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Everything I know about bird flu so far: www.okdoomer.io/courting-the...

US: "Hospitals in the United States will soon be required to report hospital admissions related to COVID-19, restoring a mandate which was lifted earlier this year, according to federal officials. The new rules are due to take effect on November 1." bnonews.com/index.php/20...

lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider : are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No. *but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no. *but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no. maybe you're not being negative *enough*

Ai generated art really provokes a sense of disgust in me these days just abject and grotesque

The Night Guest comes out tomorrow!! Which means that today is literally the last chance you will ever have to preorder it like all the cool kids.

bluesky has boys from brazil, twitter has Boys From Brazil

"The productivity myth suggests that anything we spend time on is up for automation. The goal of writing, this myth suggests, is filling a page rather than the process of thought that a completed page represents." www.techpolicy.press/challenging-...

"AI regulation will limit the opportunities for AI"—good AI regulation will PROMOTE the opportunities for AI, e.g. by taking our data back from a handful of US tech firms and making it available (on our terms) to public services and a more competitive, regulated, marketplace

This book is really cool!

If politicians can text my cell phone asking for money I should be able to text them directly with policy suggestions.

Here's an idea: don't.

"If you have a Disney+ membership they're legally allowed to kill you" may be a novel legal strategy, but it seems like a pretty poor way to market your streaming service.

lot of big caveats in this paper but at least directionally a very good sign

My personal experience with dishonesty in the press began with published recipes that promised “this dish can easily be completed in 30 minutes “.

Gonna fuck with my students by putting empty jars in my office with labels like "first radio wave" and "Albert Einstein's last breath"

this is absolutely correct. one of the arguments i kept making in the aftermath of january 6 was that the attempt to turn a pro forma ceremony into a moment of real political contestation had revolutionary implications for american political life.

Also: adipose is itself basically one giant endocrine gland. There's a kind of positive feedback loop as body fat increases and more estrogen receptors are created.

yeah that's pretty much it

If the cast of a movie is all white people they need to go to Trader Joe’s at least twice during the runtime or I have trouble suspending disbelief