ROUSes? I don't think they exist
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Ex and occasional Chicagoan. Healthcare -> critters -> books, movies, and graphic novels. I heart courtyard buildings.
Come check out some video discs at your local library
Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2h ago"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."
Everybody putting their specific flavor of synesthesia on display in the replies. I don't have strong opinions on what colors subjects are, but I do have strong opinions on what color each month is.
Governor JB Pritzker@govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d agoWhat color, what subject? Math is yellow. English is blue. Science is red. History is green. Languages are purple.
People keep acting like spending boatloads of money is the only way to win a campaign. It really, truly isn't - if you have a genuine grassroots campaign that people can believe in. Astroturf doesn't work.
A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18h agoPretty sure when you win the election it's a big election night. Pretty sure when your party's leadership all endorses the loser, it means the leadership is out of touch with the electorate.
My dad was a real piece of shit, and stingy, too, but even he didn't hesitate to take us to the ER for broken bones. Digging an infected splinter out of a child's hand was a DIY home job, though.
ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social · yesterdayI somehow do not think "my ex-wife is the bad guy because she took the kid to the emergency room for a broken collarbone" is gonna go the way he thinks.
Of course. Of course there are people betting on this and OF COURSE people WILL commit arson so that they can bet on the fires they start.
Central Oregon Daily News@codaily.bsky.social · 2d agoOregon's senators are demanding the CFTC crack down on prediction markets that let people bet on wildfires — warning the practice could tempt gamblers to start fires themselves to win their bets.
Dad had dementia with aphasia, can confirm.
Bobby Silverman@robertsilverman.bsky.social · 2d agoHe's losing words. Anyone with a parent or loved one suffering from dementia will recognize this pattern. Wen he says "moving cameras," it's because he can't recall the word "videos" and so he's stating the component parts as best he can. E.g., a "camera" is involved and the images are "moving"
Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children.
Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books
Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children.
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Scrapie in Oregon. The infected sheep did not have an ear tag, so they can't pinpoint where it came from. Great stuff. cool cool cool. www.oregonlive.com/pacific-nort...
Fatal prion disease found in Oregon sheep, first US case in 5 years
Oregon officials found the first case of classic scrapie in the United States in five years.
oregonlive.com
Do people have any idea how hard it is to break a two year old's collarbone? Kids are still all flexible and bendy at that age. I was a klutzy kid with a climbing habit, a bullying older brother, and parents who spanked and never broke my collarbone despite various falls, trips, and hits.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d agosenator bernie moreno finally makes a statement about the allegations of abuse by rep. max miller against his daughter and granddaughter after miller went live on X this morning to deny everything.
"Israel “crucified their Messiah."" Raised (but now ex) christian & this does not make sense and has never made sense. The crucifixion & resurrection of Jesus was *necessary* for our Salvation! The whole damn religion is based on Jesus knowing He was going to die for our sins & doing it anyway!
Julia Métraux@juliametraux.bsky.social · 4d agoI was today years old when I learned that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand attends a bible study group that teaches that Jewish people killed Jesus, which has been used to justify antisemitism and associated violence against us Jews.
a useful window onto why world leaders and rich people lose any sense of ethics, I guess.
again, the danger from AI is not that it will attain sentience and destroy us. the danger is that it's a mindless flattery machine and being mindlessly flattered literally drives people insane.
When I worked *south* of Douglas Park on Western, the Riot Fest crowds getting on the bus after work were an annoying disruption to my routine. But, tue last time I went to Riot Fest it was at the Congress, so...
Sage@sageinplace.bsky.social · 6d agoEvery year at Riot Fest I walk out looking at an armada of buses marked for 49 Western, waiting to head north. Does the significantly larger Lolla not get the same treatment? Seems a net gain on revenue to run a bunch of extra guaranteed-to-be-packed bus runs
Ai or simple incompetence? The world may never know.
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 6d agoNot the Onion.
A shitlib blocked me for using verified scientific and medical sources to correct his erroneous (and dangerous) statements that "If there are no HIV antibodies, there's no HIV in the blood", and other failures to understand HIV transmission. How have we become so careless about viral diseases?
ROUSes? I don't think they exist@rabblerous.bsky.social · last wk.The possibility of false negatives is the reasoning given for deferring people who take PrEP: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37741792/ Breakthrough cases of HIV are known to occur, though they are rare: www.aidsmap.com/about-hiv/pr... In Feibig Stage I and II infection, antibody tests will be negative even
The worst of the slop is not labeled and the bulk of it is "self-published". Vendors need to get their shit together on Ai detection tools
Robin Bradford@tuphlos.bsky.social · last wk."OverDrive is taking a stand against the flood of AI-generated books threatening to overwhelm digital library shelves." Are they taking a stand? LOL. Give me a break.
#BestAltTextThisWeek We're doing that, right? Having a contest for the best alt text? @joshuajfriedman.com?
Corel Gallery Clipart@clipart.bsky.social · last wk.CHIEF.BMF
Mandated Reporter laws *require* that all reports be investigated, and they protect people who make allegations IN GOOD FAITH even if they turn out to be unfounded. A person who is "mentally unstable" can still make a valid report. Knowingly making false, malicious abuse reports is a crime.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last wk.Exclusive: Officials relied on a vague and unsubstantiated allegation to separate Pete Buttigieg from his young twins last month. Previously unreported police records, obtained by The Post, and an interview with the apparent complainant offer the most detailed account yet: wapo.st/4wt1Zjs
In case you haven't heard, the FDA changed the rules to allow more LGBTQ donors to give blood. However, trans girlies, take it from a cis former spironolactone user, donating blood plus taking spiro can drop your blood pressure to "fainting in public repeatedly" levels, even if your iron is fine.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last wk."On Monday, the Red Cross declared a national blood crisis for the second time ever in its history."
The documents show that days after the twins died, an anti-vaccine activist and registered nurse named Angela Marie Wulbrecht reached out, claiming she could help get an independent autopsy on their bodies. This seems to have set several things in motion:
If you have been following the case of the Shaw twins, this is a fantastic article that includes quotes from @doritreiss.bsky.social
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · last wk.NEW: I dug into the court documents in the case of Andrea Shaw, the Idaho mother charged with killing her toddlers. Shaw insists they died following a set of vaccinations. I looked at how the anti-vaccine movement insinuated itself into this case and her life. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
So, trans sports bans would also ban cis girls like these kickers from playing football, correct? www.kcra.com/article/ante...
Antelope High School makes district history with two female kickers on varsity football team
Junior Olivia Richardson and Senior Miley Phillips both said the team feels like a family to them.
kcra.com
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Trump: "The transgender mutilization of our children. I've looked at men playing in women's sports. It's very unfair. I had a top NFL football player standing next to a wonderful female athlete, and they were playing a game of football, if you can believe it. This game did not work out very well."
oh wow! what big bank is behind this!? <squints> Capital Financial Services S.A., a licensed financial institution in Romania. Hmm, lets see what linkedin says... 8 employees zero posts Net assets of 24mil in Romanian currency ($5.7mil) Yep...that looks like something to put your money in
For many years, people didn’t randomly film others in public—not because we didn’t have the technology, but because the social contract said you didn’t do that. That’s why Meta is going full court press on their PR and celebrity endorsements. They remember how people ran google glass outta town.
SpaceX and Tesla are basically copying Enron at this point. Economists realize that, right?
