One thing I've noticed in conversations with people I know who use AI regularly is that they're aware of its deleterious effects on cognition, but think the amount they use it, however much that is, is fine.
Paul Franz
@paulfranz.bsky.social
Bookworm. Gameologist. Jazz pianist. Writer. Partner of Dr. Melissa Marver. Covid and biosphere collapse conscious. He/Him. PFP Alt: detail from "Garden of Earthly Delights" in which a bird is dangling a berry over small humans with their mouths agape.
if you are ignoring a minority saying they desperately need your solidarity because “the government says you don’t have to anymore,” it is unlikely that you’re on the right side of the issue.
If you believe this, and I hope you do, there is nothing stopping you from continuing to protect your vulnerable neighbors by wearing masks in crowded and indoor spaces, especially necessary spaces like healthcare facilities, grocery stores, and public transportation. Absolutely nothing.
Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d agoCovid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
Yes, and... I wish I had any amount of confidence that most of the people liking and reposting this were still masking in public spaces. My partner didn't stop being high risk just because people got tired of preventing transmission.
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 4d agoWhat I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.
What I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.
As we recall the trauma caused by COVID in 2020, we should not forget COVID continues to harm. Many still suffer from Long COVID, people who mask are often harassed, and we haven’t scaled clean air infrastructure. If we truly acknowledge past harms, we should be working to create a better future.
Haven't read the review, haven't seen the movie (don't like movies in general), but I read the translation when it first came out, and as someone who has read ~8 different translations Wilson's is and remains my recommendation for anyone reading the Odyssey for the first time.
I wonder what Bosch was thinking when he painted the butt music part of this magnificent work.
BoschBot@boschbot.bsky.social · 2w agoGarden of Earthly Delights
who do we want? the funk soul brother when do we want him? right about now
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2026 FIFA WORLD CUP CHAMPIONS, CAPE VERDE
About as dominant and one-sided a 1-0, extra time game as you'll ever see.
Safe to say this has not been as good a match as the 2022 Final was.
Gotta have a lot of villain energy to make Spain seem like the good guy.
Turns out that the South Park Movie's song "Blame Canada" was a prophecy, not a parody.
Truthout@truthout.org · 3w agoRepublican members of Congress are introducing legislation to impose sanctions on Canada over the fact that the smoke from wildfires has spread to the U.S. — an absurd effort to blame Canadian officials without acknowledging the role of the climate crisis in supercharging the fires.
<stares in 6.5 years of isolating from an airborne virus that society tried to ignore away>
Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 3w agoThe lettuce thing feels unpleasantly like the opening act of something worse and much larger that is going to characterize the next several years of our lives
What public health needs to be telling us: AQI (air quality index) rn is based on PM 2.5 (fine particulate matter less than 2.5 microns). There is NO safe level of exposure to PM 2.5. Particulate toxins enter the bloodstream, cross internal barriers and membranes to your brain and other organs. BAD.
Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 3w agopublic health must be public. People do not make good health decisions on their own in crises. But most will follow directions and use tools that are given to them and explained (more than once) clearly and accurately.
The AQI is 350 today and I am begging you to understand that you probably don't care about climate change nearly enough.
The way AI has been promoted as an access technology at the same time as so many accessibility initiatives (like working from home, hybrid meetings/conferences) are being dismantled is cynical at best.
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3w agoBefore you come to tell me how AI is an access technology/we must not be critical of AI because disabled people use it, please consider: Im disabled/neurodivergent myself. I study/teach at the intersection of disability and technology, and in disability studies Not pulling my critiques from thin air
Anyway I'm sure it's fine to just keep flying on airplanes whenever you feel like it.
i cannot implore you enough to use respiratory protection that *really works* for what you’re facing. yes, the best mask is the mask you’ll wear, but when conditions are this bad, know that not all tools are created equal. if you can access something better and are able to wear it, it’s worth it.
PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide@tkovach.bsky.social · 3w agoI feel like there should maybe be more coverage of the fact that NOAA is forecasting the AQI in Cleveland will be 296 tomorrow and 365 on Friday. That's worse than June 2023.
The funniest (in a dark way) thing about the naturalization of covid denial is that now people won't think to wear a mask outside even when the AQI eclipses 150.
Weather isn't climate but what *is* climate is that it was never this damn awful outside so damn often even 20 years ago. When the weather app can't decide between a heat warning and a smoke warning, you know you're living in a dystopian hellscape.
Listening to audiobooks is 'reading', it's not 'cheating'. To think that absorbing information through your eyes carries more moral weight - or is somehow more character building - than through your ears is weird as f*ck.
