"The fractal millions of incoherent & inconclusive personal counter-narratives are all the same in their shared inability to acknowledge that any disease that didn't kill the person with those beliefs, each one the heroic protagonist of reality, couldn't really have been as bad as They said it was."

We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector

In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...

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New from 404 Media: Apple's 'Private Relay' is exposing users' real IP addresses. Private Relay is supposed to protect all your browsing in Safari. But researchers found a bunch of issues that are exposing real IPs. I verified they do. Not fixed, a live issue www.404media.co/apples-priva...

Apple's ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses

Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses. 404 Media verified the issues do expose IP addresses.

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We can could cook up various metaphors to describe what AI is doing to society. Try this on: what holds human societies & governments together are our shared beliefs on reality, as determined by the scientific method, our shared "facts", & our belief that such knowledge is even *possible*...

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d ago

These businesses aren't just wasting billions - they're replacing skilled workers with defective chatbots. As I've written before, AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our technological society. 79/

There are three vacuum trains in the NYCT system. Unclear how long this one will be down for. www.nydailynews.com/2026/08/04/f...

Fire on MTA subway work train fills East Village station with smoke, injures 14

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is investigating what caused a four-car vacuum train to catch fire as it traveled through the Astor Place station in the East Village early Tuesday morning.

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Brother, I still use a literal notebook

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 18h ago

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

The 8y/o shot his first roll of film this weekend and we developed it together tonight. HP5 in Rodinal. Still drying but it looks like he made some cool frames.

I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

Wow

Jason Leopold@jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18h ago

BOMBSHELL story by Olivia Carville @bloomberg.com Internal Report Shows TikTok Kept Safety Feature From Millions A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement NO PAYWALL www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The NY Daily News. We’ve still got it.

automatically running signal messages through a stranger's AI is, I think, the worst pitch and idea I've ever been cold pitched in my life and that is saying a lot

Haven’t done a fixing-things thread for a *long* time. Tonight on the kitchen-counter-cum-workbench, my 1974 Leica CL. This is a very small little film camera. My example is extremely beat-up. But it runs. Job tonight is the light meter. The CL has a meter that expects to run at 1.35V

One of my paramedic school classmates was profiled in this NPR story in April 2020. Pretty solid description of the situation at the time. www.wskg.org/news/2020-04...

Pennsylvania Paramedic On Coronavirus: 'We Don't See An End In Sight'

Paramedic David Goroff works in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania.

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A 39-year-old El Salvadoran man, who was being held at Delaney Hall, has died, the man's family says. He's the father of a 12-year-old US citizen daughter and has lived in the country for nearly 20 years. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/03/s...

El Salvadoran Man Held by ICE at Delaney Hall Dies, Family Says

The detainee had an extensive medical history, including epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said.

thecityreporter.nyc

A video taken Saturday shows former NYC Mayor Eric Adams in sales pitch mode in Wisconsin Rapids, as he's heckled by residents opposed to the data center he's trying to sell them on. "My name is Eric Adams," he begins, as the boos begin to rain down. "You belong in prison!" one attendee shouts.

Eric Adams Is Selling Data Centers in Wisconsin Now

The former mayor had a wild weekend, and other links to start your day.

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My favorite J School professor began and ended each year with this grim stat

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · 2d ago

There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This seems to be Facebook AI - it was not part of our story at any stage. I checked again and it has invented more false copy. First time I've spotted that. Concerning

Someone give me $25 million dollars and an offset press, please

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2d ago

oh yeah the broader newspaper industry is turbo fucked. down ~80 percent since 1990

Because the liars are out lying again— I wrote this from Paterson NJ in April 2020

‘Anybody who says they’re not scared during this is lying to you.’ A day in the life of paramedics in a pandemic | CNN

The man lay unconscious in the back of the ambulance, parked in front of the nursing home on the Passaic River. Another life slipping away before the paramedics of Paterson, N.J. For these health care...

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Here's the thing: I (and millions of other New Yorkers) know that RFK is lying. I remember when the ambulance sirens started, and then again when they became so frequent that they didn't stop at night, so you had to play music to drown them out. I remember the morgue trailers six blocks away, too.

Jonathon Booth@jboothhistory.bsky.social · 3d ago

A good friend of mine was a pulmonary ICU nurse in Brooklyn and the thing that made me realize how bad things were gonna get were her instagram stories that went from "wash your hands guys!" to "I saw three people die today" in like a week.

NEW: In 2025 ICE obtained DNA from nearly one million people and funneled it into an FBI criminal database. The collection likely included DNA from young children and was backed by the threat of criminal prosecution. The raw genetic material is stored indefinitely. Free to read:

ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

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This is such bullshit. During the pandemic, we were down here reporting on how the University of Mississippi Medical Center had to turn its PARKING GARAGE into a makeshift ICU to handle the COVID surges. Lying about history I lived pisses me off. www.mississippifreepress.org/ummc-preppin...

UMMC Prepping Garage For Field Hospital, Requesting Federal Support To Staff It (Updated)

UMMC is clearing out space in a parking garage for a field hospital as the delta wave of COVID-19 continues to batter Mississippi.

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Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"

Because the liars are out lying again— I wrote this from Paterson NJ in April 2020

‘Anybody who says they’re not scared during this is lying to you.’ A day in the life of paramedics in a pandemic | CNN

The man lay unconscious in the back of the ambulance, parked in front of the nursing home on the Passaic River. Another life slipping away before the paramedics of Paterson, N.J. For these health care...

cnn.com

I will keep saying this: there is a direct line to where we are from the fact that we had no national mourning after 2020. Some places had no local mourning. Many places had no local mourning.

Tyler King@tyleraking.com · 6d ago

Refrigerator trucks full of bodies. Mass graves. Family members dying alone in hospital corridors and unable to have proper funerals for fear of deceased spreading disease to funeral home workers. Our social media-induced attention spans are memory holing history at an increasingly alarming rate.

Refrigerator trucks full of bodies. Mass graves. Family members dying alone in hospital corridors and unable to have proper funerals for fear of deceased spreading disease to funeral home workers. Our social media-induced attention spans are memory holing history at an increasingly alarming rate.

Stephen Robinson@playtyperguy.com · 6d ago

THE FOUR SEASONS had a an episode set during Thanksgiving 2020 when everyone gets covid and it’s treated very much like a bad case of the flu. This is somewhat dangerous revisionism of the risks from the disease pre-vaccine.

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

Why I miss Radio Shack, Exhibit A: I needed *one* diode.

The Trump administration is sending armed agents to journalists' doorsteps — an effort to intimidate the press that could ultimately leave the American public in the dark. Read @rcfp.org's Gabe Rottman in @latimes.com:

Contributor: Sending armed agents to reporters' homes is a threat to free press and whistle-blowers

Government searches, subpoenas and other legal demands targeting journalists’ materials, sources and communications represent extraordinary government overreach.

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enjoying imagining the discussion among editors in which they determined if this ought to be pluralized as Spider-Mans, Spider-Men, or Spiders-Man