"COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you" A study of 1,154 patients found COVID-19 can reactivate dormant viruses, including herpesviruses, even with a healthy immune system. This may help explain why some people develop severe COVID-19 or Long COVID. Source: archive.md/DDJy1

The narrativising of this is kind of maddening. OpenAI's model didn't "break free and hack HuggingFace." Meta's model didn't "break free and hack another company." Tech companies are blatantly doing illegal acts and saying their AI did it on it's own as a promotional stunt. That's it.

Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 6h ago

It keeps happening... It'd be great if these companies could spend a little bit more time on network security and a little less time vibe coding.

“Gustavo” is harvesting mangoes in Coachella, CA. “This is very hard work. We start before dawn, but temps are already near 100° while we’re working. It’s physical labor, and it’s hard to do in this kind of heat.” Today’s high in Coachella is forecast to reach 109°. #WeFeedYou

i believe that framing vote counts as a real time game with swings and momentum is a direct product of how the 2000 election was handled by the media and eventually the supreme court

parker higgins@xor.blue · 2mo ago

this is the thing that really bugs me about california's slow vote counting. reporters can't help but describe it in terms of momentum, when it's really scanning across a snapshot

the arc of discourse is long but it bends towards burrito

huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 13h ago

for reasons that only make sense if you're insane, a TPUSA kid complaining about burrito costs on xitter has the GOP's biggest divas going for each other's throats.

I mean this sincerely: I think pro Israel people really need to begin internalizing that this is not a fringe opinion anymore and in fact is very statistically likely to be the average view of any brown Democratic candidate for office or any candidate under the age of 50

Getting real sick of slop midwives pleading for a 'respectful discussion' of AI as relates to the arts. Your use of AI to 'make art' is not respectful. It benefits from stolen art, destroys the planet, and does not make you an artist any more than someone driving 26.2 miles is a marathoner.

Rape is the central pillar of the right-wing agenda, the right to terrorize other people in the most intimate way possible.

Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · yesterday

Army ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2

can you guys retire "the right wing / chuds don't know what to do with trans men and forget they exist and will be So Confused by them!!!!" already. they are fully aware trans men exist and the thing they do to trans men is violently abuse and murder them

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

this man should get combat pay bc he was FIGHTING here

Humorous to me how, when a Dem candidate is a centrist, the narrative is about how leftists have to grow up and support them. When the candidate is a leftist, the question is whether they can rally adequate support. So some people are responsible for running a winning campaign, you say? Interesting.

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 · yesterday

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.

There's plenty to say about how having a portal to the hell-dimension in everyone's pocket fucked us up, but also "cellphones would ruin 99% of old horror movies" is a thing for a reason. If you never had to hunt for a payphone & the change to use it while stranded somewhere, you don't even know.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · yesterday

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.

crime island out here acting like they don't got any crime. give me a break. i got news

of course i can talk about this. haven’t voted for a single known pedo in my life and UK is still putting up insane per capita numbers

Jose@jum.bsky.social · yesterday

Americans really don’t get to be talking like this anymore

anorexia is literally how my wife died and how I became disabled. It is not unreasonable to say someone who looks like my wife did 3 weeks before death from heart failure at 23 is at risk

nuclear family hater@androgynyfiend.bsky.social · yesterday

not to be pop culture brained but it is kind of crazy how libfem shit is being weaponized against ppl who are like holy shit Ariana Grande is about to die. fellas is it anti-woman to express concern about the health of a woman and the high mortality rates of eating disorders

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

Imagining an alternate timeline where GURPS was called GORPS

I have never used AI, except the very first image generation models when they were all hallucinating batshit John Carpenter dogs

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 19h ago

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

1. the whole "disappointing night" thing is pure cope. El-Sayed beat the establishment candidate despite being outspent 10:1, that's an earthquake 2. primary polls are just not great and everyone needs to spend the next week going really, really hard for Peggy Flanagan

Leftists are supposed to wait for a more convenient season for change. Getting the most votes in elections just shows how out of touch they are with most voters.

My hound keeps acting like I am murdering her whenever I stop rubbing her belly

Oh my god I think I found the video.

CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · yesterday

just had a really upsetting thought: at some point some politicians will begin to turn against large language models and the companies that run them, and those companies will adjust the weightings in said LLMs to propagandize against those politicians

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

"After All That, Ken Griffin Is Not Leaving New York" -- www.curbed.com/article/ken-...

After All That, Ken Griffin Is Not Leaving New York

The hedge-fund CEO made a big to-do about Mamdani’s pied-à-terre message but in the end is sticking to his 350 Park headquarters.

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dying from lack of attention disease. it's fatal. sorry.