Stupidity and authoritarianism. Not civilized yet. #zentao

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Okay so I need to take a moment to talk about how joyous it is to watch STRONG women doing something well. So many of these women are so sturdy in their batting stances - you know they’ve got the muscle to deliver. #wpbl (& women’s sports broadly) giving us a totally different model than Hollywood.

5. I am extremely weary of time-wasters, people who do some sketchy shit and then I have to spend my scant time chasing them down to tell them to knock off something that they bloody well knew they weren't supposed to be doing in the first place but somehow it is my problem now.

One of the most important issues of our time is that the future of humanity is presently being authored by people who have nothing but total contempt for humanity and seek the erasure of everything that gives being a human meaning. It’s not just annoying. It doesn’t just suck. It’s existential.

Good can come from bad; evil from good intentions. It’s complicated. #zentao

Also, of course, this, still bsky.app/profile/scal...

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 4mo ago

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

I led a report about the environmental and resource parts of this! Companies intentionally conflate wildly different machine learning applications: using a sprinkling of good to justify a tsunami of bad ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b...

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 4d ago

There is a certain level of obtuseness in (some) "AI" apologists when they flounce up to point out what "AI" is good for in science, etc, while eliding the fact that almost none of that use is driving the current market capitalization, environmental degradation and resource hogging of the field

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Preventing Voter Intimidation by Federal Agents at the Polls

Any deployment that intimidates voters or interferes with elections would be illegal. Should one occur, officials and civil society are prepared to challenge illegal acts so that voting can proceed uninterrupted.

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