in case anyone hasn't followed how this works if someone they disagree with has any reasonable financial security, however justly earned, they'll say well well shouldn't you be poor if you criticize the system, but if they are poor, then they say why should anybody listen to someone so unsuccessful

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h ago

Lisa McClain questions why El-Sayed's wife doesn't treat patients for free if he's really a supporter of universal healthcare 🤔

There's a Chuck Tingle cover if I ever saw one!

having helped many people get into games careers with few exceptions my main feeling about that is guilt, which is also why I pivoted long ago from better paying work focused on that to mainly helping hobbyists. gamedev rules. game industry does not. like music is much bigger than the music industry

Mike Straw | Insider-Gaming.com@mikestrawmedia.com · 10h ago

"There were days where I didn't see my son the whole day; multiple days of that that I sacrificed to get this out the door at the level of quality." EXCLUSIVE—DOOM: The Dark Ages Revelations Faced ‘Worst Crunch’ in Franchise History insider-gaming.com/doom-the-dar...

listened to a podcast dissecting tradwife content, wryly aware that I would be just as susceptible to back-to-the-land propaganda if it were being sold to me by nonbinary butches with cute dogs

The reason JKR is suddenly saying more and more “moderate” seeming things is not because her views are “moderate”, you daft shits. It’s because she is registering that her extremely overtly transphobic points are now making her very unpopular.

No would ever ever say the vile things she has, made the cruel jokes she has, if it was just about concern. Much as when people are shitty about fat people and then claim concern about health. If you truly are concerned why are you being a bastard to people you think are unwell?

Reading reactions to the overdetermined and underbaked after-action on the OpenAI Hugging Face hack, and everyone's all concerned about how none of the AI agents ever thought to alert anyone else as to what they were doing, which is read as being some sinister, anti-human omertà, a conspiracy of AI—

I will put my faith in a community that gives a shit about its members out here on the surface versus these assholes and their fancy underground pools.

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · yesterday

This is where the 1% will go to restart civilization after a nuclear attack. But it for me thinking: what if the uber wealthy built these bunkers for more people — and not for nuclear attacks but for the climate crisis that will get us all — instead of trying to leave the planet?

not to get too dark with it, but in the case of an actual apocalypse, would you not want to spend the time you have left working for the safety and continued survival of a squad of people you love and delight in?

Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 11h ago

their inability to form an apocalypse squad is their downfall, man. I have a local apocalypse squad, we're rounding out our missing skill sets. lol

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4) Up until very recently, the Democratic Party did little to push back against these trends. Over the last decade +, the Democratic Party ceased to organize local parties and compete for legislative races in many rural areas. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Texas in the Rear-View Mirror? How the Democratic Party Ignores Rural America and Underperforms in Elections - Political Behavior

Political observers have asserted that Democrats have stopped campaigning for rural votes. Despite this refrain, little quantitative evidence has assessed its veracity. We also do not understand the b...

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It's a very, very good idea to send Hollywood the message that we yearn for anti-corporatist media (even if that means corporations get money for it) because more anti-C media means more people are likely to see it and have a cultural ref point to say "this real life exploitation is just like Acme!"

Matt Zoller Seitz@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 16h ago

Well, THAT'S cool apple.news/AmVc2L_k

Jesus Christ: UC Berkeley international students will no longer be allowed to complete internships or co-ops for course credit unless they form an “integral part of an established curriculum,” following repeated threats from ICE. This is going to send shockwaves across SF and Silicon Valley

Lynda Lopez@lyndab08.bsky.social · 5d ago

“The Berkeley International Office announced Wednesday that it will pause international students’ applications for Course Credit Curricular Practical Training “for the foreseeable future.”

For at least the MEDIA establishment, there is no bottom too low because the owners of the outlets agree with Trump on the core issues ("nonwhites bad, trans people bad, patriarchy good"), even if a small handful of them find his affect uncouth

David Roberts@volts.wtf · yesterday

For many years I wondered, "how bad will Republicans have to get before the media/political establishment in the US gets over its endless obsession with scolding & tone policing the left?" I think at this point we have to acknowledge that the answer is: never. Literally never.

whenever I see someone complain about "the excesses of woke," I want to ask them what it means—did some people want ~too much~ equality?

Development and validation of blood-based diagnostic biomarkers for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ( #ME/CFS) using EpiSwitch® 3-dimensional genomic regulatory immuno-genetic profiling Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is a debilitating,

Development and validation of blood-based diagnostic biomarkers for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) using EpiSwitch® 3-dimensional genomic regulatory immuno-genetic profili...

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is a debilitating, multifactorial disorder characterised by profound fatigue, post-exertional malaise, cognitive impairments, and autonomic ...

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The ovaries may have a mid-life glow up! New evidence suggesting they take on a role as an immune organ after they stop releasing eggs. academic.oup.com/molehr/artic...

The post-reproductive ovary shifts from a reproductive to an immune-like organ

Abstract. Reproductive aging in females is characterized by the irreversible depletion of ovarian follicles, yet the structure and function of the post-rep

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“Political affinity is not operational control... That distinction is central to the attack now being made against it.” #AutisticiInventati

Micah Lee@micahflee.com · 2d ago

The US just designated an Italian hacker collective (similar to Riseup) a terrorist organization. Please read this article about Autistici/Inventati, which I’ve reposted micahflee.com/the-server-c...

Jonathan Kirkpatrick, who was incarcerated alongside Don Snook for around 17 years, says he is one example of someone who no longer needs to be in prison. “If they let him go, he wouldn’t be a very productive member of society, but not destructive either. He’d just sit with his plants on a porch.”

‘We Are Such a Punitive Country’: America’s ‘Death by Incarceration’ Machine

America’s prison population is aging into disability and disease. Understaffed clinics and delayed treatments turn serving life into a death sentence: as the system breaks down, the logic behind…

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Same.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 2d ago

I feel like I’m living In a dystopian novel written in 1993 that was rejected by dozens of publishers because it was incredibly stupid.

I agree that people are not giving the Kathleen Hanna to Olivia Rodrigo pipeline enough attention

Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · yesterday

amazing stuff

Whenever you ask me "surely no one actually holds this abhorrent opinion you're talking about, you're making that up," please: just wait a bit and then check my replies.

jason 🌱@jasonberger.bsky.social · 2mo ago

many people, myself included, would like USAID to be dismantled with the resources and logistics being handled over to local actors also nine million people starve to death every year so if you're upset about the 600,000 dying because of Musk then you should be furious at all times

“A single, relatively short Omicron wave left a long, measurable scar on the adaptive immune systems of tens of thousands of adults and that people with cardiovascular disease may be living with something close to chronic immune compromise nearly two years later.” johnsnowproject.org/primers/sars...

SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System

A landmark new study shows COVID-19 isn’t ‘just a cold’: One infection left people with long-lasting immune damage, and those with heart disease lost up to 70% of key immune cells. Reinfections may wo...

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“i want my food carried to me by an expensive, fancy slave”—loser “i want my food carried on a model train that goes choo choo” someone with whimsy

"Here’s an opportunity to move past the job-training consensus that has left our universities stripped threadbare and too driven by trends and vibes. But I promise you, students want real educations and will come for them, rather than be forced to listen to a CEO tell them that capitalism rocks."

Perry: Republicans fought ‘indoctrination.’ Now they’re telling students what to study.

The conservative attack on higher education in states like Iowa is hard to watch. But it also provides an opportunity for blue states like Minnesota.

startribune.com

this is why I love doing panels with historians because instead of guessing all you have to do is recall the factoid and then they'll tell you for like 10 min the exact process by which Henry came up with it and you can look all clever by proxy

And to be clear the vaccines benefits compared to the virus were known 5 years ago.

COVID-19 and balancing the risks:  The vaccine or the virus

Given recent reports of myocarditis after vaccination with mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines in young people, we think it's a good time to reexamine the risk/benefit ratio of these vaccines in this populat

sciencebasedmedicine.org

Dorit Reiss@doritreiss.bsky.social · 2d ago

"So, what did the study actually find? In short, vaccines passed with flying colors. In every comparison, risk was lower with vaccination than without vaccination." thelogicofscience.com/2026/08/28/c...

The first clinic for trans people in India was forced to close due to Trump and Musk’s destruction of USAID:

Hyderabad: USAID cuts shutter India's first clinic for transgender people

The Mitr Clinic in Hyderabad offered medical care to thousands of transgender people in India.

bbc.com

ALTHO last time, when the gulf of mexico got vandalized in google maps, I deleted google maps before I grasped that this was the mechanism and it has really improved my life to not have its stupid overoptimized driving directions leading me astray, I recommend it!

Micah@rincewind.run · yesterday

re: everyone yelling about Google Maps - Maps just ingests the official data source for each country, which is GNIS in this case, and most other online maps will follow for American users nobody at Google is making an active decision to go in and change names in Maps directly